![]() ![]() (CNN) - The Transportation Security Administration is admitting multiple failures and is instituting alerts to security officers at airports nationwide after a man got through a checkpoint with two box cutters. The fine for companies could be up to 5 million rubles (€81,500).Previously, the “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations” or "denial of family values" was banned for any Russian citizen under the age of 18.The new law also bans any demonstration or children's publication about gender transition.Some rights campaigners believe it will lead to an increase in street violence. Russia has moved to tighten its controversial law against LGBTQ "propaganda" by banning it for all adults and not just children.The new legislation will now ban any pro-LGBTQ publications in Russian advertising, media, books, films, and theatre productions.Russian lawmakers gave unanimous preliminary approval to the bill at its first reading in parliament on Thursday.International human rights groups have long denounced Russia's 2013 "propaganda" law for stifling public debate and violating the rights of LGBTQ citizens.LGBT Network chairwoman Natalia Soloviova told AFP the new law could lead to an increase in hate crimes and will "create a situation in which no one can speak openly or positively about LGBTQ people".Those found guilty face a fine of up to 400,000 rubles (€6,500) and may even be expelled by Russia if they are a foreign national. What she’s done for kids, and literacy, and so many other things, is just incredible,” said Jeff Bezos, referencing the work she’s done via the Imagination Library.The program provides free books to children - internationally - from birth until their first year of school, and also hosts the “buddy system” which promised middle schoolers in Sevier County $500 if they picked a buddy in the 7th or 8th grade and both graduated high school. It turns out to be valuable foreshadowing, because there is some deep, dark sadness in “Melissa Etheridge Off Broadway: My Window - A Journey Through Life.” And mostly, amid some staggeringly beautiful renditions of songs, that sadness is well camouflaged.Ĭountry music icon, budding rock star (her first rock album drops November 18th), and all-around American legend Dolly Parton received The Bezos Award for Courage and Civility on Saturday.The award is given to those who “aim high, find solutions, and always do it with civility,” as one presenter described in a video announcement.The ardent philanthropist donated $1 million for the COVID-19 research behind the Moderna vaccine and her Dollywood Foundation's Imagination Library program has donated more than 186 million books to children around the world. Dolly, who was just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where she performed with Rob Halford on “Jolene,” “gives with her heart. “Like they could all see this sadness that I was hiding.” In an almost solo show that wants very much to be a good time for the audience, and a kind of celebration of its smoky-voiced 61-year-old star, suddenly here is a confession of personal vulnerability - spoken, not sung. “It always made me feel like everyone knew I was hiding something, you know?” she said on Friday, the second night of a 12-performance run at New World Stages. Then she mentions cannabis, which she didn’t enjoy at the time. Not long into the second act of Melissa Etheridge’s new Off Broadway show, she tells a funny, sexy, completely charming tale of falling in love with a married woman in the late 1980s, and pairs it, playfully, with a gorgeous version of her 1995 song “I Want to Come Over.” Discreetly - no names - she recalls what a blast she and that partner and their showbiz friends used to have together in 1990s Los Angeles, in the heady early days of Etheridge’s rock fame. ![]()
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