Month: March 2021

Meghan Markles half-sister says duchess, Prince Harry should get counseling: There are children involved – Fox News
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Meghan Markles half-sister says duchess, Prince Harry should get counseling: There are children involved – Fox News

Meghan Markle's half-sister has come to the determination that the Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry are in need of counseling. Samantha Markle, who earlier this month presented evidence calling the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's claims to Oprah Winfrey into question, is once again accusing the two of spreading "lies" and living in "fantasyland." Speaking to New Zealand journalist Heather Du Plessis-Allan on the "Newstalk ZB Radio Show," Samantha was asked whether she and her father, Thomas Markle, would one day ever be able to forgive the duchess as their years-long strain has been covered extensively in the media, first catapulted by drama surrounding the couple's 2018 royal wedding. "Honestly, I don't think that's realistic, especially when you're dealing with a narcissist who is no...
Kim Kardashian pleads with Kanye West to meet with her after a flurry of frustrating comments – Daily Mail
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Kim Kardashian pleads with Kanye West to meet with her after a flurry of frustrating comments – Daily Mail

Kim Kardashian gave insight into the latest developments in her split from Kanye West on Thursday's episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. The reality star, 40, who filed for a divorce from her estranged husband last month, was seen speaking to the camera about the split, as she revealed the rapper, 43, has been residing at their Wyoming ranch while she remained at home. The scenes came amid Kanye's infamous social media meltdown, in which he penned a series of hurtful tweets about his wife, who said on camera that she found the scenario 'frustrating' and urged him to meet with her to discuss his woes. She said: 'Kanye's been in Wyoming and he's been posting a lot of things on social media. That is a little bit frustrating, but you just have to kind of separate yourself from what's g...
Michigan’s COVID-19 numbers increasing at ‘troubling’ pace. What’s going on? – MLive.com
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Michigan’s COVID-19 numbers increasing at ‘troubling’ pace. What’s going on? – MLive.com

Michigan now has the fastest-growing COVID-19 case rate in the country, much to the alarm of health officials around the state. The state ranks No. 2 behind New Jersey in average new cases per capita. The Thumb region, as well as Macomb and Jackson counties, have among the nation’s highest transmission rates. The state’s seven-date average of new cases has doubled since March 15, and is at its highest point in 2021. Friday’s positivity rate was 10.6% on coronavirus diagnostic test results. Even more concerning is the spike in hospitalizations. As of Friday, 1,940 people were hospitalized for COVID-19, a number that has doubled in less than three weeks. “What we’re seeing now is very troubling,” said Jim Lee, Michigan Health & Hospital Association vice president for data pol...
Early studies: Antidepressant helping with COVID-19 recovery – KSL.com
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Early studies: Antidepressant helping with COVID-19 recovery – KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY – A drug used as an antidepressant has now also helped patients with COVID-19 recover from the virus, small studies revealed. Researchers at the University of Utah Health believe the drug works and are now investigating with a larger study to confirm the remarkable results of two earlier trials. The generic drug, fluvoxamine, was developed 40 years ago as an antidepressant, primarily to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's safe, only costs $0.60 a pill and shows great promise. "We need a drug that stops people from getting sick when they get COVID, and that's what we're hoping fluvoxamine will do," said Dr. Adam Spivak, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah Health. For a year, since the pandemic began, researchers have tri...
Covid-19 Variant Rages in Brazil, Posing Global Risk – The Wall Street Journal
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Covid-19 Variant Rages in Brazil, Posing Global Risk – The Wall Street Journal

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil—Brazil is in the throes of a battle against the new Covid-19 variant from the Amazon that threatens to send shock waves across the globe. Home to less than 3% of the world’s population, Brazil currently accounts for almost a third of the daily global deaths from Covid-19, driven by the new variant. More than 300,000 have died, and daily deaths now top 3,000, a toll suffered only by the far more populous U.S. “We’re in the trenches here, fighting a war,” said Andréia Cruz, a 42-year-old emergency-ward nurse in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. In the past three weeks alone, the surrounding state of Rio Grande do Sul has seen nearly 5,000 people die from Covid-19, more than in the final three months of last year. Th...
Tiger King star Joe Exotics husband files for divorce after dashed hopes over failed Trump pardon – The Independent
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Tiger King star Joe Exotics husband files for divorce after dashed hopes over failed Trump pardon – The Independent

