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    U.S. House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during a news conference on opioid epidemic May 19, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Legislators held a news conference to discuss their support for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA).

    GOP Boss Shivs LGBT Rights in the Back

    GOP Boss Shivs LGBT Rights in the Back

    Quite a Thursday: Top House Republicans today used an underhanded voting tactic and brazen arm-twisting to block a provision that would have given additional employment protections to LGBT Americans. One Republican called their efforts “bullshit.”...

    The House passed a provision to help LGBT Americans—until top Republicans forced their troops to change their votes, in secret.

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    Bernie Sanders and Jane Sanders, And Thelma and Louise

    Bernie and Jane Play Thelma and Louise

    Bernie and Jane Play Thelma and Louise

    Now we are forced to ask whether Bernie Sanders has decided he wants to destroy the Democratic Party. I’m sure he would say he wants to save it. The way we saved villages in Vietnam. You know the quote. I don’t allege that he decided to run as a D...

    As the Berniacs go nuts, Bernie himself is egging them on.

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    Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during the 2016 Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Candidates Forum in Washington, DC, December 3, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB / AFP / SAUL LOEB        (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

    Trump Making Dough From Defunct School

    Trump Making Dough From Defunct School

    Donald Trump may be facing three separate lawsuits over his now-defunct university, but he’s still raking in money from the enterprise. According to his 2016 personal financial disclosure form, filed with the Federal Election Commission, Trump mad...

    Former students and law enforcement officials may call his school a fraud. But that’s not stopping The Donald from cashing in on it.

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    U.S. House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during a news conference on opioid epidemic May 19, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Legislators held a news conference to discuss their support for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA).

    GOP Boss Shivs LGBT Rights in the Back

    GOP Boss Shivs LGBT Rights in the Back

    Quite a Thursday: Top House Republicans today used an underhanded voting tactic and brazen arm-twisting to block a provision that would have given additional employment protections to LGBT Americans. One Republican called their efforts “bullshit.”...

    The House passed a provision to help LGBT Americans—until top Republicans forced their troops to change their votes, in secret.

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    People walk in front of the Facebook logo at the new Facebook Innovation Hub during a preview media tour in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2016.      REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RTX28DVA

    Conservatives—Quit Crying About Facebook

    Conservatives—Quit Crying About Facebook

    So Mark Zuckerberg met Wednesday with a bunch of right-wing pundits, activists, and figures today after being mau-maued by conservatives when a Gizmodo article charged that Facebook “routinely suppressed conservative views” in its trending news se...

    The conservatives meeting the tech company to complain about media bias seem to have awfully high media profiles themselves.

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    This combination of file photos shows Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders(L)on March 31, 2016 and Hillary Clinton on March 30, 2016,
US presidential primaries spark back to life April 5, 2016 after an eventful 10-day break. For Clinton, a loss in Wisconsin would be more symbolic than anything else, as the state distributes delegates proportionally according to the primary results.
But she comes into the contest having lost five of the last six states to Bernie Sanders, and polls show him finishing on top in Wisconsin.
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    Wounded Hillary Limps to Kentucky Win

    Wounded Hillary Limps to Kentucky Win

    Hillary Clinton limped over the line in Kentucky on Tuesday night. She narrowly secured the chance to declare victory—even though Bernie Sanders pushed her to a virtual tie and they are likely to split the state’s delegates evenly.With 99 percent ...

    In a razor-thin victory, Clinton won the Kentucky primary. But she was handily beaten in Oregon and just can’t shake Bernie Sanders.

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    Entertainment

    60 Minutes broadcast journalist Morley Safer at his desk, smoking cigarette, in his office at CBS TV news mag. HQ.  (Photo by Carl Mydans/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

    Morley Safer Dead at 84

    Morley Safer Dead at 84

    Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with Morley Safer’s death.Morley Safer—who, at 84, announced his retirement last week after more than five decades at CBS News, all but six years of that peerless stretch as a star correspondent for 60 Mi...

