Новости за 07.05.2018

In a short address in the Rose Garden, Melania Trump unveiled her official initiative: “Be Best,” which focuses on social media, well-being, and the effects of opioid abuse on young people.

A handful of rural counties across Illinois have declared themselves sanctuary counties for gun owners, because America, which leads the world in gun ownership and gun deaths, apparently isn’t a safe enough haven for gun owners.

Like so many parents, novelist Ian McEwan was once roped into helping his son with his homework. The assignment was regarding one of McEwan’s own novels, and his son received a C+ for their mutual efforts. Everyone’s a critic!

Fitbit has launched it’s new “female health tracking” feature, which allows users to log their menstrual cycles. “Starting this month, Fitbit users who have identified themselves as female in their profile will receive a notification that female health tracking is available, and they can opt-in,” reports the Verge.…

She isn’t a royal yet, but Meghan Markle has rapidly ascended to the uppermost echelons of global celebrity, and that means her clothing choices are already big, big business.

The Department of Homeland Security and immigration officials have separated hundreds of children from their parents at the U.S. border since last October—at least 700, according to the Department of Health and Human Services—and the number is only going to increase, according to the Trump administration.

Kim Kardashian has trademarked the name of her new lingerie line, because she wants to dress us all from the skin outward. Unfortunately, there’s a “second skin” that’s been around a lot longer with the same name.

It’s been three months since Jeffrey Tambor was officially fired from the set of Transparent, following accusations by two staffers that he sexually harassed them. In a curious yet increasingly familiar move for the publication, with men accused of #MeToo-style misconduct, the Hollywood Reporter has given Tambor a…

Never in my life, outside of a mattress (and this mirror that was made in my dreams from IKEA), have I sung the praises of a piece of furniture. But when my boyfriend and I moved into a bigger apartment, with the space for a sectional, this couch from Amazon’s in-house brand Rivet fit the bill, and then some.

Ryan Murphy, the writer/producer/multi-hyphenate behind Glee and pretty much every show on FX (American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Feud), got a lengthy profile in The New Yorker titled “How Ryan Murphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV.” It might as well have been called something about how Murphy is the…

Back in the 1970s, a member of the British Parliament named Jeremy Thorpe was accused first of having a sexual affair with a man named Norman Josiffe and, second, hiring someone to kill him. Thorpe was never found guilty of any crimes (there’s a chance their affair never even happened), and was voted out of Parliament…

Pearls and watches for Mother’s Day from Amazon, discounted Milk Makeup skin care, extra markdowns at American Eagle, and more lead Monday’s best lifestyle deals.

At last, a profile of my favorite Taurus, Melania Trump, that is mostly puff but also lays bare the hideous and convenient mirage that is her marriage to Donald Trump.

In November, 2017, FYF Fest founder Sean Carlson was accused of sexual misconduct by four different women in a SPIN magazine report. Now the festival has been canceled nearly two months before its 2018 date, reportedly due to poor ticket sales.

Recall, if you would, that endless drip of demoralizing reports on the misery of career EPA staffers under Administrator Scott Pruitt. Well, it turns out Pruitt is more of an equal-opportunity employer, at least when it comes to inspiring feelings of anger and distress: At the EPA, sources told Axios, everyone is…

On Saturday night, at the 2018 GLAAD Media Awards in New York City, Jay-Z’s mom Gloria Carter took home a Special Recognition Award for her contribution to her son’s 4:44 track, “Smile,” which concludes with his mother performing spoken word for the song’s outro. Her poetry addresses sexuality head on and, as she…

In response to a story about newly canceled keyholder DJ Kahled (published by our sister site The Root) and his refusal to go down on his wife despite the fact that he expects her to go down on him, Dwayne Johnson, formerly known as The Rock and often known as Daddyyyyyyyyyyy, shared a little fun fact with his Twitter…

Carrie Underwood dropped the video for her single “Cry Pretty” on Sunday evening—in the midst of American Idol, no less—which you can watch above. As someone who discovered on a recent trip to Nashville that she reluctantly loves pop-country, I am still in the “tolerating” stage with this track. But more importantly,…

Michelle Obama is not running for president, and if she is, she would still like you to stop telling her to do it.

How many Lizzie Borden-themed bed-and-breakfasts in Fall River, Massachusetts, is too many? Is it four? Is it five? Is it 16? I am not sure, but for now, it appears the gambling number is two, as Borden’s second home is set to become sleeping quarters for weary travelers and fans of unsolved mysteries. This is bad…

Celebrities and fashion people: they’re just like us! In the sense that they hate putting on clothes and going outside, that is, and also that they love to talk shit about one another. Such is revealed in a BOMBSHELL REPORT declaring that the upcoming Met Gala is a “tedious” “boring” affair full of Mean Girls-esque…

With Rudy Giuliani stealing the limelight this week with his freakish new Trump sideshow, it’s hard to watch presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway as she listlessly tries to spin the latest lies coming out of the White House.

Florida couple Jacqueline and Michael Davis are expecting a baby.

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