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Ms. Klum stepped out in a silver minidress yesterday (June 25) in NYC flaunting her famous legs as she headed into her hotel. The 40 year old supermodel who is currently a judge on America's Got Talent looked flawless as the wind whipped through her hair.
Klum has been spotted all around the Big Apple over the past few weeks taking jogs along the river and dining out with her kids and bodyguard boyfriend Martin Kristen.
They like him very much Klum told German magazine Bunte of her children and Kristen. This is also one reason why I'm so fond of him. He's been helping me for four years now. And he takes wonderful care of the kids. He plays with them he protects them. I trust him.
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Loading Slideshow Halle BerryBritney SpearsGerard ButlerHeidi KlumDenise RichardsBrooke Burke CharvetJustin BieberKaty PerryKelly RowlandJennifer LopezSamantha BarksAlicia KeysAnja RubikZosia MametMiley CyrusKim KardashianAshley GreeneLady GagaAmanda BynesLess than 24 hours after an epic abortion bill filibuster propelled her into the national spotlight Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis (D) went directly after Gov. Rick Perry (R) on national television.
Perry ordered the Texas State Legislature Wednesday to meet for another 30 day special session on a plan that would impose severe abortion restrictions including the closure of nearly every clinic in the state. Part of Perry's official statement cast Tuesday's events as a breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do.
In a Wednesday interview on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes Davis was asked to respond to Perry's decorum remark. She struck back at the governor and Lt. Gov David Dewhurst panning them as the ones who led the charge on the decorum breakdown.
They have overridden and made a mockery of all of the rules that we run by in this state Davis said.
Dozens of Senate Democrats held different sentiments than Perry praising Davis for her efforts. A group of 31 signed a letter Wednesday thanking her for the courage and determination in defeating S.B. 5 a bill that would have severely limited women's reproductive choices in Texas.
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Loading Slideshow President ObamaSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D Nev.)Sen. Chris Coons (D Del.)Judy BlumeMaryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D)Sen. Mazie Hirono (D Hawaii)Paul F. TompkinsChristine QuinnDan SavageRicky GervaisCarrie BrownsteinRob DelaneyPaul BegalaSen. Chris Murphy (D Conn.)Paul ScheerDavid PlouffeCory BookerKatha PollittMia FarrowSen. Jeanne Shaheen (D N.H.) New Jersey Gubernatorial Candidate Barbara Buono (D)Elizabeth BanksPlanned Parenthood President Cecile RichardsSen. Jeff Merkley (D Ore.)Tavi GevinsonSen. Debbie Stabenow (D Mich.)Wil WheatonSen. Claire McCaskill (D Mo.)Russell SimmonsHenry WinklerIn emotional testimony Wednesday Michael Jackson s teen son described harrowing scenes from the King of Pop s last moments and laid bare the family s heartbreak over his untimely death.
Prince Jackson 16 said he was called upstairs the morning his father died at their Los Angelese home on June 25 2009 and saw Dr. Conrad Murray attempting CPR.
My dad was hanging half off the bed and his eyes kind of rolled in the back of his head Prince said his voice quavering slightly as he spoke publicly about his father s death for the first time.
Jackson Family Video Scene from Michael Jackson wrongful death trial videos Michael Jackson with children Prince and Paris.My sister came upstairs but we kept pulling her downstairs. She was screaming the whole time saying she wants her daddy.
Prince said he was in tears when the paramedics arrived and rushed the 50 year old Thriller singer from the family s rented mansion to UCLA Medical Center. He said relatives followed the ambulance to the hospital and hoped for the best.
I told my sister something that my dad always told us that angels were still watching over him and there had to be angels on Earth he recalled.
Jackson Family Video Scene from Michael Jackson wrongful death trial videos Paris Jackson tells her father Michael what she wants to be when she grows up a gymnast who wants to help the poor. Prince (right) says he wants to be a movie director and architect.PHOTOS MICHAEL JACKSON'S LIFE IN PHOTOS
He said that eventually Murray returned and told the family their dad didn t make it.
Sorry kids Dad is dead Murray said Prince testified. The doctor blamed a heart attack he said.
LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images Michael Jackson's children (from left) Prince Blanket and Paris Jackson speak on stage during the 'Michael Forever' concert in memory of the late singer in 2011.We just cried Prince said Wednesday his otherwise measured voice breaking.
He said the loss of his father still haunts him.
Nothing will ever be the same he said. I can t sleep at night. I have a hard time sleeping. For a while after he died I became emotionally distant from a lot of people.
Jackson Family Video Scene from Michael Jackson wrongful death trial videos Prince and Paris Jackson as children.He said his sister Paris 15 who recently attempted suicide also has suffered greatly.
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Out of all my siblings she was probably hit the hardest because she was my dad s princess he said. It really hurt her a lot. She definitely is dealing with it in her own way.
Jackson Family Video Prince Jackson says he wants to be an architect and movie director in Michael Jackson home video.He said Blanket 11 doesn't have a father to guide him.
Earlier in his testimony Prince
recalled his father as a doting dad who instilled a strong work ethic in him and a love of film. He said he now has a 3.68 grade point average in high school and wants to study film and business at the University of Southern California.