    As cool ‘as a hog on ice’ when reporting from Vietnam, the veteran ‘60 Minutes’ reporter retired last weekend and passed away days later.

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    The Ghostbusters Abby (Melissa McCarthy), Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), Erin (Kristen Wiig) and Patty (Leslie Jones) inside the Mercado Hotel Lobby in Columbia Pictures' GHOSTBUSTERS.

    Trump’s Anti-‘Ghostbusters’ Crusade

    Trump’s Anti-‘Ghostbusters’ Crusade

    The first angry, famous nerd to purse his lips, lift his sausage fingers in the air, and rail publicly—and loudly—against Sony’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot unleashed his flimsy outrage on the Internet just over a year ago.   “They’re remak...

    Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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    Actor Anthony Mackie arrives at the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 30, 2016.

    Anthony Mackie on MLK, Obama and Trump

    Anthony Mackie on MLK, Obama and Trump

    Most Americans probably know Anthony Mackie best as Falcon, sidekick to Captain America in the massively successful Marvel movies. But this week, the 37-year-old actor is taking on a very different type of superhero: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in ...

    In an interview with The Daily Beast, Anthony Mackie discusses taking on the role of MLK opposite Bryan Cranston’s LBJ and that time he inadvertently endorsed Trump.

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    Actress Lena Dunham poses at The Hollywood Reporter's Annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles, California December 9, 2015.

    Lena Dunham’s FU to Her Critics

    Lena Dunham’s FU to Her Critics

    Lena Dunham has made a career out of oversharing, from appearing naked more often than not on Girls to recalling in her warts-and-all memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, the first time a guy went down on her, after a college party to benefit Palestine ...

    Beloved by her fans and loathed by her critics, Dunham will provide hearty catnip for both with her new book—an uncompromising excavation of her 19-year-old self.

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    The Ghostbusters Abby (Melissa McCarthy), Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), Erin (Kristen Wiig) and Patty (Leslie Jones) inside the Mercado Hotel Lobby in Columbia Pictures' GHOSTBUSTERS.

    Trump’s Anti-‘Ghostbusters’ Crusade

    Trump’s Anti-‘Ghostbusters’ Crusade

    The first angry, famous nerd to purse his lips, lift his sausage fingers in the air, and rail publicly—and loudly—against Sony’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot unleashed his flimsy outrage on the Internet just over a year ago.   “They’re remak...

    Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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    Future and Ciara

    Will Anti-Ciara Bros Ever Grow Up?

    Will Anti-Ciara Bros Ever Grow Up?

    Ciara won’t be getting sole custody of her young son, Future Zahir. A judge ruled on Tuesday that the R&B singer and her former fiancé, rapper Future, instead will share joint custody of the 2-year-old boy. The unfortunate custody battle betwe...

    Future fans have kept up their petty campaign against his ex after a judge ruled the pair must share custody of their son. Ciara’s crime? Being a concerned mom.

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    Tom Hiddleton

    Tom Hiddleston Bares All

    Tom Hiddleston Bares All

    The “Hiddlestoners”—a group of feverish fans who get all hot and bothered at the mere mention of their dapper deity, Tom Hiddleston—will have a field day with High-Rise. There he is sunbathing in the nude on his balcony, a book carefully positione...

    The new film ‘High-Rise,’ based on the J.G. Ballard novel, is a mind-bending drama about income inequality and our uncontrollable id.

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    Pervert Park

    ‘Pervert Park’: Sex Offenders’ Home

    ‘Pervert Park’: Sex Offenders’ Home

    There are over 500,000 convicted sex offenders in the United States, according to a text crawl at the start of Pervert Park, a documentary that aims to do the near-impossible for the most stigmatized of crimes: stir sympathy for child molesters an...

    The new film ‘Pervert Park’ documents a community of sex offenders in Florida who struggle with their pasts, and with adjusting to society.

