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Bey and Tay are some of America's richest self-made women.(Photo: Daniela Vesco, Invision via AP/George Pimentel, WireImage)
[h=2]Trust funds are boring: These women run the world[/h]Forbes' second annual roundup of the richest<span style="color: Red;">*</span>self-made women in America (read: did not inherit their<span style="color: Red;">*</span>cash)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is out, and the lineup is<span style="color: Red;">*</span>star-studded with entertainers. Taylor Swift is the youngest earner and comes in 60th on the list, with a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>staggering net worth<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of $250 million. Beyoncé, surely celebrating with a glass of lemonade, was four spots ahead, at $265 million. Rounding out some of the top positions were<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Oprah Winfrey<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(No. 2), Madonna (No. 25),<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Celine Dion<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(No. 37),<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Barbra Streisand<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(No. 38), author<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Nora Roberts<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(No. 42),<span style="color: Red;">*</span>actress<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Jessica Alba<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(also No. 42), and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Nasty Gal<span style="color: Red;">*</span>founder and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>#Girlboss<span style="color: Red;">*</span>author<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sophia Amoruso<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(No. 52). So<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who's No. 1? That'd be<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Diane Hendricks, who owns ABC Supply, the largest wholesale distributor of roofing and siding in the country<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>she's worth a cool<span style="color: Red;">*</span>$4.9 billion. Get it, Di.
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Beyonce, Oprah, and Taylor Swift are some of the big names that appear in Forbes' second annual roundup of the richest, self-made women. Wochit
[h=2]She created it, and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>she wanted to eat it. Yet<span style="color: Red;">*</span>she needed a court order to keep it.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>[/h]Jordan Thiering was ready for her baby. What she wasn't prepared for was being told she needed a court order that would grant her rights to her own placenta, which<span style="color: Red;">*</span>she had planned to encapsulate and, ultimately, ingest. "If I give birth to my baby and then I give birth to my placenta, do you own my baby, too? Do I have a third party to my own child? Well, of course not. So then why am I the third party to my own body part?" she asked. Her lawyer agreed. And<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on May 17, so did a judge, and she was granted rights to her placenta. Thiering's ultimate goal: education and to "let women know you have options."<span style="color: Red;">*</span>So, eat 'em if you got 'em, we<span style="color: Red;">*</span>guess?
[h=2]We still love that you can pick up the phone and call a Swede[/h]It's all in the name of tourism, and it's oh-so-glorious.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Call "The Swedish Number"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and a Swede, any Swede, will answer to talk to you about their country.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The call-in line went live last month<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as something of a gimmick by the Swedish Tourist Association, not unintentionally tied to the 250th anniversary of the country's abolition of censorship.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The idea caught on, because why not? To date, more than 160,000 people have given Sweden a ring. GlobalPost's Jason Margolis is among them and recounts some of the friendly chats he's had.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>If you want to talk to a random Swede yourself, call soon. The phone number, (011) 46–771–793–336, will be disconnected June 24. Related: We used this as an opportunity to troll Sweden's official Twitter account ... and it's full of gems. (See below.) Sweden, we think we love you.
[h=2]The recent gorilla story, sadly, wasn't another Binti Jua tale[/h]We feel obligated to share with you this less sad story making the rounds on social media from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago two decades ago, in which a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>3-year-old boy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fell into a gorilla enclosure. The outcome then was much different than what happened this weekend in Cincinnati in which a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>17-year-old gorilla,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Harambe, was fatally shot after a young boy fell into the exhibit. In the Chicago incident, grainy video shows an 8-year-old gorilla, Binti Jua, pick up the boy’s limp body and cradle him before taking him to rescuers. Binti Jua, who had her own 17-month-old baby on her back at the time,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was hailed as a hero. Fact: In 1996, Twitter wasn't around to shame that little boy's mom. More updates: Harambe's caretaker is so sad. The boy from the recent incident is doing OK, his family told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
[h=2]#MustRead: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits are unprecedented for a presidential nominee[/h]?An exclusive USA TODAY analysis of legal filings across the United States finds that Donald Trump and his businesses have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades. They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation lawsuits. No presidential candidate of a major party has had anything approaching the number of Trump's courtroom entanglements —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a record that provides clues about his leadership in the White House.
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We break down the legal battles Donald Trump has been involved in for decades and look at what role he played in the 3,500 cases. USA TODAY
[h=2]The FDA is feeling salty and cracking down on sodium[/h]Did you know: A thousand Americans die each day from high blood pressure? We didn't, and we're sheepish. The U.S.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Food and Drug Administration<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wants to do something about it and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>released draft<span style="color: Red;">*</span>guidelines<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Wednesday that recommend companies cut sodium in food by a third. Nine in 10 Americans (hi, that's all of us)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>consume<span style="color: Red;">*</span>50% more sodium per day than recommended, and that's directly linked to high blood pressure.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Stepping away from the salt shaker won't help: Most<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sodium in our diets is added by food manufacturers. Here's a sobering stat: Reducing Americans' average sodium consumption<span style="color: Red;">*</span>by just 12% could prevent<span style="color: Red;">*</span>32,000 heart attacks and 20,000 strokes a year. We're in. (Here's info<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on another silent killer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— and it may not be what you think.)
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The average sodium intake in the United States is about 3,400 mg per day prompting The U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue guidelines to the food industry for efforts to be made to reduce the use of sodium in processed food. USA TODAY
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