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Sometimes even the most seemingly rock-solid celebrity couples just can't make it work (we're looking at you, Miranda and Orlando), and, sadly, there were many star-studded breakups that made big news this year. From Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder's split and the broken engagement of Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth to ... | – This year wasn't great for these 16 celebrity couples, all of whom split up. Click through the gallery for a sampling, or see the full lists at ETOnline, PopSugar, and the Huffington Post. | Khloe Kardashian filed for divorce from Lamar Odom on Dec. 13. Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder's split and Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth's broken engagement made big news. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's split was also a surprise. |
These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references ... | – A fresh satellite image shows white steam coming from a building in North Korea, and a US research group says that likely means the country is nearly ready to restart a reactor capable of producing plutonium—or may have already started it. "The white coloration and volume are consistent with steam being vented becaus... | U.S.-Korea Institute: Satellite image from August 31 shows steam rising from a building. The reactor can produce 6 kgs (13.2 lbs) of plutonium a year, the report says. Pyongyang announced in April that it would revive the aged Yongbyon research reactor. North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests since 2006."It is an... |
CLOSE Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Alexa and Siri have nothing on Morgan Freeman, who lent his distinct voice to Jarvis, Mark Zuckerberg's new artificial intelligence assistant. USA TODAY NETWORK Actor Morgan Freeman will be the voice of Mark Zuckerberg's digital assistant Jarvis. (Photo: Kimberly White, Getty Images f... | – It's well documented that Morgan Freeman is incapable of turning down any role—(cough) The Contract (double cough) Last Vegas—including, apparently, the role of Mark Zuckerberg's personal butler. In a Facebook video posted Tuesday, Zuckerberg debuted his new artificially intelligent home assistant voiced by none othe... | Morgan Freeman will be the voice of Mark Zuckerberg's new artificial intelligence assistant. Freeman's iconic timbre was selected by popular demand. Robert Downey Jr. volunteered to be the new voice of Jarvis under certain conditions. Jarvis is Zuckerberg's homemade version of Amazon's Alexa service or Google's Home. T... |
Importance After major policy changes in the United States, policymakers, health care professionals, and the general public seek information about whether recreational cannabis use is associated with physical health problems later in life. Objective To test associations between cannabis use over 20 years and a variety ... | – A new study finds you can toke for up to 20 years without suffering any worse physical health effects than a couple of loose or lost teeth, Live Science reports. That's right: According to researchers studying long-term marijuana use, the only drawback, as far as physical health is concerned, is gum disease. Their fi... | Policymakers, health care professionals, and the public want to know whether recreational cannabis use is associated with physical health problems later in life. Madeline H. Meier, Ph.D., of Arizona State University, Tempe, and coauthors used data from 1,037 individuals who were born in New Zealand in 1972 and 1973 and... |
And as the world becomes deleveraged, money has been pouring out. In October 2011 alone, hedge funds saw $9 billion go out the door. The London-based Man Group, the largest publicly traded hedge fund in the world, saw its stock dive 25 percent over the course of one day in September, when it shocked the market by annou... | – Matt Taibbi was incredulous when he read a recent New York piece in which Wall Street denizens whined that Dodd-Frank was limiting their bonuses. "I watch what I spend," one banker lamented, "but my girlfriend likes to eat good food," which adds up fast. "Quelle horreur!" Taibbi quips in Rolling Stone, before shreddi... | In October 2011 alone, hedge funds saw $9 billion go out the door. The London-based Man Group, the largest publicly traded hedge fund in the world, saw its stock dive 25 percent. Over 1,000 funds have closed in the past year and a half. “Without Wall Street, New York becomes Philadelphia,” a friend of mine in finance e... |
