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March 21, 2023
Lucy Liu Took Nude Photos of Drew Barrymore On Charlies Angels
Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore‘s friendship is picture perfect.
In fact, the two bonded so closely during the filming of Charlie’s Angels that the Kill Bill actress forever captured her co-star’s beauty in a series of nude portraits.
The only problem? Drew can’t seem to find the photos more than two decades after they shot the movie.
As she told Lucy in a March 21 episode of the Drew Barrymore Show, “I was trying to find the nude photographs you took of me on the set of Charlie’s in my dressing room.” Adding that she did a “mad scramble” to look for them, Lucy then revealed that she’s had the snapshots all along.
“You do?” Drew asked her, with Lucy replying, “I do, of course.”
Lucy then told Drew that she looks “gorgeous, as you still do” in the photographs, and that the images captured a bright part of her personality.
McConnell calls senators as he continues to recover from fall
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called fellow senators on Tuesday, telling fellow Republicans he was eager to return to Capitol Hill after falling and being treated for a concussion earlier this month.
Senate Minority Whip John Thune, RS.D., said he spoke to McConnell on the phone for about five minutes on Tuesday, saying he “sounded good, sounded like Mitch this morning. … He can’t wait to get back.
McConnell was released from hospital on March 13 after falling during a private event the previous week and sustaining a concussion as well as a minor rib fracture. He has been in inpatient rehabilitation since then, according to his office, which said he was undergoing physical therapy to regain strength after the hospital stay, which usually takes a week or two.
McConnell is “doing great, everything is on track,” longtime political adviser Josh Holmes told NBC News on Tuesday, saying he “spent a few hours with him today.”
“I believe he spoke with a few colleagues on the phone before I arrived,” Holmes said.
Thune said he and McConnell “just checked and touched gloves” during their call on Tuesday. “He wanted to express his appreciation for the way we worked with his staff,” Thune told reporters, saying they “talked a bit about what happened on the pitch.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who previously served in the leadership role with McConnell, said he also spoke with the Kentucky Republican on the phone earlier Tuesday. “I spoke to him today. He is better and looking forward to coming back,” Cornyn said.
The fact that McConnell spoke to colleagues on the phone appears to be a sign of progress from last week, when Republicans said they only interacted with the GOP leader via text.
“I spoke to him on text, he said he was getting better and stronger, that was about it,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, RW.Va. said Tuesday. “He said he was getting stronger and better and he would be back soon, that’s what he told me.”
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This is the age at which your ability to walk and talk begins to decline: study
If you can walk, but cannot walk and talk, you may be suffering from declining brain health.
A new study has found that the ability to juggle dual tasks begins to decline nearly a decade earlier than previously thought, with researchers saying this struggle could be a warning sign of dementia.
Scientists from Harvard Medical School and Hebrew SeniorLife found that this function declines at age 55 and should be ‘monitored regularly from middle age’ – instead of starting at 65 – to prevent falls and injuries .
“We evaluated a large number of individuals between the ages of 40 and 64 and observed that the ability to walk under normal, calm conditions remained relatively stable in this age range,” lead researcher Junhong Zhou said in a statement. communicated.
“However, even in this relatively healthy cohort, when we asked participants to walk and perform a mental arithmetic task at the same time, we were able to observe subtle but significant changes in gait from the middle of sixth grade onwards. decade of life.”
The study suggests that not being able to walk and talk at the same time may be a warning sign of deteriorating brain health.Getty Images/iStockphotoResearchers observed 640 Spaniards trying to multitask between May 2018 and July 2020. The study was published online last week in The Lancet Healthy Longevity.
“Dual task performance, in the areas of neurology and aging, is an important marker of brain health,” Zhou explained.
“This age-related decline in dual-task walking may indicate, at a much earlier age, when interventions should begin.”
Researchers have attributed the decline in cognition and memory to the shrinking of the frontal lobe and hippocampus and the slowing of the production of chemical messengers in the brain as people age.
