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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Terrorists struck deep inside Russia on Friday, and the conspiracy theories are already spinning. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year’s historic boost and reflecting moderating consumer prices. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, means the average recipient will receive more than $50 more every month beginning in January, the Social Security …

by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton March 25, 2024 Monica asked Ray J to stop “speaking on” her in public and he apologized for doing so Ray J appeared on “The Breakfast Club” recently and mentioned that his older sister, Brandy, and fellow singer, Monica (the singers recorded the classic hit …

While high school seniors anxiously await college admission decisions, Zaya Wade is joining the fleet of high school sophomores and juniors touring college campuses around the country. This weekend, the 16-year-old and her parents, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union, toured the University of Washington in Seattle.  Commemorating the family’s first …

Photo: Frank Micelotta (Getty Images) Hollywood loves biopics about music legends. The artists’ fascinating life stories can be told and their vast catalog of hits can be used to mark significant moments. Broadway takes a similar approach to jukebox musicals. Producers use those same hits to tell a captivating story …

by Pervis Taylor, III March 25, 2024 For many, confrontation is an anxiety-ridden, arduous task. We often avoid confrontation out of fear, not wanting to look bad and because its seems overwhelming. Originally Published Jun. 25, 2014 If you’ve lived long enough, you’ve either been the recipient or had the …

Judith Butler, for many years a professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, might be among the most influential intellectuals alive today. Even if you have never heard of them (Butler identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns), you are living in their world, in which babies are …

An activist organization has wiped out $10 million in loan debt for nearly 3,000 former Morehouse College students. USA Today reported that the Debt Collective, a debtors’ union, worked with the institution and the Rolling Jubilee Fund, a 501(c)(4) that purchased the debt to provide relief for 2,777 former students …

by Rafael Pena March 25, 2024 The body of Nadia Vitel was found in a duffel bag in a NYC apartment leading to the arrest of two teenagers. The body of 52-year-old Nadia Vitel was found in a duffel bag in a New York City residence, leading to the arrest …

Ozempic pregnancies are reportedly on the rise. According to People, women across social media — regardless of whether they take birth control, have experienced infertility or are older and believed to be beyond childbearing age — have been sharing their stories about getting pregnant while taking the popular medication that’s …