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Disney aired its first gay kissing scene in Monday’s episode of children’s cartoon “Star vs. the Forces of Evil.”

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Disney aired its first gay kissing scene in Monday's episode of children's cartoon "Star vs. the Forces of Evil."

The Disney XD show saw main character Star and her friend Marco attend a concert where they were surrounded by kissing couples, including two men, and later in the episode, two women.

The episode has received positive reactions from viewers on social media.

Martha Cliff, a journalist and LGBT advocate, tweeted, "We're getting there, one kiss at a time."

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Disney aired its first gay kissing scene in Monday's episode of children's cartoon "Star vs. the Forces of Evil." The Disney XD show saw main character Star and her friend Marco attend a concert where they were surrounded by kissing couples, including two men, and later in the episode, two women.

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'Dancing With the Stars' season 24 cast revealed

Former "Glee" star and Beyoncé backup dancer Heather Morris and Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Erika Jayne and Gleb Savchenko.

Former Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan and Artem Chigvintsev.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and Sasha Farber.

Fifth Harmony member Normani Kordei and Valentin Chmerkovskiy

"Rocky 3" star Mr. T and Kym (Johnson) Herjavec

Legendary singer Charo and Keo Motsepe.

Former "SNL" star Chris Kattan and Witney Carson.

Professional bull rider Bonner Bolton and Sharna Burgess.

Former Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross and Lindsay Arnold.

NFL free agent Rashad Jennings and Emma Slater.

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They all will be appearing on season 24 of "Dancing With the Stars."

The reality dance competition took over "Good Morning America" Wednesday to announce the new pairings for the upcoming season.

This season's dance couples are:

Former "Glee" star and Beyoncé backup dancer Heather Morris and Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Erika Jayne and Gleb Savchenko.

Former Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan and Artem Chigvintsev.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and Sasha Farber.

Fifth Harmony member Normani Kordei and Valentin Chmerkovskiy

"Rocky 3" star Mr. T and Kym (Johnson) Herjavec

Legendary singer Charo and Keo Motsepe.

Former "SNL" star Chris Kattan and Witney Carson.

Professional bull rider Bonner Bolton and Sharna Burgess.

Former Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross and Lindsay Arnold.

NFL free agent Rashad Jennings and Emma Slater.

Host Tom Bergeron and the show's dancers were incorporated into the morning show, with Bergeron offering the morning's pop news in the 8 o'clock hour.

Mr. T was one of the first celebs to offer up comment in the form of his signature "I pity the fool!"

He also tweeted a vow before the formal announcement was made.

"Now, if I just happen to win, I will cutoff my Mohawk to stand in solidarity with the children who are fighting cancer," he tweeted. "GOD bless them!

The new season premieres March 20 on ABC.

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They all will be appearing on season 24 of "Dancing With the Stars." The reality dance competition took over "Good Morning America" Wednesday to announce the new pairings for the upcoming season. This season's dance couples are: Former "Glee" star and Beyoncé backup dancer Heather Morris and Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

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NFL hopes to relax penalties for excessive celebrations

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INDIANAPOLIS -- The NFL hopes to relax anti-celebration rules that have vexed players and fans in recent years, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed Wednesday.

League officials began discussing the issue during the 2016 season, amid heavy criticism for punishment of a series of relatively minor infractions such as pretending to shoot a basketball jump shot after a touchdown.

Commissioner Roger Goodell said at Super Bowl LI that he wanted to find a better way to balance sportsmanship and "trying to allow players the ability to express themselves in an exuberant way." Competition committee members took up the discussion this week at the NFL scouting combine.

No decisions were made, but momentum has grown toward a framework that would allow harmless and spontaneous celebrations. The league will continue to outlaw what it considers excessive, prolonged or vulgar demonstrations. But there is now a leaguewide expectation that lighter guidelines will be adopted at some point this offseason, most likely during the annual owners meetings in Phoenix later this month.

Internal frustration emerged during the 2016 season about the outsized public attention paid for a handful of penalties. NFL senior vice president of officiating Dean Blandino said that a total of 30 celebration penalties were called, a small percentage of 40,000 total plays over the season.

The trend slowed in the second half of the season, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. But memories of 15-yard penalties for jump shots, snow angels and spinning the ball remained etched in the minds of players and fans alike.

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11:09 AM ET Close ESPN.com national NFL writer ESPN.com NFC North reporter, 2008-2013 Covered Vikings for Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1999-2008 INDIANAPOLIS -- The NFL hopes to relax anti-celebration rules that have vexed players and fans in recent years, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed Wednesday.

