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Hugh Jackman, who last week revealed on Twitter that he had undergone treatment for skin cancer and appeared at the premiere of his new movie Logan with a bandage on his nose, said he’s “fine” after having a basal cell carcinoma removed.
Ray Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, dropped out of the race for Democratic National Committee chairman, announcing his support for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota ahead of next weekend’s gathering in Atlanta to elect a new leader for the party.
Mark Sheridan, a doctoral student who teaches a class at the University of Texas at Austin, has moved his in-office hours to a bar to protest a 2016 Texas law that allows concealed handguns to be carried on college campuses, saying “if I want to work at a place that bans guns, the bar seems like the safest bet” because state law bans firearms in venues that primarily serve alcohol.
Tommy Pike, who heads Missouri’s branch of the Route 66 Road Ahead advocacy group, is pushing congressional leaders to support a bill to have the 2,400-mile roadway added to a national list of historic trails.
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, a Mexican politician, joined a hundreds-strong “human wall” along the Rio Grande across from El Paso, Texas, to protest President Donald Trump’s plans to build a border wall, saying the demonstration shows a wall “will never separate two friendly peoples.”
Ildiko Enyedi, a Hungarian writer-director, took home the Berlin Film Festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear, for her film On Body and Soul, which follows two slaughterhouse workers who connect in shared dreams.
Steve Pettit, president of Bob Jones University, a Christian school in South Carolina, announced that the university has gotten back its federal tax-exempt status, which was revoked in 1983 over the university’s now-defunct ban on interracial dating.
Perry March, an inmate in a lockup in Morgan County, Tenn., has sued the Tennessee Department of Correction and food vendor Aramark, claiming his religious practices are being infringed upon because the prison’s food doesn’t meet kosher standards.
Dustin Hinkle, 26, who was making a parkour-style action video with his friends on the roof of a Denver apartment building, fell 40 feet down a chimney and spent two hours stuck there until firefighters freed him.