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Tiffany & Co. acquires an exceptional 80-carat diamond
Tiffany & Co. announced that it will reimagine an archival Tiffany high jewellery necklace from 1939, with the purchase of an 80-carat diamond.
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Did you know chronic kidney disease is the 6th most common cause of death in Singapore?
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'My skin was bright red': 'compromised' facial mask recalled after users report burns
'My skin was bright red': 'compromised' facial mask recalled after users report burnsConsumers urged to self-test skincare and beauty products in Australia’s largely unregulated market after users react to Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask
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Homegrown singer Kit Chan on the challenges as her mother’s caregiver
Kit Chan shares with Yahoo Lifestyle SEA the challenges of being a caregiver, what she learned from these eight years, and the advice she can give to those in the same shoes.
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Dakota Fanning Showcases Her Off-Duty Style in Beige Denim, Vans & This Celebrity-Favorite Bag
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Twitter Suspends Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Election Misinformation
Twitter suspended Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for 12 hours on Sunday for violating rules regarding misinformation introduced by the social media site following the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that resulted in the deaths of five people. Greene, a representative from Georgia, posted a Twitter thread on Sunday filled with conspiracy theories about the Senate runoff elections held in her state earlier this month, which saw Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue lose their seats to Democrat challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. The victory in the longtime Republican-controlled state gave the Democrats control of the Senate with 50 seats and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tiebreaker. Twitter said in a statement that Greene’s tweets violated the site’s “civic integrity policy,” leading the site to block users from replying or retweeting the tweets due to a “risk of violence.” The decision comes days after Twitter shut down over 70,000 accounts for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory and other baseless election conspiracy theories, including President Donald Trump. Also Read: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Defends Trump Ban: 'This Was the Right Decision' Greene is a newly elected member of the House of Representatives, though she has for years posted about conspiracy theories such as “Pizzagate,” which claims that some Democrat leaders were secretly hosting a human-trafficking ring. Greene denounced Twitter’s move in a statement claiming conservatives should not be “scared into submission by Socialists who want to end their way of life.” “Conservative Americans shouldn’t be afraid to speak their mind. They shouldn’t have to fear being cancelled by American corporations where they work, do business, and use services,” she said. Read original story Twitter Suspends Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Election Misinformation At TheWrap
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Public Domain review – social-media musical swipes at Facebook
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Saweetie Dances on Top of a Car in Graphic T-Shirt, $895 Paint Splatter Denim & Buzzy Jordan 1s
Saweetie's Air Jordan 1s are made for dancing.
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The Wrap
‘Quo Vadis Aida’ Director Jasmila Zbanic Exposes the Bureaucracy of War From a Female Perspective (Video)
Bosnian-born director Jasmila Zbanic, who survived the 1995 war in Sarajevo, wanted to make a film that exposes the bureaucracy of war from a female lens. Zbanic’s film, “Quo Vadis Aida,” centers on Aida, a translator for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Bosnian Serb army takes over the community, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. “My idea was that I wanted to show this film through a female perspective, and I wanted to show (Aida) as somebody who is between two worlds — she’s a UN interpreter, so she works for the UN and knows more than other Bosnians and other people in the camp but, on the other hand, she doesn’t have the same privilege like foreigners, like people who are in the UN,” Zbanic tells TheWrap’s Joe McGovern. “I wanted to show this bureaucracy of war, which is rarely shown in the films. And for me, as a woman and maybe the person who survived a war, war has nothing attractive,” she added. Also Read: 'El Olvido Que Seremos' Shows Off the Other Side of Colombia, Star Javier Cámara Says A lot of the brutality and atrocities in “Quo Vadis Aida” happen off-screen, and that is by design, as Zbanic and her cinematographer decided to portray the banality of the conflict instead of portraying gratuitous violence. Wanting to convey the “banality of evil,” as political theorist Hannah Arendt put it, Zbanic and her camerawoman Christine Myer decided they would “always have perspective of human beings and always show what is not spectacular.” She elaborated, “We didn’t want to give pleasure of watching violence or the brutality. We think the audience is intelligent enough to imagine what is unimaginable.” Modern audiences are accustomed to shaky handheld documentary camerawork when it comes to war films, but Zbanic and her cinematographer agreed against that approach “because the Bosnian war and many other wars after were shown on TV, they were present in people’s houses, and everybody saw some images of war.” Also Read: 'Extracurricular' Director Made School Shooting Film as 'Warning' to Society (Video) “We wanted to find the part of people’s brains and hearts which is not occupied by images that people already know,” Zbanic explained. “So we didn’t want to have this usual kind of documentary camera to fake this. We really wanted to be real in emotions, but to (also) have very controlled images that are not usual for war films in order to, hopefully, get in people’s imagination, people’s brains, eyes and hearts through a different path. That was our decision from the beginning.” “Quo Vadis Aida” was selected as Bosnia’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. Watch the full interview with director Jasmila Zbanic in the video above. Read original story ‘Quo Vadis Aida’ Director Jasmila Zbanic Exposes the Bureaucracy of War From a Female Perspective (Video) At TheWrap
