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U.S. syphilis cases reach highest levels since the 1950s, creating a critical public health need. In response to the surging number of syphilis and congenital syphilis cases nationwide, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is taking action to slow the spread with a focus on those most significantly impacted. Through the establishment of the National Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Syndemic (NSCSS) Federal Task Force, the Department is utilizing its agencies, its expertise, and its stakeholder network to respond to the U.S. syphilis and congenital syphilis epidemic. The actions of the Task Force leverage federal resources to reduce...

Grammy-winning pop star and Joe Biden-Kamala Harris surrogate Lizzo played a 200-year-old crystal flute lent to her by The Library of Congress, before proclaiming, “*****, I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s.” Lizzo was on stage at one of her recent concerts, when she was handed a 200-year old flute originally owned by the fourth U.S. president, James Madison.

A Rhode Island state senator raised eyebrows with a TikTok campaign clip of herself twerking while upside down in a very revealing bikini and saying: 'Vote Senator Mack.' Tiara Mack, 28, entered the Rhode Island legislature in January 2021 - the first black openly gay woman to do so, and set tongues wagging with her July 4 video, which was filmed on one of her adopted home state's famed beaches. The Democrat's video sparked a strong reaction, with 4,220 likes in the first 24 hours. She captured the clip: 'A promised senator thirst trap at Block Island.' Mack added a...

A 15-year-old boy was killed after shots rang out at a social justice-inspired musical festival in Washington DC. A total of four people, including two adults and a cop, were shot Sunday evening near the intersection of 14th and U Street NW, where the Moechella music festival, a Juneteenth celebration, was underway. The officer was taken to an area hospital and is in stable condition, police confirmed. The other two victims are also recovering. Video shared on Twitter showed revelers twerking on top of cars as shots rang out, forcing people to flee for cover. Other footage shows first responders...

CHICAGO (WLS)--Chicago police responded to a large crowd at North Avenue Beach Wednesday night after an event was anonymously promoted on social media, 43rd Ward Alderman Michele Smith said. Upwards of 400 people flooded the area around 8:30 p.m., blocking streets, climbing on CTA buses and throwing bottles. CPD officers responded about 9 p.m. to the 1600-block of North LaSalle Drive, near Clark Street and North Avenue, and monitored as the group left the area. Advertisement CPD said there were no injuries reported, but Termaine Patterson, 18, of Chicago was arrested about 11:25 p.m. in the 1700-block of North Clark...

onservative social media went positively apoplectic this week when a video of a South Carolina elected official dancing outside of an abortion clinic was posted on multiple social media outlets. The clip – circulated by the popular Twitter handle Libs of TikTok – depicted Richland County, South Carolina councilwoman Allison Terracio dancing outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, S.C. Terracio is a program coordinator for Planned Parenthood’s South Atlantic region. As part of that work, she helps coordinate groups of volunteer pro-choice activists who gather at abortion clinics to help shepherd women past anti-abortion protesters. “It is...

In the eye-popping, now-viral video, which had amassed more than 2.9 million views on Twitter as of Tuesday afternoon, a barefoot Rochelle is seen pushing a little boy out of her way as she struts over to her grinning groom, who’s seated in the middle of a dance floor. Then, draped in the bedazzled halter dress and matching G-string undies, the buxom bride bends over and wiggles her rear in her new hubby’s face while her bridal party busts a repetition of sultry moves to Beyoncé’s sexy single “Dance for You.”

The cast of Saturday Night Live kicked off the yuletide season by performing a disgusting skit called “Hip Hop Nativity.” It was provocative, it was sacrilegious and it was revolting. But maybe the greatest sin of all is that the comedy sketch was just not funny. Baby Jesus twerked while Mother Mary twirled on a stripper pole and “Baby Daddy” Joseph did a “pimp walk.” “Hip hop is down here,” one of the low-rent actresses said. “The streets are in the knees. Pimp walk. It’s Christmas y’all.” Baby J is shaking like a rattle, another actress said. “Praise him. Praise...

Chicago police are reportedly investigating a viral video in which three females are seen twerking atop a marked patrol car. The cellphone video posted on YouTube shows a crowd of onlookers watching the dancers on the hood of the slow-moving vehicle. “The Chicago Police Department is aware of a video that surfaced on social media showing several females riding on a marked squad car,” Deputy Director Tom Ahern said in a statement, Fox 32 Chicago reported. It was unclear who the women are or exactly when or where the clip was recorded.

