Month: August 2021

Meghan Markle teases first look of baby daughter Lilibet in birthday video – Fox News
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Meghan Markle teases first look of baby daughter Lilibet in birthday video – Fox News

Meghan Markle offered the public the very first peek at her daughter, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, in a video on Archewell's website celebrating the royal's 40th birthday on Wednesday. The Duchess of Sussex was sitting at a wooden desk in front of a fireplace in her lush Montecito, Calif. home when the video started. The camera quickly scanned over Markle's workstation which featured a number of photographs including her husband, Prince Harry, son Archie Harrison, and finally a small one of Lili. The baby girl was born in June at the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. MEGHAN MARKLE AND MELISSA MCCARTHY TEAM UP FOR NEW INITIATIVE CELEBRATING ROYAL'S 40TH BIRTHDAY Markle was video chatting with actress Melissa McCarthy to promote her initiative 40x40, which is a program to help wom...
Amanda Knox is pregnant, expecting first child with husband after miscarriage – Fox News
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Amanda Knox is pregnant, expecting first child with husband after miscarriage – Fox News

Amanda Knox is pregnant with her first child. The 34-year-old revealed her pregnancy on Wednesday's episode of her "Labyrinths: Getting Lost with Amanda" podcast she hosts with her husband, author Christopher Robinson. "That's right, we're pregnant," the author and Robinson said in unison at the end of the episode.  The couple shared that they've been recording audio of their pregnancy experience "since day one." The two will take listeners with them on their birth journey in an upcoming mini-series "280 Days." The project will provide "scientific wisdom" with Dr. Emily Oster, bestselling author of "Expecting Better." AMANDA KNOX BLASTS MATT DAMON FLICK ‘STILLWATER,’ CLAIMS IT’S CASHING IN ON HER WRONGFUL CONVICTION Former US convict Amanda Knox (R) and her boyfriend, aut...
Lambda Variant: Should the Covid-19 Variant Worry You? Not If Youre Vaccinated. – Barrons
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Lambda Variant: Should the Covid-19 Variant Worry You? Not If Youre Vaccinated. – Barrons

Photo illustration by Sarina Finkelstein; Dreamstime (3) Text size Covid-19 case counts have leapt from the spread of the more infectious Delta version of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Now, another variant, called Lambda, has reached the U.S., raising fears with its resistance to the immunity conferred by vaccines or synthetic antibody cocktails. Should the Lambda variant scare you? In a word, no. Research is still preliminary, but while early data show that Lambda is indeed more resistant to antibodies raised against other virus variants, the antibody levels in vaccinated people are more than ...
The fun new TikTok trend is eating frozen honey and getting diarrhea – The A.V. Club
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The fun new TikTok trend is eating frozen honey and getting diarrhea – The A.V. Club

A fine collection of honey, ready to be frozen, eaten too quickly, and put to work ruining some TikTokers’ guts.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) The cultural vanguard at TikTok have embraced a new trend that consists entirely of freezing some honey, eating it on camera, then most likely spending the rest of the day annihilating a bathroom. Having learned very little from years spent downing Tide Pods and nutmeg on the internet, the extremely online have decided to start chewing on frozen honey from water bottles to take part in a new challenge. NBC News has detailed the trend, which at the time of writing has racked up 667.3 million views under the #FrozenHoney tag and 89.7 million for the #FrozenHoneyChallenge variation. Every video is pretty much the same thing. Someone shows off ...
COVID in California: Prominent UCSF doctor calls for universal masking, booster shots – San Francisco Chronicle
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COVID in California: Prominent UCSF doctor calls for universal masking, booster shots – San Francisco Chronicle

Masks are required indoors once again across most of the Bay Area, with the alarming rise of COVID-19 cases linked to the highly contagious delta coronavirus variant. San Francisco is weighing a mandate that could be similar to one New York City announced on Tuesday requiring people there to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter indoor restaurants, gyms and concerts. Half of the U.S., including California, are now in a “very high risk” category based on a number of COVID-19 metrics. Latest updates: Sutter Health to require vaccinations: Sutter Health has become the latest California medical system to require its staff to be vaccinated. Everyone, from doctors to volunteers to vendors — who serves a Sutter facility must be vaccinated by the end of S...
It’ll Cost $6,000 to Star Wars LARP With Your Family at Disney World – Gizmodo
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It’ll Cost $6,000 to Star Wars LARP With Your Family at Disney World – Gizmodo

