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Known as “Ms. Shirley”, she used TikTok to bring food, dignity and hope to Skid Row and beyond
Shirley Raines, a social media creator and non-profit founder who dedicated her life to caring for people experiencing homelessness, has died, her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz said Wednesday. She was 58.
Raines was known as “Ms. Shirley”, to her more than 5 million TikTok followers and to the people who regularly lined up for the food, beauty treatments and hygiene supplies she brought to Los Angeles’ Skid Row and other homeless communities in California and Nevada.
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Reform UK leader speaks at GB News event also attended by industry minister on second UAE visit in two months
Nigel Farage has paid a visit to Dubai to build diplomatic relations with United Arab Emirates ministers and drum up donations for Reform UK from wealthy expats.
The two-night trip was his second visit to the Gulf state in two months, after a £10,000 trip hosted by Abu Dhabi to attend the Formula One grand prix.
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The future Hall of Famer was given a warm welcome against the team where he began his career. But Wednesday’s game felt particularly poignant
A 60-second tribute video honoring LeBron James has become routine over the past eight years whenever he returns to Cleveland, the city where his NBA journey began.
But Wednesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse was different – and it felt that way long before James’s Los Angeles Lakers fell, 129-99 to the Cavaliers in a nationally televised game.
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Exhibition at York Minster celebrates nearly forgotten 12th-century archbishop said to be behind Ouse Bridge miracle
The inscription on the large 13th-century stone slab on display at York Minster does not bode well: “Qui ceci dit svp er caput rogeri de Ripvn.” Or, as it translates: “Which fell on the head of Roger of Ripon.”
“We don’t quite know who Roger of Ripon was,” said Jennie England, research coordinator at the cathedral. “But he survived, and a miraculous incident was reported in the 1280s when a stone fell on someone’s head.”
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