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Harvey Weinstein fighting extradition to Los Angeles; lawyer says he’s almost blind and missing teeth
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In a virtual hearing on Monday, the convicted sex offender, 69, appeared before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case and his lawyer, Norman Effman, cited Weinstein's increasing health issues as one reason why he can'...
New Jersey server receives almost $2G after customer refuses to tip over COVID-19 rules
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Like many restaurants during the pandemic, Glenbrook Brewery – which opened only five weeks ago – has instituted a 90-minute time limit for dine-in customers. However, one customer apparently didn’t like that policy ...
A Virginia school district is returning a woman’s wallet almost 70 years after she lost it in her high school gym
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A Virginia school district was able to track down a former student to let her know that they had found her lost wallet, almost 70 years after it went missing. A contractor found the wallet in some ductwork in the ru...
Millennials have almost no chance of being able to afford a house. This is what can be done
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Annika Olson is the assistant director of policy research at the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at The University of Texas at Austin and a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project. The views expres...
Mama June Shannon says she almost spent a million dollars on her addiction
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Mama June Shannon has gotten clean and is coming clean about her addiction. The reality star is back with a new show, "Mama June: Road to Redemption," which centers around her family and the sobriety of her and her ...
Beijing chokes on yellow dust during biggest sandstorm in almost a decade
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The Chinese capital was choking on sand and dust on Monday, as the biggest sandstorm in nearly a decade swept over the city turning the skies an eerie shade of orange. Photos from Beijing, home to 21.7 million resid...
Rare Kobe Bryant rookie card sells for almost $1.8 million
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A rare Kobe Bryant rookie card sold for more than $ 1.795 million on Saturday, "an all-time record" for any Bryant card, according to the Goldin Auctions, an online auction house. The Topps trading card is a chrome...
Colorado man sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic synagogue
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A Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Richard Holzer -- who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and ...
The Black Lives Matter foundation raised $90 million in 2020, and gave almost a quarter of it to local chapters and organizations
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A year of change in the name of racial justice is hard to quantify. But in the 2020 Impact Report released this week by the Black Lives Matter Movement, historic numbers speak volumes. The Black Lives Matter Global...
AOC rejects Cruz support over Wall Street chaos: ‘You almost had me murdered’
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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of "trying to get me killed" during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and called for his resignation from the Senate, ...
Almost two-thirds of people believe climate change is a global emergency, UN poll finds
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Nearly two-thirds of respondents believe that climate change is a "global emergency," according to a survey of 1.2 million people in dozens of countries around the globe -- and many want urgent action to tackle the ...
This kindergartner spent almost 2 weeks making 200 New Year’s cards for seniors. Then she broke her piggy bank to buy them a gift
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They say creativity takes courage. And sometimes courage means finding the self-discipline to sit down and handcraft hundreds of cards by yourself, even if you're only 5 years old. That was the task burgeoning arti...
Crystal Hefner says she almost died during cosmetic surgery
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Crystal Hefner says she "almost didn't make it through" a cosmetic procedure and is using the experience to talk about unrealistic beauty standards. Hugh Hefner's widow posted a photo Wednesday on her verified Inst...
The Mega Millions jackpot is almost half a billion dollars, the 8th largest in history
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The Mega Millions jackpot is close to reaching half a billion dollars in what could be the eighth largest prize in the game's history. The next chance for a lucky winner is Friday, after no ticket matched the all si...
Japan’s top court gives retrial hope for man who spent almost 50 years on death row
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Tokyo Japan's Supreme Court has overturned a ruling blocking the retrial of an 84-year-old man who spent almost half a century on death row awaiting the hangman's call over the murder of a family of four, his lawyer ...
Men face ‘almost three times the odds’ of ICU admission for Covid-19, study says
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In the early weeks and months of the coronavirus pandemic, medics and health professionals working in hospitals around the world noticed that Covid-19 was hitting men harder than women. Now, a global analysis of ove...