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President Trump went after four of his Democratic opponents at a Florida campaign rally Wednesday night, smacking South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg especially hard for the first time. “We have that young man, Buttigieg, boot-edge-edge, they say boot-edge-edge,” Trump said, repeating the pronunciation chant that supporters of the 37-year-old mayor use at rallies. “He’s got a great chance, doesn’t he? He’ll be great representing us against President Xi of China.” “I want to be in that room, I want to watch that one,” the president said at the event in Panama City Beach. Prior to bringing up Buttigieg — who...

Some Russians found it really hard to indulge in the joint celebrations of Russian Easter and the 1st of May holiday. Some people had to face the dire consequences. A woman showed up at a hospital's emergency room in the city of Perm, in the eastern European part of the Russian Federation, seeking medical attention. The doctors examined the 30-year-old woman and found a "foreign body" i.e. a shish kebab skewer sticking out of her head. She also had an open cranial injury on her head. After the woman was treated for injuries, she told the doctors that an incident...

FURIOUS South African women have called for a controversial new anti-rape device, dubbed a “rat trap”, to be banned by the Government. The tampon-like device, invented by a woman, supposedly protects women from rapists by cutting into a man’s penis. It has sparked an empassioned debate over the high number of rapes committed each day in the country and the authorities’ apparent failure to tackle the issue. Activists are outraged and want to stop it going on sale alongside tampons in chemists and supermarkets next month. Charlene Smith, a leading anti-rape campaigner, said: “This is a medieval instrument, based on...

SPIN THOSE POLLS! SPIN THOSE POLLS! [10/13 02:50 PM] UPI reports on the efforts to spin online polls and mass-mailed letters to the editor. President George W. Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry will walk across the stage Wednesday night and greet each other at the beginning of the third and final presidential debate. Already, across the country, e-mail messages are arriving in newsroom inboxes declaring a winner. A new form of spam is emerging this fall, called debate-spin spam, experts told UPI's The Web. The veracity of the e-mail messages being sent as letters to the editor is coming...