Zhou noted that there were some bright spots in the results.
“We observed a portion of participants over the age of 60 who completed the dual task test as well as participants aged 50 or even younger. This means that dual-task walking performance doesn’t necessarily decline as we age, and some people seem more resilient to the effects of aging,” Zhou said.
He added: “We hope our study will spur future research to uncover lifestyle and other modifiable factors that support maintenance of dual-task performance into old age, as well as interventions that target these. factors.”
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House GOP launches investigation into FDA’s handling of infant formula shortage
House Republicans are investigating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) failure to address the national infant formula shortage last year.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Health Care and Financial Services Subcommittee Chair Lisa McClain (R-MI) are calling on the FDA to provide documents and communications between the FDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and White House staff related to the committee’s formula shortage response before April 4.
The Republicans in their letter explain:
The Reagan-Udall Foundation report titled “Operational Evaluation of the FDA Human Foods Program,” found that there was “little incentive and no requirement” to “facilitate critical thinking and proactive decision-making” during the infant formula shortage. Despite this report and the recognized need for a major overhaul, you said there would be no reassignments or layoffs due to the administration’s response to the baby formula shortage.
Formula shortages began in the summer of 2021 when global supply chains were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the administration worked to contain the problem, families across the country wondered how they were going to feed infants in their families and communities. NOW, instead of removing or reassigning the people responsible for the poor response to this crisis, the announced restructuring of the food and nutrition division simply requires some offices and staff to report to the newly created post of Deputy Food Commissioner. The Committee is concerned that the restructuring of the FDA is a superficial attempt, rather than a genuine effort, to bring accountability and bring about meaningful change. [Emphasis added.]
Infant formula shortages began during the first half of the coronavirus pandemic and grew further in the summer of 2021 when global supply chains were further disrupted by the pandemic.
Then, in February 2022, Abbott Laboratories closed the company’s largest infant formula plant, which produces about a fifth of US formula, for safety reasons, in addition to recalling various infant formulas from the plant. . This inevitably triggered empty shelves, higher prices and retailers limiting sales of scarce products. In May 2022, a study found that 43% of infant formula was still out of stock nationally.
As the the wall street journal explained, during the shortage, the Biden administration, through an effort called Operation Fly Formula, used its contracts with commercial air cargo lines to bring formula to the United States from other countries. The agency has also licensed various foreign infant formula manufacturers to sell products in the United States.
The press release accompanying the letter also acknowledged that at the time, former President Donald Trump’s HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, had been repeatedly warned of the shortage, but that the FDA had delayed making necessary measures to deal with the crisis. crisis.
The committee also planned a hearing next week on the matter, according to the The Wall Street Journal, including the testimony of Frank Yianas. This former FDA official was implicated in the recall of the formula.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss .
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March 20, 2023
India blocks internet in Punjab as security forces pursue separatists
Authorities restricted communications across India’s Punjab state for a third day on Monday as the manhunt continued for a Sikh separatist leader, whose rapid rise in the public eye has sparked fears of violence in a state with vivid memories of a bloody separatist insurgency.
The statewide search for Amritpal Singh, 30 – who leads a group called Waris Punjab De, meaning ‘the heirs of Punjab’ – comes a month after the self-proclaimed preacher and hundreds of his followers took storming a police station with swords and guns, demanding the release of one of his collaborators. Six police officers were injured in the clash.
For many in India, the images of armed supporters of Mr Singh chasing police in the city of Amritsar brought to mind the 1980s in Punjab, India’s only Sikh-majority state, when thousands were killed in a an insurgency by Sikh separatists raged on. for years.
Internet service has been blocked and phone communications restricted in Punjab since Saturday when the manhunt began. Local police officials said the government had deployed thousands of paramilitary troops to Punjab, many of whom were patrolling the streets and setting up checkpoints.
Satinder Singh, a senior Amritsar police official, said the separatist leader was wanted in connection with the storming of the police station.
