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The shocking kiss that’s gone viral
A mural showing the two men in a tight clinch has gone viral this week. Kelly Grovier looks at what it says about their relationship. He’s just not that into you. That would appear to be the upshot of a kiss shared by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as imagined by a street artist in Lithuania last week. Photos of the...
Search for teen seen bleeding, dragged by suspect focuses on Northern California coast
The frantic search for a teenage girl who was last seen being dragged, bleeding and screaming, by an armed acquaintance has shifted to a remote area in Northern California about 65 miles from where she was abducted. The Solano County Sheriff's Office said Friday that new information was prompting investigators to focus...
Demi Moore scared with her skinny body
The star looks very thin and haggard. Demi is going through hard times. The actress is very afraid of loneliness and still did not forget her ex-husband Ashton Kutcher, with whom she divorced a few years ago. Demi Moore appeared at a gala dinner in honor of the centennial of Vogue magazine. The star...
Kim Jong Un’s aunt secretly lives in the U.S.
Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator, has an aunt that has secretly been living in the United States for almost 20 years. Revealing herself to the Washington Post, Ko Yong Suk (the name she went by when she was part of North Korea’s royal family), said she and her husband have been incredibly lucky since they...
Johnny Depp beat his wife’s face with iPhone (photo)
Actor Johnny Depp in court banned closer than 100 yards to approach his wife Amber Heard. Earlier this week it became known that the young wife of the famous Hollywood actor filed for divorce. In court, Hurd said that Depp repeatedly beat her, in connection with which the actress and demanded to forbid him to approach her. Hurd...
North Carolina police department pulls out of Republican National Convention
A North Carolina police department backed out of sending 50 police officers to the Republican presidential convention in Cleveland in June over concerns about whether the city is prepared to host an event that is expected to bring at least 50,000 visitors to northeast Ohio. Greensboro police made the decision earlier this week...
A war hero who was a stranger in his own land
Jesse Leroy Brown was hurtling over the North Korean countryside in his Corsair fighter 17 miles behind enemy lines when he discovered that he was in trouble. "Jesse, something's wrong," one of the men in his squadron radioed him. "You're bleeding fuel." It was the beginning of the Korean War, but...
35 protesters arrested outside Trump rally in San Diego
San Diego police arrested 35 protesters Friday outside a Donald Trump rally after a peaceful demonstration devolved into chaos, according to police. Three hours into the calm protests, which drew up to 1,000 people, a number of demonstrators tried to breach an off-limits area, resulting in arrests, the police department said on...
The Soviet Atomic Spy Who Asked for a U.S. Pension
George Koval infiltrated the Manhattan Project and helped Stalin build the bomb. Then he asked Uncle Sam for his Social Security check. This is how the most dramatic scene of The First Circle, the most famous novel of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, begins: “One of the wooden booths outside the station was empty but seemed to...
Bathroom Lawsuit Could Send Transgender Rights To Supreme Court
A lawsuit brought by Texas and other states against the Obama administration’s policy on bathroom access may move the United States closer to a resolution on transgender rights by putting the issue on a trajectory for the Supreme Court. Conservative officials from 11 states sued the federal government on Wednesday to...
Mexico Drug Boss Chapo Files Legal Challenge Against Extradition: Media
Lawyers for Mexican drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have filed a legal challenge against a decision by the foreign ministry to approve his extradition to the United States, a newspaper reported on Friday. A judge granted him “provisional suspension”, meaning that the foreign ministry has 48 hours to...
25 photos of stars of which they are ashamed
Surely almost everyone is sometimes digging in the memory, and comes to the conclusion that was once captured in an unfavorable light. Most of these images are listed for the celebrities — they almost every day are in the sights of the paparazzi, hungry compromising frame. Sometimes the stars and on their...