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I live at the South Pole: Here’s my daily routine in -122F weather

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I live at the South Pole: Here’s my daily routine in -122F weather

Many people dream of adventure, or a change of scenery from their hectic lives, but would you spend a year living in the challenging conditions of the South Pole?

Michelle Endo, 32, originally from San Francisco, is about to complete a year living at the South Pole. She has been working as the hospitality manager at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as part of the National Science Foundation’s U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP).

“I first found out about the U.S. Antarctic Program in 2019 when I was working on cruise ships,” Endo told Newsweek. “I’d seen the Antarctica episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown where he visited both McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Stations.

“I realized this was my ticket to Antarctica,” Endo added. “Up until then, I’d been able to find jobs that had taken me to six continents, all without me having to pay out of pocket to visit these places. Antarctica was my last continent, and getting a job there would allow me to go for free. Despite the harsh conditions, I love going for walks, especially when the auroras are out.”

In a video posted to her Instagram with over 43,760 likes, Endo says that her days start by grabbing her radio and water bottle. She also says “hi to Sam,” who she reveals is a possum pelt draped over a Roomba, an automated vacuum.

Endo then begins restocking supplies and taking care of the store, where they sell everything from pharmacy supplies to snacks, drinks and souvenirs.

The weather monitor displays a forecast of minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 122 degrees Fahrenheit.

You might safely assume that the food options will be limited in the South Pole. However, Endo said that the residents have freshly baked desserts for every meal. The rest of the day includes cleaning, dinner, a lecture, and then bed at 8:30 p.m.

“We live in dormitory-style housing built into the station. The station runs several year-round science projects studying astronomy, climatology, and glaciology,” added Endo. “The support staff like myself are here to ensure that all of the facilities and operations run smoothly.

“Food and housing are provided as part of the program since there are no apartments, grocery stores, or restaurants here, just the station.”

If you choose to work at the South Pole, it is a big commitment. “The biggest cost is the time commitment,” said Endo. “At the South Pole, summer contracts are three months, and winter contracts are nine months to a year long. During this time, you live at the station full-time and only leave at the end of your contract.”

Americans have occupied the geographic South Pole continuously since November 1956, and no terrestrial mammals live there. “It’s too cold and too far from the ocean for penguins, unfortunately. At 5 feet, 3 inches, I’m one of the smallest living organisms here!” Endo added.

She has been traveling the world since 2013, taking jobs that have allowed her to visit all seven continents.

“I started as an ESL [English as a Second Language] teacher in Japan and then worked on cruise ships before ending up in Antarctica,” Endo said. “Before this year’s 12-month contract at the South Pole, I worked remotely writing for my travel blog Wander Eat Write, where I help others work and travel around the world, too. Since there isn’t much information available about working in Antarctica, I wrote a few guides on my website to help those interested.”

One of the major adjustments anyone living at the South Pole has to get used to is the elevation, according to Endo.

“Everyone knows about the extreme cold at the South Pole, but one of the major adjustments that many people don’t think of is the high elevation,” Endo said. “We sit at 9,301 feet [above sea level], and the pressure altitude can be significantly higher. The first week here can be challenging; we’re even told not to go to the gym in our first seven days while we acclimate. Even after being here a year, I still struggle to breathe at times climbing a flight of stairs.”

One of the other challenges of living at the South Pole is the darkness, added Endo. “Not seeing the sun for six months can be a real challenge. We take vitamin D, and use artificial sun lamps to help counter the effects. Similarly, for six months of the year, there’s only sunlight!”

The isolation can be challenging and, despite getting on well with her colleagues, Endo said: “I’ve seen the same 42 faces for the last eight months. I miss hanging out with people I don’t work with since we all live and work together here. I also haven’t seen any animals or trees in a year.”

Surprisingly, even 11 months in, Endo still doesn’t feel the urge to leave like she expected to, which she says is helpful as she can’t go home yet.

“When my time here is up, I’m looking forward to traveling to warm places, hanging out with some animals, and eating fresh food,” Endo said. “I also plan on continuing to work on my website and providing others with information on how to get jobs that pay them to travel to places like Antarctica.”

