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LONDON (AP) — Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post Saturday, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the making. The spray-painted canvas “Girl With Balloon” went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London, fetching more than three times its pre-sale estimate and equaling a record price for the artist. Then, as an alarm sounded, it ran through a shredder embedded in the frame, leaving half the canvas hanging...

Title Truncated{ "MILE HIGH PANIC Emirates plane quarantined at JFK after ‘100 people suddenly fall ill with fevers and coughs’ on board"MORE than 100 passengers have reportedly been struck down with a mystery illness on an Emirates flight, with reports of coughing and high fevers. Flight 203 from Dubai was heading to New York when 100 of the 500 passengers became ill, NBC New York reported.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the American presidential election entered the final stretch in 2016, a dozen Russian military intelligence officers were scattered throughout Moscow, unleashing a massive cyber operation to disrupt the vote. That’s according to an indictment issued Friday that says the officers developed malicious computer code known as malware, hacked into Democratic Party computers and silently watched as unknowing staffers typed. The Russians stole the Democrats’ secret files. They took snapshots of their screens. They used fake emails to dupe Hillary Clinton’s staffers into exposing their passwords. And then, the indictment says, the Russians released their stolen information...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.

New York Times print products may last another 10 years, says the company's CEO, Mark Thompson. As the company continues to build its digital presence, it will re-evaluate the demand for print, Thompson says. Meanwhile, the company added 157,000 new digital subscriptions in the last quarter of 2017. New York Times CEO: There will be many times more digital subscribers than print New York Times CEO: There will be many times more digital subscribers than print. The newspaper printing presses may have another decade of life in them, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson told CNBC on Monday. "I believe...

Washington (CNN)An emergency alert notification sent out on Saturday claiming a "ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii" was a false alarm, according to state leaders and emergency officials. "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL," the emergency alert read. While the message caused concern on social media, the Hawaii Office of Emergency Management quickly responded on Twitter, saying, "NO missile threat to Hawaii."

As more and more women step forward to give public testimony about their alleged abuse at the hands of Hollywood power — Harvey Weinstein, Ben Affleck, Amazon Studios chief Roy Price — more and more women are coming out about their alleged abuse at the hands of Hollywood power. Funny how that works. And on Friday morning, three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone was added to the list. New York Daily News: Carrie Stevens, a former Playboy Playmate, claims that some 26 years ago, when she was just 22 years-old, Stone grabbed her breast at a party. “He was really cocky,...

According to The New Yorker, three women, including Asia Argento, a royal member of independent cinema, allege that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein raped them: Three women––among them Argento and a former aspiring actress named Lucia Evans—told me that Weinstein raped them, allegations that include Weinstein forcibly performing or receiving oral sex and forcing vaginal sex. Four women said that they experienced unwanted touching that could be classified as an assault. In an audio recording captured during a New York Police Department sting operation in 2015 and made public here for the first time, Weinstein admits to groping a Filipina-Italian model...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) appeared on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Thursday to discuss the news from Wednesday's James Comey hearing. More specifically, the topic was the FBI director revealing that longtime Hillary Clinton advisor Huma Abedin forwarded classified emails to then-husband Anthony Weiner, ostensibly so he could print them out. “Do you believe that is a crime?” panelist Willie Geist asked to open the Blumenthal interview. “If there was classified information and it was improperly passed to a person unauthorized to receive it? Yes, it’s a crime,” the senator replied. ”Without knowing what the intentions were and so forth, there...

Officers were booking 23-year-old Jesse O’Neal Roberts into jail when a pistol fell out of his buttocks, initially giving them the impression that Roberts was defecating on himself. The incident occurred at Alabama’s Limestone County Jail. According to AL.com, deputies received a call “about a prowler” and arrived at the address to find Roberts being held at gunpoint by the resident. Deputy Chad Harbin said Roberts “was showing signs of impairment,” so he arrested him on public intoxication. They drove Roberts to jail and, upon arriving, a corrections officer noted that Roberts was walking “strangely.” While Roberts was being booked...

Shortly after Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Education Secretary on Tuesday, the liberal freak-out began. The pro-choice-except-when-it-comes-to-schools camp erupted on social media, with many vowing not to have children in light of DeVos’ appointment (as if they were planning on having kids anyway).

If you live or have lived in small town America would you be so kind and tell us about it. (For our purposes towns of less that 10 thousand in population but still have city services like Police and Fire Depts. etc.) But if you would be so kind post your experiences BEFORE you read any others on here. The reason being is I am interested to know if there are trends in small town America that manifest nationwide and to see if they are something that most of us notice without being pointed out by others. What I...

Hillary Clinton will NOT light up the sky over NYC if she wins the Presidency — her campaign is calling off a planned fireworks show … TMZ has learned. The Clinton campaign had contacted the Coast Guard for permission to pull off a 2 minute long fireworks display over the Hudson River when the election results went final. The fireworks would be visible from the Jacob Javits Center, where she’s holding her election night party.

It’s no secret that HBO wanted “Westworld” to be their next “Game of Thrones, given their relentless work on hyping it up in the months leading up to its premiere. It could have been a hard sell. It’s a sci-fi/western mash-up loosely based on a little known but critically acclaimed Michael Crichton film (an original one at that and one of a handful of directorial credits for the bestselling novelist). Its heady premise – a futuristic, Wild West-styled theme park featuring lifelike synthetic “hosts” slowly becoming sentient – could have fallen flat. With an incredibly talented cast featuring the likes...

None seem to care and there is little word in any news outlet of CNN even doing anything wrong yet Brazile who had clear ties to the DNC AND worked for CNN did engage in a conspiracy to fix a United States Presidential Primary. Where is the outrage? Are the United States Citizens so clueless that they can not see what has happened?

I've been monitoring a few twitter accounts and one guy I've been following noted that Today Michelle's Twitter account has as it's most recent tweet being from 2013. Is Michelle distancing herself from Hillary OR has she not tweeted anything for 3 years?