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Cyndi Lauper’s troubled son name dropped his legendary pop-star mom and her hit single “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” when he was arrested on gun possession charges stemming from a Harlem shooting earlier this year, new court papers show. Aspiring rapper Declyn “Dex” Lauper begged police to call his mother after the discovery of a loaded gun in his fanny pack on Feb. 7 — and even tried to make sure they knew who she was by reminding officers of the singer’s trademark 1983 hit. “I grew up, my mom is Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have Fun,”...

S​ummer has a reputation for prolific rainfall totals in a short amount of time, and because of that, it's when many states have recorded their most extreme 24-hour rainfall records. Records for 24-hour rainfall in the United States range from less than 6 inches to more than 4 feet. Those amounts for each state are shown in the map below, which uses data compiled by NOAA's Centers for Environmental Information. The record for Kansas is under review by the State Climate Extremes Committee since the previously posted biggest total of 13.53 inches was found to be

After the motion was met with resentment, Democratic National Convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa had to call the vote three times to reinstate language into their party platform that recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as well as the words "God-given" in a passage about employment

In May 2008, 57-year-old Sharon Causse was fatally shot in what appeared to be a home invasion after returning from a date night with her husband Thomas Randolph. Randolph told police in Las Vegas that he found her dead and then shot a masked intruder, claiming he acted in self-defense after the intruder killed Sharon, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Investigators later learned that the intruder was a handyman named Michael Miller — who Randolph hired to kill Sharon, his sixth wife, in order to collect more than $300,000 in insurance money, prosecutors said, per the outlet. But Sharon’s murder...

US Army Sniper Breaks Down Trump Shooting...

They are going to hammer us with this "our democracy" crap in the continuing mis-education of the public school initiated DIS-education.I remember "vocabulary words" in elementary and Junior High and they were all English and grammatically/etymologically correct.There is no such thing as "our democracy", just like there is no such thing as our truth or my truth.

Awoman who refused to pay a 20 percent tip on her Subway order has been applauded for challenging a practice some online feel has got "way out of hand." Tipping might be a common practice in America today but, in truth, there are occasions when some are reluctant to do so. A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults conducted by Talker Research found respondents reluctantly tip $37.80 a month due to the pressure or awkwardness of the situation. All those tips add up too, with that monthly figure equating to $453.60 a year in guilt-induced gratuity. All told, 26 percent of...

Two men were shot, one fatally, when gunfire erupted in Tompkins Square Park on Friday morning during what law enforcement sources said was a drug-related burst of violence. The two victims, 74 and 44, were blasted in the back around 9:50 a.m. at East 7th Street and Avenue A, within the historic East Village Park, cops said. Both were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where they were initially listed in stable condition, police said.

CHICAGO - A 63-year-old man was attacked by a group of more than a dozen teenagers on the Orange Line train in downtown Chicago on Monday night, he told FOX 32. The victim, Michael Manning, a lifelong Chicagoan, said he was keeping to himself after a 12-hour workday and looking forward to getting home when the group targeted him. "This was surreal. I think I was just so shocked. I think I kind of went numb," Manning said. He recounted that it was after 11 p.m. when the group boarded the train at the LaSalle/Van Buren stop. "I knew right...

CHICAGO — A South Side man is accused of working with accomplices to lure three people into a robbery trap through an advertisement on Facebook Marketplace. Prosecutors said a man arranged to buy a Yamaha motorcycle from a Facebook account named “Larry West” and arranged to complete the transaction in the 6700 block of South Indiana on June 28. The man and two friends went to the 6700 block of South Indiana to meet “Larry West,” but they were met by a young boy who claimed to be his son, according to a CPD report. The boy led all three...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A judge recently placed a Louisville skyscraper in a receivership after its owners defaulted on a $28 million loan, according to new court documents. A lawsuit was filed in June by lender Wilmington Trust National Association in Jefferson County Circuit Court, and accused the owners of the Meidinger Tower of failing to make a monthly payment of $142,204.82 last November. The plaintiffs also claim the owners have not made a payment in any subsequent month.

The NYPD released video early Monday of a masked suspect in the weekend shooting of a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old boy in a Bronx McDonald’s. The footage shows the alleged perp strolling around the fast-food eatery on White Plains Road in the moments before the gunfire erupted late Saturday. It shows the suspect wearing a surgical face mask while pacing through the McDonald’s with his hands stuffed inside the pockets of a hooded sweatshirt.

Some Citi Bike users may be riding off into the sunset. The Lyft-operated service will hike its prices a whopping 20% for members and non-members on Wednesday – leaving some riders to consider ditching the service and buying their own bicycles instead. “I just don’t really like taking the train so I use Citi Bikes but at this point it just seems more affordable to get your own bike,” Travontae Gorman told The Post at a Manhattan charging bank location. “It’s going to equal out to two or three of these rides with the continued increase.” Harlem resident Blessing Watson,...

Under new ownership, Pan American World Airways has announced the first in a series of planned themed journeys that harken back to its heyday. For decades, the Pan Am brand and its distinctive blue and white logo symbolized the excitement and elegance of air travel's golden age. Even after the airline ceased operations in 1991, memories of its attentive service, gourmet meals, impeccably dressed crew, and spacious seating endure.

A violent brawl has broken out during a Pride celebration in New York City.

Excerpts of debate with Hitler's inner circle looking on in dismay. Then Hitler rant starts. "...when he was born, I was still alive..." "...It's Joever..." First fraulein to crying fraulein. "Don't cry. We aren't Americans."

Since the pandemic, employers have been engaging in certain types of quiet maneuvering like “quiet cutting” and employee surveillance to assuage the needs of business and stabilize their workforce. A recent study reveals that 79% of employees say they’re under pressure to perform to “show” they’re working. Many workers are retaliating with quiet workaround tactics of their own such as “quiet quitting,” “coffee badging,” “quiet vacationing” and “shadow policies.” First, It Was Productivity Theater As the quiet tug-of-war continues, so does the suspicion and mistrust on both sides. Poor workplace culture also has given rise to resenteeism—a trend similar to...

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” While Alexander Fraser Tytler is often credited with these words, he also stated the following: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.“ If only...

The solemn Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the principles of the Constitution of the US. of America & on the violations of them.We the General assembly of Virginia, on behalf, and in the name, of the people thereof do declare as follows. The states in N. America which confederated to establish their independance on the government of Great Britain, of which Virginia was one, became, on that acquisition, free and independant states, and as such authorised to constitute governments, each for itself, in such form as it thought best. They entered into a compact (which is...

Here’s a trivia question for you. The Statue of Liberty holds a torch in one hand. What is she holding in the other? It looks like a book, in tablet form.