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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has filed for divorce from her husband, Jayson, the Garfield County Republican announced Tuesday. The couple has been married for roughly two decades. ….“I’ve always been faithful in my marriage, and I believe strongly in marriage, which makes this announcement that much more difficult.” …The Boeberts have four sons, the oldest of whom is 18 and was expecting a child in April. …She wrote that she was 16 and working at Burger King when she met her future husband and “fell in love … immediately.” …“Four months after we met, Jayson and I went off to...

British journalist and racing driver Dorothy Levitt died 101 years ago on May 17 1922 with a unique catalogue of achievements. She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world’s first water speed record, the women’s world land speed record holder, and an author. She advised women drivers: Don’t be afraid of your car. Dress well. Don’t forget your gun. You can fix your own car.

ROCKVILLE, Md. — The passage of almost 60 years has done nothing to dim former Navy fighter pilot Everett Alvarez Jr.’s memories of the night that he was shot down in the South China Sea and began what would be the second-longest period of captivity for an American service member in the Vietnam War. At 85 years old, Alvarez still vividly remembers his Douglas A4 Skyhawk filling with smoke and coming apart as he had just a few seconds to make a series of life-or-death choices. “I was really low. I knew I had to get out right there,” he...

DeSantis refuses to acknowledge the 2020 election was rigged.Why? Because he is controlled opposition. You want answers and accountability? Only President Trump will provide that. pic.twitter.com/E6gesUDaP2— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) May 16, 2023

A senior Aeroflot flight attendant told the publication that employees were instructed "not to record any breakdowns encountered during flights in the Cabin Log Book (CLB), but rather to verbally communicate the details of the issues and their location," according to a translation by independent Russian media outlet The Insider. A former pilot told Proekt that on a flight in January, he found a fuel leakage while starting the engines of a Boeing 737. When he called technicians to investigate the leak, they said it had been there for a while. "It had happened several times before, but there were...

Two staff members of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria were shot and killed along with two police operatives traveling in a convoy, and three others were kidnapped, police in the volatile West Africa nation said Tuesday. The group was on a humanitarian mission when they were attacked in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of the country's Anambra State, one of the epicenters of separatist violence in the region, said Tochukwu Ikenga, a police spokesman in Anambra. Ikenga said no U.S. citizen was on the trip. "We confirm there was an incident May 16 in Anambra state. Mission Nigeria personnel are...

Friday on CNN’s “New Day” 2020 presidential hopeful, former Vice President Joe Biden said Russia would not have gotten away with interfering in an election under his or President Barack Obama’s watch. Biden said, “Look at what’s happening with Putin. While Putin is trying to undo our elections, he is undoing elections in Europe. Look at what’s happening in Hungary, look what’s happening in Poland, look what’s happening. You think that would happen on my watch or Barack’s watch? You can’t answer that, but I promise it wouldn’t have, and it didn’t.”

It looks like red meat isn't so bad for your health after all, as a recent study debunked years of claims that consuming red meat leads to a host of health problems, such as stroke, heart disease, and cancer, according to Big Think. Scientists at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) analyzed past research that led to the demonization of red meat and found the research to be supported by "weak evidence" and "lazy scientists." "We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and...

A viral social media video shows an elderly man walking off stage saying he’s a “man of God” after being asked to dance with a drag queen. The video is from the media company Participant, and was released on Nov. 13, 2019. The show’s producers paired three drag queens with three elderly men, not telling either of them beforehand that they would be challenged to choreograph a dance routine together to Britney Spears’ “Toxic” in 30 minutes. The video has amassed 112,236 views on YouTube as of this writing. A clip from the video shared on Twitter has amassed 2...

People have been pooping in elevators at the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, and the frequency of the problem has reportedly picked up. "It's like twice a week now. It used to be once a month," Abimael Garcia, who manages janitors at the mall, noted, according to the San Francisco Standard. "So lately, it's increased." Garcia believes people poop in the elevators because they are the nearest semi-private areas to Mission Street, where there are often individuals camping, according to the outlet — several workers indicated the only routinely utilized public bathrooms at the mall are located on the second...

