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Kate Middleton Is Reportedly More of a Team Player Than a Leader in the British Royal Family – Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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Kate Middleton Is Reportedly More of a Team Player Than a Leader in the British Royal Family – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is one of the most popular members of the British royal family. Married to the future leader of the monarchy, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine is a working royal. A style icon, parent, amateur photographer, champion of causes, the Duchess of Cambridge is a modern royal. One thing she’s not? A leader. One royal expert says Catherine is “more of a team player than a leader” in the royal family. Keep reading to learn more about the Duchess of Cambridge’s role in the royal family. Kate Middleton adjusts to life as a royal Kate Middleton visits EACH Hospice | Joe Giddens/PA Wire RELATED: Kate Middleton: 4 Times She Handled Meltdowns With Prince George and Princess Charlotte Like a Pro Meeting William while attend...
In Paris, Haute Couture Face Masks for All – The New York Times
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In Paris, Haute Couture Face Masks for All – The New York Times

There are disposable masks bought in bulk: light blue, three-ply, fastened with white elastic hoops. There are D.I.Y. masks, stitched at home, and designer masks, sold for $10 or $100. Then there are masks made by a collective of the world’s most elite couturières: the seamstresses of Chanel, Dior and Saint Laurent, among others, who spent lockdown making more than 3,000 of them — a limited edition of sorts. But these masks are not for sale, and the people wearing them are not influencers or celebrities. They are not the sort who, pre-pandemic, sat in the front row at Paris Fashion Week, wearing a mask plastered with bright white Chanel camellias. They are the city’s nurses, bakers and firefighters. And that distinction is important to the masks’ makers. Their collective, called Tiss...
Kourtney Kardashian Says Shes Set “Free” After “Toxic” Experience on KUWTK – E! NEWS
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Kourtney Kardashian Says Shes Set “Free” After “Toxic” Experience on KUWTK – E! NEWS

Kourtney Kardashian is doing what makes her happy. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star articulates this very point in her cover story for the July/August issue of Vogue Arabia. Namely, Kris Jenner's oldest gets candid about her break from the limelight, including the decision to limit her role on the hit E! docu-series. "I have been filming the show non-stop for 13 years, 19 seasons and six spin-off seasons. I was feeling unfulfilled and it became a toxic environment for me to continue to have it occupy as much of my life as it was," the mother of three tells the magazine. Earlier this year, during a season 18 confessional, Kourtney told the KUWTK cameras that she was limiting her role on the show. "I have decided to take a big step back from filming and really just pick and choose w...
Comedian Rickey Smileys daughter shot twice and hospitalised in Houston road rage shootout – Daily Mail
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Comedian Rickey Smileys daughter shot twice and hospitalised in Houston road rage shootout – Daily Mail

Comedian Rickey Smiley reveals his daughter was shot twice and hospitalised in Houston road rage shootout Aaryn Smiley, 19, was injured in crossfire while on her way to Whataburger She was shot by a passing vehicle while sat in a car that stopped at a red light Father Rickey Smiley, 51, revealed his daughter had to have surgery for injuries By Alice Cachia For Mailonline Published: 04:05 EDT, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 07:55 EDT, 7 July 2020 The comedian Rickey Smiley's daughter has been shot twice and hospitalised during a shootout in Houston.  The radio personality, 51, broke the news on his morning show that his youngest daughter Aaryn, 19, had been shot on her way to Whataburger. The teenager was stopped at a traffic light on the feeder road of Highway 288...
Harry and Meghan call for Britain to confront colonial past – NBC News
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Harry and Meghan call for Britain to confront colonial past – NBC News

LONDON — It's time for Britain to confront its "uncomfortable" history as it relates to colonialism and racism, say Prince Harry and wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. "There is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past," said Harry alongside his wife Meghan, during an online discussion published Monday evening with young Black leaders from across the British Commonwealth, which includes countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The couple have spoken out on the issue of racism multiple times since the police killing of Black man George Floyd in May, which sparked global protests and soul-searching on issues of race. The online meeting brought together young people from the Bahamas, U.K. and Australia in a conversation on fairness, justice and equal rig...
‘It Will Consume Your Life’: 4 Families Take On Rare Diseases – The New York Times
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‘It Will Consume Your Life’: 4 Families Take On Rare Diseases – The New York Times

