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Now, Fonsi is making his debut as a lead actor in the film “Say a Little Prayer,” which opens at AMC and other theaters nationwide Friday. The movie, which features a nearly all-Latino cast, follows the romantic adventures of three best friends in San Antonio. “And to be able to do that in a film is great.”A poster for “Say a Little Prayer,” opening Friday. Luis Fonsi performs the theme song from “Say a Little Prayer” in San Antonio. The cast and crew of “Say a Little Prayer” in San Antonio in October.

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If the "Queen of Tejano" music Selena Quintanilla Perez — simply known as Selena — were alive today, the Grammy Award-winning superstar would be 53 years old. The National Medal of Arts is the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the federal government. While teaching undergraduates recently, she was “amazed” at her young students’ fond memories and connections with Selena and her music. They just don’t get the opportunities for representation — this award really speaks to her enduring meaning and significance for our communities," she said. This is a very consequential time for the arts and the humanities of America,” the president said.

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It was an incredible moment, and I felt like everybody had my back.”Now, in his latest series, Leguizamo is playing what he calls a “despicable, hateable character” — and he wants as many people as possible to see it. “The Network (platform) is free, all you have to do is subscribe,” Leguizamo said. “We’re doing a platform for diverse, quality stories, important stories.”“The Green Veil” is an eight-episode drama starring Leguizamo in his first lead role on a dramatic television series. Although Leguizamo describes “The Green Veil” as “historical fiction,” it draws on real-life events. Leguizamo was drawn to “The Green Veil” in part because it is a period piece, and Latinos are usually not included in such projects.

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☆ Miss USA vs. Miss America: How to tell the difference between the two biggest pageants
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewDo you know the difference between Miss USA and Miss America? From eligibility requirements and prize packages to swimsuit versus talent competitions, here are all the differences between Miss America and Miss USA. How did the Miss America and Miss USA pageants begin? Unlike Miss USA, Miss America features a talent competition. Both the Miss USA and Miss America pageants have had their share of scandals in recent years.

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☆ Sheila Jackson Lee, long-serving Democratic congresswoman and advocate for Black Americans, dies at 74
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Michelle Shen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Sheila Jackson Lee, a longtime Democratic congresswoman from Texas who was an outspoken advocate for Black Americans for decades, has died. Jackson Lee announced in June that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesDuring her congressional tenure, Jackson Lee was an outspoken advocate for progressive interests and Black Americans. “Congresswoman Jackson Lee was a patriot and a fighter to the very end. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her,” Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Steven Horsford and members of the Congressional Black Caucus said in a statement following her death.

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☆ How to turn your passion into a career, says 42-year-old who quit marketing to become a breakup coach
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Along the way, "I had this idea for the breakup bootcamp," she says, a place where people who'd recently gone through a breakup could find solace and comfort together. Despite writing out the vision for breakup bootcamp in 2015, "I was too scared" to make it happen immediately, she says. That's why, now, her best advice for turning your passion into a career is "whatever it is," she says, "just launch it." Finally, in February 2017, she launched the first breakup bootcamp. They laid out a potential career path as a breakup coach and, in August 2017, she finally left her job in marketing to launch into her relationship-oriented career full-time.

Persons: Amy Chan, Chan, I'm Organizations: Huffington, CNBC Locations: New York

☆ 42-year-old left her job in marketing to become a 'breakup coach'—her first book deal was worth 6 figures
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The 42-year-old Vancouver native started sharing her relationship experience at 25 when she wrote a Myspace post about a recent breakup. Chan now leads multiple relationship bootcamps per year, is working on her second relationship book and has various online brand deals. "And they basically say, like, 'look, no one owns the breakup space,'" Chan says. It took one final push for her to finally dive into the relationship space full time. Her mom emphatically said yes, and Chan left her job in August 2017.