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    Future and Ciara

    Will Anti-Ciara Bros Ever Grow Up?

    Will Anti-Ciara Bros Ever Grow Up?

    Ciara won’t be getting sole custody of her young son, Future Zahir. A judge ruled on Tuesday that the R&B singer and her former fiancé, rapper Future, instead will share joint custody of the 2-year-old boy. The unfortunate custody battle betwe...

    Future fans have kept up their petty campaign against his ex after a judge ruled the pair must share custody of their son. Ciara’s crime? Being a concerned mom.

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    World News

    Mohamed Mamdouh Assem

    All EgyptAir Pilot Wanted Was to Fly

    All EgyptAir Pilot Wanted Was to Fly

    For EgyptAir Flight 804 co-pilot Mohammad Mamdouh Assem, becoming a pilot was a lifelong dream.His father works as a flight crew member for the same airline, whose plane carrying 66 people crashed early Thursday 170 miles off the coast of Egypt, i...

    Mohammad Mamdouh Assem, whose plane crashed into the Mediterranean early Thursday, had dreamed of being a pilot since he was 5. Friends remember him and the other victims.

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    Unidentified relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo react as they wait outside the Egyptair in-flight service building where relatives are being held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt May 19, 2016.

    Flight From Paris Crashes Into the Sea

    Flight From Paris Crashes Into the Sea

    PARIS — A passenger jet carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo plummeted from the sky early this morning as it crossed the Mediterranean Sea.EgyptAir Flight 804 was at cruising altitude when it suddenly dropped at least 20,000 feet and disappeared...

    Egypt fears terrorists brought down a plane carrying 66 people from Europe to Cairo. Search teams hunting for the wreckage have found debris in the Mediterranean Sea.

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    Model 094 SSBN China missile carrying submarine

    China’s Nuclear Subs Are Coming

    China’s Nuclear Subs Are Coming

    China’s about to join an exclusive club for nuclear powers. After decades of development, 2016 could be the year the Chinese navy finally sends its ballistic-missile submarines—“SSBN” is the Pentagon’s designation—to sea for the first time for ope...

    Beijing will soon be able to launch nuclear missiles from the sea. And that’s going to make it harder to deter any future Chinese aggression.

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    End of Russian media

    The Death of Free Media in Russia

    The Death of Free Media in Russia

    An earthquake has shaken Russia’s battered media landscape. In one day, on Friday, May 13, Russia’s biggest independent media holding company, RBC (Russian Business Consulting), lost three top editors—Yelizaveta Osetinskaya, editor in chief of the...

    Under pressure, the last oligarch supporting opposition voices bends to Putin’s will.

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    Unidentified relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo react as they wait outside the Egyptair in-flight service building where relatives are being held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt May 19, 2016.

    Flight From Paris Crashes Into the Sea

    Flight From Paris Crashes Into the Sea

    PARIS — A passenger jet carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo plummeted from the sky early this morning as it crossed the Mediterranean Sea.EgyptAir Flight 804 was at cruising altitude when it suddenly dropped at least 20,000 feet and disappeared...

    Egypt fears terrorists brought down a plane carrying 66 people from Europe to Cairo. Search teams hunting for the wreckage have found debris in the Mediterranean Sea.

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    B9KXKD Norway, Oslo, Aker Brygge tram stop on the harbour

    Why This City Banned Sexy Ads

    Why This City Banned Sexy Ads

    Buff beach boys and bathing beauties be gone! So say new municipal edicts in Norway’s third-largest city, which officially put the kibosh on images of scantily clad models with super physiques in public advertising spaces.This battle against beaut...

    Little Trondheim may be setting an example for the U.S. by bringing reality back to busts, butts, and waistlines.

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    Bitcoin and Mt Gox

    The Biggest Bitcoin Heist in History

    The Biggest Bitcoin Heist in History

    TOKYO — When Mark Karpeles, the CEO of what was once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, said that the company had gone bankrupt because 800,000 bitcoins (worth nearly half a billion dollars at the time) had been hacked, he wasn’t exactly lying....

