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By: Zuma On 11:36 PM

Donald Trump spoke about his health, his rising poll numbers and his disdain for the media on “The Tonight Show” Thursday night. But what the audience really ate up was the “hair moment.”
The coiffed Republican presidential candidate let host Jimmy Fallon do something “that’s just not presidential ... something we can do now that we’re both just civilians.”
“Can I mess your hair up?” Fallon asked.

Surprisingly, and to raucous applause, Trump agreed. Then he asked the people of New Hampshire, where he was headed for a speech, to understand his disheveled appearance.
Trump also commented on the “grueling, but at the same time ... very satisfying” presidential race, and said the experience had been “fun” and “amazing.” His only criticism: the “vicious” media.

Although the Trump campaign released a statement late Thursday saying the candidate no longer questioned President Barack Obama’s citizenship, it’s unlikely he’ll be doling out an apology any time soon.
“I don’t love apologizing,” Trump said. “I’m not thrilled about apologizing, but I’ll apologize if I’m wrong.”

By: Zuma On 11:14 AM

Susan Sarandon Poster Tehran Metro

Susan Abigail Sarandon is an American actress. She is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner who is also known for her social and political activism for a variety of causes. She was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006.
Sarandon began her career in the 1970 film Joe, before appearing in the soap opera A World Apart (1970–71). In 1975, she starred in the cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Atlantic City (1980), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and The Client (1994), before winning for Dead Man Walking (1995). She has also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Client, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for Dead Man Walking.

She made her Broadway debut in An Evening with Richard Nixon in 1972, and went on to receive Drama Desk Award nominations for the Off-Broadway plays, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (1979) and Extremities (1982). She returned to Broadway in the 2009 revival of Exit the King.

By: Zuma On 11:02 AM

U.S. Navy ship

U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian vessels

A U.S. Navy destroyer fired three warning shots at four Iranian fast-attack vessels near the Strait of Hormuz after they closed in at high speed and disregarded repeated requests to slow down, U.S. officials said on Monday.

The incident, which occurred on Sunday and was first reported by Reuters, comes as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Jan. 20. In September, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessels that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be "shot out of the water."
"This was an unsafe and unprofessional interaction, and that is due to the fact that they were approaching at a high level of speed with weapons manned and disregarding repeated warnings," Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a briefing.

The warning shots were fired at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats by the USS Mahan after it established radio contact but failed to get them to slow down, Davis said, confirming earlier accounts of U.S. defense officials.

Those officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the Iranian vessels came within 900 yards (800 meters) of the Navy destroyer, which was escorting two other U.S. military ships.
The Mahan also fired flares and a U.S. Navy helicopter also dropped a smoke float before the warning shots, they said.
The IRGC and Trump transition team were not immediately available for comment.

The White House said the Iranian vessels had behaved in an unacceptable manner and that such incidents risked increasing tensions.
"At this point the United States does not know what the intentions of the Iranian vessels were, but the behavior is not acceptable given that the USS Mahan was operating in international waters," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said during a press conference on Monday.

Years of mutual animosity eased when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran last year after a deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions. But serious differences still remain over Iran's ballistic missile program as well as conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

One of the U.S. defense officials said similar incidents occur occasionally.
Most recently in August, another U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships.
In January 2016, Iran freed 10 U.S. sailors after briefly detaining them in the Gulf.

By: Zuma On 1:49 AM

Farhadi Golden Globe

Best motion picture, foreign language

It was a busy night at the 74th annual Golden Globes, with La La Land positively dominating the film awards, Moonlight taking home the award for Best Drama, and Jimmy Fallon somehow proving to be even more bland than Ricky Gervais was last year. But the only thing that really matters is the winners.

Well, at least until the next Hollywood awards show, which will be the only thing that matters until the Hollywood awards show after that... leading up to this year’s Academy Awards on February 26th.

"Divines"

WINNER: "Elle

"Neruda"

"The Salesman"

"Toni Erdmann"

By: Zuma On 9:43 PM

Podium

A Speech Which Will Make You Smile...

Once, the people of the city invited Mulla Nasruddin to deliver a speech. When he got on the minbar (pulpit), he found the audience was not very enthusiastic, so he asked “Do you know what I am going to say?” The audience replied “NO”, so he announced “I have no desire to speak to people who don’t even know what I will be talking about” and he left. The people felt embarrassed and called him back again the next day. This time when he asked the same question, the people replied “YES” So Mullah Nasruddin said, “Well, since you already know what I am going to say, I won’t waste any more of your time” and he left. Now the people were really perplexed. They decided to try one more time and once again invited the Mullah to speak the following week. Once again he asked the same question – “Do you know what I am going to say?” Now the people were prepared and so half of them answered “YES” while the other half replied “NO”. So Mullah Nasruddin said “The half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the other half” and he left!

By: Zuma On 1:19 PM

Expectations vs Reality

Expectations vs Reality: Hilarious Baby Pics That Will Cheer You Up

The Internet is full of adorable baby pictures by professional photographers. Let’s be honest — every parent tried to recreate these photos with their babies. But results were unpredictable. These 19 parents also tried… Check out their funny expectations vs reality baby pics that will surely cheer you up.