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A distraught Alec Baldwin said on Friday there are ‘no words to convey his shock and sadness’ after accidentally shooting and killing the female cinematographer on the set of his new movie Rust, and that he was cooperating fully with the police investigation into what happened. Officially Baldwin accidentally killed Halyna Hutchins, a 42-year-old married mother-of-two and the Director of Photography on his new movie on a ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Thursday at 1.50 pm. As Reuters reported the husband of Halyna Hutchins is a corporate lawyer in Latham & Watkins’ Los Angeles office. Matt Hutchins joined...

In a new statement, former President Trump blasted Meghan McCain. “Isn’t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully and basically a lowlife, is now complaining that it was she who was bullied by the Slobs and Radical Left maniacs of The View. At the request of many of her representatives, I made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan. In any event, Meghan should fight the Communists instead of explaining how they beat her, hurt her,...

video“I thank the gentleman for yielding because I think someone may be trying to kill me. And if they are successful, I would like my constituents and my family to know who stopped their arrest.Madam Speaker, on October 8, 2021, a Twitter handle, styled, CIA Bob is at your door, tweeted to @RepMattGaetz, ‘Looky here, pal. I lived in Portland. Portland has ordered a hit on you. I accepted the contract. Have a good day.’Following this tweet, this individual traveled to Washington, D.C., and the Capitol Police recommended his arrest.That’s information that was just shared with me by the investigations...

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Former US President Bill Clinton was released from the University of California Irvine Medical Center around 8 a.m. local time after undergoing treatment for an infection. Clinton was treated for a blood infection with intravenous antibiotics. The former president was admitted to the hospital on 15 October. His spokesperson, Angel Urena, assured that the ex-POTUS was "on the mend" and in "good spirits". He later clarified that Clinton had suffered from a urological infection that later spread into his bloodstream, resulting in sepsis. The ex-president, however, did not go into septic shock or experience other life-threatening conditions. Urena added on...

A jury on Thursday found a Virginia man, accused of shooting his next-door neighbor, guilty of first-degree murder. Michael Hetle, a 52-year-old former police officer and NASA executive, shot 24-year-old Javon Prather seven times, a video of which was caught by a Ring doorbell camera, local news outlet WTOP reported. Hetle and Prather had feuded for years, arguing over mundane things like dog poop and loud music, according to local news outlets. Since 2016, Hetle has called the police to complain about barking dog noises coming from Prather's house, WTOP said. Before the jury, Hetle's attorney argued that he acted...

video at link - no url available DOG the Bounty Hunter gave an absolutely terrifying warning to Brian Laundrie to "turn himself in" - but he promised to take Gabby Petito's fugitive fiancé alive. Dog exclusively spoke to The Sun about his ongoing search for Laundrie, who has been on the run since September 13 while his Gabby's body lay in the wilderness for weeks. Dog the Bounty Hunter gave an absolutely terrifying warning to Brian Laundrie. Dog the Bounty Hunter gave an absolutely terrifying warning to Brian LaundrieCredit: The US Sun Duane Chapman said 'let me have you, Brian'...

Virgin Galactic said on Thursday it is delaying its commercial space travel service to the fourth quarter of 2022 and will not conduct another planned test flight this year.Virgin Galactic said "commercial service is now expected to commence in Q4 2022." Shares in the company fell 13 percent in afterhours trading.The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on September 2 had barred Virgin Galactic from flying its SpaceShipTwo pending completion of a report into the flight of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane that carried British billionaire Richard Branson to the edge of space.Branson was among six Virgin Galactic employees who took...

Prosecutors in the trial of a spectator who caused a huge crash on the first stage of the Tour de France have asked for a four-month suspended jail sentence, according to a lawyer for the riders' union. The French woman, who was not been named, was holding a sign up to TV cameras, with her back to the onrushing peloton. German cyclist Tony Martin hit the sign and fell to the the ground, with dozens more falling as they rode into him in a scene that grabbed global headlines. Most of the riders were able to resume the race, but...

Sarah Sanders has announced she has shattered a fundraising record for her Arkansas Governor campaign.Sanders announced she has raised over $11 million and the campaign has $7 million cash on hand.Sarah Sanders announces she has shattered a fundraising record for Arkansas Governor's Race.

