When it comes to Hollywood actors in 2023, there is a certain level of career self-preservation (read: silence) that appears to take place when it comes to anything remotely controversial. For every actor like Neal McDonough, whose deep Catholic beliefs prevent him from even filming a kissing scene, you'll have...

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An electric vehicle fire on Saturday on Highway 50 near Sacramento, California, showed the difficulties of battling electric vehicle fires. The battery compartment of the Tesla S caught fire, according to KTVU-TV. According to KRON-TV, the fire broke out at about 3:41 p.m. At 4:19 p.m., the California Highway Patrol...

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A three-alarm fire at a Bozrah, Connecticut-based egg farm required more than 100 firefighters from at least 16 nearby firehouses to extinguish. According to WTIC-TV, authorities said the fire, which plagued a 50' x 600' chicken coop at Hillandale Farms on Schwartz Road, took 4.5 hours to extinguish and resulted...

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The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics on Saturday night in overtime, but the real story to emerge from that classic rivalry game involves the referees -- and the childlike histrionics of a certain NBA superstar. The Celtics were able to hold on for a 125-121 overtime victory...

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More than 40 people were killed Sunday when a bus plunged off of a bridge in Pakistan and then caught fire. The bus had 44 passengers aboard as it went from Quetta in Balochistan province toward Karachi before crashing in a remote location, according to the Associated Press. “Forty-one burned...

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Rap superstar and ostensible 2024 presidential candidate Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been named as a suspect in a battery investigation after an apparent altercation. West was recorded hurling a woman's phone after the latter refused to stop filming him. You can check out the incident yourself and determine...

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A woman faced with the death of her daughter from a savage attack five years ago wants to make sure her daughter's killer faces the greatest possible punishment for his crimes. The Nigerian drug dealer convicted by an Italian court of killing the 18-year-old in 2018 is aiming for a...

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A new report said the advisers to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are laying the foundation for a potential 2024 presidential run. DeSantis, who in November was elected to a second term as Florida’s governor, has not yet said he is running for the White House. To date, former President...

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Although not at the same scale as the tide of illegal immigrants that has swamped America’s Southern Border, the number of illegal immigrants entering along the border with Canada is skyrocketing. During the first three months of the federal fiscal year that began Oct. 1, Border Patrol agents in New...

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A man living in Bournemouth, U.K., was moving into a new house and reportedly ordered a new couch from Designer Sofas 4U, complete with a "white glove" delivery, according to reports. However, instead of the delivery running as customer Luke Ansell had hoped (and paid for) when the couch arrived...

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Sometimes children break things when they don't get their way, and life goes on. When adults break stuff, many times, the police get involved. According to Sebastian Daily, a 22-year-old Palm Bay, Florida-based Wendy's restaurant worker was reportedly so distraught that he couldn't clock out of work earlier than his...

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Actor Ben Savage, best known for playing the lead role of Cory Matthews in the beloved 90's sitcom "Boy Meets World," has his sights set on a Congressional seat -- one that is currently occupied by Adam Schiff. According to FEC filings made on Jan. 18, the 42-year-old actor made...

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A McDonald's location that became infamous for a viral video of a brawl oddly involving a raccoon is finally closing its doors, the company says. The franchise owner of the McDonald’s on Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has confirmed that the location will be shuttered based on "a business...

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I thought I had a bad Sunday. I couldn't sleep the night before. My daughter, going through a case of the terrible twos, had several Alec Baldwin-level tantrums at the mall. And then the Philadelphia Eagles made the Super Bowl, a development that should delight absolutely no grown, sober, considered...

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A senior Drug Enforcement Administration official was forced to retire from the agency amid a federal investigation into his closeness to defense lawyers that represented alleged drug traffickers. Nicholas Palmeri served as the DEA's top official in North and Central America before a transfer abruptly ended his 14-month tenure in...

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When Missouri Republican state Rep. Ann Kelley decided that dress code on the state House floor should be updated, so that both women and men had to cover their arms, the party which tends to pretend there's no difference between the genders suddenly hid behind traditional gender roles. In a...

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An Arkansas community is reeling after five of its own died in a highway collision out of state after they spent a week attending Bible classes. According to KATV-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, Salomon Correa, Magdalene Franco, Ava Luplow, Andrea Prime and Suzy Prime were on a church-sponsored trip at...

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The Rolling Stones famously sang, "You Can't Always Get What You Want," and that's an adage most people have accepted and come to live by. Just don't tell that to the NFL, which, at least for this year, got exactly the Super Bowl match league officials were likely clamoring for:...

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A clumsy, 59-year-old man masquerading as an "ice princess" was savaged on Twitter for making a mockery of women's figure skating at a sporting event in Finland. Markku-Pekka Antikainen, a transgender farmer who took up figure skating at age 50, now performs under the name "Minna-Maaria Antikainen," according to the...

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Actress Annie Wersching, whose roles included major parts in the TV series “24” and “Star Trek: Picard,” has died at 45. Wersching died of cancer, her publicist, Craig Schneider, said Sunday,  according to The New York Times. Wersching was diagnosed with cancer in 2020 but continued to work, according to...

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One Pennsylvania official used a combination of surveillance technology and the Second Amendment to prevent a suspicious man from breaking into a charity he operates. Early Saturday, an alert from the doorbell camera of the charity All You Can Inc. showed Ralph Rodriguez that there was a man in a...

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