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    Former U.S. President Bill Clinton listens to speakers during the opening plenary session labeled "Reimagining Impact" at the Clinton Global Initiative 2014 (CGI) in New York, September 22, 2014. The CGI was created by Clinton in 2005 to gather global leaders to discuss solutions to the world's problems. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT) - RTR479UJ

    Bill Clinton, the Big Dog, Gets Tired

    Bill Clinton, the Big Dog, Gets Tired

    When Bill Clinton was storming across the country for Barack Obama in 2012, there was little doubt he was the weapon the nation’s first black president sorely needed.Reprising his Big Dog role, as the folksy uncle with an endearing will to dominat...

    The 42nd president holds his ground, but the Dems, they are a-changin’.

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    ‘Every Effort’ Being Made to Release 28 Pages of 9/11 Report Before End of Obama’s Term

    Secret 9/11 Docs Could Be Seen Soon

    Secret 9/11 Docs Could Be Seen Soon

    By the end of President Obama’s term in office, the administration hopes to decide whether to declassify a controversial portion of Congress’ investigation into the 9/11 attacks, the White House said Tuesday. The so-called “28 pages,” which have n...

    The statement comes ahead of the President’s trip this month to Saudi Arabia.

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    MEET THE PRESS -- Pictured: (l-r)  Paul Manafort., Convention Manager, Trump Campaign, appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., Sunday April 10, 2016.

    Top Trump Aide Lobbied for Saudis

    Top Trump Aide Lobbied for Saudis

    One of Donald Trump’s top aides once lobbied Congress to kill an effort to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.Paul Manafort, the aide dubbed Trump’s “new right-hand man” and his point-person on delegate strategy at the comin...

    Donald Trump’s new top aide Paul Manafort once lobbied against moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, putting him at odds with a key pro-Israel position and his boss.

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    Former U.S. President Bill Clinton listens to speakers during the opening plenary session labeled "Reimagining Impact" at the Clinton Global Initiative 2014 (CGI) in New York, September 22, 2014. The CGI was created by Clinton in 2005 to gather global leaders to discuss solutions to the world's problems. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT) - RTR479UJ

    Bill Clinton, the Big Dog, Gets Tired

    Bill Clinton, the Big Dog, Gets Tired

    When Bill Clinton was storming across the country for Barack Obama in 2012, there was little doubt he was the weapon the nation’s first black president sorely needed.Reprising his Big Dog role, as the folksy uncle with an endearing will to dominat...

    The 42nd president holds his ground, but the Dems, they are a-changin’.

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    U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hosts the "Women For Hillary" Town Hall event in the Brooklyn borough of New York April 5, 2016

    Hillary Was on Donald’s Christmas List

    Hillary Was on Donald’s Christmas List

    Before the Clintons and Donald Trump were at each other’s throats in the 2016 election, they were pals who exchanged holiday cards and autographed books.A series of documents released by The William J. Clinton Presidential Library on Tuesday highl...

    He didn’t always think Hillary Clinton was a lying liar. He used to be in correspondence with former President Bill Clinton somewhat frequently, according to new records released by ...

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    U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, April 4, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young  - RTSDL7S

    Trump’s ‘Charity’ Is a Money-Making Scam

    Trump’s ‘Charity’ Is a Money-Making Scam

    No wonder Donald Trump calls himself an ardent philanthropist.He has likely made millions off it.He is not just some cheap miser who avoids digging into his pocket for charity, as The Smoking Gun and The Washington Post have described him.He does ...

    Not only does the GOP frontrunner avoid giving any of his own money to charity, he manages to make some serious profits from his ‘donations.’

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    Trevor Noah Rips Hillary’s Racist Joke

    Trevor Noah Rips Hillary’s Racist Joke

    It’s been three days since Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered a controversial joke and they are still taking heat.The comedy sketch, which took place at the annual Inner Circle dinner on Saturday night, involved Clint...

    The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah does not know what Hillary Clinton was thinking with that ‘colored people time’ joke.

