Canadian blogger 'Kim's twin' insists she's NOT trying to look like Ms Kardashian

from left is kamila, kimk and kamila takinag a selfie

A Canadian blogger who looks so similar to Kim Kardashian she's often called her 'twin' has revealed she doesn't try to copy the reality TV star - and insists she can't see the resemblance.

Kamilla Osman, from Toronto, has the same long, dark hair and almond-shaped eyes as the 35-year-old mother-of-two, as well as her curvaceous figure.

And the fashion blogger, who has 126,000 followers on Instagram, enjoys a similar beauty regime to Kim - even using a waist trainer just like the star.

She told Elle magazine: 'I personally do not see that much resemblance with Kim Kardashian in myself.'

However the lookalike was first compared to Kim when she was just 15 years old.

As well as having a natural resemblance to the reality TV star - who has two children with Kanye West after recently giving birth to a son Saint - Kamilla has the same olive skin and dark brows, and is also a make-up pro.

But Kamilla said she is not aiming to look like the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star although she does use many of the same beauty techniques, such as contouring and waist training.

She told the magazine: 'I wouldn't say I "follow Kim Kardashian," but I do certainly do all those things to keep myself fresh at all times.

'I do have a healthy diet, have a personal trainer, waist train, and contour.'

And surprisingly, Kamilla revealed her favourite member of the Kardashian/Jenner clan is actually momager Kris.

She told Elle magazine: 'Each one of them is different and beautiful in their own way.

'But I must say, I am a big fan of Kris Jenner. She is a true definition of #BossMom.'

Kamilla only joined Instagram three months ago but has quickly become a hit with her sleek body-con outfits in muted colours, similar to Kim's wardrobe.

In one picture, she is seen wearing a form-fitting skirt and crop top showing a flash of skin which would make Kim proud.

The blogger has amassed more than 5,000 likes on some of her photos, although she still has a way to go to rival Kim's 55 million followers.

Kamilla also shares her beauty routine on Instagram and recently wrote about having a hydro-facial to make her skin feel 'brand new and soft.'

However the similarities are endless and even in a 'throwback Thursday' image with caramel highlights, Kamilla could still be mistaken for a younger Kim.

And just like Kim, every opportunity is maximised for selfies.

On a trip to the gym, Kamilla gave a pouting pose next to her water bottle and captioned it: 'Stimulate your mind through working on your body.'

Many fans have commented on her striking similarity to Kim - something the Canadian has eagerly retweeted.

One user even dubbed her the 'copy-paste Kim' while another thought she could be 'Kim's twin'.

A third joked that Kamilla could be the real deal and asked: 'Kim?! Are you there?'

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This Kim Kardashian look alike is SO so crazy she could make money out of it

Her name even starts with a K!

So there is a Kim Kardashian lookalike that trumps ALL Kim Kardashian lookalikes, and hold up her name even starts with a K! (Kris you hidin' something?)

Kamïlla Õsman​​ is a fashion and beauty blogger from Toronto and has already accumulated over 80K Instagram followers.

Just have a look at the two and try to decipher who the F is who.

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Adele kicks another goal with comment about her son’s sexuality

But just when we thought she couldn’t get any better, she goes and does a kickass interview alongside said kickass cover and brings up a very important point: she does not give a shit whether her son, Angelo, is straight or gay.

Because, er, Hello, it’s nearly 2016 (see what we did there?)

In the interview she says:

“He makes me so proud of myself, and he makes me like myself so much. And I’ve always liked myself. I’ve never not liked myself. I don’t have hangups like that. But I’m so proud of myself that I made him in my belly. Cooked him in my belly and then he came out of me! This human who’s suddenly walking around and doing his own thing. I can’t wait to know who his best friends are going to be, who his girlfriend or his boyfriend is going to be or what movies he likes… Whatever my kid wants to do or be I will always support him no matter what.”

She also dishes about the struggles of fame the third time round, but that her three-year-old son keeps her “totally cool and calm about the whole thing.”

Honestly, we can’t wait to meet this kid – with a mum like Adele he’s bound to be an absolute legend.

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France banned ultra-skinny models and the fashion industry is pissed

The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority, however, disagreed and banned the ads in the U.K., saying that the lighting effects drew too much attention to the model's visible rib cage and her legs "where her thighs and knees appeared a similar width."

