Trump Admits He 'Didn't Need' To Declare National Emergency
President Donald Trump concedes he “didn’t need” to declare a national emergency, which is contrary to the legal argument his administration will likely need to make in court. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 15, 2019
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Students Of Color Reflect On Surviving Parkland | HuffPost Reports
“If anyone should be talking about gun violence, and how it affects us, it is black Marjory Stoneman Douglas students.” Black students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas felt ignored in the aftermath of last year’s school shooting. But they have something important to say. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Zombie Deer Disease Explained
Oh, deer! There’s a chronic wasting disease that is turning deer, moose and elk into “zombie-like” creatures. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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How Other Countries Prevent Mass Shootings
One year after the Parkland shooting, no meaningful gun control legislation has been passed in the United States. But other countries learned from similar tragedies and have dramatically curbed gun violence. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Valentine's Day-Like Traditions All Around the World
People around the world show their love and affection in many different ways. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Donald Trump's Beautiful Life | The Trumpster Fire
Here’s proof that most things for President Donald Trump are “beautiful”. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Parents Arrested After Kids Found Locked In Dog Cages
At one Texas home, police discovered four children, including two who were malnourished and locked up in cages. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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How Fairy Tales Fuel Our Obsession With Weddings | ICYMI
Think we put too much pressure on having the perfect wedding? Blame fairy tales. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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Disney Releases 'Frozen 2' Teaser Trailer
In the “Frozen 2” teaser trailer, Disney shows us what Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf are up to now. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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He Forgave His Son's Killer And Advocated For His Parole | Personal
Azim Khamisa’s son, Tariq, was murdered in 1995 at the age of 20. His killer was Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old boy who was ordered to pull the trigger by an older gang member. After the initial shock subsided, Azim realized that there were victims on both sides of the gun. Together with Tony’s grandfather, Ples Felix, Azim founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation with the mission of preventing youth gun violence. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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Late Night Comedians On Trump's Shutdown Deal
The late-night hosts discovered something very interesting while going over the figures of the new deal to avoid a second government shutdown. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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How Do You Stop The Next School Shooting? | HuffPost Reports
Jack Sawyer allegedly planned a mass shooting at his former high school in Fair Haven, Vt. On Feb. 15, 2018, the day after the shooting in Parkland, Fla., he was arrested. How do we thwart mass shootings like this one? HuffPost spoke with the Vermont high school’s principal, the friend who reported Jack’s behavior, and the authorities who helped stop another tragedy. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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What Do Schools Fail To Teach About Slavery? | Between The Lines
Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. Yet, some students are only just learning this today. This is partly because, after the war ended, some white southerners started organizations dedicated to promoting textbooks that taught that the war wasn’t about slavery, but rather about “states’ rights.” These false narratives continue to affect the way students are being taught Civil War history today. So why aren’t they taught the truth? And how does our failure to teach about slavery’s brutal legacy affect our ability to solve the issues facing our country today? Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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The History of Blackface In America
Many prominent politicians and entertainers have worn blackface. The racist practice isn’t new. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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The Evolution of Cardi B
From "Love And Hip Hop: New York" to "Bodak Yellow" to the 2019 Grammys, let’s take a look back at Cardi B’s fairy-tale rise to fame. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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Beto O'Rourke At El Paso Rally: 'Walls End Lives'
Former Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke directly challenged President Donald Trump’s plea to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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Trump Supporter Attacks Cameraman At El Paso Rally
A Donald Trump supporter attacked a cameraman at the president’s rally in El Paso, Texas. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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Grammy Awards 2019's Best Red Carpet Fashion
Fashion at the Grammy Awards ranged from classically chic to wonderfully weird. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 11, 2019
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3 Virginia Politician Scandals, 0 Resignations
Virginia’s top three elected officials are Democrats who are all facing calls to resign. Democrats now fear it’ll cost them the opportunity to turn the Republican state blue later this year. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 07, 2019
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'Cooking Saved My Life' -- Being Taken Seriously As A Black Chef | Personal
Chef Brian Hill has experienced success in the culinary world as a cook on Top Chef and as the personal chef for Mary J. Blige, Eddie Murphy and Mariah Carey. But when people walk into his downtown D.C. restaurant, they still don’t believe that he, a black man, is actually the chef and owner.
Following HuffPost’s interview in December 2018, chef Brian Hill told us he closed his D.C. restaurant on Jan. 21.