Sukhchain Singh Gill, the Inspector General of Punjab Police, said 114 people had been arrested so far. “Amritpal is still at large,” he said.
In a protest in London on Sunday over the crackdown in Punjab and the decision to arrest Mr Singh, Sikh separatists climbed onto the balcony of the Indian High Commission, lowered the Indian national flag and attempted to hoist the flag of Khalistan, as the movement calls its so-called homeland. India has summoned a senior British diplomat to New Delhi to protest what it called the security breach at the London embassy.
Promoting the cause of Khalistan has been banned in India, but it remains a rallying cry for some Sikhs in Punjab and the Sikh diaspora, especially in Canada and the UK. In recent years, India has repeatedly expressed its displeasure with some Western countries over the ease with which supporters of the movement have been able to gather and fundraise in their capitals.
Mr Singh, who for years drove a truck and ran a small car rental business in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, was unknown until last year when he emerged in Punjab and started running marches joined by thousands of people. He called for protecting the rights of Sikhs and the culture of Punjab against what he called the overreach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. He extended his appeal by combining appeals to religious faith with commentary on social issues, such as Punjab’s endemic drug problems.
Mr Singh encouraged his followers to associate him with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the Sikh separatist leader who was killed along with many of his followers in 1984 when the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar. In September, Mr Singh was honored at a religious ceremony in Mr Bhindranwale’s home village.
In recent months, as well as calling for an independent Sikh state, Mr Singh has implicitly threatened India’s powerful home minister, Amit Shah. He suggested that Mr Shah would suffer the same fate as Indira Gandhi, the prime minister who was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984 after ordering the raid on the Golden Temple, one of the most important Sikh sites. more sacred. His death was followed by widespread violence against Sikhs in New Delhi.
Waris Punjab De, the organization Mr Singh now leads, was founded by Deep Sidhu, an actor who died in a traffic accident last year. It was part of a successful campaign to mobilize farmers in Punjab, mostly Sikhs, against an attempt by Mr Modi to overhaul Indian agriculture, which farmers say would make them even more vulnerable to companies at a when many were struggling with debt. .
The year-long protest movement, which forced Mr Modi’s government to withdraw its legislation, turned violent after culminating in a massive show of force on India’s Republic Day in the heart of New Delhi in 2021.
On Monday, thousands of farmers, many from Punjab, again descended on New Delhi, protesting what they called the government’s ‘broken promises’ since Mr Modi withdrew the bills and promised to study their request that minimum prices be guaranteed for their crops. They threatened to lead a larger protest movement than the previous one.
At a time when the Indian government has been quick to arrest activists and government critics, questions have been raised as to why Mr Modi’s central government and Punjab heads of state allowed M Singh to travel the state for months and openly mobilize for a separatist cause.
Saurabh Bharadwaj, spokesman for Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi party, said politics played no role in why action was not taken immediately against Mr Singh after his takeover from the police station.
“This is a professional government operation,” he said. “We will deal with those kinds of law and order issues.”
Mujib Mashal And Karan Deep Sing contributed report.
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Tucker Carlson laughed out of the room with a new eyebrow-raising Trump defense
Tucker Carlson has jumped to Donald Trump’s defense as a possible indictment of the former president looms over silent money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Apparently, in the Fox News star’s world, that was a perfectly normal thing to do.
“Rules like this, whatever you think, are common, both among famous people, celebrities and corporate America,” he said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday, arguing that a non-disclosure agreement is not a big deal.
“In this case, you can believe any side you want to believe, but paying people not to talk about things – shh money – is common in modern America.”
According to Carlson, there was no wrongdoing — and the whole thing comes down to the media and Trump’s critics who believe “everything he does is a crime.”
It’s no surprise that Carlson considers such behavior commonplace. Fox News has a long history of settlement payments to clear up misconduct allegations against the network. Carlson’s time slot, for example, became available in 2017 after former host Bill O’Reilly made deals totaling around $13 million with five women who accused him of sexual harassment.
