You don’t need to attempt to be a marathon runner or a gym regular to reap the benefits of a good sweat session.

In fact, some of the best workouts require relatively low fitness expertise, according to research published in 2015 by I-Min Lee, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. These routines can still increase muscle mass, lead to more weight loss and protect your heart and brain.

Lee, whose research and related exercises were highlighted on Harvard Health this week, and a few other experts told us about some of the best workouts you can do for your body that don’t require much finesse. Take a look at the exercises below, along with some tips on how to incorporate them into your fitness routine:

Walking

Simple? Yes. Effective? Absolutely. Research continually shows that brisk walking is one of the best ways to keep your body and your mind healthy. Multiple studies have found that walking can reduce blood pressure, help with weight management and lower the risk of illness. A study published in 2014 also found that taking walks in nature can help reduce symptoms of depression.

“It comes close to the perfect movement,” said Michelle Segar, author of the book No Sweat: How The Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You A Lifetime of Fitness and director of the Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy (SHARP) Center at the University of Michigan. “It can serve you in an infinite number of ways, such as a way to renew yourself, be social, have fun with your kids, generate insights, clear your brain and on and on.”

Try this: The Harvard report recommends starting out with 10- to 15-minute strolls and building up to more challenging, longer walks. Lee said you can easily incorporate this into your everyday life in small ways.

“For example, if you drive to work, consider parking farther away and walk the rest of the distance,” she said.

Swimming

Dive on in, the water’s fine (and great exercise). Swimming is one of the greatest workouts because it works multiple muscle groups, but is a low-impact exercise.

Swimming can be great for older adults and people with pain conditions like arthritis because it doesn’t put strain on the joints in the body, according to Lee. Additionally, research shows it can protect the brain from age-related decline. It also gets your heart rate high enough to be considered a cardio workout.

Try this: Get your bearings with 30 to 45 minutes of freestyle swimming in a lap pool. That’s enough time to make it an aerobic activity, according to the Harvard report. You can also try this swimming workout for beginners if you’re looking for something more concrete.

Weight training

Make no mistake: Strength work is just as important as cardio. And it’s one of the best types of workouts you can practice, according to the Harvard report.

Weight-based workouts go beyond toning your muscles. Research shows strength training can help boost your balance and burn more calories. It also gives you the same benefits as exercise, like a sharper mind and a healthier heart.

Try this: Start by learning basic moves like bicep curls and tripod rows and doing several repetitions with dumbbells. (This guide is a good one to use.) No weights? No problem. There are ways to use heavier household items for your workout, like this total-body routine using a pumpkin. Seriously!

Tai Chi

Anyone can do this gentle workout, which is a martial art that combines slow movements focused on agility and meditative practices. According to Lee, it may also be especially helpful for aging adults.

“Tai chi is good because it incorporates balance elements, [which are] useful for older folks,” she said.

The exercise can offer some aerobic benefits as well as improve flexibility and muscle strength.

Try this: YouTube and iTunes are great resources for beginners’ videos. You may also be able to take an intro class at your local health center, community center or YMCA, according to Harvard Health.

High Intensity

You don’t need to do a hardcore workout to reap the benefits of doing a higher-intensity exercise. Even a little resistance can go a long way, according to Nicholas Beltz, director of the Exercise Physiology Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

“High intensity is a very relative term, so anyone can accomplish even the shortest duration of high intensity,” he said. “For example, we often associate high intensity with drastic speed increases on a treadmill or lining up in a sprinters block for an all-out effort. Truthfully, this is not the appropriate application for most individuals.”

Try this: “High intensity can be effectively applied by increasing the walking speed from casual to brisk while adding a dose of incline particularly with individuals of low fitness levels,” Beltz explained. 

Perhaps something to try during your next walking meeting?

Row Machine

This gym machine requires very little fitness skill but packs a huge punch when it comes to burning calories, said Tony Nuñez, an assistant professor of exercise science at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

“Individuals who utilize this piece of equipment are really building a powerful movement ... many older adults could use more power to decrease the difficulty of activities of daily living,” he explained. “Being a very low impact exercise, the row would be a seamless addition to any walking, jogging or running program, while still providing an adequate stress to the cardiopulmonary system.”