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February 07, 2019
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You’re never too old to play with Barbie ― especially when you’ve been waiting 37 years for one you can see yourself in. Jessica Jewett is a Georgia-based author and artist who was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and uses a wheelchair. When she learned this week through Instagram that the iconic doll brand is expanding and diversifying its offerings to include a Barbie with a prosthetic limb and a Barbie who uses a wheelchair, she had an emotional reaction. “It just took me back to being 5, 6, 7 years old, asking my mom and grandma why there aren’t dolls that look like me,” she told HuffPost. “I used to ask all the time why Barbie’s parent company Mattel couldn’t make a wheelchair for the doll.” It’s a long time coming for Jewett, who wrote on Twitter Tuesday that this was the toy she “needed as a little girl.” Growing up in the ’80s, she has no memory of seeing herself represented in dolls and toys like her friends did. “I would just start making up my own thing instead, which is probably why I became a writer,” she said. “I ended up having to make up my own stories that had nothing to do with me, because there was nothing like me out there.” That lack of representation and accessibility followed Jewett into other aspects of her life, as well. At her elementary school, the special education classrooms were in a back room, where she said the teachers were more like babysitters than actual teachers. “I used to sort of have this feeling from a really young age that I was different, but not understanding why that difference was something to be hidden,” she said. She went from shy kid to child advocate at just 12 years old, when her middle school refused to build an entrance ramp for her to use. // 📸: Mattel & Jessica Jewett
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Centuries before most English women could freely choose the direction of their lives, there was Joan of Leeds, a rebellious medieval nun who went to extreme lengths in an attempt to forge her own path. The 14th-century nun apparently faked her own death by creating a dummy “in the likeness of her body” before running away from her convent, according to archivists at the University of York. But her escape was discovered. “She now wanders at large to the notorious peril to her soul and to the scandal of all of her order,” Archbishop of York William Melton wrote (in Latin) about Joan in a record book dated 1318, the Guardian reports. Archivists at the University of York resurfaced details about Joan’s story last week, while translating and digitizing 16 registers in which the archbishops of York documented their business between 1304 and 1405. Joan was apparently so fed up with her life at St. Clement’s Nunnery in York that she concocted a wild plan to escape from her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. According to a marginal note in the register, Joan simulated “a bodily illness” and “pretended to be dead.” With the help of some accomplices, she tricked her fellow Benedictine sisters into burying a lookalike dummy “in a sacred space” among actual deceased members of her order. Joan fled about 30 miles away, to the town of Beverley, according to the Church Times. When rumors about her scandalous escapade finally reached Melton, the horrified archbishop ordered a church official in Beverley to send her back to the convent. Melton’s note in the register describes how Joan had “impudently cast aside the propriety of religion and the modesty of her sex” and faked her death “in a cunning, nefarious manner.” “Having turned her back on decency and the good of religion, seduced by indecency, she involved herself irreverently and perverted her path of life arrogantly to the way of carnal lust and away from poverty and obedience,” Melton wrote. University of York historian Sarah Rees Jones, who is leading the digitizing project, told HuffPost that her team isn’t sure if Joan ever returned to the convent ― either willingly or by force. // 📸: Getty Images
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Yes, Mandy Moore! 👏 // 📸: Getty Images
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Glory Edim (@guidetoglo) began building her empire of knowledge at an early age. Photographed here by @kgprojects, the founder of @wellreadblackgirl and author debuted her literary kingdom in the form of a digital book club that ensures black women who love reading, writing or both have a space to connect. With monthly reading selections and Twitter chats based on books by black women authors, the Nigerian-American has not only helped fill a huge void, but nourished a demographic often forgotten or erased by the literary world. Since its 2015 launch, Edim has developed Well-Read Black Girl into an annual book festival in Brooklyn and an anthology, both of the same name. Edim’s work empowers black women to feel seen and to start a revolution with their words. Between and beyond the pages, she is an author, a nerd, an advocate and a force. And she has no intention of slowing down. As a part of HuffPost’s “We Built This” series for Black History Month, Edim talked to us about her passion for literacy, her vision for Well-Read Black Girl and the urgency of protecting black women. // Interview by: @_tarynitup // #BlackHistoryBuiltThis #BlackHistoryMonth
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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) ― leading members of the new class of progressive congresswomen ― joined together Thursday to say they would not support the latest government spending package because it includes an increase in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Late Wednesday, lawmakers reached a budget deal that, if approved, would prevent another government shutdown at the end of the week and fund the federal government through September. The legislative package does not include the more than $5 billion that President Donald Trump has long demanded to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump’s insistence led to a standoff with lawmakers late last year and the longest-ever government shutdown in U.S. history. However, the new deal does include increased funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection, according to the Democratic representatives’ joint statement. “In this country, our diversity is our greatest strength. Immigrants fuel our nation’s economy, enrich our nation’s culture, and enhance our social fabric,” they said in their statement. “And yet, this Administration continues to threaten the dignity and humanity of our immigrant population,” the congresswomen said, condemning the Trump administration’s separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents at the border and its efforts to restrict entry of asylum-seekers. “The Department of Homeland Security does not deserve an increase in funding [emphasis in original], and that is why we intend to vote no on this funding package.” The lawmakers went on to name the “abusive agencies” that would be receive more money under the bill, including CBP receiving nearly $950 million above current funding levels and ICE getting an increase of more than $500 million. There would also be $1.37 billion for 55 miles of border wall and funding for an 11 percent increase in beds in migrant detention centers. // 📸: Getty Images
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Prince Harry spent Valentine’s Day... in an igloo. ❄
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She's back. 🗣 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has returned to work at her office for the first time since receiving treatment for cancer in December, the court announced Friday. A spokeswoman for the court said Ginsburg would be joining the justices’ private conference, marking her return to the building after working from home since her medical procedure.