    Mt. Gox was once the biggest exchange for the virtual currency. Then half a billion dollars’ worth went missing. Emails give important clues to what happened.

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    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance to the Sinchang Fish Farm under KPA Unit 810 in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), May 15, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA 

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    Kim Jong Un Would Eat Trump’s Lunch

    Kim Jong Un Would Eat Trump’s Lunch

    HONG KONG — Is Donald Trump ready to ditch long-held America policy and engage in dialogue with Kim Jong Un, the truculent, nuke-armed youngster who happens to lead a destitute North Korea? Yes, because the Trumpster is oblivious to the lessons of...

    The presumptive candidate’s presumptuous talk about dealing with dictators undermines vital American alliances.

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    B9KXKD Norway, Oslo, Aker Brygge tram stop on the harbour

    Why This City Banned Sexy Ads

    Why This City Banned Sexy Ads

    Buff beach boys and bathing beauties be gone! So say new municipal edicts in Norway’s third-largest city, which officially put the kibosh on images of scantily clad models with super physiques in public advertising spaces.This battle against beaut...

    Little Trondheim may be setting an example for the U.S. by bringing reality back to busts, butts, and waistlines.

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    U.S. News

    60 Minutes broadcast journalist Morley Safer at his desk, smoking cigarette, in his office at CBS TV news mag. HQ.  (Photo by Carl Mydans/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

    Morley Safer Dead at 84

    Morley Safer Dead at 84

    Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with Morley Safer’s death.Morley Safer—who, at 84, announced his retirement last week after more than five decades at CBS News, all but six years of that peerless stretch as a star correspondent for 60 Mi...

    As cool ‘as a hog on ice’ when reporting from Vietnam, the veteran ‘60 Minutes’ reporter retired last weekend and passed away days later.

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    Za'layia Jenkins shots and killed by stray bullet in Milwaukee, WI

    She Wanted to Grow Up Without Being Shot

    She Wanted to Grow Up Without Being Shot

    Police Capt. Shunta Boston-Smith of the Milwaukee Police was on a goodwill stroll of Milwaukee’s north side in late April when she paused to jump rope with 9-year-old Za’layia Jenkins.Za’layia asked a question that had a particular urgency in a ci...

    Less than a month after asking a Milwaukee police officer, ‘Will you keep me safe?’ 9-year-old Za’layia got a tragic answer—as she watched TV in her own home.

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    Bayan Zehlif, 17, speaks during a news conference on Monday, May 9, 2016 in Anaheim, Calif. Zehlif has posted a photo on Facebook of herself in a hijab with the name "Isis Phillips" underneath it as it appears in the Los Osos High School yearbook. She writes in the post that she's "extremely saddened, disgusted, hurt and embarrassed." She says the school told her it was a "typo" but she says, "I beg to differ." (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

    New School Crime: Studying While Muslim

    New School Crime: Studying While Muslim

    “Oh no, the rag-head Taliban is here.”  “We all think you are a terrorist.” “Is that a bomb in your backpack?”That’s a small sample of the types of comments Muslim American students have been subjected to recently. But the worst part is that these...

    A California high school girl opened her yearbook to find that her first name had been changed to ‘Isis.’ She was told it was a typo. Right.

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    60 Minutes broadcast journalist Morley Safer at his desk, smoking cigarette, in his office at CBS TV news mag. HQ.  (Photo by Carl Mydans/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

    Morley Safer Dead at 84

    Morley Safer Dead at 84

    Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with Morley Safer’s death.Morley Safer—who, at 84, announced his retirement last week after more than five decades at CBS News, all but six years of that peerless stretch as a star correspondent for 60 Mi...

    As cool ‘as a hog on ice’ when reporting from Vietnam, the veteran ‘60 Minutes’ reporter retired last weekend and passed away days later.

