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    In this photo taken April 3, 2016, Corey Lewandowski talks to a member of the media at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wis.

    Corey Lewandowski Terrorized His Team

    Corey Lewandowski Terrorized His Team

    Corey Lewandowski, the embattled manager of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, was mostly unknown to national political observers before the 2016 elections.But he is infamous to former co-workers at Americans for Prosperity, some of whom descri...

    Donald Trump’s campaign manager called a co-worker a ‘f**cking b**ch’ and screamed at a subordinate for visiting his dying grandmother.

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    Walid Phares on Fox News, Trumps Security Advisor on terrorism

    Trump Crony Also a Dictator’s Enforcer?

    Trump Crony Also a Dictator’s Enforcer?

    When Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unveiled his roster of foreign policy advisers, few names stood out as well-known figures in Washington, save perhaps one: Walid Phares.A politically conservative academic who has accused Presi...

    Donald Trump’s foreign-policy guru has a second gig: leading a sketchy school that cracks down on students who criticize Turkish strongman Recep Erdogan.

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    Trans United Fund: The First Bipartisan, Transgender PAC

    The First Bipartisan Pro-Trans PAC

    The First Bipartisan Pro-Trans PAC

    You might not expect the first transgender political action committee (PAC) to be bipartisan.After all, the Republican National Committee’s official platform encourages state legislatures to pass anti-transgender bathroom legislation. Republican l...

    The first ever transgender PAC will make its endorsement in the coming weeks—and it might not be for a Democrat.

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    In this photo taken April 3, 2016, Corey Lewandowski talks to a member of the media at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wis.

    Corey Lewandowski Terrorized His Team

    Corey Lewandowski Terrorized His Team

    Corey Lewandowski, the embattled manager of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, was mostly unknown to national political observers before the 2016 elections.But he is infamous to former co-workers at Americans for Prosperity, some of whom descri...

    Donald Trump’s campaign manager called a co-worker a ‘f**cking b**ch’ and screamed at a subordinate for visiting his dying grandmother.

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    LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS -- Episode 353 -- Pictured: (l-r) Senator Bernie Sanders during an interview with host Seth Meyers on April 7, 2016 -- (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC)

    Bernie: No Regrets on ‘Unqualified’ Hit

    Bernie: No Regrets on ‘Unqualified’ Hit

    If this were four years ago and Bernie Sanders was less than two weeks out for a crucial primary in New York, he surely would have stopped by The Daily Show for an in-depth chat with Jon Stewart.But while he may have found a sympathetic ear in Tre...

    Less than two weeks before the New York primary, Sanders stopped by ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ to clear the air about his recent war of words with Clinton.

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    US Senator from Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally in Saint Mary's Park in the Bronx, New York, New York, USA, 31 March 2016. Sanders is coming off wins against Hillary Clinton in Democratic contests in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington State.

    Sanders’s Out-of-Bound Attack on Clinton

    Sanders’s Out-of-Bound Attack on Clinton

    That didn’t take long.I wondered Tuesday night how nasty both Democrats would get—whether Bernie Sanders would start aping conservative talking points against Hillary Clinton, and whether she would try to out-Israel him in New York. We’re not quit...

    The Democratic Socialist opens up a line of attack that Democrats may well come to regret.

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    How Caitriona Balfe Saved ‘Outlander’

    How Caitriona Balfe Saved ‘Outlander’

    Through the first season of Starz’s beloved historical epic Outlander, the word “sassenach” (a traditionally derogatory term for English people) becomes a sweet, even erotic pet name for Scotsman Jamie Fraser’s time-traveling English wife Claire. ...

    The acclaimed actress opens up about the Starz series’ second season, premiering April 9th, including a powerful sex scene that’s sure to be one of its most talked-about moments.

