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Saweetie Applies ‘Hella Pressure’ With Her New EP: Stream It Now

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Saweetie Summer is in full effect with her new EP Hella Pressure out Friday (Aug. 1) via Warner Records.

The five-track project includes the J White Did It-produced single “Boffum” and four new tracks: “Pressure,” “Twinz,” “I Need Some Inspo” and “Superstars” with the K-pop girl group TWICE.

“They say pressure makes diamonds. Baby, I was born one. The name is Diamonté for a reason,” she said in a press release. “The pressure never crushed me. It crowned me.”

The rapper kicked off her debut headlining Australian tour on Wednesday (July 30) in

Commanders wideout Terry McLaurin requests trade after contract talks stall

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Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin has requested a trade, according to multiple reports on Thursday.

Frustrated by the lack of progress in negotiations toward a contract extension, McLaurin sat out the first four days of training camp before reporting on Sunday. After reporting, he can no longer be fined $50,000 per day.

McLaurin, who turns 30 in September, became a hold-in and was placed on the team’s physically unable to perform list with an apparent ankle injury suffered last season. He did not attend organized team activities and mandatory minicamp. He did, however, participate in spring workouts.

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Millennial women were told to chase our dreams. That’s left us burnt out, broke and dreaming of a rich patron | Carolin Würfel

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A couple of weeks ago, I came across an Amy Poehler joke in which she sums up the different generational experiences of money: “Boomers are all about money. Gen X is like: ‘Is it all about money?’ Millennials ask: ‘Where is the money?’ And gen Z is like: ‘What is money?’”

It made me laugh – but it also hit a nerve. It felt painfully accurate and oddly comforting. Maybe it’s not just me. I’m a millennial, and financial insecurity has been a theme in my life for a while. But recently, it’s grown louder, and I literally can’t stop asking: “WHERE IS THE GODDAMN MONEY?”

I used to ask nicely.

Experience: I rescued my children from a burning car

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One morning in 2018, my husband Reuben told me about a nightmare he’d had the previous night. He’d been driving over the Hewitt Avenue Trestle, a bridge near our house in Everett, Washington in the US, crashed through the barriers into the estuary below, and had to decide which of our two children to save.

Two weeks later, I was getting Talia, then three, and Weston, 10 months, dressed, fed and out of the door to take them to preschool on my way to work.

It was a route we’d taken a hundred times before. I was chatting to Reuben on speakerphone with both children in the back, when I smelled something odd,

Demi Lovato Makes ‘Fast’ Return to Pop Music With New Single: Stream It Now

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Demi Lovato is back in the mainstream music game, with the star’s first pop song in three years, “Fast,” released today (Aug. 1).

Over a club-ready, EDM-tinged beat, Lovato returns to the form of past Billboard Hot 100 hits such as “Cool for the Summer” and “Really Don’t Care” on “Fast,” singing, “I wanna go fast/ I wanna go hard/ I wanna go anywhere, anywhere you are.”

The track arrives after weeks of the musician teasing a return to pop music years after holding a “funeral” for her songs in the genre. Since 2022, Lovato has

Judge rules against Trump and extends deportation protections for 60,000 immigrants

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A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s plans and extended temporary protected status (TPS) for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.

TPS is a protection that can be granted by the homeland security secretary to people of various nationalities who are in the United States, preventing them from being deported and allowing them to work.

The Trump administration has aggressively been seeking to remove the protection, thus making more people eligible for removal. It’s part of a wider effort by the administration to carry out mass deportations of immigrants.

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem can extend TPS to immigrants in the US

Sorry America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you | John Quiggin

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If I were president of the United States, I would certainly be concerned about the cost and performance of the country’s healthcare system. The grim statistics are well known. As of 2022, the US spent $12,555 per person on healthcare, almost twice as much as other wealthy countries, including Australia. That gap alone cancels out about half of the difference in income per person between the US and Australia, according to World Bank estimates.

Higher expenditure on healthcare would not be a problem if it delivered a healthier population. But this is not the case. The US has one of the lowest life expectancies of any rich country. And even

Joe Biden says US is facing ‘existential’ fight with marginalized groups ‘dramatically under attack’

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Former United States President Joe Biden took the stage at the National Bar Association’s 100th Annual Awards Gala in Chicago to deliver remarks honoring the United States civil rights legacy, and the state of the country.

Speaking amid continual scrutiny around his physical and mental health, Biden played up the importance of a strong judicial branch, and characterized the US as at a moment in time that “makes us confront hard truths.”

“So many of you have fought to make this country live up to its highest ideals,” Biden said. “Not since the tumultuous days of the 1960s has this fight been so existential to who we are as a nation,

South Seattle fires being investigated as arson

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The Seattle Fire Department determined four recent fires were intentionally set and called two others suspicious.