Stephen Brashear/Getty Images. On Monday, the gods of campaign scheduling were in full-on prank mode. In Olympia, Wash., Gov. Christine Gregoire signed legislation making hers the seventh state where gays can marry. Less than an hour later, Rick Santorum arrived at the state capital to hobnob with defeated religious le... | – Rick Santorum went to the Washington state capital Monday just hours after the governor signed gay marriage into law there. And what did the right's fiercest culture warrior say? He told everyone to be respectful, that each side had "legitimate reasons" for its views, that "there are ebbs and flows in every battle." ... | Santorum's culture war talk is softer, more implied. He doesn't need to emphasize it, because the people who acid-test Republicans on social issues know they can trust him. A month ago, when 150 evangelical leaders met in Texas to get behind a candidate, Santorum won easily. In a new New York Times poll, only 47 percen... |
645X363 - No Companion - Full Sharing - Additional videos are suggested - Policy/Regulation/Blogs Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLou Dobbs slams Trump's move to end shutdown: 'Illegal immigrants are surely pleased’ A law enforcement solution to security on the Southern border Senators pitc... | – Unless Dick Durbin makes a stink about it, it appears that Chuck Schumer will replace Harry Reid as the Senate's Democratic leader come 2016. In an interview after announcing that he would not run for re-election, Reid tells the Washington Post that the New York senator is his pick. "I think Schumer should be able to... | Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is cementing his position as the strong favorite to replace retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) Reid endorsed Schumer on Friday, a move that could help him quash a possible leadership challenge. “I think Schumer should be able to succeed me,” Reid told The Washington... |
When Pattonville School District leaders planned the transformation of an old elementary school into a revamped preschool, they thought of eve… ||||| BALTIMORE (AP) — A Republican running for a Maryland legislative seat raffled off an AR-15 assault weapon at a Saturday night fundraiser, only days after the same type of... | – Candidates in Kansas and Maryland have drawn criticism for refusing to nix their AR-15 raffles after the Parkland school shooting last week. Now, another (but much younger) group is in the spotlight. The Kansas City Star reports members of a third-grade baseball team in Neosho, Mo., are trying to raise money by selli... | A Republican running for a Maryland legislative seat raffled off an AR-15 assault weapon. The same type of weapon was used to kill 17 people at a Florida high school. About 15 people held a peaceful vigil outside, reading off the names of the victims. |
Police in North Beaver Township, Pennsylvania are scratching their heads right now. Why? A 50-foot long, 20-foot wide steel bridge just disappeared. How? Apparently, some very bold criminals just up and stole it.
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Stealing a bridge, as you'd imagine, is a pretty complicated crime. This isn't some 9... | – If some guy in Pennsylvania says he's got a bridge to sell you, he may mean it literally. Thieves made off with an entire steel bridge in (very) rural Pennsylvania, reports WTAE as noted by Gizmodo. It measures, or measured, 50 feet by 20 feet, and would likely fetch about $100,000 in scrap metal. The bandits likely ... | Police in North Beaver Township, Pennsylvania are scratching their heads right now. A 50-foot long, 20-foot wide steel bridge just disappeared. The local police suspect that the bridge robbers worked at this for over a month. They presumably used a blow torch to cut the corrugated steel and then somehow moved the piece... |
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NEIGHBORS ERUPTS INTO DEADLY GUNFIRE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR LOCAL 4 NEWS AT 5:00. WE'LL BEGIN WITH A ROAD TRIP THAT TOOK A BIZARRE TURN WHEN SOMEONE IN THE VEHICLE DIED. Devin: THE MACOMB COUNTY MAN WAS DRIVING FROM PHOENIX AFTER CHECKING OUT OF A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY. Carmen... | – Ray Tomlinson set out from Michigan to Arizona to pick up his girlfriend from a mental health facility Sunday—then drove nearly all of the 1,900-mile return trek with her dead body propped up in the passenger seat. Somewhere in New Mexico, Tomlinson nudged her and "she was stiff," he tells WDIV. "There wasn't jerking... | RAY TOMLINSON TRANSPORTed a body from Arizona to Michigan. His 93-year-old mother was in the back of the car at the time. He didn't want police to find the body while he was driving. The body was found in a car parked next to the driver's seat. The driver is now back at home and is in good spirits. He has been charged ... |