Try this: All you need is 20 minutes to get a good sweat on a rowing machine. Check out this step-by-step workout from Shape.

You can see benefits from any of these workout options. But ultimately, it’s critical to choose an exercise you enjoy so you stick to it, Lee said.

“Exercise is essential for health ― it is one thing you can do that will benefit many aspects of ... well-being and function,” she said. “Some activity is better than none, and more is better than a little.”

A woman has been reunited with her missing moggy thanks to the power of Tinder. 

Katie Alsop, from Northampton, said she received 400 matches after posting photos of her lost cat on the dating app. 

“I bought a premium membership, put on a ‘boost’ to get more attention and uploaded a missing poster with a reward and my number, plus a photo of me and the cat for sympathy,” the 26-year-old told HuffPost UK.

After setting her search distance to 10km away, she received a call within 30 minutes from a stranger called Charlie who had found her cat in his garden. 

The genius idea came about after Katie’s ginger and white puss, called Peanut, went missing overnight on 11 October.

The next day, Katie was worried sick because she believed her cat might have been murdered by the M25 animal killer (previously known as the Croydon cat killer). It played on her mind so much that she had to take a day off work.

Instead of printing out posters of her missing moggy, Katie decided to download Tinder and pay for a premium membership. She then went about uploading a photo of herself and Peanut to the app, with information about her beloved cat including reward details.

Within minutes she was inundated with matches and her beloved cat was eventually located in a nearby estate. 

“Charlie said he saw my Tinder profile, looked out of his window, and the cat was in his garden! I was so happy he hadn’t been taken by the killer,” she added.

But the story doesn’t end there. Peanut escaped from the garden and Katie teamed up with Charlie to track him down.

“Charlie was literally scaling 8ft fences and jumping into wasteland, it was like an action film,” Katie recalled. 

“Peanut got scared and headed towards a really busy road so we decided to stop looking for him.”

In a move that would’ve made Hansel and Gretel proud, Katie then made trails of used cat litter around the neighbourhood and back towards her home in the hope her cat would return. When that didn’t work, she added clothes from her laundry basket and warm tuna to the trail.

Much to her delight, the unusual method worked and in the early hours of the morning she heard Peanut meowing in the street.

The 26-year-old has since praised Tinder for helping her track down her cat’s whereabouts. She said: “I would never have known where to search for Peanut without using Tinder, and really don’t think he would have found his way home on his own.

“He’s never going out again.”

South Norwood Animal Rescue Liberty (SNARL) charity are working with police to catch the M25 animal killer. If you have any tips or information, please contact them on 07961 030064 or call the police.

Everyone knows the names of famous astronauts like Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and some may even remember Laika, the first dog in space.

However, the first cat in space has been largely forgotten by history.

This pioneering pussycat was named ”Félicette,” and she was shot into space 54 years ago this week from a base in the Sahara desert by the Centre National d’études Spatiales (CNES), the French version of NASA.

Félicette was picked out of a group of about a dozen cats because she had the best reaction to a series of tests that included a spin in a centrifuge, according to EuroNews.

Her 12-minute flight took her 97 miles above Earth and included five minutes of weightlessness.

Although this “Astrocat” made history, Félicette was euthanized a few months later so scientists could study the effects of space travel on her body. 

No cat has been in space since and Félicette has become a UFO — an underappreciated feline orbiter.

Even worse, in some of the few tributes she received, she’s been misidentified as a male named Felix, according to LeDauphine.com

Now a British advertising executive is hoping to restore Félicette to the pantheon of great space explorers by erecting a statue in her honor in Paris, France.

Matthew Serge Guy, a creative director for Anomaly London, has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $52,439 for the statue.

“Around 6 months ago whilst at work, I came across a tea towel in the staff kitchen commemorating the 50th anniversary of the cat who went to space,” Guy said in a release. “There was no name for the cat on the towel, nor did it resemble Félicette.

“After Googling it, I became fascinated with Félicette’s story, how it had been forgotten over the years, and (like the design of the tea towel) misattributed. It felt like something big should be done to right these wrongs.”

