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NORFOLK, VA. — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the nation will once again commemorate the first U.S. president on Monday, 292 years after he was born. The meaning of […]
Dua Lipa and Beyoncé enter a battle for the UK’s Number 1 single, both in with a chance of de-throning Noah Kahan’s long-running chart-topper Stick Season. Training Season so far leads the pack, and is in the running to become Dua’s fifth UK Number 1 single. TEXAS HOLD ‘EM, however, is not far behind (2), […]
BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Two police officers and a paramedic were killed in Burnsville Sunday morning, according to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Walz said other officers were also injured. A source told WCCO all three decedents were killed by gunfire. Dakota County dispatch said earlier authorities were responding to an “incident with weapons” in the area. […]
Sabrina Carpenter was “bullied” because of her musical ambitions. During a conversation with actress Maya Hawke for Interview Magazine, the 24-year-old hitmaker opened up about having a hard time at school. “Ironically, I was bullied for singing,” Sabrina told Maya when asked how people reacted to her when she was a child. “I had really […]
WHITEFISH POINT, MICH. — Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and shipwreck researcher Dan Fountain announced Monday the discovery of the 74-meter bulk carrier Arlington in about 200 meters of water some […]
The NBA’s best and brightest are all in Indianapolis for the annual All-Star Weekend. Several players are making their first appearances in the game, but it’s beginning to turn into a tradition for Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum. Tatum is an All-Star for the fifth straight season, leading a Celtics team with the best record […]
Alina Habba, a lawyer for former President Trump, slammed a judge’s recent ruling in the former president’s New York civil fraud trial Friday. “[T]hey will not get away with it,” Habba said on Fox News’ “Hannity”. “We will come at them, we will come hard, and we will literally fight until the truth comes out. There was […]
More than 100 people have been detained across Russia after venturing to lay flowers at floral tributes to opposition leader Alexey Navalny, according to an Associated Press report Saturday. The flower memorials were later removed by workers supervised by police, the news agency said. OVD-Info, a Russian human rights group, said in a statement that […]
Five decades after it was taken, Paul McCartney’s prized guitar has been returned. The Beatles legend was reunited with his long-lost bass guitar after more than half a century apart. In 2018, a quest began to locate the instrument, which was believed to have been stolen around the the band recorded Let It Be in […]
Usher has explained why Justin Bieber turned down his Super Bowl invitation. The 45-year-old star was eager to have his 29-year-old former protege join him on stage for his Super Bowl half time performance last weekend but Usher revealed that Justin – who attended the game as a spectator – declined his request to join […]