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Internet can relate as dog’s first beach visit doesn’t go as planned

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Internet can relate as dog’s first beach visit doesn’t go as planned

A video of a dog’s unexpected reaction on his first day out on a beach has gone viral on TikTok, with users on the platform sharing similar experiences they’ve had with their own pups.

The clip, which has over 785,000 views at the time of writing, was posted on August 6 by Lena Blumberg (@lenablumberg1), who is a first grade teacher based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The footage was captured at Fernandina Beach on Florida’s Amelia Island.

A caption shared with the clip says: “We really thought he was about to have the best day of his life.” The video shows a man walking a dog on a leash along a sandy beach coast, with the dog hesitant to go into the water.

While some pups can’t seem to get enough time in a pool, “not every dog is a water baby,” explains the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), a veterinary charity based in the United Kingdom.

Don’t assume that your pup can swim. “If your dog isn’t leaping in the water at the first chance, it may be time for some swimming lessons,” says the VCA, one of North America’s largest animal hospital chains.

You should also never force your dog to go swimming. VCA advises on its website that your pup “may be avoiding the water because they are tired or in pain and just aren’t up for the exercise.”

Swimming in water may be a great form of exercise for your dog. However, certain breeds, including dogs with short legs like Corgis or ones with short noses such as pugs, will find swimming to be hard work.

Canines should never be left unsupervised in the water. “Even a regular swimmer can get into trouble if they encounter strong currents or can’t figure out how to exit a pool,” the VCA warns.

Some swimming areas are much safer for dogs than others. These include lakes, dog-friendly beaches, slow-moving rivers as well as private swimming pools or paddling pools, the PDSA says.

‘Still Learning’

A message overlaid on the latest TikTok viral clip reads: “Our dog’s first ever beach day didn’t go as planned…”

The footage shows the dog standing in the sand, while the man is seen crouched over the pup, with his hands on the dog’s body.

A message overlaid on the video reads: “Idk [I don’t know] about this dad” as the waves crash in, approaching the dog’s feet. The canine is seen stepping backwards, while the man appears to hold him in place.

In a later comment, the original poster said: “He was never forced into the water, we’re just both still learning.”

The man and the dog are later seen walking along the coast again. The canine is seen jumping away from the waves, as they nearly touch his feet again. A note on the video says, “Oops, almost got me.”

The pup steps backwards from the waves as another note across the clip reads: “Not today! Not today!” before the video ends.

‘Freaked Out’

Several TikTok users could relate to the latest viral clip, with some sharing similar experiences they’ve had with their own dogs.

DeepThought wrote the pup must have been saying: “Dad! Are you sure this water’s sanitary? It looks questionable to me!”

User chrisriffey3 wrote: “He’s right! The ocean is scary! There’s sharks out there.”

Fur_eversingle89 commented: “My German Shepard Zira when I took her to the beach, she was shaking!! Anxiety way up. I did not stay at the beach long that day.”

Becca Cuniff shared: “My dog hates the ocean… the waves freak her out lol

User ceecee4578 added: “I took my dog to a beach for her first time she freaked out. 3 mos and 6 trips later I’d have to fight her to get her back in the car.”

User myrissarivera wrote: “my husky was the same way. just took a lot of patience and quite a few trips to the beach lol. the waves can still catch her off guard lol.”

Newsweek has contacted the original poster for comment via TikTok. This video has not been independently verified.

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Passenger applauded for "cutting in line" to get off airplane first

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Passenger applauded for "cutting in line" to get off airplane first

A plane passenger has been praised for pushing forward and making a dash for the exit when their airplane landed.

In a post on Reddit‘s popular r/amithea****** subreddit, user RPO-Shavo explained what happened: “I had a flight yesterday that got delayed, so I had a really tight window to make my connecting flight (like less than 10 minutes). I knew I was gonna basically just have to sprint off the plane and directly to my next gate. Unfortunately, my seat was in the very very back of the (small) plane.”

As the seatbelt light turned off, the traveler made a move that resulted in backlash from a fellow passenger. “I jumped out of my seat with my bag and moved toward the front of the plane as fast as I could. I didn’t shove anyone out of the way, but I did ask to squeeze by a few people, apologizing and explaining that I had a very tight connection. Everyone was willing to let me get through,” they explained.

