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Shopbops Annual Spring Sale Is Here, And These Are The Pieces We Want | Betches

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Now, if you’re not familiar with Shopbop, climb out of the hole you’re living in and join society. Shopbop, which finally has its own storefront on Amazon, carries literally thousands of designers that are perfect for people who want to graduate from Zara but not quite reach Saks. Shopbop is affordable and that is why I love it on any given day; obviously, I love it a little more when everything is up to 25% off (with the code SPRING). If you get overwhelmed easily, allow me to share our…

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Donald Trump Appears to Refuse a Handshake From Nancy Pelosi

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President Donald Trump appeared to refuse to shake House Speaker Nancy Pelosis (D-Calif.) hand as he began his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. As Trump made his way to the podium, he handed a copy of his speech to both Vice President Mike Pence and Pelosi. After receiving the folder, Pelosi appeared to reach out her hand to shake Trumps, but the president turned away. Pelosi made a shocked face, and smiled, as Trump moved back to the podium. Pelosi tries to shake Trump's hand. He declines.…

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Elizabeth Smart Is Sexually Assaulted While Sleeping on a Delta Flight: “I Froze. The Last Time Someone Touched Me Without My Say-So Was When I Was Kidnapped”

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ShareTweetPin Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped, confined, and repeatedly raped as a 14-year-old, disclosed in a shocking interview that her days of enduring sexual assault were not left behind in her teens. In fact, just last summer she was sexually assaulted on a Delta flight homebound for Salt Lake City. In an interview with CBS This Morning, Smart revealed that a man sitting by her began feeling up her legs while she was asleep. This was the first time she had ever felt unsafe on an airplane. “I’ve always felt…

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‘We left fearing for our lives’: doctors set upon by mob in Lesbos

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Attack on aid workers further exposes tensions on island on the frontline of refugee crisis A group of doctors who flew to Lesbos to volunteer at the islands infamous Moria migrant camp have described how they were forced to flee after being set upon by a mob wielding nail-headed cudgels. The attack was the the latest in a series of violent incidents targeting international aid workers, amid an increasingly hostile climate which has prompted several NGOs to withdraw from the Mediterranean island. We left fearing for our lives, said Dr…

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Transgender man in appeal fight to be named father

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He accused the General Register Office, which administers the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales, of discrimination. A registrar told him that the law required people who had given birth to be registered as mothers. Transgender man loses challenge to be named father Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division of the High Court, ruled against Mr McConnell in September. The judge concluded that people who had given birth were legally mothers, regardless of their gender. There was, he said, a “material difference between a person’s…

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Tinders video series Swipe Night gets a second season

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Following a successful debut for Tinder’s first foray into original content, the company is giving its interactive video series “Swipe Night” another run. The company confirmed today it’s renewing “Swipe Night” for a second season, which will launch this summer (again) as an in-app experience within Tinder’s dating app. Variety first reported the news of “Swipe Night’s” return. Tinder further confirmed the details to TechCrunch. “Swipe Night,” as you may recall, first launched in October 2019 within Tinder. The experience introduced a first-person adventure played in-app, where users would make…

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Elementor raises $15M for its WordPress website builder

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WordPress has become so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that it still drives a huge ecosystem of startups that build tools and services around the platform. One of these is Elementor, a graphical website building platform that you can plug into WordPress to design and publish sites. More than 4 million sites have already been built with the tool — and it’s now seeing a million new sites every six months. Now the Tel Aviv-based company, which was founded in 2016, has raised its first round of institutional funding —…

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Amazon employee tests positive for coronavirus

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An employee at Amazon tested positive for coronavirus, according to multiple reports, and was then sent home from work.Amazon shared the message with its employees in an email on Tuesday, which was reviewed by the Seattle Times. According to a screenshot of the email shared by Twitter user @LiberalCEO, the employee returned home on Tuesday as they were feeling unwell and has not entered Amazon offices since that time. The user did not respond to the Daily Dots request for further details.

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Producer Bashes Liar Actress and Defends Sex Addict Pal Weinstein in Court

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Harvey Weinsteins legal team kicked off their defense on Thursday, calling former talent agent Paul Feldsher to testify about his close relationship with Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra. Sciorra alleges Weinstein raped her in 1993 and 1994a claim Feldsher said was not as visibly traumatic as she claimed on the witness stand. Recalling a conversation with Sciorra in the '90s, he said the actress admitted shed done this crazy thing with Harvey. As I understand it all these years later, there was nothing that she told me that was shocking or…

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