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The association was also forced to address rumours circulating online that Yan had cheated during the competition by using anal beads equipped with wireless transmitters to send and receive signals. Yan allegedly clenched and unclenched rhythmically to communicate information about the chess board via code to a computer, which then sent back instructions on what moves to make in the form of vibrations, according to reports circulating on the Chinese social site Weibo.

A transgender teen is in custody after authorities say they recovered a manifesto detailing her plan to attack three schools and churches in Colorado just four days after Audrey Hale murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville. William Whitworth, 19, who goes by the name Lilly and is referred to with female pronouns in arrest documents, was arrested on March 31. She was a student in the school district that she planned to attack between 2014 and 2016, authorities say. In a manifesto that was recovered in her home, Whitworth called Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold...

A controversial post on Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker's Facebook account is causing a stir.The post was removed by Facebook for violating community standards. However, Walker went to Twitter to show in a tweet what she had posted.The post from Facebook below. We have blurred out the words that some people may find offensive.

Multiple confidential sources told our sister site RedState that freshman Congresswoman Katie Hill of California, who is also the Vice-Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, had "a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer." Photographs and text messages obtained by RedState show that Rep. Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer. The woman, whose name is not being released, was hired by Hill in late 2017 and quickly became involved in a “throuple” relationship with Hill and her estranged husband, Kenny Heslep. Heslep and the staffer, according to text messages...

The L.A. County Coroner has reported the death of Gemmel Moore, 26, of an accidental meth overdose at 7:22 p.m. on July 27 at the West Hollywood home of top Democrat donor and political activist, Ed Buck.

Tony Podesta and his wife Heather collect the art photographs of Hellen Van Meene: https://nmwa.org/sites/default/files/shared/sfy_van_meene.pdf Some are on loan to museums. Here's some more of her photos: http://hellenvanmeene.com/ Do NOT post any on this thread that cross any line morally or legally from this artist, but there are some out there. After hearing the kind of rituals going on at Tony's house, this is disturbing.

Helen Thomas, the Hearst columnist and long-time scourge of Republican presidents as UPI White House correspondent, was "miffed" at Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau because he joked that the rumors were that she was Harry Truman's lover: "I wished he said I was Jack Kennedy's lover." If that makes Thomas sound like a liberated woman, that would be in line with her recent Planned Parenthood luncheon speech in Iowa, where she claimed conservatives would love to deny women even their right to vote: "It seems now, more than ever, the Supreme Court is prepared to put Americans -- especially women --...