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Hilary Duff Seemingly Hints At Trouble With Disney+ Over Lizzie McGuire Reboot! – Perez Hilton

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Uh oh. Is Hilary Duff throwing a little shade at Disney+ with her latest Instagram upload?? As you’re likely aware, the 32-year-old actress is set to On Tuesday, the Younger actress shared a screenshot of a headline to her IG story, which announced a decision to move a TV spin-off to the 2018 gay romantic comedy, Love, Simon, from Disney+ to Hulu. Hilary Duff Wants Laws Changed After Unsettling Incident With ‘Creepy’ Photographer Hilary Duff Confronts ‘Creep’ Photographer Taking Photos Of Her Kids In Public Park Justin Timberlake Sends LOTS Of Love…

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he is thinking about quitting social media

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Another major figure could soon join the list of a growing number of people who are done with social media: The leader of the world’s largest democracy. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted Monday evening (local time) that he was thinking about giving up on his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts. Modi, whose 53 million followers on Twitter make him one of the most popular figures on the microblogging social network, did not offer any rationale for his thinking. On his Facebook page, he has more than 44 million…

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Jamie Foxx’s Daughter Stuns Him – & The Internet – With Her Insane Singing Skills! WATCH! – Perez Hilton

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Jamie Foxx‘s daughter has got some SERIOUS pipes! Corinne Foxx, who serves as the DJ on Beat Shazam, the interactive game show hosted by the 52-year-old, recently wowed her dad (and the internet, too) with her vocal prowess, and we’re just as impressed! Both the 26-year-old and her famous father showed off her talent via Instagram on Sunday when they each uploaded the same vid of Miz Foxx nailing the vocals to JAY-Z and Alicia Keys‘ hit song Empire State of Mind. The Just Mercy star captioned the video: “Who knew??! @corinnefoxx TIK TOK…

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The most dangerous TikTok challenges we’ve seenso far

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The internet is home to many dangerouseven deadlyviral challenges and has been for decades. So its no surprise that people have also posted attempts at dangerous challenges on TikTok, the massively popular video-sharing platform of the moment. Long before the internet became our collective obsession, people were attempting stupid stunts for clout. Then the ability to record and share video made these silly efforts more popular, as we were able to witness the stupidity of our peers and, sometimes, copy them. As sites like YouTube, , and Snapchat rose, the…

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Swinging a Wrecking Ball with a Helicopter to Remove Unstable Rock

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In this informative clip, the Norwegian Public Road Administration clears a potential rockfall debris prior to establishing an additional rockfall barrier fence. This was done in order to protect highway 70 in Western Norway. The helicopter sledgehammer was preformed by the Airlift AS, and the fence wast built by Betongrenovering AS. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/swinging-a-wrecking-ball-with-a-helicopter-to-remove-unstable-rock/

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“I Dont Buy Organic Anything. Mama & Daddy LIKE Screen Time”: Mom Says the Perfect Mom Club Is Overrated

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ShareTweetPin “I don’t buy organic anything. My kid drinks Winn Dixie brand whole milk. Seldom a day goes by that my son doesn’t eat a cookie, a Little Debbie cake, or a pack of gummies (that counts as fruit, right?). My kid doesn’t wear Boutique brand bubbles or designer shoes. We roll up to day care in hand-me-downs and consignment specials. Oh and Cat and Jack head to toe (where you at Target mamas!?) ⠀ You can’t walk through my front door without tripping over a toy train or a…

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Amid Escalating Syrian Carnage, Turkey Shoots Down Assads Planes

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GAZIANTEP, TurkeyOver the last several days Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan has pulled out all the stops in his attempts to deal with the Syrian crisis, even shooting down fighter jets from the Assad regime air force. It's a very high-risk strategy in a complicated conflict that's less a chess match than a game of deadly tic-tac-toe, with every option blocked until nobody wins. Erdoan's campaign is an attempt to exert maximum pressure on his two purported allies, the adversaries Russia and the United States, using the Americans to influence…

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Comedian/Activist Legally Changes Name to Hugo Boss to Take on Fashion House

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When the comedian, formerly known as Joe Lycett, heard that fashion house Hugo Boss was sending cease and desist letters to charities and small businesses who were using the word ‘BOSS’ in their name, he turned his outrage into action. It’s clear that @HUGOBOSS HATES people using their name. Unfortunately for them this week I legally changed my name by deed poll and I am now officially known as Hugo Boss. All future statements from me are not from Joe Lycett but from Hugo Boss. Enjoy. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/IlDoCrfmaO — Hugo…

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Millions Of Years Ago A Tiny Marsupial Lion Stalked The Ancient Rainforests of Austalia

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Long before the time of humans, this small but deadly marsupial lion raised hell in the ancient rainforests of Australia. Some 24 million years later, researchers have taken a second look at fossilized remains of this unusual marsupial lion and discovered it actually belongs to a never-before-seen genus of animals. The remains of the marsupial lion were first discovered in the late 1980s at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in Queensland and were initially believed to belong to a carnivorous marsupial, Priscileo roskellyae. Reporting in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers from…

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A World Map of the Oldest Company in Every Country (Still in Business)

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click map (or here) to see full size resolution Business Financing UK recently published this interesting map that shows the oldest company in (almost) every country that is still in business today. The oldest company on the list, KongÅ Gumi in Japan, has been operating since 578 AD! You can see the full resolution map here, as well as close-up maps of regions around the globe below. As for the methodology, Business Financing says: To create these maps, we started by reviewing various sources on the internet to locate the…

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Medieval Wall Made Of Human Bones Discovered In Belgium

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An 11-month excavation around Saint Bavo Cathedral in Belgium has revealed nine walls constructed from thousands of human bones centuries ago. Each of the “bone-walls” is mainly made of thigh and shin bones belonging to adults, with the space between containing the shattered fragments of skulls. IFLScience spoke with lead researcher Janiek De Gryse who says the structures were likely built to serve as overflow from the church’s cemetery from the middle of the 12th-century until 1784. The discovery is a unique find for the area surrounding Flanders, Belgium. “On archaeologically examined…

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What Christians Are Missing About the Harvey Weinstein Verdict

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ShareTweetPin Thank you, Fox Business, for capturing this image. It’s making me cringe. I don’t know what to do today. Minutes ago, a Manhattan jury delivered a guilty verdict in The People vs. Harvey Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein was found guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree. Six women testified that he sexually assaulted them. However, he was found not guilty of the most serious crime, predatory sexual assault, of which there were two counts. The jury deliberated for over a week, and some…

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