Kylie Jenner Drops New Lip Kit Colors—How to Pick the Best Shade for Your Style

Kylie Jenner is taking over the world one (well, three) liquid lipsticks at a time.

This morning the beauty mogul launched three new (not neutral!) Lip Kit colors, and judging by the fact they sold out in under two hours, they did not disappoint. Posie K, Mary Jo K and Koko K join the "original faves" to complete the new Kylie Cosmetics' roster. (Take note: She's changed her Instagram handle and website URL from Lip Kit by Kylie to Kylie Cosmetics.)

So without further ado, it's time to start prepping your pout—just in time for V-day—by figuring out which color is for you…and in order to do that, you'll need to know what kind of Kylie you are.

a scale of one to Dolce K, how "Classic Kylie" are you feeling? Her signature style speaks to you, so play it safe with the nudest color in the game.

 

King Kylie knows how to tone down an edgy look with a cool, feminine lip. Is this more your style? Stick to a dark-colored outfit and put some Posie K on your lips. You'll be channeling your inner "Contrast Kylie" in no time!

 

This is the perfect nude/pink hybrid if you feel closer to "Downtime Kylie." You're off duty for the day, but you also don't want to disappoint. Koko K is here for you, girl.

 

"Edgy Kylie" loves to show skin. If you're like her, Mary Jo K will be your new favorite accessory. It'll have you feeling confident and powerful in no time.

 

Think you're more of a "Girls' Night Out Kylie"? Candy K will have you feeling extra glam. It's the perfect neutral to take you from a mellow dinner with friends to the club. 

 

When you head out for the night, making a splash is your main goal. "Statement Kylie" knows how to work a crowd (and a dark lip). True Brown K will never let your epic outfit down.

Kylie Lip Kit Liquid Lipsticks, $29

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How the Satanic Temple forced Phoenix lawmakers to ban public prayer

For weeks now, Phoenix lawmakers have wrestled with the idea of allowing members of a Satanic group to give the invocation before an upcoming city meeting. Phoenix City Council members arrived Wednesday at a controversial solution: Banning prayer altogether. 

From now on, lawmakers decided in a 5-4 vote, council meetings will no longer begin with a traditional prayer, but instead open with a moment of silence. Although the decision may block the Satanic Temple’s Feb. 17 invocation, it prompted outcries from some Phoenix residents and city officials who believe the prayer ban is a de facto victory for the Satanists. 

“This is what that Satanist group wants,” Councilman Sal DiCiccio told the Arizona Republic. “A moment of silence is basically a banning of prayer. It’s to agree to the Satanic goal to ban prayer.”

In a tweet, DiCiccio called it a “sad day for Phoenix.”

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and four members of the council voted in favor of the change and argued that an effort to silence particular groups could land the city in an expensive legal battle.

“The First Amendment to the Constitution is not ambiguous on this issue,” Stanton said, according to the Republic. “Discriminating against faiths would violate the oath that all of us on this dais took. I personally take that very, very seriously.”

Gregory Lipper, a senior attorney at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the mayor’s prediction is sound. Lipper, who has represented the Satanic Temple in previous legal battles, said that two years ago, the Supreme Court held in Town of Greece v. Galloway that a community’s practice of beginning legislative sessions with prayers does not violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

 

However, Lipper said, while local governments can open meetings with prayers, those governments cannot control the content of those prayers unless they denigrate other faiths or include proselytizing. Much of the resistance to the Satanic Temple, he said, comes from people who believe the group is made up of devil worshipers, and they tend to unleash fierce opposition that wouldn’t hold up in a court of law.

“This is an issue that will come up in homogeneous communities when a member of a minority religion takes advantage of the invocation and it tends to generate a backlash,” Lipper told The Post. “Most local governments are used to a steady drumbeat of Christian clergy delivering Christian prayers. We’ve seen this same issue with Muslim prayer-givers and Wiccan prayer-givers around the country.

“When they show up, all the sudden the practice generated a bunch of objections.”

Lipper said the Phoenix City Council made the right decision, but for “disturbing reasons.”

“They’re saying, ‘we don’t like their prayers, so we’re going to shut the whole thing down,'” he said. “It leaves a bad taste in the Satanist’s mouth.”

Contrary to the name, Satanic Temple members are non-theists who do not believe in the existence of the devil and promote the idea that religion can be divorced from superstition. On its Web site, the Satanic Temple describes its mission as encouraging “benevolence and empathy among all people.” Among the group’s seven tenets: “The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend.”

