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Nicole Scherzinger defends Pussycat Dolls’ controversial, racy performance: ‘We’re women now’

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Nicole Scherzinger defended a Pussycat Dolls performance that many deemed inappropriate.  (Reuters) Despite the criticism, the group shows no signs of toning things down. Not only did they release a risque video for their new comeback track “React,” but they received close to 70 new complaints after taking the stage on a popular ITV program in February 2020. Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nicole-scherzinger-pussycat-dolls-racy-performance-women-now

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Is It OK to Make Coronavirus Memes and Jokes?

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A global outbreak that has killed thousands of people doesn’t seem like a likely source of humor, but the internet can’t stop cracking jokes about coronavirus. Since late last year, when China first alerted the world to the novel coronavirus, jokes, puns, and memes about it have been spreading even faster and wider than the virus itself. It doesn’t seem to matter that the virus that causes Covid-19 is now a far more tangible threat to English-speaking meme makers than it was three months ago. If anything, as anxiety and…

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Martin Luther King’s son and others rally to halt Alabama execution

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Activists have been lobbying for the state to stop Nathaniel Woods planned execution following confession from co-defendant The son of Martin Luther King has joined a growing list of activists and celebrities calling on Alabamas governor to stop the planned execution of an inmate over the killings of three police officers. Nathaniel Woods was convicted of capital murder in 2004 and is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday night. Martin Luther King III, an activist and the son of the civil rights leader, has sent Alabama governor Kay…

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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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‘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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