The new French law also states that any images where models have been digitally altered to appear either larger or smaller must be marked as a "retouched photograph." Failure to include the phrase will result in a fines ranging from about $40,000 to as much as 30 per cent of the cost of the advertising budget.

The retouched photograph law is set to go into effect by Jan. 1, 2017, but for now, there is no such timeline in place for the implementation of the law regarding the BMIs of the models themselves. Before that can happen, France's National Assembly needs to vote on numerous updates to the country's public health code, after which they can hammer out the exact terms and conditions of the law, and how to enforce it.

The fact is, although laws like this have been popping up across the world in recent years, from the U.K. to Spain, Israel, Italy, etc., they have happened without the support of the fashion industry as a whole. And while many agents, designers, editors, and models acknowledge there is a problem with the impossible standard of thinness perpetuated by the fashion industry, none of them are willing to accept responsibility for it.

"The power is in the hands of designers, photographers, and editors," Isabelle Saint-Félix, general secretary of Synam, France's union of model agencies, said to WWD.  Of course, agents could just refuse to work with models who do not meet a certain weight criteria, but then they might miss out on big jobs from clients who want what that agent doesn't have. That would mean less money. And when has a company ever been supportive of any action that might impact their profits?

Paris-based fashion stylist Simon Genskowski also passed the buck when speaking to WWD. "It would have been wise to reconsider current sample sizes," he said, as if making the clothes larger wouldn't just result in stylists pinning them to make them look fit smaller — already a common practice. 

While agents and stylists point the finger at designers, designers are pointing it right back at them. "Modelling agencies need to have a license issued by a prefect, and models are employees of the agencies," said Sylvie Zawadzki, a delegate for legal, social, and tax affairs for the the Fédération Française de la Couture du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, which is sort of like the French equivalent of the CFDA.

Given the prevailing mood of the fashion industry, it would appear that France is going to have a real fight on their hands when it comes to actually enforcing the new laws. Even if the government is able to set up clear guidelines, without rigorous inspections and diligent prosecution by the French authorities, you had better believe that designers, photographers, agents, and editors who want to promote ultra-thin models will find a way to make it happen. For instance, what's to stop a model, agent, or designer from slipping an unscrupulous doctor a little extra money under the table for a passing mark on a health form? People have done far worse for far less.

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Parents, child found dead in murder-suicide in luxury home

EDGEWATER, N.J. — A man shot and killed his wife and 8-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself at a luxury high-rise apartment building, authorities said.
The bodies of Michael Stasko, Melissa Stasko and 8-year-old Mellie Stasko were found Friday night at the Windsor at Mariners Tower, an apartment building on the bank of the Hudson River in Edgewater, Bergen County prosecutor John Molinelli said.
Counselors, psychologists and social workers plan to help Edgewater students cope with the murder-suicide when they return to school Jan. 4, school district officials said. District officials will be available this week to help parents as needed.
Authorities said a .45-caliber handgun with hollow-point bullets was found where 53-year-old watch salesman Michael Stasko shot and killed his 49-year-old wife and their daughter before killing himself.
Michael Stasko had a gunshot wound under his chin. His wife and daughter had been shot in the backs of their heads. The shootings could have happened as long ago as Tuesday or Wednesday, and a possible motive was under investigation, authorities said.
"We don't know whether it was financial. We don't know whether it was familial. We don't know really perhaps what was going through Mr. Stasko's mind for him to do this," Molinelli said.
Police officers found the Staskos' bodies after receiving a call from Melissa Stasko's worried brother in Missouri, who told them that the family was expected to arrive there Friday afternoon to celebrate Christmas.
Molinelli said Michael Stasko operated his watch business out of his home. He described the family's apartment as "lovely" and "well kept," with neatly wrapped presents underneath a Christmas tree.
"You see some cards and holiday cards," Molinelli said. "It would appear from the 8-year-old's standpoint she very much loved her father."
Molinelli called the case "troubling."
"I'm doing this 14 years, and whenever you see an 8-year-old lying in a bed and she's dead, we try to find answers right away, and we will try to find answers on this one," he said.