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    George Zimmerman smiles during a light moment while he testifies at  a hearing for accused shooter Matthew Apperson, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Apperson is charged with attempted murder of Zimmerman for shooting into Zimmerman's vehicle in May, 2015. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool)

    Zimmerman Taunts Trayvon’s Parents

    Zimmerman Taunts Trayvon’s Parents

    It wasn’t enough for George Zimmerman to kill Trayvon Martin.In an interview with The Daily Beast this week, Zimmerman made it clear he has no remorse about shooting the 17-year-old boy to death in Sanford, Florida, and bears outright hostility fo...

    The man who killed the teen and ignited Black Lives Matter explains why he’s selling the gun, what he thinks of Hillary and Trump, and why he’s the real victim.

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    Jelly Belly Family Sued in Tank Death

    Jelly Belly Family Sued in Tank Death

    The family reunion for the owners of the Jelly Belly Candy Company quickly turned tragic with one of the world’s most recent deaths by a World War II-era tank.Candy is the day job of Herman Rowland Sr., chair of the board at the Jelly Belly Candy ...

    The husband of the candy maker’s CEO accidentally killed a man with a WWII tank at the company chairman’s ‘Tank Barn.’

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    Tech + Health

    A demonstrator holds up a sign in support of pro-life rights outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Supreme Court justices clashed in their first abortion showdown in almost a decade as a pivotal justice suggested the court could stop short of a definitive ruling on a disputed Texas law regulating clinics. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    S.C. Turned Abortion Lies Into Law

    S.C. Turned Abortion Lies Into Law

    The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is headed to South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk and, if she signs it as promised, hers will become the 17th state in the country to institute a 20-week abortion ban.She will also be turning lies int...

    Science says fetal pain doesn’t happen before 28 weeks, but that didn’t stop South Carolina from banning abortion past 20 weeks.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 20:
A man shows an empty packet of Show cigars and Train Wrecked, a brand of what is commonly referred to as K2 or spice, nearby the corner of 2nd and D streets Northwest in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2015. Officials at the nearby Community for Creative Non-Violence, D.C.'s largest homeless shelter, have complained about open-air sales and use of synthetic drugs on the street. The drugs, popularly known as K2, has made some users violent.
 

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    Skid Row’s K2 Epidemic

    Skid Row’s K2 Epidemic

    LOS ANGELES — Skid Row in Los Angeles has always been a place in dire need of help. Walking down the streets, you see broken tents, sprawled bodies, and varying levels of human suffering. Homeless people’s faces are painted with anguish. The infam...

    Synthetic marijuana has a growing fan base among the homeless community of Los Angeles’s Skid Row, causing overdoses and hospitalizations.

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    Man covering his crotch with both hands

    Is This the World’s Most Painful Injury?

    Is This the World’s Most Painful Injury?

    A snapping sound is the last thing any man wants to hear during sex, especially if it comes from his penis. For a 32-year-old man who showed up at an emergency room in New Delhi, India, that nightmare came true, landing him in the pages of BMJ Cas...

    The penis isn’t a bone, but it’s entirely possible to break it—and it happens more often than we realize.

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    Did Edible Make a Man Kill His Family?

    The New Murder Defense: Marijuana Did It

    The New Murder Defense: Marijuana Did It

    Before shooting his wife to death, Richard Kirk asked her to kill him.After the Denver father of three allegedly murdered Kristine Kirk, he asked their 7-year-old son to do it, saying it would allow “Mom and Dad to be together with God.”The fatal ...

    A first-of-its-kind case in Colorado alleges that an edibles manufacturer helped lead a husband to kill his wife—and he’s pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 20:
A man shows an empty packet of Show cigars and Train Wrecked, a brand of what is commonly referred to as K2 or spice, nearby the corner of 2nd and D streets Northwest in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2015. Officials at the nearby Community for Creative Non-Violence, D.C.'s largest homeless shelter, have complained about open-air sales and use of synthetic drugs on the street. The drugs, popularly known as K2, has made some users violent.
 

