Middleton engaged to

hedge fund manager

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The Duchess of
Cambridges
younger
sister,
Pippa Middleton,
and hedge fund
manager James
Matthews
announced their engagement yesterday, setting the
stage for a celebrated society wedJames Matthews and
ding in the coming
Pippa Middleton in 2014 year, The Associated Press reports.
The couple confirmed rumors in a statement to Britains Press Association, saying
they planned to marry in 2017. The statement
came as Middleton appeared in photographs
with a diamond engagement ring on her left
hand as she left her London home.
Matthews proposed to Middleton, 32, on
Sunday while they were visiting the picturesque Lake District. British media said
they have been dating less than a year.
Her elder sister, the former Kate Middleton, and Prince William said they were absolutely delighted, by the news, Kensington
Palace said.

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Ghostbusters star confronts racist tweets

BY FRANK LOVECE

Special to Newsday

Hurt, angry and defiant, Ghostbusters star

Leslie Jones roared back against internet trolls
who had harassed her with virulently racist
tweets, engendering responses from Twitters
CEO and many celebrities.
Confronting highly charged language and imagery, Saturday Night Live cast member Jones,
48, eventually stopped blocking the offending parties so her Twitter followers can go through my
feed yourself and see . . . . You wont believe the
evil. Its [expletive] scary.
She also had to confront a Twitter troll posting
fake homophobic comments purportedly from her.
Its so sad, most of these comments sound like
they are from ignorant children, Jones wrote Monday night in a string of nearly 30 tweets. She added,
You have to hate yourself to put out that type of
hate. I mean on my worst day I cant think of this
type of hate to put out. I dont know how to feel.
Im numb. Actually numb. I see the words and pics
and videos. Videos yall.
Jones wrote, I know there is racism. But Im . . .
that naive to think that some things was changing
yes I was. We still live in a world where we have to
say black lives matter. Im so tired of it. Why is
this still a fight? She concluded a string of mes-

sages early yesterday. I leave Twitter tonight

with tears and a very sad heart, Jones wrote.
All this cause I did a movie.
Paul Feig, director and co-writer of the
Ghostbusters remake in which Jones stars,
defended her, tweeting, Leslie Jones is one
of the greatest people I know. Any personal attacks against her are attacks against us all.
Comedian Margaret Cho called her an inspiration and a legend in the making, while
singer Lorde said Jones was so cool to us
when we played SNL. . . . you trolls live rent
free at your mums house.
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey
jumped in late Monday, tweeting, Hi Leslie, following, please DM [direct message] me when
you have a moment. Twitter later told BuzzFeed: This type of abusive behavior is not
permitted on Twitter, and weve taken
action on many of the accounts reported to us by both Leslie
and others. We rely on people to report this type of behavior to us but we are
continuing to invest heavily in improving our
tools and enforcement
systems to prevent this
kind of abuse.

INVISION/AP / JORDAN STRAUSS

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Leslie Jones said she felt numb in a day of responding to hateful attacks.

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