The campaign video is below and seems to have catapulted Félicette back into the public eye. After one day, Guy is nearly 20 percent towards his goal with a month to go.

Guy emphasizes to recognize that Félicette and other animals involved in the early days of space exploration suffered and had no choice in the matter.

“It’s also important to note that Félicette, alongside many other animals that have braved space travel in the name of science, was ultimately an unwilling participant in this experiment,” he wrote. “For this mission alone she, alongside 13 other cats, experienced arduous training prior to the mission and eventually gave her life.”

Most Americans, regardless of political leaning, believe the sexual harassment and assault accusations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll. But there’s a conspicuous partisan split when it comes to similar allegations that have been made against President Donald Trump.

Sixty-two percent of Americans polled consider the accusations against Weinstein credible, with just 3 percent saying they’re not credible and the rest uncertain. The vast majority of both Clinton voters (74 percent) and Trump voters (66 percent) think that Weinstein’s accusers are credible, with just 3 percent in either group saying that they’re not.

But it’s a different story with sexual harassment and assault allegations made last year against Trump. While 83 percent of Clinton voters find the allegations credible, just 8 percent of Trump voters feel the same. A 51 percent majority of Trump voters say outright that they don’t think the accusations against the president are credible, with the remainder uncertain. 

Trump voters are also far more likely to say that workplace sexual harassment is a very serious problem in Hollywood than they are to see it as an equally serious issue nationwide.

Read more on the results of the HuffPost/YouGov poll here.

The average person today has access to seemingly unlimited fonts ― and with such great power comes great responsibility. One can use Curlz MT on a resume or Brush Script for a party invitation, but should one? Though trained designers might have a clear idea of the best fonts for each task, most of us laymen are reduced to guesswork, instinct and the guidance of edicts like “never use Comic Sans.”

But this prohibitive attitude toward font freedom doesn’t necessarily serve us well. At least that’s the argument of Douglas Thomas, the author of Never Use Futura ― a celebratory new history of the iconic font, which does not actually condemn all uses of Futura.

“I decided to use the title in part as a provocation, and as an ironic commentary on how most of the conversation around fonts people have is housed in a negative,” Thomas told HuffPost in a phone interview. “People know not to use Comic Sans and maybe Papyrus ― those are things you just shouldn’t do. But very rarely do people understand why they should use a typeface.”

The full title of his book, Thomas pointed out, is actually Never Use Futura Unless You Are ... followed by a long list of famous people, brands and organizations that do use the typeface. (A few of the notable Futura users, listed on the front and back of his book, include: Nike, Fox News, Ikea, Vanity Fair, Politico, Forever 21 and In-N-Out.)

“I’m hoping to poke a little fun at that sort of conversation ― designers can say, ‘oh, the masses shouldn’t use Futura, but we can, in these ways,’” he added.

This hypocritical anti-Futura rhetoric suggests that maybe the problem isn’t bad font choice ― it’s that designers just want to keep the good fonts to themselves. Does this sound paranoid? OK, maybe so. But there’s a grain of truth there, too. And understandably so: Overuse of a font isn’t just annoying, it can make the font less useful to designers.

We naturally associate fonts with the ideas and brands we’ve seen them presenting or adjacent to in the past.  “Futura started out as this avant-garde idea,” Thomas pointed out. “It was linked with some of the newest, most cutting-edge ideas in Europe.”

Created in the 1920s by German Bauhaus designer Paul Renner, Futura was meant to capture the modernism of the time. It was closely linked with progressive political and cultural ideals ― equality, democratization, globalism and even socialism. “When Vanity Fair first used it in 1929, people were appalled,” Thomas told HuffPost. “There were editorials written calling this a Bolshevik revolution.” Not only did the magazine use all lower-case for article heads at first ― a clear attack on hierarchies and an endorsement of anarchy, in the eyes of more conservative onlookers ― the font itself was freighted with political meaning.

Then, well, everyone started to use it, and that changed the font’s impact. When we see Futura now, we probably think about Wes Anderson films or Kate Spade or Vogue ― the fact is, as Thomas recently wrote for Fast.Co, it’s a font that’s been linked to a lot of concepts, political movements, media outlets and corporations. Merely by the fact of the font’s widespread use, it’s necessarily been sapped of its power to convey strong ideas.

