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An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but can an orange a day keep the constipation at bay? A woman on Instagram claimed in a viral video that eating an entire orange — peel included — can cure constipation in just minutes. The video, originally posted in Dec. 2022, has just recently gone viral after she reposted it in Dec. 2023, garnering a collective 23.6 million views. Instagrammer @lilsipper shared her step-by-step “cure” for constipation, which involves washing the outside of the orange, slicing it into wedges, coating each slice with cinnamon and cayenne pepper “generously” and eating the...

When they tell you who they are, you better listen. This isn’t about Palestine. It’s about Jews. It’s not about a cease-fire. It’s about destroying Israel. The Syracuse chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the Syracuse Collective for Palestinian Liberation, the Resilient Indigenous Action Collective, and the Syracuse chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation organized the “Shut It Down for Palestine protest in downtown Syracuse, NY. The anti-Israel students targeted comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s show. Seinfeld is Jewish. He signed an open letter expressing support for Israel. From The Daily Orange: Attendees called for an end to U.S....

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The California Department of Housing and Community Development released new income limits this month, and they increased in most counties. These limits are calculated annually based on federal guidelines and are used to determine eligibility for things like affordable housing programs. In Orange County, one-person households making less than $80,000 a year are considered low-income, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development. That's up from just under $76,000 last year, and puts Orange County as the most expensive of the Southern California counties. In Ventura County, it's a little over $74,000 and in...

New York could be plagued with a second wave of thick orange smoke Thursday, as hundreds of out-of-control wildfires ravage parts of Canada. Last week’s “unhealthy” air quality may make a return, according to Fox 5 Evening Meteorologist Mike Thomas, who shared a graphic of the smoke forecast through Friday on Twitter. “Smoky skies returning once again. Still not expected to be as bad as last week, but could get close to code orange later on Thursday into Friday,” Thomas wrote. “Storms on Friday could be a little extra ‘charged’ as well, as the extra particles in the atmosphere often...

As Ron DeSantis prepares to enter the 2024 Republican primary, Nikki Haley released a campaign video that ridicules the Florida governor as a copycat of Donald Trump.Haley’s campaign went after DeSantis on Tuesday after the news broke that he’ll announce his bid for the White House in an upcoming Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk. The Haley team did so by releasing a three-page memo slamming DeSantis over his “petty political fights,” his “lack of basic people skills,” and declaring that he’s “like Trump, drama and all – but without any of the charm.”Haley has made a point of slamming...

Newark – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, announced that convicted serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, now 25, of Orange was sentenced today to 160 years for killing three young woman and attempting to kill a fourth between August 2016 and November 2016. Wheeler-Weaver used dating apps to lure his victims. In December 2019, an Essex County jury convicted Wheeler-Weaver on three counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Sarah Butler, 20, Robin West, 19, and Joanne Brown, 33. He was also found guilty of the kidnapping, sexual assault, and attempted murder of a fourth woman, Tiffany...

September 9, 2020 was a strange day, and Google Street View has the receipts. The 2020 wildfire season was a catastrophic, record-setting inferno in California. Over 9,000 fires ravaged 4,397,809 acres of the Golden State that year — around 4% of its 100 million acres. Mid-pandemic, the swirling smoke and deteriorating air quality gave Californians two reasons to wear a mask outside that summer. By September 9, the smoke from the Bear Fire in Butte County and the August Fire in the northern counties converged on the Bay Area. A marine layer of ocean fog held the smoke in place,...

Droplets of orange juice can break lateral flow tests and show a positive result .. Viral videos on TikTok have encouraged children across the UK to try the trend.. Schools have warned parents to be 'vigilant' when their children are tested .. Pupils have been using fruit juice to get false positive Covid-19 test results as schools warn parents to be 'vigilant'. When droplets of orange juice or fizzy drinks like coca-cola are placed on a lateral flow test it can produce a positive result because the acidity of the drink destroys the antibody proteins in the test. And although...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida leaders are on high alert as more positive cases of COVID-19 are popping up across Central Florida. Orange County leaders said recently that everyone should wear masks indoors now due to the recent spike in positive cases. A recent report from the health department said that Orange County is in roughly the 14% range when it comes to the COVID-19 positivity rate. "These numbers are extraordinary, we are seeing nearly 1000 new cases in Orange County daily. Those are the numbers we saw at the highest peak last year," Demings said. In Seminole County, officials...