“Our tenants are rational and we emphasize compassion,” Satanic Temple founder Lucien Greaves told The Washington Post. “Satan to us is metaphorical and represents a universal fight against tyranny and autocracy.” The group has set off numerous headline-making free-speech debates in recent years by using provocative imagery. In 2014, it unveiled a proposal to place a seven-foot Satanic statue in front of the Oklahoma state capitol, next to a statue of the Ten Commandments. 

Later that year, after threatening a lawsuit, the Satanic Temple — in conjunction with Americans United — convinced Florida officials to allow the temple to move forward with a holiday display in the state capitol in Tallahassee that showed an angel dropping from the sky into a pit of flames. The week-long display, which Florida officials had previously labeled “grossly offensive,” was placed in an area designated as an open forum for private speech.

Greaves said Thursday that the dispute with the Phoenix City Council began in December, when a local member of the Satanic organization applied via email to give the invocation before the governing body. Temple members, he said, assumed they’d walk in, give the invocation and leave, with their entire effort going mostly unnoticed.

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Man wanted in 'Bonnie and Clyde' crime spree killed in Florida

 

 

Reuters) - The hunt for a Missouri couple suspected in a spree of robberies and kidnappings across the South ended on Friday with the man shot dead and the woman wounded after a chase, standoff and shooting involving law enforcement in Florida, police said. Blake Edward Fitzgerald, 30, and his girlfriend, Brittany Nicole Harper, 30, dubbed a "modern-day Bonnie and Clyde" by the U.S. Marshals Service, were wanted for crimes committed during the past week in Alabama, Georgia and Florida.

Deputies in the Florida Panhandle began pursuing the couple Thursday night after they were linked to an armed robbery at a shoe store, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan told reporters at a news conference. The chase lasted several hours as the couple successfully evaded officers. After midnight, authorities learned the duo had taken a family hostage in their home before stealing their red truck, Morgan said. 

Deputies cornered the couple in the truck soon after, and a 15-minute standoff ensued, the sheriff said. Refusing to surrender, the suspects left the truck and tried to enter an occupied home in Milton, Florida. Gunfire erupted, killing Fitzgerald and wounding Harper in the leg, said Morgan, though he would not specify who fired the shots. Six officers have been placed on administrative leave according to protocol as state investigators review the shooting.

Harper was hospitalized and will be charged with grand theft auto, home invasion robbery and false imprisonment, a Florida prosecutor said. Morgan said the couple's actions should not be glamorized with a catchy nickname. 

"Bonnie and Clyde were a couple of thugs, too," he said.

The marshals service said the couple began a crime spree spanning three states on Sunday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where they were accused of kidnapping a hotel clerk and stealing his car. They later released the hostage and ditched his vehicle before Fitzgerald entered a family's home in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, flashed a gun and took a woman at the residence hostage as he stole the family's car, federal authorities said. 

The couple was then suspected of kidnapping a clerk from a convenience store that they robbed in Perry, Georgia, on Monday, and committing two more robberies in the Florida cities of Walnut Hills and Destin on Wednesday. The marshals service had offered a $10,000 reward for their arrests, describing them as armed and dangerous.

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Major crane collapse in New York City: 1 dead, several injured

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A massive construction crane killed at least one person when it collapsed in New York City amid falling snow Friday morning.The crane reportedly toppled over at around 8:30 a.m. at Worth St. and West Broadway in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca. It crushed a row of parked cars and slammed against buildings — strewing shattered bricks and debris into the street.

The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) confirmed that one person was dead on arrival and that at least two others were seriously injured. Bay Crane, a family-operated crane rental company based out of Long Island City, owns the equipment that fell over. When contacted by Yahoo News, a representative from the company declined to discuss the matter at this time. 

“No comment. This incident is still under investigation,” he said over the phone. Bay Crane’s mission statement characterizes the company as having a “reputation for excellence” and the know-how to deal with New York regulations. 

“Our focus and our mission is to meet the needs of the congested and highly regulated New York market,” it reads. Last year, the company was involved in a similar incident when an industrial air conditioner fell nearly 30 stories to the ground while being transported by another one of its cranes.

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Mirian, a waitress at the nearby Square Diner on Leonard St., described this morning’s scene as hectic when reached by Yahoo News. “It’s a lot of fire trucks, a lot of police,” she said. “A couple of families came to the diner to get away. Cops told them to stay away from the street.” 

