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InStyleOn July 17, 2014, Ramsey Orta took out his mobile phone and filmed a police officer in New York killing his friend, Eric Garner. But as soon as he stopped recording, Orta says his own life also took a dramatic turn for the worst. Viewed millions of times, Orta's clip shows Daniel Pantaleo, a white officer, gripping his arms around Garner's neck in a chokehold. Garner, a black American, was 43 years old at the time, and an asthmatic. "I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe," Garner said, as he was being pinned to the ground and asphyxiated. They were his last words. Garner, a father of six, was selling
Al JazeeraThis past week, a clique of rowdy, dress-donning boys caught our attention at Paris Fashion Week as they huddled outside Rochas. Turns out, the chic riffraff was the arm-candy of none other than French musician Soko, who managed to stand out even in a crew of offbeat matronly-attired bros. The singer wore a shimmering fern green Rochas dress and threw a bubblegum pink Zana Bayne harness into the mix-coolly cutting the sweet of the whole look. Refreshing? Yes! And it was far from the Left Bank stereotype that is so often associated with Parisian style. And yet, what is it about Parisian style that lends itself so well to music, or vice versa? Emmanuelle Seigner and Carla Bruni, both known for
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I've been big as long as I can remember. Even though I played soccer as a kid, danced in audition-only children's shows, and ran a nine-minute mile in PE, I was always big. My parents - San Francisco yuppie types - fed me a steady diet of farmers market vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins ...
xoJaneThomas Gallagher, the man at the controls of the NJ Transit train that plowed into a station Thursday, is a married father and veteran engineer who has worked in the rail industry for almost three decades, officials said. Authorities said Gallagher, 48, is cooperating with investigators after Thursday’s rush-hour crash in which the commuter train, traveling at high speed, slammed through barriers and into an interior wall at Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others. Gallagher, who with his wife and teenage daughters lives in suburban Morris County, New Jersey, has been employed by NJ Transit for 29 years, according to a spokeswoman for the National Transportation Board Safety.
Good Morning AmericaHacked audio of Democrat Hillary Clinton speaking with donors about her then-primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, in February shows the nominee describing Sanders' supporters as uninformed and idealistic "children of the Great Recession" who are "living in their parents' basement." In this election, Clinton says, there "is a strain of, on the one hand, the kind of populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory kind of approach that we hear too much of from the Republican candidates," while, "on the other side, there's just a deep desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare, that what we've done hasn't gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as far as, you
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A man who was found alive days after he and his mother disappeared when their boat sank during a recent fishing trip has denied having anything to do with it. Officials say the woman is likely dead and have launched an investigation into the incident, according to multiple reports. "I know I wasn't responsible for the boat sinking.
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The #Knicks eat with the cadets & listen to a memorable speech @WestPoint_USMA. “It’s hard for me a little bit - I have a lot of respect for the kids here fighting - but it’s hard for me to understand why we go to war and why kids have to kill kids all around the world,’’ Noah said. Noah received permission from Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek to skip the team function.
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It's unthinkable, and it's definitely unspeakable, but women all over the world are coming forward to say it: I regret having my children.
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