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Day 328 Of The Dictatorship Of COVID-19, Day 328 Of America And The World Held Hostage In Ontario Canada its: Another Day In The Year Of Our Ford As in Doug Ford the Grand Poobah of Tyranny for Canada's most populous province... Out in the 'conservative' province of Alberta the tyrant is Premier Jason Kenney... AOC Reveals Something I Can Relate To Alexandria Ocasio Cortez decided to bring in her experience during "The Capitol Incident" to recall being sexually assaulted. When it comes to sexual matters or other matters life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — American singer Andy Williams is dead at the age of 84. Williams’ publicist Paul Shefrin confirmed the singer died Tuesday night at his home in Branson, Missouri following a year-long battle with battler cancer. Williams recorded 18 Gold and three Platinum-certified albums, with hits that include “Canadian Sunset,” “Butterfly,” “Can’t Get Used to Losing You,” and most famously “Moon River.” Williams also hosted The Andy Williams Show, a variety show from 1962 to 1971. He was most famous for his Christmas specials. He was born in Wall Lake, Iowa on Dec. 3, 1927. Williams married dancer...

BRANSON, Mo. -- Legendary crooner Andy Williams, has died, his publicist confirmed this morning. Williams had been battling bladder cancer. He died at his home in Branson. Paul Shefrin issued this statement: Legendary singer Andy Williams passed away last night (Tuesday) at home in Branson, Missouri following a year long battle with bladder cancer, it was announced by his family. Williams, 84, who also had a residence in La Quinta, California, is survived by his wife Debbie and his three children, Robert, Noelle and Christian. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Bladder Cancer...

RALEIGH -- Police arrested a woman Thursday, thinking she lifted her dress and exposed herself to an assistant high school principal, according to reports. Donna Maria Thomas, 42, of 1619 Trently Court was charged with indecent exposure, simple assault, communicating threats and harassing a police officer over the telephone. She was in the Wake County jail Thursday night in lieu of $2,000 bail. Her daughter attends Millbrook High School, where Darnell Bethel is an assistant principal, said Jim Sughrue, spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department. There have been past disputes between Thomas and school officials, he said. Police think she...

The widening insurance-industry scandal has reached legendary investor Warren Buffett, long-regarded as an icon of integrity in corporate America. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway empire revealed yesterday that securities regulators have requested information from its General Re unit about insurance policies that might be used to smooth out earnings volatility. The SEC request is part of an industry-wide examination of such products — called finite or loss-mitigation insurance — that have come into widespread use over the last decade. Regulators are wondering whether such products are less insurance and more a tool to help companies mask losses. Berkshire, based in Omaha,...

United Nations observers have sighted about 100 Rwandan troops inside the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thousands of civilians have reportedly begun to flee the area. The Congolese say more than 6,000 Rwandans have crossed the border and are attacking and burning villages. From the eastern town of Beni, Congolese regional cooperation minister Mbusa Nyamwisi said villages were being targeted nearby. "We are being attacked by the Rwandan troops," he said. The apparent incursion comes after threats last week by Rwanda's president Paul Kagame to send troops across the border to engage Hutu rebels inside Congolese territory. President Kagame said any...

<p>Chechen terrorists probed By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July. The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports. Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity. The intelligence report was supplied to the U.S. government in late August or early September and was based on information from an intelligence source that has been proved reliable in other instances, one official said. A second U.S. official said the report is being investigated, but said it could not be determined whether the group of Chechens actually entered the country, as the intelligence source reported. "We don't know whether or not that report is true," this official said. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed ...</p>