This Social Network You’ve Never Heard Of Has Nearly 1 Million Users, Its CEO Says

A new social network that uses a points-based system to encourage people to interact with content is closing in on 1 million registered users since it launched earlier this month, according to the company’s CEO. “We’ve been around for a week. We are already serving significant impressions,” said Bill Ottman, the founder and CEO of Minds, in an interview last

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This Woman Documented Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis, And 43 Million People Responded

In 2012, Holley Kitchen was diagnosed with breast cancer. After being treated with a double mastectomy, chemo, radiation and hormone therapy, she thought her cancer battle was over. But in November of 2013, she was told her breast cancer returned and had spread to her spine and bones. Kitchen now has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, an aggressive form that

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This Woman Is Using Her Instagram To Show Somalia’s Hidden Beauty

Since a devastating civil war that began in 1991, Somalia has faced severe and devastating conflicts. Attacks by the militant Islamic group Al-Shabab in Somalia and surrounding countries have contributed to an international reputation for the northeast African country as a locus of deadly violence. Ugaaso Abukar Boocow, a 27-year-old Somalian woman who works for the Ministry of Reconstruction, which

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This Man Was Body-Shamed, And Now Hundreds Of Women Are Throwing Him A Party

This is a great Internet story: When an unnamed man was shamed for dancing in public, a tribe of body-positive women launched a Twitter search to throw him the ultimate dance party in California. They found him — and he said yes. It all started when an anonymous person posted a surreptitious shot at the man, with photos attached, on

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This Pup Is That Friend Who Has No Clue He’s Awful At Singing, So You Love Him Even More

This dog cannot carry a tune in a bucket — but don’t worry he’ll sing his heart out regardless. This video uploaded to Facebook features a bulldog named Junior belting out Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up,” and thinking he’s totally killin’ it. Watch at the 0:26 mark where Junior emphatically joins his owners in song, giving it his all

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