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A Long Island caretaker was arrested this week in the heinous abuse of an 83-year-old woman in her care that was caught on video, police said Friday. A guardian of the victim had placed a camera in the elderly woman’s Woodmere home after finding bruises on her late last month, Nassau County Police said. The surveillance equipment allegedly captured the victim’s caretaker, Merlyn Fredericks, 36, yanking the helpless old woman harshly and beating her in her face and body, authorities said. The guardian notified police, and Fredericks was arrested Thursday and charged with felony assault, as well as endangering the...

Hillary Clinton, 74, said that she started wearing her infamous pantsuits in the 1990s after a Brazilian company used the image of her in a skirt for a suggestive lingerie advertisement. 'I was sitting on a couch and the press was let in, there were a bunch of them shooting up,' Clinton recounted on Sunday to CBS News host Norah O'Donnell when describing the moment the image was captured when she was still first lady. 'All of a sudden, the White House gets alerted to these billboards that show me sitting down with — I thought my legs [were] together,...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - You don't have to be a history buff to know about 1945's V-J Day in Times Square. The iconic picture, known as "Kissing Sailor," portrays a U.S. Navy sailor grabbing and kissing a stranger in a white dress. The photo was taken on Victory over Japan Day just hours after the announcement that Japan had surrendered and World War II was finally over. The sailor in the photo was on a date in Times Square and decided to celebrate by kissing the closest nurse, a stranger who was not his date. Navy soldier Bryan Woodington, 33,...

WARNING: some of these images are rather gory. Move over swallows, motivational quotes and giant roses on your bum – the latest tattoo trend is 'scarification'. The painful process involves removing a layer of skin and flesh with a scalpel in the shape of your desired design - and then filling the design in with ink. When the area heals over, the scar becomes an elaborate tattoo.

Hillary Clinton has a better chance of winning her party’s nomination without a serious contest than any nonincumbent in the modern era. If that happens, she will be lucky to avoid the fight. Most of the concerns about an unopposed Clinton candidacy are overstated, and there are big reasons she will benefit from running unopposed in the presidential primary...... But primary campaigns tend to expose the flaws of fundamentally weak candidates....... [SNIP] ....Mrs. Clinton has a good chance of fending off these charges with a unified Democratic Party........Controversies about the Clintons — like over the Clinton Foundation or her email...