Jackson Family Video Scene from Michael Jackson wrongful death trial videos Blanket Jackson (Prince Michael Jackson II) says he wants to be a movie director when he grows up.Prince testified that his father loved to shower his kids with attention and then capture their milestones on film.
He spent much of his two hour testimony describing intimate family snapshots and videos showing him sitting at a piano with his dad playing with his sister Paris at Neverland Ranch and receiving a chocolate Labrador puppy with a big red bow around its neck for Christmas.
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LAPD A Los Angeles Police Department photo shows the master bedroom at the home where Michael Jackson died in 2009.In one touching clip Michael interviewed his kids about what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Paris who looks about 8 years old on the tape said she wanted to help the poor. Prince said he wanted to be an architect or an action movie director.
During his testimony Prince recalled his father feeling excited about his planned This Is It tour but also frustrated with AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips and another manager Tohme Tohme.
Vanessa Pacheco/PacificCoastNews Prince Jackson pictured out with girlfriend Remi Alfalah in Beverly Hills on June 24.Prince also recalled Michael offering Murray money to pay for essentials and seeing his father finish a phone call with either Phillips or Tohme that left him upset.
He would cry sometimes after he got off the phone Prince said. He would say They re going to kill me. They re gonna kill me.
Prince also recalled Phillips visiting the mansion once when his father was out and speaking privately to Murray. He was talking to Dr. Murray and he was grabbing his elbow and it looked aggressive to me Prince testified.
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Prince is the first family witness to testify in the wrongful death trial pitting his grandmother against AEG Live.
After court ended for the day family lawyer Brian Panish said it was tough for Prince to relive the memories of that tragic day.
He was relieved to get it over with but he was strong Panish said.
He said it has not been decided if Paris will testify. There are other issues and factors . . . she s doing the best she can Panish said.
Jackson family matriarch Katherine Jackson is suing AEG Live for damages estimated at more than $1 billion saying the promoter behind Michael s ill fated tour put its desire for massive profits ahead of Michael s health and safety.
Katherine the co guardian of Michael s three children claims AEG hired a debt ridden Murray in May 2009 and then made it clear the doctor would forfeit his $150 000 a month salary if Michael failed to perform. Murray is now serving four years for recklessly providing a deadly dose of the anesthetic propofol to Michael as a sleep aid.
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It appears that things are dead and done between Kat Von D and Deadmau5 as she has taken to her Twitter this afternoon to share the disheartening news. Not only is their engagement off but it appears to be crumbling under the sin of infidelity committed by Deadmau5
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This holiday season Microsoft launches its $499 Xbox One and Sony its $399 Playstation 4. It's a big year for gaming fans and well a big year for their wallets especially when you consider that those prices don't include any of the games.
But starting this week there is a new significantly more affordable gaming console on the market which will sit next to those other hotly anticipated systems on Best Buy and Target shelves later this year.
It's called Ouya (pronounced like Booya without the B). It costs $99 and it's nothing like the other consoles in terms of price performance and offerings. And that's the point.
Ouya is a different type of game console. We wanted to bring gaming back to the television by making it accessible to gamers Julie Uhrman the founder of Ouya told ABC News in an interview. All the games are free to try and we allow any developer with the creativity and passion to build a game for the television to do so.
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What You Get for $99 Unlike the big clunky Xbox Wii or Playstation boxes the Ouya is a small little box no bigger than other small settop boxes such as the Apple TV or the Roku. The little vase shaped device houses the guts of a high end tablet or smartphone including an Nvidia quad core processor and a Wi Fi radio. There's no CD or Blu ray drive you download the games right to the device.
For $99 you get that box an HDMI cord to hook it up to your TV and a single AA battery powered controller. Additional controllers will cost $49.95.
The box doesn't only have some of the same parts as your phone but it also runs the same software as some of those phones. The menus and all the games have been written on top of Google's Android platform. But it's not just a stretched version of the software the games and the Ouya software have been created for TVs Uhrman emphasized.
The whole point of using Android which is an open platform was to make Ouya an open console. In fact the O in Ouya stands for open. The uya That stands for fun.
The fun of course comes with the games. The console launched on Tuesday with more than 160 games all of which are free to try. You shouldn't be gouged by paying $60 for a game if you don't even know if you like it Uhrman says taking a knock at the high priced console games out there. The only requirement of game makers when submitting games to the Ouya store is that playing some part of it must be free.
But no you won't find Halo or Call of Duty or Madden NFL 13 on Ouya. The new console has attracted a range of game makers with experience making games for the PC and game consoles. It also attracts game makers who have never made a game before.
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One game available for the console called Astronaut Rescue was created by a father and his 8 year old son. His son broke his leg skiing and the dad was like you aren't going to sit inside all day long and play games so they decided to build one Uhrman said.
Joining games like Astronaut Rescue are some names that are more familiar to people such as Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog Final Fantasy and You Don't Know Jack. The lack of well known titles might be a sticking point for many but the free options might be all it takes to bring users in say some experts.
The Ouya is attractive because of the $100 price and its free to try games. That alone will give people pause enough to consider picking up one of these consoles even though they don't play the popular games today Brian Blau a research director at Gartner told ABC News.
