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Rappler and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Maria Ressa Face Legal Setbacks

Rappler, the independent news site co-founded by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa and subject of the 2021 FRONTLINE documentary A Thousand Cuts, has been hit with major legal setbacks in recent weeks. In late June, the Philippine government took steps toward shutting down the website. Then, on July 8, the country’s Court of Appeals upheld a cyber-libel conviction against Ressa, Rappler’s CEO.

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Residentes del Alto Manhattan solicitan silencio

El ruido fuerte es común en los vecindarios de Washington Heights e Inwood. Caminando por ciertas calles de esos vecindarios se puede escuchar una mezcla de canciones de Bad Bunny, Celia Cruz y Marco Antonio Solís viniendo de bocinas portátiles en casi cada esquina. Pero algunos residentes de estos barrios afirman que este año ha sido el más ruidoso de todos.

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PrintBruce Gilfront
Profile: Vogue Robinson

(Desert Companion) On a recent Saturday afternoon at the West Charleston Library, Vogue Robinson is reading “For Eryn,” a poem she wrote for a friend’s daughter’s 16th birthday: “Apparently, the manual on being a woman / Reads like the back of a shampoo bottle …” 

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PrintBruce Gil