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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and a veteran journalist got into a Twitter spat on Sunday evening after the GOP representative praised the new film “Top Gun: Maverick.” “The new @TopGunMovie was awesome,” Kinzinger wrote. In response, Yashar Ali, who contributes to New York Magazine and the Huffington Post, quote tweeted Kinzinger and criticized him for complimenting the movie. “Not kidding when I say this tweet will be shown to Scientologists as an example of Tom Cruise’s excellence and how he is the most dedicated Scientologist,” he wrote, referring to Cruise’s membership in the Church of Scientology.

The jokes about laying a supply of popcorn are everywhere on the right, as the most powerful elected Democrat and the most-publicized purported symbol of the party’s future tear into each other. It’s been brewing a long time, starting with an Ocasio-Cortez-led sit-in outside Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol office a week after the bartender from the Bronx was elected to Congress, two months before she assumed office. Elle Magazine recaps the development of the squabble ever since that bad start. Along with fellow female freshmen Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Presley, and Ilhan Omar – a group that Pelosi has dubbed “the...

SALINE, MI - A 47-year-old Adrian woman lost her job after police determined she put laxatives in a departing co-worker's going-away brownies. Police were called on May 3 to MMI Engineered Solutions, 1715 Woodland Drive in Saline, after the company received a tip from an employee that the woman planned to put laxatives in brownies she was bringing to a send-off for another worker, said Saline Police Chief Jerrod Hart. The company intervened, confiscated the suspect brownies and called police before the brownies could be eaten, Hart said. When interviewed by police, the 47-year-old initially denied putting laxatives in the...

Blame the ex-Police man. A song by the band’s former frontman Sting sparked a wild brawl between a Florida couple that culminated with a man chomping down on his boyfriend’s lip. Byron Haynes and his live-in beau, Yakeme Moore, were bickering inside their home in the seaside city of Bradenton Sunday, when Haynes, for some reason, flipped out when he heard the singer’s 1985 tune, “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free,” according to documents posted by The Smoking Gun.

A routine meeting of liberal Democrats grew heated on Wednesday when Rep. Alan Grayson(D-Fla.) went after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) over ethics charges dogging Grayson as he vies for the Senate. Reid was a guest at the weekly gathering of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) when Grayson confronted him over Reid's previous calls for the Florida Democrat to resign from Congress over the ethics complaint, which accuses Grayson of running a hedge fund through his congressional office. "Shame on you. It’s not true," Grayson said, according to sources in the room. "It is true and I want you...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in his office privately on Tuesday for some 20 minutes with US ambassador Dan Shapiro, a day after Shapiro irked the premier by saying that at times it seemed Israel employed a double legal standard in the West Bank. The meeting took place prior to a meeting Netanyahu had with a delegation of four US Congressmen, whom Shapiro accompanied to the Prime Minister's office. Diplomatic officials stressed this point to indicate that Shapiro was not summoned to Netanyahu's office. The delegation included Republican congressman Doug Lamborn from Colorado, Paul Cook from California, Dennis Ross from...

A University of South Carolina student is facing felony charges and possible jail time after allegedly being caught on camera spitting and pouring chemicals into her two roommates’ food in early February, police said. Police say Hayley King, 22, can be seen in the video taken by her roommates Feb. 4 spitting into multiple containers of food and pouring Windex into the food in the apartment they shared off campus, according to a Columbia Police Department incident report. King’s two roommates informed authorities they had set up secret cameras in their shared apartment because they were afraid of what King...

A Gary, Ind., woman was arrested over the weekend after she allegedly shocked her ex-boyfriend four times with a stun gun after he told her he was with another woman, authorities said Police say Chanelle Luckett showed up at her ex-boyfriend’s far South Side home at 4:40 a.m. after he didn’t answer any of her 30 phone calls.

A war of words between India and Russia is threatening to delay the development of the air version of the BrahMos cruise missile, a joint effort of the two countries. Friction between the two countries mainly stems from the redesigning of the Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft to make it capable of launching a 300-kg BrahMos supersonic missile from the air. While the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) wants its Russian partner, NPO Mashinostroeyenia, to foot the bill, the latter feels that India should be financing the Sukhoi redesigning.