“I knew we had to get the kids treatment,” she said. Dr. Harald Jueppner, a pediatric nephrologist at Massachusetts General, was the researcher who first identified the mutation that caused the condition. Dr. Nizar learned that he had been studying the mutated gene, called a PTH/PTHrP receptor, for 20 years out of scientific interest. But he had never seen a patient. She told him he could now see three — herself and her two sons. She also learned that Dr. Jueppner and a colleague, Thomas Gardella, had found in lab experiments that certain peptides, or short chains of amino acids, looked promising as possible treatments for Jansen’s. At that point Dr. Nizar latched onto the researchers, urging them to study the peptides for Jansen’s. They tried one of them in animal experiments. It partial...
Bubonic plague outbreak prompts crack down on marmot hunting – CNN
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Bubonic plague outbreak prompts crack down on marmot hunting – CNN

Two cases of the plague were recorded in the Khovd province in western Mongolia, reported Russian state media agency TASS on Tuesday. Marmots are large ground squirrels, a type of rodent, that have historically been linked to plague outbreaks in the region. Officials from the Republican Ministry of Agriculture and Food told citizens in the border area not to hunt marmots or eat marmot meat, and take preventive measures against insect bites. Rodents are the main vector of plague transmission from animals to humans, but the disease can also be passed on through flea bites. Plague killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe during the Black Death pandemic in the Middle Ages, but modern antibiotics can prevent complications and death if administered quickly enough. Bubonic plague, whi...
Tones And I, Julia Jacklin, Flume & More Score Nominations for 2020 AIR Awards – Billboard
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Tones And I, Julia Jacklin, Flume & More Score Nominations for 2020 AIR Awards – Billboard

With three nominations, Tones And I has a fine chance of taking home silverware at the 2020 AIR Awards, to be held Oct. 1 in Adelaide. Tones’ global hit “Dance Monkey” is up for independent song of the year, her debut EP The Kids are Coming is in the running for independent pop album or EP and she’s nominated for breakthrough independent artist of the year. The former busker is coming off the type of year most artists can only dream of. “Dance Monkey” led the ARIA Singles Chart for a whopping 24-weeks, easily an all-time record. And in the U.K., the song led the national singles tally for 11 weeks, the longest streak ever by a solo female artist. The track has now raced past seven billion streams across all platforms. In May of this year, Tones snagged two APRA Music Awards...
Tones And I, Julia Jacklin, Flume & More Score Nominations for 2020 AIR Awards – Billboard
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Tones And I, Julia Jacklin, Flume & More Score Nominations for 2020 AIR Awards – Billboard

With three nominations, Tones And I has a fine chance of taking home silverware at the 2020 AIR Awards, to be held Oct. 1 in Adelaide. Tones’ global hit “Dance Monkey” is up for independent song of the year, her debut EP The Kids are Coming is in the running for independent pop album or EP and she’s nominated for breakthrough independent artist of the year. The former busker is coming off the type of year most artists can only dream of. “Dance Monkey” led the ARIA Singles Chart for a whopping 24-weeks, easily an all-time record. And in the U.K., the song led the national singles tally for 11 weeks, the longest streak ever by a solo female artist. The track has now raced past seven billion streams across all platforms. In May of this year, Tones snagged two APRA Music Awards...
Think Before You Eat
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Think Before You Eat

Verve People Text by Sadaf Shaikh Many might argue that the West is generally superior in terms of food sustainability, having successfully developed plant-based alternatives to offset centuries of damage from their over-dependence on the meat and dairy industries. Megha Kohli who, until very recently, was the executive chef at Lavaash by Saby in Delhi — the sole Armenian dining establishment in the country — contends that India is only second to Bangladesh on the list of countries that consume the least amount of meat; many Indians save it for special occasions and even give it up on certain days of the week for religious purposes — which significantly...