Jaclyn Diaz

President Barack Obama delivers a televised statement that Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. President Donald Trump makes a statement announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. President Biden announces on Monday that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Jaclyn Diaz

The way Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden announced the deaths of terrorist chiefs revealed much about their own leadership.

The state of Georgia has established that a fetus can be listed as a dependent in state tax returns.

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Pregnant? Georgia says that fetus counts as a dependent on your taxes

Jaclyn Diaz

A person at least six weeks pregnant on or after July 20 through Dec. 31, 2022, can submit the fetus as a dependent on their state tax returns starting next year.

Jaclyn Diaz

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Music Midtown canceled the annual festival at Piedmont Park because of legal concerns over the organizers' ability to ban guns during the two-day event.

The Q nightclub in New York City received rave reviews after it opened and was often very busy. After just over a year open, the club is not the subject of controversy following a lawsuit.

Jaclyn Diaz

The celebrity-backed, multilevel Hell's Kitchen nightclub opened a little over a year ago. What ended up being built was far more controversial.

Sue Bell holds one of more than a dozen beagles that arrived at the headquarters of animal rescue group Homeward Trails in Fairfax Station, Va., on Thursday, while posing for a portrait. The dogs were a small portion of the roughly 4,000 beagles rescued from a research facility where the conditions were found to be inhumane.

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Rescue groups begin work to rehome 4,000 beagles bred for research

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The beagles were bred by the company Envigo for pharmaceutical research and testing, but conditions at the facility were found to be inhumane. Now the dogs are starting journeys toward forever homes.

Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley is up for a nomination that would make him the first Black four-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps' 246-year history.

Jaclyn Diaz

The U.S. Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Michael Langley's nomination to be general and commander of the United States Africa Command for the U.S. Marine Corps.

Mementos decorate a makeshift memorial to the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. To protect students from active shooters and extreme weather, National Safety Shelters sells safety pods that can fit a classroom of students inside.

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National Safety Shelters sells safety pods that can fit a classroom of students inside to protect them from active shooters or extreme weather.

These canines are some of the nearly 500 beagles that Homeward Trails Animal Rescue collected earlier this year from an Envigo research facility in Virginia. Now Homeward Trails is taking in additional beagles from Envigo, which bred the dogs for pharmaceutical research, after a federal judge ordered thousands of remaining dogs to be released.

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Animal rescue groups across the U.S. band together to rescue 4,000 beagles

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A federal judge ordered thousands of dogs to be rehomed from a Virginia research facility after several inspections revealed poor conditions. Animal rescue groups are working to do just that.

LGBTQ flags fly in London's Hyde Park on July 24, 2021.

Jaclyn Diaz

In a new report, GLAAD found that 84% of LGBTQ adults said not enough protections are on social media to prevent discrimination, harassment or disinformation.

The White House released the first image of the collection of pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope during a preview event Monday.

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NASA's $10 billion new telescope showed the world something remarkable today: an image of some of the first galaxies to form in the universe.