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    Nicki Minaj Puts Meek Mill in His Place

    Nicki Minaj Puts Meek Mill in His Place

    Nicki Minaj shocked fans and (most likely) her boyfriend on Ellen this week, when she told the talk show host, “I don’t even want to say I’m in a relationship anymore.”Minaj explained, “I used to say I wasn’t in a relationship even though I was in...

    The A-list rapper/pop star put her D-list rapper ‘boyfriend’ in check—and on ‘Ellen’ no less!

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    AMERICAN IDOL: American Idols open the AMERICAN IDOL Finale airing Thursday, April 7 (8:00-10:06 PM ET Live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. © 2016 FOX Broadcasting Co. Cr: Ray Mickshaw/FOX

    ‘Idol’ Goes Out on a Pitchy High Note

    ‘Idol’ Goes Out on a Pitchy High Note

    This. Was American Idol.It was, as President Barack Obama said in his opening address for the finale (yes, all of our favorite singers were there), the show that transformed television. It was the show that made talent competitions vital to our we...

    The ‘American Idol’ finale was a fan’s dream: super corny, nostalgic, and ultimately spellbinding. Very moving and very silly, it was everything that made the show great.

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    LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS -- Episode 353 -- Pictured: (l-r) Senator Bernie Sanders during an interview with host Seth Meyers on April 7, 2016 -- (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC)

    Bernie: No Regrets on ‘Unqualified’ Hit

    Bernie: No Regrets on ‘Unqualified’ Hit

    If this were four years ago and Bernie Sanders was less than two weeks out for a crucial primary in New York, he surely would have stopped by The Daily Show for an in-depth chat with Jon Stewart.But while he may have found a sympathetic ear in Tre...

    Less than two weeks before the New York primary, Sanders stopped by ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ to clear the air about his recent war of words with Clinton.

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    Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill

    Nicki Minaj Puts Meek Mill in His Place

    Nicki Minaj Puts Meek Mill in His Place

    Nicki Minaj shocked fans and (most likely) her boyfriend on Ellen this week, when she told the talk show host, “I don’t even want to say I’m in a relationship anymore.”Minaj explained, “I used to say I wasn’t in a relationship even though I was in...

    The A-list rapper/pop star put her D-list rapper ‘boyfriend’ in check—and on ‘Ellen’ no less!

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    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Mighty Black Panther

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Mighty Black Panther

    “You have no people. You are no longer my son.”The first issue of the much-hyped, Ta-Nehisi Coates-penned Black Panther limited series landed at comic book shops this Wednesday, with fans of the titular character and fans of one of America’s most ...

    The acclaimed cultural commentator has penned a limited series of Marvel’s African superhero, and the timing couldn’t be better.

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    Actor Clint Howard accepts the Lifetime Achievement award which he won at the 1998 MTV Movie Awards which were taped May 30 in Santa Monica. Howard has appeared in countless films including "Apollo 13," "Barb Wire," and "Silent Night Deadly Night 5." Howard is also feaured in many of the films directed by his brother, Ron Howard. The awards program will be telecast in the United States on June 4.

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    Clint Howard: Hillary Is Bitter Grandma

    Clint Howard: Hillary Is Bitter Grandma

    In January of this year Clint Howard officially endorsed Ted Cruz for President, earning effusive praise from the Republican candidate himself in the process. “Clint Howard is an excellent actor and a true patriot,” Cruz said in a statement. “It i...

    The veteran Hollywood actor—and brother of director Ron, a big liberal—opens up about his storied career and why he’s one of the few in Tinseltown helping the Cruz campaign.

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    Wendell Pierce on Being Clarence Thomas

    Wendell Pierce on Being Clarence Thomas

    Confirmation is arriving on HBO at exactly the right moment. As President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland languishes on the sidelines and Republicans refuse to even hold a hearing, the public’s mind is on the Supreme Court. And with ...

    Before he took on the role of the Supreme Court justice in HBO’s ‘Confirmation,’ the actor had to find empathy for a man whose politics he disagrees with.