It was an outlandish attack on Venezuela’s centers of power: A police helicopter swooped down from a clear sky while someone inside dropped grenades on the Supreme Court and opened fire on the Interior Ministry. The rogue police officers inside the craft waved a banner that referred to an article in the Constitution th... | – Authorities in Venezuela are hunting for the police commando who led Tuesday's daring helicopter attack on the capital that has left the country stumped. The Wall Street Journal reports that questions are flying after Oscar Perez, the wayward cop and part-time action movie star allegedly behind the plot, managed to v... | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dubbed the attack an ‘act of terrorism’ The pilot of a police helicopter dropped four grenades on the court and fired 15 shots at the Interior Ministry. Venezuelan daily El Nacional claimed that Oscar Pérez piloted the helicopter. Venezuela’s government has also said in a communique ... |
Racing legend Larry Perkins swaps racetrack for outback and returns with buried treasure Updated He's raced against the world's best in Formula One, owned his own V8 Supercar team and won Bathurst six times. But legendary racing driver Larry Perkins says finding the missing cache of an early European explorer is "a who... | – Larry Perkins once preferred the racetrack. But for the last six years, the retired Formula One driver has been cruising around the Australian Outback, following the footsteps of explorers. What he found on his latest venture, 18 months in the making, might crown all his other achievements. Winning car races is one t... | Larry Perkins has clocked up more than 90,000 kilometres in his heavy-duty four-wheel-drive truck, following old explorer tracks through the Australian deserts. The explorer was a former Royal Navy captain called Henry Vere Barclay. Barclay left behind a mystery that has baffled historians for decades: What became of t... |
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross met with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Nov. 20 in Bedminster, N.J. where Trump and Pence have been holding transition meetings at his private golf course. (The Washington Post) Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor considered the “king of bankruptcy... | – Donald Trump wants the "king of bankruptcy" to be his chief of commerce, insiders say. Wilbur Ross—who got his nickname for his success buying, rebuilding, and selling off steelmakers and other distressed companies—was an economic adviser and a generous donor to the Trump campaign, the New York Times reports. The Was... | Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross is expected to be President-elect Donald Trump's choice for commerce secretary. Ross helped shape the Trump campaign’s economic agenda, particularly its hard-line stance on the need to renegotiate — or even withdraw from — free trade agreements. Elevating Ross to a position in his Cabin... |
A Kennewick man said his stepfather stabbed his mother to death and could benefit financially from it.
Nick Kilgore and his family are planning to sue his Robert Selland to prevent him from getting his late wife's $17,000 retirement pension.
"It's not about the money, it's the fact that he shouldn't be paid for... | – Robert Selland stabbed his wife to death in 2011, admitted doing so, and currently resides in a mental hospital after having been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Now, thanks to a Washington state judge who ruled on Jan. 22 that Selland falls under the state's "slayer statute," he's out about $21,000. Selland ... | Nick Kilgore and his family are planning to sue his Robert Selland to prevent him from getting his late wife's $17,000 retirement pension. Selland was found not-guilty due to insanity because of a brain lesion. "It's not about the money, it's the fact that he shouldn't be paid for what he did," said Kilgores. |
During routine restoration, researchers discovered a surprise hidden in an ancient gold-painted Chinese Buddha statue: a mummy hidden inside. The mummy was once the Buddhist monk Liuquan, according to text found with the statue. Editor's Note: This story was updated on March 3 at 10:10 a.m. E.T. A Chinese statue of a s... | – Look inside a 1,000-year-old Chinese Buddha statue, and what do you find? Why, a mummified body, of course. At least that's what Dutch researchers saw when performing a CT scan on a statue shown last year in the Netherlands at Drents Museum, Discover reports. The body is believed to be that of Buddhist master Liuquan... | The mummy was once the Buddhist monk Liuquan, according to text found with the statue. The mummy was sitting on a rolled textile carpet covered in Chinese text. Researchers used radioactive isotopes of carbon to determine that the mummy likely lived during the 11th or 12th century. The statue is now on display at the H... |
