Keyword: chitchat
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There had been a proclamation of insurrection at the beginning of The Civil War as well an ending proclamation. Do insurrections require official recognition?
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Several stars pledged to leave the country if Donald Trump was elected president. Many said they'd move to Canada (Lena Dunham, Snoop Dogg), some suggested Europe (Spain for Amy Schumer, Italy for Omari Hardwick) or Africa (Samuel L. Jackson), and one even said Jupiter would be the ideal destination (Cher). So are they planning to follow through on those promises? Here, a post-election update.
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Ukraine's unofficial air raid alert portal said earlier that a warning had been issued for the capital and a number of other regions MOSCOW, May 20./TASS/. More than ten blasts were heard in Ukraine's capital Kiev in the early hours of Saturday, while the city's air defenses were engaging unknown targets above it, eyewitnesses have told TASS...
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NBA star LeBron James, whose net worth is estimated at $1 billion, endorsed Georgia’s Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock on the day Americans go to the polls for the 2022 midterm elections, saying, “We’ve been oppressed for so long.” James, who sponsored his left-wing “More Than a Vote” campaign in 2020 to fight mythic “voter suppression” in Georgia, claimed in an Instagram post late on Monday evening that he wants “change” in Georgia, and so he urged voters to vote for the same guy who is already in office there. “Obviously, tomorrow is Election Day, and there’s only one choice when...
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This link includes stories covering all 32 teams. In fact, it has several links discussing the status of each team, stories of each team's needs, links discussing rookies this year and a general, all-around heavy dose of all thing's hockey.
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Just saw this and had to just kinda point out the obvious. One post title says: "ABC's Donna Brazile: Biden Has Done a Fabulous Job on Economy." and the next one says: "Biden's Abysmal Job Approval on Inflation and the Economy May Yet Hand Republicans a Massive Victory."
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Chaos erupted inside an Ohio courtroom this week after a father charged at the man accused of killing his 3-year-old toddler and the child’s mother, and then started to beat him.
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Jon Stewart is struggling to gain traction on his new talk show, according to a report. “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” which launched on AppleTV+ in September, appears to be a flop, as it trails far behind its competitors on broadcast and cable TV, according to Bloomberg. The show’s first episode was seen by just 180,000 US homes in the first week it debuted last fall, measurement firm Samba TV said. That number dropped to 78% to 40,000 by its fifth episode, which aired in early March. Stewart’s comic rival John Oliver, meanwhile, pulled in viewership of 844,000 US homes...
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Maybe he’s looking to land a No. 1 song with a bullet on the record charts. Would-be assassin John Hickley Jr. — who attempted to kill then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981 — has apparently hit his goal of rebranding as a singer. He announced on Twitter Friday that he has scheduled a performance this summer in New York City.
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Police on Friday identified a suspected serial killer in the deaths of at least four people whose remains have been found in Fairfax County and Harrisonburg, Virginia. .... Anthony Robinson, 35, has been in custody at the Rockingham County Jail, more than 100 miles from Fairfax, since late November, police said Friday. .... The man police called the “Shopping Cart Killer” meets victims from online dating sites at motels before killing them and transporting their remains in shopping carts to “their final resting place,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said at a news conference Friday afternoon. ... Police said...
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When Quinton Joiner stabbed a CTA worker in the neck on a Loop train platform in August, all of the corporate news outlets ran stories. But only CWBChicago followed the case to report that prosecutors only charged Joiner with a misdemeanor and then settled the case less than a month later with a sentence of probation. On October 16, we exclusively reported that Joiner, still on probation for the CTA stabbing, was arrested again after she walked into a wedding ceremony in Millennium Park and allegedly brandished a knife to steal a woman’s purse. Once again, she was only charged...
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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – An attack in broad daylight was caught on camera as a man tried to carjack a woman. The attempted robbery happened at the Chevron gas station on Azalea Road in Mobile. Regular customers of the gas station said it scares them.
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NY Times has an interactive data page for Covid. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html Am I reading it correctly? so many nations reporting no deaths on a 14 day rolling average? Cases spiking, but no deaths? Here is a partial screen grab:
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Chilling surveillance video captured the moment a gunman fired at a Queens home Saturday amid a parking dispute — killing a 10-year-old boy. The footage, tweeted by the NYPD on Sunday, shows the killer walking on the sidewalk in front of a home on Beach 45th Street in Far Rockaway around 9:30 p.m., reaching his arm through its iron railing — and pumping a barrage of bullets at the house. The video shows eight bright bursts, one for each bullet fired. The father of slain sixth-grader Justin Wallace told The Post on Sunday that his nephew was opening the door...
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The city Parks Department recently issued a competitive request for proposals from other firms to manage the iconic skating rink — after Mayor Bill de Blasio earlier this month announced his administration was canceling contracts with the Trump Organization to operate the site and three other popular attractions in the Big Apple’s public parks. The mayor said he was ordering the move because the former president had incited supporters who invaded the US Capitol building — which de Blasio claimed violated city contract provisions that bar criminal behavior by operators. -snip De Blasio spokesman Bill Neidhart said Sunday that city...
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Stewardess(29) returns home from cancelled flight to find bartender/fitness-instructor husband(34) in their bed with another woman. Hubby *ONLY* ends up with one black eye, scratched forehead, bruise on arm, and his acoustic guitar smashed against shelves. And they arrest *HER*?!? Text of article.... A Florida stewardess flew into a fury after walking in on her husband with another woman, wiling the wife to attack her spouse and smash a guitar into a wall. Nicole Denison allegedly arrived at her Safety Harbor home at 11 p.m. on July 22 to discover her husband having sex with someone else, according to a...
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The answer: Polishing their résumé. The question: How will a member of the “Jeopardy!” production team soon be spending their time? “Jeopardy!” executive producer Harry Friedman said Tuesday that he thinks he knows who’s responsible for leaking the ending of James Holzhauer’s final episode, and that “very, very, very appropriate” action will be taken. “We think we know where and who and how,” Friedman told the Washington Post, as he recounted the moment he learned on Sunday that a clip showing Holzhauer’s defeat in Monday’s episode was going viral.
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Melania Trump looked a vision as the US presidential couple attended the state banquet at Buckingham palace tonight. The First Lady of the United-States, 49, wore a white evening gown from Dior's spring 2019 collection for the occasion, which was her third outfit of the day.
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“Minecraft” creator Marcus “Notch” Persson, who sold the title to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, won’t be part of 10-year anniversary plans for the game because of his “comments and opinions,” Microsoft tells Variety.
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RUSH: Snerdley just asked me what was the best moment of my weekend. I had vowed not to talk about it. You know, I don’t talk about myself. All right. Let me see if I can… Look at the clock. Okay. I played golf yesterday. The people I was supposed to play with got sick and couldn’t play. So it was just me playing by myself with my caddie, which is good, because I played 27 holes in three hours, and you really get through this, and there’s no time to get down on yourself, no time to get pessimistic....
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