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    Kira Brekke

    Kira Brekke

    Editor, HuffPost Video

  • The Playlist You Need To Get You Through Sub-Zero Temperatures

    It's cold, we get it. For many of us, winter is an excuse to do nothing but hide under the covers with a book and some wine, so we wanted to provide you with some sounds to accompany the silence of falling snow. If you dug our fall playlist, warm your ears with us again as you dive into reassuring music necessary to make it to the much-anticipated spring awakening.

  • Pour Yourself A Glass Of Whiskey And Listen To This

    Kim seemed to be starting to show off a baby bump as she walked in a small white dress." data-fileName="5bb1d0a72000003000ffc293" data-credit="PacificCoastNews" data-creditUrl="" data-caption="Pregnant Kim Kardashian and boyfriend Kanye West went for a romantic stroll in Paris, France on Jan. 11. Kim seemed to be starting to show off a baby bump as she walked in a small white dress."

  • Women In Construction Offer Advice For Dealing With Sexism From Male Colleagues

    In a career as male-dominated as construction, where women make up less than 3 percent of the workforce, the best way to handle sexism is often to fight back. In a conversation with HuffPost Live about a new film currently in production titled "Hard Hatted Woman," Melendez joked that she often has to tell men to "go f**k themselves" -- the point being to not back down in the face of sexism. "The construction site is raw... You have to adjust to everything out there and you have to accept the fact that you're going to get dirty," Melendez said.

  • Female Construction Worker: 'We're Judged From The Minute We Get Out There'

    "When it comes to me lifting things, I sometimes have to push [men] out the way and go and do it," Melendez said. Lorien Barlow, the director of the film, also appeared on HuffPost Live and said women make up less than 3 percent of the building trades.

  • A Look At Aromantic, Queerplatonic And Other Orientations You Might Not Have Heard Of

    It started as LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and later grew into LGBTQIA (adding in queer, intersex and asexual). HuffPost Live's Nancy Redd found out on Monday when she spoke with several panelists who use them to describe their own sexuality. One of them was Victoria Allen, a queerplatonic woman, who shed some light on the nature of her unconventional relationship.

  • 15 Must-Listen Songs For Fall

    Oh, autumn, how we love you so. The leaves are doing that thing they do with the reds and oranges, warm chai and pumpkin lattes are the only appropriate beverages to order and cozy sweaters wrap around us like the "arms of a woman" (shout out to Amos Lee). Accordingly, we thought it was necessary to give you a playlist that accompanies the beauties this season promises.

  • What Not To Say To A Parent Who Has Lost A Child

    Losing a child is unspeakably painful, so finding the right words to say to those grieving can be difficult. Two parents who have both lost a child spoke with HuffPost Live's Nancy Redd about their experiences and gave advice about what not to say to mourning parents. "Don't say things like, 'I know how you feel,' or 'this will get better,' or 'this too will pass,'" said Abi Crouch, founder of A Heart to Hold.

  • Al Jazeera Journalist Speaks Out About 'Psychological Torture' In Egypt

    After spending nearly 10 months detained in an Egyptian prison without charge, Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy was released in June. Elshamy was arrested last August after police forcibly cleared a protest in support of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi. The Al Jazeera journalist told host Alyona Minkovski that on his fourth and final prison transfer to Cairo's notoriously brutal Tora "Scorpion" prison, he was placed in solitary confinement for over a month.

  • India Welcomes Its First Transgender News Anchor

    India's first transgender news anchor is already a star. Lotus News, a news station based out of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, first featured Padmini Prakash on the air less than a month ago and she has already been promoted to anchor the 7 p.m. nightly broadcast. "We are supportive of Padmini because she is very hard-working," Lotus News Channel chairman GKS Selvakumar told the Times Of India.

