{"id":34426,"date":"2017-05-16T02:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=34426"},"modified":"2017-05-16T02:07:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:07:28","slug":"kara-mccullough-wins-miss-usa-2017-17-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=34426","title":{"rendered":"K\u00e1ra McCullough Wins Miss USA 2017 (17 Pictures)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00e1ra McCullough, a 25-year-old nuclear chemist who works for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has been crowned Miss USA 2017.<\/p>\n<p>However, her victory wasn\u2019t without controversy.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough, an African-American woman from Washington, DC, told the audience that she doesn\u2019t view herself as a feminist and said she believes that health care is a privilege and not a right.<\/p>\n<p>The pageant, which features contestants from each of the 50 states, as well as Washington D.C., wrapped up on Sunday night during a two-hour finale at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on the Las Vegas strip. McCullough will now go on to compete in the Miss Universe contest.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists included Miss Minnesota, Miss District of Columbia, and Miss New Jersey. The runner-up was Miss New Jersey Chhavi Verg, a student at Rutgers University studying marketing and Spanish. The second runner-up was Miss Minnesota Meridith Gould, who is studying apparel retail merchandising at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough, the 65th crowned Miss USA, graduated from South Carolina State University with a degree in chemistry and a concentration in radiochemistry. This marks the second year that Miss Washington DC has won the Miss USA title. 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