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+19 +1Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson Marries Longtime Girlfriend Lauren Hashian in Hawaii: 'We Do'
Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is a married man! On Monday morning, the actor, 47, revealed on Instagram that he tied the knot with longtime girlfriend and singer/music producer Lauren Hashian in an intimate ceremony in Hawaii. Johnson opted for a white shirt and white pants as he was all smiles in the first shot beside his bride, 34, who wore a long white lace dress with a low-cut neckline and long train.
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+3 +1Phil Hymes Dies: Longtime ‘Saturday Night Live’ Lighting Director Was 96
Hymes, who began his career at NBC in 1951, worked on more than 500 episodes of the iconic late-night program until his most recent episode in January 2018. He was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards over the course of his career, winning twice 53 years apart, the first for Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Magnificent Yankee in 1965, and just this past September for the Kevin Hart-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live.
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+7 +1119 Years Old and Winning Marathons—Or Not?
Dharam Pal Singh, a champion marathon runner from rural India, is 119 years old. At least that’s the age he claims to be. He refers to his passport, voter ID card, and tax-identification card—all government-issued identity documents—to prove his date of birth, which all of the documents list as 1897. But he lacks a birth certificate, likely due to the fact that they were not regularly issued in remote villages in India at the time of Singh’s birth.
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+3 +1A Tale of Two Jeffreys: How the Virgin Islands Welcomed a Rich Sex Offender—and Punished a Poor One
From the Virgin Islands comes a tale of two Jeffreys, and the difference great wealth can make when it comes to sex crimes—until it doesn't. Both Jeffreys were convicted of shameful crimes that required them to register as sex offenders in whatever state or jurisdiction they resided.
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+11 +1My gay son: 'The family said we should send him to Syria for conversion therapy'
Sam Khalaf and his son Riyadh used to call themselves the two musketeers. When Riyadh was growing up in Bray, south of Dublin, they were inseparable. Like twins or best friends, they say. So the Iraqi-born, Irish citizen remembers keenly the moment when he realised his eldest child had drifted from him.
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+11 +1Cheryl Strayed Was $85,000 in Debt When Her Memoir Wild Got Published
Dollar figures can be misleading. That was the disheartening lesson learned by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild, in 2003 with her debut novel, Torch. Despite receiving a sizable-seeming advance for the book, she remained deeply in debt for years — even as Wild, her subsequent memoir, landed on the best-seller list, Strayed and her husband, documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, struggled to pay the rent.
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+8 +1Alex Trebek on Cancer Battle: "My Oncologist Tells Me I'm Doing Well"
The 'Jeopardy' host talked about his health struggles and the support he's received from fans in his first live interview since revealing his diagnosis. In his first live interview since revealing he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, Jeopardy host Alex Trebek updated viewers on his health and shared his appreciation for the support he's received from fans.
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+15 +1Linda Garcia Kept Pollution Out of Her Neighborhood—And Just Won the 'Green Nobel'
Stories are what kept Linda Garcia, 51, going as she fought what would have been North America’s largest oil-by-rail terminal from coming to her neighborhood of Fruit Valley in Vancouver, Washington. Garcia traveled sometimes directly from chemotherapy sessions to community meetings, where she never missed the chance to testify against the Tesoro Savage project. All the while, she’d remember the families with young children who told her they didn’t want to be pushed out, or the couple well into their 90s who had been living in Fruit Valley since they got married at 19. “How can I not fight for that?” she asked.
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+4 +1Rabbi found guilty of money laundering won’t go to prison thanks to a ‘selfless life,’ judge says
A New Jersey rabbi found guilty of laundering $200,000 from a private school for children with developmental disabilities was sentenced Monday afternoon to two years probation. Osher Eisemann, 62, founded the Lakewood-based School for Children with Hidden Intelligence during the 1990s, inspired by his own son’s special needs. He was found guilty in February of second degree charges of money laundering and misconduct by a corporate official at the close of a four-week trial.
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+16 +1Willie Nelson Said Weed ‘Saved My Life,’ Kept Him From Killing People
The Red Headed Stranger recently told ‘Rolling Stone’ that weed saved his life by helping him kick a booze habit. Willie Nelson is no stranger to weed, and in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, it may have kept him out of an early grave, too. The interview covered several aspects of Nelson’s life, including his celebrity-branded weed company and his ongoing musical pursuits. But the most shocking highlight came when he discussed how cannabis rescued him from his previous life as an alcoholic.