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On Muslims, Democrats find an unlikely ally: George W Bush

WASHINGTON — Taunted by Republicans to declare war on "radical Islamic terrorism," Democrats are turning to an unlikely ally: George W. Bush.
President Barack Obama, under pressure to be more aggressive on terrorism, regularly cites his predecessor's refusal to demonize Muslims or play into the notion of a clash between Islam and the West. It's a striking endorsement from a president whose political rise was predicated on opposition to the Iraq war and Bush's hawkish approach in the Middle East.
As Hillary Clinton put it, "George W. Bush was right."
Laying out her plan to fight domestic terrorism, Clinton reminded voters in Minneapolis earlier this month of Bush's visit to a Muslim center six days after the Sept. 11 attacks. She even quoted his words from that day about those who intimidate Muslim-Americans: "They represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior."
Bush, of course, was not referring to the 2016 Republican presidential field. Clinton certainly was.
Donald Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. — then enjoyed a bump in the polls. Ben Carson deems traditional Muslims unfit for the presidency. Marco Rubio warns of a "civilizational struggle against radical, apocalyptic Islam," making a distinction, at least, between ordinary Muslims and extremists. Ted Cruz berates Clinton and Obama incessantly for refusing to declare war on "radical Islamic terrorism."
Clinton and Obama argue that rhetoric just helps the Islamic State group and likeminded extremists, whose recruitment pitch is based on the narrative of an apocalyptic battle between Islam and the West. The Democrats warned that proposals like Trump's Muslim ban jeopardize national security, drawing a contrast with Bush.
"I was very proud after 9/11 when he was adamant and clear about the fact that this is not a war on Islam," Obama said recently. His message to today's Republican leaders: "They should follow his example. It was the right one. It was the right impulse."
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton's top challenger for the Democratic nomination, visited a mosque this month in a show of solidarity that evoked Bush's after 9/11. And
All of that marks a rare departure for a party that has spent the last decade slamming the former president — to much electoral success. After all, even many of the Republican candidates, even if in retrospect, have criticized the war in Iraq, where Islamic State militants now control part of the country and are seeking to export terrorism around the world.
But Bush's example has become particularly poignant for Democrats following recent terrorist attacks in Paris and California that have left people more preoccupied with terrorism than at any time since 9/11. Both Clinton and Obama have sought to deflect the critique that they're too soft on the domestic terrorism threat.
"There weren't a lot of policy decisions that I agreed with George W. Bush on, but I was never going to call him weak on terror," said Mo Elleithee, a longtime Democratic Party official who now runs Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.
Not all Republican candidates have been as harsh about Muslims as Trump has been. Jeb Bush has joined his GOP challengers in describing the enemy as "radical Islamic terrorism." But he's also said the U.S. should follow his brother's lead, arguing in the last GOP debate that "we can't dissociate ourselves from peace-loving Muslims."
During the 2001 mosque visit, one of several occasions Bush denounced anti-Muslim bias, he stood alongside Muslim leaders and quoted the Quran about evil-doers being ultimately defeated. He insisted that intimidation against Muslims in America would not stand.
"The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam," Bush said.
The former president has stayed mostly silent throughout the recent debate. His spokesman, Freddy Ford, recently said Bush wouldn't comment on "Trump's bluster" but repeated Bush's insistence that "true Islam is peaceful." Ford declined to discuss what Bush thinks about Democrats quoting him now.All of that marks a rare departure for a party that has spent the last decade slamming the former president — to much electoral success. After all, even many of the Republican candidates, even if in retrospect, have criticized the war in Iraq, where Islamic State militants now control part of the country and are seeking to export terrorism around the world.
But Bush's example has become particularly poignant for Democrats following recent terrorist attacks in Paris and California that have left people more preoccupied with terrorism than at any time since 9/11. Both Clinton and Obama have sought to deflect the critique that they're too soft on the domestic terrorism threat.
"There weren't a lot of policy decisions that I agreed with George W. Bush on, but I was never going to call him weak on terror," said Mo Elleithee, a longtime Democratic Party official who now runs Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.
Not all Republican candidates have been as harsh about Muslims as Trump has been. Jeb Bush has joined his GOP challengers in describing the enemy as "radical Islamic terrorism." But he's also said the U.S. should follow his brother's lead, arguing in the last GOP debate that "we can't dissociate ourselves from peace-loving Muslims."
During the 2001 mosque visit, one of several occasions Bush denounced anti-Muslim bias, he stood alongside Muslim leaders and quoted the Quran about evil-doers being ultimately defeated. He insisted that intimidation against Muslims in America would not stand.
"The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam," Bush said.
The former president has stayed mostly silent throughout the recent debate. His spokesman, Freddy Ford, recently said Bush wouldn't comment on "Trump's bluster" but repeated Bush's insistence that "true Islam is peaceful." Ford declined to discuss what Bush thinks about Democrats quoting him now.
Muslim groups have called on Obama to follow Bush's example by visiting a mosque, a move that would be risky for a president who has faced longstanding but false claims that he is a Muslim. White House officials didn't rule out the possibility Obama would visit a mosque, but said there were no imminent plans to do so.
"Bush sent a very powerful message to the world and American Muslims that backlash and attacks on this faith community will not be tolerated," said Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "We would hope President Obama would make a similar gesture."