“In graduate schools and high-end design firms, there’s this constant search for new typefaces that aren’t being used that can be filled with new ideas and aren’t linked to past moments and movements,” Thomas said. Sometimes brands or publications achieve that by designing their own exclusive typeface, like the New Yorker’s Irvin.

That doesn’t mean Futura is no longer a good font, or that it’s never appropriate to use. Most of us don’t go to design school, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn more about how to use fonts. We just have to pay attention to what different typefaces convey and what effect they’ll have. For example, said Thomas, when people use Comic Sans in a professional setting, they usually convey the wrong tone.

“It just seems both completely inappropriate and maybe showing a lack of judgment, the same way we’d judge someone if they stepped out of their house naked. Maybe we’re all fine with people choosing how we want to dress, but there are,” he added, “times and places for things.” Comic Sans isn’t inherently bad, though. “If it’s being used in a communication to a preschool group or in a comic book, for crying out loud,” he said, “it would be perfectly appropriate.”

See, every font has its purpose. Probably. (We still haven’t decided about Papyrus.) “Every typeface has its own voice, speaks in its own language,” Thomas concluded. “Once you understand what that language is, you can use it in exceptionally insightful and beautiful ways.”

We just have to take the judgment away from the process, stop talking about what fonts can’t do, and start embracing what they can do.

If you want to hear about the issues real people face in their marriages, look no further than Yahoo! Answers.

On the site’s “family and relationships” section, people get surprisingly candid about their marital problems, all in the hopes that strangers on the Internet will offer up some straight-shooting advice. (Note that Yahoo! is part of Oath, which also owns HuffPost.)

We asked marriage therapists to weigh in on some of the most pressing marriage quandaries currently on the site. See what they had to say below.

Should I be suspicious that my fiancé doesn’t want to add me on his Instagram & Facebook accounts?

We have been together two years and just got engaged. He does have photos of us all over his social media and people know we are together, but he doesn’t want me to be his friend on Facebook or Instagram. I feel like he’s hiding something. Am I overreacting? I don’t know if I want to enter a marriage where I feel like someone is being dishonest and hiding things.

Ryan Kelly, a psychologist in Charlotte, North Carolina, said the woman’s suspicion is understandable, since her fiancé’s decision to ignore her friend request is “very unusual.” He continued: 

“Here’s the real question: Is your fiancé creating a boundary of privacy or a wall of secrecy? Privacy in a relationship is a good thing, a necessary thing, that can help maintain one’s independence and self-awareness in a committed relationship. Secrecy, on the other hand, compromises intimacy and I believe that’s what you’re worried about: Does he fear that access to his profile will yield judgment or reprisal? He’s acting secretly, but it may not be what you think. Keep in mind, healthy relationships rely on a balance of privacy and intimacy, mediated by trust and communication. I would avoid acting on that assumption, as these situations are largely contextual. You should express your concerns to him ― that you feel like his privacy or secrecy is interfering with your intimacy ― and give some thought as to why you distrust him.” 

I have a crush on my husband’s friend.

I am married (four years) and I have a crush on my husband’s friend. He is lovely, has charisma [and] his body is amazing. He’s a personal trainer and he asked me a couple of times to come to his gym. My husband accepted this idea and encouraged me to join alone. I admit that I like his friend more. He gives me special care at the gym, set an objective, measured my body and sometimes, he’s touched my body, including my butt. Should I let my husband know or not? Should I continue with the friend?

If this woman values her husband and marriage, Kelly said she should think long and hard about continuing to hang out with her gym bud. He added:

“I strongly suggest you refrain from entertaining these feelings or fantasies related to your husband’s friend. If not, the likelihood of you acting upon them increases exponentially. Crushes are largely a product of only one aspect of love ― passion (your sex drive) ― which is largely a neurochemical response. These feelings makes us manic but they’re usually brief. Consider the intimacy and commitment that you and your husband have developed over the years ― the more necessary parts of a love than passion ― and disregard any advances your husband’s friend may or may not be making. You can’t control the other man’s behaviors, but you can control your own.” 

