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The remark came while defending U.S. strikes in a Jake Paul interview.

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Brittany Howard's performance helped make the Oscars a little more queer!

The unsolved murder, dubbed the “gay Black Dahlia,” was cracked wide open by filmmaker Rachel Mason.

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