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Grace Aheron has never met the four transgender women from Honduras and El Salvador currently detained in a federal immigration facility in New Mexico, but she's waiting to welcome them into her home.

These women arrived in the United States in April after traveling thousands of miles with a migrant caravan from Central America to seek refuge from discrimination and persecution in their native countries. They made their way toward the U.S. without someone to sponsor them — until Aheron, a 27-year-old activist who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, volunteered to be their host.  

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Instagram Stories has blown through another big milestone. The nearly two-year-old feature now boasts 400 million daily users, the company announced on Thursday. 

To celebrate, the app is adding a feature that's likely to generate a lot of excitement among its Stories-loving users: the ability to add musical soundtracks to your posts.

The feature, which is rolling out to iOS and Android today, lets users add music to Stories via a new music sticker, which will appear next to GIF, location, and other sticker add-ons. Instagram says its library has thousands of songs available, and you can listen to previews before you decide to add them to your post. Read more...

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Sure, it’s one hundred and twelve degrees in the shade and you’ve been elbowing your way to the front of the stage for two hours now — but it’s festival season! Time to brave the heat, the dust, the crowds. It’s all worth it to see a dozen of your favorite bands alongside a few thousand of your closest friends.

To make sure you look and feel your best — you know, just in case you end up ‘gramming it — we’re bringing you our top picks for festival season. With millions of brand new, Buy It Now items from top-rated sellers, eBay makes finding your new favorite things super easy, all with the eBay Money Back Guarantee. Just click the shopping tags in the shoppable images below to buy our curated festival picks now.  Read more...

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Pride month is here, but with it inevitably comes complaints from certain straight people on why there's no parade for them.

Fortunately, the folks at The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon are talking about something the MSM refuses to cover: ideas for "Straight Pride Parade" floats.

Correspondents Julio Torres and Patti Harrison have got suggestions for floats, including a karaoke float which just features endless singing of "Come On Eileen" and a shrine to polo shirts that are one size too big. Happy now? Read more...

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Madonna might have told the world to "Express Yourself" way back in 1989, but it's millennials who have taken self-expression to a whole new level. And we've only got Instagram to thank for that. 

That's not because — despite what the headlines might say — we're a bunch of vain narcissists with nothing better to do than take endless selfies. It's actually because Instagram, and the mass adoption of cameraphones, has democratised self-expression and portraiture for everyone, regardless of class. 

Contrary to what you might think, this desire to express oneself through imagery isn't unique to millennials. Far from it, in fact. It's actually been around for millennia, art history experts say.  Read more...

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Over the weekend, surfers competed in the Ballito Pro, which takes place in South Africa's east.

In the Billabong Junior Series, the under-18 mens winner was Indonesia's Rio Waida, while the womens competition was won by South Africa's Zoe Steyn.

While the news would invite congratulations, a Facebook post showing the two winners has angered people. 

As the photo shows, Waida received 8,000 SAR ($577), while Steyn — who was standing right beside him — received exactly half of that. It's... not a good look.

"Did the girls surf a different ocean that was easier we don't know about? This is pathetic," reads one comment.  Read more...

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