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Supporting small businesses is important. Supporting small, Black-owned businesses even more so. Amazon has created an entire hub to showcase Black-owned and operated businesses that use the platform for selling their products and supporting Black voices. We took a look through everything they had to offer and found some of our favorite coffee, skincare, and fashion items to showcase.

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As it turns out, sweatpants aren’t just for lazy days spent on the couch anymore. I mean, that’s one of their most beautiful functions, too, but there are other varieties—one’s to be worn in other seasons besides winter, and ones that will make you feel like you’re not wearing sweatpants at all. We’ve tried plenty of sweatpants, and written about some of our favorites. If you’re looking for a pair, look no further. We’ve rounded up our top sweat picks, all in one place. Читать дальше...

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“I feel like I’ve turned the curve a little bit,” mutters Taylor Momsen. “I’m not worried about seeing tomorrow.”

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Posting about their day is a regular practice for Generations Y and Z, especially when they have something novel or exclusive to share. So, in the thick of a global pandemic, and with the shaky rollout of COVID vaccines making them somewhat of a holy grail, it's no surprise selfies featuring the coveted shot are infecting social media timelines.

It might engender envy, even outrage, especially if the person posting seems to have cut the line. Читать дальше...

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It feels fitting that the patron saint of Dickinson Season 2 is a dancer whose performances and radical ideas astounded and scandalized people across the world.

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Our 1958 Toyota Land Cruiser, a car that borders on modern in Cuba, rolled to a stop on the outskirts of the famed Guantanamo Bay naval base. Cuban military men in fatigues approached the rear door where our group, consisting of myself, my filming partners Seth, Marco and Tyler, and two Cuban surfers named Frank and Yaya, were packed in like sardines with our legs all jammed in a formation we dubbed “the zipper.” While the guardsmen probed around our vehicle, intently eyeing the stack of surfboards strapped precariously to our roof... Читать дальше...

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Whether he intends to or not, Joe Biden might well become a transformational president on issues of foreign policy and national security. Since taking office, Biden has prioritized the challenge of meeting four major largely domestic crises—COVID, the economy, racial divisions, and climate change. But the world seldom waits for a convenient moment to insert itself into the agenda, and for that and a host of other reasons, Biden already seems likely to have an international legacy of real consequence. Читать дальше...

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After foreign terrorists hijacked jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Congress created a commission to find out who and what was behind the unprecedented assault on American power, and why our government failed to protect us from this catastrophic failure of national security.

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ROME— Almost as soon as the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia, Greece, and Cyprus announced that no one who has not been vaccinated for COVID-19 will be able to visit this summer, fake vaccine certificates started popping up for sale on the black market for around €100 a piece. And now that Europe’s vaccination program is in full swing and the standardized state-mandated health cards one gets after receiving the COVID jabs are readily available to creative forgers to copy,... Читать дальше...

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This is the latest in our series on underrated destinations, It's Still a Big World.

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Republicans, it’s 11 pm: Do you know where your party is?

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In 2018, William, a thoughtful, handsome guy in his late 20s with an eye for design and architecture, took a train up from his home in Baltimore to New York to meet a man he’d been chatting with online for a few months. They had dinner, checked into a hotel near Times Square with a nice view of the Hudson River, and got all showered up and clean. Then, the man placed a restrictive band around William’s genitals and injected them with lidocaine. Читать дальше...

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On early Friday afternoon, it was shaping up to be an average day for Kim Kardashian West. She had uploaded videos to her Instagram Story showing off the newest designs from her SKIMS shapewear line and posted photos of herself lounging in her living room, with a thin gold band still on her ring finger.

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SEATTLE—Kamaria Weston woke up Wednesday morning at about 10 a.m. to a phone call from her cousin, who said she heard that a baby had been found dead in the city in which her son was staying.

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As states throughout the country continue to struggle with the fallout of a deadly polar vortex, senior Biden health officials are concerned that the days-long emergency will also lead to a spike in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the weeks to come.

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Sixth-grader Cristian Pavon Pineda had a blast seeing snow for the first time on Sunday at his home in Conroe, Texas. But that joy took a tragic turn Monday afternoon, when the 11-year-old died in his family’s mobile home after the power went out overnight amid a once-in-a-generation storm and dangerously low temperatures.

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As Ted Cruz was fleeing Houston on Wednesday, the rapper and water company entrepreneur A.J. McQueen was out on the city’s frozen streets, delivering free bottles of his purified best to a desperate city.