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    Black Panthers comic book

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Mighty Black Panther

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Mighty Black Panther

    “You have no people. You are no longer my son.”The first issue of the much-hyped, Ta-Nehisi Coates-penned Black Panther limited series landed at comic book shops this Wednesday, with fans of the titular character and fans of one of America’s most ...

    The acclaimed cultural commentator has penned a limited series of Marvel’s African superhero, and the timing couldn’t be better.

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    Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders (L) casts his vote for the consultative referendum on the association between Ukraine and the European Union, in the Hague, the Netherlands, in this April 6, 2016 file photo. REUTERS/Michael Kooren/Files - RTSE1WL

    Did UKIP Sway the Dutch Referendum?

    Did UKIP Sway the Dutch Referendum?

    Wednesday’s referendum result in the Netherlands may not end up having much impact on Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the European Union. The vote was not legislatively binding; portions of the agreement have already come into effect; the tur...

    UKIP leader Nigel Farage used EU money to advertise against the EU Association Agreement in the Netherlands.

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    Walid Phares on Fox News, Trumps Security Advisor on terrorism

    Trump Crony Also a Dictator’s Enforcer?

    Trump Crony Also a Dictator’s Enforcer?

    When Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unveiled his roster of foreign policy advisers, few names stood out as well-known figures in Washington, save perhaps one: Walid Phares.A politically conservative academic who has accused Presi...

    Donald Trump’s foreign-policy guru has a second gig: leading a sketchy school that cracks down on students who criticize Turkish strongman Recep Erdogan.

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    Putin opponent Dmitry Gudkov running for reelection, is looking for the diaspora vote in New York state.

    Putin Enemy Dishes on His Achilles’ Heel

    Putin Enemy Dishes on His Achilles’ Heel

    As one of Russian parliament’s only real opposition deputies, Dmitry Gudkov knows something about unorthodox politics.But America’s presidential election has him intrigued. “It seems very strange,” he tells me over lunch at The Smith near Lincoln ...

    Dmitry Gudkov, the young opposition Duma deputy who’s been denounced as a traitor, says the Panama Papers hit the Russian strongman’s weak spot—and there’s more to come.

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    Japan's Nuclear Plants Are Incredibly Vulnerable to Terrorist Attacks

    Japan Nuke Plants Vulnerable to Terror

    Japan Nuke Plants Vulnerable to Terror

    TOKYO — Given the febrile global security atmosphere, recent revelations that those responsible for the Brussels attacks also scoped out Belgium’s nuclear facilities have, understandably, caused great consternation in many countries.In Japan, howe...

    Poor nuclear security is endemic at Japanese power stations. It’s a ludicrous risk, not only for the Japanese, but for the world.

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    Walid Phares on Fox News, Trumps Security Advisor on terrorism

    Trump Crony Also a Dictator’s Enforcer?

    Trump Crony Also a Dictator’s Enforcer?

    When Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unveiled his roster of foreign policy advisers, few names stood out as well-known figures in Washington, save perhaps one: Walid Phares.A politically conservative academic who has accused Presi...

    Donald Trump’s foreign-policy guru has a second gig: leading a sketchy school that cracks down on students who criticize Turkish strongman Recep Erdogan.

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    A painting made by U.S. military service members is displayed on a protective blast wall on January 11, 2016 at an undisclosed air base in the Persian Gulf Region. The U.S. military and coalition forces use the base, located in an undisclosed location, to launch drone airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria, as well as to distribute cargo and transport troops supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.

    U.S. Pushes for More Bases in Iraq

    U.S. Pushes for More Bases in Iraq

    The U.S. military is planning to expand the number of so-called “fire bases” in northern Iraq to prepare for an assault on Mosul, ISIS’s Iraqi capital. The bases will be there to support local Iraqi forces. But they’ll also put U.S. troops near th...

    It’s another indication that the U.S. military is increasingly conducting offensive operations even though President Obama has never publicly acknowledged the U.S. is back at war.

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    London Loch Ness or Just a Dying Whale?