Despite successfully making their way to the front of the plane without major disturbance, the situation took a turn when another passenger voiced their discontent.

“Once I got to the door, some guy behind me started yelling that I ‘should just wait my turn’ since there’s lots of people with tight connections,” the Redditor explained. “I explained that I didn’t really have time to compare everyone’s schedules, but he maintained that I was being an a****** and should have just waited my turn.”

Turning to the internet, they asked: “AITA [am I the a******] for cutting in line when getting off? Is this some unwritten rule of plane etiquette I didn’t know about? I would understand if I was shoving people aside or cutting people who were waiting, but I don’t see what’s wrong with moving forward in an empty aisle.”

Elizabeth Wyse, editorial director of Debretts etiquette coaching company, told Newsweek: “Queuing to get off the airplane can be very fraught; everyone is anxious to get off the plane, and there is a general scramble to retrieve bags as soon as the seatbelt lights are turned off.”

But she explained that the amount of time you gain, especially in a large international airport, is usually minimal.

“The sense of urgency probably has more to do with a desire to free yourself from the claustrophobic confinement of the airplane cabin,” she explained. But where there is a connecting flight, like in the case of the Redditor, things are a little different.

“If someone is in a panic because of a tight flight connection—and this can be an extremely stressful predicament—it is only reasonable and courteous to stand aside and let them jump the queue and squeeze past,” she said. “Insisting that everyone should wait their turn is officious, dogmatic and unsympathetic.”

In hundreds of replies on Reddit, people seemed to agree with Wyse.

One commenter said: “NTA [not the a******]. Getting on and off an airplane is already set up in the slowest and stupidest way possible. That guy is not striking a blow for justice by insisting that you rigidly adhere to it at the expense of missing your next flight.”

Another Reddit user agreed and wrote: “That guy? Forget him. If you missed your flight, he’d be ‘gee, that’s too bad,’ and then go about his day. His opinion does not matter.”

Above all though, Wyse explained that everyone would find flying easier if we were all a little calmer.

“The whole cramped, stressful experience of flying, especially landing and disembarking, will be much improved if everyone tries to adopt a relaxed demeanor and people don’t become strident about defending their own position,” she said. “It goes without saying that, as you leave the airplane, you should accept that people in the seats in front of you should be allowed to disembark ahead of you, and you should do your best to help them—for example assisting with extracting bags from the overhead lockers.”

Newsweek reached out to RPO-Shavo via Reddit for comment.

"Did i just unlock a cheat code?" Tip to find cheap flights amazes viewers

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"Did i just unlock a cheat code?" Tip to find cheap flights amazes viewers

Looking to bag some cheap flights for your next trip? One simple hack can show you some of the lowest prices for flights worldwide at a glance, according to a viral video on TikTok.

The video, which has 4.2 million views at the time of writing, was posted by @aroundtheatlas. A message overlaid on the clip reads: “Did I just unlock a cheat code or did everyone know about this?”

The person in the video is shown using the Google Flights website with a basic trick that unveiled some “ridiculous” prices for various trips, including return flights to the U.S., Europe and Asia.

The viral post comes as air travel sees continued strong growth after grinding to a near-halt following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Globally total passenger traffic was said to now be at 96.1 percent of May 2019 (pre-pandemic) levels, according to a July 2023 report from the International Air Transport Association (IATA),

“Planes were full, with the average load factors reaching 81.8 percent,” Willie Walsh, the IATA’s director general, said in the report, and North American airlines led the pack at 86.3 percent.

Traffic among North American carriers rose by 31 percent in May 2023, compared with the figure reported for the same month in 2022.

‘Insane’ Hack for Finding Cheap Flights

A caption shared with the viral post reads: “How to get super cheap flights!!”

A voice in the clip says: “Does anyone else know about this? Because I feel like the world is gatekeeping how insane this is.”

The footage shows the user entering “Google Flights” in the Google search engine box. Once the user clicks on the Google Flights page, a pop-up messages appears explaining the website’s use of cookies, asking to either “Reject All” or “Accept All.” The user swiftly clicks “Reject all” before arriving at the main homepage of Google Flights.

