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Florida dog tracks close over coronavirus, leaving hundreds of greyhounds in need of homes

The coronavirus pandemic has forced Florida racing tracks to close, and 1,500 greyhounds are now looking for homes. (iStock) If permanent homes can’t be found for the dogs, foster volunteers are sought. “We give you bedding, we give you food, supplements, a leash, a collar, their heartworm medication, some toys,” Ellison said. “All you have to do is to provide the love.” CLICK FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Heather Smith is a foster volunteer who has taken home a pair of two-year-old greyhounds. “Mike and Abel, they are the…

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Twitter Is Going WILD Over This Gymnast’s Floor Routine To Beyonc

Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images The Tweets About Nia Dennis’ Beyoncé Floor Routine Will Give You Life By Cianna Garrison Feb. 28, 2020 Nia Dennis is a junior at UCLA and a boss babe gymnast. With her recent floor routine, complete with a mashup of Beyoncé songs, Dennis is causing a lot of noise on Twitter. In fact, she’s pretty much breaking the internet. These tweets about Nia Dennis’ Beyoncé floor routine will give you life. Dennis took to the floor on Sunday, Feb. 23 to do a routine at…

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An Environmental Group Are Suing Coke And Pepsi Over Plastic Pollution

The California-based environmental group, Earth Island Institute, have filed a lawsuit against 10 large companies, including Coke, Pepsi, and Nestlé, for their part in creating a plastic pollution “nuisance”, as well as spreading misinformation about the recyclability of their plastic packaging. Last Wednesday, February 26, 2020, the suit was filed in San Mateo county superior court, asking that the companies pay to rectify the damage their plastic pollution has caused to the world and refrain from marketing products as recyclable, when by and large they do not end up actually being…

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Lana Condor Begs Donald Trump To Stop Endangering Asians By Calling COVID-19 The ‘Chinese Virus’ – Perez Hilton

Lana Condor is reminding Donald Trump that his word choice has serious ramifications. The Vietnamese-born American actress took to Twitter on Wednesday to call out the president for repeatedly and recklessly calling COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus” in an apparent effort to connect the pandemic to people from China. For those who don’t follow POTUS on Twitter (which we certainly don’t blame you for), he’s been using the term “Chinese Virus” in several posts throughout the week, without a care to the Asian Americans across the states who are being bullied,…

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Who Is Dalton Gomez? What We Know About Ariana Grande’s New Man | Betches

One of the most exciting things about everyone social distancing is that it’s forcing a lot of celebrities to reveal their relationships. It feels like Peter and Kelley galavanting around Chicago. Choosing to self-quarantine with a new partner is a big decision, and the latest new couple we’ve discovered thanks to social distancing is He And Ari Are Quarantining Together This is like, the whole reason we’re even having this conversation. Ariana isn’t posting pictures of them together or anything, but he’s been in the background of several of her…

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The Secrets Of Life Half A Mile Beneath The Seafloor

Microbial communities have been found 750 meters (2,500 feet) beneath the bed of the ocean, adding to the list of hostile places where life manages to survive. Unsurprisingly, the cellular activity of the species recovered is very low, but the remarkable thing is that it happens at all, considering the challenges of getting access to energy and carbon in a location like this. Scientists have been repeatedly amazed at the discovery of how deep within the Earth’s continental crust life survives. The current record find is 3.2 kilometers (2 miles),…

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Venezuela president Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, center, and first lady Cilia Flores, wave to supporters as they leave the National Pantheon after attending a ceremony to commemorate an 1800’s independence battle, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.  (AP) According to U.S. officials, Venezuela has long allowed Colombians connected with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army — known by its Spanish initials, “FARC” — to utilize its airspace to fly cocaine north through Central America to and into North America. Moreover, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York…

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Dr. Anthony Fauci Gives Americans Hard Facts on How to Save Themselves from the Coronavirus

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the Trump administrations coronavirus task force, did thecrowded bars and restaurants across the country this weekend, the infectious diseases expert noted that much of the American public this is ramping up with no real change, so why should the public be confident that this week well see anything different. I think the reason is because we really made somewhat of a sea change here, the doctor responded. Obviously, early on, we werent in…

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4 Coronavirus Myths You’ve Been Seeing All Over The Internet, Debunked | Betches

Living in the age of the internet often feels like double-edged sword. Yes, there’s more information accessible to us, literally at our fingertips, than ever before. That also means that misinformation is just as readily available. From the guy who hung around your local high school who “sees through the media hysteria” to your aunt on Facebook sharing well-meaning but misguided posts about how stomach acids kill coronavirus, there is a ton of bullsh*t floating around. And look, we’re all scared enough as it is (I feel confident speaking for…

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You May Not Love Yourself Right Now, Mama. But I Do.

ShareTweetPin “You may not love it, mama, but I do. I see the way you look at yourself in the mirror, Mama. I hear you complain to daddy that you have ‘huge bags’ under your eyes. I don’t really know what that means but I assume it’s because you are tired. You were up with me again all last night. I really love the way you cuddle me in the middle of the night while the rest of the world is quiet. You make me feel so safe. You may…

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