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The Wrap
‘Young Rock’ Trailer: Kid Dwayne Johnson Dreams Big…and Orders Tequila (Video)
As the new teaser for Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming NBC comedy series “Young Rock” says, “Every hero has an origin story — but not a full mustache at age 15.” The series — which is The Rock’s true-life story — will follow young Dwayne’s childhood, where he was inspired to become an athlete by his pro wrestler father Rocky Johnson. “When you dream big, the sky’s the limit,” Rocky tells his young son in the clip. And while Dwayne would eventually become a wrestling legend as the cocky, trash-talking WWE champion known as The Rock, he had his fair share of awkward moments, like when he told a girl in high school that his name was Tomas because he thought “it sounds way cooler than Dwayne.” In his tweet showing off the teaser, Johnson dedicated the show to his late father, who died a year ago. Rocky Johnson (played by Joseph Lee Anderson in the series) became a WWF Tag Team Champion in the 1980s while marrying Ata Maivia, the daughter of Samoan wrestler Peter Maivia. Despite worries about his son becoming a wrestler, Johnson agreed to Dwayne’s request to train him, leading him to become one of the biggest stars in the history of wrestling. Also Read: The Rock Leads Tributes to Wrestling Legend and 'Father Figure' Pat Patterson “I wish my dad was around to see. Maaaaan he would’ve been proud,” Johnson tweeted. “Cant wait to make ya laugh and share some life lessons I’ve learned along the way.” “Young Rock” stars Adrian Groulx as the 10-year-old Dwayne (Dewey, back then), Bradley Constant will play high school Dwayne and Uli Latukefu will play college Dwayne, with Stacey Leilua as his mother Ata and Ana Tuisila as his grandmother Lia Maivia. The actor and former WWF and WWE superstar is also set to appear in all 11 episodes. “Young Rock” premieres on NBC on Feb. 16. Watch the teaser in the clip above. Read original story ‘Young Rock’ Trailer: Kid Dwayne Johnson Dreams Big…and Orders Tequila (Video) At TheWrap
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A 'Bachelor' Contestant Was Once Spotted Leaving a Club With G-Eazy
Low-key hoping this comes up during a convo with Matt.
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Heidi Klum Keeps Warm in the Coziest Moncler Puffer Coat, Joggers and Combat Boots
Heidi Klum's weekend plans included taking a fashionable outdoor walk.
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Gigi & Zayn Are "So in Love" & Closer Than Ever Since Welcoming Their Daughter
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The Wrap
How MLK Ad-Libbed the ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
Clarence Jones, who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. write the “I Have A Dream Speech,” told a Television Critics Association panel in 2013 how the most famous part of the speech came spontaneously. It was Aug. 28, 1963: King was speaking to hundreds of thousands at the Lincoln Memorial, and millions watching on TV, when suddenly singer Mahalia Jackson called out. Here is what Jones said: Very few people know — most people do not know — that the speech that he gave was not the speech that he had intended to give. … As he was reading from the text of his prepared remarks, there came a point when Mahalia Jackson, who was sitting on the platform, said, “Tell them about the dream, Martin! Tell them about the dream.” Also Read: Why the MLK Holiday Has Become a Major Box Office Weekend Now I have often speculated that she had heard him talk in other places… and make reference to the dream. On June 23, 1963, in Detroit, he had made very express reference to the dream. When Mahalia shouted to him, I was standing about 50 feet behind him… and I saw it happening in real time. He just took the text of his speech and moved it to the left side of the lectern. … And I said to somebody standing next to me: “These people don’t know it, but they’re about to go to church.” I said that because I could see his body language change from the rear. Where he had been reading, like giving a lecture, but then going into his Baptist preacher mode. Also Read: 11 Most Inspiring Martin Luther King Jr. Memes Had there been anyone else — anyone else — who had shouted anything to him, I think he would have been a little taken aback. I’m not so sure he would have departed from the text of his speech. But Mahalia Jackson was his favorite gospel singer. When Mahalia said that it was almost like a mandate to respond. You can watch the speech above. Read original story How MLK Ad-Libbed the ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech At TheWrap
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The Wrap
Apple CEO Tim Cook Defends Parler Shutdown: ‘Free Speech and Incitement to Violence’ Has No ‘Intersection’
Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his company’s decision to remove right-wing social media site Parler from its online store in the wake of the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, telling Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday, “We looked at the incitement to violence that was on [Parler}. And we don’t consider that free speech and incitement to violence has an intersection.” Apple and Google both removed Parler from their app stores this past week while Amazon Web Services announced that it would drop the site from its servers. The backlash comes after posts supporting the Capitol insurrection and the call for future skirmishes were found throughout the site in the days following the riot. A developer even created an interactive map made from dozens of videos posted to Parler during the insurrection. Apple CEO @tim_cook joined #FoxNewsSunday to discuss the company’s new race initiative. Plus, we got his reaction to the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol and his company’s standoff with the conservative-leaning app Parler. pic.twitter.com/krbsb9aut5 — FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) January 17, 2021 Also Read: Parler CEO John Matze Says App Might 'Never' Return Cook said that Apple is open to restoring Parler to the site if it does a better job moderating its users and removing posts that encourage violence, but insisted that it would continue to enforce its terms of service. “We obviously don’t control what’s on the internet, but we’ve never viewed that our platform should be a simple replication of the internet. We have rules and regulations and we just ask that people abide by those,” Cook said. Parler has filed a lawsuit against Amazon for removing the site from its servers, claiming a violation of federal antitrust law. During an interview with Fox News host Mark Levin, Parler CEO John Matze suggested that Amazon, Google and Apple colluded to take Parler down, claiming he was only given 24 hours notice by Amazon of their decision. “It’s very, very interesting that they all, on the exact same day without previously indicating, they never indicated to us that there was any serious or material problem with our app,” Matze said. “But on the same day, you know, all on the same day, they send us these very threatening notices.” Watch Cook’s interview on “Fox News Sunday” in the clip above. Read original story Apple CEO Tim Cook Defends Parler Shutdown: ‘Free Speech and Incitement to Violence’ Has No ‘Intersection’ At TheWrap
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Prince William Reveals Which of His Children Is "Cheekier"
My bet's on little Louis.
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Footwear News
Lizzo Offers Her Own Take on the Athleisure Trend with Black Sweats, a Sheer Jacket and White Sneakers
Lizzo has provided a styling hack for spicing up loungewear — and it includes a little bit of sheer.
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Bridgerton's Phoebe Dynevor Isn't Sure Season 2 Could Film During the Pandemic
"It’s a very intimate show..."
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Rep. Jamie Raskin on Leading Impeachment Weeks After Son’s Death: I’m Not Going to Lose My Son and My Country (Video)
An interview with House Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin on CNN turned emotional, as the Maryland politician exposed his raw personal feeling about leading the second impeachment trial just weeks after losing his son to suicide. “I’m not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021,” he told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Raskin announced the death of his 25-year-old son, Tommy, on New Year’s Eve, saying that he had been experiencing chronic depression in recent years and that it became “a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him.” “Tommy was a remarkable person,” Raskin said. “He had overwhelming love for humanity and for our country, in his heart, and really for all the people of the world. We lost him on the very last day of that God-awful year, 2020, and he left us a note, which said ‘Please forgive me, my illness won today, look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me, all my love Tommy.'” Hear Raskin’s touching story in the clip below. "I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021," Rep. Jamie Raskin says as he presses forward with impeachment articles while mourning his son. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/PFPn9X4oic — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 17, 2021 As difficult as losing his son has been, Raskin said that Tommy’s death has only increased his resolve to lead the impeachment trial, and his son was on his mind as he and members of his family hid from Trump supporters that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. “When we went to count the electoral college votes and [the Capitol] came under that ludicrous attack, I felt my son with me, and I was most concerned with our youngest daughter and my son-in-law — who is married to our other daughter — who were with me that day and who got caught in a room off of the House floor,” he said. “These events are personal to me. There was an attack on our country, there was an attack on our people.” Raskin joked that when Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked him to be impeachment manager, he couldn’t refuse. “I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to say no to Speaker Pelosi about anything,” he said with a grin. “She’s actually been very sensitive and thoughtful, but she wanted me to do it because she knows that I’ve devoted my life to the constitution and to the republic. I’m a professor of constitutional law. But I did it, really, with my son in my heart and helping lead the way. I feel him in my chest.” Read original story Rep. Jamie Raskin on Leading Impeachment Weeks After Son’s Death: I’m Not Going to Lose My Son and My Country (Video) At TheWrap
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