The Tiger King didn’t just lose his best chance at freedom when Donald Trump’s hotly-anticipated pardon never came, he lost his marriage. Joe Exotic’s husband Dillon Passage confirmed in a series of Instagram posts on Friday (26 March) that he is filing for divorce from the Netflix star. “The presidential pardon we were all waiting for never came and our hopes were dashed. I remain in support of Joe and want to be there for him,” he said in a post. “This wasn’t an easy decision to make but Joe and I both understand that this situation isn’t fair to either of us,” he added in a follow-up post. Attorney for Mr Exotic, Francisco Hernandez, told TMZ that he is distraught after speaking to him in prison. The tiger trader was reportedly so confident he’d receive a presidential pardon in th...
Beverly Cleary, beloved childrens book author, dies at 104 – CBS News
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Beverly Cleary, beloved childrens book author, dies at 104 – CBS News

Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children's author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died. She was 104. Cleary's publisher HarperCollins announced Friday that the author died on Thursday in Northern California, where she had lived since the 1960s. No cause of death was given. Trained as a librarian, Cleary didn't start writing books until her early 30s, when she wrote "Henry Huggins," published in 1950. Children worldwide came to love the adventures of Huggins and neighbors Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby and her younger sister, Ramona. They inhabit a down-home, wholesome setting on Klickitat Street — a real street in Portland, Oregon, the city where Cleary spent...
Drinking Coffee Before Exercise Can Do Something Pretty Awesome to Your Body – ScienceAlert
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Drinking Coffee Before Exercise Can Do Something Pretty Awesome to Your Body – ScienceAlert

If you're looking to maximize the amount of fat burned in your next workout, think about having a coffee half an hour before you get started – as a new study suggests it can make a significant difference to fat burning, especially later on in the day.   Researchers found that 3 milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body weight – about half a single dose of caffeine, commonly held to be about 6 mg/kg – can boost the rate of fat burning during aerobic exercise, based on results gathered from 15 male volunteers. The coffee dose was shown to increase maximal fat oxidation rate (MFO, a measure of how efficiently the body burns off fat) by an average of 10.7 percent in the morning and 29 percent in the afternoon. It adds to what we already know about MFO: that it's lower in the morning th...
Bekah Martinez details being sexually assaulted in broad daylight: I felt totally powerless – Daily Mail
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Bekah Martinez details being sexually assaulted in broad daylight: I felt totally powerless – Daily Mail

Bekah Martinez revealed she was sexually assaulted on a walk with her two young children Ruth, two, and eight-month-old Franklin on Friday. The 26-year-old mother and Bachelor alum revealed she was victimized by a teenage boy on a skateboard, who grabbed her backside, in broad daylight. 'I was just out taking a walk, looking like this, pushing my sleeping baby and holding hands with my toddler, when a teenager skateboarded by and grabbed my a**,' she captioned her latest Instagram post, showing her in a tie-dye long sleeve, brown shorts, messy bun and no makeup. Heart-wrenching: Bekah Martinez revealed she was sexually assaulted on a walk with her two young children Ruth, two, and eight-month-old Franklin on Friday She continued: 'I felt totally powerless as I scream...
Beyonces Storage Units Hit by Thieves, Over $1 Million in Goods Stolen – TMZ
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Beyonces Storage Units Hit by Thieves, Over $1 Million in Goods Stolen – TMZ

Someone hit the Beyhive ... Beyonce's storage units were broken into and burglars made off with more than $1 million worth of valuables. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... 3 L.A. area storage units filled with Beyonce goodies were hit twice by thieves earlier this month, and the culprits swiped her expensive handbags and dresses. While the storage units are being rented out by her production company, Parkwood Entertainment, we're told the missing items from the first heist all belong to Queen Bey. Our sources say burglars came back within a week, and took down 3 storage units in the same facility ... making off with handbags, kids toys and photos belonging to one of Beyonce's stylists. Bey is the latest singer to have storage units burglariz...