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Jennifer Aniston’s family just got a little bigger and a lot cuter.⁠ ⁠ “The Morning Show” actor announced on Instagram Sunday that she had adopted a rescue puppy named Lord Chesterfield from the Wagmor Pet Hotel & Spa in Los Angeles. The pup joins Aniston’s two other dogs, Clyde, a schnauzer mix, and Sophie, a pit bull.⁠ ⁠ According to Wagmor Pets, Lord Chesterfield is a Great Pyranees mix. The little pup isn’t the only one from the rescue to go to a famous family. Other celebrities, including Chrissy Teigen and Kris Jenner, have adopted from Wagmor since Ellen DeGeneres posted about the animals there earlier this year.⁠ ⁠ Welcome to the family, Chesterfield! Aniston’s followers are thrilled to have you. Read more in our link in bio! 📷: @jenniferaniston

One of Sen. Kamala Harris’ most powerful messages while speaking during Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Monday was also one of the most silent.⁠ ⁠ The Democratic vice presidential nominee prominently displayed a children’s book about the life of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she spoke out against President Donald Trump’s nomination of Barrett to replace the legal and feminist icon.⁠ ⁠ The book, “I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark,” appeared over Harris’ shoulder while the senator vocally dissented against Barrett’s appointment, arguing that it jeopardizes everything Ginsburg fought to protect. ⁠ ⁠ “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg devoted her life to fight for equal justice and she defended the constitution,” Harris said. “She advocated for human rights and equality. She stood up for the rights of women. She protected workers. She fought for the rights of consumers against big corporations. She supported LGBTQ rights, and she did so much more.” ⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.

As Los Angeles fans celebrated the Lakers’ NBA title Sunday after their victory over the Miami Heat, one voice stood out.⁠ ⁠ Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, gave a bittersweet shoutout to the team.⁠ ⁠ The Lakers’ title was their first since Kobe Bryant’s last of five as a Laker in 2010, before lean times. Vanessa Bryant summed up the triumph on her Instagram story in a photo of Bryant with Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka.⁠ ⁠ Bryant and his daughter Gigi (Gianna) were killed with seven others in a helicopter crash in January. His legacy loomed large after the Lakers 17th championship.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio // 📷: Getty Images

Every queer person’s coming out story is different, but most narratives include at least a little bit of nervousness before opening up. Those conversations are rarely easy ― in some instances and places, coming out can be dangerous ― but the discussion with friends and family can be incredibly liberating.⁠ ⁠ Take it from those who’ve been there. For National Coming Out Day, we asked queer people to share how their lives have changed since coming out and what advice they wish they could impart to their younger, pre-out selves.⁠ ⁠ 1. “I’d say the anxiety of coming out never changes, whether you’re sitting down and telling people or coming out with a joke on a Facebook status update as I did. Your sexuality is your personal story and only you can decide who you come out to and how you come out in general. So try your best to come out in the most comfortable way you think you can, but just know that there will always be that anxious feeling to some degree.” ― @macdoesit, pictured, a YouTuber from Los Angeles who came out as gay at 16.⁠ ⁠ 2. “I would tell the pre-coming out version of myself to not wait for others to validate my identity. I craved constant validation from others to feel pretty, to feel smart, to feel successful, to feel human. Nowadays, I still smile when I feel welcomed and embraced by others, but I smile bigger when I can look at myself and feel that same love and acceptance.” ― Carolina Gutierrez, an entrepreneur from Los Angeles who came out as transgender at 21.⁠ ⁠ 3. “I would tell myself it’s OK to not have the words. Finding the right label for yourself can take time, and it’s OK to not know right away, or even for years. Eventually, you’ll have all the words you need to define yourself.” ― Ashton Daniel Thorne, a YouTuber from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who came out as a gay, nonbinary trans man at 14.⁠ ⁠ See all the responses at our link in bio. // 📝 @binnywong // 📷 @macdoesit

"Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-Calif.) performance at the vice presidential debate is going to live rent-free in my mind for a long time," writes HuffPost's Senior Enterprise Editor @heyerinevans. "It was a historic moment — for women, for Black people, for people of Asian descent and for people at the intersections of all of those identities — to see a woman of color speaking truth to power at another pivotal moment in our nation’s history."⁠ ⁠ "Perhaps this was the version of Harris that many had expected to see in the presidential primaries: sharp, steady and uncompromising," Evans continues. "She was ready; she persisted. She made it look easy... But her body language takes it to the next level: the head tilts, the side-eyes, the squinty eyes, the lean-ins and lean-backs, the laughs of disbelief, the full-throated exasperation in the face of straight-up foolery."⁠ ⁠ "Black women everywhere have mastered this body language," adds Evans. "We use it at home, in the office, at grocery stores and department stores, with friends, family, colleagues and strangers... These looks are a silent showing of our displeasure — and simmering internal rage — when someone is lying or insulting our intelligence."⁠ ⁠ "Pence used his time — and a lot of Harris’ — to lie, evade questions and gaslight the American people about the state of the country. He remarked that it 'was a privilege to be on the stage' with Harris, the kind of empty compliment that was immediately overridden as he interrupted her at every turn."⁠ ⁠ "Pence’s performance reminded me of so many workplace stories and experiences I’ve heard about and witnessed over the years," writes Evans. "A mediocre white man in a position of power versus an astute Black woman clamoring to be heard and to rise to the top. Too often, you are damned if you call out racism and incompetence and damned if you don’t."⁠ ⁠ Read Evans' full article at our link in bio. // 📝 @heyerinevans // 📷 Getty Images

It’s officially the month of treats, tricks, ghosts and ghouls. ⁠ ⁠ Admittedly, this Halloween is going to be a little different than the ones we’re used to — but you might still be looking to stay spooky, even if it’s from a distance. We've rounded up tasteful Halloween decorations you’ll want to leave up all year long at the link in our bio. ⁠ ⁠ We're all treats no tricks @huffpostfinds! Why not give us a follow.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg dropped a no-holds-barred zinger on President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence during an interview Wednesday on Fox News.⁠ ⁠ The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, appeared on the conservative network ahead of the night’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City, and was asked by host Martha McCallum to explain what Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris of California might say to justify how her stance has evolved on issues on which she and the Joe Biden, the top of the party’s ticket, previously differed. Smith mentioned Medicare for All, which Harris, during her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, was more willing to embrace than Biden.⁠ ⁠ “Well, there’s a classic parlor game of trying to find a little bit of daylight between running mates,” Buttigieg replied. “If people want to play that game, we could look into why an evangelical Christian like Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star.”⁠ ⁠ After his reference to Trump’s affair with the pornography actress who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, Buttigieg continued by wondering how Pence “feels about the immigration policy he called unconstitutional before he decided to team up with Donald Trump. If folks want to play that game, we could do it all night.”⁠ ⁠ See the full interview at our link in bio. // 📝 @josieharvey

In a rare political statement from a scientific journal, the New England Journal of Medicine released an editorial Wednesday lambasting the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and calling on Americans to vote President Donald Trump out of office next month.⁠ ⁠ November’s election will have life-or-death consequences for people across the country regardless of party alignment, the journal’s editorial board said.⁠ ⁠ “Reasonable people will certainly disagree about the many political positions taken by candidates,” the journal’s editors wrote. “But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.”⁠ ⁠ This is the first time in the journal’s 208-year history that the editors have ever published an editorial about elections, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Eric Rubin told CNN. The editorial was collectively signed by every editor on staff, something that’s only happened on four other recent occasions, Rubin added.⁠ ⁠ It’s easy to trace the myriad ways the Trump administration went wrong, they said:⁠ ⁠ "The United States instituted quarantine and isolation measures late and inconsistently, often without any effort to enforce them, after the disease had spread substantially in many communities. Our rules on social distancing have in many places been lackadaisical at best, with loosening of restrictions long before adequate disease control had been achieved. And in much of the country, people simply don’t wear masks, largely because our leaders have stated outright that masks are political tools rather than effective infection control measures."⁠ ⁠ Read more at our link in bio. // 📷 Getty Images

The vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris started with a clash on the COVID-19 pandemic ― one in which Pence, head of the White House’s coronavirus task force, repeatedly misrepresented the truth and tried to change the subject.⁠ ⁠ Harris responded by bringing the conversation back to the facts. Namely, the U.S. has fared worse in battling the health crisis than almost every other developed country, with more cases and more deaths ― more than 211,000 as the debate began ― and that the Trump administration’s response is likely a big reason why.⁠ ⁠ “The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in history,” Harris said. “210,000 dead people in our country. … Over 7 million people have contracted this disease. One in five business closed. We’re looking at frontline workers who have been treated like sacrificial workers.”⁠ ⁠ Harris pointed out that Trump and other officials, including Pence, knew about the threat in January and downplayed the threat for months ― as journalist Bob Woodward’s reporting recently confirmed.⁠ ⁠ Rather than explain why the administration minimized the threat for as long as it did, Pence insisted the administration acted effectively and early by restricting travel from China, where the outbreak started. The VP also said he and Trump respect people's right "to make choices in the best interest of their health."⁠ ⁠ "Let's talk about respecting the American people," Harris replied. "You respect the American people when you tell them the truth. You respect the American people when you have the courage to be a leader speaking of those things that you may not want people to hear, but they need to hear so they can protect themselves."⁠ ⁠ Read more at our link in bio. // 📷 Getty Images

Imagine you’re a fly. You’re zipping along and see a soft, white surface. You land and look up. You realize you’re at the 2020 vice presidential debate and you’re seated atop the head of Vice President Mike Pence.⁠ ⁠ This was the reality of one insect at the debate on Wednesday night. ⁠ ⁠ More than halfway through the debate between Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, public attention veered off from the responses of the two presidential running mates to zero in on the bug on Pence’s coiffure.⁠ ⁠ The buzz was plentiful on Twitter, so we’ve done you the favor of rounding up the buzziest of the bunch:⁠ ⁠ "The fly is free and now getting a COVID test," Megyn Kelly wrote.⁠ ⁠ "That fly is an American hero," Gabrielle Union tweeted.⁠ ⁠ "I think the fly won this debate," wrote Ana Cabrera. ⁠ ⁠ See the full roundup at our link in bio. // 📝 @ohheyjenna // 📷 Associated Press

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Amanda Kloots is calling President Donald Trump’s tweet about COVID-19 “beyond hurtful.”⁠ ⁠ The widow of Broadway star Nick Cordero, who died at age 41 after a 95-day battle with the coronavirus, shared several emotional posts on Instagram Monday after reading the president’s remarks about his own COVID-19 diagnosis.⁠ ⁠ Trump tweeted Monday that Americans shouldn’t “be afraid” of COVID-19 after he left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center despite still being infected with the virus. “Don’t let it dominate your life,” he wrote. “We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”⁠ ⁠ The tweet, consistent with Trump’s constant downplaying of the virus, implied that those who die of COVID-19 are weak and suggested that Americans should not fear a virus that has killed over 210,000 people in the United States under his watch.⁠ ⁠ “I’m honestly not a very political person, but this is really kind of hard to ignore,” Kloots said on Instagram Stories in response to the president’s remark. “I’m sitting here in my house and I’m honestly frozen. I can’t even move. I couldn’t believe what I read.”⁠ ⁠ “Not everyone’s lucky enough to walk out of the hospital after two days,” continued Kloots, who is now parenting her 1-year-old son Elvis by herself. “We are afraid, we are. I still am. I think about if I got it, if I got as sick as Nick, little Elvis, he doesn’t have his mom anymore. So I’m afraid.”⁠ ⁠ Kloots also took issue with Trump’s advice that Americans not let the global pandemic “dominate” their lives.⁠ ⁠ “Nick didn’t let it. It wasn’t a choice,” she said as she fought back tears in another Instagram story. “It dominated his life, it dominated my life, it dominated our family’s lives for 95 days and because he didn’t make it, it will forever affect my life. Even if he would have survived, it would have forever affected and changed our lives.”⁠ ⁠ Read more at our link in bio. // 📝 @magooing_it // 📷 @amandakloots