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J.K. Rowling plans on writing another children’s book at some point in the future, so mark your invisible calendars.

Behold a spread from the January 1922 issue of Good Housekeeping, headlined, “Quality and Price Meet on Equal Ground in These Models from the January White Sales.” Seems it was a great year for discounts on lingerie. More importantly: these ladies look like they’re having a great time. So glamorous! So languorous!

On Wednesday, international hunk and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his new cabinet—which, for the first time in the country’s history, is half female.

Last month, President Obama invited people from across the country to a “White House Summit on Worker Voice,” advertised as an occasion “to highlight the relationship between worker voice and a thriving middle class.” Essentially, it was a fete for organized labor. Among them was Gawker writer Hamilton Nolan; another was Allysha Almada, a nurse from Pasadena, California.

A man has been barricaded in an apartment complex near the San Diego airport since around 9 am Wednesday morning, “firing sporadically,” according to police. As of 2:30 pm, planes are not being permitted to land at the airport. No injuries have been reported.

Never forget that every non-felon in this great country has the right to vote, including the people who comment on YouTube videos.

Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we suddenly start thinking about how much candy we’ve eaten over the past few weeks, get freaked out for the sake of our teeth, decide it’s time to start reading tabloids to get our mind off tooth decay, find three of the magazines, have trouble obtaining Star, and just sort of go with it because honestly, what’s the difference between any of these things anyway and also I really want another bag of Haribo.

H&M’s much anticipated Balmain collection launches in stores and online tomorrow, but I would suggest you temper any excitement now because it’s probably going to sell out immediately.

In a world in which HIV is no longer a certain death sentence or a crisis, many countries are relaxing the blood donation bans put in place to prevent gay men from donating potentially infected bodily fluids. France is the latest nation to announce that it will allow homosexuals to donate blood more freely, joining countries such as Japan and Italy.

For the past eight weeks I’ve been waking up and doing 135 crunches before I do anything else. I pad into the living room at 7:10 a.m., unroll my yoga mat, hook my toes under the hem of our IKEA couch, and crunch, barely awake. I do 15 where my wrists graze the tops of my knees, 15 where my fingertips tap the tops of my feet, and then 15 laying flat, lifting my legs straight up from the hips and lowering them slowly. I do three sets of these 15s. Then I take a shower, go to work, order an egg and cheese from the deli across the street... Читать дальше...

The trial of Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer charged with sexually assaulting and raping 13 black women, began on Monday. Jury selection for this case ended on Tuesday, settling on eight men and four women—all of whom are white.

America’s lesser legislative body has released its calendar for 2016, and on it, a grueling schedule that involves a full 25 four-or-five-day weeks, a punishing 111 days of work. Inspiring.

A conditioner is the last line of defense against spilt-ends, a dry scalp, and fading color. Whether you bow before the altar of the sulfate-free co-wash or remain faithful to your local drugstore aisle, it’s likely that the conditioner you use is specific to your own hair needs and nothing short of a miracle. On Monday, we asked you to divulge your conditioner of choice and—oh boy—there was very little consensus to be found. Here are the five victors who managed to rise above the fray . If you don’t find anything that suits you... Читать дальше...

In the months (now more than a year) leading up to her eighth album, Rihanna has managed to twist everyone’s psyche in anticipation of its release. The latest word is that ANTI—a title she announced in October with a formal art unveiling—is coming out in December. Perhaps it is.

Though the magazine’s shuttering has been all but a sure thing for months now, it’s now official: Mashable reports that Lucky magazine stopped publishing content as of Friday, and that the entirety of the editorial staff has been laid off.

Sometimes a story grabs your heart and wrings it out into a puddle of blood. Such is the story of Gianclaudio P. Marengo, the 30-year-old Italian who wandered the streets of New York City for two days after the marathon in his running gear.

Today, Ohio voters went to the polls to decide whether or not the state should legalize medicinal and recreational marijuana use. The Buckeye State was poised to become the fifth state to legalize weed (congratulations Oregon, Alaska, Colorado, Washington, and Washington DC) but alas, it wasn’t to be. Issue 3 was rejected pretty swiftly by Ohio voters.

Last month , Zendaya took to Instagram to criticize Modeliste magazine for heavily Photoshopping the spread she did for them. “[I] was shocked when I found my 19-year-old hips and torso quite manipulated,” she wrote in the caption. The photos she shared showed that the magazine had made her hips, waist and thighs much slimmer, as well as altered her skin color.

Kendall Jenner celebrated her 20th birthday party last night at an LA restaurant called The Nice Guy. Taylor Swift did not attend, but was spotted at a nearby restaurant called The Little Door.

It’s not often enough that the universe throws us deliciously ironic Catch-22’s. I am happy to report that today, it has done so.

On Monday, Hillary Clinton held a meeting with the mothers of four black teenagers who were killed by police and racially-motivated gun-related violence.

In today’s Tweet Beat, some surprising advice from Dr. Ruth, Liev Schreiber transforms and holy god airbrushing.

After failing to find love or anything close to it on For the Love of Ray J, relationship expert Ray J will give other lonely singles a shot at love on his new dating show, Driven to Love.

Darren L. Paden is a father, as well as a former volunteer fire chief and deployed member of the military. He’s also a confessed child molester who sexually assaulted a girl for over six years, raping her between 200-300 times starting when she was a toddler. But even though he’s admitted to his crimes, not all the people who reside in the small town of Dearborn, Kansas are condemning him; many are speaking out against his victim because she’s ruining a good man’s life.

Rihanna, who’s been serving as a guest advisor on The Voice this season, helped one of the contestants out by guiding her on how to sing Amy Winehouse’s tortured classic “Back to Black.”