After weeks of rumors, it looks like it's finally a done deal: Twitter is buying TweetDeck, the popular third-party client for the microblogging service. Now, the sale isn't official yet, mind you -- thus far, neither company has publicly commented on a transaction -- but all signs suggest the writing's on the wall. Mo... | – Twitter has snapped up popular third-party application TweetDeck, ending months of speculation about a possible deal. The acquisition—for some $40 million in cash and stock, according to CNN—is in line with Twitter's recent moves to regain control of its ecosystem and provide a more uniform experience for users, PCWo... | Twitter is buying TweetDeck, the popular third-party client for the microblogging service. CNNMoney reported that the acquisition was complete, with Twitter paying more than $40 million. Tech blog The Next Web separately reached the same conclusion, citing its own unnamed sources. Twitter has, after all, been on a coll... |
VALLEY, Ala. – You’ve likely heard of students bringing canned food to school for food drives, but have you ever heard of bringing a canned food item to school for safety? A letter sent to parents of students at one school in Chambers County requested just that — students were asked to arm themselves with an eight ounc... | – With school threats, shootings, and lockdowns in the news at a dizzying pace, educators are naturally looking at ways to keep kids safe. But while those measures typically include security guards or metal detectors, one Alabama middle school is raising more than a few eyebrows by asking parents to arm their children—... | Chambers County, Alabama, students were asked to bring canned goods for school security. The idea to arm students with something like a can or a book comes from ALICE training. The ALICE acronym stands for: Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. Feedback on the program has been somewhat mixed since the letter went... |
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transfo... | – Atkins, paleo, juice cleanses … people will try most anything to shed some pounds. How about freeze-dried poop? A clinical trial set to start this year will involve 20 obese patients taking capsules filled with freeze-dried stool from healthy donors to test researchers' hunch that intestinal microbes can influence pe... | Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a promising treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. We report a case of a woman successfully treated with FMT who developed new-onset obesity after receiving stool from a healthy but overweight donor. This case may stimulate further studies on the mechanisms of... |
To combat the growing obesity epidemic in the U.S., cities across the country have been promoting more physical activity among city residents with bike paths, sidewalks and green spaces. Cites in various parts of the country may pride themselves on having the "best" bikes lanes, public transportation systems or park sp... | – Whether it's their public parks, bike paths, or just because they're easy to amble around, more and more America cities are staking claims to promoting physically fit lifestyles. But some communities are more on the go than others, and as ABC News reports, a Gallup and Healthways list of the "most active living" citi... | A new report ranked which cities have been most successful in helping residents live active lives. Boston and its surrounding suburbs have earned the title of being the top "active living community" in the U.S. The lowest scorers included metro areas in the South and Midwest, including Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Oklahom... |
A nearly 20-hour hostage/barricade situation in a Chicago suburb that began with a home burglary and two officers being shot ended Wednesday morning when about two dozen heavily-armed cops stormed the home to free four remaining hostages and arrest their captors. Two individuals were taken into police custody when auth... | – All of the hostages who were being held at a home near Chicago in a standoff that started early yesterday afternoon have been rescued, NBC Chicago reports. Four children had been released last night, and the two remaining children and an adult woman were found safe this morning after police broke down a door and arre... | A nearly 20-hour hostage/barricade situation in a Chicago suburb ended Wednesday morning. About two dozen heavily-armed cops stormed the home to free four remaining hostages and arrest their captors. Two individuals were taken into police custody when authorities took down a door and entered the home. The hostages -- 6... |
