Curvy model 'still on cloud 9' with sudden fame
One Ashley Graham photo got the world's attention — and she's using it to empower others, she tells Katie Couric. Ad censors nixed »
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Car Thief Throws a Brick, Mercedes Throws it Back
They say that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. We’ll extend that warning to anyone within the vicinity of a Mercedes-Benz, thanks to this face-palmy closed circuit TV footage taken from outside an Irish pub. According to the Irish Examiner, pub owner Gerry Brady and his business partner left work late one
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William Shatner Feels 'Awful' He's Unable To Attend Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
William Shatner sent out a series of Tweets on Saturday expressing his grief over the loss of one his "dearest friends," Leonard Nimoy. Sadly, due to a prior commitment that poses a scheduling conflict, Shatner is unable to attend Nimoy's funeral on Sunday. "I am currently in FL as I agreed to appear at the Red Cross Ball tonight. Leonard's funeral is tomorrow.
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Sharon Osbourne, Melissa Rivers React to Kelly Osbourne Quitting Fashion Police
Sharon Osbourne applauded her daughter Kelly Osbourne for leaving Fashion Police amid tension with co-host Giuliana Rancic after her comment about friend Zendaya
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11 NBA Teams Worth Over $1 Billion Dollars
When it comes to money, Forbes does it better than most, and they've just released their 2015 valuations for each NBA Team.
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Study: lighter-skinned black and Hispanic people look smarter to white people
As long ago as 2005, an ABC News report on colorism called it "an open secret in the black community." Two more recent documentaries about the issue, 2011's Dark Girls, and its 2015 offshoot, Light Girls, present it primarily as a source of pain inflicted both on and by African-Americans. There's a broad assumption that this phenomenon — a preference for light skin over dark and accompanying discrimination — is contained within the black community and other communities of color. In a new study published in the journal Social Currents, Villanova University's Lance Hannon found that, all things being equal, white interviewers deemed lighter-skinned blacks and Hispanics more intelligent than darker-skinned people who had identical educational achievement, vocabularies, scores on a political test, and a variety of other factors.
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5 Stocks With Jaw-Dropping Growth Potential
These five small-cap growth stocks could soar in 2015. Here's why.
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Holder Plans Push For Lower Standard Of Proof In Civil-Rights Cases
Attorney General Eric Holder plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights offenses, saying in an exit interview with POLITICO that such a change would make the federal government “a better backstop” against discrimination in cases like Ferguson and Trayvon Martin.
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Florida man strips in the presence of Evan Longoria
Evan Longoria can sign a shirt while you're still wearing it, you know. The human torso actually provides a surface to write on:
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On eve of US trip, Netanyahu prays at Jewish shrine
Hours before flying to Washington to try to scuttle an emerging US nuclear deal with Tehran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a high-profile visit Saturday to Judaism's holiest prayer site. Wearing a black skullcap, he rested his hands on Jerusalem's Western Wall while praying briefly, before turning to face a bank of microphones. Netanyahu expressed his respect for US President Barack Obama, but stood firm on his bid to persuade Congress to fight Obama's Iran plans. "I believe in the strength of the relations between Israel and the United States," he said.
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Retreating ice in a warming Antarctica (21 photos)
From the ground in this extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems to extend forever. What can't be seen is the battle raging thousands of feet (hundreds of meters) below to re-shape Earth. Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, melting it where it hits the oceans. As the ice sheets slowly thaw, water pours into the sea — 130 billion tons of ice (118 billion metric tons) per year for the past decade, according to NASA satellite calculations. That's the weight of more than 356,000 Empire State Buildings, enough ice melt to fill more than 1.3 million Olympic swimming pools. And the melting is accelerating. In the worst case scenario, Antarctica's melt could push sea levels up 10 feet (3 meters) worldwide in a century or two, recurving heavily populated coastlines. Parts of Antarctica are melting so rapidly it has become "ground zero of global climate change without a doubt," said Harvard geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica. (AP) Photographs by Natacha Pisarenk/AP Photos Find more news-related pictures in our photo galleries and follow us on Tumblr.
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Texas braces for massive layoffs amid oil slump
The low price of oil is poised to hurt the Texas oil industry in the form of massive job cuts
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Rare Roman Tombstone Discovered in England
A 1,800-year-old tombstone was discovered at a Roman cemetery in England this week. Because of its inscription, archaeologists know who was buried in the grave: a 27-year-old woman named Bodica. "It's incredibly rare," Neil Holbrook, of Cotswold Archaeology, told Live Science. For the last two months, Holbrook's team has been excavating a Roman cemetery just outside the ancient city walls of Cirencester, a town in Gloucestershire, to make way for the construction of a new office park.
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British TV shows student picture of 'Jihadi John' in baseball cap
Sky News broadcast a photograph of the 26-year-old wearing a black cap with a logo that resembled the P from the Pittsburgh Pirates U.S. Major League Baseball team, which it said was stored by the University of Westminster where he studied. Two U.S. government sources have told Reuters that Emwazi is Jihadi John, the black-clad militant seen brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent in videos released by Islamic State (IS). The document obtained by Sky News also showed that Emwazi had completed a degree in Information Systems with Business Management.
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Louis Vuitton is now a 'brand for secretaries' in China
China's elite have become too savvy for Louis...
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Minihane: Any Red Sox untouchables in Hamels trade?
To ace or not to ace? That's the Red Sox question as spring training continues and Cole Hamels-from-the-Phillies rumors keep swirling.
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7 Ways to Skimp on a Bathroom Renovation (8 photos)
Bathroom remodels are one of the most costly and time-consuming home projects you can undertake—but they're also one of the few surefire ways to increase the value of your home. A mid-range bathroom remodeling project costs an average of $16,000—but if that's not in your budget you can still make big and small changes that will completely refresh your bath. It requires a little out of the box thinking—and a lot of elbow grease—but it is more than doable to reinvent your bathroom without breaking the bank. Click thru for several easy ideas to help you renovate your bathroom on a budget. | By Donna Boyle Schwartz, BobVila.com
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Gas prices soar in California as supply shrinks
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Gas prices are soaring in California in a classic example of supply and demand after an explosion stopped gasoline production at an Exxon Mobil refinery while another remains offline due to labor unrest.
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The End of the Big Mac
If you like to lunch on two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun, you’d better act fast: McDonald’s has announced plans to phase out the Big Mac. McDonald’s had announced that it had been testing menu cuts after finding that sales in November were down 4.6 percent compared to the previous year. With the rise of “fast casual” chains like Chipotle and Shake Shack, fast food is on the rocks, at least among the middle classes who can afford a $10 lunch instead of a $5 one. Chipotle enjoyed a 16.8 percent increase in sales at stores open more than a year in 2014, and shares of Shake Shack—a self-styled “anti-McDonald’s”—doubled on the day of its January IPO, despite the fact that Danny Meyer's burger business only operates at 63 locations.
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6 Truths I Tell My Daughter (That I Don't Always Believe Myself)
I can feel the drama surrounding my 10-year-old daughter beginning to swirl, much in the same way tornadoes form in eyewitness videos.
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Rex Ryan and His Awesome Bills Pickup Truck Are All In for Buffalo
For all the negative attention Rex Ryan gets, there’s one thing he’s always shown: commitment. Ryan, who is now the head coach of the Buffalo Bills, took his Ford Super Duty pickup truck and customized it to really fit in stand out with a full streaky red, white, and blue color scheme. It even has an
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