Politics

First came Twiggy, then Joanna Lumley, Dame Vera Lynn, Pamela Anderson, and Brigitte Bardot, and now me. With what amounts to a bevy of famous women speaking out for the majority of Britons who want to see a ban on the sale of foie gras, Fortnum & Mason is running out of excuses to profit from the bloated livers of force-fed geese.As someone who has lived in London for a number of years, I know that Fortnum & Mason strives to be the quintessential British department store. But there is nothing British about ramming a tube down the throats of geese and filling their stomachs with mush. That's why foie gras production is illegal in the UK and more than a dozen other countries and also why Fortnum goes to French farms to stock its shelves. I have watched the undercover video footage that PETA UK shot on these farms, and it's enough to put anyone off their tea and biscuits. Geese raised for the store's foie gras spend their final weeks in cramped pens that reek of the fumes from the waste that accumulates beneath the metal grates on which they're forced to stand. Knowing what it means when the worker with the force-feeding pipe approaches, the terrified geese try desperately to escape, but they have nowhere to go and are too sick and weak to get very far anyway. Some birds are so ill that they can't even stand up - but the workers still mercilessly pump more mush down their throats.More...

Chick-fil-A continues to be the fast-food of choice for gay marriage haters.The latest indication: An advertisement in a Dayton, Ohio newspaper offering $25 Chick-fil-A gift cards to every married, heterosexual couple that attended a May 19 event honoring "biblical marriage."More...

Aishwarya Rai looked downright dazzling at Cannes 2013 as she walked the red carpet on Sunday.The 39-year-old actress and model attended the premiere of "Inside Llewyn Davis" at the 66th film festival wearing a beaded Elie Saab gown. Her metallic nail polish and smoky eye makeup enhanced the glamorous outfit's dramatic effect.More...

Just a few months after workplace hookup service Bang With Professionals bit the dust, naughty Facebook trawler Bang With Friends suffered a similar setback, although possibly not a fatal one.On Friday, the hookup service's co-founder and CEO Colin Hodges confirmed to Gawker's tech blog, ValleyWag, that Bang With Friends' recently launched iOS app had suddenly been removed from Apple's App Store.More...

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In a U.S. economy where tens of millions are struggling, guestworkers on H-2B visas are trapped at the bottom. These so-called "low skilled" temporary workers occupy fields from hospitality to construction to landscaping to food processing -- alongside 24 million U.S. workers in the same sectors. And the job quality of those 24 million depends on whether guestworkers can blow the whistle on abuse.To understand why, take Ana Diaz. Ana came to the United States from Mexico last year as an H-2B guestworker. Ana peeled crawfish for a Walmart supplier in Louisiana who subjected her and her fellow guestworkers to shifts of up to 24 hours with no overtime pay. Supervisors locked them into the plant to prevent breaks, and threatened to beat them with a shovel to make them work faster. When workers complained, the boss responded with threats of violence against them and their families.More...

From the Biebs' stylish leather pants to T-Swift's (adorable) unicorn T-shirt during her "22" performance (seriously, where can we get one?), our favorite teen celebs came dressed to impress at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards last night -- both on and off the stage. The ceremony, which celebrates the highest chart-toppers in the industry, took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.Last night's looks were all about sequins, neon and glitter -- though we can't say we're surprised that Ed Sheeran wore a blue long-sleeved shirt on the Red Carpet (some things you can just count on, right, Ed?). We especially loved Ariana Grande's flirty strapless dress, while Austin Mahone kept it casual with a simple T-shirt and jacket combo.More...

By Martin Krauss and Andrei S. MarkovitsWell beyond soccer and sports, much of the world's attention will be fixated this Saturday on Wembley Stadium where -- for the very first time in the pedigreed history of this tournament -- Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will play for the title of Champion of Europe. This is a huge event by any measure: the most important game in arguably the best soccer tournament in the world in which the absolute very best professional clubs with the very best players play each other for nearly ten months to determine the eventual winner. Some -- us included -- regard the quality of soccer produced in this tournament -- and thus in its final game -- as the world's best bar none surpassing that of the World Cup; the latter is contested by hastily assembled all-star teams whose players share little in common other than passports, and lack the long-term coherence and familiarity with each other that collaborating in these clubs on a weekly basis in seasons with anywhere from forty to sixty games provides.More...

Every once in a while, we come across photos of abandoned mansions that have us shaking our heads. We find it difficult to believe that anyone would leave these gorgeous homes -- often still totally furnished -- to atrophy.We stumbled upon photos of one such home in the Netherlands. Niki Feijen snapped photos of the house, whose carpets have been overrun by moss, thanks to a hole in the roof. Feijen told The Huffington Post, "Normally in The Netherlands a place like that would be demolished or re-occupied within months. The rain has been pouring inside for months and Mother Nature's forces are relentless."More...

Zach Cooney made quite the unusual rescue Sunday when he raced from his lifeguard post to wrestle with a shark, dragging it away from beachgoers in Florida.In a video obtained by the Brevard Times, the Cocoa Beach lifeguard saves the shark from becoming beached, pulling it by its tail back into the ocean.More...