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Lauren Hough struggled to adjust after escaping a doomsday cult. "There's an aspect of trauma that's hard to explain," she says. "It's exhausting to be scared all of the time. That anxiety just starts to weigh on you."

After Growing Up In A Cult, Lauren Hough Freed Herself By Writing The Truth

Hough was 15 when her family left the Children of God cult. Afterward, she struggled to face the trauma of her past. Her new collection of personal essays is Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing.

Billy Lemon works at the Castro Country Club in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 2021, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on a television screen in the background.

‘Kamala Harris Is My Fairy Godmother’: A VP Super Fan Says She Saved His Life

Billy Lemon has been sober for eight years and now runs the Castro Country Club, helping other gay men get off drugs. Billy says it’s all because of Kamala Harris.

A Missouri county asks for help designing a new seal after old one turns heads online

The current St. Francois County seal, designed in 2018 by a county commissioner who says he is "not artistically inclined," was upvoted thousands of times on Reddit's "CrappyDesign" forum.

The four 'SZNZ' of Weezer

Rivers Cuomo, songwriter of Weezer, talks about looking to Vivaldi for inspiration in announcing a quartet of seasonal releases this year and navigating three decades spent in the same band.

People watch a laser show on the banks of the river Sarayu during Deepotsav celebrations on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali in Ayodhya on November 3, 2021.

Diwali will be honored as an official holiday in New York City schools

Diwali celebrates lightness over darkness and is celebrated by more than 1 billion Hindu people each year. It also has its own versions in the Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism religions.

A group of homeless outreach workers with City Net are pictured at a homeless encampment near the 805 South in Chula Vista on November 2021.

San Diego homeless outreach team hopes to shelter people living along state's highways

A new partnership with Caltrans and San Diego’s newest homeless outreach program is working to help unsheltered people living along the state's highways.

Singer Kate Smith, signing autographs for a group of American sailors c. 1938.

Kate Smith's 'God Bless America' Dropped By Two Major Sports Teams

Her rendition of the patriotic song had been a staple for New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers games for decades. Critics say that other elements of the singer's career were clearly racist.

Afghan families who have been living on U.S. military bases are looking for homes

A majority of the Afghans who fled to the U.S. when the Taliban took over last fall have now left the military bases where they've been living and are in the process of finding permanent homes.

How a new Netflix film exposed a simmering tension in Egyptian society

Netflix's first ever Arabic language film, Perfect Strangers, sparked controversy in Egypt. In doing so, it highlighted a tug of war happening inside the country.

In 2015, Keyla "Nunny" Reece felt a lump in her breast, got it checked out and was told it was a benign cyst. Two years later, a new lump was discovered under her armpit. At the age of 39, doctors diagnosed her with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in June 2017.

This mother wanted her son to have photos to understand her breast cancer journey

Keyla "Nunny" Reece was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at age 39. Photographer Angelica Edwards documented the hardships and moments of joy in Reece's experience with cancer.

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