• Judge says Abu Wa'el Dhiab's lawyers can view secret footage • 'Pretend it's 1955 – that's where the technology is' – lawyer A federal court has forced the US government to reveal that it has secretly recorded dozens of force-feedings of just one Guantánamo Bay detainee, raising the prospect that the military possess... | – In an unprecedented ruling, non-government officials have been given the go-ahead to view secret recordings that depict force-feedings at Guantanamo Bay—a ruling that by its nature establishes the fact that these tapes actually do exist, reports the Guardian. A federal judge yesterday ruled that lawyers for Abu Wa’el... | Judge says Abu Wa'el Dhiab's lawyers can view secret footage. 'Pretend it's 1955 – that's where the technology is' – lawyer. Government will have to transfer the classified tapes from Guantánamo to a secured facility in the Washington DC area for his lawyers to view. Over 100 detainees participated in the 2013 hunger s... |
Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner’s effort to pass fallback legislation to avert a fiscal crisis in less than two weeks collapsed Thursday night in an embarrassing defeat after conservative Republicans refused to support legislation that would allow taxes to rise o... | – Just what the fiscal cliff needed: more chaos and drama. House Republicans called off tonight's vote on John Boehner's Plan B legislation because he didn't have the support to pass it from within his own party, reports the Hill. The bill, which would have extended the Bush-era tax cuts for everyone except millionaire... | Speaker John A. Boehner's effort to pass fallback legislation to avert a fiscal crisis collapsed Thursday night in an embarrassing defeat. House Republican leaders abruptly canceled a vote on the bill after they failed to rally enough votes for passage in an emergency meeting about 8 p.m. Within minutes, dejected Repub... |
Lindsay Lohan Turned Away at Morgue after Showing Up Late was turned away from the L.A. County Morgue, after showing up late ... Incredible.We broke the story ... Lindsay was supposed to show up by 8 AM, but at 7:40 her assistant called to say she'd be there in 10 minutes. Tick, tick, tick.We're told Lindsay didn't sho... | – Apparently being led out of court in handcuffs and thrown back, albeit briefly, in jail was still not enough to teach Lindsay Lohan how to actually show up for her court-ordered community service. Lohan, who was ordered by the judge yesterday to perform community service at the county morgue until her next hearing, w... | Lindsay was supposed to show up by 8 AM, but at 7:40 her assistant called to say she'd be there in 10 minutes. Her publicist claims she was late "due to a combination of not knowing the entrance to go through and confusion caused by the media waiting for her arrival" The judge only required that Lindsay put in 16 hours... |
Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| As was reported in the NY Times back in 2007, the NASCAR Harlequins have some sp... | – NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne was so disgusted when he spotted a mom nursing her baby at a local grocery store that he immediately tweeted his utter revulsion. “One boob put away, one boob hanging!!! Nasty,” tweeted the overwhelmed car jockey. "I don't feel like shopping anymore or eating." When a female follower complai... | NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne called a woman breast feeding 'nasty' on Twitter. Kahne later deleted the tweets and went back to talking about Christmas. The NASCAR Harlequins have some specific rules by which they must abide: no sex, no crashes, no drugs, no alcohol use in the content of the story. Back in 2007, Mark Dyer,... |
Facebook A California college student who was injured in the Las Vegas mass shooting filed the first lawsuit against MGM Resorts, which owns the hotel and casino from where the gunman fatally shot 58 people and injured more than 500 others at a music festival on Oct. 1. Paige Gasper, a 21-year-old student at Sonoma Sta... | – "Someone call police. Someone is firing a rifle on the 32nd floor in the hallway," a Mandalay Bay maintenance employee says in a newly released recording, per Fox 5. But though hotel staffers responded to the outbreak of the Las Vegas mass shooting, asking for the shooter's room number and urging the worker to shield... | Paige Gasper, a 21-year-old student at Sonoma State University, was struck by a bullet. Lawsuit accuses MGM Resorts and Mandalay Corp. of negligence by failing to maintain the hotel's premises in a "reasonably safe condition" Other defendants named in the lawsuit include Live Nation Entertainment, the company that host... |
