It’s now one year since Donald Trump was elected president—and what a whirlwind year it’s been. As the President has issued a controversial travel ban, cracked down on protections for young undocumented immigrants, attempted to undermine the Affordable Care Act, and routinely lashed out on Twitter, millions of Americans are counting down the days till…
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“I’ll do whatever I have to do to get out of here,” Nikki “Trip” Triplet, 39, remembers thinking when she showed up at one clinic for breast cancer testing. But the self-employed, under-insured Texan wasn’t talking about fighting and surviving breast cancer. She was talking about getting out of that particular run-down facility. She was…
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PHOTO: Composite. emmaperrier28/Instagram, adamguzel/Instagram Are you ready for the best catfishing story in maybe all of history? On Thursday, The Atlantic published a modern-day fairytale that’s almost too good to be true — much like the first guy Emma Perrier fell in love with. Two years ago, restaurant manager Emma Perrier, who lived just south…
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PHOTO: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images News broke last week that rapper Nelly had been accused of sexual assault by a woman with whom he’d allegedly returned to his tour bus after a concert in Seattle-area Washington. Now, the woman is dropping all charges and halting the resulting criminal investigation. The alleged sexual assault took place early…
Read moreIn the last several years, dozens of women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against a string of high-profile men including Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, and President Donald Trump. Producer Harvey Weinstein, who was recently fired from his own company for misconduct, is only the latest example. The headlines generated by…
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PHOTO: Paul Morigi/Getty Images Former First Lady Michelle Obama has some pointed words for women who voted for Donald Trump. During a conversation with author Roxanne Gay at Boston’s Inbound marketing conference on Wednesday, Obama told the audience that “Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice.” Despite assuring America that…
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