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Trump’s Tax Cuts Would Add $24.5 Trillion to the Debt

Donald Trump’s tax-cut plan could add as much as $24.5 trillion to the national debt over the coming 20 years unless it is accompanied by steep cuts in spending and entitlement programs, a new analysis finds. 

The paper published by the Tax Policy Center , a joint venture by the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, provides a sobering reminder that many of the generous tax cut plans being floated by Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other candidates carry enormous long-term price tags. Some of them, if adopted, would spark a renewal of the long-term debt crisis and could undermine the very economic recovery that GOP and Democratic presidential candidates alike are promising.The numbers are startling, according to the new report: Trump’s proposals for consolidating and slashing individual and corporate tax rates and getting rid of the estate tax would reduce federal revenues by an estimated $9.5 trillion over the coming decade and an additional $15 trillion over the subsequent 10 years. And that’s before accounting for the government’s added interest costs from having to borrow substantial sums to make up for the revenue shortfall and keep the government operating.
Under Trump’s plan, income taxes would be eliminated entirely for millions of single Americans who earn less than $25,000 a year and married couples making less than $50,000 a year. Trump pledged that individuals would receive a new, simplified one-page form to send to the IRS saying, “I win.”
He would collapse the number of income tax brackets from seven to four, with the highest marginal tax rate reduced from the current 39.6 percent to 25 percent. Businesses ranging from major corporations to tiny operations would also have their rates cut to no more than 15 percent, from the current corporate rate of 35 percent.
Finally, Trump has pledged to eliminate the estate tax – which would be a boon to farmers and ranchers as well as average Americans.
The Tax Policy Center found that about two-thirds of the overall revenue lost under that plan would result from lowering income tax rates and roughly a third from cutting corporate tax rates. Taxpayers at every income level would benefit, but the wealthiest Americans would benefit most — both in an absolute dollar term and as a percentage of their income. Trump has said that most Americans “will love” his tax plan, and that it would greatly improve economic incentives to work, save and invest.
"It'll grow the American economy at a level that it hasn't seen for decades, and all of this does not add to our debt or our deficit," Trump said of his tax plan during a news conference in late September.
The billionaire businessman said he would couple his tax plan with savings from elimination of wasteful government spending, by renegotiating Obama administration trade deals and by insisting that our allies reimburse the government for the cost of U.S. military installations and protection. Trump has also said he would offset part of the cost of the tax cuts by eliminating most deductions for individuals and businesses and by  imposing a one-time tax on corporate assets held abroad.
But tax and budget analysts and government watchdogs are highly skeptical that Trump and other candidates could come close to offsetting the impact of their tax cut schemes.
“If you wanted to cut spending to offset these tax cuts you’d have to eliminate all of national defense and still a bunch of discretionary spending or spending on Medicare and Social Security to do it,”  Tax Policy Center Director Leonard Burman told reporters on a Tuesday call, according to the Washington Post .
Trump said in April that he opposed cutting Social Security and other entitlement programs. Moreover, the Tax Policy Center included Trump’s promised elimination of tax deductions and some loopholes into its calculations, though its calculations involved some assumptions to be able to model out details not fully specified in Trump’s proposal.
The Tax Policy Center study concludes that without substantial offsetting cuts or savings, Trump’s tax cuts would increase the national debt by nearly 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product by 2036. At the same time, the huge drain on the treasury would undermine some or all of the economic incentives being sought.
Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, an anti-deficit group, complained that Trump’s massive tax cut plan “distorts public expectations by giving people the idea that we’re back in 2000 again and we have a big budget surplus — and we don’t.”
The perception problem is compounded by a very real one, Bixby said: “There’s still no magic way to pay for tax cuts. These kind of proposals really get in the way of a realistic discussion about the budget, because they lose so much revenue that you would have to cut even more spending that would be needed just to get back to a balanced budget or a sustainable budget.” This fall, the independent Tax Foundation did a similar analysis of Trump’s tax plan and found that it would cost $11.9 trillion over the coming decade under “static” scoring that doesn’t take into account likely economic growth from changes in tax policy. When likely growth was factored in, Trump’s tax cuts would cost somewhat less — $10.1 trillion, according to the Tax Foundation.