Persons: Amy Chan, —, Chan, Amy Fabulous, …, Nick Jonas, Ali Wong Organizations: Vancouver, Simon Fraser University, Hours Vancouver, Heart Hackers, Post, Fortune, United Talent Agency, UTA Locations: Vancouver, Canada, San Diego, New York

☆ Vivek Ramaswamy is waging an expensive trolling campaign on BuzzFeed
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In a letter to BuzzFeed’s board, a copy of which Ramaswamy posted online, the MAGA hardliner and former Republican presidential candidate recommended laying off large swaths of the company’s existing staff. He encouraged BuzzFeed’s board to transform the outlet into a creator-driven platform, suggesting it hire personalities akin to fellow radicals Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. “Address your audience directly and candidly admit: We failed in our obligation to tell you the truth,” Ramaswamy encouraged BuzzFeed. But it was apparent that he does not view the right-wing entrepreneur’s ideas for the future of BuzzFeed as compelling. “I’m very skeptical it makes business sense to turn BuzzFeed into a creator platform for inflammatory political pundits.

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☆ Where are conjoined twins and former reality TV stars Abby and Brittany Hensel now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel rose to prominence after a 1996 appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." AdvertisementAbby and Brittany Hensel, Minnesota-born conjoined twins who share a single body with separate heads and necks, first rose to fame as children in the 1990s. Abby and Brittany Hensel became famous after appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 1996The Hensel twins were five years old when they appeared as guests on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in April 1996. Related stories"Joined for Life: Abby & Brittany Turn 16," an update released in 2006, followed the twins as they worked on getting their driver's licenses and attended high school. A second video appeared to show several pictures of the pair and Bowling together, including at their wedding.

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☆ Why people hated Anne Hathaway, as the actor speaks out about "Hathahate" over a decade on
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAnne Hathaway has spoken out about losing movie roles over the "Hathahate" phenomenon that unfolded over a decade ago. In the wake of criticism, Franco threw Hathaway under the bus, and told the "Late Show with David Letterman" that year: "Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway." Anne Hathaway changed her mind three hours before the Oscars to wear this white Prada dress. Christopher Nolan and Anne Hathaway. Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in "Interstellar."

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☆ Kevin McCarthy says there's 'a real concern' about Biden's ability to lead and interact with foreign leaders: 'That would be on top of everything else'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewFormer House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a Tuesday interview said he had "a real concern" about President Joe Biden's ability to effectively interact with foreign leaders, shining another spotlight on the debate around the president's age ahead of the 2024 election. "So yes, there is a real concern here and I think that would be on top of everything else," he added. Vice President Kamala Harris leapt to the president's defense, blasting the special counsel's claims regarding Biden's memory as "inaccurate and inappropriate." But so far, GOP voters remain solidly behind Trump, as he's won every major statewide primary or caucus since January.

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☆ Kevin McCarthy says Biden's biggest problem is his age
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewFormer House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday during a CNBC interview he had "a real concern" about President Joe Biden's ability to effectively interact with foreign leaders, shining another spotlight on the debate around the president's age ahead of the 2024 election. His problem is age," McCarthy said during a discussion on CNBC's "Squawk Box." Vice President Kamala Harris leaped to the president's defense, blasting the special counsel's claims regarding Biden's memory as "inaccurate and inappropriate." AdvertisementBut so far, Republican voters remain solidly behind Trump, as he's won every major statewide primary or caucus since January.

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☆ The real 'Mob Wives' aren't offended that you want to dress like them
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But has anyone bothered to ask what real mob wives think? If you want to talk about the mob wife aesthetic, who better to do it than a Sicilian mob princess?" 'The perfect mob wife looks like she's going to a funeral'Renee Graziano has always loved the mob wife aesthetic. AdvertisementThe mob wives aren't offended that you want to dress like themThe "Mob Wives" stars hope the mob wife trend is here to stay. Nothing lasts forever, especially on TikTok, but the "mob wife" trend will never die for the real "Mob Wives."

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☆ Voters are 'angry' over Trump's criminal charges because they don't seem 'legitimate': 'It just looks so fake,' GOP senator says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

For GOP lawmakers like Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis, Trump's legal issues only anger the public. "It just looks so fake, so contrived that people are disgusted with it," Lummis told HuffPost. AdvertisementSen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming recently told The Huffington Post that to many members of the public, Trump's legal issues seem "fake." "His legal challenges are making the public so angry because the lawsuits look punitive rather than legitimate," she told the outlet. AdvertisementHowever, for Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, a prominent Trump critic, the former president's continued hold over the party remains difficult to comprehend.

