11 Mar 2013
KateNash-Feature
Photo: (MTV)

Photo: (MTV)

Kate Nash just dropped her third studio album, Girl Talk, so obvi we just had to sit down with the Brit singer for a little...well...girl talk. From music, to philanthropy, to why she doesn't date narcissists, we've got the dirt on what Kate cares about most.

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14 Feb 2013
KhloeKardashian-Feature
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Photo: (Getty)

Khloé Kardashian Odom is not one to shy away from touchy subjects -- like vaginas, period myths, and her older sisters. Apparently one of them -- Kim or Kourtney -- believed that if she slept on her side for a long time, her period would stop flowing heavily. Say whatttt?!

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16 Jan 2013
Kara-Feature

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Oh my cuteness alert! Kara Marcum, 19, may have Down Syndrome but her local Tennessee high school has fallen in love with her glowing personality. Looking past what many don't, her school's basketball team nominated her for Bolivar Central High School homecoming queen -- and she won!

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5 Oct 2012
3rdWorld-Feature

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Don’t you just hate it when your phone charger is too short to reach from the wall to your bed? Or when your car seat makes your bum cold in the winter? Or when you ask for no pickles on your cheeseburger -- twice -- but you get ‘em anyway?! It’s easy to get caught up in our minor daily setbacks, but this new video from WATERisLIFE is a moving reminder of just how good we have it.

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17 May 2012
Photo: Harvard baseball team covers Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' (YouTube/connerhulse)

Photo: Harvard baseball team covers Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' (YouTube/connerhulse)

Have you seen the Harvard University baseball team’s rendition of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” It’s maaaaybe more awesome than Justin and Selena’s. The lip-synching video -- complete with hilarious van choreography -- got more than 1.4 million views just 3 days after they’d posted it on YouTube. Once the team realized they’d gone viral, they immediately linked their video to Friends of Jaclyn, a charity that pairs children with brain tumors with high school and collegiate athletic teams.

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16 May 2012
Photo: (MTV)

Photo: (MTV)

During the first hour of yesterday's back-to-back "16 and Pregnant" episodes, we met Sarah -- a Georgia native whose family clashed with Blake, her baby's daddy, after he moved in. Well, in case you missed it, he moved right back out, leaving Sarah and newborn Tinleigh behind to work toward becoming a shrimp boat captain. What has Sarah taken from the whole experience? And where does she hope her career is headed? Watch after the jump!

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22 Mar 2012
Photo: (Getty Images)

Photo: (Getty Images)

Lots of special days around the corner, we hear. For one, today is World Water Day! Also, after delaying its release, Adam Lambert is putting the final touches on his sophomore album, "Trespassing," and nearing a release date -- Glamberts rejoice! Plenty of you have special days around the corner, too -- birthdays to be exact -- and Adam wants you to donate your birthday to charity:water like he has the past two years.

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8 Mar 2012
Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi

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Love is in the air between Jersey Shore's Snooki and her fiancé Jionni LaValle: they're engaged, having a baby, AND we got word that if and when a bully says something hurtful to her, Jionni has her back! Awww, so cute.

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2 Mar 2012
nelly

Photo: K'naan and Nelly Furtado. (Octone Records)

He survived civil war in Somalia while listening to hip-hop albums, spit political lyrics on behalf of his home country for U.N. diplomats and had the entire planet wavin’ flags during the last World Cup, but now K’NAAN is taking his global musical movement down to the personal level with the help of his homegirl Nelly Furtado. It all goes down in his music video for “Is Anyone Out There?” the lead single from his upcoming album, Country, God, Or The Girl, which lands in stores on May 1.

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nelly

Photo: K'naan and Nelly Furtado. (Octone Records)

He survived civil war in Somalia while listening to hip-hop albums, spit political lyrics on behalf of his home country for U.N. diplomats and had the entire planet wavin’ flags during the last World Cup, but now K’NAAN is taking his global musical movement down to the personal level with the help of his homegirl Nelly Furtado. It all goes down in his music video for “Is Anyone Out There?” the lead single from his upcoming album, Country, God, Or The Girl, which lands in stores on May 1.

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