At the website, the user sets the “from” location as London, but suggests putting “anywhere” in the destination box, leaving the departure and return dates blank. The user said that you can put some dates in if needed.

Making sure the search was set for round trips, the user said you can also adjust the number of passengers to however many you would like.

The user then clicks the “Explore” icon, which opens a map of the world, with pop-out boxes listing flight prices for different cities.

Some of the cheapest flights in Europe spotted on the map included £26 ($32) to Barcelona, Spain, £32 ($39) to Venice, Italy and £39 ($47.50) to Athens, Greece.

Newsweek’s own flight search on the Google Flights website, inputting New York as the “from” location, also showed various low air fares for return trips from the Big Apple for both domestic and international flights. These included around $50 for a return flight to Miami, $90 for Boston, $264 for Cancun, Mexico, and $349 for Paris, France.

Scrolling further to the left, users can see the travel dates for which these prices are valid.

Clicking on the plus sign at the bottom right of the screen to zoom in on any given part of the map reveals more flight deals in more locations within that area.

‘The Real Tip’

Several TikTok user were enlightened by the flight hack.

Claudia.07P said: “I travel a lot and always use Google Flights.. didn’t know this ‘to anywhere’ though..thanks.”

User @celestiallibrary noted “…some of us genuinely didn’t know this! Thank you for sharing girl.”

Horsi wrote: “I always wanted Google to have an anywhere option and never thought to type ‘anywhere.'”

Others were impressed by how the user managed to access the website after rejecting all cookies.

Marco said: “The real tip was Reject All [cookies emoji].”

Meredith said: “I didn’t know you could hit ‘reject all’ for the cookies and still be allowed onto the site! I figured they’d block you.”

Some said the trick didn’t show any good deals for their location, such as Katie Lou who wrote: “Well, this was unsurprisingly disappointing trying it from Perth western Australia.”

Kate Crow, who claimed she was a travel agent, warned “these prices may not be valid even if you pay, so you could show up to the airport and be denied boarding. Be careful!

“Especially post-Covid, websites can’t update quickly enough and they’re overbooking flights (meaning there’s too many people vs. seats available),” Crow added.

Newsweek has contacted the original poster for comment via TikTok. This video has not been independently verified.

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Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens clash over Harvard Israel debate

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Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens clash over Harvard Israel debate

Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens got into a heated exchange over Harvard University students’ comments about Israel and Hamas.

On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest ever airstrikes on Gaza. As of Monday, more than 4,000 people had died in the conflict, with at least 1,400 people killed in Israel and approximately 2,670 people killed in Gaza, the Associated Press reported.

The dialogue first began when Kelly criticized Vivek Ramaswamy on X, formerly Twitter. The podcast host slammed the Republican presidential candidate for his comments about Harvard University students who signed a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ attack.

Ramaswamy wrote on X that while the students were “simple fools,” they shouldn’t be blacklisted. “Colleges are spaces for students to experiment with ideas & sometimes kids join clubs that endorse boneheadedly wrong ideas,” he said.

In response to the post, Kelly said, “You’ve got to be kidding me. They sided with terrorists who murdered children and old women. You’re not clear on this as someone who wants to be president?”

The entrepreneur told Kelly that he was “crystal clear that what the student groups said was dead wrong,” adding that “persuasion is better than force, let’s stick to principle.”

When The Megyn Kelly Show host clapped back, “If they are not ‘persuaded’ that murdering babies is wrong, there is no ‘persuading’ them,” Owens joined in on the conversation.

“Oh stop it. This is incredibly disingenuous, Megyn,” Owens wrote on X. “You know that many of those students are not out there because they want babies to be murdered. College kids are stupid.”

The podcast show host gave a personal anecdote to emphasize her point.

“I used to be radically pro-choice. Glad I didn’t get put on a ‘conservative’ blacklist for wanting babies murdered. As it turned out, I was just young and temporarily brainwashed from a public school education coupled with mainstreamed Hollywood lies—and not because I legitimately wanted to see infants torn from their mothers’ wombs.”

Owens later said that the students “believe they are fighting for some other righteous cause” and that “they are in need of education, not blacklists.”