Emergency crews rushed to the scene and searched the automobiles for anyone trapped inside. Authorities blocked the area with yellow emergency tape. Several neighboring streets have been closed off to traffic. It was not immediately clear what caused the crane to collapse.

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First Zika-linked deaths reported in Colombia

Bogota (AFP) - The mosquito-borne Zika virus sweeping through Latin America has claimed three lives in Colombia, as the United Nations urged increased access to abortion because of fears of severe birth defects. In the first direct statements from government health officials blaming Zika for causing deaths, Colombia's National Health Institute (INS) said Friday that the patients died after contracting the virus and developing a rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Cases of the syndrome -- in which the immune system attacks the nervous system, causing weakness and sometimes paralysis -- have increased in tandem with the Zika outbreak, fueling suspicions that it is a complication of the otherwise mild tropical fever, which is also blamed for causing brain damage in babies born to infected mothers.

"Other cases (of deaths linked to Zika) are going to emerge," said epidemiologist Martha Lucia Ospina, director of the INS. "The world is realizing that Zika can be deadly. The mortality rate is not very high, but it can be deadly."

Most Guillain-Barre patients recover, but the syndrome sometimes causes paralysis or even death.

Citing the rise in babies born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads and brains, the UN human rights office urged countries hit by Zika to give women access to contraception and abortion.

Women's reproductive rights are a touchy subject in largely Catholic Latin America, but the UN human rights office said countries urging women to avoid pregnancy -- a list that comprises Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica and Panama -- had to give them ways to control their fertility.

 

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"How can they ask these women not to become pregnant, but not offer... the possibility to stop their pregnancies?" spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly told reporters. Many Latin American countries outlaw abortion or allow it only if the mother's life is in danger. In El Salvador, one of those warning against pregnancy, abortion is punishable by up to 40 years in prison.

Honduras, which earlier this week declared a state of emergency after tallying some 3,700 cases of Zika since mid-December, said it is planning a full day dedicated to eradicating the mosquitoes that carry the virus. President Juan Orlando Hernandez has allocated an initial tranche of $10 million in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus.

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Health officials in Brazil and the United States meanwhile warned that sex or even kissing could potentially spread the typically mosquito-borne disease. Brazil's top research center, the Fiocruz institute in Rio de Janeiro, said Zika had been detected in urine and saliva.

 

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The scientists were careful to clarify that there is no proof the virus can be transmitted through those fluids, but said people should take precautions, especially expecting mothers. "Avoid sharing glasses, silverware, contact with someone who has symptoms of a possible infection. Don't kiss, obviously," said the institute's director Paulo Gadelha.

The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for their part urged people to use condoms or abstain from having sex if they live in or have traveled to Zika-infected areas. Earlier this week, US health officials confirmed the first case of sexually transmitted Zika -- a person who had traveled to Venezuela and infected a sexual partner in Texas upon return.

In the US territory of Puerto Rico, officials declared a health emergency over Zika and confirmed a pregnant woman had been infected, bringing the number of cases on the island to 22. The emergency measures included freezing the price of condoms and combatting mosquitoes.

 

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The World Health Organization, which has declared the rise in Zika-linked birth defects an international emergency, warns that Zika could infect up to four million people in the Americas and spread worldwide. The WHO has advised countries against accepting blood donations from people who have traveled to affected regions.

The new warnings on intimate contact highlight how little is known about Zika, a virus that was first identified in Africa in 1947 but had been considered relatively mild until the current eruption of apparent complications. Both the US CDC and Fiocruz in Brazil said more research was needed on person-to-person transmission.

Brazil has been the country hardest hit by the outbreak, with an estimated 1.5 million cases. Colombia is next on the list, with more than 20,000 cases. Zika often goes unnoticed, and causes a relatively mild fever and rash in those who do develop symptoms. But Brazil sounded the alarm after recording a surge in babies born with microcephaly. It has registered 404 cases since October and 3,670 suspected cases, up from 147 in all of 2014.

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Playboy Model Katie May Dies at Age 34 After Suffering Stroke

 

 

Playboy model Katie May passed away on Thursday, February 4, after suffering a serious stroke on Monday, February 1, according to TMZ. She was 34. According to the site, May, known as the “Queen of Snapchat,” was taken off life support on Thursday and died surrounded by her family and friends. May’s family set up a GoFundMe page on Thursday to raise funds to support her 7-year-old daughter, Mia.

