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Hasbro has decided to discontinue a Trolls World Tour doll after widespread criticism and false claims were made by some parents online. The controversy began when a woman posted a video of the DreamWorks Trolls World Tour Giggle & Sing Poppy toy on Instagram. Sold at Walmart and marketed to children four and older, the doll sings and giggles when a button is pressed. Instagram user redpillbabe took issue with the placement of the button on the doll, alleging that the button was placed near the doll's "private parts" in an attempt to groom children. "Go I dare you. Tell...

An employee at former US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday. While it is unclear if the room was intentionally flooded or if it happened by mistake, the incident occurred amid a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious, according to the report. At least one witness has been asked by prosecutors about the flooded server room as part of the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents,...

… For the Kings, closing the 1976 convention affirmed their continued reach — and their pragmatism — eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. For (Jimmy) Carter, it marked the evolution of a white politician from the Old Confederacy: As a local leader and state senator who aspired for more, he had mostly avoided controversial stands during the civil rights era. During all their years in Atlanta, he never met the movement’s leader. “Carter never did anything racist himself. But he didn’t participate,” biographer Jonathan Alter said. “And King was right there.” Yet the alliance Carter later forged...

The breach could result in devastating flooding, potentially killing thousands of civilians as well as disrupting the cooling systems for the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region, located on the Dnepr River upstream from the city of Kherson, suffered significant damage on Tuesday morning, according to a local official and several videos shared on social media. The upper part of the key infrastructure was “destroyed as a result of a strike,” the mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, confirmed to RIA Novosti. While several of the dam’s floodgates were damaged and unleashed an...

OMAHA, Neb. -- Norfolk Southern became the first major North American freight railroad with deals to provide paid sick time to all of its workers Monday, but the other railroads are making progress, with nearly 65% of all rail workers securing this basic benefit since the start of the year.

For women with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer, adding pembrolizumab to chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, is associated with improved overall and progression-free survival, according to a study. Bradley Monk, M.D. and colleagues presented the protocol-specified final overall survival analysis results of KEYNOTE-826, involving eligible adults with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer not previously treated with systemic chemotherapy and not amenable to curative treatment. Participants were randomly assigned to pembrolizumab or placebo for up to 35 cycles plus chemotherapy (paclitaxel, cisplatin, or carboplatin) with or without bevacizumab. A total of 617 patients were randomly assigned (308 to pembrolizumab...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is set to launch his bid for the Republican nomination for president at a town hall in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening. The campaign will be the second for Christie, who lost to Trump in 2016 and went on to become a close on-and-off adviser before breaking with the former president over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. He has cast himself as the only candidate willing to directly take on former President Donald Trump. Christie will enter a growing primary field that already includes Trump,...

A mother and daughter are in custody for the alleged murder of a 71-year-old grandmother whose decomposing remains were sniffed out by police after she had been dismembered with a chainsaw and burned on a charcoal grill. Candace Craig, 44, is accused of killing her mother Margaret Craig and enlisting in the help of her 19-year-old daughter Salia Hardy to dispose of the body, according to Prince George's County police. Officers on Friday conducted a welfare check on the matriarch at the Landover, Maryland, and immediately smelled the odor of decomposition. They discovered 'what appeared to be brain matter' in...

Blood pressure is closely monitored in hospitalized patients. Severely high blood pressure can lead to a heart attack, stroke, or damage blood vessels and organs including the heart, brain, kidneys and eyes. However, most hospitalized patients experience transiently elevated blood pressure without signs of organ damage, also referred to as asymptomatic hypertension, which is sometimes treated with blood pressure medications. In a retrospective cohort study, physician-researchers found that receiving intensive antihypertensive treatment as an inpatient was linked with greater risk of adverse events, particularly for patients receiving the medication intravenously as opposed to orally. "In the hospital, blood pressure is...

