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President Joe Biden flashed annoyance at his Secret Service detail as they redirected him at the White House after an event on Monday. The president and First Lady Jill Biden participated in a tree planting ceremony for White House groundskeeper Dale Haney to mark his 50 years of service. After the event Biden began walking away in one direction before a Secret Service agent pointed him toward the opposite direction. “Which way we going?” Biden asked. “This way,” the agent replied. “How about going the other way?” Biden responded. “This way sir,” another agent added. How about if I want...

See link. I am wandering, who is going to do this? That person should get Pulitzer Prize for bravery.

An Italian couple and their 11-year-old son died in a freak accident on Tuesday when they fell into a 10ft-deep hole that suddenly opened up in a highly active volcanic area near Naples. Police said the child strayed beyond safety barriers and was swallowed up by the pit, plunging into boiling hot mud at the Solfatara Crater in Pozzuoli, part of a huge volcanic area known as the Campi Flegrei or Phlegrean Fields. His father, 45, reportedly rushed to his rescue but also fell into the sink-hole. The boy’s mother, 42, then went to their aid, but she too was...

A family have been left terrified after fearing one the world's deadliest spiders has taken residence in their home after entering Britain in a bunch of bananas. Michaela Egan, 24, from Rainham, Essex, noticed a suspicious white spider cocoon on a bunch she bought had from her local Tesco four days earlier and took a picture of it. She posted the image on her Facebook page and friends suggested it could be a Brazilian wandering spider, whose venom gives male victims a painful four-hour erection before killing them. The mother-of-two immediately put it in a sealed bag and returned it...

Politicians of the Texas State House took the time this week to pass HB 1476 which will put an end to "sexually suggestive" performances by middle and high school students. The bill, all 219 words of it, didn't bother to define what a sexually suggestive performance may be. Here are the main portions of the bill: Sec. 33.088. SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE PERFORMANCES PROHIBITED. (a) A school dance team, drill team, cheerleading team, or similar performance group may not perform in a sexually suggestive manner at an athletic or other extracurricular event or competition sponsored or approved by a school district or...

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

Tracing your tribe's wanderings through DNA January 06 2003 at 06:20AM Palo Alto, California - Scientists say they can tell where a person comes from just by looking at the genes. Researchers found that tiny differences in DNA can provide enough information to identify the geographic ancestry of individual people. This could be used to shed light on the course of ancient human migrations across the globe. Scientists already know that every individual human being has DNA 99,9 per cent identical to everyone else despite differences in skin colour, body or skull shape. But the study by United States scientists...