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A Florida woman on the run from her allegedly abusive ex-husband was killed when he tracked her to her sister’s house and fatally shot them both before killing himself.

Glitter beer has become the “what will they think of next?” beer story of this spring, part of the larger trend of sparkly foods from doughnuts to pizza and cupcakes. Many news outlets have run stories of local breweries jumping into the fad...

Eichelberger said the German-made glitter he’s using does not affect flavor. It contains titanium
dioxide — a white compound that’s used as a pigment in paint and sunscreen — and tiny flakes of mica, a pearlescent mineral that’s the same stuff found in kids’ craft projects and teenagers’ hair.

"I thought it was like McDonald's." The boy grabbed the lewd shirt out of a bag of hand-me-downs, thinking it had to do with the popular fast food chain.

With school shootings a regular occurrence, educators across the country are learning techniques to help victims survive by stemming blood loss.

“There’s absolutely no explanation for us,” a sheriff said during a news conference. “The word ‘evil’ comes to mind.”

Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman placed the .38-caliber gun on a table during the “coffee with constituents” meeting.

Administrators told the girl her nipples were 'distracting'

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Stubby legs and funny ears as far as the eye can see!

The opener of the Dodgers-Giants weekend series has been rained out.

"There's no one way to be a man."

"I merely proved a point that guns themselves are not the issue."

The allegations against 35-year-old Benjamin Sparks were first reported late Wednesday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The publication reported being provided with emails, text messages and the signed contract.

Bill Higgins once tried putting a kid behind bars over a harmless prank involving a statue of Jesus. Now he's been charged with something far, far worse.

The title is a quote from Victor Hugo: "Each time you open a new school, you shut down a prison."

Photo cropped for size and emphasis and brightened from the original here.

... but it's just an optical illusion.  The mother has normal arms.  Look closely.

Phocomelia.

Via.  Reposted from 2018 because I encountered it again while searching for something else and was fooled again.

He won’t perform for the rest of the year, on doctors’ orders.

The bald eagle brought in for a ceremonial flight over the field was the final piece of the pregame pomp, prior to the playing of the national anthem.

"He's 8 years old, what does he need to know about racism or white privilege?"

By that logic, I guess she's never used a toilet either. Makes sense since she's full of crap.

Sweet, sweet revenge.

The Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security were instructed to work with the nation's governors to deploy units to the southern border.

The load has been there for almost two months, and it's making the whole place smell like a rotting animal carcass.

Welcome to the 11th annual edition of April Fools in the Kitchen — where your King Arthur Flour test kitchen bakers demonstrate, once again, our selfless dedication to progress through failure — in all its glorious culinary guises. Let’s jump right into yeast bread. As someone did here. That towering balloon of rising dough was […]

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If you're lucky, they'll come out looking like the ones on the right.

Instructions at The Cut.

Most important, though, your Peeps will make you the center of attention of any party lucky enough to have you as a guest. People will marvel at your boldness, creativity, and culinary expertise. “I didn’t even know you could make these at home!” they’ll say. Some will fall in love with you, others will resent you for the success you’ve achieved, but absolutely everyone will be talking about you and your Peeps.

Accident-reconstruction investigators are trying to figure out what caused an SUV carrying a family to plunge off a California cliff in a deadly wreck that happened shortly after child-welfare authorities went to their home to investigate possible abuse.

Ethan Couch, the teenager who used an “affluenza” defense regarding a fatal drunken-driving wreck, has been released from a Texas jail.

Watch the video (runtime less than two minutes) before reading further.

Last fall an article in The Guardian offered these observations:

Sinclair Media Group is the owner of the largest number of TV stations in America. “Sinclair’s probably the most dangerous company most people have never heard of,” said Michael Copps, the George W Bush-appointed former chairman of Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the top US broadcast regulator...

The New York Times refers to the group as a “conservative giant” that, since the Bush presidency, has used its 173 television stations “to advance a mostly right-leaning agenda”. The Washington Post describes it as a “company with a long history of favoring conservative causes and candidates on its stations’ newscasts”...

Another cause for concern, and increased scrutiny, is what’s seen as the company’s pronounced political agenda. Sinclair forces its local stations to run pro-Trump “news” segments. In April, they hired Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump campaign spokesman and member of the White House press office, as its chief political analyst. His “must-run” 10-minute political commentary segments unsurprisingly hewed closely to the Trump administration’s message. The news and analysis website Slate, referring to Epshteyn’s contributions, said: “As far as propaganda goes, this is pure, industrial-strength stuff.”..

The focus of the concern is Ajit Pai, the man Trump appointed as head of the country’s top broadcasting regulator, the FCC. Since he began work in January, Pai has been busy relaxing the protections for local broadcasting that had previously limited Sinclair’s expansion. Trump’s new-look FCC has moved swiftly to clear the hurdles for Sinclair’s proposed takeover of Tribune... In addition to changes paving the way for Sinclair’s merger, Pai’s FCC has proposed eliminating one of its most fundamental rules, which requires local news stations to actually have a local studio where they broadcast the news.

Way more at the link.   Does Sinclair own a station in your broadcast area?  Almost certainly.  Wikipedia has a list of the stations owned or operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

I have to commend whoever composed the video.  It is an absolute masterwork - and quite chilling.

For those interested in pursuing this more deeply, Judy Woodruff presented a segment on the PBS Newhour discussing the impact of Sinclair's extensive ownership of local television channels.

"Yeah but he was running from the police jumping over fences and breaking in peoples houses... why run??!!! He deserved it for being stupid."