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Trump’s fans are excited to rally — but they’re not sure they’ll show up to vote......

DES MOINES — When Donald Trump held one of his boisterous rallies at the state fairgrounds this month, Bonnie and Randy Reynolds arrived two hours early to make sure they could snag seats. They bought “Make America Great Again” hats, put on campaign T-shirts and passed through a security checkpoint.

The West Des Moines couple, who have two grown children, had never been to a political event before. Bonnie works in a mailroom; Randy is a press operator. They don’t live paycheck to paycheck, but it would take just one small catastrophe to push them there.
“In the end, everything that he’s saying might not happen if he is elected — but I’m willing to give it a shot,” said Randy Reynolds, 49, who used to vote for Democrats but switched to Republicans a decade ago. “I will give him 100 percent. . . . It would be amazing if the majority of things that he said would actually happen. That would be amazing.”
So, obviously, the couple plan to caucus for Trump on Feb. 1?“We’re going to see,” Reynolds said. “With kids and grandkids and all this, it’s kind of hectic. . . . We’ll look into it. If our time is available, then yeah, maybe we’ll do it. Maybe. We’ll have to see.”
Trump’s unexpected and sustained popularity has, at least in part, been fueled by his appeal to a voting bloc that seems to be emerging: blue-collar workers without college degrees who are slightly younger than the traditional Republican voter. Many say they haven’t cared about politics until now, as they flock to Trump rallies like groupies to a rock concert, read his books, buy his products, quote his jokes and follow his social-media accounts.
But is their devotion to Trump deep enough to vote?
For those who don’t regularly vote in primaries, doing so for the first time is a hurdle — especially in Iowa, which uses a caucus system that can intimidate first-timers.
In states with early primary contests, Trump’s staffers are trying to teach their supporters how to vote and get a commitment that they actually will. Before each rally here, Trump’s state co-chairs walk the crowd through how the caucuses work and urge them to attend. But they are also hoping word will spread through social media and in conversations after church, at the school bus stop, during coffee breaks and over holiday dinners.
Bonnie Reynolds, 47, said she didn’t know much about caucusing until her co-worker explained it to her and encouraged her to get involved. When the couple showed up at Trump’s rally on Dec. 11, a campaign volunteer asked them to sign a sheet committing to caucusing. Reynolds signed them up, although she’s not sure whether she will follow through.
In the past few weeks, Trump himself has started talking about the importance of voting in early states. At a rally in western Iowa in early December, Trump said there’s no excuse not to vote.
“You’ve got to get there,” he said. “Even if you’re not feeling good, if you’re feeling horrible, if you had a horrible fight with your wife or your husband. . . . If you caught your husband cheating the night before, you’ve got to go to the caucus.”
Trump’s campaign strategy is far from traditional, although his ground game in early voting states has followed a relatively standard playbook in some respects. Over the summer, he hired 10 staffers in Iowa, who traveled around the state in a Trump-branded bus to hand out T-shirts, bumper stickers and hats in exchange for contact information.
But just as Trump doesn’t spend money on pollsters or focus groups, the campaign has yet to purchase databases of potential voters, a key organizing tool used by most campaigns. Instead of buying such a tool from a private contractor, the campaign has compiled its own database using contact information from every rally attendee, either when they registered online or showed up at the door.
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With just five weeks until the Iowa caucuses, other Republican candidates have started to flood the state with more staffers and volunteers. Trump’s campaign now has an Iowa staff of 15, who organize at least one large rally per week in addition to continuing to recruit “caucus leaders” who can be the voice of the campaign at caucus locations.
Trump’s Iowa team remains confident that his rally crowds will serendipitously translate into caucus support. Sam Clovis, Trump’s Iowa co-chair, pointed to a rally Trump held in Clay County in northwest Iowa in early December. Only 16,500 people live in the county, but 1,500 showed up at the rally in Spencer, and Clovis said he asked the crowd how many had never caucused before.
