This is what friendship looks like.
Famous besties Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez hung out today (try to calm yourselves), and decided to a have a little bit of fun on Instagram. The pair posed together in the middle of large greenery, which was posted to Swift's social media page, with the clever caption, "Are we out of the woods yet?"
Chris Pine doesn't even blink when I ask if he'd want Wonder Woman or Capt. Kirk to have his back in a fight.
"Wonder Woman would win because she's radical," Pine says while promoting his new movie The Finest Hours with co-star Ben Foster. "And she looks better in a skirt."
Whether or not Apple launches a new phone this spring, we’re almost certainly going to have to wait until September before the true sequel to the iPhone 6s makes it to store shelves. For iPhone users who weren’t able or willing to upgrade to the most recent version of the phone, the wait can be excruciating. But in the meantime, at least we have concept art.
Lauren Wasser is speaking out about the potential dangers tampons can cause.
Lauren Wasser was a 24-year-old model and aspiring WNBA player when she almost lost her life to Toxic Shock Syndrome. She told VICE in June about what it was like to lose her leg to the disease and sat down with them again recently to warn women about the potential dangers of tampons.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso and French forces killed four extremists Saturday and freed more than 126 people to end the seizure of a luxury hotel by al-Qaida-linked militants, Burkina Faso officials said.
In addition to the four jihadists, at least 23 people were killed in the attack at the Splendid Hotel and a nearby cafe in Ouagadougou, the capital, the president said. Three attackers were killed at the hotel and a fourth was killed when security forces cleared out a second hotel nearby.
Alabama Grandma, Convicted of Running 9-Year-Old to Death, Collapses and Dies After Family Visit in Prison
A 50-year-old Alabama grandmother and convicted murderer, who authorities said ran her granddaughter to death in 2012, died Friday after apparently suffering a heart attack, the Associated Press reports.
Joyce Garrard first collapsed Sunday in prison, following a visit from her family, her son's attorney, Alan Jackson, told AL.com. She was placed on life support at a Montgomery hospital earlier this week, her attorney, Dani Bone, told WIAT.
Neither Alabama state prison officials nor Garrard's attorney immediately responded to PEOPLE's request for comment. Garrard was convicted in March 2015 of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole, in the death of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin.
Authorities said Garrard forced Hardin to run for more than three hours, while carrying firewood, as punishment for lying about eating candy. Garrard, and her family, have maintained that she would never have intentionally injured Hardin.
"It's all wrong," Garrard's husband, Johnny, told reporters outside the courtroom following her sentencing, according to The Huntsville Times. "It's all wrong. She's innocent of this."
But
prosecutors disputed that defense, citing a surveillance tape from the
school bus in which Garrard can be overheard saying of Hardin, "She's
going to run until I tell her to stop ... I don't play with her."
Hardin's
stepmother, Jessica, has been accused of murder in the girl's death,
for allegedly failing to intervene, and is currently awaiting trial.
Nigerian
pastor TB Joshua preaches at a memorial service in Lagos, Nigeria,
December 31, 2014. At least 115 people died in a building collapse at
Joshua's Lagos mega-church in September 2014.PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images
Among many Nigerian
and other African Christians, TB Joshua is a prophet, a healer and a man
of God. On Thursday, however, the Nigerian televangelist is due to
appear in a Lagos courtroom, alongside two engineers, charged with
criminal negligence that resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people.
The
case relates to a tragic incident on September 12, 2014. A Lagos
guesthouse belonging to Joshua’s church, the Synagogue Church of All
Nations (SCOAN), collapsed, killing at least 115 people, including 84 South Africans who had traveled across the continent for one of Joshua’s renowned healing services.
The
South African government reacted angrily to the event, calling on
Nigeria to conduct a thorough investigation. Eventually, in July 2015—10
months after the incident—a Nigerian coroner ruled
that SCOAN was culpable of criminal negligence, since the structure had
more floors than the foundation could hold, and that those who built
the guesthouse should be investigated. The Lagos state ministry of
justice indicated its intention in November 2015 to charge the SCOAN’s trustees, of which Joshua is one.
For their part, Joshua and the SCOAN rejected the coroner’s findings
as “unreasonable, one-sided and biased.” The Nigerian mega-preacher and
his church maintained the collapse was connected to the presence of a
mysterious aircraft, which they alleged had been circling the building
prior to its collapse.
Even if Joshua is found guilty of criminal
negligence, his reputation will not be damaged among his legions of
devoted followers, according to Maria Frahm-Arp, an expert in
Pentecostal Christianity at the University of Johannesburg. “Right from
the beginning, he’s been spinning this story of this mysterious airplane
and the idea that this was an attack by Satan,” says Frahm-Arp. “The
court can find whatever the court finds, but it’s going to be seen
[among Joshua’s followers] as an attack by Satan to try and undermine
and discredit him.”
Born in June 1963
to a poor family in a rural part of Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria,
Temitope Balogun Joshua claims to have been in his mother’s womb for 15
months before he was born. He says he received his divine calling early
in life, when he had a vision in which he was commissioned by God to
teach, preach and carry out miracles. The SCOAN was allegedly founded
with just eight members; the Lagos’ HQ now reportedly attracts 50,000 worshippers
each week, with many traveling from as far afield as South Africa to
see the charismatic preacher in the flesh. TB Joshua’s popularity
extends online: his Facebook page has more than 1.9 million likes and
his Twitter feed 135,000 followers.The church even has a television
channel, Emmanuel TV, that broadcasts Joshua’s sermons and publicizes his miracles to millions.
