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Melissa will do anything to feed her online-shopping addiction — even if that means subsisting off a diet of microwaveable soup. “I’ll eat only ramen in order to shop,” she says. The 34-year-old — who works in sales at Red Wing Heritage, a leather goods brand, and asked that her last name not be used for professional reasons — receives two to three packages a week at her East Village apartment thanks to her daily binges. “I love coming home and there’s a package,” she says. “It’s like there’s a prize at my door.” Americans spent a record $341.7 billion...

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that she will write in Jeb Bush’s name when voting for president in November, according to ABC News. "I think I'll write in the name Jeb Bush," she told the Miami Herald editorial board. "A candidate should espouse optimism." Ros-Lehtinen had endorsed the former Florida governor’s primary campaign before he dropped out of the race in February.

Dennis Michael Lynch, who hosts Newsmax TV’s “Unfiltered,” went completely unfiltered and off-script Wednesday, and predicted that, “This will be, odds are, my last night.” After asking if everyone in the media has “lost their integrity,” Lynch answered in the negative. “I can guarantee you that one man cannot be bought, one man cannot be controlled, and this man certainly cannot be filtered,” he said, referring to himself. Lynch, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, told his viewers that he has “been restricted” in “fighting for Trump” and was told by Newsmax executives that he “will no longer have editorial...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) — A man is trying to scale the all-glass face of Trump Tower in New York City using suction cups.</p> <p>A video recorded by a bystander and streamed online Wednesday shows police observing the man from an outdoor terrace.</p>

PLANT CITY, Fla. (WFLA) – A man who had just been released from prison after serving time for a road rage killing was shot and killed during a road rage encounter in Plant City, Fl. on Wednesday morning, authorities said. It happened at 7 a.m. near the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Branch Forbes Road. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, one driver stopped his car in front of the other, got out of his pickup truck and approached the motorist behind him. That’s when an argument escalated between the two. Investigators said the driver...

The grander point was missed then. The most popular athlete in the world wanted to play baseball. If he defied all odds and succeeded, great, then the most popular athlete in the world was playing baseball. And if he failed, he a) brought attention to the game; b) used his very loud megaphone to profess his love for the sport to his millions of fans around the world; and c) accentuated just how tough it is to play major league baseball, because the greatest athlete in the world would have failed at it. But even if it was a publicity...

Jan Crouch, who has died aged 78, co-founded, with her husband Paul, the Trinity Broadcast Network, the world’s largest Christian broadcasting empire. The Crouches founded TBN in 1973. Based on the “Prosperity Gospel” – the promise that if people make sacrifices (and donations) God will reward them with material wealth – it beams Christian-inspired programming to every continent but Antarctica, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - After lawmakers banned abortions 20 weeks or later after conception, West Virginia officials say four abortions in that timeframe last year occurred to save the mother or because the fetus wasn't viable.</p> <p>A Department of Health and Human Resources report Monday details 864 abortions from May 26, 2015, through December 2015.</p>

Dear Ladies and Gentleman,readers of NBCnews and NBCPoll,we would like to firstly apologize for the misplacing poll we have created where we forgot to include the two third party candidates Gary Johnson from the Libertarian party and Jill Stein from the Green Party.

"""WATCH, FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Threatens To Shoot Obama If He Tries To Take His 2nd Amendment Rights Away""" Just video at site

"WATCH, FLASHBACK: Hillary Apologizes For Inciting Supporters To “Assassinate” Obama Like “Robert Kennedy” Was" It’s being claimed by his unhinged haters that Donald Trump today was inciting his supporters to assassinate Hillary Clinton, which is exactly what Hillary was accused of during her 2008 Presidential campaign. Hillary’s comments were called “beyond the pale” by DEMOCRATS. Which sure doesn’t sound like they reflect the judgement and temperment of a person qualified to be President. Excerpted from The New York Times, May 24, 2008: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday by pointing out that her...

A woman is dead after she was accidentally shot by a Florida police officer in a citizen training academy roleplay scenario gone wrong. Mary Knowlton was one of two participants randomly selected from a group of 35 for a shoot-don’t shoot simulation during a two-hour training Tuesday at the Punta Gorda Police Department, Chief Tom Lewis told reporters at a press conference. “During the first scenario, in a horrible accident participant Mary Knowlton was mistakenly struck by a live round,” Lewis said. She was transported to the local hospital where she was pronounced dead. “I am asking that if you...

Olympic Officials Apologize For Using Knock-Off Chinese Flags In Medal Ceremony Patrick Redford Yesterday 11:10pm After Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics over Du Li and Yi Siling of China, Olympic officials raised incorrect Chinese flags to the rafter during the medal ceremony. See those flags up there? Notice any differences between them and the real Chinese flag below? The small stars on the flags that featured in the Olympics are all at the same angle, whereas the stars on the official flag are all tilted so that they point back towards the center of...

Of the 17 candidates who ran for the Republican nomination, perhaps only two can honestly say they ran the races they intended to run. Donald Trump, the victor, is certainly one of them. John Kasich's aides argue that he's the other. Following his unceremonious departure from the presidential primary in May, the Ohio Republican governor is carrying forward with a sense of vindication, embracing his new role as the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" for vulnerable swing-state Republicans. On Thursday, that found Kasich in Chicago, helping to raise money for Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, who is in a tough re-election...

Current polls show the race for President is much tighter than it really is. Ann Coulter warned us years ago in her best seller Slander that Democrats and the liberal media always use polls to manipulate and discourage conservatives from voting. Thanks to social media there is more and more evidence that the polls are way off and if things stay as they are, Trump will win in a landslide! It's evident Hillary has a hard time filling a Union Hall while Trump regularly turns people away from his stadium and arena venues. Now this - Analysis from social media...

"Hillary Congratulates Hijab Wearing American Olympian For Competing, Ignores Female Who Wins Gold In Air Rifle" The first American to wear a hijab at the Olympics made her debut at Rio this week. Liberals everywhere rejoiced at what an incredible moment it was. You better believe Hillary was all over that one. Turns out, Muhammad ended up accusing Americans of being mean to Muslims. Always nice. It’s sad that Hillary chose to ignore the first American gold medalist in Rio.

“So simple. So simple.” Those were the key words that Donald Trump used Monday in his most detailed and important speech of the election so far. The economy, he said, “won’t even be that hard to fix.” That’s when Donald Trump finally became a real politician. Congratulations to him! There are two things that voters like to hear. One is that a person running for the highest public office in the nation has a plan. And, two, that he thinks the plan can not only be enacted but that it can be easily enacted. Trump likes to make things look...

I think Hillary Clinton just had an episode when a protester held up a sign. It looks like she can’t see but something sure shocked her into silence!

After the damage that Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks has done to Hillary Clinton and her campaign, actor James Woods has a burning question he posed to his followers on social media Saturday night.   James Woods Verified account ‏@RealJamesWoods What's the Vegas line on #JulianAssange actually staying alive until the election? Although Assange refuted claims that he was personally going after the former secretary of state and is merely seeking the truth, the effect is all the same, putting the Clinton camp in a constant state of damage control.