An impoverished fisherman who found a rare orange Melo pearl worth £250,000 in Thailand has been arrested after celebrating his new fortune by allegedly throwing a meth party for his pals. Hatchai Niyomdecha, 37, invited friends over to his home in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, on Friday after being offered 10 million Baht (£250,000) for the rare pearl. Police reportedly found thousands of oral methamphetamine tablets at the man's house after being contacted by his neighbours who complained about the loud music and claimed they could smell drugs. The Thai fisherman made headlines around the world last week after he...

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Hunter S. Thompson's body was found in a chair in the kitchen in front of his typewriter with the word "counselor" typed in the center of the page, according to sheriff's reports. The word was typed on stationery from the Fourth Amendment Foundation, which was started to defend victims of unwarranted search and seizure, according to reports released Tuesday. It was not immediately known what, if any, significance the word had to the founder of "gonzo" journalism or to his family. Juan Thompson found his father dead Feb. 20 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the...

Orange County announced Sunday that it will conduct a risk-limiting audit of ballots aimed at strengthening the integrity of the 2020 presidential election process by providing "strong statistical evidence that the election outcome is correct." The risk-limiting audit will take place on Nov. 13 at the Registrar of Voters building located at 1300 South Grand Avenue, Building C in Santa Ana, and will be conducted in addition to the one percent tally of precincts, according to Registrar officials. "Conducting a risk-limiting audit is an excellent way to audit elections and provide an important check on the integrity of the election...

Orange County Convention and Expo CenterOrange, TexasAugust 29, 20203:59 P.M. CDTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, everybody. I very much appreciate you being here. Thank you. And we — we love this state. It’s been a great state for me, and it’s been a great state for everybody in this room, I can tell you, Governor, right? And we’re here to help.We’re joined today by Governor Greg Abbott, a very special man. And he’s doing a fantastic job for the state of Texas, and he has from day one.And Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, another friend of mine. And thank...

As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and dirt traps. They gave people a “pig-like snout.” Some people snipped holes in their masks to smoke cigars. Others fastened them to dogs in mockery. Bandits used them to rob banks. More than a century ago, as the 1918 influenza pandemic raged in the United States, masks of gauze and cheesecloth became the facial front lines in the battle against the virus. ...the masks stoked political division...medical authorities urged the...

NEW ORLEANS - A Virginia man wolfed down 40 dozen oysters in eight minutes Sunday to win the World Oyster Eating Championship at the New Orleans Oyster Festival, the Times-Picayune reported. Darron Breeden of Orange, Virginia, topped a field of seven contestants who participated in the annual contest, which is held in a park between the French Quarter and the Mississippi River.

Very funny video....Hillary going to jail ala Orange is the New Black. Orange is the New Democrat

A Q13 editor was fired Thursday, after it was revealed that they had doctored a clip of President Trump’s Tuesday Oval Office address. A listener to my program sent me a video that appears to show a deceptively edited video of President Trump’s speech from the Oval Office. We performed a side-by-side comparison of the video from our listener, apparently taken by a smart phone recording of Q13, to the raw video of Trump’s speech from CNN. That comparison revealed the Q13 video creating a loop of the President licking his lips — making it seem bizarre and unbalanced —...

Editorial standards? WHAT editorial standards? If you throw an icky orange color on a completely Manufactured Monster, Fox affiliate Q13 Television in Seattle, will see that it sticks. An orange face was originally created for Donald Trump by smart aleck showman Glenn Beck on April 29, 2016. Almost three years later, Q13 recycled it to ridicule President Trump on the night of his Humanitarian and Security Crisis at the Southern Border address to the nation. No Cheetos necessary this time out when a distorted face of the president, complete with a large, exaggerated lolling tongue would do.

Orange County, a traditionally conservative enclave in Southern California turned all blue after Democrats found tens of thousands of votes post election day. Just two years ago in 2016, only 2 Congressional districts in Orange County voted blue–now just two years later every single district voted blue.