In a post on his social media site over the weekend, Trump said he expected to be arrested on Tuesday as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into the payment of $130,000 to Daniels in the final days before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels was reportedly close to going public with an affair she claims she had with Trump a decade earlier.
Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer and fixer who made the payment, served jail time for campaign finance violations over the incident. Trump admitted to reimbursing Cohen.
Trump’s legal team argued that the payments were not reportable campaign expenses because Trump would have paid them regardless of the campaign. Even if that argument were to hold, there are other legal issues at play involving the potential falsification of business records when Trump reimbursed Cohen for the payments.
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Carlson’s defense raised a few eyebrows on social media:
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S. Korea to restore Japan’s trade status to improve ties
Seoul, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday his government would act to restore Japan’s preferential trade status as it strives to resolve historical and trade disputes with Japan despite domestic opposition.
In lengthy televised comments at a cabinet meeting, Yoon defended his decisions, saying leaving ties with Japan so strained would be neglecting his duty, as greater bilateral cooperation is vital to solving the various challenges facing him. Seoul faces.
“I thought it would be like neglecting my duty as president if I had also incited hostile nationalism and anti-Japanese feelings to use them for domestic politics while leaving behind the current serious international political situation,” Yoon said. .
He said the need for stronger ties with Japan has increased due to the advancement of North Korea’s nuclear program, heightened US-China strategic rivalry and supply chain challenges. global supply.
South Korea and Japan have deep economic and cultural ties and are both key allies of the United States, which together host about 80,000 American troops. But their relationship has often fluctuated mainly due to issues stemming from Japan’s colonial rule from 1910 to 1945 on the Korean peninsula.
At the center of the recent standoff were 2018 South Korean court rulings that ordered two Japanese companies to compensate some of their former Korean employees for forced labor during Japanese colonial rule on the Korean peninsula. Japan refused to accept the rulings, saying all compensation issues had already been settled when the two countries normalized relations in 1965.
Historical disputes have spilled over to other issues, with the two countries degrading each other. Japan has also tightened controls on exports to South Korea, while Seoul has threatened to end a military intelligence-sharing pact.
After months of negotiations with Japan, Yoon’s government announced earlier this month that it would use local funds to compensate forced labor victims involved in the 2018 lawsuits without requiring contributions from Japanese companies.
Yoon traveled to Tokyo last week for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, where they agreed to resume regular visits and economic security talks.
Ahead of the summit, the South Korean government said Japan had agreed to lift export controls on South Korea and that South Korea would also withdraw its complaint to the World Trade Organization once the restrictions lifted. They said the two countries would also continue talks on restoring their reciprocal trade status.
Yoon’s push sparked protests from some of the forced labor victims, their supporters, and opposition political parties who demanded direct compensation from Japanese companies and a direct apology from Tokyo for the forced labor. A public survey suggested that around 60% of Koreans opposed Yoon’s moves to address the forced labor issue.
In his remarks to the Cabinet, Yoon said he would direct his trade minister to begin taking the necessary legal steps to re-include Japan in a “white list” of countries with preferential trade status.
He said South Korea and Japan should remove the obstacles that stand in the way of improving bilateral relations. “If South Korea preemptively removes the obstacles, Japan will surely reciprocate,” he said.
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Shaquille O’Neal Shares Reason Behind Hospitalization
Shaquille O’Neal is on the mend with a few jokes up his sleeve.
The NBA star turned heads on March 19 when he posted a photo of himself lying in a hospital bed to Twitter. After causing a stir of confusion and concern amongst fans, Shaq took to Instagram to comically let his followers know the reason for his hospitalization: a hip replacement.
“To all the people who are concerned. First let me start off by saying thank you,” Shaq began his March 20 IG post. “And lastly i am fine. Just had to get some BBL work done aka #hipreplacement. but yes i am fine no need to worry.”
