• Charlotte Observer

    Floyd’s Restaurant, a Charlotte staple, is closing after nearly 40 years

    Floyd’s opened in 1986 on Tuckaseegee Road and expanded with other locations.

  • Reuters

    Brazilian women march against bill tightening abortion ban

    Thousands of women protested on Saturday against a bill advancing in Brazil's conservative Congress that would equate abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy to homicide and establish sentences of six to 20 years in prison. The demonstrators marched along Sao Paulo's main Paulista Avenue carrying banners rejecting the proposal, which they call the most repressive approach to women's reproductive rights in decades. People of all ages, including many retirees and children, filled the streets chanting, "A child is not a mother, a rapist is not a father."

  • The Canadian Press

    On Father's Day, this LGBTQ+ couple celebrates the friend who helped make their family dream reality

    PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (AP) — David Titterington had a sense of what his childhood friend would ask him when she led him into a photo booth at a mutual friend's wedding roughly a decade ago. As the countdown for the second photo ticked, Jen Wilson popped the question: Will you be my sperm donor?