| Ever since Stormy Daniels said she was writing a tell-all book, there has been feverish anticipation about what dirt she’d reveal about Donald Trump—but it’s safe to say no one predicted this. According to a copy obtained by The Guardian, the book gives excruciating detail of her alleged affair with Trump, including one nightmarish image in which she compares the president’s penis to Toad—the incredibly annoying mushroom character from Mario. “He knows he has an unusual penis,” Daniels writes in a book fittingly titled Full Disclosure. “It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool… I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart... It may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had, but clearly, he didn’t share that opinion.” So, now you know. View this cheat in a browser to see this embedded media. |
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| Christine Blasey Ford reportedly told a friend in 2017 about her alleged assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, The San Jose Mercury News reports. Rebecca White, a neighbor and good friend of Ford’s, told the newspaper that Ford came to her with the story late last year after she disclosed her own #MeToo story on Facebook. “She reached out to me afterward, supporting me and my story and that she had something happen to her when she was really young and that the guy was a federal judge,” White said. “She said she had been assaulted. She said hers had been violent as well, physically scary, fighting for her life.” While Ford did not name Kavanaugh, White said Ford told her she would hear him being described as “a super powerful guy and he might be a contender for a Supreme Court position one day.” White also described her friend as “liberal” who attended the Women’s March and the March for Science, which she fears might make things more difficult for her at the Judiciary Committee’s public hearing on Monday. “I worry about that and I wonder if she does, too,” White said. “Obviously, if she was the girl who hadn’t had any track record of political perspective, that would definitely be better.” |
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| A man has been charged with murder hours after Spanish golfing champion Celia Barquín Arozamena was found dead on an Iowa course. Barquín, 22, won the European Ladies’ Amateur championship in July. Golfers at the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames discovered an unattended golf bag on the course Monday—police later found Barquín’s body nearby. Collin Daniel Richards, also 22, has been charged with her murder. Barquín was due to finish her degree in civil engineering at Iowa State University this semester. “We are all devastated,” said the university’s Women’s Golf Coach Christie Martens. “Celia was a beautiful person who was loved by all her teammates and friends.” In a statement, Iowa State called Barquín “one of the most accomplished players in Cyclone golf history.” |
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| It's “highly probable” that a Pussy Riot activist who fell ill after a court hearing last week was poisoned, according to German doctors. Pyotr Verzilov—one of four members of the anti-Kremlin protest group who invaded the pitch at the World Cup final in Moscow this summer—was taken to a Moscow hospital in a serious condition last Tuesday and was flown to Berlin on Saturday night. He lost his vision and was unable to walk. “It is highly probable that he was poisoned,” a doctor at Charité hospital in Berlin said Tuesday, adding that there was no other explanation so far as to why Verzilov would have the symptoms. They haven't determined what substance was used to poison him. Verzilov, who has dual Russian and Canadian citizenship, had been in intensive care since arriving in Berlin but doctors say his condition is not life-threatening. |
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| We are celebrating our love of reading with PBS’s The Great American Read, a new television series, competition, and nationwide campaign hosted by Meredith Vieira that explores the power of books through the lens of America’s 100 best-loved novels. Do you think that you’ve read more of America’s favorite novels than us? What about your friends? Brag about how many you have read with our Book Bragging Tool. Find out your number and share it on social with #GreatReadPBS. Join the nationwide vote to choose America’s best-loved book and don’t miss this eight-part television series, The Great American Read, Tuesdays at 8/7C on PBS. It all leads up to the thrilling conclusion on Tuesday, October 23rd when the winner will be announced! View this cheat in a browser to see this video. |
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| Shrapnel found at the sites of attacks in Yemen that have maimed and killed civilians has revealed some of the bombs were U.S.-made. An independent Yemen-based human-rights group called Mwatana provided photographic evidence to CNN that shows fragments of bombs made in the U.S. at the scene of a string of incidents that endangered civilians. The group photographed bomb fragments and consulted weapons experts to identify their origins based on the serial numbers on the shrapnel. Mwatana’s chairwoman, Radhya al-Mutawakel, told CNN that the U.S. has a “legal and moral responsibility for selling weapons to the Saudi-led coalition” that are worsening the civil war in Yemen. “Yemeni civilians are dying every day because of this war and you [America] are fueling this war.” |
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| China will reluctantly retaliate against the imposition of $200 billion of new trade tariffs imposed on it by the Trump administration, the Commerce Ministry in Beijing has declared in a statement. The ministry gave no details about what countermeasures it would take, but said the U.S. was to blame for destabilizing relations between the two countries and bringing uncertainty to global trade. “We deeply regret this,” according to the statement, in response to the Trump tariffs announced Monday. “In order to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests and the global free-trade order, China will have to counter the system. The U.S. insists on increasing tariffs, which brings new uncertainty to the consultations between the two sides. It is hoped that the U.S. will recognize the possible negative consequences of such actions and take convincing means to correct them in a timely manner.” |
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| Roseanne Barr has revealed how her character will be written off The Conners, the ABC spinoff that will feature all the members of the Conner TV family but the Trump-supporting matriarch she played. In an interview with conservative activist Brandon Straka, the founder of the largely pro-Trump #WalkAway movement, Barr said the writers have her character “die of an opioid overdose.” The comedienne, who was axed from Roseanne for posting racist comments about a former Obama White House aide, told Straka she believes the move is meant to send a message to Trump supporters. “It wasn’t enough to just do what they did to me. They had to so cruelly insult the people who love that family and that show. They had to cruelly insult them.” “It’s over,” she said. “There’s no fight left. I did what I had to do to save my own life.” |
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| A former state senator in Oklahoma has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on child sex-trafficking charges. Ralph Shortey, 36, was a two-term Republican lawmaker but stood down from his role shortly after he was arrested on suspicion of hiring a teenage boy for sex in March last year. U.S. District Judge Timothy DeGiusti also ordered Shortey to serve 10 years of supervised probation once he’s released from prison and said he will hand out a fine of as much as $250,000 to him at a later date. Shortey pleaded guilty in November in exchange for prosecutors dropping three child-pornography charges against him. Shortey previously used fake names to send and receive child pornography and went on Craigslist to seek casual encounters with males, the “younger the better.” |
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| Glenn Weiss, director of this past year’s Academy Awards, won the Emmy Award for directing a variety special Monday night. And he used his acceptance speech to propose to his girlfriend from the stage. “You wonder why I don’t like to call you my girlfriend?” he asked her. “Because I want to call you my wife.” When she arrived at the stage, Weiss got down on one knee and gave her the engagement ring that belonged to his mother, who recently passed away. “I want to put this ring that my mom wore on your finger in front of all these people and in front of my mom and your parents watching from above. Will you marry me?” he asked. She said yes. View this cheat in a browser to see this video. |
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