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☆ Mother Nature cancels Trump as winter storms sabotage his rallies in Iowa
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Due to severe weather, Trump is scrapping 3 out of 4 Iowa rallies and moving to virtual events. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementWinter blizzards are blocking former President Donald Trump's campaign trail in the final stretch to the Iowa caucus, ABC News reports. Due to challenging weather conditions, Trump canceled three out of four in-person commit-to-caucus rallies in Iowa. Despite the severe weather, Trump is still committed to one in-person appearance— a rally in Indianola, Iowa, on Saturday night.

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☆ Amazon broke federal labor law by calling Staten Island union organizers 'thugs,' interrogating workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, left, speaks next to Christian Smalls, founder of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), during an ALU rally in the Staten Island borough of New York, U.S., on Sunday, April 24, 2022. Amazon and consultants for the company violated federal labor law by interrogating and threatening employees regarding their union activities, and racially disparaging organizers who were seeking to unionize a Staten Island warehouse, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled. In April 2022, employees voted to join the Amazon Labor Union, a grassroots group of current and former workers, becoming the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. The judge in New York heard testimony from Amazon employees, managers and labor consultants in virtual hearings that went on for almost a year. Amazon continues to challenge the JFK8 election results, as well as the NLRB and the union's conduct during the drive.

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☆ Shane Shifflett — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Shane Shifflett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Shane ShifflettShane Shifflett is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering topics at the intersection of finance and climate change. His stories have explored how regulators, small businesses, tech companies and debt collectors influence the economy. He joined the Journal in 2016 as a graphics reporter building interactive data visualizations. Before joining the Journal, he worked for the Huffington Post on a range of topics from the business of college athletics to the World Bank's policies protecting indigenous people. He began his career in California covering judicial conflicts of interest, local elections and transit for the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Bay Citizen.

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☆ Fact Check-Sleeping intern in office prank image mistaken for dead man
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image of co-workers surrounding their sleeping colleague, who is slumped in his chair with his eyes closed and mouth open, is being falsely claimed online to show a deceased man. The image, here, is being shared with a caption that suggests the sleeping man suffered a cardiac arrest and died, and his unwitting colleagues had gathered for a prank photo. And it just went downhill from there.”Paraschivescu also told Reuters via Facebook Messenger in January 2022 that he is the man in the picture and is very much alive. Gsoft posted the same photo on Facebook in February 2016 (here), joking in French in the caption: “And yes, it happened at GSOFT. The man was sleeping, not dead.

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☆ Richard Hanania’s Racism Is Backed by Silicon Valley Billionaires - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And it served its intended purpose: to naturalize inequality of status and resources in an era defined by its yawning gaps between haves and have-nots. I mention all of this as context for Richard Hanania, a rising star among conservative writers and intellectuals. For years before appearing in the pages of newspapers and publications like this one, Hanania wrote articles for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym. “The reason I’m the target of a cancellation effort is because left-wing journalists dislike anyone acknowledging statistical differences between races,” he recently wrote. But his supposedly transgressive views are little more than the warmed-over dogmas of the long-dead ideologues who believed in the scientific truth of race hierarchy.

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☆ A 16-year-old boy died while working in a Mississippi poultry plant. An unscrupulous hiring agency may be to blame, a workplace expert says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tomas Duvan Perez, 16, died after becoming trapped in equipment while working at a Mississippi poultry plant. Perez is the third minor in the last month to die in a US workplace, the Huffington Post reported. Now, six years later, he is dead because of a workplace accident at a poultry plant that should've never hired him. Perez, 16, died on July 14 at the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, NBC News reported. A spokesperson for the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi claims an outside hiring agency misled the company by misrepresenting the boy's age, the Huffington Post reported.

