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Fans Mourn the Death of Los Angeles TikTok Star Shirley Raines, Who Dedicated Her Life to Helping the Homeless

Tributes are pouring in at the news of the untimely death of Beauty 2 The Streetz founder Shirley Raines, who died at the age of 58.

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What to Know About Friday’s Nationwide Anti-ICE Strike and Boycott

Anti-ICE activists are urging all Americans to participate in a general strike set for this Friday. Here's what you should know.

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Chinese media: China executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family that ran online scam centres in Myanmar; five Bai family members are also sentenced to death (Koh Ewe/BBC)

Koh Ewe / BBC:
Chinese media: China executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family that ran online scam centres in Myanmar; five Bai family members are also sentenced to death  —  China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report.

Exclusive: Jemele Hill Breaks Down The Devastating Effects Legalized Gambling Is Having On Sports

Emmy Award-winning journalist Jemele Hill takes a deep dive into the impact of sports gambling on Vice TV’s “Out of Bounds: The Sports Betting Boom.”

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The new TikTok is freaking people out

If you opened TikTok recently, you probably saw some weird stuff happening. Maybe you couldn’t post a new video. Maybe the app asked for your precise location. Maybe you weren’t seeing as much stuff about ICE or the Trump administration’s latest assault on the global world order. If the latter is the case, you weren’t […]