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Deputy: 4 children dead, 3 people injured in Oregon fire

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Four children died in a house fire Wednesday in an Oregon timber town and their mother, her husband and a 13-year-old sibling were critically injured, a sheriff's official said.

The fire broke out around 2 a.m. in Riddle, a small town about 200 miles south of Portland that has been hit hard by the decline of the timber industry.

The dead children were ages 4, 7, 10 and 13 and included a foster child, authorities said.

The cause of the blaze did not appear suspicious, but an investigation was continuing, authorities said.

"It's awful, it's devastating," Douglas County sheriff's Deputy Dwes Hutson said. "It's a small town. There are less than 1,000 people in Riddle."

Grief counselors were on hand at schools in the South Umpqua School District, where some of the children attended class, said Superintendent Tim Porter.

The district has 1,450 students in all grades and the news shook up the community where people know each other.

James Keith Howell, 39, Tabitha Annette Howell, 38, and Andrew Hall-Young, 13, were transported to Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center in Portland, Hutson said.

Killed were 4-year-old Gwendolyn Howell, 7-year-old Haley Maher, 10-year-old Isaiah Young and 13-year-old Nicholas Lowe.

Nicholas Lowe was a foster child, Hutson said. Tabitha Howell is the mother of all the other children and is married to James Howell.

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Four children died in a house fire Wednesday in an Oregon timber town and their mother, her husband and a 13-year-old sibling were critically injured, a sheriff's official said. The fire broke out around 2 a.m. in Riddle, a small town about 200 miles south of Portland that has been hit hard...

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The judge who presided over Casey Anthony's murder trial says the Florida mother may have killed her 2-year-old daughter by accident.

In a Wednesday interview with the Orlando Sentinel ( http://bit.ly/2mIK8SZ ), former Circuit Judge Belvin Perry Jr. said Anthony may have been trying to quiet the child, Caylee, with chloroform and accidentally used too much.

Perry says it's a theory and if jurors in Anthony's 2011 trial had come to that conclusion, they might have convicted her of second-degree murder or manslaughter.

But Perry stressed that was just one of several theories about what may have happened to Caylee.

Anthony, now 30, was acquitted in a trial that was broadcast live on television and garnered worldwide attention.

Perry didn't fault the verdict but said evidence showed Anthony had gone online to research how to use chloroform as a sedative.

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The judge who presided over Casey Anthony's murder trial says the Florida mother may have killed her 2-year-old daughter by accident. In a Wednesday interview with the Orlando Sentinel ( http://bit.ly/2mIK8SZ ), former Circuit Judge Belvin Perry Jr. said Anthony may have been trying...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Raytown High School sophomore thought she was going to die. She was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer, and without a bone marrow match, she wouldn't survive. Instead, the 16-year-old deified all odds, with the help of someone she calls her hero.

"I was to the point where I couldn't walk down a hallway at school without hitting a wall, getting super dizzy and weak," Marloh Mayfield recalled.

Marloh went straight to the emergency room. After several tests, she was diagnosed with a rare type of Leukemia. She needed a bone marrow transplant immediately.

"I needed it to survive. Either it would be chemo the rest of my life, or I would die," she explained.

Because Marloh is bi-racial, doctors told her the chance of her finding a match would be tough, but still, the search began. The 16-year-old went through one round of chemo, losing all of her hair and getting devastating news.

"I found out that the transplant chemo, it pretty much ruins my chances of having children. My dream has always been to have a family and have my own kids. It was a dream crusher," she said.

To try and keep her going, her brother William started selling T-shirts and bracelets at school, that read "Marloh Strong."

"I was trying to be the shoulder for everybody to lean on," William said.

One month later, Marloh got more news: A match was found. It was her biggest supporter, her brother.

"It was just an automatic, I'll do it."

The 15-year-old went through painful bone marrow surgery. Marloh is now cancer-free.

"I'm overly happy," William said.

Her immune system is now made up of her brother's cells.

"Every time I get sick I guess I can blame it on him. If I get a cold, it's his fault," Marloh said jokingly.

The two defied statistics, and against all odds, a brother got to save his sister's life.

"He's my hero. He knows it," Marloh beamed.

Marloh's friends started a GoFundMe to help cover her medical costs.

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New Orleans' transgender community is on edge after two transgender women were murdered within 48 hours of each other.

Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU reported.

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Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU-TV reported.

