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Megan Rapinoe created more controversy during the Tokyo Olympics, and some Subway franchisees are reportedly urging the fast-food company to let her go. The New York Post reported Friday: The 36-year-old, purple-haired soccer star — who kneeled during the National Anthem to kick off the Tokyo Olympics before leading the United States to a bronze medal this week — began a stint as a pitchwoman for the fast-food giant this spring. In one spot, Rapinoe — who has been a vocal proponent of equal rights and equal pay for women — knocks a burrito out of a guy’s hands by...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is having a heck of a time trying to get re-elected, in part, he says, because people don't want to know that he prevented a worldwide depression.

Posted: Wednesday, 12 November 2008 8:54AM Gold Club With Dual Purpose: Iron And Urinal Stan Pillman Reporting   Have you ever needed to use the bathroom during the middle of your golf game? Maybe, hit a ball into the woods just so you could sneak off and get some relief. Those days are over. An urologist practicing in Florida has invented a solution for your troublesome bladder. It’s a golf club that duals as a urinal. This urologist kept getting complaints about men needing to use the bathroom while on the golf course. So he invented the UroClub. The...

Flight Crew Wouldn't Let Passengers Use Restroom POSTED: 8:34 am EDT March 18, 2007 SALT LAKE CITY -- SkyWest Airlines apologized to a passenger who said he wasn't allowed to use the restroom during a one-hour flight and ended up urinating in an air-sickness bag. James Whipple said he had two "really big beers" at the Boise, Idaho airport. While on a flight to Salt Lake City on March 7, he drank a soft drink. He then wanted to use the cabin restroom. The captain had declared it off-limits during the short flight because a light wasn't working. Whipple said...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes...

When you gotta go, you gotta go - unless you're in town for the Democratic National Convention. Party-hearty Democrats may have to hold it or commune with the great outdoors of downtown Boston, a fact that has city officials suddenly panicked. Pols are terrified over the 11th-hour realization that Boston's handful of public toilets shut down at 5 p.m. sharp - long before the 35,000 convention-goers stagger into the streets after last call in local bars. The specter is all the scarier because the images, and odors, are fresh from this year's public Super Bowl party, when portable johns were...