    London Loch Ness or Just a Dying Whale?

    A mythical sea creature might have bestowed its majesty on London. Alternatively, some marine mammals might be trapped in the city’s Thames River—again.While crossing the Thames in a cable car last month, a YouTube user recorded footage of a movin...

    Some say the Loch Ness Monster has moved to England.

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    Sergei Roldugin, Artistic Director of the St Petersburg House of Music, attends a meeting of the Mariinsky Theatre's Board of Trustees at the Moscow Kremlin.

    Putin’s Music Man in Panama

    Putin’s Music Man in Panama

    MOSCOW — Before the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the now famous Panama Papers, the enormous leak of offshore financial records, almost nobody in Russia remembered that Vladimir Putin’s closest friend from the 1970...

    Few people had heard of the cellist Sergei Roldugin, but since his name showed up in the Panama Papers as the likely bag man for Putin, his name’s becoming a household word.

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    A painting made by U.S. military service members is displayed on a protective blast wall on January 11, 2016 at an undisclosed air base in the Persian Gulf Region. The U.S. military and coalition forces use the base, located in an undisclosed location, to launch drone airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria, as well as to distribute cargo and transport troops supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.

    U.S. Pushes for More Bases in Iraq

    U.S. Pushes for More Bases in Iraq

    The U.S. military is planning to expand the number of so-called “fire bases” in northern Iraq to prepare for an assault on Mosul, ISIS’s Iraqi capital. The bases will be there to support local Iraqi forces. But they’ll also put U.S. troops near th...

    It’s another indication that the U.S. military is increasingly conducting offensive operations even though President Obama has never publicly acknowledged the U.S. is back at war.

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    Twitter's Family Leave doesn't live up to its name

    Twitter’s Family Leave Isn’t Enough

    Twitter’s Family Leave Isn’t Enough

    Twitter was widely praised when it announced its new “family leave” policy this week that gives new moms and dads 20 paid weeks off. That’s swell. But the company’s not actually offering paid family leave but paid parental leave, which is not the ...

    Families come in many sizes, but too many corporate-leave policies are still one-size-fit-all.

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    Baylor Star Player Investigated in Rape

    Baylor Star Player Investigated in Rape

    Police are investigating sexual assault allegations made against NFL draft hopeful and former Baylor University football player Shawn Oakman, after a woman reported that he raped her over the weekend.According to a search warrant affidavit obtaine...

    Police are investigating sexual-assault allegations against Shawn Oakman, a former Baylor defensive end and NFL draft hopeful.

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    Anthony Garver, 28, and Mark Adams, 58 (L), who escaped from Western State Hospital in the city of Lakewood, Washington are shown in this Washington State Department of Social and Health Services handout combination photo released on April 7, 2016. Police were searching on Thursday for two men arrested on suspicion of violent crimes who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Washington state, possibly by slipping out of a loose window in their room, authorities said. REUTERS/Washington State Department of Social and Health Services/Handout via Reuters

    Violent Felon on the Lam Near Seattle

    Violent Felon on the Lam Near Seattle

    One fugitive is a violent felon who stabbed a young mother to death and was found incompetent to stand trial. His checkered past includes a stint in federal prison for threatening to blow up a government building in Spokane.The other escapee was r...

    Police apprehended one fugitive on Thursday afternoon but his ‘survivalist’ associate, accused of torturing and murdering a young mother in 2013, remains at large.

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    Twitter's Family Leave doesn't live up to its name

    Twitter’s Family Leave Isn’t Enough

    Twitter’s Family Leave Isn’t Enough

    Twitter was widely praised when it announced its new “family leave” policy this week that gives new moms and dads 20 paid weeks off. That’s swell. But the company’s not actually offering paid family leave but paid parental leave, which is not the ...

    Families come in many sizes, but too many corporate-leave policies are still one-size-fit-all.

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    Why Won't Cops Release This Man's Autoposy

    Why Won’t Cops Release His Autopsy?