Should my in-laws help out?

My husband and I got married five years ago and moved into my parents for three years because we didn’t have very good jobs. My parents bought groceries because we couldn’t afford a lot. His parents bought us nothing. We have better jobs now and are on our own but they never offer to help us ever. They help his brother and sister constantly. I feel like, because we got married, they think, ‘Hey, we’re off the hook now, he’s yours.’ We recently had major car problems. We called them seven times because we were in their town. We found out they were home and just ignored our calls. My parents had to drive 35 minutes to help us tow our car. Again, they help his brother and sister out constantly.

David McFadden, a marriage and family therapist in Hanover Park, Illinois, noted that parents get to choose whether they want to help their grown children out financially, regardless of their marital status. To avoid issues later on, parents should let their kids know ahead of time if they’ll be willing to help out in the future.

“Some parents have been burned and nearly gone bankrupt due to the continuing needs and demands of their adult children. The goal for most families is that children become adults and are independent. Communication on what an adult child can expect is key to maintaining a good relationship.” 

My wife of 27 years cheated on me for the THIRD time. Is it time to file for divorce?

The first time, we were married 18 years. The second, 21 years. Now again, six years later. She is not going to change at this point. Thankfully our children are adults and moved out but seriously I loved this woman.

Marissa Nelson, a marriage and family therapist in Washington, D.C., suggested that after 27 years, wants and needs in a marriage evolve:

“Affairs are an expression of longing and loss, a wish to recapture loss parts of ourselves, and to feel vibrant and alive. Every affair will redefine a relationship. If both people are committed to doing the hard work, staying in the marriage is actually a heartfelt act of love, devotion, commitment and growth. Even if couples walk away from one another, they’ll still need to process all of this. Doing so will only benefit them moving forward and make them better people and better partners. In this situation, where affairs have occurred several times, a lot of unpacking needs to be done. If they’re staying together, the couple needs to address the needs that each person has, and talk about how this disconnect has pulled them farther away from each other.” 

Attention wives: Do you ever get the “I wished I lived alone sometimes” blues?

I have been married for a few years now and I am the best at compromise. But I really miss having my own bathroom back when I was single. If I were cleaning up a splat or some hair from the sink, I knew it was MY OWN hair, so it made it easier, I guess. I love my hubby so much and adore the manly things he does on a daily but ladies, do you share my frustration? Do you miss having your own bathroom? And by the way, not everyone has the luxury of two bathrooms ― some of us are on the struggling end of the stick.

Nelson said she’s seen this scenario play out often with her married clients, especially women. She continued:

“These women report that they fantasize and relish some period of time where they don’t have be responsible for anyone else. It makes sense that many women wish they lived alone and had some space, given everything that comes with the multifaceted roles of mom/wife/career woman. What I hear when this question comes up is the need for a sense of control and self-care. When you live and share your life with other people, there is a part of you that may feel like you’re losing control over your time your energy, your space. And when you are not taking good care of yourself, these things can build and cause great stress and annoyance. This is a good time to do the things that feed your soul and find ways, big and small, to give back to yourself.”

How do you deal with a spouse who never invites you to things?

My husband is always doing things without me and never invites me. He will invite his kids (from his previous marriage) to do activities with him or his mom or friends but he never includes me. He does kickboxing classes, karate classes, art class, yoga and goes to political rallies but never invites me. How do you handle this? If I mention it, he calls me selfish and says I should be happy for him, his kids and mom and not always think about myself.

McFadden noted that it was strange for the husband in this situation to leave his wife out of fun life events and activities. He said:

″A major part of marriage is developing good companionship and friendship and sharing fun and enjoyable moments in life. There may be more to the story here regarding why the husband is not inviting the wife to join. I’d tell him it seems selfish to not include your spouse.” 

You’d be hard-pressed to find a Hollywood couple that seems more compatible and grounded than Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. 

What’s their secret? On Monday, the actress stopped by “Good Morning America” to promote her new movie “All I See Is You” and revealed that being in the same business has played a huge part in keeping their five-year marriage strong. 