Treating some of the underlying diseases of aging, such as heart disease, cancer or Alzheimer's disease could slow down or delay aging by 20 or 30 years, say medical researchers. Some of these drugs have already pushed the lifespans and "healthspans" of laboratory animals. Now the trick is getting them to work in peopl... | – As we get better at treating age-related diseases such as cancer and dementia, humans might add 20 to 30 years to both the average person's lifespan and the longevity of the world's oldest people. So say researchers who are investigating new and existing drugs that may help slow the aging process, reports Seeker. The... | Treating some of the underlying diseases of aging could slow down or delay aging by 20 or 30 years, say medical researchers. Some of these drugs have already pushed the lifespans and "healthspans" of laboratory animals. Now the trick is getting them to work in people. "We are likely to see a quantum leap," said Stephen... |
Wells Fargo has uncovered up to 1.4 million more fake accounts after digging deeper into the bank's broken sales culture. The findings show that Wells Fargo's problems are worse than the bank previously admitted to when the scandal began almost a year ago. Wells Fargo (WFC) now says it has found a total of up to 3.5 mi... | – Roughly a year ago, the news broke that Wells Fargo employees—5,300 of whom were fired—opened 2.1 million phony deposit or credit card accounts in a bid to reach sales targets and get bonuses. On Thursday, the bank announced a third-party firm has finished reviewing 165 million accounts opened between January 2009 an... | Wells Fargo now says it has up to 3.5 million potentially fake bank and credit card accounts. That's up from its earlier tally of approximately 2.1 million. About 190,000 accounts were slapped with unnecessary fees for these accounts. Wells Fargo also discovered a new problem: thousands of customers were also enrolled ... |
A handful of moderate Senate Democrats are looking for ways to roll back the highly contentious individual mandate — the pillar of President Barack Obama’s health care law — a sign that red-state senators are prepared to assert their independence ahead of the 2012 elections. They haven’t decided whether to propose legi... | – A group of centrist Senate Democrats is looking into ways to repeal the new health care law's individual mandate—the heart of health care reform, and a key target for Republicans. West Virginia's Joe Manchin and at least three other senators—all from states President Obama lost in 2008 and all up for re-election in 2... | Red-state senators are prepared to assert their independence ahead of the 2012 elections. The moderates most likely to buck their party include Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana. The goal is to lay down a record of bipartisan compromises w... |
645X363 - No Companion - Full Sharing - Additional videos are suggested - Policy/Regulation/Blogs Speaker John Boehner John Andrew BoehnerMomentum for earmarks grows with Dem majority Cannabis company says CBS refused to run its Super Bowl ad advocating for medical marijuana Breaking the impasse on shutdown, border sec... | – More than half of Americans say it's about time for Sarah Palin to shut her pie-hole. On the heels of the former VP candidate calling for President Obama's impeachment, 54% of voters say they've heard too much from Palin already and would prefer that she be less outspoken in political debates, according to an NBC New... | Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he doesn't support calls from his party to impeach President Obama. Palin called for Obama’s impeachment on Tuesday in an op-ed for Breitbart News. Boehner said at the weekly House GOP press conference that he was considering including Obama's action on immigration in the House GOP la... |
Every stereotype of single people bothers me, but this one is especially galling: if you are single, it is because you have “issues.” As if married people don’t have issues. As if single people cannot be mentally healthy and happy. But they can be, and usually they are. What’s more, if single people get married, chance... | – Americans can sympathize with people who are alone because of divorce or the death of a partner—but what about the eternally single? In a society obsessed with romance, lifelong singles are often ostracized and considered flawed, the Washington Post reports. “Do they just not like me?” asked Bella DePaulo, author of ... | Wendy Braitman, 58, is the only daughter of a long and loving marriage. She says she didn't stay single on purpose. She does not think marriage is broken and doesn't think life — at least her life — is better lived alone. For most of her life, she assumed the right one would eventually show up. Now, she thinks she thin... |
