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Twins! Punxsutawney Phil and Phyllis Welcome Two Baby Groundhogs
 
03/27/2024 10:45:02 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
ABC4 ^
The world’s most famous groundhog is now a proud father. Punxsutawney Phil and his mate, Phyllis, have started a family by giving birth to two baby groundhogs, according to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. They say the babies are currently with mom and dad at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library and can be seen at times through the viewing window. Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring this year at Gobbler’s Knob.
 

Identical twins accused of swapping places charged with killing 2 Amish children after car rear-ends carriage
 
03/04/2024 9:06:36 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
NY Post ^ | 03/04/2024 | Michael Ruiz , Fox News
Identical twins from Minnesota are accused of swapping places after one of them, allegedly driving high on a rural highway, rear-ended an Amish horse-drawn carriage and killed two children. Police spent months building the case before announcing charges. But, according to one expert, the damning evidence might not be as strong as it appears. Prosecutors now allege Samantha Jo Petersen was behind the wheel Sept. 25, 2023, when a motor vehicle slammed into a horse-drawn carriage, killing two children and injuring their two siblings. It was not her identical twin sister, Sarah Beth Petersen, who took responsibility at the scene,...
 

Ancient Egyptian teenager died while giving birth to twins, mummy reveals
 
01/18/2024 11:04:30 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 20 replies
Live Science ^ | January 04, 2024 | Sascha Pare
Margolis first studied the mummy excavated in 1908 while writing her master's thesis in anthropology at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. on female pelvic morphology in 2019. "I CT scanned her to obtain her pelvic measurements," Margolis said. "That is when we discovered the second fetus."The 3D images showed that the remains of a fetus, which no previous records mentioned, had become lodged in the girl's chest. Margolis and David Hunt, co-author of the new study and an anthropologist at GWU, X-rayed the mummy to obtain a clearer picture of the fetal remains."When we saw the second fetus...
 

Woman With Double Uterus Gives Birth to Twins
 
12/23/2023 12:11:21 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 19 replies
Newsmax ^ | December 23, 2023 | AFP (French Press)
A 32-year-old woman from Alabama who was born with two uteruses and became pregnant in both gave birth to twin girls on different days, she announced on Friday. "Our miracle babies were born!" Kelsey Hatcher, who is documenting her story on her Instagram account "doubleuhatchlings," wrote in a post. She added that the girls "decided they were rare enough statistically that they should just go ahead and have their own birthdays too."
 

Mariah Carey cozies up to Joe Biden, takes her twins to White House after Bryan Tanaka split
 
12/20/2023 11:09:16 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 42 replies
New York Post ^ | Dec. 20, 2023 | Bernie Zilio
Mariah Carey recently traveled to Washington, D.C, to visit President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “Last week I had the pleasure of meeting President Biden & Vice President Harris at the White House to ring in the holiday season!” the “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hitmaker, 54, captioned an Instagram carousel of her memorable trip, which she took with son Moroccan and daughter Monroe, 12. “While there, we got to see all the festive decor and spread some cheer! 🎄❄️☃️.” For her presidential visit, Carey wore a glittery black minidress and matching...
 

Canadian twins 'pretended to be Inuit to receive more than $10,000 in college scholarships and grants for their facemask business'
 
09/25/2023 11:35:09 PM PDT · by dennisw · 20 replies
FOR MAILONLINE ^ | 25 September 2023 | JEN SMITH
Amira and Nadya Gill, 25, are accused of lying about their heritage for money They said they'd been adopted and their birth mother was an Inuk woman A pair of Canadian twin sisters have been charged with fraud after allegedly pretending to be Inuit to obtain more than $10,000 in scholarships and grants for their online business. Amira and Nadya Gill, 25, were charged along with their mother, Karima Manji, with fraud of over $5,000 each. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they told police they were the biological daughters of Inuit woman Kitty Noah, and that Manji had...
 

Cute Video Shows Florida Identical Twins Testing Whether Their Toddlers and Dogs Can Tell Them Apart
 
09/20/2023 12:05:44 PM PDT · by allen592 · 9 replies
The Pet Zealot ^ | September 20, 2023 | James Alain L.
Sammie Nowakowski and Stephanie Buckman are indistinguishable twins, sharing an uncanny resemblance that would lead one to believe that their own families could effortlessly tell them apart. However, this assumption holds true for most of their relatives, with the exception of Buckman's son, Noah. A delightful video, posted on their TikTok channel, captures Nowakowski and Buckman seated on the ground, donning matching black ensembles, their arms extended in a welcoming gesture.
 