“Twenty percent of the hands went up,” Clovis said. “And I said: How many of you are going to caucus this time? Same 20 percent of hands went up, because he has done something. This is something that’s not reflected in the polls. It’s not reflected in any of the ways that you go out and count things.”
There are few gauges right now to measure which candidate might do better in Iowa among the most likely voters. Nationally, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released this month found that 38 percent of registered Republicans support Trump. Among those who said they are certain to vote, 41 percent said they would pick Trump.
Unlike a general election or traditional primary, only a small fraction of Iowans attend the caucuses. In 2012 and 2008, roughly 20 percent of registered Republicans caucused. In low-turnout elections like this, voters tend to be older people who vote regularly and are more likely to have a college degree — not necessarily the group Trump seems to have fired up.
It takes a higher level of commitment to caucus. In traditional primaries, voters have most of the day to show up at the polls. To caucus, Iowans have to be in line at their local precinct by 7 p.m. and will spend most of their evening there, listening to speeches and casting their vote.
Feb. 1 is a Monday night, likely to be cold, perhaps snowy or icy. The caucuses have to compete with the logistics of everyday life: evening work shifts, children who have after-school activities or need help with their homework, making dinner and preparing for the week ahead. And campaigns only have one shot at getting supporters through the door — there’s no early voting and a limited time to monitor who has yet to show up.
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“This is a struggle for all of the candidates, because a caucus is different from voting. . . . A caucus is very inconvenient,” said Craig Robinson, a former Iowa GOP official who now runs the blog TheIowaRepublican.com. “It takes a commitment of time.”
But Robinson noted that it also takes a commitment of time to attend a Trump rally, and thousands of Iowans have already done that, while other campaigns struggle to attract a couple hundred. He attended a Trump rally in eastern Iowa this fall and was surprised to see so many fans show up already wearing campaign T-shirts, suggesting a level of planning that could translate into the willingness to caucus.
“There is a committed base of support that no doubt will caucus for him,” Robinson said.
At Trump’s rally in Des Moines on Dec. 11, a couple in their early 30s said they have no plans to caucus, even though they hope Trump will be president and wanted their two young sons to see the candidate speak. A 25-year-old graduate student said he would probably caucus for Trump, but he just moved to the state and has no idea how to do so. A group of high school students said they won’t be old enough to vote. A retiree who said he’s “not a political sort of guy” is still surveying his options.
Linda Stuver, 61, said Trump is her top pick, although she also likes Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. During the last election cycle, she went to a rally for Mitt Romney, her first political event. The Trump rally was her second.
“This is only my second time I’ve ever been to one of these — that’s how annoyed I am with what’s happening to our country,” said Stuver, who lives in Des Moines and says she raised four children by cleaning houses and working other low-level jobs. “I can’t even have Obama be on TV anymore — I have to shut it off, that’s how irritated I am. Us old folks have seen a lot, and what’s happening in our country is not right.”
Is she annoyed and irritated enough to caucus?
“I don’t know,” she said, shaking her head. “I never have.”
As Stuver waited for the rally to start, Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” blared and a Trump staffer with a clipboard stopped by the small section of bleachers where she was sitting.
“Is there anybody up here that’s 100 percent sure that you’re caucusing on February 1 for Trump?” the staffer asked, then waited, holding the clipboard over his head. “Anybody? No?”
With no takers, the staffer moved on to the next section of cheering fans eagerly awaiting Trump’s arrival.
Scott Clement in Washington contributed to this report.

