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California Senate candidate Rep. Adam Schiff faced a rude welcome in San Francisco as he was reportedly a victim of a carjacking just hours before a campaign dinner. Thieves broke into his car parked in a downtown garage, stealing his bags, leaving Schiff to attend the event in shirt sleeves and a hiking vest. Despite the setback, Schiff thanked supporter Joe Cotchett at the ritzy dinner in Burlingame, where he was commended for his resilience by Cotchett

A majority of Americans aren’t confident that the jury in former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial can reach a fair verdict, a poll released Thursday evening found. Only 44% of respondents said they were confident in the jurors’ ability to deliver a fair verdict compared to 56% who said they weren’t, according to a CNN/SSRS survey. The poll also found that only 33% of Americans think Trump acted illegally in the case where he faces 34 counts regarding alleged falsified business records in connection to reimbursing a hush money payment to former porn star actress Stormy Daniels...........

A male Episcopalian bishop ripped the collar off a female reverend during an LGBT-friendly service that was emceed by a drag queen as a joke and is now being branded a misogynist for it. The incident occurred at an LGBT-friendly Easter Vigil at Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on March 30 and was caught on video that has gone viral. After Reverend Tamra Tucker forgot her words at the service, Bishop Alan M. Gates jokingly snatched her collar away and then told her he was “just kidding.” The progressive attendees did not find it funny and he is...

Something about one of the floor tiles in his parents’ newly renovated European home seemed extremely strange. That’s because the man who made the discovery, a dentist, recognized the bizarre, out-of-place object he had just found. The unusual discovery was made when Reddit user Kidipadeli75 noticed a floor tile located in a portion of the home leading out onto a patio area that seemed to have something very strange embedded in it. Naturally, he did what anyone would do in our modern era of internet sleuthing: he posted an image of the oddity online. The curious object in the photo...

In a bizarre twist that seems straight out of a dystopian sci-fi movie, U.S. residents can now legally purchase a flame-throwing robot dog named Thermonator for just under $10,000. AutoEvolution reports that Ohio-based Throwflame, the oldest flamethrower manufacturer in the United States, has introduced Thermonator, a robot dog equipped with a flamethrower capable of shooting flames up to 30 feet. The company, known for its unique products, is now offering the Thermonator for sale in all states except Maryland and California, where flamethrowers are restricted. The Thermonator is essentially a combination of Throwflame’s ARC flamethrower and a modified version of...

April 24 (UPI) -- A wildlife rescuer in South Carolina came to the rescue of an alligator found to have been trapped in a drainage pipe for nearly six months. Matt Kraycar of K&K Wildlife Services said he was summoned by Port Royal Plantation security in Hilton Head when the gator was spotted trapped underneath a grate. Kraycar said the alligator apparently became stuck while swimming through the pipe in October and had been trapped ever since. "Well they can go into brumation, which is basically like hibernation for reptiles," Kraycar told WTOC-TV. "So as it gets cooler, they're going...

<p>Where to begin?</p><p>Well, the film (in select theaters now, expands nationwide Friday) imagines the lives of a family of Sasquatches (aka Bigfoot) over the course of four seasons. The dialogue consists of grunts, moans and howls, and some scenes of Sasquatch sex and scatological pranks. For 90 minutes.</p>

Elayne Boosler, Rolling Stone’s “First Lady of Stand-Up,” expressed outrage after she was arrested for refusing to leave Dodger Stadium due to her handbag that violated the stadium’s bag policy. Boosler was trying to attend the Dodgers-Mets game on Sunday and arrived at the stadium with her new handbag, which is shaped like a baseball. When she tried to enter Dodger Stadium, security officials stopped her and told her that she would not be allowed in with her non-clear bag. According to a YouTube video posted on Monday by Boosler, security told her that she had to throw the bag...

Gen-chan at Osaka's Tennoji Zoo was thought for seven years to be a male.Betrayed by its DNA and unmanly toilet habits, a hippopotamus in Japan thought for seven years to be a he is in fact a she, the zoo where the wallowing giant lives said on Tuesday (Apr 23). The 12-year-old came to Osaka Tennoji Zoo in 2017 from the Africam Safari animal park in Mexico, where officials attested on customs documents that the then five-year-old was male. SNIP Nor did it make courtship calls to females and zookeepers were unable to visually identify any male genitalia, a dangerous...