Persons: Tomas Duvan Perez, Perez, Duvan Tomas Perez, should've, Jac, Jordan Barab, Barab, They're, Joe Colee, Michael Schuls, Will Hampton Organizations: Huffington, Service, NBC News, Occupational Safety, Health Administration, OSHA, PBS Locations: Mississippi, Wall, Silicon, Guatemala, United States, Hattiesburg , Mississippi, Wisconsin, Missouri, Wisconsin , Ohio, Iowa

☆ Fact Check-Image shows 101-year-old woman with her great-granddaughter, not her baby
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

A photograph of an elderly woman on a bed holding her great-granddaughter in her arms has been falsely shared online as an image showing a 101-year-old with her 17th baby. A Facebook post that reads, “101-year-old woman suddenly welcomed her 17th child” appears to have been taken seriously (here). The Huffington Post reported on March 31, 2015, that the photograph showed a 101-year-old grandmother, Rosa Camfield, holding her two-week old great-granddaughter, Kaylee Rowland. Image does not show a 101-year-old woman with her 17th child, it is her great-granddaughter. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: ”, Rosa Camfield, Kaylee Rowland, Camfield’s, Sarah Hamm, Camfield, Hamm, Read Organizations: Huffington, ABC News, Reuters

☆ Greg Abbott has cut required water breaks for Texas construction workers and labor advocates say it could kill them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Texas is currently first in the nation for heat-related workplace deaths, the Texas Tribune reports. Greg Abbott signed a bill Tuesday that eliminated ordinances across the state requiring water breaks for construction workers — all while a record-setting heatwave sweeps across the state. Meanwhile, Bishop James Dixon — President of the NAACP Houston — condemned the bill, according to local news outlet KHOU 11. Ana Gonzalez, deputy director of policy and politics at the Texas AFL-CIO, a federation of labor unions, told the Texas Tribune the bill may prove fatal for construction workers. Texas has the highest rate of heat-related workplace deaths, the Texas Tribune reports.

Persons: Greg Abbott, —, Bishop James Dixon —, NAACP Houston —, Ana Gonzalez, Gonzalez Organizations: Texas AFL, Texas Tribune, Service, Gov, Huffington, NAACP Houston, Washington Post, Teamsters, United Parcel Service, CNN Locations: Texas, Austin, Dallas

☆ Kyrsten Sinema, eyeing GOP voters, knocks 'both political parties' when asked about election deniers in Arizona
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 2024, Sinema would likely need support from conservative voters who doubt the 2020 election. "Well, we're currently living in a climate where it's okay to say things that aren't true," Sinema said. "What I think we're facing in our country today is this situation where people don't know what's true and what's not true," said Sinema. Sinema again blamed "the two political parties" for becoming "more extreme." Lake says she's "seriously considering" a Senate campaign, and Sheriff Mark Lamb, already running in the GOP primary, has also cast doubt on the validity of the 2020 election.

☆ 'Focused on the job': France's Le Maire defends writing of steamy novel
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Dominique Vidalon | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

PARIS, May 3 (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he was fully focused on creating growth and fighting inflation after coming under fire for penning a steamy novel that was published hours before France's credit rating was downgraded by an agency. "I am 100% focused on the job," Le Maire told Franceinfo radio. It is a graphic account of Oskar having sex with a character named Julia that has exposed Le Maire to mocking and criticism. The French edition of the Huffington Post headlined a story "Bruno Le Maire has written about an anus and no one was ready for this." "These are 10 lines out of a 480 pages book," Le Maire shot back when pushed on his writings during the Franceinfo interview.

☆ Opinion | We’re Watching the End of a Digital Media Age. It All Started With Jezebel.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Ben Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ten years ago, a group of digital media companies thought the future belonged to us. On television, still America’s dominant medium, social media also helped boost a new kind of confrontational, hyperpolitical style, but that seems to be fading, too. Media commentators from CNN to The Financial Times are using the same phrase for this moment: “The end of an era.”But when did this era in media begin? But to understand the period we all lived through, we need to give it a beginning and an end. And when I went back to find the origins of this media moment while researching a book on our recent history, the earliest, brightest sparks I saw came from a particular place.

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