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RFK Jr wants to promote raw milk as HHS secretary – experts say it’s dangerous

Robert F Kennedy was announced as Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday (November 14), alarming public health experts who have questioned his stance on vaccines, chronic disease and chemicals in food.Days before the presidential election, Kennedy shared his wish list for the FDA, which included ivermectin, stem cell therapy and raw milk.In recent months, public figures from Marjorie Taylor Greene to “trad wife” influencer Hannah Neeleman, have joined the ra...
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Tana Mongeau claims she was offered millions to endorse a political candidate

Tana Mongeau recently claimed she was offered millions of dollars to endorse a political candidate. On an episode of her Cancelled podcast host, the influencer revealed she was offered “whatever you want” to promote an unnamed cryptocurrency, and continuing with the topic of endorsements, she added that she was “hypothetically” offered millions to endorse a political candidate.“I hypothetically was just offered a lot of money to endorse a political party. Like, millions,” she told her podcast co...
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Who is Olivia Nuzzi? The reporter on leave for ‘personal relationship’ with RFK Jr

New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi was recently put on leave after disclosing her “personal relationship” to former Independent presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Since joining the magazine’s staff in 2017, the 31-year-old reporter has garnered a reputation for her vivid, incisive features on political figures as well as deeply reported presidential campaign stories. At times, Nuzzi has become a part of the story, such as when she wrote about texting with Rudy Giuliani in 2019 or...
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Ella Emhoff reveals she’s been forced to give up knitting club over security concerns

Ella Emhoff has revealed she has been forced to give up her knitting club over security concerns since her stepmother launched her presidential bid.With Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign going full steam ahead, the 25-year-old budding fashion designer’s life has been turned upside down in more ways than one. Her stepmother’s political ambitions have led Emhoff to, unfortunately, suspend Soft Hands Knitting Club meetings. In a video posted to Instagram, Emhoff explained to her...
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Jack Schlossberg brings the fun to the DNC as he cements the ‘vibes’ election

Jack Schlossberg brought the fun to the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) stage. This week at the DNC, the 31-year-old Vogue correspondent had a ball at the Chicago political convention. Schlossberg has come a long way from reciting Lord Byron on a Rip Stick singing Rihanna while wearing Bluey sunglasses in silly TikTok videos, as an influx of fan cams of Schlossberg dressed in a suit at the DNC flooded social media feeds this week.Throughout his time at the convention, held between 19 a...
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Michelle Obama means business in power suit as gives DNC speech

Michelle Obama took power dressing to the next level at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night.The former first lady appeared on stage in a deconstructed, sleeveless navy blue suit by Monse paired with matching silver earrings and an elegant braided hairstyle. According to WWD, Obama’s look was from the brand’s Resort 2025 collection, which Fernando Garcia, Monse’s co-creative director, explained was inspired by sci-fi and aliens.The brand, founded in 2015 by Garcia and Laura Kim, h...
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What is a Brat summer? How Charli XCX’s album became part of presidential race

It’s a Brat Summer, and the vice president’s newly launched presidential campaign is the latest to join the fun.“Kamala IS brat,” the singer - born Charlotte Aitchison - shared with her 3.6 million followers on X, referencing her blockbuster sixth studio album, Brat. With the album sparking the “Brat summer” trend on social media, it is no surprise that the 21 July post went viral among Gen Z, garnering over 18 million views and 244,000 likes.But what does a Brat summer mean?When Charli XCX’s si...
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Minnesota morning anchor comes out as gay on live TV

A Minnesota news anchor who went viral for coming out live on morning television reflected on the life-changing experience during his first Pride month celebrations.News anchor Jason Hackett came out as gay on NBC affiliate KARE 11’s “Sunrise” show on 3 May. “Coming out to people is never easy for me. I’m so nervous right now. I’m not going to lie,” Hackett said at the time. “This is no doubt the most people I’ve ever come out to at once. But what me … and everyone here on ‘Sunrise’ strive for,...
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Fans slam Chief’s kicker for naming Taylor Swift in controversial graduation speech

Taylor Swift fans slam Kansas City Chief’s kicker for name-dropping her in his controversial commencement speech. Throughout his commencement speech to the Class of 2024 at Benedictine College – a Catholic school in Kansas – kicker Harrison Butker made polarising remarks in the name of Catholic extremism, including comments criticising President Joe Biden for his faith, attacking LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and suggesting women should focus on motherhood instead of their careers. Butker lambasted the fa...
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Olivia Rodrigo announces abortion fund through her GUTS World Tour

Olivia Rodrigo has announced her new charity fund, Fund 4 Good, while on her Guts World Tour. In a video uploaded by her official TikTok fan account (@livieshq), the 21-year-old singer explained to fans that she will be launching a brand new initiative in support of reproductive rights just as she was about to take the stage at Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, California, for the opening night of her Guts World Tour last Friday. “I’m so excited tonight it’s the first night of the GUTS World Tour,...
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Jill Biden thought ‘Thank God it’s only one date’ when she first met Joe Biden

Jill Biden got candid about her thoughts when she first met Joe Biden.At a fund-raiser for her husband at the Upper East Side’s Lotos Club, First Lady Dr Jill Biden reportedly poked fun at the president’s style when they first met in 1975.She shared with the audience: “It was the ’70s . . . It was Vietnam, love beads, equal rights. I wore my hair down to the middle of my waist, and so did most of the men I dated . . . Remember what you were wearing then? Clogs, bell-bottoms, tie-dyes. “One day,...
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What is South Korea’s 4B movement? Interest spikes after US election

