The British Royal Family Rolled Out Guidelines to Combat Hateful Online Trolls
It would appear they have had it: the British royals are making moves to block social media trolls, publishing a set of "social media community guidelines" this week to help aim to make the official Kensington Palace and royal accounts stay hate-free. Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge have come in for their fare share of online ab...
2m Mar 05, 2019
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Yet Another Study Shows There's No Link Between the Measles Vaccine and Autism
More than 20 years ago, Andrew Wakefield came up with a hypothesis linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism. The paper proposing the connection was retracted for methodological issues, and Wakefield's medical license was revoked for misconduct related to those studies.
4m Mar 05, 2019
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'Precious, Happy Child.' This Is One of the Youngest Victims of the Alabama Tornado
A 10-year-old girl who died Sunday after a powerful tornado slashed through a tight-knit community in rural Alabama was remembered by friends and family members as a “little, precious, happy child” whose life was taken too soon. Taylor Thornton was one of at least 23 people killed in Lee County, Ala. after at least one twister with estimated 170 mph winds injured dozens...
3m Mar 05, 2019
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‘London Patient’ Appears to Become the Second Person Ever Cured of AIDS
Doctors say a British man who previously tested positive for HIV might be the second person ever to be cured of the AIDS virus. Reuters reports that the man, whose identity has not been revealed, has tested negative for the virus almost three years after he received a bone marrow transplant from a donor with an HIV-resistant genetic mutation. The man stopped taking anti...
2m Mar 05, 2019
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Denmark Is Supposed to Be a Land of Gender Equality. That’s Why I Speak Out About My Rape
On a summer night in 2017, I stayed over at a close friend’s house in Copenhagen after a late meeting as I had done before. In the middle of the night, I awoke to find a man climbing into my bed. He put his arm around my throat and then climbed on top of me. Pinning me roughly to the mattress, he raped me. That man was my friend. We had known each other for several years,...
7m Mar 05, 2019
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How the Marines Hacked the Super Bowl Ads
Advertisers paid more than $5 million for 30-second Super Bowl commercial slots in 2019. But the Marine Corps found a way to do it at a fraction of the cost, while reaching only the younger audience they were targeting. According to conversations with Marine Corps officials supported by FOIA requests, the Marines spent just under $1 million on seven 30-second Super Bowl...
7m Mar 05, 2019
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This Is Not Another Story About Captain Marvel’s Gender
"You really need to know about the cat?” Brie Larson asks. The cat in question, whose name is Goose, a nod to Tom Cruise’s sidekick in Top Gun, is the constant companion of Larson’s superhero, Captain Marvel, in the upcoming film of the same name. And the thing is, I do need to ask about the cat, because even though it’s animatronic, it’s just so real, with soft fur, beady...
10m Mar 05, 2019
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A Mom Who Accidentally Gave Birth to Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ Pays Tribute to Keith Flint
Of the entire Prodigy electronic dance discography, the hit 1996 song "Firestarter" emerged as the hit that traveled far and wide. And on Monday morning as news broke that the provocative frontman Keith Flint had died over the weekend, a mother shared that the song left a lasting impression on her. After all, she gave birth to it by complete, hilarious accident. A...
3m Mar 05, 2019
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Luke Perry Was the Perfect Throwback Idol for a Nostalgic Era
When I heard that Luke Perry had died, my immediate thought was: "Not Dylan!" That may sound like a minimization of the legacy left by the 52-year-old actor and father of two, who passed on Monday after suffering a massive stroke last week.
4m Mar 05, 2019
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Trump Serves College Athletes a Whole Fast Food Spread Again
Less than two months after his decision to serve the Clemson University football team fast food during their visit to the White House sparked a social media firestorm, President Donald Trump is back at it again. When North Dakota State University's football players arrived at the White House on Monday to celebrate winning the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision, th...
