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A city cop tussled with a naked homeless man reportedly looking for a fight outside the Cheyenne Police Department on Monday before arresting him. The officer was dispatched to a call for assistance outside the Cheyenne Public Safety Center for reports of a “white male, walking on the sidewalk completely nude and exposing himself,” according to an affidavit of probable cause filed Tuesday in Laramie County Circuit Court. The suspect, Jason Hellings, is described as a homeless man with brown hair and blue eyes, standing about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing 220 pounds. He was born in 1981....

A grizzly bear decided it had just had enough of a wolf trying to mooch off its meal of a bison carcass in the Yellowstone River, and the frustrated bear’s roars echoed as it went after the wolf, baring its teeth and swiping with its front paws. The wolf in turn snarled and snapped, but backed off. Though the rival carnivores were right on top of each other, they never actually made contact, and both emerged unscathed from the encounter, wildlife photographer Julie Argyle told Cowboy State Daily. Wolves and grizzlies will sometimes square off over food sources, but actual...

A Maryland man was the first to come across one of two hikers seriously injured in a grizzly bear attack Monday afternoon in Yellowstone National Park. He heard the man calling for help before finding him “tore up pretty bad.” “I was hiking up Mystic Falls Trail when I saw bear prints in the mud,” Craig Lerman told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday morning. “I kept walking a little further and saw a bloody hat with a watch torn off.” Lerman, from Baltimore, was hiking on the Mystic Falls Trail when he was the first person on the scene after...

CNN founder Ted Turner has died at the age of 87. The billionaire died on Wednesday, according to the cable news network he founded. Turner had four children and was famously married to Hollywood star Jane Fonda between 1991 and 2001. Turner was nicknamed the 'Mouth of the South' for often being outspoken, and built a media empire that included movies and sports channels, as well as owning the Atlanta Braves. He was named Time's 'Man of the Year' in 1991 for 'influencing the dynamic of events and turning viewers in 150 countries into instant witnesses of history.'

Rapper Kid Cudi has fired MIA from his tour after the British artist went on a rant that went viral while on stage in Dallas. While opening up for the hip-hop artist on 2 May, MIA was booed after saying, “I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter,” as reported by Variety.

The billionaire died on Wednesday, according to the cable news network he founded. Turner was nicknamed the 'Mouth of the South' for often being outspoken, and built a media empire that included movies and sports channels, as well as owning the Atlanta Braves.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday argued the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, adding that the Trump administration is only complying with “elements” of it to maintain good relations with Congress. “The War Powers Act is unconstitutional, 100 percent,” Rubio told reporters during a White House briefing, claiming that his position has been shared by “every single president” that has occupied the Oval Office since the law passed in 1973. Also known as the War Powers Resolution, the federal law requires the sitting president to seek congressional authorization for foreign conflicts. Meant to function as a check on the...

WASHINGTON — The US and Iran are nearing agreement on a memorandum of understanding to end their nine-and-a-half-week war and lay out plans for talks about the future of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, a Pakistani source familiar with mediation efforts told The Post Wednesday.“There are documents,” the source said, referring to multiple versions of the potential agreement. “Which one will be approved is under discussion.”Separately, Reuters quoted a Pakistani source as saying of a potential deal: “We will close this very soon. We are getting close.”

An activist who protested outside the home of White House adviser Stephen Miller and distributed fliers containing his Virginia address will not face state charges, after a local prosecutor determined she did not commit a crime. In a 166-page court filing, the Arlington and Falls Church Commonwealth Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti said that she had reviewed evidence against Barbara Wien and found there was "nothing in the proceeds of the search warrant supports criminal prosecution" for violations of a state law that criminalizes using someone's identity or address as a means to coerce, intimidate or harass. Violations of that law constitute...

Primm Valley Casino Resorts, the last of the three major casinos near the California-Nevada border, will permanently close its doors on July 4, KTLA sister station KLAS reported. The move came to light after a letter was sent to employees asking them to vacate their housing by July 6, two days after the shuttering of all Primm properties, according to documents obtained by KLAS. “We recognize this is an extraordinarily difficult time and we are deeply grateful for the dedication each of you has brought to the Primm Valley Casino Resorts property,” the company said in a notice of termination...

Introduced in House (05/07/2024) Monetary Metals Tax Neutrality Act of 2024 This bill exempts gains or losses from the sale or exchange of certain coins or bullion from recognition for income tax purposes. The exemption applies to gains or losses from the sale or exchange of (1) gold, silver, platinum, or palladium coins minted and issued by the Department of the Treasury; or (2) refined gold or silver bullion, coins, bars, rounds, or ingots that are valued primarily based on their metal content and not their form.

