Sabrina Carpenter on stage at the 2025 VMAs via Associated PressSabrina Carpenter made a display of solidarity with the transgender community during her performance at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. On Sunday night, the Espresso singer delivered her third consecutive performance at the VMAs, where she gave her latest single Tears its live debut. AdvertisementDuring her routine, Sabrina’s backing dancers portrayed protesters holding pro-LGBTQ+ messages, including slogans specifically supporting trans people like “protect trans lives”, “in trans we trust” and “dolls dolls dolls”. The Grammy winner’s performance also included cameos from Drag Race favourites like Symone, Willam Belli, Laganja Estranja and Lexi Love. Watch the full performance for yourself below:AdvertisementSabrina’s Tears music video premiered at the end of last month, which saw the singer and Oscar nominee Colman Domingo paying homage to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson at the premiere of The Naked Gun in July via Associated PressPamela Anderson is shutting down speculation that she and Liam Neeson faked a romantic relationship to promote their latest film. Over the summer, the Baywatch icon appeared alongside Liam in the reboot The Naked Gun, with reports in the press around the release suggesting that a relationship had blossomed between the two on set. AdvertisementLast week, however, TMZ published a piece quoting supposed “sources” who claimed that reports of the romance were “cooked up” by the actors’ PR teams as well as The Naked Gun’s production company, Paramount. Pamela Anderson accepting the Deauville Talent Award at the Deauville American Film Festival Francois Durand via Getty ImagesAdvertisementReceiving the Deauville Talent Award, Pamela said during her speech: “I do not and will never feed into PR stunts. I’m sincere.”She added: “Do not mistake my kindness for weakness or my boldness for bitterness.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Federal Trade Commission has abandoned the historic prohibition on noncompete agreements it proposed just a year and a half ago, the result of President Donald Trump’s change in leadership at the antitrust regulator. The agency said Friday that it was voluntarily dropping its appeals in court cases where employers had challenged the legality of the noncompete ban finalized under former President Joe Biden. The commission said Friday it had voted 3-1 in favor of abandoning the noncompete rule, with Slaughter, now the lone Democrat, dissenting. Trump's shakeup at the FTC paved the way for the noncompete rule to be killed. AdvertisementPolling by Ipsos last year showed that a majority of Americans backed a ban on noncompete agreements, though less than a third said they were familiar with the FTC’s rule.

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President Donald Trump’s second term in office has marked a significant authoritarian turn in the operation of the executive branch. “Fundamentally, it’s rule by the whim of the president,” said John Dearborn, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an expert on presidential power. “It’s a sort of mini-absolutist monarchy.”AdvertisementPresident Donald Trump is transforming the presidency into a "mini-absolutist monarchy," Vanderbilt University professor John Dearborn said. The RatchetThe history of the expansion of presidential power has been described as a ratchet by those who study it. While presidents acted as disruptive agents increasing their own power, Congress also pushed back to defend its own powers and structure new assertions of presidential power.

Thailand has millions of street dogs, and most of them are barely surviving. It’s called “Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World.” It’s her story, but it’s mine as well. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThere are 500 million street dogs in the world. Niall Harbison is an author, former tech entrepreneur, and street dog rescuer based in Thailand. A recovered alcoholic, he now runs Happy Doggo, a nonprofit that feeds and cares for more than 1,000 street dogs every day.

As I went to answer, realising this was a fairly unsexy question, he jumped in saying, “- I bet it was 1997”. The mention of school was definitely not the most arousing subject, and certainly wasn’t filled with joyous memories. AdvertisementInternalised homophobia is a phenomenon that all queer people experience, even if they say they’re adamant that they don’t. It can look like avoidance of queer community, or placing judgement on ‘flamboyance’ or people who express themselves without shame. But more crucially, it made me proud of myself for standing firm in who I was, so openly at 14.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGRosie O’Donnell has hit back at Donald Trump after the president reignited his longtime feud with the comedian by threatening to revoke her US citizenship again. Advertisement“Could you say I’m guilty without saying I’m guilty more than having a flyover during their press conference? FILE: Rosie O'Donnell appears at the 2024 Elle Women in Hollywood celebration in Los Angeles, November 19, 2024. Trump referred to the comedian, who now lives in Ireland, as a "threat to humanity" back in July and threatened to take away her U.S. citizenship at the time. And the fact he would say Rosie O’Donnell is not a good American, she never can be.

Luggage tag Mikey Wu via UnsplashWhen it comes to packing for my holidays, I’ve historically had pretty bad form (though thankfully, the 3-3-3 rule has made it a lot less chaotic). Why should you flip your luggage tag backwards? “The tag doesn’t stop working if it’s turned backwards,” Silvena pointed out. “Whether it’s on social media or on a luggage tag, the less strangers know about you, the safer you’ll be. Flip the tag backwards, and you’ve instantly cut out a big source of risk.”Related...

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Billy Crystal opened the show wearing the outfit he had on when the fires forced him out of his house. Nicks proceeded to recount her harrowing experience with the fire and revealed that, remarkably, her old wooden house was saved. “God saved that house for me, and without [my house] I don’t know what I would have done!” she proclaimed. Additionally, while it’s essential to understand and respect a person’s religious beliefs, the notion that bad things happen because God is punishing them does not align with reality. The hard truth is that sometimes bad things happen randomly and are outside of a person’s control.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Department of Defense will soon be called the Department of War, President Donald Trump plans to announce in an executive order Friday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also appeared to confirm the new name, posting on X: “DEPARTMENT OF WAR” and linking to Fox News’ report on the new name. For now, Department of War will be a secondary name, as a unilateral name change would require an act of Congress. AdvertisementPresident Donald Trump speaks alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on Tuesday. And in June, he claimed the Department of War moniker was done away with because “we became politically correct.”Historians say that’s not at all what happened.

President Donald Trump exits the White House and walks to his motorcade, en route to the Trump National Golf Club on Sept. 1, 2025, in Washington, DC. ‘Low Stamina’ is now the butt of his own joke.”AdvertisementTrump’s White House did not respond to HuffPost queries on the matter. The next day, Trump added: “He’s got a mental problem.”When the general election arrived, Trump pushed conspiracy theories that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was close to death. In the weeks after taking office in 2017, Trump’s White House staff went to Bornstein’s office to confiscate all of Trump’s medical records, an action Bornstein described as a “raid.”Trump’s White House continued his refusal to be candid about his health. As he began his run to return to the White House in November 2022, Trump again refused to release medical records.