The French film Cuties, currently available on Netflix, has outraged American politicians who say it sexualizes prepubescent girls. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D–Hawaii), a former presidential contender, warns that Cuties, which depicts an 11-year-old's participation in a risqué dance troupe that flouts the values of her conservative Muslim family, "will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex trafficking trade." Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) goes even further, suggesting that Cuties is illegal. Whatever your take on the film's merits, Cruz presents no evidence to substantiate that claim. In a letter he sent Attorney General William Barr on...

A child named Brandy exclaimed in my wife's 2nd grade classroom, "when I grow up, I want to be a ho!" Child protection found porn open all over the house, Brandy was removed. Porn's history is that it is an invincible control strategy favored by ultra elites who seek easy control of vast population masses. Porn was made available during the post-WW2 American occupation of Berlin. The Hayes Production Code was broken by a 1964 movie "The Pawnbroker" which had to treat The Shoa by showing the exposed breasts of an African-American Woman. During Baader-Meinhoff troubles in the 1970s, porn...

NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey headlined Brooklyn’s Barclays Center like an A-list duo Saturday, getting a rock-star like applause from a feverish audience of fans on a stage typically reserved for pop, rap and basketball stars. It was the fifth tour stop of “Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus,” Winfrey’s full-day wellness event with WW (Weight Watchers Reimagined) that had the New York venue usually holding concerts at night buzzing with bright-eyed attendees lined up as early as 8 a.m. It marked Obama’s return to Barclays just 14 months after appearing at the arena for...

**SNIP** David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s perplexing new musical “Soft Power” attempts to do three things at once: tell the real story of a 2015 stabbing attack on Hwang; do a “The King and I”-like turn that both romanticizes and criticizes a stereotypical America; and opine on the 2016 presidential election. There is an intermission, and the Public Theater has two bars. Start a tab. **SNIP** The first act of the dreamy show-within-a-show sees Clinton begging for votes, attempting to dazzle citizens and desperately trying to relate. That’s when she has that big production number at that ritziest of...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (WCMH) – Video from a Missouri freeway shows two people ‘twerking’ on top of a moving vehicle. It happened Monday during rush hour in St. Louis. Video shows two people dancing on top of a Suburban. Another person is halfway out a window recording everything. The woman who recorded the video told KSDK she did not call police, but hoped posting the video to social media would lead someone to recognize the people. Police call this kind of behavior a safety hazard. “They could fall off of the car and cause other drivers to wreck. It’s a...

Former President Barack Obama has a clear sense of what leadership values he wants to instill in his daughters. During a Q&A with Bill and Melinda Gates at a Sep. 20 event sponsored by their foundation, he discussed how he and Michelle talk to Malia and Sasha about being leaders. At the Gates Foundation event, Obama offered three pieces of advice (beginning around the 30-minute mark in the above video). 1. Being responsible is a privilege. “What we’ve tried to communicate their entire lives is that each us has responsibilities,” the former commander-in-chief said. “When they were small, their responsibilities...

In her arrogant celebrity thinking, Miley dear has forgotten that just like Tinkerbell and Mickey Mouse, she is only a figment of the twisted imagination of the Without Walt Disney modern-day empire You can’t twerk your way to the White House, Miley Cyrus because Twerking long ago already got there ahead of you. The celebrity world’s got its panties (for those who still bother wearing them) into a bunch seeing death looming for Marxism if the votes of the masses choose Donald J. Trump over their role model Hillary Clinton.

Pop star Miley Cyrus will go door-to-door in Virginia this weekend to persuade voters to cast their ballots for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in November. The 23-year-old “Wrecking Ball” singer will knock on doors at George Mason University in Northern Virginia on Saturday in a get-out-the-vote effort aimed at millennials, the Clinton campaign announced Thursday. While there, Cyrus will outline for young voters Clinton’s “vision for an America that is stronger together,” and will urge George Mason students to visit iwillvote.com, a pro-Clinton voter information website. The young singer — voted the worst celebrity role model for children by...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A hip-hop video shoot shut down parts of Route 66 in New Mexico last weekend because lowriders were driving around in circles as a crowd of hundreds twerked in the street. ... Macias said "it was nice to see families coming together on a summer night."

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Malia Obama is having a blast at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago! The eldest first daughter was spotted shaking it off on stage during one hip-hop set on July 29, and we still can’t get over it! See Malia party hard here! Who knew Malia, 18, had a wild side! Festival video footage showed the Harvard-bound student and a few of her friends grinding on stage and getting down with rapper, Mac Miller, 24, according to TMZ. She clearly was having a great time. And Malia stopped briefly to enjoy an inside joke with her girlfriends before she jumped right...