“Anyone who was lucky enough to know Katie May was truly blessed by her incredible heart, mind and soul,” the donation page reads. “She was an inspiration and a guiding light to so many people in this world. Please help us by donating money to support her daughter and best friend Mia. We want to raise as much money for Mia’s living trust as possible to ensure she will always be taken care of. Mia was Katie’s whole life, so please help Katie, Mia and us by donating money to Mia.”

The blonde beauty’s family previously told TMZ that May had been complaining of neck pain prior to her stroke on Monday.

“@Ms_katiemay you look amazing my lady. How’s your neck feeling?” one of her followers wrote to May on Sunday, January 31. “Thanks love!” the model replied. “It still hurts, going back to chiropractor tomorrow xoxoxo.”

May’s last Instagram post was on Monday, February 1, and featured a photo of her leaning against a sandy cliff while wearing a bikini. “Hope everyone is having a great Monday!” she captioned the snap. “It’s very windy here today in LA #bikini #california #beach #lagunabeach.”

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Man Who Went Missing 16 Years Ago Is Found Alive In Milton Keynes

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A man who went missing 16 years ago has been found alive in a homeless shelter in Milton Keynes. Family and friends of Jason Ronald Douglas, 36, are now raising funds to try and bring him home to Australia. His sister, Lisa Andrews, has started a gofundme page  to raise the money to get Jason a passport - and get him home. 

She says, ‘Jason has been missing for 16 very frustratingly long years. Jason is a australian born aboriginal. He is currently living in the uk in a homeless shelter. He has been homeless for a very long time. 

‘This is why it has taken so long to find him. He thought we all gave up on him. He thought no one cared. 

‘He is very desperate to get home to his mother and sister back here in Australia.

 

‘It is very costly as we need birth certificate, passport then flights plus to try and support him and keep him off the streets until we can get everything organised to get him home.’ Jason has not been in touch with his family for 16 years - and disappeared age 21 whilst living in Milton Keynes.

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Roger The Kangaroo Is Back And He’s Showing Off His Guns Again

 

Back from his break. Roger flexes his muscles (Kangaroo Sanctuary)

 

Roger the buff Kangaroo is back - and it looks like he has been working out.The muscly marsupial bounced to fame last year when he was discovered at a kangaroo sanctuary in Alice Springs, a remote town in Australia’s Northern Territory. The seven-foot tall beast, who weighs some 200 pounds, was shown flexing his considerable muscles and crushing metal buckets with his bare paws.

He also has a fearsome stare. Roger, unsurprisingly, was dubbed “Kangaroo Dundee”.

Roger in the sanctuary in Alice Springs (Kangaroo Sanctuary)

And now he has emerged from his summer break. On Friday, sanctuary keeper at  Christopher Barns posted a picture of a buffed-up Roger on Instagram:

“After a summer break we reopened this week for our guided sunset tours. Here is Roger enjoying the attention of our visitors,” wrote Barns.

Roger, a red kangaroo, is the main attraction at the sanctuary. Red Kangaroos are the largest of all kangaroos and Roger is bigger than most. They can be aggressive and cover around 30 feet in distance with just one leap from their powerful legs. Roger though did not seem destined to be an all-powerful animal.

He was discovered by the sanctuary when he was a tiny baby joey after his mother was killed on a highway. He is now thought to be around 10-years-old.

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3 people believed aboard 2 planes that collided off LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two small planes with three people believed to be aboard collided over the ocean just outside the port of Los Angeles, prompting a massive search by dozens of boats and divers. There was no sign of survivors after hours of searching. The collision occurred about 3:30 p.m. Friday on a dazzlingly sunny day, the Coast Guard said, with no immediate word on what might have caused it.

Two men ages 61 and 81 were aboard one plane, and a 72-year-old woman was aboard the other plane, Coast Guard Capt. Jennifer Williams said. Searchers found wreckage, including a pilot's logbook, from the Beechcraft plane that was carrying the two men. The plane flown by the woman is missing, and air traffic controllers saw two aircraft apparently run into each other on radar, leading authorities to conclude they must have collided.

Both planes had taken off from the nearby Torrance Airport, and both pilots were experienced, Williams said.

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The search for wreckage and possible survivors over a 200-square-mile area is expected to continue through the night with helicopters and boats, with a more extensive search resuming Saturday.

"We don't want to give up until we really feel that there's no chance," Williams said, "that we haven't scanned the area, searched the whole area and looked for survivors."