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Kenyan policeman gets stuck in married woman during illicit sex

A police officer in Kenya has been caught in a deadly web of sex scandal after he was caught stuck on a married woman laced with 'Magun'.According to an eyewitnesses who made the video which has gone on to become an Internet sensation, the woman's husband had long suspected that his wife had a string of secret sexual affairs with other men and decided to place a deadly and potent charm called Kikamba, (Magun in Nigeria), on her so that any man that sleeps with her would be stuck, thereby exposing her infidelity.A Kenyan police officer was given the embarrassment of his lifewhen he was caught red handed stuck between the legs of his secret lover who is a married woman.It did not take long before the police officer was caught in the Kikamba magic while having sex with the woman in a hotel in Katui County, 160 kilometers east of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.It did not take long before the police officer was caught in the Kikamba magic while having sex with the woman in a hotel in Katui County, 160 kilometers east of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.

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Gay Brothers Caught and taken to priest For cleansing

Two men who are said to be relatives, were nabbed while having  sex in the Agbor Alidinma area in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, on December 23, 2015, and after they were properly beaten by their community members, they were stripped naked and handed over to the town's Chief Priest for spiritual cleansing so as to avert any calamity befalling the community.

According to the report posted online, the two men identified asMonday Ehikwe and Godwin Chukwueku Okwuoseh, said to be cousins, were caught right in the act in an uncompleted building in the area by the vigilante group attached to the community.

They were stripped naked and handed over to the Okpala, the spiritual head of Agbor-Alidinma and his council of chiefs who subsequently handed them over to the Chief Priest of the village shrine for spiritual cleaning and administration of first step traditional oath on them.They were fined the sum of N25,000 each and mandated to return to the shrine on a later date in January, 2016, with one native cow, with 36 native chalks, 50 cola nuts, two red cloths each and 20 tuber of yams, for final traditional bath.

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Earthquake shakes Afghanistan, Pakistan, India

Several persons have been injured after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck north of Kabul, Afghanistan, its devastating tremors felt across Pakistan and India.A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has today struck northeast Afghanistan near the country's borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), with tremors being felt as far as New Delhi, India’s capital city.

The USGS said Saturday morning's earthquake, initially reported as magnitude 6.4, was at a depth of 203km and centered 82km southeast of the town of Feyzabad, capital of the Afghan province of Badakhshan.

Kabul residents rushed out of their homes and buildings on what was a bitterly cold night amid fears of aftershocks, according to a local journalist, while the quake also caused buildings to sway in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

Tremors were reported from Chandigarh, Srinagar, Jaipur, Delhi and the National Capital Region in India.

In Pakistan, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government issued a red alert soon after the earthquake but there was no immediate information about loss of life or damage to property.

Injuries from Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar rapidly increased to 39 while a portion of a hospital in Mardan had to be evacuated because of a crack in the wall caused by the quake.

The quake lasted only 59seconds, but was severe, being felt in several locations in the three countries.

“The most horrible 50 seconds of my life. That earthquake was pretty long and scary as hell.. May Allah forgive us and protect us!”

Though there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties in Afghanistan, at least 40 people were injured in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

In Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, some residents remained outside their homes despite the chilly winter weather, fearful of aftershocks.

Sahiba Khan, a student, said she was reading when the earthquake jolted her home. She said her family ran outside when reciting verses from the Quran.

Tremors were also felt in India’s Chandigarh, Srinagar, Jiapur, Delhi and National Capital regions, according to New Delhi Television.

Afghanistan is notorious for being frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates

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OMM! Knockout Amputates A 10 Years Old Boy's Arm In Enugu

An unnamed 10-year old boy's right arm is positioned for full amputation at the National 

Orthopedic Hospital in Enugu State as a result of Xmas firework also knows as knockouts 

which exploded and shattered his hand as he was handling it on Christmas day.

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81-year old man pushes woman wearing hijab into an oncoming train

CCTV captured a man pushing off a woman putting on hijab into an oncoming train on the London underground. 

In the horrifying footage, a man is seen loitering on the platform of the station. 

As the train approaches, he seems to rush towards her and push her into the side of the moving train. 

She then collided with the side of the train before landing back on the platform.

Immediately the incident happened, police were called to the train station.

The female victim suffered minor injuries and was treated for grazes to her face at hospital, the British Transport Police revealed.

Yoshiyuki Shinohara, 81, who is homeless, was arrested and charged on suspicion of attempted murder.

He appeared before Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday.