The surgery, during which doctors removed two malignant nodules in her lung, caused her to miss oral arguments for the first time since she was appointed to the court in 1993. However, she kept up on cases and briefs from home, Supreme Court spokespeople said.
The day of the surgery, she reportedly cast a vote from the hospital to block President Donald Trump’s restrictions on asylum-seekers. She was released from the hospital on Dec. 25. The Supreme Court announced on Jan. 11 that doctors had given Ginsburg the all-clear but that she would continue to work from home. // 📸: Getty Images
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D.J. Pierce is larger than life. ⚡️ Best known as Shangela (@itsshangela), Pierce is an entertainer, an actor and a three-time contestant on @rupaulsdragrace. Photographed here by @kgprojects, Pierce was recently hand-selected by Lady Gaga to audition for the Oscar-nominated “A Star Is Born.” And though he didn’t have a main role, that title is fitting for Pierce’s story. As Shangela, the small-town Texan just wrapped up his first major tour, performing in nearly 200 cities worldwide. Pierce has been doing drag for just eight years, but it’s clear that he’s made quite the bang among queens and fans alike (just ask his stans who should’ve won “All Stars 3”). Aside from giving all of us life, Pierce takes seriously his responsibility to ensure those who don’t feel valuable, like he once did, find their voice and follow their truth. For “We Built This,” Pierce spoke to HuffPost about his days as a cheerleader, living in Jenifer Lewis’ basement and the freedom that drag gives him. // Interview by: @_tarynitup // #BlackHistoryBuiltThis
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Following the announcement that Trump would declare a national emergency to secure funding for his border wall, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke out, reminding the president and the nation that today marks the one-year anniversary of the horrific Parkland school shooting.⠀
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“The precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans. And of course we will respond accordingly when we review our options.” // 📸 : Getty Images
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Count Lady Gaga in the Cardi B camp after the rapper drew backlash over her Grammy win. Both of them walked away with trophies at the 61st annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night; Cardi B even made history, becoming the first solo woman to win Best Rap Album ― but only the hip-hop superstar had to defend her win for some reason after some online critics labeled her undeserving. Gaga apparently caught wind of the controversy and showed her support for the rapper on Tuesday with a heartfelt post, praising her “brave” fellow Grammy winner. “It is so hard to be a woman in this industry. What it takes, how hard we work through the disrespectful challenges, just to make art,” the “A Star Is Born” actress wrote. “I love you Cardi. You deserve your awards. Let’s celebrate her fight. Lift her up & honor her. She is brave.” // 📸: Getty Images
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Fourteen students and three faculty members from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were killed last year in one of the worst school shootings in modern U.S. history. On the one-year anniversary of the massacre, their classmates and families want the world to know the victims will never be forgotten. Many survivors were heartbroken and angry in the wake of the incident, scorning lawmakers for not doing more to prevent school shootings. A coalition of teen activists from the high school became the face of a new, younger anti-gun violence movement known as March For Our Lives. “I don’t think older generations realize what an impact the shooting here has had on our generation,” David Hogg, a Parkland survivor and one of the most prominent figures of March For Our Lives, told NPR this week. “I don’t think people realize how big the school walkouts were and how many student leaders came out of that,” he added. “I don’t think congressmen are realizing what they have coming.” Hogg tweeted that he planned to take a few days off from Twitter around the one-year anniversary of the shooting, but urged people to honor the memory of his slain classmates with action. “Please remember the people [who were] stolen from us that day,” he wrote. “They are why we fight for peace.” Aalayah Eastmond was a junior at Stoneman Douglas when she witnessed a gunman open fire on her classmates. She recalled experiences she had shared with the slain students in a tweet. “I miss having Orchestra with Carmen,” she wrote. “I miss Helena helping with Spanish homework. I miss Nick talking about swimming. We miss all of you. We will continue to honor with action!” Jaime Guttenberg was a 14-year-old freshman at Stoneman Douglas when she was killed during the shooting. Her father, Fred, has become an outspoken advocate against gun violence in the year since she was killed. “I am forever haunted by my memory of that morning, rushing my kids out the door rather than getting one last minute,” he tweeted Thursday. “Did I say I love you?” // 📸: Getty Images
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Happy Valentine's Day! 💕 We asked some wedding photographers to share one of the most romantic wedding pictures they’ve ever taken, and the results were gorgeous. // 📸 by, in order: @thehearnes, @jack_gilchrist_photography, @cendinoteme_, @kentdrakephoto, @leahmoyersphotography, @iluminen, @bangastudios & @jonathanconnolly
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