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She Spent 20 Years Teaching Teens About Sexual Assault. Now She’s Sharing Her Own Story
Twenty-three years ago, Laurie Halse Anderson woke up to the sound of a young girl wailing. Pulling herself from bed, she rushed to check on her daughters. Both were sleeping peacefully. The cries, she realized, had come from her own nightmare—an image of a girl, broken and sobbing. She sat down to write about what she'd dreamt.
11m Mar 04, 2019
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Possible Tornado Leaves At Least 23 Dead as Storms Tear Through the Deep South
(BEAUREGARD, Ala.) — A tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 23 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that caused catastrophic damage and unleashed other tornadoes around the Southeast. "Unfortunately our toll, as far as fatalities, does stand at 23 at the current time," Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told WRBL-TV of t...
6m Mar 04, 2019
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Malaysia Says It’s Willing to Restart the Search for the MH370 Flight 5 Years After It Disappeared
A Malaysian official said Sunday that the country is "more than willing" to restart the search for the vanished MH370 plane should any company present a fresh plan to track down the aircraft, Reuters reports. The renewed interest comes as families of the deceased passengers mark the fifth anniversary of the aircrafts's mysterious disappearance on March 8, 2014. “If t...
2m Mar 04, 2019
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What the U.S. Can Learn About Electronic Voting From This Tiny Eastern European Nation
On Sunday, when citizens of the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia go out to vote for their next parliament, many of their compatriots will have already voted — from the comfort of their own homes. That’s because Estonia is the world leader in electronic voting. Since 2005, Estonians have been able to cast their ballots from a computer with an Internet connection anywhere in...
5m Mar 03, 2019
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How Hozier Learned to Flirt with the End of the World on Wasteland, Baby!
When Hozier wrote "Take Me to Church" back in 2013, he wasn't expecting to have a hit on his hands. But after that song — an explosive piece of soulful rock — got Andrew Hozier-Byrne signed to a record label and blew up online, the Irish singer-songwriter turned into a global star overnight.
7m Mar 03, 2019
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Spending Just 20 Minutes in a Park Makes You Happier. Here’s What Else Being Outside Can Do for Your Health
Spending time outdoors, especially in green spaces, is one of the fastest ways to improve your health and happiness. It's been shown to lower stress, blood pressure and heart rate, while encouraging physical activity and buoying mood and mental health. Some research even suggests that green space is associated with a lower risk of developing psychiatric disorders — all fin...
5m Mar 03, 2019
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The 5 Funniest Books Ever
We asked comedy greats to name the five works in their fields that influenced them the most and made them laugh the hardest. Few authors are better suited to thrive in our fast-paced and distractible moment than Samantha Irby, who blogs, hosts live shows, and writes in print (including the bestselling essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life) and for television (...
3m Mar 03, 2019
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House Judiciary Committee to Request Trump-Related Documents From Over 60 People
WASHINGTON — Declaring it's "very clear" President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the chairman of the House committee in charge of impeachment says the panel is requesting documents Monday from more than 60 people from Trump's administration, family and business as part of a rapidly expanding Russia investigation. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the House Judiciary ...
6m Mar 03, 2019
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The Author of The Wife Just Had Her First Oscars Experience. But Her Hollywood Days Are Far From Over
"You still have to walk on the red carpet, even if they aren't looking at you," Meg Wolitzer says, swiping through photos from the Academy Awards over breakfast the Tuesday after the ceremony. Less than 48 hours earlier, the novelist had taken her seat on the second mezzanine of the Dolby Theatre, in the same section as Rami Malek's mother, who would watch her son accept t...
8m Mar 03, 2019
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The 5 Funniest TV Shows Ever
We asked comedy greats to name the five works in their fields that influenced them the most and made them laugh the hardest. The sitcoms that Michael Schur has created over the last decade are among the most cherished in the TV landscape: Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place. Schur has found humor in both the mundane and the metaphysical, imbuing eve...