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    Bill Clinton: the Real ‘Superpredator’?

    Bill Clinton: the Real ‘Superpredator’?

    Larry Wilmore thinks Bill Clinton might be trying to “tank” his wife’s presidential campaign. The Nightly Show host pointed to an altercation the former president had with Black Lives Matter protesters last week over her use of the term “superpred...

    The Nightly Show’s Larry Wilmore was not impressed with former President Bill Clinton’s response to Black Lives Matter protesters.

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    PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 10:  Comedian Steve O poses after his performance at The Ice House Comedy Club on January 10, 2013 in Pasadena, California.  (Photo by Michael Schwartz/WireImage)

    Steve-O: Guilty as Charged

    Steve-O: Guilty as Charged

    Back in 2010, shortly after Steve-O lit his own head on fire in an Austin, Texas, theater packed with delighted and horrified onlookers—yours truly included—the Jackass star landed at the center of an erotic foursome so legendarily disastrous he w...

    He’s set his head on fire and stapled his testicles to his leg. But now Steve-O is living clean, and has a new stand-up routine, which doesn’t involve (much) bodily injury.

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    Bernie vs. Trump in ‘Civil War’

    Bernie vs. Trump in ‘Civil War’

    “You know, there’s some interesting parallels between this presidential election and the movie Captain America: Civil War,” Jimmy Kimmel said Monday night as part of the kick-off for his show’s synergistic Marvel week. “Both of them feature former...

    What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders starred in Marvel’s newest blockbuster?

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    Bill Clinton: the Real ‘Superpredator’?

    Bill Clinton: the Real ‘Superpredator’?

    Larry Wilmore thinks Bill Clinton might be trying to “tank” his wife’s presidential campaign. The Nightly Show host pointed to an altercation the former president had with Black Lives Matter protesters last week over her use of the term “superpred...

    The Nightly Show’s Larry Wilmore was not impressed with former President Bill Clinton’s response to Black Lives Matter protesters.

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    Sam Bee Defends Superdelegates

    Sam Bee Defends Superdelegates

    Samantha Bee took the past two weeks off and, as she remarked at the top of tonight’s new Full Frontal, “Dang, things have gotten ugly since we left.”And for once, she wasn’t talking about the Republicans.After playing some clips of the latest sni...

    On Monday night’s ‘Full Frontal,’ Samantha Bee attempted to demystify the superdelegate system.

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    Tituss Burgess stars in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."

    The Tao of Tituss

    The Tao of Tituss

    Tituss Burgess has a room. His keyboard is in there, along with his music books, the posters of all the Broadway shows he’s appeared in over his career, and, the most recent addition, the plaque he received when he was nominated for an Emmy Award ...

    The ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ star reflects on one of the most meaningful years of his life, escaping the ‘bunker’ of his past, and becoming a wine magnate with his line of pinot noir.

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    John Oliver Explains the Panama Papers

    John Oliver Explains the Panama Papers

    The Panama Papers leak might just be the ideal news story for John Oliver. Not only does it have wide-reaching global implications, but most Americans don’t really seem to know what all the fuss is about. That’s where the Last Week Tonight host ca...

    Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver opened his show this Sunday with a recap of the week’s biggest news story that not enough people are talking about.

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    Sam Bee Defends Superdelegates

    Sam Bee Defends Superdelegates

    Samantha Bee took the past two weeks off and, as she remarked at the top of tonight’s new Full Frontal, “Dang, things have gotten ugly since we left.”And for once, she wasn’t talking about the Republicans.After playing some clips of the latest sni...

    On Monday night’s ‘Full Frontal,’ Samantha Bee attempted to demystify the superdelegate system.

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    World News

    Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a media forum of the All-Russia People's Front in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 7, 2016.

    Paranoid Putin’s New Praetorian Guard

    Paranoid Putin’s New Praetorian Guard

    MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has surprised his countrymen once again. In a remarkable power play, Putin has reshuffled the aces in Russia’s law enforcement system and tossed a huge number of cards in the air. In less than a week, he l...

