MILAAN (ANP) - Kunstrijdster Alysa Liu heeft namens de Verenigde Staten goud gewonnen op de individuele wedstrijd op de Olympische Spelen van Milaan en Cortina. De Japanse Kaori Sakamoto pakte het zilver, voor haar landgenote Ami Nakai.

Na de korte kür ging Nakai aan de leiding, voor Sakamoto en Liu. In de vrije kür legde Liu de lat hoog met een nagenoeg foutloze oefening. De regerend wereldkampioen kreeg een score van 150,20. Sakamoto maakte in haar kür, op muziek van Édith Piaf, een fout door een sprong te missen. De score van 147,67 kostte haar een kans op de titel, maar een plek op het podium was zeker. Alleen Nakai kon Liu nog van de titel afhouden. De 17-jarige Japanse leek goed met de druk om te kunnen gaan, maar de jury bleek kritisch op de uitvoering van haar oefening.

Het is het tweede goud voor Liu op de Winterspelen in Milaan, nadat ze ook al het teamevenement won met de Verenigde Staten.

"Tyler Perry is a lot of things," F.d. Signifier says on early in the recently released The Tyler Perry Video.

F.D. Signifier (previously) then gives a four hour history lesson about the complexities of black media in America. Also he builds a table. The table is probably a metaphor that is going somewhere, I'm not sure yet, it was released last night and I'm only part of the way through. If you're allergic to multi-hour media critique video essays, I'd recommend take a Claritin and watch anyways. (Also on Nebula, and yes this finally caused me to try out Nebula)

De Amerikaanse ijshockeyvrouwen donderdagavond olympisch goud gewonnen na een zinderende finale tegen Canada.

Jeffrey Damnit says actor punched him and second man on Tuesday, calling both ‘faggot’ repeatedly

One of the men whom Shia LaBeouf allegedly battered and insulted with a homophobic slur on Mardi Gras morning in New Orleans on Tuesday, leading to his arrest, would like to see the actor face hate crime charges.

Jeffrey Damnit, who dresses in drag and was in makeup at the time of the encounter with LaBeouf, said on Thursday that the behavior attributed to the Transformers film franchise star was “a complete slap in the face to any alternative-culture person”.

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Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

Federal investigators examined Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer who worked at the St Thomas airport to which Epstein regularly flew on his private planes before traveling by boat or helicopter to his private island, newly released documents reveal.

As part of that investigation, which did not result in any charges, investigators also issued subpoenas related to three additional CBP officers working at the Cyril E King Airport (STT) on St Thomas, documents show. The Guardian also identified two other CBP officers on St Thomas and in Florida who were in contact with Epstein, based on emails and text messages between Epstein, his staff and the officers. It does not appear the FBI ever investigated those two officers.

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• 20-year-old delivers near-flawless free skate

• Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai win silver and bronze

Alysa Liu completed a stunning comeback to competitive figure skating by winning the first Olympic women’s figure skating gold medal for the United States in 24 years on Thursday night.

The 20-year-old from Clovis, California, who vanished from the sport nearly four years ago uncertain if she’d ever return, delivered a career-best long program to overtake Japanese rivals Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai. Skating in a shimmering gold dress to Donna Summer’s MacArthur Park Suite, Liu cleanly landed all seven of her triple jumps, including three in combination, and drew a standing ovation before finishing with 226.79 points overall.

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Government plans legislation giving landowners and tenants rights to cull deer to protect crops and property

It will be much easier to shoot deer in England under government plans that aim to curb the damage the animals are doing to the country’s woodlands.

Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, plans to bring forward new legislation to give landowners and tenants legal rights to shoot deer to protect crops and property.

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A bare-bones Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" -- whose entire premise is that solo-living users tap daily to confirm they're still alive, triggering an alert to an emergency contact after two missed check-ins -- has rocketed to the top of China's app store charts and gone viral globally without spending a dime on advertising.

The app wasn't built for the elderly, as many assumed; its creators are Gen-Z developers who said they were inspired by the isolation of urban life in a country where one-person households are expected to hit 200 million by 2030. Its rise coincided with China's birth rate plunging to a record low. Beijing quietly removed the app from Chinese stores last month, and the developers are now crowdsourcing a new name on social media after their first rebrand attempt, "Demumu," failed to catch on.

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In a video for the V&A Museum, stone carver Miriam Johnson hand-carves a pair of hieroglyphs “using both sunken relief and raised relief techniques”.

The video has minimal narration; mostly it’s just a master craftsperson quietly tapping away at the stone — and getting bits of rock all over the sleeve of her jumper. The effect is pretty relaxing, especially with the more rhythmic tapping for the second carving. (via the kid should see this)

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