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Danielle Brooks is sharing her fabulosity with the world through a new clothing collection. The “Orange is the New Black” star announced on Instagram Tuesday that she’s designing clothes for a new collection for plus-size clothing brand Universal Standard. She shared a photo of herself effortlessly…

Late Monday night, the Twitter account belonging to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) liked a tweet from the account @SexuallPosts containing a pornographic video. An aide for the senator said the like was the result of a “ staffing issue .” Yet somehow the video still offers a rich guide to the senator’s…

Edith “Edie” Windsor, the LGBTQ activist and lead plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court marriage equality case, died Tuesday at age 88, The New York Times reports . Windsor came to national prominence after she sued the federal government for not recognizing her marriage to her late first wife. Her…

NEW YORK ― By 6:30 a.m., Perry Gregory and Maddie Ireland were out of their homes and in a line. The two 19-year-olds joined a diverse crowd of women and men, starting at the entrance of Barnes & Noble in Union Square and filing down the block and around the next block. All of these people were…

ST. LOUIS ― While President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission met publicly for the second time on Tuesday, a coalition of voting rights groups gathered outside the Missouri History Museum here to denounce the panel and warn that Trump’s commission will likely lead to more voting restrictions.…

Many factors go into making people happy, including how much money they make, who they spend time with and where they live. And certain states are more conducive to happiness than others, according to WalletHub . The personal finance website recently evaluated three categories ― emotional and…

It was supposed to be a fun gathering. On Sunday, 27-year-old Meredith Hight invited a group of friends over to her house in Plano, Texas, to watch football and grill. A few months earlier, she had filed for divorce from her husband, and she was looking forward to new beginnings. “She was a cook,…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to unveil a new version of his “Medicare-for-all” proposal on Wednesday. But the actual substance of the plan may matter less than what he says about it ― and the role he envisions that proposal playing in future debates over how to reform the U.S. health care…

Donald Trump ’s presidential campaign was largely characterized by his misogyny and inappropriate behavior toward women . In her recently released book about covering Trump’s campaign, NBC journalist Katy Tur wrote about an experience in which she was victim to that behavior. In one chapter of…

Christian Bale , known for his ability to transform for his movie roles , has done it again. The actor attended the premiere of his film “Hostiles” at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday night, sporting a drastically different look including bleached eyebrows. The makeover is for…

Pizza Hut has come under fire after a manager at one of its franchises in Florida threatened to punish employees who wanted to evacuate as Hurricane Irma approached. A photo of a memo from the manager at a Jacksonville location began circulating on Twitter on Sunday. The notice tells workers that…

MIAMI ― As Hurricane Irma rapidly approached Florida’s southern coast, Ron Book, the chairman of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, and the Miami-Dade Police Department made an unprecedented decision: They chose to detain homeless people ― some against their will ― to protect them from the storm.…

On Monday night, the official Twitter account of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) liked a tweet that featured an adult video. Hilarity and lots of jokes ensued . Cruz’s senior communications adviser, Catherine Frazier, initially tried to explain away the like by suggesting that someone may have hacked into…

The actress who starred in the porn video liked by Ted Cruz ’ Twitter account has harsh words for the Texas Senator. “I didn’t like that he watched it for free,” Cory Chase told HuffPost. “He pirated that video. He should have paid Reality Kings for a subscription.” Cruz denied that he was…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ― Millions of people are facing a long, difficult road to recovery after Irma’s week-long deadly rampage through the Caribbean and southeastern United States. The storm killed at least 18 people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and another 43 in the Caribbean. It had…

If you’ve been feeling shortchanged by your McDonald’s fry order, there might be a reason. A couple of anonymous McDonald’s employees claimed they were taught to under-fill fries by their employer. Their confessions were in response to an askReddit thread prompting folks to answer, “What did your…

ST. LOUIS ― Last month, just over three years after a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson, authorities started erecting barriers around the Carnahan Courthouse and police headquarters in downtown St. Louis. The city was bracing for a verdict in the…

(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) The Supreme Court agreed with the Trump administration Tuesday and put on hold a lower court decision that would have allowed more refugees to enter the country. The court issued a one-paragraph statement granting the administration’s request for a stay of the…

Eight people killed in Sunday's shooting in Plano, Texas, have been named Meredith Lane, 27, was hosting an NFL viewing party when her estranged husband stormed in and opened fire Spencer Hight shot nine guests before he was killed by a police officer Seven victims died on scene, one died in…

