California makes major step in decriminalizing HIV, lowers penalty for exposing partners to virus
“With his signature, Governor Brown has moved California’s archaic HIV laws out of the 1980s and into the 21st century,” Rick Zbur says.

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Ivana Trump: ‘I am First Lady, Okay?’ – WATCH

Ivana Trump, ex-wife of Donald and mother to Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric, sat down with Good Morning America because she’s got a new “tell-all” book to sell.

Ivana said she doesn’t call Trump at the White House “because Melania is there and I don’t want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I am basically first Trump wife, I’m First Lady, okay?”

Ivana said that Trump’s “pussy-grabbing” discussion wasn’t offensive: “He was not really disrespectful. Just jokes. Sometimes you say things which are silly.”

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Ivana also spoke with CBS Sunday Morning, telling Jim Axelrod that “for sure” Trump wouldn’t be who he is without her.

She also said she told him to use Twitter:

“I said, ‘I think you should tweet. It’s a new way, a new technology. And if you want to get your words across rightly, without telling The New York Times, which is going to twist every single word of yours, this is how you get your message out.”

And she was offered the U.S. ambassadorship to the Czech Republic:

“I was just offered to be the American ambassador to Czech Republic — and Donald told me, he said, ‘Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you.’ But I like my freedom. I like to do what I want to do, go wherever I want to go with whomever I want to go. And I can afford my lifestyle. OK, why would I go and say bye-bye to Miami in the winter, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in the summer and bye-bye to spring and fall in New York? I have a perfect life.”

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Harvey Weinstein Fired from The Weinstein Company Over Sexual Harassment Complaints

Harvey Weinstein has been fired from The Weinstein Company amid a growing sexual harassment scandal spawned by a New York Times article chronicling decades of complaints from women about abuse.

Variety reports:

“In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company — Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar — have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately,” the statement reads.

…Weinstein did not agree to leave the company, and there is no financial settlement in place, according to an insider. He has been fired for cause after the board met on Sunday, having spent most of the weekend trying to hammer out a deal for Weinstein to leave. Weinstein controls roughly 20% of the company.

On Friday, the Weinstein Company board suspended Weinstein and said there would be an internal investigation headed by attorney John Kiernan of the firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. The investigation will continue despite the fact that Weinstein has been fired.

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GOP Senator Bob Corker Slams ‘Reality Show’ Presidency, Says Trump Puts U.S. ‘on Path to World War III’

Following a Twitter spat on Sunday morning in which Trump made false accusations that Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) “begged” for his endorsement and Corker said the White House had become an “adult day care center,” Corker quadrupled down on Sunday in an interview with the New York Times.

In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Mr. Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.”

“He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”

Other statements from the astonishingly candid interview:

“I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him.”

Of his relationship with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson:

“A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true.”

And Trump’s lies:

“I don’t know why the president tweets out things that are not true,” he said. “You know he does it, everyone knows he does it, but he does.”

Corker also said that Trump’s impulsive threats toward other nations could set the U.S. “on the path to World War III.”

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Alan Cumming’s New Cabaret Is Studio 54 With Show Tunes

New York’s raucously artsy Club Cumming gives people a reason to go out and celebrate.

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“Younger” star bursts out of the closet (with a lavish gay wedding)
Now that’s how you make an entrance.

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