Jen Psaki White House Press Secretary mocked Ted Cruz today when she was asked by a Fox News reporter about Biden’s vaccine mandate reducing the workforce and contributing to the airline problem:As CSPAN notes in their tweet, Psaki said “I know world-renowned business, travel, and health expert Senator Ted Cruz has made that point, but I wouldn’t say that is widely acknowledged or echoed by business leaders…by health experts…”The Fox News reporter didn’t mention Cruz in her question, Psaki just decided to mock Cruz on her own, probably assuming that because it’s Fox News, Cruz was the one behind the...

Andrew is still facing a civil lawsuit in the US, with Virginia Roberts Giuffre accusing him of three sexual assault incidents. The duke has consistently rejected the allegations, and his legal team is working to have the US case dismissed. The investigation into the alleged sex crimes of UK's Prince Andrew and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein will receive "no further action" from the UK Metropolitan Police, The Mirror reported on Sunday. Scotland Yard announced that they would be abandoning its inquiry into various charges that the Duke of York groomed or abused young women on UK soil after doing two...

The suicide bomber who killed 13 U.S. military members and dozens of other people outside the Kabul airport in August was released from the Bagram Air Base prison just days earlier, according to a new report. “We now understand … that Abdul Rehman Al-Loghri, the terrorist who from ISIS-K was responsible for killing 13 American service members and dozens of Afghans civilians trying to get out of the country, that he had been held at Parwan prison in Bagram Air Base,” CNN’s Clarissa Ward reported Wednesday. “When the Taliban took power on that Sunday, the first thing they did before...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed the Biden administration a stunning defeat with regard to construction on former President Donald Trump’s border wall, which currently sits incomplete as illegal immigrants continue to flood across the open border. The country’s high court ordered lower courts to vacate previous rulings about the wall, citing “changed circumstances” in the case. Environmental activists, activist judges, Democrats in Congress and private law organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union have of course opposed the wall since before concrete was ever poured. [snip] On appeal, the Ninth Circuit agreed with the lower court ruling...

Reality TV personality Dog, whose real name is Duane Chapman, said on Thursday that he felt "real good" about how his hunt was going and expected to close in on Laundrie imminently. [snip] Chapman has also contracted a private search and rescue K-9 team to aid in his search of an island called Egmont Key, which is off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida. "We got a bunch of volunteers," he told Fox News. "Most of them are former law enforcement, former Navy SEALs and Marines." He added: "So, we're on the hunt, I feel real good about it." [snip]...

The intense coverage of the Gabby Petito case has helped bring apparent closure to the family of a Texas man who went missing in Wyoming, where the Long Island native’s body was found, according to a report. The last trace from Robert Lowery, 46, a father of two from Houston, was reportedly a ping from his cellphone in Jackson on Aug. 23. Lowery was seen on video from Aug. 19 at a restaurant at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village. He was last spotted the following day in Bridger-Teton National Forest, where Petito’s body was found Sept. 19, CNN...

Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman on Wednesday contracted a private search and rescue K-9 team to search an island called Egmont Key off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida, in his search for Brian Laundrie. A crew of four people carrying backpacks and other supplies left on boats with three K-9s. Chapman confirmed to Fox News that he hired the team. [snip] "We're out here at the island," Chapman said in a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday. "This would be and could be a perfect spot for him to hide, not too many people out here." Egmont has...

Dog the Bounty Hunter is marking his territory. The reality TV star, whose real name is Duane Chapman, will open a home base in Central Florida Wednesday to help sniff out fugitive Brian Laundrie, who is sought for questioning in Gabby Petito’s disappearance and death. Chapman was on Marco Island Tuesday sifting through tips while planning his next move and new headquarters, a source close to the high-profile manhunter told The Post. “He’s trying to decide the next best lead to track,” the source said. “They are returning hundreds of calls and planning.” Chapman interrupted his honeymoon with his new...

Following photos taken at the southern border depicting Border Patrol agents on horseback that many mistakenly said were whipping Haitian migrants attempting to cross the Rio Grande, the New York Times has issued a correction in their article where they accused the agents of doing that. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and countless media pundits all claimed that border agents were mistreating migrants with use of "whips," or that the migrants were being "strapped." Biden threatened punishment for those border agents, who were actually holding their horses reins, and not using them...

After the Taliban* captured Kabul for the first time on 27 September 1996, it also introduced Sharia law in the country. At that time, the authorities carried out "beard checks", reportedly requiring that beards could not be shorter than the length of a clenched fist. The Taliban movement, which seized power in Afghanistan last month, introduced a ban on shaving and trimming the beards of Afghan men, in accordance with Sharia law, according to the newspaper Ettelaat. Local authorities reportedly said that the restrictions, initially imposed at the end of the last week in Helmand province, now apply to the...