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[Video] Jill Biden booed at Eagles game

First lady Jill Biden attended the game as part of cancer awareness night. She also chatted with 76ers center Joel Embiid and was at midfield for the coin toss. During the coin toss, the first lady appears to have faced booing from the crowd, according to viral videos. Urgent: Common… Read More

Coyotes surround New England dog walker

Coyotes surrounded a person walking their dog north of Boston over the weekend but were apparently scared off by police cruisers that arrived to help, authorities said. Medical marijuana – hype or hope? [Sponsored] Police in Swampscott received a call around 9:30 p.m. Saturday from the dog walker, who said… Read More

California baker creates life-sized Han Solo out of bread

Han Solo may be a hunk. But “Pan Solo” is a hunk of bread. That’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the “Star Wars” character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in “The Empire Strikes Back.”… Read More

Kevin Spacey wins partial dismissal of sexual misconduct claims

A judge dismissed Monday one of the legal claims Kevin Spacey faces from actor Anthony Rapp, who says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in his apartment in the 1980s when he was 14 years old. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan threw out the claim of intentional infliction… Read More

Shaun White pivots to a new line of work

In a lot of ways, this autumn is like so many others for Shaun White. The now-retired, three-time Olympic halfpipe champion was on a glacier in Switzerland earlier this month, taking turns down the halfpipe, trying to figure out what works, what has potential and what needs a complete overhaul…. Read More

Poll shocker! Democrats just lost this key constituency

Americans will head to the polls in three weeks, and pollsters are scrambling to document the final stretch of the campaign. Between Oct. 9 and Oct. 12, The New York Times used live phonecalls to poll 792 likely voters nationwide… and they found some bad news for Democrats, who were… Read More

Alaska cancels crabbing season after unusually small harvest

Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and for the first time, have also scrapped the winter harvest of smaller snow crab. The move is a double whammy to a fleet from Alaska, Washington and Oregon chasing Bering Sea crab in harvests that in 2016… Read More

Musk plans ‘super app’ for Twitter, causes confusion

Elon Musk has a penchant for the letter “X.” He calls his son with the singer Grimes, whose actual name is a collection of letters and symbols, “X.” He named the company he created to buy Twitter “X Holdings.” His rocket company is, naturally, SpaceX. Now he also apparently intends… Read More

Country Hall of Fame inducts Jerry Lee Lewis, Keith Whitley

Two artists who started their careers outside of country music were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as early rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and bluegrass performer-turned-country star Keith Whitley joined the ranks. Lewis, the 87-year-old artist nicknamed “The Killer,” was unable to attend the induction ceremony on… Read More

Dems panicked as deep blue state turns red

Oregon Democrats are in disarray, and they’re blaming everyone but themselves. Oregon is typically known as a bastion of West Coast liberalism, where Democrats are easily elected and a Republican hasn’t served as governor since the early 1980s. But the Democratic candidate’s success is hardly a guarantee this year. As… Read More