    Does the Russian president really think the Americans are trying to overthrow him? Can he be this paranoid? And where will that lead?

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    Panama Papers' Russian Mob Connection

    Panama Papers’ Russian Mob Connection

    Panama Papers’ Russian Mob Connection

    A Swiss law firm implicated in the Panama Papers also has links to an alleged Russian mafia, The Daily Beast has discovered.As reported last week in the disclosure of leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Zurich-based ...

    The trove of leaked documents has already revealed the billions swirling around Putin. Now a Swiss firm named in the papers appears to have links to Russian organized crime.

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    A message left on a board of remembrance by Kelly (last name not given), 29, the wife of a passenger aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, at a vigil ahead of the one-year anniversary of its disappearance in Kuala Lumpur, March 6, 2015. Malaysia Airlines has begun tracking long-haul flights every 15-minutes, instead of 30 minutes, a year ahead of a proposal to make this the international standard, Malaysia's transport minister told Reuters. REUTERS/Olivia Harris (MALAYSIA - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER) - RTR4SCCX

    Search for MH370 Debris Left to Amateurs

    Search for MH370 Debris Left to Amateurs

    A little fragment of paradise named Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean has become part of an unfolding controversy about how vital clues to the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could have been discovered much sooner than they were—and whethe...

    The only bits of the missing airliner have been found by tourists and part-time sleuths on beaches. Meanwhile, the $180 million underwater search is running out of time.

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    Dial a Random Swede

    Dial a Random Swede

    Dial a Random Swede

    PARIS — It was a chilly Sunday night and Tobias, 20, had been strolling through a dark forest near his home in northwestern Sweden when an American stranger called.The American (me) was the seventh such random foreigner to have dialed him since Sw...

    A Stockholm-based tourist association has posted a number that will put you through (sometimes) to one of 10,000 random volunteers ready to talk about … anything.

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    Panama Papers' Russian Mob Connection

    Panama Papers’ Russian Mob Connection

    Panama Papers’ Russian Mob Connection

    A Swiss law firm implicated in the Panama Papers also has links to an alleged Russian mafia, The Daily Beast has discovered.As reported last week in the disclosure of leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Zurich-based ...

    The trove of leaked documents has already revealed the billions swirling around Putin. Now a Swiss firm named in the papers appears to have links to Russian organized crime.

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    Women wait in line as they buy toilet paper at a supermarket in Caracas May 17, 2013. Supplies of food and other basic products have been patchy in recent months, with long queues forming at supermarkets and rushes occurring when there is news of a new stock arrival. The situation has spawned jokes among Venezuelans, particularly over the lack of toilet paper. The government announced this week it was importing 50 million rolls to compensate for "over-demand due to nervous buying." REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTXZQUB

    I Had to Smuggle Baby Milk to Venezuela

    I Had to Smuggle Baby Milk to Venezuela

    “Welcome to the Maiquetia Simón Bolívar International Airport,” said the stewardess with a metallic voice as our plane touched down on Venezuelan soil. The excitement of a family reunion and anguish over the situation in the country shook me out o...

    A trip home to a country coming apart.

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    Edward Lin

    Did a Navy Spy Trade Secrets for Sex?

    Did a Navy Spy Trade Secrets for Sex?

    Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin was once celebrated by the American military for his personal journey, from his native Taiwan to service in the U.S. Navy, where he became an officer and eventually an American citizen. “I always dreamt about coming to Americ...

    He says he grew up dreaming of Disneyland in his native Taiwan. But after he joined the U.S. Navy, defense officials say, accused spy Edward Lin’s life took a much darker turn.

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    TOPSHOT - A man runs with a baby to the emergency services after Macedonian police threw tear gas inside the camp during clashes near their makeshift camp in the northern Greek border village of Idomeni, on April 10, 2016. 
Dozens of people were hurt when police fired tear gas on a group of migrants as they tried to break through a fence on the Greece-Macedonia border, the medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said. A plan to send back migrants from Greece to Turkey sparked demonstrations by local residents in both countries days before the deal brokered by the European Union is set to be implemented.