See more of ANCA on Facebook ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say nine people were hurt and two arrests were made during an altercation at the Turkish ambassador's residence in the U.S. capital. Doug Buchanan, a DC Fire and EMS spokesman, says two of those hurt were seriously injured and were taken to hospitals by a... | – Authorities say nine people were hurt and two arrested during an altercation Tuesday outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, DC. Two of those hurt were seriously injured and taken to hospitals, reports the AP. Police say the altercation broke out about 4:30pm between two groups, but didn't elaborate... | Two of those hurt were seriously injured and were taken to hospitals by ambulance. The altercation came the same day that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with President Donald Trump at the White House. "We are protesting (Erdogan's) policies in Turkey, in Syria and in Iraq," said Flint Arthur of Baltimore, M... |
Mulholland profited in the past four years by sticking to stocks that crashed during the 2008 crisis. Mulholland profited in the past four years by sticking to stocks that crashed during the 2008 crisis. Mulholland profited in the past four years by sticking to stocks that crashed during the 2008 crisis. Close When the... | – One of the top mutual funds in the country is built on faith. That's faith in a higher power—it's not called the Matthew 25 Fund for nothing—and also faith that its assets would recover from a 2008 low of $22 million, down from $115 million. Well, either God or the market has come through for fund manager and founder... | Mulholland profited in the past four years by sticking to stocks that crashed during the 2008 crisis. Matthew 25 (MXXVX) gained 26.8 percent over three years and 25.4 percent in one year. The fund returned 13.1 percent annualized during the five years ended on Feb. 15 compared with 4.7 percent for the S&P 500 (SPX) “Ma... |
BATH, Ohio (AP) — Visitors heading to Ohio for the Republican National Convention have the rare opportunity to rent the childhood home of one of the country's most notorious killers.
The former Bath Township home of Jeffrey Dahmer is one of several private properties that real estate company Howard Hanna has made a... | – People visiting Ohio for what is shaping up to be a fiercely contested Republican National Convention can spend their nights relaxing at the home where one of America's most notorious serial killers committed his first murder. The owner of Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood home is offering to rent the residence in Bath Town... | Three-bedroom home about 25 miles south of Cleveland costs $8,000 to rent for the week. It's also the site of Dahmer's first murder in 1978, when he was just 18. Dahmer murdered 16 more victims and was killed in prison in 1994. "If you get past that little problem, you'll have a wonderful place to live" |
Is that butter on a toasted bagel from Dunkin’ Donuts? He couldn’t believe it was butter. So he sued. And, yes, he got a settlement out of it. In a pair of lawsuits filed in Suffolk Superior Court in March, a Worcester-area man named Jan Polanik accused more than 20 Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in Eastern and Central Mass... | – A Massachusetts man who sued a pair of Dunkin' Donuts owners because he said he was given a butter substitute when he asked for real butter on his bagel has won a settlement, the AP reports. The Boston Globe reports that Jan Polanik's suits name two companies that together own more than 20 stores. Polanik's lawyer, T... | Jan Polanik accused more than 20 Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in Eastern and Central Massachusetts of using a butter substitute on his bagels. The suits are seeking class-action status and claim to represent any customer who “ordered a baked product, such as a bagel, with butter, but instead received margarine or butter s... |
An Eastern European gambler has already won big on the World Series, and he has no signs of stopping. Now he has over $14 million on the line for Game 7 and has left the gambling world wondering “how?” What we know about $8 Million bettor * Younger than 30 * Eastern European * Spreading bets across town (tried to bet 2... | – Much like with the World Series itself, the end of a ludicrously gutsy run of World Series betting was a bit of a let down. Sport Illustrated reports an unknown gambler had successfully picked the winner of the first six games of the World Series, re-betting his winnings every time. RJ Bell, a Las Vegas sports gambli... | An Eastern European gambler has already won big on the World Series, and he has no signs of stopping. The bettor has won on all six World Series games so far — spread across multiple bookies — and let it ride after every single win. He’s not a regular in the Las Vegas sports betting scene, and his only other previous b... |
