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Vice President Kamala Harris said she has not seen the video of first lady Jill Biden and Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, sharing an awkward kiss on the mouth at President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. “No, I haven’t watched the video,” Harris told Univision’s Edwin Pitti on Wednesday when asked for her reaction to the widely shared clip. She quickly pivoted, adding, “But I do know that the first lady and the second gentleman are working arduously with what we are doing with my husband against anti-Semitism.” Footage from inside the Capitol captured Jill Biden in a...

Teeth from long-dead people and animals are divulging the history of modern-day pathogens.Ancient DNA extracted from the teeth of humans who lived long ago is yielding new information about pathogens past and present. In one of the latest studies, researchers uncovered and sequenced ancient herpes genomes for the first time, from the teeth of long-dead Europeans. The strain of herpes virus that causes lip sores in people today — called HSV-1 — was once thought to have emerged in Africa more than 50,000 years ago. But the new data, published in Science Advances on 27 July1, indicate that its origin...

The White House on Thursday argued that President Joe Biden did not need to quarantine or wear a mask after interacting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on multiple occasions this week after she tested positive for the coronavirus. White House press secretary Jen Psaki argued that none of Biden’s interactions with the Speaker were considered a “close contact” by the Centers for Disease Control.

SNIP A puppy named Bailey isnt shy when it comes to giving out kisses to the fish in this koi pond in the Netherlands.

9 sec video of Biden grabbing, stroking, and kissing a boy. If this has been out before this is the first I've seen it. Preemie513 Twitter

Sex in a pandemic can be complicated, Canada's lead medical doctor says, and it's best to skip kissing and perhaps wear a mask to prevent spreading Covid-19. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, issued a public statement Wednesday on staying safe from the virus when engaging in sexual activities. "Sexual health is an important part of our overall health. However, sex can be complicated in the time of Covid-19..." the statement says, with risks increasing for partners engaging with people outside their household. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, said sex should be avoided if either partner...

A group of unmarried couples were whipped in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday after they were caught behaving amorously -- a crime under the conservative region's Islamic law. Flogging is common for a range of offences in the region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol and having gay sex. It is the only province in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law. The five couples flogged Thursday received between four and 22 strokes from a rattan cane outside a mosque in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, after they served several months in prison. Religious...

SARASOTA, Fla. — The iconic kissing statue, known as the "Unconditional Surrender" statue, in Sarasota was vandalized less than 24 hours after the passing of the World War II veteran who was identified as the "kissing sailor" in the famous photo that inspired the sculpture. The 26-foot tall statue is located on the Sarasota Bayfront near Marina Jack. Sarasota Police Department says at approximately 12:53 a.m. on Tuesday, officers were dispatched to the intersection of North Gulfstream Avenue and Bayfront Drive for a report of an unknown person spray painting the statue. When officers arrived on scene, they found the...

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Several thousand former female Family Feud contestants have come forward to join the #MeToo movement. In a unprecedented event, the late Family Feud host Richard Dawson has been caught in archived footage kissing female contestants on the lip. "I should have come forward decades ago, but I must speak out now," said one contestant. "He had bad breath and I felt icky afterwards" Meanwhile Dawson was unavailable for comments.

Lenore, Edith, Marlena and Shahna. Kelinda, Drusilla and Miramanee… Oh, the many names in James T. Kirk's little black book — or is that captain's log? The Enterprise stud was quite the ladies man on Star Trek, breaking barriers between race and species with his liberal lips. Between 1966 and 1969, Kirk smooched 19 women in 79 episodes. William Shatner smashed faces with gorgeous actresses such as Barbara Bouchet, Marianna Hill, France Nuyen, Sherry Jackson and Nancy Kovack. Tough gig. To celebrate Star Trek's fiftieth anniversary, we assembled a video montage of Kirk's kisses on the show. See if...

For these two starry-eyed lovers, there was nothing that could interfere with their passionate lip-lock on Monday night -- even if that something was an armed robbery. As captured by surveillance cameras, the couple remained unfazed as they sit at the bar, wrapped in each others embrace, while three robbers approach the register.

 (Photo: Boehner kissing Pelosi while holding a giant wooden mallet in front of a giant American flag.)  (Oh John, we've got to stop meeting like this.) I don't want to see him knock the daylights out of her,  I want to see her let HIM have it!

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Moroccan police have arrested a teenage boy and girl for posting a photo on Facebook of them kissing, with the incident provoking a slew of copycats, a rights organization said Friday. … The incident has caused such a stir among young people that a number of other couples have posted similar photos on their Facebook pages. …

ROME – The Vatican said Thursday it would take legal action against Benetton after the Italian fashion label used a photo purportedly showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a leading imam in a publicity campaign. The Vatican "has instructed its lawyers, in Italy and abroad, to take appropriate action" to prevent the circulation of the image, including in the mass media, it said in a statement. The image offended "not only the dignity of the Pope and the Catholic Church, but also the sensibilities of believers," the statement added. The picture, used in the company's "Unhate" publicity campaign, showed the pope...

A lesbian actress who starred in "The L-Word" said she kissed a girl — and got escorted off of a Southwest Airlines flight on Monday for doing it. Leisha Hailey took to Twitter to call for a boycott of the carrier after a flight attendant told them other passengers had complained after witnessing the affection. Her first tweet said: "I have been discriminated against." She later added, "Since when is showing affection to someone you love illegal?" Southwest Airlines Co. responded on its website that Hailey was approached "based solely on behavior and not gender." The airline's four-sentence response said...

On Saturday, dozens of people protested the actions of a city employee, who allegedly removed two gay men with disabilities from a facility run by the city of Hazard. In a report released by the city, a lifeguard at the Pavilion alleges the men were repeatedly hugging and kissing. Facility officials say this is inappropriate for both heterosexual and homosexual couples. However, the Kentucky Equality Federation says the men were only sitting on each other's laps, and they were discriminated against. Dozens from across the Commonwealth came to support the two gay men, who were allegedly thrown out of the...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Maybe he was testing a new recipe. Chef Christopher Turla earned his Davenport, Iowa restaurant a $335 ticket Wednesday after health inspectors saw a video of him kissing and licking toads in the kitchen.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A Saudi court convicted a man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for kissing a woman in a mall, a government-owned daily reported Thursday. Saudi religious police arrested the man and two women after seeing them on mall cameras "engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers," the Al-Yom newspaper said. The man, who is in his 20s, was seen with a woman "sitting on one of the chairs, exchanging kisses and hugs." It was unclear what the other woman was doing. Neither the man nor the women were identified...