Kelly suggested Owens hire them as interns for her show, to which Owens replied, “You’re attempting snark, but as a matter of fact, I almost exclusively hired reformed BLM activists to work for my charity, BLEXIT.”

Kelly revealed that she invited Owens on her show to promote her true crime series, Convicting a Murderer, but Owens turned it down.

At the time of publication, Kelly had the final word, writing, “This is how it works you see. You attack someone who has been nothing but nice to and supportive of you. Then when that person calls you out, you just keep saying ‘I am the mature one!’ Take care Candace. I wish you well.”

‘The Crown’ Season 6 recreates poignant Princess Diana dress in new photos

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‘The Crown’ Season 6 recreates poignant Princess Diana dress in new photos

One of Princess Diana‘s most poignant dresses has been recreated by costume designers for the final season of Netflix‘s The Crown, new publicity stills have revealed.

The hit royal drama that has earned both praise and controversy over its seven-year run will wrap after 60 episodes this year, with the final 10 episodes being released globally in two installments on November 16 and December 14.

Part one of the final season will tackle perhaps the most dramatic period in the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the events immediately leading up to Princess Diana’s 1997 death and its devastating aftermath.

Diana died as a result of injuries sustained in a high speed car crash in the early hours of August 31. The princess and her then boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, were traveling at speed through Paris pursued by paparazzi when their car collided with a structural pillar of the Pont de l’Alma tunnel. Fayed died at the scene, while Diana was taken to a nearby hospital where attempts to save her life were ultimately unsuccessful.

The princess was introduced as a character in The Crown in its fourth season, played by Emma Corrin, a role for which she won a Golden Globe. The role was taken over by Australian actor, Elizabeth Debicki for Season 5 and will carry through to her final appearances in Season 6.

A series of new production stills for the first part of the final season were released on Monday, several of which depict Debicki as Diana in her final days alongside William and Harry, with particular attention paid to the painstaking recreation of the princess’ wardrobe.

One standout dress which has been recreated by costume designers, Amy Roberts and Sidonie Roberts, is a red shift dress worn by Debicki in an image alongside actors Rufus Kampa as Prince William and Fflyn Edwards as Prince Harry.

In real life, this dress marked a poignant milestone in the life of Diana, being the outfit she wore for her final public engagement just a month before her death.

The simple red shift dress with matching covered belt featuring gold hardware was designed by one of the princess’ closest creative friends, Catherine Walker.

Walker created more event dresses for Diana than any other designer and formed a working relationship with the royal when she was pregnant with William.

The red dress was worn by the princess to the opening of a Children’s Ambulatory Care Centre at the Northwick Park & St. Mark’s Hospital in Harrow, England.

In her autobiography, published in 1998, Walker included the dress among those she created for Diana which were her personal favorites. Of it she wrote: “I will always remember this simple shift dress and will always keep a replica in my archive. The princess had ordered it a couple of years before wearing it here. It was her last daytime engagement.”

In The Crown‘s promotional imagery, Diana is seen wearing the dress on vacation with William and Harry, however, there is no evidence to suggest that the princess wore the design again after the hospital engagement.

Walker herself died in 2010, just months before one of her designs was worn to the royal wedding of Diana’s eldest son, William, selected by mother-of-the-bride, Carole Middleton.

William’s wife, Kate, the Princess of Wales, has become a champion of Catherine Walker & Co., now headed by Walker’s husband, Said Cyrus. The house has made a number of Kate’s famous coat dresses and ceremonial event wear.

Most recently, Kate wore an elegant Saltire-blue coat dress by the design house for King Charles III‘s Scottish coronation in Edinburgh.

The Crown season 6 will debut globally in two installments on November 16 and December 14 only on Netflix.

James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek‘s royal reporter, based in London. You can find him on X (formerly Twitter) at @jrcrawfordsmith and read his stories on Newsweek‘s The Royals Facebook page.

Do you have a question about King Charles III, William and Kate, Meghan and Harry, or their family that you would like our experienced royal correspondents to answer? Email royals@newsweek.com. We’d love to hear from you.

Rick and Morty’s new voice actors: Who are Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden?

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Rick and Morty’s new voice actors: Who are Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden?

