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The Best Pictures of the Week: November 2 - November 9

November 9, 2012 10:19 AM EST From President Obama’s reelection and Superstorm Sandy’s aftermath to a deadly earthquake in Guatemala and a train cemetery in Bolivia, TIME presents the best photographs of the week. ncG1vNJzZmismaKyb6%2FOpmZsb2logHmDjqmgnKylp7K0ec6fZK2glWLEprHKZqWorpWir6a%2BjGtkp6emmrqjsdFmcGg%3D

The Donald Trump Tweets Americans Hate the Most

A year-long poll revealed that Americans most dislike President Donald Trump’s tweets targeting reality TV hosts, Republican politicians, celebrities and the news media, while they most like tweets celebrating veterans, first responders and John McCain. Over Trump’s first year, the polling outfit YouGov showed a representative sample of 1,000 U.S. adults each of the previous day’s tweets from the president’s personal account, asking them to rate them from “terrible” to “great.

The Holidays Can Be Lonely For The LGBTQIA Community

Despite the promised tidings of comfort and joy, twinkling lights, and gifts exchanged, the holiday season can be a great source of pain and loneliness for those of us in the LGBTQIA+ community. The reality of what many queer people experience during the holidays seldom lives up to the sense of wonder and community we were taught to believe in as children. After the experience of coming out—naming our sexual orientation, who we really are, and where we find love—too many of us face rejection, isolation, and shame from the ones who had previously claimed they cherished us.

The Myth of the Hypoallergenic Dog

Ragnar Schmuck / Stone / Getty ImagesIs this the face of a fraud? You may now file hypoallergenic dogs under Things That Are Too Good to Be True. That’s the conclusion of a new study by Henry Ford Hospital researchers, which finds that homes with so-called hypoallergenic dogs don’t have lower household levels of allergens than those with other breeds. Hypoallergenic dogs, which include purebreds like poodles and Portuguese water dogs, along with increasingly popular mixed breeds like labradoodles (the offspring of a Labrador retriever and a poodle), are thought to shed less fur and to produce less of the stuff that triggers allergies, such as dander and saliva.

Uyai Ikpe-Etim's lesbian love story, 'Ife' to debut in December

The lesbian love story is set to debut exclusively on EhTv Network on December 10, 2020. EhTv Network is a streaming platform dedicated to Nigerian LGBTQ content. Produced by Pamela Adie and directed by Uyai Ikpe-Etim, the film follows the story of two women who fall in love over a 3-day date but struggle with the realities of same sex love in a country overridden by sanctimony and hypocrisy.