NEW YORK — The stars were out on the red carpet at the2024 Met Gala on Monday in New York City. The Met Gala is held annually at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where all of the biggest names in fashion show off their best and boldest looks. The theme this year is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” stemming from the …
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The Condé Nast union said Monday it has reached a tentative labor agreement with the publisher’s management just hours ahead of theMet Gala, which is chaired by Anna Wintour, the company’s global chief content officer and editorial director. The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, was reached after months of bitter negotiations had failed to yield …
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More than 70 years after an American teenager vanished while fighting overseas in the Korean War, modern forensics finally allowed the United States military to identify his remains. John A. Spruell, a U.S. Army soldier from Cortez, Colorado, was declared missing in action on Dec. 6, 1950, the military said in a news release. He disappeared in the midst of …
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday defended controversial passages in her forthcoming book as she faces scrutiny over a number of anecdotes, including a false claim about a meeting with Kim Jong Un, a story about killing her dog, and a phone call with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley where Noem said she felt “threatened.” In one anecdote …
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Kendrick Lamar and Drake have each released several ruthless diss tracks against each other over the past week, taking jabs at height and style and making allegations about each others’ children and other disturbing accusations. The beef has continued to escalate and amid the drama,a shooting took place at Drake’s home, which is featured on the cover of Kendrick’s diss …
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Skin cancer is one of the most preventable types of cancer, yet it remains one of the most common — and a recent survey finds not enough people are taking the right precautions, raising their risk. The survey from the American Academy of Dermatology revealed more than one-third of adults reported getting a sunburn last year, the highest number since …
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A routine welfare check in Oklahoma last week led to an unexpected development in a murder cold case. While sitting along the side of an interstate highway outside of Oklahoma City, authorities say that Joseph Beck voluntarily confessed to killing 19-year-old Jennifer Kyli Molloy in 2016. Beck offered the confession to a state trooper, who performed the welfare check on …
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New Delhi —Afghanistan’s top diplomat in India resigned days after she was reportedly caught by airport authorities smuggling nearly $2 million worth of gold into the country. Zakia Wardak, the Afghan Consul-General in India’s financial capital Mumbai, posted a statement on social media announcing her resignation. Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi shut down in November, more than two years after …
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HATFIELD – A bear is believed to have dragged the body of a western Massachusetts crash victim out of his car on Sunday, State Police say. Investigators say 31-year-old Daniel Ducharme, of South Hadley, was likely killed as a result of the crash on Route 91 south in Hatfield. Police said the evidence suggests he was “either fully ejected or …
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Porto Alegre — From top to bottom, rescuers have been scouring buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in apartments or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. In the state capital’s Sarandi neighborhood, firefighters first evacuated people who had found refuge on the roofs of apartment buildings, then went in for those …
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