    Migrants Clash With Police in Macedonia

    Migrants Clash With Police in Macedonia

    On April 10, 2016, dozens of people were injured when the police fired tear gas onto a group of migrants trying to break through a fence on the Greece-Macedonia border.

    On April 10, 2016, dozens of people were injured when the police fired tear gas onto a group of migrants trying to break through a fence on the Greece-Macedonia border.

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    Women wait in line as they buy toilet paper at a supermarket in Caracas May 17, 2013. Supplies of food and other basic products have been patchy in recent months, with long queues forming at supermarkets and rushes occurring when there is news of a new stock arrival. The situation has spawned jokes among Venezuelans, particularly over the lack of toilet paper. The government announced this week it was importing 50 million rolls to compensate for "over-demand due to nervous buying." REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTXZQUB

    I Had to Smuggle Baby Milk to Venezuela

    I Had to Smuggle Baby Milk to Venezuela

    “Welcome to the Maiquetia Simón Bolívar International Airport,” said the stewardess with a metallic voice as our plane touched down on Venezuelan soil. The excitement of a family reunion and anguish over the situation in the country shook me out o...

    A trip home to a country coming apart.

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    Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie looks down at his phone prior to the game against the Sacramento Kings on February 10, 2016 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement

    NBA Superfans Who Want Their Loser Back

    NBA Superfans Who Want Their Loser Back

    When Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie resigned last week, he left a written 13-page exit letter/manifesto to investors that quoted neurosurgeon Atul Gawande, misquoted Abraham Lincoln and, most shocking of all, did not end in the sent...

    Sam Hinkie spent three years ruining the Philadelphia 76ers before his resignation this week. But diehard fans still see him as the Messiah.

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    N.C. May Never See a Celebrity Again

    N.C. May Never See a Celebrity Again

    When it comes to fighting anti-LGBT legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi, the entertainment industry has been running laps around sports leagues and putting corporate America to shame.Yes, PayPal withdrew 400 planned jobs from the Tar Hee...

    From entertainers like Bruce Springsteen to production studios like Lionsgate, Hollywood has promised to boycott North Carolina in light of its discriminatory HB 2 law.

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    South Los Angeles, CA- 04/08/2016- Lawana Wilson, is believed to be one of the few victims that survived an attack by a serial killer known as the grim sleeper.

    She Escaped ‘Grim Sleeper’ Serial Killer

    She Escaped ‘Grim Sleeper’ Serial Killer

    LOS ANGELES — After three years chasing down a serial killer, Dennis Kilcoyne spends his retirement growing lilacs.As a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, Kilcoyne led the “800 Task Force” (named after the same room at headquarters)...

    Lonnie Franklin Jr. is on trial for 10 murders. The cop who arrested him says it’s 30. LaWana Wilson says she was almost No. 31.

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    Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie looks down at his phone prior to the game against the Sacramento Kings on February 10, 2016 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement

    NBA Superfans Who Want Their Loser Back

    NBA Superfans Who Want Their Loser Back

    When Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie resigned last week, he left a written 13-page exit letter/manifesto to investors that quoted neurosurgeon Atul Gawande, misquoted Abraham Lincoln and, most shocking of all, did not end in the sent...

    Sam Hinkie spent three years ruining the Philadelphia 76ers before his resignation this week. But diehard fans still see him as the Messiah.

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    Pittsburgh Gets Stingy With Gay Teacher

    PA School Gets Stingy With Gay Teacher

    PA School Gets Stingy With Gay Teacher

    Richard L. Seech, 60, has been with his partner since 1996. They share a home in Pittsburgh, maintain joint bank accounts, raise two cats together, and are the primary beneficiaries on each other’s wills. They were married on June 4, 2014, just tw...

    Richard Seech taught in the Pennsylvania schools for 34 years, but when he asked the school system to pay for his partner’s health coverage, they turned him down.