A woman killed after returning from a trip to Colorado to get an abortion had told Dallas police officers — weeks earlier — that her boyfriend repeatedly had attacked her. Harold Thompson, 22, is accused of killing Gabriella Gonzalez on Wednesday after she had returned from a trip to Colorado to get an abortion. A police affidavit states that Thompson tried to put her in a chokehold and later pulled out a pistol and shot her in the head. After Gonzalez fell to the ground, the affidavit says, Thompson “then fired multiple more shots” into the 26-year-old Gonzalez’ body. The...

Ken Rosato has been spending time with his husband following his ousting from ABC7. The foul-mouthed anchor’s spouse, Chris Sobel, posted a photo of the pair on Instagram Saturday, captioning it, “It’s our 24th anniversary today. So 24 years down. Forever to go!” The social media shoutout was shared online a day after Page Six broke the news that Rosato, 56, was now out of a job after being caught insulting a colleague on a hot mic.

North Carolina lawmakers on Tuesday overrode the veto of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to enshrine into law a ban on most abortions in the state after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Both chambers of the legislature have Republican supermajorities, though the governor had hoped at least one Republican lawmaker would vote to uphold his veto and traveled the state last week to convince a lawmaker to take that stance, the Associated Press reported. The Old North State previously barred abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The new ban makes exceptions for rape, incest, medical emergencies and severe fetal anomalies. Cooper had...

Update from Ukraine | Was the Patriot system targeted? Did Ukraine stop in Bakhmut? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo3ZyZgCVAk ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 446– Summary May 15 , 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-446-summary/ *** Greatly appreciate the viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use on each Front map!

The rise & fall of Rob DeSantis #Trump2024 #TheDilleyShow pic.twitter.com/3zXkqUFLED— miguelifornia (@miguelifornia) March 26, 2023

Parents at the progressive Waldorf School of Garden City, Long Island, are angry and some are threatening to pull their kids out school because of new mandatory sex education for fifth graders that teaches, among other things, oral and anal sex and masturbation — with illustrations. Part of the new sex ed curriculum, which originated with the Unitarian Universalist Church and is called Our Whole Lives (OWL), was just formally announced to Waldorf parents in March by the school. It includes a controversial book called “It’s Perfectly Normal” that has been around since the early aughts but which parents say...

In an interview with the Daily Mail, billionaire supermarket CEO John Catsimatidis expressed concern that Gen Z’s commitment to social media platforms like TikTok is hampering their career growth, echoing a sentiment shared by several other business magnates. In a recent interview with the Daily Mail, billionaire John Catsimatidis expressed concern that Gen Z’s reliance on social media sites like TikTok is impeding their professional development, echoing a sentiment expressed by a number of other business titans.

Bud Light suffered its fifth straight week of worsening sales drops since the Dylan Mulvaney controversy began — stoking doubts about whether the mega-brand can recover as the crucial summer beer-drinking season begins. Nationwide retail sales of Bud Light sales dropped 23.6% versus a year ago during the week ended May 6 — slightly worse than the 23.3% decline for the week ended April 29, according to data from Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ data. Sales of other Anheuser-Busch brands also continued to drop, albeit at a slower rate than the week before. Those included Budweiser, down 9.7% versus an...

Catholic ‘value movers’ have relocated from places like California and Chicago to Idaho and Florida, motivated by a desire to escape encroaching immoral policies and live in more like-minded communities, with others considering following in their tracks.Jose Galvan wasn’t necessarily eager to move away from the Golden State. After all, the husband and father of four describes himself as a “born and bred” Californian. He’d spent most of his life in northern California and was fond of his Sacramento parish and Catholic community. But his sense of belonging began to fragment in recent years. Pandemic restrictions limited access to the...