“In general, it’s nice to have someone who understands what you’re doing. Especially because our job is so weird – you have to be married to other people, it’s all so strange,” she said. “It’s never normal, even when you’re both doing it.”

Plus, she said, Reynolds is familiar with what really goes down during a sex scene, so there’s no awkwardness when either of them has to film one.

“It’s helpful to know that like, oh, when you’re acting like you’re in a relationship with someone [else], that’s not what’s actually happening,” the actress told the hosts. “Because I have friends who are married to people who aren’t in the business, and they’re like, ‘Oh, so you’re not actually making love in that scene?!’ And I’m like, “No, no, no, no, definitely not, no. So yeah, those elements are helpful.”

It also probably helps that the pair share a sense of humor. For her 30th birthday in August, Reynolds paid tribute to his wife and the mother of his two little girls in a very Reynolds-ian way. 

“Happy Birthday to my amazing wife,” he wrote on Instagram ― which is incredibly sweet until you realize he cropped out Lively’s face:

And here’s how he marked the occasion on Twitter a year before: 

That’s not all Reynolds posts on Twitter. He’s proven himself to be quite the joker, usually at the expense of his family: 

Lively ― who’s cracked some jokes at Reynolds expense, too ― told the “GMA” hosts that she misses out on most of her hubby’s wisecracks.

“Luckily I lost my password to Twitter about a year and a half ago, so I haven’t been able to keep up,” she said. “Everybody’s always asking about it, but I never know. He’s so funny.”

Perfect for each other, we tell ya.  

Actors Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander tied the knot in a secret ceremony over the weekend in Ibiza, People confirms. 

Friends and family of the famously private couple gathered at the La Granja farmstead resort on the Spanish island for a destination wedding. Representatives for the actors did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. 

Vikander, 29, and Fassbender, 40, were spotted on Sunday smiling at a beachside brunch and sporting bands on their ring fingers, according to the Daily Mail.

The actors rarely address their relationship in public, preferring to discuss their various film projects instead, but they did bless us with the story of their fairy tale meet-cute back in 2016. 

“It was sort of there from the beginning, really,” Fassbender said of their on- and off-screen chemistry.

Scientists for the first time have detected both gravitational waves and light from the collision of two dead, incredibly dense neutron stars.

Monday’s announcement by American and European scientists, marked with news conferences and the publication of dozens of research papers, represents another huge leap forward in our understanding of the universe.

The neutron star collision also formed a number of other heavy elements like gold, platinum and lead, confirming decades of speculation regarding their origin.

While detectors in Louisiana, Washington and Italy registered the gravitational waves on Aug. 17, the collision itself happened about 130 million years ago. Researchers recorded a large burst of gamma rays from the same source, two seconds after the gravitational waves.

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, but it wasn’t until 2016 that scientists were actually able to detect them and confirm their existence.

“Imagine that gravitational waves are like thunder,” astronomer Philip Cowperthwaite, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement. “We’ve heard this thunder before, but this is the first time we’ve also been able to see the lightning.”

Unlike the 2016 detection of gravitational waves, which originated from the collision of black holes and was relatively brief, these new waves resulted from neutron stars. While black holes are so dense that light itself can’t escape, neutron stars are not, thus explaining the surprising amount of energy in the August event.

Though not quite as dense as a black hole, neutron stars are still astoundingly dense: A teaspoon-full of neutron star has a mass of around 10 billion tons.

“Previously detected black-hole mergers lasted for a second, maybe two seconds,” Mansi Kasliwal of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena told Space.com. “This latest event lasted nearly a whole minute.”

“Its energy was enough to outshine the 100 billion stars in our galaxy by about a billion-fold for the 50 or so seconds it took place,” said Kasliwal, who participated in the research.

A massive number of scientists collaborated on the research. According a CNN report, just one of the papers published on Monday had a list of thousands of coauthors, representing approximately 35 percent of the global astronomy community.

Islamophobia is no joke, so it was amazing that actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani was able to wring some laughs from it during his “Saturday Night Live” monologue.