The Walt Disney Company—worth an estimated $122.18 billion—would like you to pay $6,000 to take a family of four to its new, immersive Star Wars hotel for two nights. Starting in the spring of 2022, anyone with enough cash to burn will be able to (try to) book a stay at the Walt Disney World Resort’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser—attached to Hollywood Studios where the already in-use Star Wars land, Galaxy’s Edge, resides. In newly released details it’s described as “part live immersive theater, part themed environment, part culinary extravaganza, part real-life role-playing game.” We knew most of that already; what we didn’t know was what it was going to cost. Here’s the breakdown: a package (the only way to stay) with two people to a room will cost $4,809, three guests is $5,299,...
Sean Combs on life without Kim Porter and posting that throwback Jennifer Lopez photo – CNN
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Sean Combs on life without Kim Porter and posting that throwback Jennifer Lopez photo – CNN

CNN —   Sean “Diddy” Combs believes he’s been given a second chance. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the man who added “Love” to his name talked about a wide range of topics, including the loss of the mother of three of his children, Kim Porter, in 2018 at the age of 47. The hip-hop mogul has never married, and he and Porter were off and on for years. He describes her as the love of his life. “It is clear that if any woman was going to tie the renowned playboy down, it would have been Porter,” notes Vanity Fair writer Tressie McMillan Cottom. Combs “had to start to deal with it when I lost Kim,” he’s quoted as saying. “‘Cause I was like, man, you had it. I’m not saying I would do an...
Lizzo started a rumor shes pregnant with Chris Evans baby and he loves it – CNN
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Lizzo started a rumor shes pregnant with Chris Evans baby and he loves it – CNN

In her latest move, the singer posted a TikTok pretending to be pregnant with Captain America's baby. "This is something that I've been really trying to keep personal and private just between me and the father of my child," she said. "But since we're airing out all the rumors today, I've been sucking in. We're going to have a little America." Apparently, Evans found it funny. On Monday, Lizzo shared some DMs from the movie star. "Hi! Just heard about our little bundle of joy," he wrote, adding a laughing emoji. "My mother will be so happy lol. "(Just promise me no gender reveal parties lol)." Lizzo then told her followers she "secured the child support bag!!!!!" She wrote: "OMG YALL—HE SAW THE BABY BUMP! WE DID IT! NOW YALL GOTTA NAME LIL MERICA!!!!! WHAT YALL BOUTA NAME MY B...
More NY counties meet CDC guidelines for indoor masks: See full list of 31 – syracuse.com
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More NY counties meet CDC guidelines for indoor masks: See full list of 31 – syracuse.com

More counties in New York are seeing enough transmission of Covid-19 to return to indoor masking, according to federal guidelines. A total of 31 counties in the state are seeing either substantial or high Covid transmission, including Onondaga County. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends even vaccinated people wear masks indoors at those levels. The CDC issued the new guidance last week as the more contagious delta variant of the coronavirus spreads. The variant is causing a rapid increase in Covid cases in New York and nationwide. The new mask guidelines cover areas seeing 50 or more Covid cases per 100,000 people over a seven-day period or where 8% or more of Covid tests are coming back positive. Here’s the current list of New York counties meeting those thres...
Vaccinated People Three Times Less Likely to Contract Delta Variant in UK Study – Gizmodo
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Vaccinated People Three Times Less Likely to Contract Delta Variant in UK Study – Gizmodo

Vials of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are seen at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Building on January 07, 2021 in London, England. Photo: Leon Neal New research from the UK provides the clearest indication yet of how protected fully vaccinated people are from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Based on ongoing surveillance data, researchers estimate that the vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford University/AstraZeneca are 50% to 60% effective at preventing infection from Delta, including asymptomatic cases. While the findings do indicate that vaccines can still limit the transmission of Delta, they also reflect a substantial drop in their ability to prevent any infection, compared to their strength against past strains of the virus. The new data comes courtesy of the REACT-1...