Shaquille played up on his Brazilian butt lift joke by adding a moving picture of himself with his shorts pulled up to show his backside. In the photo, Shaq’s behind is edited to pop in and out, appearing to get larger and smaller.
Fox News seeks to silence one of its own over $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit
Enlarge this image Fox News is suing Abby Grossberg, who was a senior producer for Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and booked guests for her show, Sunday Morning Futures, in the fall of 2020. Richard Drew/AP
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Fox News sought a restraining order against one of its own senior producers on Monday to prevent her from publicly disclosing information linked to the $1.6 billion defamation claim it is fighting over falsehoods it broadcast after the 2020 presidential election.
Abby Grossberg, the senior producer in charge of booking guests for star Tucker Carlson, told Fox last month she intended to sue the network for discrimination and retaliation, according to Fox’s lawsuit.
Fox alleges it was compelled to sue her to prevent the disclosure of its legal stratagems.
“Ms. Grossberg has threatened to disclose FOX News Media’s attorney-client privileged information and we have filed a temporary restraining order to protect our rights,” the network said in a statement.
A judge has not yet ruled on Fox’s request.
In a statement to The Daily Beast’s Confider, Grossberg’s attorney wrote: “Having just received and read Fox News’ frivolous attempt to silence Abby Grossberg, we are happy that the full story regarding her case will now be heard by three separate courts in each of which we are confident she will receive the justice she deserves and certainly the fair treatment which she hasn’t experienced thus far from her employer Fox News.”
Her law firm had shared with the network a draft version of her civil complaint, which cited “pages of allegations purportedly summarizing and quoting communications that Defendant had with Fox News’ attorneys,” Fox’s legal briefs allege.
Fox says those statements are confidential for “Unrelated” litigation filed in March 2021. That’s when election-tech company Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News for broadcasting baseless claims that the company helped rig the presidential election for Joe Biden. A trial in that case is scheduled for next month.
Producer is a key witness to how baseless claims made it on Fox’s airIn November 2020, Grossberg was booking guests for the weekend show of another Fox star, Maria Bartiromo. According to evidence made public in Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox, at one point, Bartiromo shared a memo forwarded to her by attorney Sidney Powell, who pushed then-President Donald Trump’s false election-fraud claims.
The memo Powell delivered detailed allegations of fraud without providing evidence. It was written by a woman named Marlene Bourne, who admitted her claims were “pretty wackadoodle.”
Yet Bartiromo, who amplified and even embraced Trump’s conspiracy theories after the election, hosted Powell on her show several times. In those appearances, Powell asserted that the election had not been on the up and up, and promised to reveal evidence in due course. She never followed through.
On Sept. 14, 2022, Grossberg told Dominion’s attorneys under oath that such a memo should not have been used as the basis of any such segments.
“This isn’t something that I would use right now as reportable for air, no, it’s not,” said Grossberg in her deposition.
In its lawsuit against Grossberg, Fox’s legal team said it informed her attorney that information included in her draft complaint against the network was privileged earlier this month. But on Monday, Fox said, Grossberg’s law firm shared drafts of lawsuits that would incorporate that material.
Fox is demanding that the court permanently block Grossberg from sharing that information.
Mary Yang contributed to this report.
Succession’s Sarah Snook Is Pregnant, Expecting First Baby
“At the beginning of the pandemic last year, I got locked down in Melbourne with one of my best mates and we fell in love,” she told Vogue Australia in October 2021. “We’ve been friends since 2014, lived together, traveled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic. We’ve just never been single at the same time. I proposed and we got married in my backyard.”
Sarah acknowledged that being in lockdown helped the pair’s romance grow.
“It’s been a ride,” she confessed to the magazine. “There’s so much heartache and sadness in the world, but on a micro personal level, I’ve been very fortunate. There’s a really lovely grace in that without the pandemic, we might not have ended up together so quickly.”
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