2m Mar 03, 2019
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National Security Adviser Bolton Says President Trump ‘Gave Nothing Away’ in Summit With Kim Jong Un
WASHINGTON — The White House national security adviser on Sunday described President Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a success despite the lack of an agreement providing for the verifiable dismantling of the North's nuclear sites.
3m Mar 03, 2019
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Deal or no Deal, the U.S.-China Relationship Is Beyond Repair
Are we nearing a deal to end the U.S.-China trade war? President Trump seems to think so. "We're getting very, very close," he told a group of governors visiting the White House in February. Citing "substantial progress" in recent negotiations, Trump postponed a March 1 deadline that would have sharply increased the rate of tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods. ...
4m Mar 03, 2019
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President Trump: Some Serving in the U.S. Congress ‘Hate Our Country’
President Donald Trump said that certain members of Congress "hate" the United States during a two-hour speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday. Trump spoke about immigration at length during his free-wheeling, off-the-cuff speech. He said that he would be in favor of people migrating to the United States, so long as they comply with immigrati...
2m Mar 03, 2019
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Mitzi Gaynor’s Golden Memories of Stanley Donen
Imagine having to corral Yul Brynner, Noël Coward and me during an outdoor shoot on the Greek isle of Rhodes circa 1959--along with Noël's delightfully in-character request, "Let's stop for tea, dear," just as we're losing the light. The unenviable task fell to our director, the great Stanley Donen, whom we were privileged to work with on an opus titled Surprise Package. S...
1m Mar 03, 2019
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The 5 Funniest Movies Ever
We asked comedy greats to name the five works in their fields that influenced them the most and made them laugh the hardest. Tracy Oliver made headlines as the first black screenwriter to write a film that grossed over $100 million with the uproarious 2017 comedy Girls Trip, which she co-wrote. This year she'll celebrate the release of Little, a movie she wrote about a wom...
2m Mar 03, 2019
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Senator Doug Jones Defeated Roy Moore in 2017. Here’s What He Has to Say About 2020
The Alabama Senator, who won a surprising electoral victory in 2017, on the Democratic field, the Klan and his chances of being re-elected What does the Alabamian writer Rick Bragg mean when he says in the introduction to your new book, Bending Toward Justice, that there are too many ghosts in Alabama? There is often an undercurrent of racial tension in the state th...
3m Mar 03, 2019
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After Leaving Neverland, What Do We Do With Michael Jackson?
Barely a week goes by when we're not forced to wrestle with the damaging, and sometimes horrific, acts of men who have made art that we care about. We need to put the well-being of humans above movies and paintings, above words and music. Yet movies and paintings, and words and music, are the very things that allow us to make sense out of human nature.
10m Mar 03, 2019
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The Green New Deal Helped Spur These Republicans to Start a ‘Conservation Caucus’
Two Republican senators launched a new group this week to advocate for "market-based approaches" to environmental problems in the wake of growing momentum among Democrats pushing for an aggressive approach to climate change and other issues.
4m Mar 03, 2019
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Manafort’s Lawyers Seek Leniency Ahead of Sentencing
(WASHINGTON) — Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are asking a judge in Virginia for leniency ahead of a sentencing hearing next week. Manafort is to be sentenced next Thursday after being convicted last summer of eight financial crimes. Probation officials have calculated a sentencing guideline range of between 19.5 and 24 years in prison for M...
55s Mar 03, 2019
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5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Week
Solange follows up 2016's A Seat at the Table with new project When I Get Home, a cohesive and distinctive 19-track collection of dreamy, unhurried music tapping an all-star team of collaborators. British singer-songwriter Tom Walker teams up with Zara Larsson for a lovely heartbreak duet. The Jonas Brothers are back in fine form on the uncomplicated "Sucker." American Ido...
4m Mar 02, 2019
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President Trump Reportedly Ordered His Son-in-Law Be Given a Security Clearance. Here's How They Work
President Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant Jared Kushner — Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser — a top-secret security clearance, the New York Times reported on Thursday. In doing this, Trump was effectively quashing concerns raised by the White House's top lawyer and intelligence officials that Kushner should perhaps not be granted the clearance, the ...