    Why Won’t Cops Release His Autopsy?

    When police came to Pamela White’s work on March 31 last year, they told her that her son had died of a heart attack on his way to the hospital.What they didn’t say was that Phillip White died after Vineland, New Jersey, police officers Louis Plat...

    Phillip White was tackled and mauled, then police told his mom he died of a heart attack. The authorities won’t even tell her the official cause of death.

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    Jacob Avila

    Female Soldier: I Was Beaten for Hook-Up

    Female Soldier: I Was Beaten for Hook-Up

    A female U.S. Army soldier said she was beaten so severely by a soldier after making out with another man in their unit that she “thought I was about to die.” Jacob Andrew Avila, a combat engineer, and his friend Lucas Curtis stumbled onto the 18-...

    Two men in Texas are under investigation for allegedly strangling and punching a woman after catching her in bed with a man.

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    Maia Szalavitz new book on addiction, and the intersection of drugs, policy, and mental health

    Why Addiction Is a Learning Disorder

    Why Addiction Is a Learning Disorder

    Journalist Maia Szalavitz has written about the intersection of drugs, policy, and the brain for more than two decades. In her latest book, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, she chronicles her own experiences with...

    Maia Szalavitz talks about her former drug use, how addicts brains work, and why we need to see drug addiction and rehabilitation in a radically new way.

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    The Banned Stimulant in Your Supplement

    The Banned Stimulant in Your Supplement

    There’s another stimulant hiding in your supplements—oxilofrine.In a nine-page report released Thursday morning, researchers from Cambridge Health Alliance reveal the science behind the banned stimulant and expose brands that are secretly hiding i...

    Oxilofrine, which has serious side effects, is being added to at least 14 weight-loss and sports supplements, a new report says—the latest sign of a dangerously unregulated industry.

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    How high is too high to drive?

    How High Is Too High to Drive?

    How High Is Too High to Drive?

    As someone who’s decided it was okay to drive after one too many joints, I know it’s a bad idea. Reaction time can slow, tiredness can ensue, and other aspects of your perception can make it unsafe to operate a vehicle. Many states are currently t...

    As medical (and recreational) marijuana becomes ubiquitous, how will states tackle high drivers?

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    The Russian Billionaire Hunting for Aliens - THE ALIEN E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)

    The Russian Billionaire Hunting for E.T.

    The Russian Billionaire Hunting for E.T.

    If we’re not alone in the universe and there’s intelligent life out there on another planet, we need to boldly go looking for it. But for anyone who’s seen Independence Day or any number of disaster-filled alien invasion flicks, and for the scien...

    The brightest (and richest) minds on Earth share a common goal: to find intelligent life on another planet.

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    Shirtless muscular man holding vitamin pills - Stimulants in Athletics Supplements - U.N. Drugs Report

    The Banned Stimulant in Your Supplement

    The Banned Stimulant in Your Supplement

    There’s another stimulant hiding in your supplements—oxilofrine.In a nine-page report released Thursday morning, researchers from Cambridge Health Alliance reveal the science behind the banned stimulant and expose brands that are secretly hiding i...

    Oxilofrine, which has serious side effects, is being added to at least 14 weight-loss and sports supplements, a new report says—the latest sign of a dangerously unregulated industry.

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    the insane real-life implications of the various GOP plans to punish women, or doctors, for abortions - The Hardest Abortion I've Ever Had to Perform

    The Hardest Abortion I’ve Had to Perform

    The Hardest Abortion I’ve Had to Perform

    A story for Donald Trump, and all the other Republicans who have ideas about somehow punishing women who have abortions, or perhaps their doctors: Let’s just say that I didn’t offer her an abortion right away. She came in at 19 weeks, and it was ...

    ‘It’s my job to keep you from getting sick.’ I said. ‘This is the safest way we have now.’

