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Brooklyn artist Michael McLeer, who goes by the name Kaves, has filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal court against the New York City Police Department demanding an immediate halt to a graffiti cleanup campaign that he says has wrongly destroyed authorized artworks in numerous instances. In April, according to the lawsuit, the NYPD destroyed Kaves’s mural Death From Above, created in 2008 alongside another artist, Revs, with the full permission of the property owner. “When I found out this piece was destroyed, I was devastated,” Kaves said in a statement. “When I made this work, I was full of pride....

Explanation: What excites the Heart Nebula? First, the large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. Its shape perhaps fitting of the Valentine's Day, this heart glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: excited hydrogen. The red glow and the larger shape are all created by a small group of stars near the nebula's center. In the heart of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with their energetic light and winds. The open cluster of stars...

With the Republican control of Congress in the palm of their hands as a red wave sweeps across America, New Jersey Republicans are positioning themselves in a rather strange spot, in the crosshairs of former President Donald J. Trump. The anti-Trump sentiment is growing among the GOP establishment, who let’s face it, went all-in on people like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich in the 2016 primary. It’s no secret to everyday Republicans living in New Jersey. The establishment Republican Party in New Jersey is fifty shades of purple with blue highlights. As the popular internet meme goes, this...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis police arrested a woman after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in Whitehaven. The incident happened Feb. 12 in the 3500 block of Weaver Road. According to an affidavit, police found a man suffering multiple stab wounds to the back. The man told officers he attempted to break up with his girlfriend, identified as Felecia Roach, at their home on Nora Road, police said. As he left the house, Roach allegedly hit him in the back of the head then began stabbing him in the back with a knife. He was taken to Regional One in critical...

DENVER (KDVR) — In one year, one person was arrested six different times for stealing cars in Denver. FOX31 Problem Solvers spoke one-on-one with Denver’s police chief about the spiking issue of car thefts and why the same thieves are getting the opportunity to strike over and over again. According to Denver police, they arrested a man named Illya Culpepper six times in 2021 for car thefts. Colorado Bureau of Investigations reports reflect these arrests for five car thefts in the first four months of the year and another in September. “Something’s going on and we need to get this...

Two days after Emma Roark went missing from her Rancho Cordova home on Jan. 27, her father got a call from a man who was using her cellphone. Gabriel Roark then called sheriff’s deputies and told them he was going to meet him. He found a man named Cedric Sandiford, who handed over the phone. Sandiford told Roark he had purchased it from Mikilo Morgan Rawls, the man now accused of killing Emma Roark, newly filed court documents say.

White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer questions about the Durham probe during Monday's press briefing despite new revelations regarding Democratic efforts to link former President Donald Trump to Russia. "I can't speak to that report," Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday. "I refer you to the Department of Justice." The exchange comes afters special counsel John Durham released in a filing Saturday alleging that lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to infiltrate servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government...

Tafoya told The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch that she will co-chair the campaign of Kendall Qualls, an Army veteran and businessman who is running for governor of Minnesota as a Republican candidate. “I got to a point in my life where I wanted to try other things, and there are some things that are really important to me,” Tafoya told The Athletic. “This is not to say that sports isn’t an important field, that my job isn’t an important job. But in my position, I was not as free to be as vocal about world events that I’m concerned about.

“‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 5:3). The Puritan Thomas Watson, in his book The Beatitudes, discusses many principles to help the believer recognize his or her humility—those spiritual fruits that enable us to determine whether or not humility is actually growing within us. Here are three. First, if we are truly humble, we will be weaned from ourselves and have no more constant self-preoccupation. Paul expresses it beautifully this way: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the...

Today we are a nation that is headed toward tragedy unless we turn tragedy into triumph. I know that this is true, and I'm going to share what scripture says is the solution. Beginning in the book of Jeremiah, God had called the prophet into his service, and Jeremiah had to go and speak to a nation that had largely rejected God. They had reimaged God into a different kind of deity and had brought in false religions and false practices. God, through Jeremiah, repeatedly called them back to him for 40 years. God told them over and over, “If...

Former President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm recently informed the Trump Organization that 10 years worth of Trump's statements on his financial worth "should no longer be relied upon." The determination comes after New York Attorney General Tish James' office said last month that these "Statements of Financial Condition" repeatedly "misstated objective facts" including the size of his Trump Tower penthouse; overstated his liquidity; deviated from general accounting principles to reach property valuations; "failed to use fundamental techniques of valuation"; and did not disclose that some of those valuations were artificially inflated to help Trump's brand. Mazars said that it...

OTTAWA, CANADA (TND) — Sources say Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to invoke “martial law” to give the nation’s federal government greater authority to quell anti-vaccine mandate protests taking place across the country. Anonymous sources who reportedly could not speak on the matter publicly told the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) Trudeau indicated to his caucus Monday morning he will invoke the never-before-used Emergencies Act. ... Ottawa-based journalist Keean Bexte said Trudeau will deliver remarks during a press conference with top cabinet officials at 4:30 p.m. local time, and “will likely invoke martial law” at that time.

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister says that, as part of the Emergencies Act, they are broadening Canada's "Terrorist Financing" rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and cryptocurrencies to the Canadian Freedom Convoy

- This viral recipe might be the weirdest, grossest, most bizarre thing we've ever tried on this show. Water pie is a 100-year-old recipe that claims you can make an entire pie out of little more than water, flour, and sugar. But can this 1920s recipe really live up to our modern pie standards? To find out, we're going to try this crazy thing. So this water pie actually goes back to the Great Depression, where supposedly, home chefs didn't have enough ingredients to make it out of anything else. But it's been blowing up on TikTok lately, thanks to...

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Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. The surprise, temporary suspension was confirmed late Saturday on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest sales opportunity of the year for Mexican avocado growers - though it would not affect game-day consumption since those avocados had already been shipped. Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the...

YONKERS, NY — The White Castle on South Broadway won't be hosting couples in the dining room for its one-of-a-kind, romantic Valentine's Day dinner experience this year, but there is another option for lovers not willing to forgo the tradition. The fast food restaurant famous for its oniony "sliders" has unveiled a new Valentine's Day "Love Cube" offering. The Love Cube is described as "the perfect, customizable Valentine's Day to-go meal for two." White Castle has chosen to forgo its customary in-Castle Valentine's Day dinner this year. The 101-year-old family business said it was a difficult decision. White Castles across...

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office found around 30 grams of heart-shaped meth during a traffic stop Sunday night. Law authorities said the rock in the photo weighed about a half oz. and they aren't sure how that converts to carats. Whether it's chocolates, roses or rocks make sure your significant other feels loved today.