He has been remanded in custody until November 25 when he will appear before Blackfriars Crown Court.

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20 years old experience islamophobic abuse

20 year old Muslim student, Iqra Mohamed said she was a victim of islamophobic abuse while on the 43 bus in Islington London.

Iqra who is from Finsbury Park said the white man spat on her and kept cussing her out because she was on her Hijab. The other passengers on the bus looked away without interfering until her friend boarded the bus at a later stop and confronted the man.

She shared her ordeal on Twitter: “a white man spat at me in a buss of people and kept on cussing me out cause of my Hijaab while people smiled a laughed along.”

Iqra described the man as having a long hair and slurred speech. She reported to Standard News:” I was with a friend when we heard a man chuntering away at the back of the bus. When my friend got off I got up to go with her and his voice became louder.”

“I knew he was talking about me when I turned around and he said ‘she got the cheek to look at me’.”

She further explained that after saying goodbye to her friend, the man moved to another seat, calling her a racist and a terrorist.

“He started to go crazy. He said people like me were coming into this country and taking all the jobs.”

What really made the Muslim student unhappy was how no one spoke up for her or wanted to have anything to do with the matter.

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Calls Donald Trump’s Comments ‘Degrading’ to Women

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign today blasted Republican front-runner Donald Trump for what it called sexually derogatory comments he made at a campaign rally Monday night.

"We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should,” communications director Jen Palmieri tweeted.

During a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump referred to Clinton's performance in the 2008 election.

"Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don't know who would be worse, I don't know, how could it be worse?" he told the crowd. "She was favored to win and she got [expletive], she lost, I mean she lost.”

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The GOP front-runner also attacked Clinton for taking a bathroom break during Saturday’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire.

"I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't want to talk about it,” Trump said. “No, it's too disgusting. Don't say it, it's disgusting, let's not talk, we want to be very, very straight up. But I thought that, wasn't that a weird deal.”

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Boko Haram Insurgents killed 11 people as they Invade Borno Community

Upto11 people were killed and dozens injured yesterday when insurgents belonging to Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, invaded Kimba, a pastoral community in Borno State. 

Two members of a local vigilante group in the besieged community told SaharaReporters that the Islamist fighters rode into the town on bicycles since Kimba, which is in Biu local government area, is remote. 

He said the attackers sneaked into the town at dusk and began their killing spree. He disclosed that the insurgents also burnt most of the homes in the town. 

“They killed 11 people and injured many more people and set the whole village ablaze,” said Mohammed Aliyu, a vigilante member. According to another member of the vigilante group, Isa Biu, “The attackers rode on bicycles to invade Kimba. They had guns and they just opened fire on villagers.”

Kimba is about to 22 miles from Biu town, the biggest town in the southern part of Borno State. 

SaharaReporters was unable to reach a military source to confirm the attack and the casualty figures as well as extent of damages. 

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My mother has secret children from a first marriage

She left her husband and children to be with my father.

My mother was 18 when she married her first husband. She got married to get away from her parents, who were loving, but rather strict and old-fashioned (this was in the 1960s). While married to her first husband, she had three children. They were still very young when she met my father and left her family for him.

If this makes my mum sound callous, it isn’t meant to. She was still very young and, I think, besotted with my father, who could be charming and good fun. But he was also a difficult man and their marriage eventually ended. He has since died.

I learned of my mum’s first family when one of my half-siblings, a sister, came to live with us when I was a young child and she was a teenager. I don’t know if we would ever have been told otherwise. 

I learned later from relatives that for some years my mum tried to keep in touch with her first three children (I also have a younger brother from my mum’s second marriage), but any letters or presents she sent were returned unopened. Eventually, she must have had to make the heartbreaking decision to give up.

This has not been talked about openly within the family. I have no idea how much contact my half-sister has with her siblings and, to my knowledge, my mum has not seen them since she left. I realised early on that it was a subject considered off limits, though I did clumsily try to find out more when I was younger. 

I know nothing about my other half-siblings, apart from their names, and have never felt any real desire to meet them. However, neither have I any desire to have to contact them for the first time when mum has died or is very ill. She is in her 70s and, although in good health now, this could soon change. My brother and half-sister both shy away from conflict and I have always assumed it would be me who would be left to sort this out.

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