No arrests have been made in the cases, which police said appear to be unrelated, but transgender activist Daphanie Dupree told WDSU the situation was scary.

"It's scary because like a lot of the girls in New Orleans, they're walking around like zombies, you know they have this little hidden fear that's inside them to even go anywhere and I hear a lot of them talking about like 'oh, I'm going to carry a gun," Dupree told the station.

"It's very heartbreaking and it's scary because it's too close to home, I mean it could happen to any of us but I'm like -- we hang in the same circles, we hang in the same area just like it happened to them it could happen to me."

'One is too many'

In a media conference broadcast by WDSU, police Cmdr. Doug Eckert said the two crimes in as many days showed an increase in violence against transgender people in the Louisiana city.

"I mean one is too many, and that's how we feel," Eckert said.

Eckert told WDSU that there was nothing to indicate the stabbing was a hate crime. "If we learn that it's a hate crime, of course, we'll pursue the charges of that," he said.

At Wednesday's briefing Eckert referred to the stabbing victim as a transgender woman but declined to name her.

Seven killings this year

The New Orleans deaths mean three transgender women were killed within a week in Louisiana. The third one was fatally shot in Monroe on February 19.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said it had responded to seven reported killings of transgender women of color in the United States in the first two months of the year.

"As a society we can stop this epidemic by hiring trans women of color, making sure they have safe places to live and standing up when we see or hear them being demeaned and attacked and simply by valuing their lives," it said in a statement.

The Southern Poverty Law Center cited the Anti-Violence Project as saying the other four killings had been in Chicago; Canton, Mississippi; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Toledo, Ohio.

Last year, the deaths of 27 transgender people were reported, more than any other year, according to GLAAD and other advocacy groups.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programsresponded to the homicides of 23 transgender and gender nonconforming people in 2016, the most it's ever recorded, said Sue Yacka with the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

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Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU-TV reported. No arrests have been made in the cases, which police said appear to be unrelated, but transgender activist Daphanie Dupree told WDSU the situation was scary.

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Raymond Bowling, of Austin, Indiana, he sets his alarm each day for 5:30 a.m. He says he usually presses the snooze button once, and then nine minutes later he gets out of bed to start getting ready for work. "This morning I hit snooze, laid there for a few minutes, got up on my feet, and looked at how many minutes were left on snooze. About 6 minutes were left, so I decided to lay back down until it went off again." That decision prevented him from getting impaled by a tree branch that crashed through his roof as severe storms moved across the state this morning.

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AUSTIN, Ind. ( WXIN) - An Indiana man's decision to press the snooze button may have very well saved his life.

Raymond Bowling, of Austin, Indiana, told FOX59 that he sets his alarm each day for 5:30 a.m. He says he usually presses the snooze button once, and then nine minutes later he gets out of bed to start getting ready for work.

"This morning I hit snooze, laid there for a few minutes, got up on my feet, and looked at how many minutes were left on snooze. About 6 minutes were left, so I decided to lay back down until it went off again," Bowling told FOX59.

That decision prevented him from getting impaled by a tree branch that crashed through his roof as severe storms moved across the state this morning.

"I drifted off to sleep and literally 2 minutes later, the limb came crashing through. If I had gotten up, I would've been right in that spot, most likely brushing my teeth," Bowling said.

Bowling calls it divine intervention, and he says God was watching out for him this morning.

A contractor has already visited Bowling's home, removed the limb, and patched the roof.

Severe weather with heavy rain, wind, and lightning ripped through that portion of the state overnight - damaging dozens of homes. Many people lost power and Seymour Community Schools had to cancel classes today due to power outages.
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US citizens should be refused visa-free access to the EU in response to American visa rules affecting citizens from five EU countries, the European Parliament has said.

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US citizens should be refused visa-free access to the EU in response to American visa rules affecting citizens from five EU countries, the European parliament has said.

Citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania are currently denied visa-free access to the US.

The European parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday.

However, member states would have to approve the move, a process that could take years.

Nevertheless, the resolution, passed by a show of hands, said the new visa rules should come into effect quickly and should remain in place until the US visa requirements were shelved.

A European parliament statement said the EU Commission was legally obliged to temporarily reintroduce the new visa rules because of its reciprocity policy.
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Under these rules, "if a third country does not lift its visa requirements within 24 months of being notified of non-reciprocity, the EU Commission must adopt a delegated act... suspending the visa waiver for its nationals for 12 months", the statement said.

It said a notification of non-reciprocity was first received in April 2014 - meaning the Commission should have taken action in April 2016 - but so far it has yet to do so.