The area of the collision is about two miles outside the entrance to the harbor, where water depths were 80 feet to 90 feet. The nearest harbor entrance was closed to traffic while the search continued. The crash site was near the Angels Gate light, a lighthouse at the San Pedro Breakwater that is on the National Register of Historic Places. The area is popular for flight students.

 

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Richard Garnett, chief flight instructor with the Long Beach Flying Club, said the pilots practice in an area that is 10 to 20 square miles and at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 4,000 feet. On a typical day, there will be three or four planes in the air at the same time.

"So with the amount of activity, actually, I think we've been fortunate," he said. "We are really diligent. I don't know why, what happened in this situation." Friday's midair collision was not the first in the area.

In 2001, four people died when two Cessna airplanes carrying instructors and students collided 1,000 feet above the harbor. In 1986, two small planes flown by students collided. But the aircraft managed to return to their airports, and the four people on board escaped injury.

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The Latest: Death toll rises to 7 in Taiwan quake

 

TAINAN, Taiwan (AP) — The Latest on a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in southern Taiwan (all times local):

2 p.m.

The Tainan city emergency center says the death toll in Saturday's earthquake has climbed to seven, including an infant and a small child. Authorities said earlier that the infant, the girl and two adults were found dead at a collapsed residential high-rise.

Elsewhere, a woman was killed by falling objects at a water tower, but no details are immediately available for the two new deaths. At least 230 people have been pulled out from rubble, and nearly 380 are injured. At least 26 are still unaccounted for.

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12:45 p.m.

Facebook has activated its "safety check" feature for Taiwan that allows users to let their friends and loved ones know they're safe.

Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in a posting, "My thoughts are with everyone in Taiwan and across our global community affected by this disaster."

The link is available at https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/taiwanearthquake-feb02-2016

 

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11:25 a.m.

The Tainan city emergency response center says the death toll in Saturday's 6.4-magnitude quake has risen to five. The center still lists 155 people as injured, but the news website ET Today is reporting the number has climbed to 318 people hospitalized.

ET Today is also reporting that Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has arrived in Tainan on Saturday morning and asked rescuers to make all-out efforts.

 

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11:15 a.m.

China has offered assistance to Taiwan following a 6.4-magnitude quake that killed at least three people and injured more than 150 in the south of the self-ruled island. According to China's office handling relations with Taiwan, mainland officials have been in touch with their Taiwanese counterparts since shortly after the quake hit the southern city of Tainan.

China sent a letter offering rescue assistance if needed, and expressed condolences to those who suffered in the quake.

 

 

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9:15 a.m.

Authorities in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan say three people — including a 10-day-old — have been killed and 154 hospitalized following a shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake. Firefighters and soldiers scrambled to the site of two collapsed residential high-rises with ladders, cranes and other equipment and extracted 221 people from the rubble.

 

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Taiwan's official news agency says the infant and a 40-year-old man were pulled out of a 17-story Wei Guan residential building and were later declared dead. The agency says 256 people were believed to have been living in 92 households.

8:40 a.m.

Authorities in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan say rescuers have pulled out 221 people from rubble following a 6.4-magnitude earthquake. More are still reported trapped in at least two collapsed residential high-rises. The Tainan city government says 115 have been hospitalized. It says two people suffered heart attack.

 

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7:47 a.m.

Taiwan's official news agency says 34 people were pulled from a 16-story residential high rise that collapsed in Tainan in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit southern Taiwan just before 4 a.m. Saturday.

It says rescuers also pulled out 127 people from the 17-story Wei Guan Golden Dragon building. It says two people — a 10-day-old infant and a 40-year-old man were found in critical conditions.

It says 56 people were evacuated from a vegetables market.

 

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An unknown number are still trapped. Several other buildings are also collapsed or partially damaged.

7:25 a.m.

Taiwan EBC TV station is broadcasting live images of firefighters pulling out stunned and dazzled survivors from a collapsed high-rise in the south of the island following a 6.4-magnitude earthquake.

The temblor struck about 4 a.m. local time Saturday (2000 GMT Friday). It was located some 22 miles (36 kilometers) southeast of Yujing, and struck about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground. Aerial views of the collapsed building showed cranes and ladders around the toppled structure. 

White dust is rising from site and a helicopter hovering overhead. The damage to the building appears extensive, with blocks of concrete and entire floors brought down by the force of the quake. Military personnel also are taking part in the rescue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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