The deadly hantavirus outbreak has spread to Europe after a passenger who had already left the MV Hondius cruise ship tested positive once back home, authorities announced in an alarming update Wednesday. Swiss authorities said the man returned home last month following a trip to South America with his wife before testing positive for the virus, which can lie dormant for up to eight weeks. He went to a Zurich hospital for testing after the cruise operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, emailed recent passengers about the spreading virus that has killed three people and sickened at least five, the World Health Organization...

Sightings reported from Williams Lake to Prince George to Fort St. JohnWhat was that in the night sky? It’s a question being asked by many residents in the B.C. Interior and north after an unusual sighting Tuesday night. Between 10 and 11 p.m. PT, multiple residents, including this CBC reporter, reported seeing a large, white shape slowly move across the horizon before disappearing from view. Multiple videos have been posted by residents in community Facebook groups from Williams Lake to Prince George to Fort St. John, over a span of hundreds of kilometres. Suggestions as to what it might be...

Distraught passengers onboard the stranded MV Hondius could face quarantine for up to eight weeks, a health expert warned Tuesday – as officials scrambled to contain a deadly hantavirus outbreak on the cruise liner. “I’m sure people are isolated or quarantined in their rooms or cabins, but unfortunately, that quarantine period can take up to eight weeks,” New Jersey-based emergency medicine physician Sampson Davis told The Post. “The virus usually has a quick onset, but it can linger up to about eight weeks before it has an impact.” Hantavirus is typically only spread through rodent droppings, but one rare strain,...

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, at risk of further distancing himself from President Donald Trump as his primary election draws closer, says the administration isn’t doing enough to restrict access to abortion pills. Cassidy, one of the few remaining Republicans in Congress who voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, on Tuesday accused the administration of moving too slowly in reviewing the safety of the abortion medication mifepristone. Many expect the review won’t be complete until after the midterm elections in November. The issue has renewed relevancy, though, as Louisiana is...

President Donald J. Trump proclaimed May 2026 as Jewish American Heritage Month on Monday, honoring the contributions of Jewish Americans to the United States and calling for a “national Sabbath” as part of the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations. In the proclamation, Trump praised Jewish Americans for their role in shaping the nation’s history, values, and civic life, citing faith, family, and freedom as central themes of the observance. He also invoked President George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, in which Washington wrote that the United States “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no...

James Murdoch could soon own New York magazine and a stable of popular podcasts, according to reports. The younger Murdoch’s investment firm Lupa Systems is in late-stage negotiations with Vox Media to acquire New York magazine and the company’s podcast network, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The talks may not close, those sources said. Lupa has put north of $300 million on the table for the package, two people briefed on the negotiations told CNN. Vox has been hunting for buyers as digital media continues to lose ground. (RELATED: Sports Media Legends...

Speaking in an interview that followed his primary election defeat in Texas, where MAGA voters ousted him and replaced him with the far better Steve Toth, longtime anti-Trump RINO Dan Crenshaw went on an angry and conspiratorial rant in which he claimed that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), of all people, had stirred up anti-RINO sentiment against him. In the interview, Crenshaw began his angry and conspiratorial rambling about why he lost with commentary about how it is mean that conservatives don’t like him, saying, “There’s nothing, especially conservatives, there’s nothing they love more than to tear down their own and...

Last week, the FBI raided 22 shady day-care businesses in Minneapolis, Minn., as the federal government expanded its investigation of social-services fraud there. On Monday, Vice President JD Vance added Columbus, Ohio, to his fraud task force’s agenda in the wake of a new report alleging a billion-dollar Medicaid scam. Both investigations were spurred by the dogged work of citizen and independent journalists like Nick Shirley in Minneapolis and Luke Rosiak in Columbus, who knocked on doors and interviewed dozens of supposed service providers to uncover the truth about fraudsters who may have bilked the federal government of billions. And...

An artificial intelligence company poses a threat to "vulnerable Pennsylvanians," state officials said Tuesday, after one of the company's chatbots was accused of posing as a doctor with the means to prescribe medication. The state's medical board is demanding that operators of Character.AI "be ordered to cease and desist from engaging in the unlawful practice of medicine and surgery," according to the complaint filed against Northern California-based Character Technologies Inc. "We will not let AI companies mislead vulnerable Pennsylvanians into believing they’re getting advice from a licensed medical professional," Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a statement Tuesday. "We’re taking Character.AI...