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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called on President Biden to abandon his re-election campaign following his poor debate showing on Thursday night, warning that deciding to run was ill-advised and made him no better than his adversary, former President Trump. “He’s being selfish. He’s putting himself ahead of the country. He’s surrounded by opportunistic enablers. He has created a reality distortion field where we’re told not to believe what we’ve plainly seen. His hubris is infuriating. He says he’s doing this for us, but he’s really doing it for himself,” she started the column. “I’m not talking about Donald...

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In 1937, during a holiday to the coast of Cornwall, London music critic and composer Roderick"Rick" Fitzgerald and his sister, Pamela fall in love with Windward House, an abandoned seaside home, and buy it at an unusually low price from Commander Beech.

A Cleveland-area woman who found a couple of ghostly figures in a photo taken with her cell phone said she's not freaked out about it. "To me, it was awesome," said Marcella Davis. "It's not scary to me." David took the photo about 4 p.m. April 15 at Cleveland High School, where she was trying to get a shot of her nephew, who attends the school. "He spun around so I couldn't take his picture, so I got the back of his head," she said. "I didn't try to take no more because he didn't let me." Davis, the mother...

At first glance, it seems to be an ordinary snap of a group of young people. But look more carefully and there appears to be an extraordinary, ghostly presence among them. Peeping out between the knees of two of the girls is the face of a child. Ghostly: A ghoulish child stares back as a little girl cries in Matthew Summers' photo The eerie image - clear enough to show a pair of eyes, a nose, a mouth and hair - was captured by 17-year-old Matthew Summers on his mobile phone as he and his friends were preparing to go...

MYSTIC, Conn. - Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer. A five-member team from the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group visited Mystic Seaport on Friday night to spend time on the Charles W. Morgan, a wooden whaling ship where several visitors have reported seeing the apparition. The 165-year-old craft made 37 ocean voyages in search of whales during the 60 years it was in use. About 1,000 men worked on the Morgan over those decades. The ship, due for a $3.5 million restoration next year, one...

'Ghostly' image on tape at Henry's palace A ghostly image has been caught on CCTV at historic Hampton Court Palace. It was formerly the home of Henry VIII and has long reported to be haunted. The 16th Century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before. However, in October this year, this curious image was caught on the palace's CCTV footage. On several occasions security guards were alerted to an open fire door in an exhibition area of the palace. After securing the door each time, they returned...