6m Mar 02, 2019
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A New Dr. Seuss Book Is Coming in September – Nearly 3 Decades After His Death
(NEW YORK) — There is no muse like Dr. Seuss. An unfinished manuscript by the late children's author is the basis for "Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum," coming Sept. 3. Random House Children's Books announced Thursday that illustrator Andrew Joyner completed the text, which has a look "both subtly Seussian and wholly his own." The book features horse artwork by Pablo Picass...
51s Mar 02, 2019
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Why the Pope’s Summit on Abuse Disappointed Some Survivors
Pope Francis arrived at the Vatican in 2013 promising "decisive action" on the child sex-abuse crisis that has racked the Catholic Church for at least three decades. Survivors around the world had told of horrific assaults by priests and callous cover-ups by senior clerics; in the U.S. alone, a 2004 church-commissioned report recorded over 10,000 accusations against more t...
5m Mar 02, 2019
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Actress Katherine Helmond of Who's the Boss? and Soap Dies at 89
(LOS ANGELES) — Actress Katherine Helmond, an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress who played two very different matriarchs on the ABC sitcoms "Who's the Boss?" and "Soap," has died, her talent agency said Friday. She was 89. Helmond died of complications from Alzheimer's disease last Saturday at her home in Los Angeles, talent agency APA said in a statement....
3m Mar 02, 2019
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Get Ready for Foldable Smartphones, Because They’re About To Be Everywhere
For a peek at the cutting-edge smartphones you can expect to see (and even buy) later this year, look no further than Mobile World Congress, the annual Super Bowl of the handset world. And one clear trend from this year's MWC, which wraps up Feb. 28, is the rise of "foldable" smartphones. With the appearance of a regular handset but the ability to open up to become more ta...
6m Mar 01, 2019
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HBO’s Michael Jackson Documentary Is the In-Depth Survivor Story #MeToo Has Been Missing
Sometimes I worry we’re so busy “believing” survivors that we’ve stopped listening to them. In the #MeToo era, reports of gross sexual misconduct have brought down so many once-untouchable men: Harvey Weinstein, Les Moonves, Roy Moore, Catholic priests around the world. Bill Cosby is in prison. Despite his ascension to the Supreme Court, more Americans trusted Christine Bl...
6m Mar 01, 2019
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This Weekend’s SpaceX Launch Will Be a Huge Step Towards Crewed Flights
(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — SpaceX closes in on human spaceflight with this weekend's debut of a new capsule designed for astronauts. The six-day test flight will be real in every regard, beginning with a Florida liftoff Saturday and a docking the next day with the International Space Station. But the Dragon capsule won't carry humans, rather a test dummy in the same white...
5m Mar 01, 2019
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Spring Cleaning Comes Early As Apps See a Donation Boost Thanks to Marie Kondo
Thanks to the popularity of famous tidying-up guru Marie Kondo's Netflix show Tidying Up, a number of businesses — from Goodwill to online resellers like thredUP and Poshmark — say they're seeing boosts as Americans seek to slim down their wardrobes in the quest to spark joy. In January, Kondo followed up her best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up with ...
2m Mar 01, 2019
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How a Radical New Proposal Could Curb Fake News on Social Media
An overwhelming majority of Europeans would support a radical new measure that would require social media companies to direct all users who have seen false information toward fact-checks, according to new polling from global advocacy group Avaaz. The initiative is intended to prevent the spread of “fake news” on Facebook and Twitter as governments come under growing pressu...
7m Mar 01, 2019
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There Is a Better Way to Teach Students with Learning Disabilities
About five decades ago, scientists believed that our brains were fixed — either at birth or by the time we were adolescents. This led to the schooling approach that now fills schools: identifying learning disabilities, providing accommodations and working to students’ strengths. Recently, though, the scientific world has found that this may be wrong — and that even student...
