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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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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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Colbert Booed for Brutal Takedown of Bloombergs Debate Performance

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Stephen Colbert began his live coverage of the Democratic debate that took place in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, Tuesday night by noting his controversial use of the stop-and-frisk policy. Ive met with black leaders to try to get an understanding of how I can better position myself, Bloomberg said at one point in the debate, to which Colbert replied, Mr. Mayor, I have a feeling a lot of black leaders want your position to be spread eagle up against a wall. Then, in response to Bloomberg pointing out…

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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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