The South Korean 4B movement has seen a spike in interest amid the results from the 2024 US presidential election.On Wednesday (November 6) morning, Republican candidate Donald Trump claimed victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Throughout his 2024 reelection campaign, the former president has celebrated the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade, a ruling that ended a nationwide right to abortion. It was also reproductive rights that propelled many women to the polls on Elect...
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There was no second date after I found his MAGA Instagram: Dating and politics

There was something off about my date. A flinch at a Trump joke, a strange look when I mentioned my immigrant parent. I had a sinking feeling that he was on the opposite end of the political spectrum. When I got home, I did the natural thing and checked his Instagram. Sure enough, the accounts he followed were a veritable who’s who of MAGA pundits. Let’s just say that as a progressive woman who values her rights, he didn’t make it past the first date.As the 2024 presidential election looms, poli...
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Actors at 2024 Emmys repeatedly call out JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comments

Actors at the 2024 Emmys repeatedly called out JD Vance’s “childless cat ladies” comments. Throughout the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards – which took place on Sunday, September 15 – multiple actors, including Selena Gomez and Candice Bergen, referenced the Republican vice presidential nominee’s disparaging comments against women.As Gomez presented the first award of the night alongside with her Only Murders in the Building co-stars, Steve Martin and Martin Short, she roasted the actors by adding: “A...
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D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s red handprint at the 2024 Emmys has a deeper meaning

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai has made an important message at the 2024 Emmys.The Reservation Dogs actor walked the red carpet at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, which took place on Sunday, September 15 in Los Angeles, California. For the occasion, he wore an Emporio Armani tuxedo, Thundercloud jewelry, and a red handprint over his mouth – a symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement.According to Native Hope, the red handprint “stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are...
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Kelly Bishop candidly speaks about ‘very private abortion’

Kelly Bishop opened up about a very “private abortion” she had when she was younger. In an interview with People, the 80-year-old actor reflected on her stage and screen career, from her groundbreaking role in the 1975 Broadway musical A Chorus Line to her role as Emily Gilmore on the beloved drama Gilmore Girls. All of which she touched upon in her upcoming memoir, The Third Gilmore Girl, where she candidly recalled many of her most private experiences including her decision not to have childre...
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Gwen Walz clarifies she went through IUI fertility journey rather than IVF

Gwen Walz has clarified that she went through an intrauterine insemination (IUI) fertility journey rather than in vitro fertilization (IVF) with her husband, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.In an interview with Glamour, Gwen came forward to clarify her husband’s comments on her difficult fertility journey. She said it took a long time for her to be able to talk about it, even to her close friends and family.“Our fertility journey was an incredibly personal and difficult experience,” she adm...
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Drag brunch continues to reign as a go-to Pride activity

For bartender Justine Musselman – who’s worked at Dromedary: Coming Out in Bushwick, Brooklyn, for the past four years – the bar’s weekly drag brunch is the only reason she will wake up early on a Sunday. “I have been working at drag brunch for as long as I’ve worked at Dromedary, and despite the inconvenience of that shift, I refuse to give it up,” she told The Independent.

Every Sunday afternoon, drag performers Emi Grate and Nancy Nogood put their chemistry on full display for both Bushwick
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Will the TikTok ban spell the death of the influencer?

Craving what we don’t have has been a compulsion long before the surge in social media marketing-fueled consumption. Once upon a time, our material desires were cultivated through in-person interactions, in-store shopping, or word-of-mouth. Not long after, face-to-face became face-to-catalog, with consumers flipping endlessly through product pages, before television ads intensified their appetite for more, using fictional characters and celebrity actors as aspirational models for who the custome
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The battle against IVF isn’t protecting children. It’s devastating families

When you’re a teenager, you have a basic understanding of how you came into the world. You don’t tend to ask your parents questions about your conception. At least, I didn’t because I wasn’t inclined to die of mortification.

Growing up, I’d only heard that my parents had tried for a child for a long time, so when my 70-something-year-old grandmother made a passing comment about how I’d had a twin in the womb, I took it as another one of her jokes. Offbeat and out there, but classic grandma.

I
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New study reveals worst states to give birth in the US

A recent study revealed which states in the US are the worst places to give birth in 2024.

A birth injury law firm compiled data and analysed the results to find out which states were the best places for mothers to give birth. The firm considered the impact of factors like maternal and infant mortality, and the cost of healthcare and childcare in each state before putting together a list based on the data.

Mississippi was at the bottom of the list, with its significant healthcare challenges as
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Kerry Washington reveals past abortion: ‘I’m telling my truth’

Kerry Washington has candidly revealed that she had an abortion in her 20s.

The Scandal actor wrote in her memoir, Thicker Than Water, that she accidentally got pregnant when she was in her 20s, after her role in the 2004 film She Hate Me. She said that she decided to have the abortion, and because of her rising star, gave the doctors a false name to protect her reputation. Now, Washington said she no longer wishes to hide her experience.

“I struggled a lot in the beginning with whether or not
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Should we wear masks again? Here’s what experts have to say

The uptick of Covid transmissions this summer has raised questions about whether or not certain safety measures such as wearing masks should be brought be back.

“It is ticking up a little bit, but it’s not something that we need to raise any alarm bells over,” Dr David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told the Seattle Times. Although many health experts like Dr Dowdy don’t believe people have cause to worry, some have expressed thei

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