And it is miracles that are central to Joshua’s ministry. Videos on SCOAN’s website
include testimonies from church members concerning all kinds of
healings, from the exorcism of demons to financial prosperity and
fortune to the restoration of a man’s private parts. Joshua also claims
to have prophesied in advance the occurrence of multiple world events,
from the death of Michael Jackson, to the shooting down of MH17 in
Russian airspace, to the November 2015 attacks in Paris. Yet some of
Joshua’s prophecies have not yet come to pass: the pastor prophesied in May 2014
that 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram from their dormitories in
Chibok, northeast Nigeria, would be returned safely to their families.
To date, 219 of the girls remain missing.
Joshua’s “health and wealth gospel” has a particular resonance in
places like Nigeria, says Frahm-Arp, where people are inclined to turn
to miraculous healers in the absence of the state adequately meeting
their needs. More than 60 percent of Nigeria’s population—almost
100 million people—live on less than $1 per day and parts of the
country, such as the northeast, lack decent infrastructure due to the
ravages of the Boko Haram insurgency. “They are drawn to something
outside of the public and governmental domain to try and find answers,”
says Frahm-Arp.
The Nigerian preacher has found plentiful earthly rewards for his ministry. In June 2011, Forbes estimated Joshua to be have a net worth of between $10-15 million.
He has also developed friends in high places, including the late former
Ghanaian president John Atta Mills and Julius Malema, the leader of
South Africa’s left-wing opposition the Economic Freedom Fighters. His church has given much to charity: Forbes estimated that Joshua gave more than $20 million to causes including the rehabilitation of former Niger Delta militants
between 2008 and 2011, and Joshua founded a Lagos football academy
named My People FC, one of whose graduates, Ogenyi Onazi, now plays for
Italian club Lazio.
According to Manji Cheto, Nigeria analyst at
political consultancy Teneo Intelligence, “pastor-preneurs” like Joshua
have struck a chord among Nigeria’s lower classes, who long for the
lifestyles that their preachers have. “A lot of people that he attracts
are working-class Nigerians, some very poor, and middle-class Nigerians
either aspiring to retain or increase their wealth,” says Cheto. “That
sort of miracle-working pastor, who has gained notoriety and is a bit of
a celebrity, those are the sort of people he would appeal to.”
Kylie Jenner is expanding her Kylie Cosmetics beauty empire.
The 18-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star
and Lip Kit maker is now exploring the nail polish market. As part of a
collaboration with SinfulColors called King Kylie SinfulShine, Kylie is
unveiling the first of three limited-edition nail collections. As we
all know, Jenner’s nails are a priority in her beauty routine, as she
well-documents it on social media.
She told WWD,
“I love getting my nails done and nails in general,” adding that her
“go-to style” right now is a natural, short nail. But when it comes to
color, “Right now I really like the pinks,” Kylie explained, referring
to the Miss Majesty and Miss Chief shades in her first SinfulColors
collection.
Her motivation for expanding into the nail polish market was her
young fans. She commented, “I wanted to do something innovative and
accessible to my young fans. The colors are great for all skin tones,
too.” As for her inspiration? “I really don’t get my inspiration from
any one place or from fashion. I just go with what I like in the
moment,” she said. WWD reports:
The first release includes 20 jewel-tone shades of SinfulShines’s
gel-like formula under the King Kylie logo — a persona she created and
uses as her Instagram name. In-store displays will mirror the royalty
theme. The colors retail for $2.99 — a dollar more than traditional
SinfulColors. Two more limited-edition collections will roll out in
April and then May.
$2.99 a bottle?! We’re sold. According to WWD industry
sources, they estimate “Jenner could add at least $15 million at retail
to SinfulColor’s coffers.” Basically meaning everything Kylie Jenner
touches turns to gold.
The youngest Jenner-Kardashian also revealed a new tattoo yesterday (Feb. 11), just before she and her family appeared at Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 fashion show for NYFW. We have no idea what it is (a shooting star?), so please share your thoughts below.
Two
teenage girls were killed Friday in a shooting at a high school in
Arizona, police said, adding they believe the tragedy was an “isolated
incident." Officer Tracey Breeden of the Glendale Police Department
identified the two victims as 15-year-old girls who were found next to
each other with a weapon nearby. Breeden told a news conference that
each had suffered a gunshot wound. Breeden said it was unclear what
prompted the shooting, which took place shortly before 8 a.m. at
Independence High School, with police arriving on the scene within
minutes.
I never thought it would happen here. This tells me that it could happen anywhere, at any school, even if it’s a good school.
Jasmine Molina, 15, a student at the school
One
student says she was shocked to learn that two teens had died in a
shooting at her suburban Phoenix high school. Lanie Walter, a senior,
said Friday that the shooting was heartbreaking because "everyone is so
loving” at Independence High School. She says she heard ambulances on
her way to the campus in Glendale but didn’t think much of it until her
first class went on lockdown. She called her parents to tell them she
was OK and said her mother was relieved because she had been watching
the news.
Is there room for Kylie Jenner in Tyga and Scott Disick's bromance?
Jenner joined the two men for their joint appearance at 1 Oak nightclub in New York City on Friday night.
Jenner wore a chic black cutout jumpsuit, which she topped with a red
leather coat and paired with black pumps and a tiny gold bag. Tyga, her
rapper boyfriend, wore a tan hooded sweatshirt with a tan leather
jacket, ripped jeans and sneakers. Disick, the ex-boyfriend of Jenner's older sister Kourtney Kardashian, sported a knee-length dark fur coat over a black T-shirt, jeans and suede boots.
Tyga and Disick have a history of spending plenty of quality time with each other. Last year, they were spotted shopping together in Beverly Hills and grabbed lunch while the Kardashian-Jenner crew visited Kim Kardashian West in the hospital after she gave birth to her second child. More recently, they both appeared on Kocktails with Khloé in January and, earlier this month, headed to Las Vegas together for Tyga's performance at Drais nightclub.