Rick and Morty revealed its new voice actors during the show’s season 7 premiere.

Though the series trailer dropped in September, fans were left in suspense over whose voices they heard. After the first episode of new season aired on Sunday, viewers have now learned that Ian Cardoni voices Rick and Harry Belden portrays Morty.

Previously, scientist Rick and his grandson Morty were both voiced by co-creator Justin Roiland. However, Roiland was let go from the cartoon following accusations of domestic violence.

Rick and Morty showrunner Scott Marder said he heard thousands of actors in the casting process, which went on for six months.

“It was harder than we thought. I thought it’d have been easier,” Marder told The Hollywood Reporter. “Rick was a lot harder than I expected; everyone sounded like Macho Man Randy Savage or like a cousin of his. No one sounded exactly like Rick. It was tricky. People had it in splashes, but once you bring them back in, they couldn’t do it conversationally, which is what we needed. It was exhaustive.”

Who Is Ian Cardoni?

Cardoni is a “history and sci-fi buff” as well as a “shameless foodie,” according to his Instagram bio. Cardoni was raised in the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts, and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, IMDb states.

On Sunday, the voice actor took to Instagram to share the news of his new role with his followers.

“Excited. Grateful. Schwifty,” he said.

Newsweek reached out to Cardoni via email for comment.

Who Is Harry Belden?

Belden, meanwhile, grew up in Chicago, Illinois and caught the acting bug early on.

“From a young age he has loved two things: performing and superheroes. Until age seven, Harry dressed as a different superhero every day of his life, until his teachers told him he had to comply with the ‘dress code’ like all the other students,” his website reads. “In order to find a socially acceptable way to dress up in costumes and pretend to be somebody else, he decided to pursue acting as a profession.”

The actor got his BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he appeared in commercials as well as television dramas like Chicago Med and Chicago Fire.

Newsweek reached out to Belden via email for comment.

It was revealed in January 2023 that Roiland was facing multiple counts of domestic abuse charges. In 2020, Roiland had indeed been charged with domestic battery with corporal injury and false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.

In January 2023, Marie Moore, senior vice president of communications at Warner Media, had said in a brief statement to Newsweek at the time: “Adult Swim has ended its association with Justin Roiland.”

Roiland pleaded not guilty at a pre-trial, and the charges were dropped in March 2023.

“I’m thankful that this case has been dismissed but, at the same time, I’m still deeply shaken by the horrible lies that were reported about me during this process,” Roiland wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on March 22.

In September, an NBC News report alleged that Roiland used his fame throughout the years to pursue young, including underage, fans on social media. One of the women alleged he had sexually assaulted her. According to NBC News, citing his attorney, Roiland has denied the allegations.

Jada Pinkett Smith accused of "lying" about Tupac

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Jada Pinkett Smith accused of "lying" about Tupac

With the release of upcoming her memoir Worthy on October 17, Jada Pinkett Smith has been sharing snippets for fans to get sink their teeth into.

One such titbit includes a big revelation about Tupac Shakur, with the 52-year-old actress claiming the rapper proposed to her in in 1995. Describing the legendary artist as her “soulmate,” Smith said Shakur popped the question while imprisoned on Rikers Island.

However, a fan claims that the Nutty Professor star is lying, sharing the reasons why in a TikTok video.

“Jada’s lying and I have the timeline to prove it,” user Jess in Miami (@jesstheprequeldoesmiami) said in the clip. “I can’t handle these f****** lies anymore.”

Newsweek has reached out to Jada Pinkett Smith and @jesstheprequeldoesmiami for comment.

Claiming that the “math isn’t mathing,” Jess begins with Shakur’s conviction for sexual assault in 1995. Shakur was found guilty of raping fan Ayanna Jackson and sentenced to 1.5 to 4.5 years in jail. However, he only served nine months, with Death Row Records mogul Suge Knight bailing him out in October 1995.

Shakur spent his first month at Rikers Island, before being moved to Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Jess believes that Pinkett Smith wouldn’t have had time to visit Shakur at Rikers, due to his short stay at the prison.

“She specifically said she went to see him, this was not on the phone,” Jess said, before cutting to a clip of Smith discussing the proposal during an episode of the All The Smoke podcast.

