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One Life to Live star Amanda Davies has died at 42. Davies played the teenage version of her real-life mother Erika Slezak‘s character, Victoria 'Viki' Lord, on the popular ABC soap opera. The Daytime Emmy-winning actress, 77, confirmed her daughter's passing on Monday, via her website, sharing the star passed 'very suddenly'. 'It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of Erika's daughter Amanda Elizabeth Davies, who died very suddenly,' the message read. 'The family is heartbroken and would appreciate privacy at this time Davies is survived by her mother, actor father Brian Davies, 85,...

First there was Apple, and then, the flood gates opened. Celebrities have been giving their babies weird and wacky names for years – from Kulture to X Æ A-12. But not every country allows parents to be quite so free and easy with their children’s monikers. In New Zealand, for example, you have to comply with a strict set of rules when picking that all important name. Each one is reviewed by the government, and parents are allowed to present a reasoning for it before a decision is made. When registering a baby, the rules are: •Don’t use official titles...

The incident occurred around 2.30pm at the Whole Foods on Grand Avenue and 8th Street. Zacharias said she was sitting with Onyx by her feet under a table when a stranger called out to him, and then grabbed his leash and walked off with him. She initially thought it was a mistake, adding: 'I didn’t think that somebody was stealing my dog. 'I thought it was a misunderstanding, so I said, "That’s my dog. Excuse me," and she wasn’t listening.'. The thief jumped into a waiting car and Zacharias tried to get in behind her but she said there were...

Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs have made it to the Super Bowl - meaning Taylor Swift will make a mad dash from Tokyo to Las Vegas to watch her boyfriend battle for football's ultimate prize on February 11. America's most famous couple kissed on the field at the M&T Bank Stadium in the aftermath of a magnificent victory for the Chiefs And when he got on stage and took the mic, Kelce was euphoric - channeling the Beastie Boys by shouting: 'You've got to fight for your right to party!'. Swift plays four nights of her blockbuster Eras...

An Ukrainian couple stole $34million from a millionaire Democratic donor which they used to buy a private jet, a gold bullion and guns, according to authorities. Sergey Lebedenko, 53, and his wife, Galina, 48, are accused of conducting a 'colossal heist' over the seven years they served as chauffeurs for Oregon publisher and activist Win McCormack, 79. McCormack, an heir to a banking fortune, is the publisher of the progressive magazine The New Republic, owns Oregon’s Tin House book publishing company and is a prolific donor to the Democrat party. The couple, who were arrested on Tuesday, allegedly used their...

Recent labor strife at colleges and universities has unmasked long-term issues in academia,. From low wages, precarious employment, and lower-quality education for students to the cost of intellectual inquiry. A new report from the National Endowment for the Humanities finds the humanities are underfunded. This has left many ancient, cursed texts untranslated and the hidden evils in the world unreleased. “Underfunding of the study of ancient languages, civilizations, gods, demons, and accursed texts has been a real tragedy. It’s led to a decline in the exploration and understanding of the dark forces that exist beyond the veil!” The report states...

A group of transgender veterans has sued the Department of Veteran Affairs to make them provide and pay for sex-change surgeries on the taxpayer's dime. The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) wants VA Secretary Denis McDonough to come good on pledges to offer sex-reassignment procedures to former service members. The campaigners say they are 'essential and lifesaving medical care' for a suicide-prone group that suffers from high rates of depression and psychological distress. TAVA counts some 163,000 trans veterans. The suit could open the door to tens of thousands of claims for taxpayer-funded ops that cost more than $100,000 for...

An Amish family had their horse and buggy stolen while they shopped at a Michigan Walmart, police say. The theft took place on Saturday at approximately 5:30 p.m. in the town of Sturgis, Michigan – some 95 miles south of Grand Rapids near the Indiana border – when the Sturgis Department of Public Safety were called to the Walmart on 1500 S. Centerville Road to a report of a stolen Amish buggy and horse from the establishment’s parking lot, authorities said. “A truck driver, parked in the Walmart lot, had seen a female steal the buggy,” according to a statement...

A Veterans Affairs supervisor at an undisclosed facility has reportedly removed a 'not today, Satan, not today' sign from her desk after a colleague filed a complaint with a nonprofit civil rights organization. An unnamed Air Force veteran who 'subscribes to many non-theist teachings (including Satanist)' claimed that the anti-Satan sign was prominently placed on the supervisor's desk. The honorably discharged vet described the display as a 'grotesque Christian supremacist sign,' in an email to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation - the organization that took up the cause. The MRFF and attorney Michael Weinstein, who specializes in religious freedom cases,...

A Florida therapist who specializes in anger management has been charged with murder for allegedly shooting a man to death as part of an ongoing dispute and then stuffing his body in his car. “We got a couple of eyewitnesses, and I believe … the person right now he’s looking at the road, cleaning up the blood off the ground.” The caller told the 911 dispatcher: “I just saw him drag the body across the road. He put it in his car, and then he left. “And then he came back, and not even 10 minutes ago he started scrubbing...

