California Gov. Gavin Newsom — an outspoken champion of LGBTQ+ rights since he was mayor of San Francisco — called transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports “deeply unfair” in his new podcast Thursday, splitting from his party on an issue that Republicans capitalized on in the presidential election. (Luna & Willon, Los Angeles Times)
Read MoreAn early scene in the coming season of HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones” showcases the newest product in a long and somewhat troubled line of consumer goods from the fictional first family of televangelism. (Peters, The New York Times)
Read MoreOver the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. (Tilton, NPR)
Read MoreSavannah Guthrie’s greatest hope for her children is that they will have a deep and meaningful relationship with God. “I pray that God will hold them and carry them and sustain them after I’m gone or in times when they feel alone,” Savannah tells TODAY.com. (Abrahamson, Today)
Read MoreGeneration Beta officially arrived on Jan. 1, successors to Gen Alpha. While the name follows the conventions of the Greek alphabet, its connotation is less scholarly and more sus for some young parents and every school-age child. Beta is commonly used as slang for weak and passive. (Alcántara, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreA year after mommy vlogger Ruby Franke was convicted of child abuse, her husband, Kevin Franke, and two oldest children, Shari and Chad Franke, are sharing their story in Hulu’s new docuseries “Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke.” (Davies, Los Angeles Times)
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