(Photo by Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    Skid Row’s K2 Epidemic

    Skid Row’s K2 Epidemic

    LOS ANGELES — Skid Row in Los Angeles has always been a place in dire need of help. Walking down the streets, you see broken tents, sprawled bodies, and varying levels of human suffering. Homeless people’s faces are painted with anguish. The infam...

    Synthetic marijuana has a growing fan base among the homeless community of Los Angeles’s Skid Row, causing overdoses and hospitalizations.

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    Lawsuit takes on state's requirement of surgery to change gender on a birth certificate

    When Birth Certificate = Bathroom Rights

    When Birth Certificate = Bathroom Rights

    If you are transgender, determining which bathroom you are legally allowed to use in North Carolina is complicated. The answer depends on your birth certificate gender marker, which, in turn, depends on where you were born and whether or not you’v...

    A new lawsuit seeks to allow trans people the right to change their gender on birth certificates without expensive sex reassignment surgery—and could provide a way to fight back agai...

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    Is Exercise Making You Fat?

    Is Exercise Making You Fat?

    We eat too much. Period.And because we eat too much, we try to cancel the ‘calories in’ with ‘calories out’ equation via exercise. We use exercise as our safety net for our eating habits.But the math isn’t that simple. And too much exercise might ...

    So much time, money, and, well, energy are put into burning off all that food. But does that really make a difference?

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    EM86DB Prince seen here performing at BBC Broadcasting House as part of his Act II tour 7th September 1993

    Could this Drug Have Saved Prince?

    Could this Drug Have Saved Prince?

    If there is a speck of silver lining to be found in the abrupt passing of Prince, it’s the attention being paid to buprenorphine (brand name Suboxone), a drug used to treat opioid addiction that, according to local press reports, Prince’s represen...

    Buprenorphine is proven to help opiate users recover, but stigma and confusion keep addicts from seeking the drug and doctors from prescribing it.

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    Lawsuit takes on state's requirement of surgery to change gender on a birth certificate

    When Birth Certificate = Bathroom Rights

    When Birth Certificate = Bathroom Rights

    If you are transgender, determining which bathroom you are legally allowed to use in North Carolina is complicated. The answer depends on your birth certificate gender marker, which, in turn, depends on where you were born and whether or not you’v...

    A new lawsuit seeks to allow trans people the right to change their gender on birth certificates without expensive sex reassignment surgery—and could provide a way to fight back agai...

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    BeastStyle

    Actress Lena Dunham poses at The Hollywood Reporter's Annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles, California December 9, 2015.

    Lena Dunham’s FU to Her Critics

    Lena Dunham’s FU to Her Critics

    Lena Dunham has made a career out of oversharing, from appearing naked more often than not on Girls to recalling in her warts-and-all memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, the first time a guy went down on her, after a college party to benefit Palestine ...

    Beloved by her fans and loathed by her critics, Dunham will provide hearty catnip for both with her new book—an uncompromising excavation of her 19-year-old self.

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    GENTOFTE, DENMARK - APRIL 14: Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark visit Tjornegaard School during the State visit of the President of The United Mexican States, President Enrique Pena Nieto, and his wife Angelica Rivera to Denmark on April 14, 2016 in Gentofte, Denmark. (Photo Luca Teuchmann/Getty Images)

    The Royal Fight for LGBT Equality

    The Royal Fight for LGBT Equality

    It seems a faraway, other time when Diana, Princess of Wales held the hands of people with AIDS.And it was: The mid- to late 1980s was a time of greater homophobia, prejudice, and ignorance. Could you “get it” via “kissing” or touching, the nasty ...

    Princess Mary of the Danish royal family has spoken powerfully for LGBT equality. Now the challenge is for William, Kate, and Harry to do the same.

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    Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel-in-Chief of The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, wipes her eyes as she attends The Duke of Lancaster's Regimental Memorial Dedication at the National Memorial Arboretum on May 17, 2016 in Stafford, England.