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    Disneyland Screws Over Disabled Kids

    Disneyland Screws Over Disabled Kids

    As my mother once observed to me, “A day at the beach with your family is no day at the beach.”This is no reflection on the members of my family. Looking at them with a cold unbiased journalistic eye, I can observe clearly that I happened to wind ...

    Disney parks used to be a haven for children with disabilities and their families. But that’s about to change.

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    Teeth-Whitening Secret or Total Scam?

    Teeth-Whitening Secret or Total Scam?

    By Christine Yu, Life by Daily Burn You brush your teeth and floss on the reg. You’ve tried everything from the latest toothpaste to whitening strips, gels, and trays but nothing seems to give you that 100-watt smile. So what’s the best way to get...

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    the insane real-life implications of the various GOP plans to punish women, or doctors, for abortions - The Hardest Abortion I've Ever Had to Perform

    The Hardest Abortion I’ve Had to Perform

    The Hardest Abortion I’ve Had to Perform

    A story for Donald Trump, and all the other Republicans who have ideas about somehow punishing women who have abortions, or perhaps their doctors: Let’s just say that I didn’t offer her an abortion right away. She came in at 19 weeks, and it was ...

    ‘It’s my job to keep you from getting sick.’ I said. ‘This is the safest way we have now.’

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    Can ‘Deliciously Ella’ Conquer America?

    Can ‘Deliciously Ella’ Conquer America?

    The food writer and chef Ella Woodward is just 24, but she is probably the most influential person cooking in Britain today.Her first book, Deliciously Ella, was the fastest-selling cookbook on record in the U.K., beating such Amazon legends as Ni...

    Her cookbook was the fastest-selling on record in the U.K., and now Ella Woodward has set her healthy-eating sights on the U.S.

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    The main reading room of The New York Public Library is pictured December 14, 2004. The New York Public Library is among the libraries that announced on December 13, 2004 that they are partnering with Internet search engine Google Inc, to offer a collection of its public domain books, which will be scanned in their entirety and made available for free to the public online. Users will be able to search and browse the full text of these works. Google will begin scanning millions of books from Oxford University, Harvard University, Stanford University, The University of Michigan and the New York Public Library beginning in 2005.

    Stanford Rises Up Against PC Overlords

    Stanford Rises Up Against PC Overlords

    In 1988, the Rev. Jesse Jackson—then a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination—joined students at Stanford in chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!”With that spectacle, the university promptly dropped required course...

    Stanford students are voting on a plan to reinstate the controversial Western Civilization curriculum more than 25 years after Jesse Jackson helped kill it.

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    British musicians Cat's eye gatecrash and perform at The Palace

    Pop Band Beats Palace Security

    Pop Band Beats Palace Security

    It doesn’t quite rank up there with the prowler who made his way into the Queen’s bedroom for a late night chat, or the reporter who got a job serving the Queen breakfast.But a British pop duo have pulled off a publicity coup by blagging their way...

    British band Cat’s Eyes once talked their way into the Vatican for an impromptu performance. Now they have blagged their way into Buckingham Palace for the same purpose.

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    Kerry Washington

    Kerry Washington Wants Her Face Back

    Kerry Washington Wants Her Face Back

    The actress Kerry Washington has been widely praised for her eloquent taking to task of Adweek magazine.Washington claims the magazine overly-Photoshopped her for their most recent cover, but is not specific about how they did so.Instead, she wrot...

    She’s been lauded for criticizing AdWeek’s Photoshopping of her. But how ‘real’ do Hollywood stars really want to look?

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    The main reading room of The New York Public Library is pictured December 14, 2004. The New York Public Library is among the libraries that announced on December 13, 2004 that they are partnering with Internet search engine Google Inc, to offer a collection of its public domain books, which will be scanned in their entirety and made available for free to the public online. Users will be able to search and browse the full text of these works. Google will begin scanning millions of books from Oxford University, Harvard University, Stanford University, The University of Michigan and the New York Public Library beginning in 2005.