8m Mar 01, 2019
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Activist: Trump Smiling With Kim Jong Un on the World Stage Shows His Disdain for Human Rights
Yet again, President Donald Trump has failed to raise North Korea’s dire human rights record at a major historical summit with Kim Jong Un. When asked about it during a press conference, Trump appears to have excused and enabled Kim Jong Un’s worst actions. He gave Kim a platform on the world stage only to showcase his own disdain for human rights. What a reversal from th...
5m Mar 01, 2019
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The Women Who Served With the U.S. Military During WWI
The First World War is often described as the first "modern" war. The term generally refers to mechanized warfare in the form of tanks and airplanes; terrorizing civilian populations as an act of war; and the mobilization of society as a whole. But it could also apply to the new roles of women in their nations' war efforts. Increasing manpower demands on the part of all...
8m Mar 01, 2019
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Democrats Bet on Mueller Delivering the Goods. What If He Doesn’t?
For a year and a half, leading Democrats argued that the safest response when asked about the Russia investigation was to defer to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying they just want to make sure he can complete his work. But with rumors swirling that Mueller may be close to finishing, some now think that was the risky choice after all. Several worst-case scenarios...
6m Mar 01, 2019
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This Is the Best Time of Day to Work Out, According to Science
Finding time to exercise can be challenging, and the most important thing is to squeeze in any amount of it whenever you can. But if you want to optimize your workouts to get the widest range of benefits, you might want to try exercising in the morning. Here's what the science says about the best time of day to exercise — and what to expect if you opt for later workouts...
5m Mar 01, 2019
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A Cancer Patient’s Radioactive Remains Are Raising Fears of Contamination
About half of all Americans are cremated when they die. So when a 69-year-old man was cremated in Arizona in 2017, it didn't seem out of the ordinary — until doctors learned that his body may have put others at risk of radiation exposure. In 2017, the man was admitted to a hospital for low blood pressure treatment, according to a new research letter published in JAMA. ...
4m Feb 28, 2019
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Here's What We Know Why Women Live Longer Than Men
The numbers don't lie: women tend to live longer than men. The average American man will live to age 76, according to the latest CDC figures, while the average woman in America will live to age 81. And a woman’s extra years tend to be healthy ones.
4m Feb 28, 2019
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Walmart Is Getting Rid of Greeters and Disabled Workers Have Concerns
As Walmart moves to phase out its familiar blue-vested "greeters" at some 1,000 stores nationwide, disabled workers who fill many of those jobs say they're being ill-treated by a chain that styles itself as community-minded and inclusive. Walmart told greeters around the country last week that their positions would be eliminated on April 26 in favor of an expanded, more...
7m Feb 28, 2019
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Taylor Swift Is Having a Lot of Fun With Those Theories About Her New Music. Here’s What to Know
With speculation circulating from fans who hope that Taylor Swift could be releasing a new album, Taylor herself has commented on her fans' Taylor Swift theories, which only launched more. In the 15 months since Swift dropped her sixth album, Reputation, anticipation for a forthcoming album has only grown. After Swift dressed up as Ariel from Disney’s The Little Mermaid...
2m Feb 28, 2019
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Hush Money. Stolen Emails. Bank Fraud. Michael Cohen Showed Where the Trump Investigations Are Headed Next
During 10 years of service, Michael Cohen says, he threatened hundreds of people on behalf of his boss, Donald J. Trump: he strong-armed contractors, browbeat reporters and warned schools against releasing Trump’s grades. But sitting before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Feb.
6m Feb 28, 2019
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‘I Take Him at His Word.’ Trump Defends Kim Over Otto Warmbier’s Mistreatment and Death
President Donald Trump defended North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un when confronted Thursday about American college student Otto Warmbier, who died days after he was repatriated from the pariah state with brain damage. Responding to questions in Hanoi before bringing an abrupt end to his second summit with Kim, Trump said he does not believe that the North Korean autocrat k...
3m Feb 28, 2019
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