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Speculation abounded Sunday after President Trump was photographed with what appeared to be a new hairstyle during a surprise visit Sunday to a Virginia church. Trump’s slicked-back hair was a far cry from his usual look, which has been the subject of mockery in the pages of The New Yorker and "Saturday Night Live."

2020 Democratic hopeful mocked for livestreaming his haircut; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'

LONDON, North Korean embassy officials visited a London hair salon after the business put up a poster with leader Kim Jong Un's face on it offering discount haircuts. The M&M Hair Academy posted Jong Un's picture accompanied by the phrase, "Bad Hair Day?" “We put up posters for an offer for men's hair cuts through the month of April. Obviously in the current news there has been this story that North Korean men are only allowed one haircut,” barber Karim Nabbach told the BBC. After embassy officials contacted the police, they paid a brief visit to the salon before being...

A mother says she is furious over an incident involving her son at Hico High School this week. Amy Martin said a teacher cut her 16-year-old’s hair without permission Tuesday at the direction of Principal Shelli Stegall. “My son was taken to the special education building where a teacher chopped off his bangs,” Martin said. “They were cut straight across. It reminded me of Jim Carrey’s haircut in Dumb and Dumber.” Martin said the school never asked permission to cut her son’s hair, which it said was too long and violated the district’s “code of conduct.” Her son Lane Kiesling...

WINDSOR, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – The oldest working barber in the world is making sure his clients look and feel their best this holiday season. He works right here in New York, in the small upstate town of Windsor, the town’s oldest resident is still at work. “How old am I? 107,” said Anthony Mancinelli. He’s in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest barber in the world. So how does it feel? “I don’t know, I am just happy I am still a barber,” Mancinelli said. He still works full time, putting in 40 hours a week. His...

A guy stuck his head into a barbershop and asked, "How long before I can get a haircut"? The barber looked around the shop full of customers and said "About 2 hours". The guy left, but did not return that day. A few days later, the same guy stuck his head in the door and asked, "How long before I can get a haircut"? The barber looked around at the shop and said, 'About 3 hours.' The guy left and again, did not return that day. A week later, the same guy stuck his head in the shop and asked,...

NEW YORK Police say a stylist at a Brooklyn barbershop threw a client through the front window after he complained about his haircut. According to the Daily News of New York, the 33-year-old victim was at the Levels Barbershop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Thursday afternoon. Police say he threatened to withhold payment for the cut because he didn't like it. Police said the barber was enraged and shoved him through the storefront window, leaving a gaping hole in the glass. The victim's face was ripped open and his clothing was covered in blood. He was taken by ambulance to...

Oklahoma City barber shop responds after photo of Confederate flag haircut goes viral A haircut by a popular Oklahoma City barber shop has ignited a firestorm on social media. Employees at Fade N Up said a white customer requested a Confederate flag be shaved into his head by a black barber, and the barbershop posted the photo on social media. The photo created the firestorm on Facebook with many condemning the customer and the shop. However, the shop's owner said the picture doesn't tell the whole story. “I was thinking it was some racist-type stuff but, as he sat down...

I think most of Trump problems would disappear if he only got a good buzz-cut.I appreciate his love of uniqueness, but a good buzz-cut is unique and would devastate the media.Make it a tribute to the military.

Do they actually teach this in Barber School?

President Donald Trump has promised sweeping reforms to "horrendous" US banking regulations that were introduced after the financial crisis. "We're going to do a very major haircut on Dodd-Frank," he said, referring to the Wall Street and consumer protection rules Barack Obama enacted in 2010. Dodd-Frank aimed to prevent banks taking on too much risk and to separate their investment and commercial arms.

Introducing a Bank Recapitalization “Bail-in” Regime To protect Canadian taxpayers in the unlikely event of a large bank failure, the Government is proposing to implement a bail-in regime that would reinforce that bank shareholders and creditors are responsible for the bank’s risks—not taxpayers. This would allow authorities to convert eligible long-term debt of a failing systemically important bank into common shares to recapitalize the bank and allow it to remain open and operating. Such a measure is in line with international efforts to address the potential risks to the financial system and broader economy of institutions perceived as “too-big-to-fail”. The...

They just can't help themselves. So much for the 'kinder gentler more presidential' Trump campaign. They couldn't keep that up for 24 hours. (SNIP) “It doesn’t matter what kind of person is the exterminator, they want the raccoons out of the basement,” he declared.

U.S. Army sergeant Kendall Oliver (who is a transgender man and goes by the pronoun "they") says they went into a barbershop to get a haircut and were told the barbershop wouldn't cut their hair because they don't offer haircuts to "women," The Guardian reports. Richard Hernandez, who owns the barbershop, didn't dispute what Oliver claims happened, but also didn't seem aware that Hernandez identified as a transgender man (though Oliver says they did try to explain that to him and he wouldn't listen). Hernandez said this isn't an issue about LGBT rights, and that the barbershop "simply [doesn't] cut...

Actually, Trump's comb-over is a marvel of hair engineering- a complex, lattice-like affair involving advanced design/materials consisting of multiple alternate layers of hair planks and lacquer... kind of like how they make a fiberglass boat,  no wonder it's durability is legendary.  Hey, the guy builds skyscrapers for a living-- probably had one of his engineers do the CAD/CAM model so they could test the structural rigidity: Basically, he's just trying to maintain the same hairstyle he sported from the 1980s (most people stick with a certain look after some point) back when The Donald still had a more full head of...

WASHINGTON -- Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Donald Trump finishes plastering a snarling face on conservatism, any Republican nominee will face a dauntingly steep climb to reach even the paltry numbers that doomed Mitt Romney. It is perhaps quixotic to try to distract Trump's supporters with facts, which their leader, who is no stickler for dignity, considers beneath him. Still, consider these: The white percentage of the electorate has been shrinking for decades and will be about 2 points smaller in 2016 than in 2012....

Hillary Clinton put part of Bergdorf Goodman on lockdown on Friday to get a $600 haircut at the swanky John Barrett Salon.....with a huge entourage in tow, Hillary was spotted being ushered through a side entrance. “Staff closed off one side of Bergdorf’s so Hillary could come in privately. An elevator bank was shut down so she could ride up alone. She was styled in a private area of the salon so that other customers didn’t get a glimpse. " Hillary was later seen with a new feathered hairdo. Clinton regularly sees salon owner Barrett, who charges regular mortals $600...

This week on “Fox News Sunday,” Washington Post columnist George Will said voters are not going to like finding out information about Donald Trump’s past, which will show he is both “uncouth” and “unprincipled.” [Relevant portion at 4:00 mark]

Sunday, Greeks should vote “no”!Hellenic voters are being asked whether they accept the terms offered by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund to extend the bailout for Athens‘ troubled finances or give Prime Minister Tsipras a mandate to insist on a better deal.Those conditions include more cuts in government supported pensions, higher taxes and labor market reforms other European governments’ are often not inclined to accept in the conduct of their own affairs.Urging a Yes vote, European leaders and their supporters in private institutions claim more austerity would reinvigorate the Greek economy and permit Greeks to...

Greek banks are preparing contingency plans for a possible “bail-in” of depositors amid fears The plans, which call for a “haircut” of at least 30 per cent on deposits above €8,000, sketch out an increasingly likely scenario for at least one bank, the sources said. A Greek bail-in could resemble the rescue plan agreed by Cyprus in 2013, when customers’ funds were seized to shore up the banks, with a haircut imposed on uninsured deposits over €100,000. Meanwhile, Yanis Varoufakis swears this is nothing but a "malicious rumor": FT report of a Gk Bank Bail In is a malicious rumour...