Regarding the Cleaver spitting claim... I watched the video from flopping aces closely... before walking up the steps, Leave it to Cleaver had espied the man in the black shirt shouting with his hands cupped around his mouth, the wheels instantly churned in his victim class mind to confront the man. As he inched closer he nonchalantly turned his head away from the man and when he knew, from the sound of the man’s shouts, that he was nearest the man, he pulled a slip artist stunt, jerked around facing the man and charging him with the offense. But his...

LONDON (AFP) - Straight-talking former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton accused a top BBC presenter of being leftwing and "a superior Brit" in a colourful on-air spat Thursday. The controversial ex-diplomat, who left the UN post in January, made the comments after fiercely defending the United States' role in Iraq and saying that force should be used against Iran if necessary. BBC presenter John Humphrys, the main anchor on the broadcaster's flagship Today radio programme, raised Bolton's hackles by asking if the US administration was not a "busted flush" after Iraq. "You're absolutely wrong ... The people...

Al Franken threw a little tizzy fit at CPAC. The onlookers didn't seem to phase Franken, who knew there were no TV cameras around, but he apparently didn't realize a photojournalist, Carrie Devorah, had her trusty Nikon in hand (see pictures below). On the other hand, perhaps Franken wouldn't have cared either way. Here's the story: Franken made a gutsy cameo appearance at last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. Talk-show host Michael Medved scheduled Franken for a 3 p.m. interview on Medved's radio show, which was broadcasting from CPAC's "radio row." Separately, Unfit for Command co-author John O'Neill...

Title: "Snot Flies in Taiwan-Singapore Row"Singapore is alarmed by the rise of independence forces in Taiwan Taiwan's foreign minister has sparked a diplomatic row by calling Singapore "the size of a piece of snot". Chen Tan-sun was angry over comments made by Singapore's foreign minister, George Yeo, who recently said Taiwan should not press for independence. Mr Chen said: "Even Singapore, a country the size of a piece of snot, can swagger around to criticise Taiwan at the United Nations". He said Mr Yeo only made the comments to please Taiwan's rival, China. "It was nothing but an effort to...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Democrats backed a controversy free party platform on Tuesday as the wife of White House hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites) and the son of a Republican legend prepared to share the spotlight on the second night of their national convention. Looking to showcase Kerry's personal side, Teresa Heinz Kerry said she would share personal glimpses of her husband while a parade of speakers spell out the policy differences between Kerry and Republican President Bush (news - web sites). Ron Reagan, son of the former Republican president, will push to lift restrictions on stem cell research...

<p>Baghdad, Iraq, Jun. 30 (UPI) -- A report released Wednesday said the United States ordered British troops to attack Iranian forces that ventured into Iraq last July.</p> <p>The incident began when Revolutionary Guards pushed about a half mile into Iraq to the north and east of Basra in an apparent attempt to reoccupy territory they claimed belonged to Iran, The Telegraph reported.</p>

Space spat forces crew change Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow Friday February 6, 2004 The Guardian (UK) In space no one can hear you scream - at your fellow astronaut. Russian officials have dropped two of the astronauts intended to become the international space station's next crew because they were deemed "psychologically incompatible". Russian Valery Tokarev and American Leroy Chiao - known as the Expedition 9 crew - were due to take off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 19. But yesterday a space agency spokesman said the crew would be changed because the two men appear to have...

Texas Tech coach Bob Knight has been suspended for five days, a result of his verbal confrontation with university chancellor David Smith on Monday at a grocery store in Lubbock, ESPN's Dick Vitale reports. Pat Knight will replace his father as coach of the Red Raiders for their home game Tuesday night against Baylor, ESPN.com's Andy Katz reports. Pat Knight, aware of the five-day action, also assumes he will coach the team Saturday when the Red Raiders visit Kansas in Lawrence. However, neither Pat Knight or the rest of the Texas Tech coaching staff had been told definitely that Bob...

<p>TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — Too little food at a dinner party can leave a bad taste in the mouths of your guests.</p> <p>So, apparently, can too much salad.</p> <p>A couple abruptly ended a Memorial Day bash they were throwing for a few guests after Sandra Garner complained her husband, Darryl, made too much salad.</p>