Experts differ on Trayvon's, Zimmerman's voice in 911 screams Zimmerman attorney says he may seek trial delay in light of new expert reports. It remains to be seen whether jurors will hear about the new evidence at George Zimmerman's trial, set to begin June 10 in Sanford. Zimmerman's lawyer said he may ask to delay th... | – Don't expect the George Zimmerman trial to hinge on a 911 recording that includes screams for help along with the gunshot that killed Trayvon Martin. Two separate analyses of the call's audio have been completed, and they disagree with each other, reports the Orlando Sentinel. One analyst thinks it's Trayvon shouting... | Two new reports from state audio experts give different conclusions about the voice. One said it was Trayvon, the other said some cries more likely came from his shooter. Zimmerman's lawyer said he may ask to delay the trial in light of the new analysis. A neighbor's 911 call before the shooting captured the sound of s... |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has succeeded where the greatest minds in science have failed. The authoritarian, impoverished nation better known for pursuing a nuclear program despite global criticism announced Friday it has a drug can prevent and cure MERS, Ebola, SARS and AIDS. The secretive state did... | – Normally if a country announces a wonder drug that can cure some of mankind's worst maladies, it would be cause for celebration. Unless that country happens to be North Korea. Its official news agency claims that scientists have developed a top-secret drug called Kumdang-2 that can cure AIDS, Ebola, MERS, and cancer,... | The secretive state did not provide proof, and the claim is likely to provoke widespread skepticism. The official Korean Central News Agency said scientists developed Kumdang-2 from ginseng grown from fertilizer mixed with rare-earth elements. North Korea trumpeted the same drug during deadly bird flu outbreaks in 2006... |
Matt Damon and Michael Douglas can finally heat up those BeDazzlers: "Behind the Candelabra," their Liberace biopic, has found a home on HBO. The film, which to this point has been traveling under the working title "Liberace," is a look at the famed pianist's relationship with his younger live-in lover at a time when c... | – Michael Douglas will play Liberace in an upcoming biopic for HBO, reports USA Today. Matt Damon will play his young lover, Scott Thorson, and the film will track their relationship during an era when it would have been career suicide for the entertainer to come out as gay, notes the Los Angeles Times. Steven Soderber... | "Behind the Candelabra" will star Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. The Liberace biopic is scheduled to start shooting next summer. Steven Soderbergh will direct. Jerry Weintraub, who worked on the Ocean's Eleven franchise with Damon, will produce for HBO. The film is a look at the famed pianist's relationship with his y... |
All 48 fruits and vegetables with pesticide residue data EWG analyzed pesticide residue testing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration to come up with rankings for the following popular fresh produce items. All 48 foods are listed below from worst to best - lower numbers indicate ... | – The Environmental Working Group is out with its annual "dirty dozen" list of fruits and veggies it says have the highest amounts of pesticide residues. But take note: Protecting Your Pocket reports that the list, based on US Department of Agriculture data, has been called misleading since 99% of products sampled for ... | The Environmental Working Group’s list of the types of produce with the highest loads of pesticide residues has been released. The Alliance for Food and Farming, a non-profit organization formed in 1989, has repeatedly called for EWG to stop publishing the list. The 2017 Dirty Dozen list, released Wednesday evening, in... |
Donald Trump claims he has some dirt on Ted Cruz's wife. Last night the Republican frontrunner fired back at an attack ad in support of Cruz that used a nude photo of Trump's wife, Melania Trump, with a threat to "spill the beans" on Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi. The attack ad, targeted at Utah's conservative Mormon base bef... | – Megyn Kelly didn't have to say much to get her point across: In what the Hollywood Reporter calls a "rare move," the Fox News host has responded directly to a Donald Trump tweet. The tweet in question: Trump's retweet of an insulting image of Heidi Cruz. Kelly's response: "Seriously?" As the Reporter notes, Trump's t... | Donald Trump tweeted a threat to "spill the beans" on Ted Cruz's wife. The tweet was in response to an attack ad in support of Cruz that used a nude photo of Trump's wife, Melania Trump. Cruz responded to what he called a "classless" threat against his wife: Pic of your wife not from us. Trump also attacked Jeb Bush's ... |
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