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton writes in her new book that when approached by then-Congressman Ryan Zinke at President Donald Trump ’s inauguration luncheon , she quickly assured the soon-to-be interior secretary he needn’t worry about her being supremely evil. During a campaign stop in January 2014,…

Music legend Stevie Wonder wants people who don’t believe in climate change to open their eyes. “Anyone who believes there’s no such thing as global warming must be blind or unintelligent,” he said on Tuesday evening at the “ Hand in Hand ” telethon for hurricane relief. Wonder, of course, has been…

In its first official response to new United Nations sanctions, North Korea said it will accelerate its plans to acquire a nuclear weapon that can strike the U.S. homeland. The UN resolution verified that its push for nuclear weapons “was absolutely right” and strengthened its will to “follow this…

The death toll from Hurricane Irma has climbed to 22 in the United States following its path of destruction across the Caribbean and through the Southeast U.S. over the weekend, while power has now been restored to over 2 million customers in Florida. And Monroe County announced Tuesday night that…

Hillary Clinton had a very straightforward response when she was asked recently about Ivanka Trump ’s role in her father’s administration . The president’s eldest daughter “should be judged and held accountable” just like everyone else who is closely associated with him, said the former Democratic…

A U.S. Senate candidate and former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice has repeatedly appeared on the radio show of a fiercely homophobic pastor who believes being gay is “worthy of death,” according to a new CNN report . Roy Moore, the front-runner in Alabama’s upcoming Senate contest , has…

These latest hurricanes really hit home for me, because I started my last tour in Houston and ended in three cities in Florida – the last being Miami. But the question is – what is causing so many violent storms? Fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas create heat–trapping emissions in the…

WASHINGTON ― House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says there’s no need to make a fuss about President Donald Trump siding with Democrats in backing a three-month spending deal. But she’s blunt about one thing: Republican leaders just got rolled. “Yeah they did,” Pelosi told HuffPost in a…

Corporate executives took the unusual step of disavowing the sitting U.S. commander-in-chief last month after President Donald Trump failed to unambiguously condemn the white supremacist rally that sparked deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. The White House disbanded two…

Despite the caginess surrounding the movie’s development, Darren Aronofsky and Jennifer Lawrence are ready to tell you what “ mother! ” is about. Specifically, they’re not hesitating to outline the story’s defining parable, which can’t be gleaned from the trailers. “I don’t see the allegory as a…

Just about everyone in comedy cracked some jokes on Tuesday about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after his Twitter account showed a “like” for a hardcore porn video . But Jimmy Kimmel may have come up with one of the dirtiest jokes of them all. Cruz blamed a “ staffing issue ,” saying an employee with…

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(CNN) Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation Tuesday, hours after new sexual abuse allegations surfaced against the embattled politician. The mayor's announcement comes after his cousin gave an interview with the Seattle Times alleging abuse, the latest in a series of allegations against…

After a Los Angeles-based photographer accused “60 Minutes” of purposely altering the color to make former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon “look like a bleary-eyed drunk ” in an interview, journalism experts were quick to throw shade on the colorful conspiracy theory. In a new YouTube…

WASHINGTON — Climate change denials amid catastrophic hurricanes are a reminder that humans are not a particularly smart species, Pope Francis said Sunday while flying over areas in the Caribbean decimated by Hurricane Irma. “ Man is stupid ,” he said, referencing a passage in the Old Testament,…

Fans of President Donald Trump called for a boycott of the new film “It” because of author Stephen King ’s relentless criticism of the president. It didn’t work. The highly anticipated movie smashed box office records and is expected to earn a whopping $117 million during its opening weekend. The…

Hillary Clinton said she won’t run for public office again, but the former Democratic presidential nominee isn’t giving up on trying to make her mark on American politics. “As an active politician it’s over. I am done with being a candidate,” Clinton said in an interview with CBS before Tuesday’s…

A newborn Trump-Dem fellowship? It’s complicated. President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D), two New Yorkers with a long and checkered history, joined forces this week on a high-stakes fiscal bargain that shoved aside the wishes of Trump’s Republican allies. The two party…

After multiple reports of high pricing on water, some 7-Eleven locations in Florida will be offering free water to residents as they prepare for Hurricane Irma. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi told ABC Action News in Tampa that her office received 39 complaints about prices on cases of water at…