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Happy Traum, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s who recorded with Bob Dylan, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 86. His wife, Jane Traum, said he died of pancreatic cancer in a physical rehabilitation facility after undergoing surgery. He lived in Woodstock, N.Y. Traum and his brother, Artie,…
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Joe Biden suspects two longtime allies as being behind a campaign to oust him, insiders have revealed. The president is currently recuperating from Covid-19 at his Delaware beach house in Rehoboth, but is said to be stewing over the betrayal. Several elected Democrats have publicly called on him to step down following his disastrous performance…
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The story was reported in the New York Times on September 9, 1983. Recall that the Iron Curtain didn’t fall until 1989, so the country was still living under a harsh, repressive Communist regime. The story goes that a professional cyclist, Robert Hutyra, constructed a hot air balloon out of old raincoats, loaded his wife…
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A Missouri woman who spent 43 years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit has finally been released. Sandra Hemme, 64, pleaded guilty to a 1980 murder after cops wrongfully accused her days after she was released from a psychiatric hospital where she had spent most of her life since she was 12. There…
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Heal the Bay‘s annual Beach Report Card, which assigns A through F grades based on bacterial pollution levels, has named the landmark Santa Monica Pier beach and Mother’s Beach in its top ten of most polluted beach waters. Santa Monica Pier is plagued by roosting bird droppings and urban runoff, coming in ranked third on…
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An industry that runs on exploitation, coercive behaviour and false promises of runway dreams to young impressionable girls – Japan‘s disturbing porn industry has long been a legal grey-zone. In a country where walking the streets can result in being targeted by ‘modelling agency’ actors before victims are lured to discrete offices to sign their…
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Sue Bird, a 20-year WNBA star, said that the alleged hate toward Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark is just trash talk that’s misinterpreted. Clark takes the floor today at the WNBA All-Star game that pits the league stars against Team USA, the women’s basketball team for the upcoming Paris Olympics. “I think the majority of…
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It was once a gem of the English south-west – easily accessible by rail and renowned for its dramatic coastlines as well as its legendary pasties. But amid overcrowding rows and a backlash against second home-owners, Cornwall appears to have fallen out of favour with British holidaymakers seeking a staycation – with no Cornish towns…
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Before you start to worry too much about Crowe’s “Gladiator II” doubts, keep in mind that he also had plenty of reservations on the set of the first movie. “I did think a couple of times, ‘Maybe my best bet option is just to get on a plane and get out of here,’” the actor…
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Police bodycam and interview footage have revealed how a teenage baby killer smirked as he was questioned by police and called cops ‘boring’ in video that helped convict him. Carl Alesbrook, who is now 19, will be given a mandatory life sentence for shaking four-month-old baby Elijah Shemwell to death in January 2022. When he was…