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     Chicago Police Officer John Bertetto stands outside a boarded-up home while he watches students walk home from Laura Ward Elementary school on the Westside on August 28, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Bertetto was posted at the school along with other police officers and city workers to provide "safe passage" to students walking to and from the school. The Safe Passage program was started because parents were worried about their children’s safety while they walked to and from school across gang boundaries after the city closed 49 elementary schools and moved the students to nearby schools.

    Cop Raises Cash to Save Kids From Gangs

    Cop Raises Cash to Save Kids From Gangs

    CHICAGO — John Bertetto’s research on gang networks is complicated.The officer’s work outside his normal duties at the Chicago Police Department involves spiderweb diagrams, lengthy white papers and many hours of looking into the effects that law ...

    Demacio and Demario Bailey were walking to basketball practice when robbers struck, killing one of the brothers. John Bertetto says $5,000 could save the next life.

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    Tech + Health

    Woman sleeping at home in her bed

    Is Your Sleeping Position All Wrong?

    Is Your Sleeping Position All Wrong?

    By Kristen Domonell, Life by Daily Burn When you get in bed and cozy into your covers at night, you probably don’t put much thought into whether you’re on your side, back, or stomach. But if you snore like a bear every time your head hits the pill...

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    Soon: Inflatable Space Stations for Rent

    Soon: Inflatable Space Stations for Rent

    Las Vegas space startup Bigelow Aerospace just announced an ambitious—and gleefully money-grubbing—new plan to build at least two inflatable space stations and lob them into orbit starting just four years from now.The stations would function as sp...

    In need of some space in low orbit? Soon, you can just pay rent for it, if things go according to plan.

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    N.C. May Never See a Celebrity Again

    N.C. May Never See a Celebrity Again

    When it comes to fighting anti-LGBT legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi, the entertainment industry has been running laps around sports leagues and putting corporate America to shame.Yes, PayPal withdrew 400 planned jobs from the Tar Hee...

    From entertainers like Bruce Springsteen to production studios like Lionsgate, Hollywood has promised to boycott North Carolina in light of its discriminatory HB 2 law.

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    When Black Pain Matters Less To Doctors

    When Black Pain Matters Less to Doctors

    When Black Pain Matters Less to Doctors

    A new University of Virginia study suggests that many medical students and residents are racially biased in their pain assessment, and that their attitudes about race and pain correlate with falsely-held beliefs about supposed biological differenc...

    We know the disparity is linked to racial discrimination on some level, but struggle to put our finger on the one cause.

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    Soon: Inflatable Space Stations for Rent

    Soon: Inflatable Space Stations for Rent

    Las Vegas space startup Bigelow Aerospace just announced an ambitious—and gleefully money-grubbing—new plan to build at least two inflatable space stations and lob them into orbit starting just four years from now.The stations would function as sp...

    In need of some space in low orbit? Soon, you can just pay rent for it, if things go according to plan.

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    D5KPNG ANTONIO BANDERAS & ELENA ANAYA THE SKIN I LIVE IN ; LA PIEL QUE HABITO (2011)

    This Faux Skin Can Sweat and Grow Hair

    This Faux Skin Can Sweat and Grow Hair

    A major development in the biology of skin stands to change the way we handle everything from the treatment of burn victims to the cosmetics industry: working, lab-grown skin that performs all the functions of the epidermis.A paper published this ...

    For the first time, scientists have made skin that sweats, grows hair, and is ready to work when grafted. 


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    Stop Doing Exercise You Hate

    Stop Doing Exercise You Hate

    A few weeks ago I was sitting at one of my favorite lunch spots writing an article about our dysfunctional relationship with our bodies, and how fitness culture contributes to this dysfunction. As a couple of girls at the next table were getting u...

    We're collectively ruining one of our greatest natural highs.

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    Is Nicotine the Cure for Sugar Addiction?

    A Nicotine Cure for Sugar Addiction?

    A Nicotine Cure for Sugar Addiction?

