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• In historic shift, Botswana declares homosexuality is not a crime
• Can religious tolerance help an aspiring Muslim power?
• After promising start, Kamala Harris looks for ways to break through
• Back to the moon

In historic shift, Botswana declares homosexuality is not a crime Posted: 11 Jun 2019 01:57 PM PDT When Letsweletse Motshidiemang was growing up in a village in northern Botswana, there wasn't exactly a name for what he was. Certainly no one ever used words like gay, or queer, or LGBTQ. In fact, no one called him much of anything at all. And in that silence, he says, was a quiet acceptance. "People knew I was different, but I was surrounded by people who loved me," he says. "I was never taught to hate myself."

Can religious tolerance help an aspiring Muslim power? Posted: 11 Jun 2019 01:18 PM PDT Indian women in saris carefully place candles at an outdoor grotto of the Virgin Mary and kneel in prayer as couples from Uganda and Nigeria pour into the nearby chapel.

After promising start, Kamala Harris looks for ways to break through Posted: 11 Jun 2019 12:04 PM PDT Kamala Harris has always been a trailblazer. As the daughter of immigrant parents – her mother came from India and her father from Jamaica – she was the first woman elected (twice) as California's attorney general, and the second African American woman elected to the United States Senate, which she entered two years ago. What Senator Harris hasn't been able to do of late is break past 10% in national polls.

Back to the moon Posted: 11 Jun 2019 10:45 AM PDT Over the last half-century several nations have taken potshots at the moon, landing (or in some cases crashing) payloads onto the lunar surface. Artemis (in Greek mythology the twin sister of Apollo) would land a pair of astronauts, one expected to be a woman, on the lunar surface in 2024, ending a 55-year absence for humanity. Explaining why humans must go to the moon was an easier task for President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

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