Jess then highlights Shakur’s short-lived marriage to ex-wife Keisha Morris. The pair were dating prior to the rapper’s conviction and wed in April 1995, while he was serving time. Although it was annulled 10 months later, Morris and Shakur stayed good friends until his death in 1996.

“Tupac already had a girlfriend named Keisha,” Jess continued. “He proposed to Keisha—her words in a September 2011 interview—he proposed to Keisha before he even went into prison, they were already engaged. They got married in April.”

After Shakur relocated to Clinton Correctional Facility, Morris moved to be closer to him and visited almost daily.

“So you’re telling me that in the two to four week window that he was at Rikers, engaged to another woman, who had moved closer to the prison and was there almost every day, Tupac proposed to Jada?” Jess asked.

“You might be saying to yourself ‘Tupac wasn’t known to be a one-woman man, he was no angel.’ Fair enough,” she added.

“Let’s see where Jada was in January of 1995, which we have established is the only time she’d be able to see Tupac at Rikers, Jada had already met Will Smith in 1994.”

Pinkett Smith met her future husband Will Smith in 1994 while auditioning for a role on his sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. However, the rapper was married at the time, so the couple didn’t begin dating until the following year.

Jess shares a snippet of a previous interview, in which Smith recounts calling the A Different World star for a date in February 1995—five days after his wife Sheree Zambino served him with divorce papers.

After the call, Pinkett Smith got a plane from her home in Maryland to Los Angeles, where the pair began a whirlwind romance, tying the knot in 1997.

“Jada, when in all that time, did you visit Tupac in Rikers and get this f****** proposal?” Jess asked.

Jess’ digging divided followers, with TikToker factcheckingtheflerfs commenting: “Damn.. you came with receipts…”

“Coming with the FACTS AND I’M HERE FOR IT!” agreed JC.

“Is Jada obsessed with Tupac?” asked eloquentheartwriter.

“Nearly every interview she constantly mentions him and her!!” wrote Caroline Ní Roideacháin, while ExistentialEnnu said: “This is everything I needed thank you.”

However, others defended Pinkett Smith, with Kai writing: “I think its crazy that yall blantly ignoring all the red flags about tupac to hate on jada [and] saying she the toeup one.”

Pinkett Smith and Shakur met as teenagers while attending the Baltimore School for the Arts in the 1980s. In a 2015, Pinkett Smith told Howard Stern that she and Shakur were not attracted to each other but had a very close friendship, with the rapper even writing her a poem at one point.

In an interview with Hota Kotb ahead of her upcoming NBC primetime special, Pinkett Smith confessed that she and Smith have been separated since 2016, but are still legally married. The former couple share son Jaden Smith, 25, and daughter Willow Smith, 22.

Israel draws backlash for slamming Gigi Hadid on Instagram

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Israel draws backlash for slamming Gigi Hadid on Instagram

Gigi Hadid is being blasted by the Israeli government for supporting Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas conflict, with the heated social media exchange stunning users.

In an Instagram Story uploaded on Monday, @stateofisrael shared a screenshot of the 28-year-old model’s recent post criticizing the Israeli government.

“There is nothing Jewish about the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians,” she wrote. “Condemning the Israeli government is not antisemitic and supporting Palestinians is not supporting Hamas.”

In response, @stateofisrael wrote a different version of her statement, using the same font and wording structure.

“There is nothing valiant about Hamas’ massacre of Israelis,” the statement reads. “Condemning Hamas for what it is (ISIS) is not anti-Palestine and supporting Israelis in their fight against the barbaric terrorists is the right thing to do.”

Alongside the statement, @stateofisrael wrote a direct reply to Hadid that read: “Have you been sleeping the past week? Or are you just fine turning a blind eye to Jewish babies being butchered in their homes? Your silence has been very clear about where you stand. We see you.”

In its final post directed to Hadid, @stateofisrael shared a photo of children’s toys and clothing covered in blood, with blood also smeared on the floor.

“If you don’t condemn this your words mean nothing,” the caption for the horrific image read.

Newsweek reached out by email to Hadid and the Israeli government for comment.

Social media users reacted strongly to the posts, with X (formerly Twitter) user niesa wondering: “Why are they targeting her.”