    Sugar is a delectable enemy. Once thought to hold the secret to health, it is now believed to be fueling an obesity epidemic that encompasses 640 million people worldwide.Despite an abundance of evidence about its dangers, Americans just can’t qui...

    Americans are eating more sugar than ever. Could another addictive substance stop our infinite sweet tooth?

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    D5KPNG ANTONIO BANDERAS & ELENA ANAYA THE SKIN I LIVE IN ; LA PIEL QUE HABITO (2011)

    This Faux Skin Can Sweat and Grow Hair

    This Faux Skin Can Sweat and Grow Hair

    A major development in the biology of skin stands to change the way we handle everything from the treatment of burn victims to the cosmetics industry: working, lab-grown skin that performs all the functions of the epidermis.A paper published this ...

    For the first time, scientists have made skin that sweats, grows hair, and is ready to work when grafted. 


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    When O’Reilly Was More Racist Than Trump

    When O’Reilly Was More Racist Than Trump

    While grilling Donald Trump on Monday evening about how he’d boost employment for black youth, Bill O'Reilly interrupted to make the truly bizarre claim that many black people are “ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads.”For what it...

    Fox News’ loudest curmudgeon stepped in it Monday evening when he made a bizarre claim about black people.

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    Blackbird, Eclipsed, The Crucible.

    Sex, Power, and Lupita on Broadway

    Sex, Power, and Lupita on Broadway

    Being a star in Hollywood doesn’t always translate to Broadway success. Al Pacino and Bruce Willis tried the switch a few months ago and got universally panned. Now three Oscar-nominated actresses (including one winner) are taking their turn and s...

    This season, three Hollywood actresses—Michelle Williams, Saoirse Ronan, and Lupita Nyong’o—star in challenging plays focusing on dark personal relationships.

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    Former Indian cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar(2R)looks on as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge(R)and an unseen Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge play a game of cricket with Indian children who are beneficiaries of NGO's at The Oval Maidan in Mumbai on April 10, 2016.

    In India, Kate Steals Diana’s Crown

    In India, Kate Steals Diana’s Crown

    Kate Middleton and Prince William are now on the second day of their tour of India, and it’s already clear the trip is going to be a huge cultural and diplomatic success.They spent the first day of the tour in Mumbai where they played cricket (the...

    She’s no Princess Diana. But, in India, she’s proving to be a far greater asset for the monarchy, and her country, than Diana ever was.

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    Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attend a reception for young people from India and Bhutan, at Kensington Palace in London, Britain April 6, 2016.  Photograph taken April 6, 2016.   REUTERS/Warren Allott/pool  - RTSDY9D

    The Do’s and Don’ts of the Royal Tour

    The Do’s and Don’ts of the Royal Tour

    Prince William and wife Kate are to visit India from Sunday as part of a week-long royal tour in the region that will also include a side trip to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan.The couple have undertaken numerous foreign royal tours since their ma...

    Prince William and Kate are off to India and Bhutan, and if they’ve learned any lesson about a royal tour so far, it’s that the pomp can conceal a cultural and etiquette minefield.

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    Blackbird, Eclipsed, The Crucible.

    Sex, Power, and Lupita on Broadway

    Sex, Power, and Lupita on Broadway

    Being a star in Hollywood doesn’t always translate to Broadway success. Al Pacino and Bruce Willis tried the switch a few months ago and got universally panned. Now three Oscar-nominated actresses (including one winner) are taking their turn and s...

    This season, three Hollywood actresses—Michelle Williams, Saoirse Ronan, and Lupita Nyong’o—star in challenging plays focusing on dark personal relationships.

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    Inside the Cincinnati subway.

    Cincinnati’s Long Lost Secret Subway

    Cincinnati’s Long Lost Secret Subway

    One hundred years ago this month, the Ohio city of Cincinnati made a fateful decision. The city’s voters, by a majority of almost six-to-one, approved a bond issue to provide about $6 million of public money toward the construction of a two-track,...

    A hundred years after construction began, the shell of a subway tunnel still lies beneath the Ohio city’s streets, empty and unfinished.

