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Meri Brown recently revealed that she was catfished by a man who pretended to be a woman during a difficult time in her life. Meri Brown told PEOPLE in an exclusive statement that the man with whom she was forming a on online relationship was actually a woman. “During an emotional and vulnerable time earlier this year, I began speaking ... Read More »

Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman has died of an apparent suicide at the age of 65, Le Monde reports. Chantal Akerman began making movies at age 17 with her first short, 1968’s Saute Ma Ville. Among her oeuvre are such films as Je, Tu, Il, Elle in which she starred with Niels Arestrup; Les Rendez-Vous D’Anna and The Captive. Her most ... Read More »

Billy Joe Royal, a 1960s pop and 1990s country star, has died. He was 73. Royal was born on April 3, 1943, in Valdosta, Ga., and raised in Marietta, Ga. He became a local star in Savannah, Ga., in the ’50s and ’60s, then released his debut album, Down in the Boondocks, on Columbia Records in 1965; the album’s title ... Read More »

A Chinese glass walkway suspended 3,500 feet above ground cracked as tourists screamed and pushed while scrambling to safety. “I heard a bang from under…Everybody is screaming. I cried, ‘It’s really cracked! It’s really cracked!’ And pushed the people in front of me to get away,” a tourist told Chinese media. The same tourist posted a photo of the shattered ... Read More »

A Canadian study suggests that patients who undergo weight loss surgery may be more likely to attempt suicide after the weight-loss surgery. The study, published today in the journal JAMA Surgery, examined the records of close to 9,000 patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery, most of whom were women over the age of 35. A total of 111 patients had 158 ... Read More »

Starbucks Coffee Co. will bring its Mobile Order & Pay to 300 stores in the Toronto area on Oct. 13, the coffee brewing firm announced on Tuesday. Following successful launches in company-owned stores across the U.S., mobile ordering is emerging as the fastest and easiest way for Starbucks customers to order ahead, then pay and pick up their purchases – ... Read More »

Getting a flu shot may protect you not only from flu, but also from pneumonia, the leading cause of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths, a new study suggests. Scientists took data from the Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community, or EPIC, a study conducted at academic medical centers in Chicago, Memphis, Nashville and Salt Lake City in collaboration with the Centers ... Read More »

Chloe Goins, a model who has accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault at the Playboy Mansion in 2008, filed a civil lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court on Tuesday. In the lawsuit, Goins said Cosby brought her a drink. She said she felt sick and dizzy after drinking the cocktail. Read More »

Man Fired for Making Racist Jokes About His Coworker’s 3-Year-Old Son “Cayden”. The Root reports that last month, Polaris Marketing Group employee Gerod Roth, who goes by Geris Hilton online, uploaded a photo with Cayden, his Black co-worker’s 3-year-old son. Soon after he uploaded the photo to social media, it was flooded with racist comments from his friends. Read More »

A Kentucky man is in critical condition after being attacked by a large python at a reptile shop. Kentucky police tell local news outlets that owner Terry Wilkens was feeding the snake Monday morning when the 125-pound (56.7-kilogram) python attacked. Read More »

8-year-old girl shot and killed by 11-year-old boy over argument about puppy. WATE reports the boy has been charged with first-degree murder. The unidentified boy was talking to three girls who were outside his mobile home on Saturday evening and asked one of them if he could see her two new puppies, but the girl refused, according to Jefferson County ... Read More »