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A Twitter user’s list of Bible verses took an unexpected turn when it became a meme.

It all started when Twitter user @brianab1188 tweeted a list of Bible verses for troubling moods, from feeling lonely to needing direction. 

With over 243,000 likes and 121,000 comments, it’s clear that her list of verses resonated with thousands of people.  Read more…

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Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet didn’t just get the Roseanne revival canceled. It got old Roseanne yanked from the TV schedule, too. 

TheWrap reports that reruns of Roseanne will be removed from Viacom networks – Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT – starting Wednesday. There’s no word yet on what will replace the programming. 

UPDATE: Hulu has also decided to remove Roseanne from its programming, according to a spokesperson who talked to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is still available on Amazon Prime, at least for the time being. Read more…

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The Puerto Rican government has a list of 64 dead from Hurricane Maria, the tropical cyclone that hit the island in September 2017.  

This number, however, is “highly uncertain” notes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A new study published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine puts that number at an estimated 4,645 — 70 times higher than the official estimate. 

“Our results indicate that the official death count of 64 is a substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after Hurricane Maria,” write the authors, led by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Read more…

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Just hours after Roseanne‘s cancellation, Valerie Jarrett is weighing in.

After Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about Jarrett, a former aide of President Barack Obama, ABC moved quickly to cancel her show, noting that the tweet was “abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values” in its official statement. 

Now, in an MSNBC town hall titled “Everyday Racism in America,” Jarrett’s responded, calling the experience “a teaching moment.”

A clip from the town hall – which airs in full on Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. ET – shows Jarrett’s take on Barr’s racist tweet.   Read more…

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Online dating is basically the best thing that ever happened to introverts.

You can now scan for a potential mate without ever leaving the comfort zone that is your couch. Of course, eventually you’ll need to get up and actually go on a date. But until then, scroll away my friend. After all, there are millions of people all around the planet how are now realizing the strengths that introverts bring to the table.

You can even say we’re living through a worldwide Introvert Revolution. Just look at the success of self-proclaimed introvert Susan Cain’s wildly popular book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Her book has sold millions of copies worldwide, a TEDtalk she gave on the topic has been viewed over 19,294,447 times and counting, and she reportedly gets paid five-figures for a single appearance.  Read more…

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Residents and local press in Maryland posted frightening footage of destructive flash flooding on Sunday, following heavy rain across the state.

Particularly affected was Ellicott City, located about 14 miles west of Baltimore, which suffered intense flash flooding along its Main Street — the very same street that was turned into a raging river amidst a torrential flood in 2016, which killed at least two people.

The videos and images are quite devastating, especially for a community that endured this only two years ago. Read more…

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It’s surely a stunt out of a Hollywood film.

A man’s dramatic climb up the side of a building to rescue a child in Paris earned him widespread praise, plus a meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron.

22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented Malian migrant, took less than 40 seconds to scale four floors of an apartment block in the city’s 18th arrondissement on Saturday afternoon. 

Videos of the incident were widely shared on social media, showing Gassama being cheered on by a crowd of onlookers. Read more…

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In the days following Harvey Weinstein’s arrest, some within the entertainment industry have posted a statement released by Time’s Up — the organization created in the wake of the scandal. 

Others, like actress Annabella Sciorra, have taken things a step further. Sciorra was one of the women to come forward in Ronan Farrow’s follow up stories featured in The New Yorker. On Sunday, she shared that she felt the farthest thing from celebratory when she heard the initial news about his arrest. 

“The law finally caught up with Harvey Weinstein on Friday and charge him with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault,” she tweeted. “But nothing about that felt celebratory to me.”  Read more…

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On May 22, a SpaceX rocket launch left one poor, seemingly high-end camera horribly disfigured and forever ruined. Now, NASA has shared the specifics of what happened.

Bill Ingalls, the space and aeronautics agency’s photographer, is the one who was tasked that day with capturing the launch. But even his 30 years of experience couldn’t have stopped this from happening on that fateful day.

That’s the view from Ingalls dearly departed camera, which appears to be (as you can see in the photo up top) some model of high-end Canon DSLR. Read more…

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During Memorial Day Weekend, many people gathered in backyards to kick off cookout season across the country — but in Denver, some visited an unassuming backyard to witness an attempt to shatter the world record for tallest stack of waffles, which was previously at 51 cm. 

Journalist Elizabeth Hernandez was on the scene to cover the event for The Denver Post and thankfully, she live tweeted the action for all of us as it was going down on Saturday. 

“You know when you get a press release to cover a Guinness world record attempt for tallest stack of waffles & expect it to be some big commercial thing & then it’s just a guy’s house?,” Hernandez tweeted. “This is SO MUCH BETTER.” Read more…

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