  • R.L. Stine Doesn't Understand The Craze Around Dystopian Novels

    Few books are as beloved among young readers as dystopian novels like The Giver, The Hunger Games and Divergent. R.L Stine, the author behind Goosebumps, spoke with HuffPost Live's Josh Zepps about his upcoming TV series, "The Haunting Hour," and touched on the ever-growing genre of flawed-society books that continues to take the world by storm. While he said dystopian novels are "wonderful for publishing," the children's horror author doesn't share the same adoration.

  • 9 Things You Didn't Know About Slash

    If you thought you knew everything about legendary rock star and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, think again. In a conversation with HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill about his most recent album, "World On Fire," Slash revealed some surprising tidbits about himself. 1. Cher sort of helped him quit smoking.

  • Against Me! Singer Digs Deep About Coming Out As Transgender

    Laura Jane Grace, the lead vocalist for the punk-rock band Against Me!, came out as transgender in 2012. Since then, she has been open and honest about her transition, including in a conversation with HuffPost Live on Monday. Alongside this lack of trans exposure in her early years, Grace's own coming out was further postponed as the band's popularity took off.

  • How Tig Notaro Brought Louis C.K. To Tears

    Comedian Tig Notaro is 17 years into her career, but her most legendary performance went down two years ago in Los Angeles, and it even brought Louis C.K. to tears. Notaro experienced a slew of tragic events in a matter of four months: a break-up, the passing of her mother and a diagnosis of stage 2 invasive cancer. In the audience, listening to her set alongside C.K., were comedians Ed Helms and Bill Burr.

  • Comedian Tig Notaro Gets Deep About The Love Of Her Life

    While comedian Tig Notaro is known for making her four months of hell -- which included a cancer diagnosis, the passing of her mother and a break-up -- into humor that brought Louis C.K. to tears, she isn't all jokes. The Grammy-nominated stand-up comedian spoke with HuffPost Live's Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani on Monday about her Boyish Girl Interrupted Tour.

  • Iranian Women's Magazine Accused Of Promoting Un-Islamic Views

    One of Iran's top women's magazines is facing charges for the second time. Iran's Press Court is putting Shahla Sherkat, the editor of Zanan magazine, on trail next week for promoting un-islamic and "obsolete" views. In 2008, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shut down the publication after 16 years, claiming it showed women in a "black light" and was "a threat to the psychological security of the society," according to the New York Times.

  • Afghan Officials Delivered Expulsion Order To NYT Reporter With AK47s

    New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg has just been given 24 hours to leave Afghanistan after the paper published an article Monday that discloses the country may impose an interim government. Rosenberg joined HuffPost Live for an exclusive interview about why he was asked to leave and how he received the expulsion order, which happened just 10 minutes before host Alyona Minkovski interviewed him. "They came to our door, the police with AK47s and three civilian officials who all decided they would film the event of my colleague ... who went outside taking possession of the expulsion order," Rosenberg said.

  • I Divorced My Husband, Then Married My Best Female Friend

    These Longtime Best Friends Divorced Their Husbands Then Married One Another

  • Phone Hacking Reporter: 'I Have No Respect For Piers Morgan'

    Nick Davies, author of Hack Attack, an inside look at the News of The World phone-hacking scandal, joined HuffPost Live on Monday to discuss his new book and Rupert Murdoch's media empire. The conversation turned to the controversial former News of the World editor Piers Morgan, who Davies believes played a role in the deterioration of British journalism. "I have no respect for Piers Morgan," Davies told host Josh Zepps.

  • Adam Richman Defends His Support Of Walmart Beef

    It's what's for dinner on this TV host's table.

  • How Nixon Ruined The Relationship Between The White House And The Press

    The White House has become much more secretive and selective about what it communicates to the public over the years, and President Richard Nixon could be to blame. Prior to Nixon, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was known for facilitating a give-and-take relationship between the White House and the press. Huffington Post Editorial Director Howard Fineman explained to HuffPost Live's Josh Zepps that FDR frequently invited reporters to stand with him around his desk.