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+9 +1A retired San Francisco chef builds community through his cooking
In his small kitchen, Emam Saber, 77, picks up a raw New York Strip steak with a fork and gently lays it in a pan of steaming hot oil. The meat sizzles loudly, the first of 30 steaks he will be cooking that afternoon for a charity event.“I always cook for charity. I don’t charge anything,” said Saber, a former chef who worked at iconic hotels and a French restaurant in San Francisco.
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+28 +1Teen didn't have a date for prom so her grandfather got dressed up and stepped in
If this story is anything, it’s a reminder to spend time with your family, especially your grandparents. Soak up every second, because these are the Magical Moments that make life worth living. When a California teen didn’t have a date for prom, her grandfather stepped in. Kaylah Bell, 17, of Lancaster, said she didn’t land a date in time for the big dance, so she asked her grandfather, Alvin Bell, to take pictures with her. She didn’t expect him to show up in a matching suit.
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+6 +1Famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma uses music and bridges to unite cultures
Beneath a morning sun that hovered over the international bridge, the most famous cellist in the world placed his bow upon four delicate strings, and began to play. “It’s full and majestic,” said Karen Valdez, 15, surrounded by several hundred other onlookers. “And you feel such peace.”
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+8 +1101-year-old St. Louis woman becomes naturalized U.S. citizen
Francesca Taullo, 101, became a naturalized U.S. citizen during a ceremony at the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse on Friday, April 12, 2019. Taullo emigrated from Italy to the United States by boat with her husband Joe Taullo in 1965. The family ran Giancarlo's Ristorante on Hampton Avenue in St. Louis from 1987 until they retired from the restaurant business in 2014.
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+21 +1In T.C. Boyle’s Trippy New Novel, Characters Turn On, Tune In and Drop Lots of Acid
As a kid growing up in southwestern Virginia, I lived down the street from a cloistered visionary named Greg, an older boy who read books and spoke in zealous declarations. One day of summer vacation when I was 9, Greg declared that we would build a monorail. This was an era of global oil shocks and nuclear meltdowns, and Greg was of the fervent belief that the monorail might save us all. It’s true that monorails at this point did not figure prominently into the rural imagination, and certainly not mine. But I knew there was one at Disney World and so I was, for a time, all in.
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+24 +1Apple's 3rd Co-Founder Ron Wayne Reveals How He Threw Away Billions In His New Autobiography
You don’t hear all that much about Apple’s third founder, Ronald Wayne, and for good reason: he sold his stake in Apple just twelve days after the company was founded. It’d be worth $35 billion today. You might wonder what is going on in the head of a guy who made a blunder like that. Well, Wayne would like to tell you in his new autobiography, and… surprise… he doesn’t think he made a mistake at all!
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+4 +1A 7-Eleven owner caught a teen thief. Instead of calling 911, he asked him why
On Saturday night at a 7-Eleven in Toledo, Ohio, store owner Jay Singh spotted someone who made him suspicious. "You can see he's turning here, putting stuff in his pocket," he said. Singh told an employee to call 911, and then he confronted the customer. "He said, 'Oh, I'll put it back.' I said 'No, put everything on the counter. I want to see all the things that you have,'" Singh said.
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+4 +1She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it
On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
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+26 +1Dave Grohl recalls how it felt listening to Nirvana before he joined the band
Dave Grohl has reflected on hearing Nirvana for the first time, remembering listening to their music well before he even joined the group. It’s a little hard to imagine, but there was in fact a time in which Nirvana didn’t feature the now-legendary Dave Grohl as their drummer. Their longest-tenured drummer, Grohl was the final entrant in a string of five percussionists that Nirvana boasted between 1987 and 1990.
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+3 +1On The 25th Anniversary Of Kurt Cobain's Death, His Legacy Remains In A League Of Its Own
Nirvana were my first true musical obsession. The self-titled greatest hits collection released when I was 12, and at that age, primed for teenage angst in a wave of hormonal shifts, their music spoke to me on a level that I had never experienced before. As with many kids my age, it wasn’t long before my bedroom walls were plastered with printed images of Kurt and the lads.
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