    Stanford Rises Up Against PC Overlords

    Stanford Rises Up Against PC Overlords

    In 1988, the Rev. Jesse Jackson—then a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination—joined students at Stanford in chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!”With that spectacle, the university promptly dropped required course...

    Stanford students are voting on a plan to reinstate the controversial Western Civilization curriculum more than 25 years after Jesse Jackson helped kill it.

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    Google Doodles for the First Olympics

    Google Doodles for the First Olympics

    Google has unveiled a set of four new ‘doodles’ with Victorian athletes standing in for letters on its homepage today, in celebration of the 120th anniversary of the first running of the 'modern' Olympic Games.The four different images a...

    The first ever modern Olympic games were held 120 years ago today. Google has marked the anniversary with a set of new doodles on its homepage.

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    Anthony Bourdain on Pier 57, where he is planning to open Bourdain Market, in New York, Sept. 20, 2015. The market will hold a vast collection of about 100 retail and wholesale food vendors from New York, the nation and overseas, including fishmongers, butchers, bakers and other artisans, and eventually at least one full-service restaurant. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)

    Bourdain’s Top 5 NYC Restaurants

    Bourdain’s Top 5 NYC Restaurants

    Chefs and foodies be warned: It’s not even noon and Anthony Bourdain is sipping a glass of Balvenie PortWood 21 Year Single Malt Scotch and talking about the joys of jujitsu—chokeholds and cauliflower ears included.But just when I think I’ll need ...

    The famed chef on why the Food Network is ‘unsuccessful,’ the changing nature of eating out, and his favorite Big Apple dining spots.

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    The Magic of Isaac Mizrahi

    The Magic of Isaac Mizrahi

    When it comes to fashion, designer Isaac Mizrahi’s approach is no color left behind. This is evident from the first step on to the second floor at The Jewish Museum in New York City where the all-American designer is the subject of his first-ever ...

    The Jewish Museum is hosting a retrospective of the designer’s clothes—and what impresses is his longevity and originality.

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    Google Doodles for the First Olympics

    Google Doodles for the First Olympics

    Google has unveiled a set of four new ‘doodles’ with Victorian athletes standing in for letters on its homepage today, in celebration of the 120th anniversary of the first running of the 'modern' Olympic Games.The four different images a...

    The first ever modern Olympic games were held 120 years ago today. Google has marked the anniversary with a set of new doodles on its homepage.

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    • US President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2015.  AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM        (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

      NASA’s ‘Computer’ in 60s Was Black Woman

      In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA.

    • The Starbucks logo is pictured outside a branch of the coffee shop chain in Dublin, Ireland, on February 25, 2016. / AFP / LEON NEAL        (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)

      World’s Biggest Starbucks Coming to NYC

      The chain says its biggest store ever will feature ‘coffee as theater.’

    A view of buildings in Stockholm's old city, on August 24, 2012. AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND        (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)

    Lonely? Call a Swede!

    Lonely? Call a Swede!

    A phone number created by Sweden’s tourism bureau connects the world to random Swedes.

    Screenshot of Tommy Davis, who lost three loved ones in 2010 UBB mine disaster.

    Mine Victim’s Dad’s Heartbreaking Speech

    Mine Victim’s Dad’s Heartbreaking Speech

    Tommy Davis, who lost his son, nephew and brother in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, says the company’s chief deserves much worse than a year in jail.Outside the courthouse where ex-CEO Don Blankenship was sentenced to one year in pris...

    A man who lost three relatives in the 2010 UBB mine disaster says Blankenship got off easy.

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    A crocodile is pictured at the Yala National Park in the southern district of Yala some 250km southwest of Colombo on July 24, 2015. Yala National Park is the most visited and second largest national park in Sri Lanka. AFP PHOTO/ ISHARA S. KODIKARA        (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)

    15-foot Cow-Eating Alligator Shot Dead

    15-foot Cow-Eating Alligator Shot Dead

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