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    London’s Amazing Rolling Stones Exhibit

    London’s Amazing Rolling Stones Exhibit

    LONDON — We’re greeted by a wall of screens pulsing with Mick Jagger’s trademark strut and snatches of the great Rolling Stones’ riffs and licks.The footage at the start of Exhibitionism, a massive gallery show devoted to the Rolling Stones in Lon...

    The Rolling Stones have created a lavish, over-priced celebration of themselves at the Saatchi Gallery. It's hard not to love them for it.

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    -- PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE - ONLINE OR IN PRINT - BEFORE AUG. 16, 2015. -- Dominic Moore conducts a ?sound bath? at the House of Intuition in Los Angeles, June 23, 2015. Once found only at New Age retreats or the white-domed Integratron in the Mojave Desert, sound baths are now offered all over Southern California. The ritual, using the vibrations from soundwaves, helps promote relaxation and healing, proponents say. (Emily Berl/The New York Times)

    Does a Sound Bath Bring a Sound Mind?

    Does a Sound Bath Bring a Sound Mind?

    Gwyneth Paltrow, doyenne of everything New Age, can generally be relied on to sniff out the most obscure body-mind practices and products from far corners of the earth, delivering mugwort vaginal steaming from the fringes to the masses via her lif...

    It’s meant to be a meditative, relaxing experience, the bather enveloped by reverberations from instruments like tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, and gongs. Shame about the sledg...

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    Inside the Cincinnati subway.

    Cincinnati’s Long Lost Secret Subway

    Cincinnati’s Long Lost Secret Subway

    One hundred years ago this month, the Ohio city of Cincinnati made a fateful decision. The city’s voters, by a majority of almost six-to-one, approved a bond issue to provide about $6 million of public money toward the construction of a two-track,...

    A hundred years after construction began, the shell of a subway tunnel still lies beneath the Ohio city’s streets, empty and unfinished.

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A doctor controls the progress of an MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging or Imagerie par rÈsonance magnÈtique - IRM in French) of a child who first underwent a fake preparatory CT scan. on December 14, 2012 at the Bron hospital next to Lyon, eastern France. Paediatric radiology department chief of Bron's hospital, Professor Jean-Pierre Pracros, adopted this practice to avoid systematic anesthesia for young patients undergoing a MIR. AFP PHOTO PHILIPPE MERLE        (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE MERLE/AFP/Getty Images)

    LSD Users See With Their Eyes Closed

    LSD Users See With Their Eyes Closed

    A British study shows how the brain works on acid, and it’s pretty trippy.

    A Sumatran tiger called Tila is pictured in its area at the Bioparco of Rome on March 31, 2016.  / AFP / TIZIANA FABI        (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images)

    More Tigers for 1st Time in 100 Years

    More Tigers for 1st Time in 100 Years

    The world’s tiger population has been in decline for over a century—until now.

    Screenshot of anti-Islam billboard in Newsy video

    Anti-Islam Billboard Shocks Florida Town

    Anti-Islam Billboard Shocks Florida Town

    Petitioners want a billboard in St. Augustine reading ‘Islam Bloody Islam’ taken down.

    Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (R) and Bernie Sanders participate in the democratic debate at Miami Dade College in Miami on March 9, 2016.  / AFP / Gaston De Cardenas        (Photo credit should read GASTON DE CARDENAS/AFP/Getty Images)

    Contested Convention Not Likely for ...

    Contested Convention Not Likely for ...

    The nightmare of a contested convention is only a slim possibility for Democrats.

    • Screenshot of anti-Islam billboard in Newsy video

      Anti-Islam Billboard Shocks Florida Town

      Petitioners want a billboard in St. Augustine reading ‘Islam Bloody Islam’ taken down.

    • Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (R) and Bernie Sanders participate in the democratic debate at Miami Dade College in Miami on March 9, 2016.  / AFP / Gaston De Cardenas        (Photo credit should read GASTON DE CARDENAS/AFP/Getty Images)

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