Month: November 2019

Women pay more attention to—and feel better after looking at—models who are average and curvy compared to models who are thin. That’s the conclusion of a new study from Florida State University researchers, published last week in the journal Communication Monographs. Women in the study also remembered more details about fashion models who were not…

Following the First Family’s inaugural Congressional Picnic last week, President Trump and his wife, Melania, attended the wedding of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and actress Louise Linton at Washington D.C.’s Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Saturday evening.    Ron Sachs-pool/Getty Click Here: United Kingdom Rugby Shop The First Lady opted for a soft pink J. Mendel…

The Nobel Peace Prize committee last month stunned many observers by choosing Henry Kissinger—the former secretary of state behind the secret American bombing of Cambodia and who supported Argentina’s “dirty wars,” among other things—to  speak at a forum on “The United States and World Peace after the Presidential Election.” In response, on Tuesday the progressive…

There are a lot of adorable couples in Hollywood, but Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder may take the cake. Case in point: Their most recent outing in Venice. The duo went to lunch at celeb favorite Gjelina, and Somerhalder couldn’t help but dote on his pregnant wife.  During their afternoon outing, The Vampire Diaries actor was…

One week after the collapse of a tenuous ceasefire, tensions between the United States and the Russian-Syrian alliance appear to be at a boiling point, while the consequence of that political fall-out is “nothing short of a human catastrophe.” At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Sunday, western powers blatantly…

Lorde might be the one human in the world who likes the New York subway system. The singer, who thanks the subway in her album’s notes, still feels a “bit of romance” toward the MTA—even though she once got stuck underground for four hours. In one terrible, terrible train delay, Lorde was stuck “sitting on…

Major news just came off the fashion presses on Tuesday.  Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. just announced that it plans to purchase luxury shoe and accessories brand Jimmy Choo for a whopping $1.2 billion. Kors will shell out 230 pence a share in the deal, which was officially approved by both companies’ boards, as reported in a statement to Business…

Republicans are dismissing the mounting call to thoroughly investigate the Trump campaign’s connection with Russian intelligence, and party leadership is seemingly pushing for members to fall in line behind the president amid growing outrage. House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Wednesday accused Democrats of “politicizing” the issue and told Politico he would not alter…

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, at a time when, as the committee said, “the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.” ICAN was granted the award “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic…

Getting your period is unpleasant enough without losing your job over it, but that’s exactly what happened to Alicia Coleman, who was fired from her job after experiencing two period leaks. The former 911-call taker then sued her former employer and that case was dismissed earlier this year. But the American Civil Liberties Union has…