Canada also has visa requirements for Bulgarian and Romanian citizens, the statement said, but it has announced that these will be shelved in December.

In January, President Donald Trump attempted to introduce a travel ban on people from seven mainly Muslim nations but it was blocked in the courts. He is working on a new executive order.

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US citizens should be refused visa-free access to the EU in response to American visa rules affecting citizens from five EU countries, the European parliament has said. Citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania are currently denied visa-free access to the US. The European parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday.

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Mr. Kohl- Today, Snap Inc aka Snapchat  is coming out on the NYSE in the biggest US tech IPO in years. Shares are going for $17 a pop. Meaning the company’s valued at about $24 billion. Snap’s big moment comes a day after the Dow crossed the 21000 mark for the first time ever.

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Mr. Kohl- Today, Snap Inc aka Snapchat  is coming out on the NYSE in the biggest US tech IPO in years. Shares are going for $17 a pop. Meaning the company’s valued at about $24 billion. Snap’s big moment comes a day after the Dow crossed the 21000 mark for the first time ever.

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Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. ( SNAP) has priced its initial public offering of 200 million shares at $17 per share, which means the company is raising $3.4 billion. This gives the social media giant a value of $23.6 billion.

The pricing is slightly above the $14-$16 range the company had been targeting, which would have given it a valuation of $19.5-$22.3 billion.

As Bloomberg notes, the $23.6 billion valuation for the company is based on 1.39 billion fully diluted shares outstanding, more than the 1.16 billion shares the company's filing indicates will be outstanding after the offering. This implies there are securities out there that can be converted into about 230 million new shares.

The debut of Snap, which in its prospectus called itself a camera company, not a social network, will be first tech IPO of 2017 and is the most highly-anticipated market debut since Alibaba. The last social media company to go public was Twitter back in 2013.

As Snap makes its debut in public markets, two issues are likely to be of concern for investors in the coming months and years: profits and voting rights.

Cost and user growth

In a post earlier this month, tech analyst Ben Thompson at Stratechery indicated that Snapchat has a burgeoning issue with its total costs per user rising and losses per user are also increasing.

"The biggest problem here is Snap's cost of revenue per user: it's going up, and it has been for a while," Thompson writes.

"This isn't quite as bad as it seems, because Snap's cost of revenue includes revenue sharing payments to publishers; once you back that out, though, the company has gone from paying ~$0.47/user in 2015 to ~$0.66/user in 2016, a 40% increase, and an amount (per user) that well exceeds that of Facebook or Twitter at the time of their IPOs. That means that to become profitable Snap has to not only grow users, it has to grow them faster than its costs are increasing, or grow revenue per users by that much more." (Emphasis added.)

The bull case for Snapchat, however, has been in the strength of its product team and the vision of its CEO Evan Spiegel. Innovation, then, is what's really being pitched.

In its prospectus, Snap disclosed that user growth slowed towards the end of the third quarter of 2016 as the result, the company said, of issues related to new products and app updates.

This, then, would seem to indicate that the required product innovation Thompson sees as necessary for the company to overcome its current cost issues are also at risk of costing the company the users it needs to be profitable.

That's why it's called a risk factor.

No vote for you

As for the voting issue, Snap's IPO will offer investors shares that have no voting rights.

In its filing, Snap said that Spiegel and co-founder Bobby Murphy will have control of 89% of the voting power at the company. "This concentrated control eliminates other stockholders' ability to influence corporate matters and, as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial," the company said in its filing.

"As a result, the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected."

In a post on Wednesday, Yahoo Finance's Ash Bennington outlined why some analysts see this as making Snap's shareholder structure "banana republic governance."

In short, academic research says companies with a single-share class structure outperform those that feature the multi-class structure Snap will offer (and is currently offered by Google and Facebook).

Additionally, dual-class structures are not seen as being friendly for shareholder rights because, well, shareholders don't get a vote. Sure, shareholders get a cut of future profits, but are also most junior in the capital structure and have no say in management. Then again, you don't have to buy these companies.

The headline excitement around Snap's debut is and will likely remain focused on the product itself and its wunderkind CEO. But one of the most interesting, if in-the-weeds, investment stories is also playing out.

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Myles Udland is a writer at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland

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Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. (SNAP) has priced its initial public offering of 200 million shares at $17 per share, which means the company is raising $3.4 billion. The pricing is slightly above the $14-$16 range the company had been targeting, which would have given it a valuation of $19.5-$22.3 billion