Nanjiani, a Pakistani Muslim, started by pointing to some viewers’ racist reactions to his recent movie, “The Big Sick,” which tells the story of how Nanjiani fell for his wife, writer Emily Gordon. After making fun of people who told him to “go back to India” (Nanjiani says he’s never been there), he noted that Islamophobia “is really having a moment right now.”

“Islamophobia is like ‘Will And Grace,’” he continued. “It was huge a while back, and then we thought it was gone and done. But now it’s back and bigger than ever.”

He also took the opportunity to emphasize that Muslims and Sikhs are not the same ― ultimately arguing that it shouldn’t be necessary to make a distinction in the first place.

“Sikhs get attacked all the time for being Muslim,” he said. “Spoiler alert: They’re not. But they’re brown and they were turbans, so people attack them for being Muslim.”

“[It] must put them in such an awkward position, cuz they’re like, ’I’m not Muslim, not that you should attack Muslims. If you’re looking to attack Muslims ― which you shouldn’t ― I’m not one,” he said. “There is a Muslim right over there ― don’t attack him, unless someone’s definitely getting attacked, in which case, get it right, which is wrong.”

You can watch Nanjiani’s complete monologue at the top of this story. 

Malta’s best-known investigative journalist, who led the Panama Papers probe into corruption in the country, has been killed after a powerful bomb blew up her car.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, ran a hugely popular blog in which she relentlessly highlighted cases of alleged high-level corruption targeting politicians from across party lines. The Politico website recently described her as a “one-woman WikiLeaks”.

“There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate,” she wrote in a blog published on her site just half an hour before an explosion tore into her car.

Locals said Caruana Galizia had just left her house and was on a road near the village of Bidnija in northern Malta when the bomb detonated, sending her car flying into an adjacent field.

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who faced accusations of wrong-doing by Caruana Galizia earlier this year, denounced her killing, calling it a “barbaric attack on press freedom”.

He announced that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had agreed to help local police investigate the killing and was flying experts to the island as soon as possible.

“I will not rest until I see justice done in this case,” he said in a statement, calling for national unity.

Around 3,000 people held a silent, candle-lit vigil on Tuesday evening in Sliema, just outside Valletta.

The hashtag ‘Je Suis Daphne’ circulated widely among social media users on the island of 400,000 people, the European Union’s smallest state.

“Everyone knows Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally, but nobody can justify this barbaric act in any way,” Muscat said. “The only remedy for anyone who felt slandered was through the courts.”

Muscat sued Caruana Galizia after she wrote blogs earlier this year saying his wife was the beneficial owner of a company in Panama, and that large sums of money had been moved between the company and bank accounts in Azerbaijan.

Both Muscat and his wife denied the accusations.

Looking for a vote of confidence to counter the allegations, Muscat called snap elections in June which he easily won. Recently, Caruana Galizia’s outspoken blog had turned its fire on opposition politicians.

Malta Television reported that Caruana Galizia had filed a complaint to the police two weeks ago to say she had received threats. It gave no further information.

Opposition leader Adrian Delia said the blogger was the victim of a “political murder”.

“Caruana Galizia revealed the Panama Papers and was the government’s strongest critic,” he said, calling for a independent probe of her killing.

“We will not accept an investigation by the Commissioner of Police, the Army commander or the duty magistrate, all of whom were at the heart of criticism by Caruana Galizia,” he said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he would offer a 20,000 euro ($23,578.00) reward for information leading to the conviction of Caruana Galizia’s killers, and European politicians expressed dismay at her death. 

Frans Timmermans, first vice president of the European Commission, tweeted that he was “shocked and outraged”, adding that “if journalists are silenced our freedom is lost”.

Manfred Weber, head of the conservative bloc in the European Parliament, said the killing marked “a dark day for democracy”.

Caruana Galizia took aim at politicians and senior officials from across Malta, seeing the island as a hotbed of corruption.

“Malta’s public life is afflicted with dangerously unstable men with no principles or scruples,” she wrote last year.

Her family asked that the magistrate assigned to investigate the case, Consuelo Scerri Herrera, be substituted because of an alleged conflict of interest, court documents showed. Herrera had sought libel damages after Caruana Galizia attacked her in her blog.