Costco Chicken Lover Logic: Keep Those Poisonous LED Lights Off My Chicken... Scan My Body Instead These people vote...................DEMOCRAT of course.............

A transgender sex offender has been arrested for attempting to kidnap a young boy during recess at his elementary school. Solomon Galligan, 33, was caught on camera walking onto a field at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado around 2:20 pm, according to an affidavit from the Aurora Police. In the surveillance footage, Galligan is seen walking up to the children in the field before running away from him after he tried grabbing them, according to the affidavit. When Galligan stumbled over a white blanket he was carrying, the child managed to escape. As per the affidavit, he...

Hollywood is rife with problems, from its racial and gender biases to its depiction of class, disability, and sexuality. The industry has always swayed in favour of straight, white men – their stories and perspectives dominating the mainstream and perpetuating patriarchal standards and hegemonic masculinity. While women are afforded less equal opportunities in Hollywood, there’s even less space for those who aren’t young. It’s no secret that there is a widespread societal fascination – fetishisation, even – of youth. You only have to be aware of the fact that categories like ‘school girl’ and ‘teen’ are highly consumed on pornographic...

Competitors dress for the event Credit: Screenshot YouTube As foreigners living in Spain, many of us can still be surprised at some of the bizarre traditions that occur, but most of Europe can match Spain. The town of De Panne in Belgium, hosted the European Seagull Screeching Championships on Sunday April 21 and there was definitely a Pan-European turn out. Foreign winners The championship is very much a Belgian organised affair with categories for adults, children and groups (know as colonies which is the collective name for seagulls) but the winner in the adult section came from Portugal and the...

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After O.J. Simpson’s death, former U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, "Just like your favorite President, ME, he was accused of horrible things. He said he didn't do those things and I am just as innocent as him!" We were unable to find evidence of Trump ever making such a post on Truth Social. If Trump had made such a post, it would have been covered widely by verified news organizations because of the controversial subject matter. Given that there is no substantial proof of a post ever existing, aside from screenshots without a direct link to the...

Came across this website. It’s intriguing. Cant vouch for its credibility, but very interesting. “In late 2021, the internet was abuzz with the leaked audio of one amazing phone call. The caller was a man named Richie Albertini, who phoned Child Protective Services in California and told a riveting tale that began in his teenage years in 1980s Los Angeles and covered the decades that followed as he worked at some of Hollywood’s hottest clubs and became involved with the mob”.

NEW ORLEANS — As the nation prepares for trillions of red-eyed bugs known as periodical cicadas to emerge, it's worth noting that they're not just annoying, noisy pests — if prepared properly, they can also be tasty to eat. Blocks away from such French Quarter fine-dining stalwarts as Antoine's and Brennan's, the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans has long served up an array of alternative, insect-based treats at its “Bug Appetit” cafe overlooking the Mississippi River. “Cinnamon Bug Crunch,” chili-fried waxworms, and crispy, cajun-spiced crickets are among the menu items. Periodical cicadas stay buried for years, until they surface and...

Residents in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, had a brush with the wild when a hippopotamus escaped from a nature reserve and wandered through the streets. Grassy Park residents captured photos and videos when the hippo broke through a fence at the Rondevlei Nature Reserve and went wandering through residential streets just after midnight Saturday. Resident Ashraff Schwartz said police pursued the hippo into the yard of his family's home. "My 74-year-old mom watched from inside the house, very scared, as the hippo came straight for our door. The police were standing outside the yard," he told Independent...

MSNBC and Joe Scarborough think screaming is how you make a point. I just think it's how you make comedy.

When former Philadelphia Eagle Jason Kelce took a dip into a pool of chili recently, he surfaced missing a valuable piece of jewelry ever football player covets — his Super Bowl ring. He announced the loss on his “New Heights” podcast. The ring went missing when he and his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce held The Great Lombaby Games at the University of Cincinnati, a competition between athletes and academics, per CBS Sports. Part of the competition included participants diving into pools of Skyline chili. As Jason Kelce surfaced, his ring did not. “I legitimately lost my...