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Brian Snyder/Reuters via ZUMA Press The Hillary Clinton campaign has been fretting that millennial voters are backing third-party candidates at historic rates and threatening her base of support. But a new survey suggests that she’s doing just fine among a large subset of this group: nonwhite young adults, who are much less likely than their…
Illustration by Angelica Alzona In December 2015, readers at women’s site xoJane were enthralled and filled with all-caps rage by Rachel Brewson, a self-described “giant liberal” who boldly declared her love for a Republican named Todd. She described, in rapturous terms, how the couple’s political disagreements fueled an ecstatic third-date bipartisan fuck-fest that soon flowered…
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of…
Warren Ellis will return to DC, to work on some of the characters that made him a household name among comic book fans, as the curator of a new pop-up imprint called WildStorm, ComicBook.com has learned exclusively. Following on the heels of the success of Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint, WildStorm will take a similar approach,…
Jim Lee will be kept as far away as possible. Source: ComicBook.com According to an EXXXCLUSIVE report at comic book website template generator ComicBook.com, superstar writer Warren “Garth Ennis” Ellis will helm a rebooting of the Wildstorm Universe at DC Comics. Wildstorm was originally created by Jim Lee in the early nineties as part of…
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In 1987, Michael Kelly, later a celebrated editor but at the time a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, took Fawn Hall, a secretary to Oliver North, as his guest to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Hall had been caught up in the whole Iran-contra scandal, and her arrival shocked the swells of Washington, who…
University of Miami pediatrician Dr. Judith L. Schaechter gives an HPV vaccination to a 13-year-old girl in her office at the Miller School of Medicine on Sept. 21, 2011 in Miami, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, which doctors believe causes most cases of cervical cancer, appears even more…
kim kardashian robbery October 3, 2016 10:16 p.m. Kanye West Is Reportedly Feeling ‘Helpless’ After Kim Kardashian Was Robbed By Theresa Avila Share Share Tweet Share Pin It Email Comment Print Kanye West. Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images for The Meadows Kanye West has reportedly been by Kim Kardashian’s side ever since she arrived in New…
When RyMingTahn Daniels did her test, she was shocked to find out that 26% of her DNA is of British origin. She talks in her video about feeling like there were secrets in her family. “I was so confused,” she said. “DNA doesn’t lie, but people can.” Many people who identify as black express confusion…