Richard Spencer, a leader of what he calls the “alt-right” and the man known to most as the “Nazi who got punched,” agreed to talk to HuffPost the night before his speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville last week.
He and his followers had rented a house in the Florida countryside for security reasons, they said. A hotel in Gainesville wasn’t an option.
After driving down dirt roads, HuffPost found Spencer standing in the dark, smoking a cigar and drinking Angel’s Envy bourbon out of a tall glass. Behind him, about a dozen of his followers filtered in and out of the house’s front door.
It looked as though maybe they were having a small party. Just 14 hours to go until Spencer, their movement’s figurehead, took the stage at the University of Florida in an elaborate and expensive troll aimed at spreading their rebranded version of organized racism.
Richard Spencer, 39, is a highly-controversial, alt-right white nationalist who caused quite a stir from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Gainesville, Florida, and everywhere in between. Spencer denies being a white supremacist, however, he does believe in transforming the United States into a “white ethnostate” and supports “peaceful ethnic cleansing” to supposedly stop the decay of European culture. He claims to be the creator of the term “alt-right” or “alternative right,” which has transformed into a social movement who reject mainstream conservatism and political correctness, typically supporting white nationalist views that trolls and threatens the opposition.
Spencer is also incredibly rich. He is ranked as the top paid activist of 2017.
Richard Spencer Net Worth as of 2017: $185 Million
I sh*t you not. Spencer has raked in the big bucks while being an alt-right figurehead. Between September 2016 and September 2017, he was able to bring in an incredible $58 million. Spencer has lucrative deals, as well as various endorsements, stock investments, and substantial property holdings. His family owns a 5,200-acre cotton and corn farm in a rural area of Louisiana, and Spencer has been listed as an absentee landlord of this farm, likely worth millions. Between the years 2008 and 2015, the business received $2 million in federal farm subsidies.
Your nails are more than a thing to polish. They could be signals of serious health problems.
It turns out, your fingernails can tell you a lot about your health.
Low oxygen levels, nutritional deficiencies, and even arsenic poisoning can be determined by looking at your fingertips.
Many common nail afflictions, such as deep ridges or the appearance of white spots, are completely harmless and normal.
For some people, nails are a fun body part to decorate. For others, they are barely given any thought. But what many people may not realize is that fingernails can hold important information about an individual’s health.
The singer doesn’t have to say a thing to loom over the culture.
Not long ago, a tattoo shop in Brooklyn got a bad review on Yelp. A customer was angry — not about his new ink, but about the soundtrack that accompanied his trip there.
“Why are you playing Sade,” he wrote, inserting an expletive. This was music he found fit for “a plastic surgeon’s waiting room,” not a cool tattoo parlor.
One can sort of understand where he was coming from.
Before record stores neared extinction, Sade was often stocked in the easy listening section. The band’s breakout success in the 1980s owed much to the advent of adult contemporary radio, where huge hits like “Smooth Operator” and “The Sweetest Taboo” eventually got sandwiched between selections from Michael Bolton and Kenny G.
But then and now, Sade had an appeal that lifted it far above the slush pile of schlock.
These prefabricated building designs by Ten Fold Engineering start off as big boxes but can end up as a small home, classroom or office at the touch of a button.
The NAACP is warning African-American travelers to be careful when they fly with American Airlines.
In an advisory late Tuesday, the organization said it has noticed “a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers, specific to American Airlines.”
The NAACP cited four examples of black passengers who it said were forced to give up their seats or were removed from flights.
It said the incidents “suggest a corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias” and advised travelers to exercise caution.
“Booking and boarding flights on American Airlines could subject them [to] disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions,” the advisory said.
The New York Times interviewed 18 girls who were captured by militants in Nigeria and sent into crowds to blow themselves up. Here are their stories.
The girls didn’t want to kill anyone. They walked in silence for a while, the weight of the explosives around their waists pulling down on them as they fingered the detonators and tried to think of a way out.
“I don’t know how to get this thing off me,” Hadiza, 16, recalled saying as she headed out on her mission.
“What are you going to do with yours?” she asked the 12-year-old girl next to her, who was also wearing a bomb.
“I’m going to go off by myself and blow myself up,” the girl responded hopelessly.
It was all happening so fast. After being kidnapped by Boko Haram this year, Hadiza was confronted by a fighter in the camp where she was being held hostage. He wanted to “marry” her. She rejected him.
“You’ll regret this,” the fighter told her.
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“They said to me, ‘Are you going to sleep with us, or do you want to go on a mission?’” Aisha, 15
A 17-year-old undocumented immigrant was finally able to terminate her pregnancy on Wednesday morning after weeks of obstruction by the Trump administration. Jane Doe, as the girl is known in court, had an abortion after a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday afternoon that the federal government could no longer block her from leaving a shelter for the procedure.
But other undocumented minors are in similar situations. And while Jane Doe found relief, her abortion won’t immediately resolve a broader issue: The Trump administration is going to great lengths to keep minors in its custody from getting abortions.
“This is one battle in a war that we are in with the Trump administration about access to reproductive health care and attacks on immigrants and civil rights in general,” Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project who represented the teen, told HuffPost. “What happened to Jane Doe is really symptomatic of a larger problem with the Trump administration. … They have started with the most vulnerable, unaccompanied immigrant minors, but I have no doubt that they will try to escalate and roll back reproductive rights for many others.”
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The Planned Parenthood Federation of American and coalition partners protest efforts by the Trump administration to block teen immigrant “Jane Doe” from getting an abortion.
Actor Robert Guillaume, best known for his title role in the TV series “Benson,” died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89.
His wife Donna Guillaume told CNN he had battled prostate cancer in recent years.
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“He kinda went the way everyone wishes they could, surrounded by love and in his sleep,” Guillaume said.
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She added that her husband really loved making music, entertaining and making people laugh. He treasured his role as Rafiki in Disney’s 1994 animated film “The Lion King,” she said.
Guillaume starred as the level-headed butler Benson DuBois on the sitcom “Benson” from 1979 – 1986. He won the Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a comedy for his performance in the role in 1985. Dozens of TV roles followed, including turns on “A Different World” and “Sports Night.”
Climate change is costing taxpayers billions of dollars in disaster relief and the tab will only increase as extreme weather events become more common, according to a new government study.
The federal government has spent an estimated $350 billion over the past decade responding to extreme weather and fire events, which are exacerbated by climate change, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. It comes as Congress moves to approve billions of dollars in extra funding for hurricane relief.
“Climate change impacts are already costing the federal government money, and these costs will likely increase over time as the climate continues to change,” the report found.
. Kids bike in an area without grid power or running water about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico. Mario Tama / Getty Images
Film and Writing Festival for Comedy. Showcasing best of comedy short films at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Plus, showcasing best of comedy novels, short stories, poems, screenplays (TV, short, feature) at the festival performed by professional actors.
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“They said to me, ‘Are you going to sleep with us, or do you want to go on a mission?’” Aisha, 15
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