Instagram reinstated presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s account on Sunday after a two-year ban that was triggered by the anti-vaxxer’s claims about the COVID-19 vaccine. Kennedy’s account was yanked from the app in 2021 over “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” a spokesperson told The Post at the time. The prominent anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer touted 800,000 followers on the platform when his account was banned. Since getting his account back on Sunday — two months after the Democrat announced his White House bid — Kennedy boasts 773,000 followers and a blue “verified” check mark...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a fatal motor neuron disease that causes people to gradually lose control of their muscles. There is no cure, and current treatments focus on reducing symptoms and providing supportive care. Researchers show in an early clinical trial that the Parkinson's disease drug ropinirole is safe to use in ALS patients and delayed disease progression by 27.9 weeks on average. The trial was double blinded for the first 24 weeks, meaning that the patients and doctors did not know which patients were receiving ropinirole and which were receiving a placebo....

NewsNation) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu isn’t running for president in 2024, but he would consider running as vice president if it were with the right presidential candidate. “It’s got to be the right team, and it’s got to be, you know, the right formula,” Sununu said Monday on “CUOMO.” “You want someone that, you know, with my skill set, hopefully would complement someone else’s.” He added the caveat that it’s “nothing I’m thinking about right now.” Instead, the New Hampshire governor says he is focused on making sure former President Donald Trump isn’t the 2024 Republican nominee.

Ukraine's military said on Tuesday that Russian forces blew up a major dam in southern Ukraine, while Moscow-installed official in the city of Nova Kakhovka in the Russian-controlled parts of the Kherson region denied it. "The Kakhovka (reservoir) was blown up by the Russian occupying forces," the South command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Tuesday on its Facebook page. "The scale of the destruction, the speed and volumes of water, and the likely areas of inundation are being clarified." Reuters was unable to immediately verify the Ukrainian statement. Earlier, Russian state news agency quoted the Moscow-installed mayor of Nova...

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A plane carrying migrants landed in Sacramento on Monday, just days after a chartered flight with 16 migrants on board landed in the city Friday, officials said. About 20 people were on Monday's flight, a spokesperson for the state's attorney general said. Documentation indicated both flights were linked to the state of Florida.

The ex-wife of a transgender female inmate who sued the Department of Corrections after claiming she was abused at an 'all-male' facility says her $495K lawsuit is 'bogus' - as the felon's mom insists it isn't. Minnesota's DOC agreed to settle Christina Lusk’s case for $495,000 after they housed her in a male facility where she says other prisoners verbally and sexually abused her. The trans woman legally changed her name in 2018 from Craig to Christina, just before she pleaded guilty to drug possession and was jailed for eight years and two months. Lusk married in 2005 and her...

"Just left meeting for House Oversight. The FBI is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info he has brought forward about the Biden family," Luna wrote. On Monday evening, Representative Anna Paulina Luna revealed that the FBI is reportedly "afraid" that their informant who brought forth information regarding a bribery scheme involving Biden during his days as Obama’s vice president would be "killed if unmasked." "Just left meeting for House Oversight. The FBI is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info he has brought forward about the Biden family," Luna...

Former players with the USA's national women's soccer team, the reigning World Cup champs, decided to play in an independent soccer tournament in North Carolina and faced off against Wrexham, a club from Wales owned by Ryan Reynolds with a bunch of older dudes, and it went exactly like you'd expect. SNIP The modified game only lasted 40 minutes – just under half the normal time of a match... imagine if they had gone a full 90 minutes! SNIP

The US has a trove of parts and equipment from 'non-human origin' UFOs which have crash landed on earth, a whistleblower claims Former intelligence officer David Charles Grusch said the US is also engaged in top-secret operations that attempt to 'reverse-engineer' the pieces 'The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles,' said Grusch The US has a trove of parts and equipment from 'non-human origin' UFOs which have crash landed on earth, a whistleblower claims. Former intelligence officer David Charles Grusch said the US and other nations are also engaged in top-secret operations that attempt to 'reverse-engineer' the pieces to...