Claressa Shields knows how to draw a crowd. Now the boxing star is adding extra glitz and glam.
High-profile rappers will be part of the show and famous boxers are expected to be in attendance when Shields fights Kaye Scott for the women's WBC and WBA world middleweight ****** les Saturday, Aug. 15 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
Shields, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, will be accompanied on her ring walk by Lotta, the Grammy-award nominated rapper. YG and Diamond the Body, two other notable rappers, will accompany two other fighters on their ring walks.
Also, Shields' team is saving VIP seats for retired boxer star Floyd Mayweather Jr., fellow retired boxing star Terrence Crawford and current boxing sensation Shakur Stevenson, and reserving VIP spots for two more rappers, Kevin Gates and Shields' boyfriend, Papoose.
"Claressa is a real bona fide star,'' Dmitriy Salita, Shields' promoter, told USA TODAY Sports. "And I think she's the biggest selling star.''

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Martha Stewart believes her five-month prison sentence added an unexpected element to her carefully cultivated public image. More than two decades after serving time in connection with a stock-trading scandal, the lifestyle mogul reflected on the experience and insisted that being incarcerated gave her "street cred." However, Martha Stewart also rejected the comparatively comfortable reputation of the minimum-security federal facility where she completed her sentence, describing it as "a horrible place."
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Stewart served her sentence at Federal Prison Camp Alderson in West Virginia between October 2004 and March 2005. During a new interview with PEOPLE, she acknowledged how the experience affected the way the public viewed her. "Of course it gave me street cred," Stewart said. "I mean, you would never know what jail was like until you go to jail."
When the interviewer suggested that her newfound credibility may have helped bring her closer to longtime friend Snoop Dogg, Stewart rejected the theory and explained that their connection began with her interest in hip-hop.
"No, I don't think Snoop likes me because I have street cred. I invited Snoop to be on my show [in 2008] because he was a rapper, and I was attracted to rappers. I like rap music. I especially like Eminem, and I could never get Eminem to come on any show. He would not accept any invitation. I still haven't met him," she said.

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HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) — She paces the side of the darkened highway in central Nepal, just enough light from the trucks roaring past to illuminate her painted face to the men rolling in on rickshaws and motorbikes. She knows that every stranger who pays for her body could end her life. But she also knows their money is the only thing preventing her death.
This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her. Rubi Lama once came here not as a **** worker, but as an aid worker who helped **** workers.
For nine years, Lama — who is transgender — had devoted her life to conducting HIV outreach in Nepal's marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ+ **** workers who wait by this highway each night. But after the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, Lama and more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide found themselves out of a job.
Much has been written about the devastating impacts the U.S. foreign aid cuts have had on the millions of people the funding once helped. Far less is known about the impacts on the helpers themselves.
In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers' lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, Lama and around 100 other LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to **** work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.

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Bitcoin holders can now hide more of their activity, but only by trusting new...

Starknet’s strkBTC launch highlights a broader Bitcoin privacy tradeoff, where the fastest way to shield BTC may be to move it into wrappers, sidechains or e-cash systems that add new trust ****** umptions.
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Starknet launched strkBTC on May 12, locking BTC on Bitcoin's base layer to back an ERC-20 token that brings shielded balances into a smart contract environment at scale.
The token runs in the public mode, where it behaves like any other wrapped Bitcoin ****** et, and shielded mode, where users can hide selected balances and transfers from outside observers.
Starknet routes viewing keys to an independent third-party auditor, preserving selective disclosure when regulators or counterparties require it.

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Congratulations to these teams on making it to the championship in the KC Sports Midwest Global State! #PlayUSSSA

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