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Chloe Fineman's table for two came with a side of drama. Recounting the incident alongside her sister Emma, Fineman said the two were having "the best day of our lives" before trying to find a place to eat and reluctantly settling on Sant Ambroeus, an Italian restaurant located in the "food desert known as Madison Avenue." Fineman recalled a cordial server leading them to a table right away. "There's several empty tables and I sit down, and then I look up and it's Pilaf little mouse, the celebrity dog of Demi Moore," Fineman said. "And I see Demi Moore and...

In an interview with KOLD-TV, Kristen Couch said a man attacked her husband at a bus stop as he bent down to pick something up, defenseless. "Seeing your husband get almost decapitated and being the only one to help like it's, hard," she told the outlet. A GoFundMe account set up by the family has raised just over $42,000. The money will allow the family to travel to and stay in Arizona as they plan to bring Jacob and Kristen home. According to the post, additional money will be used for funeral expenses. The campaign, which was started by the

DETROIT (FOX 2) - Two brothers are in critical condition, and at least three other family members were shot after an altercation at a house in the 14500 block of Sussex Street in Detroit on Saturday afternoon. Assistant Chief Charles Fitzgerald of the Detroit Police Department said that two brothers were arguing over a family matter, when they got into a fight. A family member who called FOX 2 said that the two brothers were fighting over something to do with their mother, who had died earlier in the day. Fitzgerald said that during a fight, the gun fell out...

A judge on Monday reduced teen track star killer Karmelo Anthony’s bond from $1 million to $250,000 and placed him on house arrest. As TGP previously reported, 16-year-old track and football star Austin Metcalf was brutally stabbed to death earlier this month during a championship track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas. Metcalf, a junior at Frisco Memorial High School, was attacked in broad daylight — at a school-sanctioned event meant to showcase hard work, discipline, and sportsmanship. The suspect, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of rival school Frisco Centennial, was charged with first-degree murder. The Karmelo Anthony family attorney asked...

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There had been a proclamation of insurrection at the beginning of The Civil War as well an ending proclamation. Do insurrections require official recognition?

Several stars pledged to leave the country if Donald Trump was elected president. Many said they'd move to Canada (Lena Dunham, Snoop Dogg), some suggested Europe (Spain for Amy Schumer, Italy for Omari Hardwick) or Africa (Samuel L. Jackson), and one even said Jupiter would be the ideal destination (Cher). So are they planning to follow through on those promises? Here, a post-election update.

Ukraine's unofficial air raid alert portal said earlier that a warning had been issued for the capital and a number of other regions MOSCOW, May 20./TASS/. More than ten blasts were heard in Ukraine's capital Kiev in the early hours of Saturday, while the city's air defenses were engaging unknown targets above it, eyewitnesses have told TASS...

NBA star LeBron James, whose net worth is estimated at $1 billion, endorsed Georgia’s Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock on the day Americans go to the polls for the 2022 midterm elections, saying, “We’ve been oppressed for so long.” James, who sponsored his left-wing “More Than a Vote” campaign in 2020 to fight mythic “voter suppression” in Georgia, claimed in an Instagram post late on Monday evening that he wants “change” in Georgia, and so he urged voters to vote for the same guy who is already in office there. “Obviously, tomorrow is Election Day, and there’s only one choice when...

This link includes stories covering all 32 teams. In fact, it has several links discussing the status of each team, stories of each team's needs, links discussing rookies this year and a general, all-around heavy dose of all thing's hockey.

Just saw this and had to just kinda point out the obvious. One post title says: "ABC's Donna Brazile: Biden Has Done a Fabulous Job on Economy." and the next one says: "Biden's Abysmal Job Approval on Inflation and the Economy May Yet Hand Republicans a Massive Victory."

Chaos erupted inside an Ohio courtroom this week after a father charged at the man accused of killing his 3-year-old toddler and the child’s mother, and then started to beat him.

Jon Stewart is struggling to gain traction on his new talk show, according to a report. “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” which launched on AppleTV+ in September, appears to be a flop, as it trails far behind its competitors on broadcast and cable TV, according to Bloomberg. The show’s first episode was seen by just 180,000 US homes in the first week it debuted last fall, measurement firm Samba TV said. That number dropped to 78% to 40,000 by its fifth episode, which aired in early March. Stewart’s comic rival John Oliver, meanwhile, pulled in viewership of 844,000 US homes...

Maybe he’s looking to land a No. 1 song with a bullet on the record charts. Would-be assassin John Hickley Jr. — who attempted to kill then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981 — has apparently hit his goal of rebranding as a singer. He announced on Twitter Friday that he has scheduled a performance this summer in New York City.

Police on Friday identified a suspected serial killer in the deaths of at least four people whose remains have been found in Fairfax County and Harrisonburg, Virginia. .... Anthony Robinson, 35, has been in custody at the Rockingham County Jail, more than 100 miles from Fairfax, since late November, police said Friday. .... The man police called the “Shopping Cart Killer” meets victims from online dating sites at motels before killing them and transporting their remains in shopping carts to “their final resting place,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said at a news conference Friday afternoon. ... Police said...

When Quinton Joiner stabbed a CTA worker in the neck on a Loop train platform in August, all of the corporate news outlets ran stories. But only CWBChicago followed the case to report that prosecutors only charged Joiner with a misdemeanor and then settled the case less than a month later with a sentence of probation. On October 16, we exclusively reported that Joiner, still on probation for the CTA stabbing, was arrested again after she walked into a wedding ceremony in Millennium Park and allegedly brandished a knife to steal a woman’s purse. Once again, she was only charged...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – An attack in broad daylight was caught on camera as a man tried to carjack a woman. The attempted robbery happened at the Chevron gas station on Azalea Road in Mobile. Regular customers of the gas station said it scares them.

NY Times has an interactive data page for Covid. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html Am I reading it correctly? so many nations reporting no deaths on a 14 day rolling average? Cases spiking, but no deaths? Here is a partial screen grab:

Chilling surveillance video captured the moment a gunman fired at a Queens home Saturday amid a parking dispute — killing a 10-year-old boy. The footage, tweeted by the NYPD on Sunday, shows the killer walking on the sidewalk in front of a home on Beach 45th­ Street in Far Rockaway around 9:30 p.m., reaching his arm through its iron railing — and pumping a barrage of bullets at the house. The video shows eight bright bursts, one for each bullet fired. The father of slain sixth-grader Justin Wallace told The Post on Sunday that his nephew was opening the door...

The city Parks Department recently issued a competitive request for proposals from other firms to manage the iconic skating rink — after Mayor Bill de Blasio earlier this month announced his administration was canceling contracts with the Trump Organization to operate the site and three other popular attractions in the Big Apple’s public parks. The mayor said he was ordering the move because the former president had incited supporters who invaded the US Capitol building — which de Blasio claimed violated city contract provisions that bar criminal behavior by operators. -snip De Blasio spokesman Bill Neidhart said Sunday that city...