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President Donald Trump on Saturday at a campaign rally for U.S. Senate Republican nominee Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania expressed his disgust for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman's consistent use of a sweatsuit on the campaign trail. Trump said Fetterman dresses "like a teenager getting high in his parents' basement" and called him a Marxist for his views on policing. "This guy is a disaster," Trump said of Fetterman. "He comes in with a sweatsuit on. I've never seen him wear a suit. And dirty, dirty, dirty sweatsuits, really disgusting. You know, I'm a clean freak. I'm a clean freak,...

Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh admitted on CNN Business’ Markets Now that he still hasn’t washed his now decade-old pair of jeans. And he doesn’t plan to, either. He also slammed the old wives’ tale about freezing your jeans to preserve the color and shape. “If it’s the pair I’m thinking of, he will spot treat them or worst case hand wash if needed. But never in the washing machine,” a Levi’s spokesperson said.

Tainted tuna is being blamed for a salmonella outbreak that's sickened more than 100 people in 20 states.

(IsraelNN.com) Israel has offered assistance to hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs affected by a flood of raw sewage that swept through a Bedouin village in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon. Defense Minister Amir Peretz instructed the IDF to prepare for the possibility of evacuating the injured to Israeli hospitals. The village, Umm Nasser, is near Beit Lahiya and less than a kilometer from the Gaza Strip border with Israel. At least 25 houses in the 200-family village were immediately swamped when the local sewage system's cesspool wall collapsed and pipes burst. Between six and nine people are reported dead,...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Brian Bruggeman caused a stink at the Lincoln County Jail earlier this month and will now have to answer for it in court. Another inmate, Jesse Dorris, alleges that Bruggeman's flatulence, passed in close proximity to Dorris, sparked a Dec. 14 fight between the two at the jail. Now Bruggeman, 38, faces a Jan. 11 preliminary hearing on the state's complaint of assault by a confined person. It's a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Bruggeman is accused of injuring Dorris, his cellmate, when he pushed him into cell bars. Dorris, 26, was...

People stopping to smell the roses can now take that sweet floral fragrance home with them or even send it to a faraway grandmother thanks to a new gadget in Japan that records and replicates the world's odours. The new device, developed by scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, analyzes smells through 15 sensors, records the odour's recipe in digital format and then reproduces the scent by mixing 96 chemicals and vapourizing the result. Creator Takamichi Nakamoto says the technology will have applications in food and fragrance industries where companies want to replicate odours. But it could also be...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., says he is running for a fourth term this year, a decision that ends months of speculation on the Mississippi political scene. Lott, 64, told a hometown crowd Tuesday that he wants to continue working on federal issues related to Mississippi's recovery from Hurricane Katrina. The former Senate majority leader also has hinted that he might seek another leadership position in Washington. Lott was first elected to the U.S. House in 1972 and to the Senate in 1988.

House Republicans have infuriated homosexual advocacy groups -- as well as Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) -- by killing a measure that would have expanded "hate crimes" law to include crimes against homosexuals. The measure, which the Senate attached to a defense authorization bill earlier this year, died Thursday in a House-Senate conference committee. Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sponsored the measure. Current federal hate-crime law covers violent crimes motivated by a person's race, religion or national origin. The measure killed Thursday would have expanded existing law to include violent crimes motivated by a person's...

A-G: Gay Couples Who Exchange Vows In N.M. Not Married Clerk Has Issued Marriage Licenses To Gay, Lesbian Couples UPDATED: 5:24 PM MST February 20, 2004 BERNALILLO, N.M. -- Gay and lesbian couples lined up Friday outside a courthouse to tie the knot after a county clerk said she would grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But, a spokeswoman for state Attorney General Patricia Madrid said that the more than a dozen same-sex couples who went through marriage ceremonies in Bernalillo are not married. Two state senators -- Democrat Tim Jennings, of Roswell, and Republican Steve Komadina, of Corrales...

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is ruling out the prospect of returning to America to raise her child - because she deems her homeland too dangerous. The Oscar winning beauty - who is pregnant with her husband Chris Martin 's baby - has been living in London since settling down with the Coldplay star, and she has no intention of bringing up their child in a threatening environment. She says, "I worry about brining up a child in America. At the moment there's a weird, over-patriotic atmosphere over there, like, 'We're number one and the rest of the world doesn't matter.' And...

<p>TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday brought by seven gay couples that sought to make same-sex unions legally recognized in New Jersey.</p> <p>The judge ruled that there is nothing in the state constitution that guarantees same-sex unions as a right and said the appropriate forum to change marriage laws is the Legislature.</p>

Give a deep sigh of relief. The Democrat house organ known as the New York Times has failed in its attempt to buy the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, whose op-ed section (though not its news pages) are one of the few conservative voices in Big Media. The Journal, for some reason using the New Yorker magazine as its source, reported today that Times Chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. approached Dow Jones Co. and was turned down. Sulzberger went to Dow Jones director Roy A. Hammer, who serves as trustee for the Bancroft family, Dow Jones's controlling...