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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - An earthquake on the eastern coast of the United States on Friday and a total solar eclipse on April 8 represent signals from God for the country to repent, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Friday. “God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come,” Greene said in a statement via social media platform X. Greene said that she prays the US listens to such signals. Earlier on Friday, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit occurred near New York City. The geological event resulted in ground...

Mcalester, Okla. (AP) -- Authorities say an Oklahoma man whose one-year sentence for raping a child sparked national outrage has died in jail. Pittsburg County Sheriff Joel Kerns told the McAlester News Capital that David Earls died about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at a McAlester hospital, where he was taken after developing flu-like symptoms.

Corvette driver hits mausoleum, dies in rage chase Friday, June 09 @ 00:00:00 CDT Associated Press HAYWARD, Calif. - A motorist who sped through a Hayward cemetery in an apparent road-rage pursuit of a car that cut him off died after crashing into a mausoleum, police officials said. The driver was killed when his classic Corvette skidded out of control while navigating a turn Sunday inside the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and crashed in front of mourners watching a nearby burial, said Hayward police Lt. Gary Branson. The identity of the Corvette's 52-year-old driver was not being released Sunday night, pending...

JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip - A large explosion went off Friday at a Hamas rally where group members paraded with homemade weapons and explosives, killing four Palestinians and wounding 25, hospital officials said. Seven of the wounded were in serious condition, they said. Witnesses pulled body parts out of a vehicle that appeared to have been destroyed by the blast. An unmanned Israeli aircraft flew over the militant group's rally, but the Israeli military denied involvement in the blast.

Russia's Interfax news agency reports that notorious spammer Vardan Kushnir was found brutally murdered. His body was discovered in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, showing evidence of repeated blows to the head....

Cairo - An explosive detonated as it was being carried by a man several kilometres from a tourist bazaar next to the Pyramids of Giza on Sunday, police said. The man was severely injured, but the blast caused no other casualties. The incident came amid heightened fears of attacks on tourists in Egypt after Saturday's string of simultaneous bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, 400 kilometres east of the capital. Security was hiked up in many parts of Cairo, including around the Pyramids. Investigators were trying to determine whether the man, identified as Sami Gamal Ahmad, 33,...