Viviana agreed, writing: “So weird how concerned israel is about gigi hadid’s stance when they’re actively in a war right now…”

“Am I reading this correctly?” asked Nic.

“A country having social media beef with a celebrity is kinda pathetic,” wrote Roy.

“An official government account calling out a celebrity is absolutely deranged,” wrote Olivia Julianna, while Meech called the post “very Hunger Games-esque.”

Hadid, a well-known fashion model, is the daughter of Palestinian-American real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid, 74. He was born in Nazareth, Israel, but his family fled their home in 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war. They became refugees in Syria before settling in America, where the architect began his career.

Both Gigi Hadid and sister Bella Hadid are vocal supporters of the Palestinians. When news of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel broke, Gigi Hadid took to Instagram to call the conflict an “unjustifiable tragedy.”

“Every day that innocent lives are taken by this conflict—too many of which are children,” she wrote. “While I have hopes and dreams for Palestinians, none of them include the harm of a Jewish person.”

Although Bella Hadid has yet to publicly discuss the ongoing conflict, she has previously spoken out on behalf of Palestinians, and her advocacy has cost her modeling jobs.

“I had so many companies that stopped working with me. I have friends that completely dropped me,” she told journalist Noor Tagouri on the Rep podcast in 2022.

Update 10/16/23, 4:32 p.m. ET: This story was updated with additional background and information.

North Korea satellite images reveal worrying news for Ukraine

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North Korea satellite images reveal worrying news for Ukraine

Russia is shipping “hundreds of containers likely packed with North Korean armaments,” new satellite images indicate, which could bolster Russia’s cache of sorely needed weapons and boost its war effort against Ukraine.

“Dozens of high-resolution satellite images taken in recent months reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale,” a new report from the London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank said on Monday.

The images show two cargo vessels “repeatedly transporting hundreds of containers likely packed with North Korean armaments” between the isolated Russian port of Dunai and through North Korea’s Rajin port, not far from the border, the think tank said in a new report.

On Friday, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that North Korea has supplied up to 1,000 containers of “equipment and munitions” to the Kremlin between September 7 and October 1.

“We condemn the DPRK for providing Russia with this military equipment,” Kirby said, referring to to North Korea’s official title of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The new supply route, shown in satellite footage analyzed by RUSI, could have “profound consequences for the war in Ukraine and international security dynamics in East Asia,” the defense think tank said on Monday.

“North Korean arms have yet to appear in significant quantities on the battlefield,” the RUSI report said, before adding: “That, however, is about to change.”

Two Russian-flagged vessels have completed multiple journeys between North Korea and Russia since August, RUSI said, and were captured on satellite imagery despite apparently having their transponders switched off.

The “final destination of these shipments” looks to be an ammunition depot in the Russian town of Tikhoretsk, in the southern Krasnodar region. It’s around 120 miles from the border with Ukraine.

Newsweek has reached out to the Russian defense ministry for comment via email.

Moscow has been courting closer relations with Pyongyang since it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. North Korea has in turn said Russia has its “full and unconditional support.”

Kim Jong-un, the leader of the secretive and closed-off state, visited Russia in mid-September for a trip widely speculated to involve negotiations for North Korea to supply Russia with ammunition for its troops in Ukraine. Western observers and experts raised concerns that North Korea could then gain Russian high-tech expertise and aid with developing weapons as part of the exchange.

“In return for support, we assess the Pyongyang is seeking military assistance from Russia including fighter aircraft, surface to air missiles, armored vehicles, ballistic missile production equipment, or other materials and other advanced technologies,” Kirby said late last week.

In late July, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described Russia as “desperately looking for support, for weapons wherever it can find them.” His words coincided with Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, visiting North Korea.

“We see that in North Korea,” Blinken told reporters, adding: “We see that as well with Iran, which has provided many drones to Russia that it’s using to destroy civilian infrastructure and kill civilians in Ukraine.”

Iran has provided Russia with its Shahed-131 and -136 suicide drones, which have been extensively deployed across Ukraine to target infrastructure and cities. The loitering munitions offered Moscow a cheaper, yet often still effective, way to hit Ukraine where it hurts.

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