    The Queen Sheds an Uncommon Tear

    The Queen Sheds an Uncommon Tear

    In a lifetime of devoted service to the nation, the Queen has attended tens of thousands of hugely emotional events, and her remarkable stoicism in the face of high passion has often been remarked on.Sometimes, Her Majesty’s insistence on maintain...

    At the unveiling of a memorial to soldiers killed in service, a single tear was distinctly observed to roll down the Queen’s cheek, before being hastily brushed away by a gloved finger.

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    A man takes a photograph with a mobile device whilst standing against an illuminated wall bearing Instagram Inc.'s logo in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Instagram Inc. provides mobile phone-based photography sharing services.

    Why Iran Is Targeting Instagram Models

    Why Iran Is Targeting Instagram Models

    In 2014, an Instagram account broadcasting the lifestyle of Iran’s elitist youths provoked predictable backlash from religious conservatives in the fundamentalist Islamic state.Other young Iranians had just been sentenced to six months in prison a...

    Instagram models, who aren’t political activists, have become the perfect target for Iranian authorities keen to scare women into sartorial conformity.

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    GENTOFTE, DENMARK - APRIL 14: Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark visit Tjornegaard School during the State visit of the President of The United Mexican States, President Enrique Pena Nieto, and his wife Angelica Rivera to Denmark on April 14, 2016 in Gentofte, Denmark. (Photo Luca Teuchmann/Getty Images)

    The Royal Fight for LGBT Equality

    The Royal Fight for LGBT Equality

    It seems a faraway, other time when Diana, Princess of Wales held the hands of people with AIDS.And it was: The mid- to late 1980s was a time of greater homophobia, prejudice, and ignorance. Could you “get it” via “kissing” or touching, the nasty ...

    Princess Mary of the Danish royal family has spoken powerfully for LGBT equality. Now the challenge is for William, Kate, and Harry to do the same.

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    Britain's (L-R) Prince Harry, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William  attend a Heads Together mental health campaign launch in Stratford, East London, May 16, 2016.  REUTERS/Jeremy Selwyn/Pool - RTSEHO4

    Meet the New Royal Power Trio

    Meet the New Royal Power Trio

    Kate Middleton and Princes William and Harry donned boxing gloves and sparred with professional fighters on Monday morning as they came together for one of their highest-profile engagements yet, emphasizing the importance of physical exercise to m...

    Kate, William, and Harry held the inaugural event for their mental health charity Heads Together—but is their combined starpower bad news for smaller organizations?

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    Trump Denies Dating ‘3rd-Rate Hooker’

    Trump Denied Dating ‘3rd-Rate Hooker’

    Trump Denied Dating ‘3rd-Rate Hooker’

    In a public-spirited exercise in gossip archeology, D-list celebrity interviewer and former Howard Stern Show regular Chaunce Hayden, the publisher of Metropolis Nights magazine, has rediscovered a 12-year-old recording of his phone call with Dona...

    Victoria Zdrok claimed Donald Trump was a narcissist who wore too much hair spray. He claimed never to have met her, and that she was too unattractive to date.

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    Kelly Ripa

    Kelly Ripa Leaves Strahan Behind

    Kelly Ripa Leaves Strahan Behind

    When your time at Live! is over, it is over. The sword of Kelly Ripa is unforgiving. There was to be no drawn-out waiting for the new autumn season to get a fresh set of titles done. The message of Monday morning’s show was Michael Strahan doesn’t...

    The first ‘Live! with Kelly’ featured a new title, credits, coffee mugs, and logos—though Ripa insisted she and Strahan parted ways warmly.

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    Britain's (L-R) Prince Harry, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William  attend a Heads Together mental health campaign launch in Stratford, East London, May 16, 2016.  REUTERS/Jeremy Selwyn/Pool - RTSEHO4

    Meet the New Royal Power Trio

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