Transgender man, 22, gives birth to TWINS after going through six rounds of artificial insemination with a sperm donor to fulfill his dream of having a biological baby
 
08/01/2023 10:43:44 AM PDT · by Morgana · 92 replies
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 1, 2023 | Athena Stavrou
A 22-year-old transgender man has given birth to twins after going through six rounds of artificial insemination in a bid to get pregnant. Aaden Darr, a Starbucks barista from Charleston, West Virginia, was born biologically female but came out as transgender at 16 years old after identifying as a lesbian for several years and started a course of testosterone. However, he soon came to realize that it was his dream to have a biological child - so he put a stop to his hormonal treatment and visited his local family planning clinic in order to begin the process of having...
 

YouTuber who sexualized infants announces his surrogate is expecting twins
 
07/18/2023 2:05:12 PM PDT · by Morgana · 13 replies
Live Action News ^ | July 17, 2023 | Nancy Flanders
YouTubers Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams have announced that a woman they hired to be a surrogate is now pregnant with twins. There is concern over the well-being of the children due to Dawson’s past inappropriate behavior regarding children. In a video announcement, Dawson and Adams traveled to Seattle, Washington, to attend the six-week ultrasound the surrogate was undergoing, which was delayed a week so that the men could be present, according to People. In the newly released video which was filmed back in May, Adams states, “We’re pregnant, b***!” “Whatever God wants for us is what it’s gonna be,”...
 

Egyptian Conjoined Twins, Salma and Sarah, Successfully Separated in Saudi Arabia
 
06/22/2023 3:00:30 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
Al Arabiya ^ | 22 June ,2023
Egyptian conjoined twins, Salma and Sarah, have been successfully separated in hours-long operation carried out in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh. The separation operation of the twins who were attached at the head was held on Wednesday and saw a team of 31 surgeons, consultants, nursing and technical personnel participating in the operation, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The twins have undergone a total of four operations since 2021 with the last one lasting for 17 hours, SPA said. The operation was led by...
 

Indiana mother is jailed for a year after she was seen biking across city with her crying two-month-old twins in a MILK CRATE
 
06/14/2023 2:15:18 AM PDT · by Morgana · 54 replies
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 14, 2023 | Claudia Aoraha
An Indiana mother has been jailed after she was caught traveling across the city of Indianapolis with her crying two-month-old twins in a milk crate strapped to her bicycle. Blossum Kirby, 36, will spend a year behind bars after being convicted of neglect of a dependent for her actions. Multiple people called 911 when they saw Kirby traveling across Indianapolis with the infants in a milk crate that was attached to the front of her bicycle in July 2022. Some say they saw the mother nearly fall off the bike as the babies sat in the plastic box during the...
 

In Rare Case, Mother Delivers Two Sets of Identical Twins, Back to Back [Six Months Apart]
 
03/03/2023 12:07:48 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
LiveScience ^ | 2/25 | Nicoletta Lanese
A mother in Alabama gave birth to rare "MoMo" twins after a previous twin pregnancy. In a rare case, a mother in Alabama gave birth to two sets of identical twins in back-to-back pregnancies. Britney Alba learned she was pregnant with twins for the second time roughly six months after she'd given birth to her first set of twins, a pair of boys named Luka and Levi, according to a statement(opens in new tab) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The first set of twins shared the same placenta — the organ that connects the uterus to the...
 

Crypto giant Genesis is 'days away' from bankruptcy after suffering steep losses in wake of FTX collapse: Firm owes creditors $3 BILLION - including $900M to Winklevoss twins
 
01/19/2023 2:26:35 AM PST · by C19fan · 40 replies
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 19, 2023 | Alex Hammer
Popular cryptocurrency broker Genesis is expected to file for bankruptcy within days, insiders have revealed. It would make the firm the latest crypto casualty following the spectacular downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, where the company held some of its funds. According to people familiar with the matter, Genesis is currently in the final stage of its Chapter 11 paperwork as it works toward a deal with creditors. The company, which is owned by venture capital firm Digital Currency Group, had been considering filing for bankruptcy for some time, as it reportedly owes creditors more than $3billion.
 