'We are f***ed,' an exasperated police officer candidly declares as he patrols a Chevron gas station in Oakland, California, during the morning rush. But the officer, who's picked up an overtime shift to keep watch and act as a deterrent, wasn't just referring to the theft epidemic when he made the strikingly blunt assessment. 'I can go behind the cars and try and turn on my lights, but why would they stop?' Suspects are aware of these policies and it means if they flee at speed, police often won't even follow. This cop is simply there to try and prevent...

What was a routine food run for the firefighters of Pierce County Fire District 13 Monday turned into a troubling crime when their firetruck was robbed. While inside a Tacoma grocery store, customers alerted the crew a group of people pulled alongside the truck in a U-Haul and ransacked it. “I was in disbelief for a second,” firefighter Alandra Swords said. “It took me a minute to comprehend what they were saying, and then I immediately raced out of the store.” Expensive, lifesaving equipment was stolen, the crew reported. “They got away with all of our saws – our chainsaw,...

A World War II and Korean War veteran who received a Purple Heart celebrated his 101st birthday at Hooters — and has vowed to return there every year until he dies. Harry Perez Cerezo, a retiree from Texas, was joined by his family, friends, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization when he rang in his milestone birthday at the chain's El Paso location on January 5. The centenarian was serenaded by the Hooters girls and gifted a signed Hooters hat 'I have never seen him cry, and we saw him cry there. His tears just came rolling down,' Harry...

Alec Musser passed away on Friday night at the age of 50. The soap star, most well known for All My Children, died of an undisclosed cause at his home in Del Mar, California as confirmed by his fiancée, Paige Press. His uncle also confirmed the tragic news to TMZ but also did not reveal his cause of death. Previously, Musser starred as Del Henry on the long-running television series All My Children. In July 2005, he was awarded the role after he won the second season of the SOAPnet original series I Wanna Be a Soap Star. He appeared...

Dr Deborah Birx, who served as White House Coordinator from 2020-2021, claimed that, like HIV, Covid 'quietly destroyed' some people's immune systems even if they were asymptomatic Symptoms include chronic pain, brain fog, shortness of breath, chest pain and intense fatigue. It is thought that long Covid is caused by persisting pieces of the Covid virus in the body which cause problems for years after infection. Dr Birx told News Nation: 'We're learning now about mitochondria and viral impact and brain fog, and the changes in our neurons and the cells that nourish the neurons that really allow us to...

Attorneys at the ACLU of Northern California found what they called an “alarming error” in a geofence warrant application that “resulted in a warrant stretching nearly two miles across San Francisco.” The error, likely caused by a typo, allowed the requesting law enforcement agency to capture information on anyone who entered the stretch of San Francisco erroneously marked on the search warrant. “Many private homes were also captured in the massive sweep,” wrote Jake Snow, ACLU staff attorney, in a blog post about the findings. It’s not known which law enforcement agency requested the nearly two-mile-long geofence warrant, or for...

Prince Harry is to be inducted alongside Apollo 11 hero Buzz Aldrin as a 'living legend' of aviation at a glitzy Beverly Hills ceremony hosted by John Travolta. The Duke of Sussex, 39, has been recognised ahead of the likes of Charles Duke - who became the youngest person to walk on the moon in 1972 when he was aged 36. The decorated event will be hosted by John Travolta and has been previously been dubbed by actor Morgan Freeman as the Oscars of aviation. It is understood that his work with setting up the Invictus Games Foundation will also...

A millionaire conwoman has been accused of swindling the US Army out of $100million over six years by putting cash into her fake military youth business and splurging it on 31 homes and more than 70 supercars and motorcycles. Mello worked for the US Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas as a CYS Financial Program Manager. In 2016, she allegedly created a shell company, Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development, which she fraudulently used to collect money from the 4-H military partnership grant. The firm, which was meant to help the children of army personnel, allegedly never...

Scientists in Michigan and Texas have helped put a Florida nurse behind bars after she inflicted an excruciating death on three of her neighbor's pets with her 'special seasoning'. Tamesha Knighten, 51, was arrested after a five-month investigation which began when two cats named Luna and Pancake died within minutes of each other at their home in Lakeland. Four hours later the devastated family found their four-year-old Chihuahua Daisy dead along with the eight puppies she was carrying. Police saw Knighten on security footage putting out a bowl of chicken in her yard and seized it for analysis. 'When we...

Donald Trump visited Jeffrey Epstein regularly at his Palm Beach mansion, Epstein's housekeeper testified - but never had massages or stayed the night, and always ate his meals with the staff in the kitchen. Juan Alessi's 2009 deposition was made public on Friday as part of the third tranche of documents released by a Manhattan judge. The documents formed part of a 2015 defamation case filed by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts-Giuffre, against Epstein's right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell. Alessi, who worked for Epstein from around 1990 until 2002, was asked whether Trump - whose Mar-a-Lago home is less than...