Who's going to get Graceland? Lisa Marie Presley's 14-year-old twins and Hollywood starlet daughter are expected to split the King's Memphis mansion
 
01/13/2023 3:38:21 AM PST · by dennisw · 48 replies
DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 13 January 2023 | HARRIET ALEXANDER
BUT they won't see a cent of $100million Elvis left his daughter because she lost it all Lisa Marie Presley owned 100 percent of Graceland, the Memphis estate her father Elvis bought in 1957 for $100,000 The 1937 house was opened to tourists in 1982, but has remained a family home, with the Presleys gathering there for celebrations such as Thanksgiving The house will likely pass to her three surviving children - daughters Riley, a 33-year-old actress, and twins Harper Vivienne and Finley, 14 Her only son, Benjamin, took his own life aged 27 in July 2020 and Lisa Marie...
 

Texas house of horrors mom forced twins, 16, to drink BLEACH and poured it on their genitals, made them eat and drink their own urine and feces, beat them with metal rods and fed them mustard sandwiches once a week
 
10/22/2022 12:26:40 PM PDT · by thegagline · 94 replies
The Daily Mail ^ | 10/20/2022 | Harriet Alexander
Seven children who were rescued from their abusive mother have detailed the years of torture she inflicted on them - including forcing them to drink bleach and pouring it over their genitals. The alarm was raised on Tuesday, when two of the children - 16-year-old twins, a boy and a girl - managed to escape from the family home in Houston, Texas and convince a neighbor to help. The mother, Zaikiya Duncan, 40, and her boyfriend Jova Terrell, 27, left the house on learning the twins had escaped and were arrested later that day in Baton Rouge - a four...
 

Malnourished twins, 16, escape from handcuffs to raise the alarm on their mom - cops rescue their five siblings and arrest mother and her boyfriend
 
10/20/2022 9:12:14 AM PDT · by Morgana · 42 replies
Daily Mail UK ^ | October 20, 2021 | Stephen M. Lepore
Two 16-year-old twins escaped from their abusive mother and her boyfriend who handcuffed, bound and forced them to drink their own urine at their $600,000 Texas house of horrors. The breakout was caught via Ring camera footage that saw the twins, who have not been named, run from their Houston home Tuesday in an attempt to get someone to call the police. The boy wasn't wearing a shirt and both of the siblings were barefoot, the neighbor who eventually let the pair inside told KHOU. The kids told police their mother and her boyfriend had left them in a room...
 

Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
 
10/09/2022 9:36:15 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 28 replies
Thompson Twins ^ | !983 | Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins' official music video for 'Hold Me Now'
 

‘Little heroes:’ 6-year-old twins protect mother from violent boyfriend, Melbourne police say
 
09/20/2022 12:34:50 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 43 replies
ClickOrlando.com ^ | September 16, 2022 | James Sparvero and Brandon Hogan
MELBOURNE, Fla. – A man accused of attacking his girlfriend in her apartment Tuesday was arrested after the woman’s twin daughters fended him off, giving their mother enough time to find safety, according to the Melbourne Police Department. Officers responded at 1:21 p.m. to a disturbance at Manatee Cove Apartments, where the woman told police she had just been attacked at her residence by her boyfriend, 33-year-old Andrew Williams, Jr. According to a news release, Williams was “unexpectedly surprised” when the woman’s daughters — both 6 years old — used toys, sticks and a hair dryer in an attempt to...
 

It's Twins!
 
09/08/2022 1:13:47 PM PDT · by PrairieLady2 · 38 replies
Self
Eight years ago my eldest grand-daughter gave birth to twins. Today we learned that her sister is expecting twins, also! And if that's not enough, their cousin is expecting twins also. Additionally, another granddaughter and dranddaughter in law are expecting singletons. That's 6 new additions to the family are expected with a month of each other! Surely, God has blessed me with a very full quiver!! I'm so excited!
 

REPORT: Minnesota Twins among 20 MLB teams supporting gender ‘transitions’ for kids
 
09/08/2022 12:50:07 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 17 replies
Alpha News ^ | 9/7/22 | Evan Stambaugh
A new report has identified at least 20 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams that have directly or indirectly lent support for child gender “transitions.” One of those teams is the Minnesota Twins. According to National Review, the Twins are one of six MLB teams which have “partnered with organizations that advocate, promote, or lobby for youth gender transitions in public policy” as part of their “Pride Night” games. The Twins used their July 15 “Pride Night” game against the Chicago White Sox to donate a portion of each ticket sale to support Twin Cities Pride, an organization known to hold...
 
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