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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Dallas woman making her second chance at life count
Rhonda Willingham’s story is one of heartbreak, incarceration, disappointments, and redemption. “I made a promise to God. When I was on the street, that if he brought me out, I would serve him until the day I did in doing so. The Lord has blessed me. He showed me why I went through that fiery furnace that I went through because he had a job for me to do,” Willingham said.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Car crashes into lobby of Northern Michigan Arby’s restaurant
Repairs and cleanup are underway at the Arby’s restaurant in Grayling after a customer drove their car into the lobby Wednesday afternoon. According to UpNorthLive, the accident happened around 4 p.m. when a woman who was supposedly leaving the parking lot, but instead drove into the lobby of the restaurant.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Just How Super Is The Coming Supermoon?
July's full moon will be thousands of miles closer to us than usual. Learn how to measure it with your hand.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
EU votes to bring back removable batteries in phones and appliances
The new law will restrict manufacturers from selling phones that require special tools to open up.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Family finds 1 million copper pennies while cleaning out Los Angeles home
Having more money than you know what to do with is usually a good thing, but for one California family, it’s a little bit more complicated than that. John Reyes, a realtor from the Inland Empire, is trying to figure out what to do with more than 1 million pennies he and his wife discovered in her father’s former home in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Heaven Is 'Fantasy' And 'Nothing' Happens When We Die
The action-movie icon terminates every 'f**king liar' who says there is life after death.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Paris to ban single-use plastic at 2024 Games
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Friday the city planned to ban single-use plastic when it holds the 2024 Olympic Games as part of efforts to tackle a global plastic pollution crisis. "We have decided to make the Olympic Games the first major major event without single-use plastic," Hidalgo told a press conference at a session of the International Forum of Mayors against Plastic Pollution.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Ghost of Tsushima Hits Impressive Sales Milestone in Japan
Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima has recently achieved a major sales milestone in Japan. The action-adventure game has reportedly sold over 1 million copies, making it one of the rare titles to reach this prestigious benchmark on the PlayStation 4.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Rumor Recap: What to Expect From the iPhone 15's USB-C Port
All four iPhone 15 models launching later this year are expected to feature a USB-C port instead of Lightning. This change means the iPhone will support a more universal charging standard, benefit from faster data transfer speeds, and more.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
A New Era Of Renewable Energy Owned By The Consumer
Governments worldwide are encouraging private companies to move away from fossil fuels and invest heavily in green energy and related technologies. In doing so, they are also trying to expand the consumer market, pushing the public to accept a movement away from fossil fuels, such as the natural gas used for heating water and houses, to green alternatives, such as wind, solar, geothermal, and green hydrogen power.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy
Vice, which had wooed media giants, has struggled to adjust to the punishing realities of digital publishing. A group of creditors could buy Vice for $225 million.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
Meta fixed a Facebook bug that sent automatic friend requests to users
Meta has patched a Facebook bug that saw the social network send automatic friend requests when users would visit any profile. In a statement the company shared with The Daily Beast on Friday, Meta apologized for the glitch. “We fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be sent mistakenly,” a Meta spokesperson told the outlet.
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Thousands taking antidepressants for pain despite insufficient evidence they work, say experts
Hundreds of thousands of Britons are taking antidepressants for chronic pain without enough evidence they work, according to a large study. Researchers looked at drugs commonly prescribed by the NHS including amitriptyline, duloxetine, fluoxetine (Prozac), citalopram, paroxetine (Seroxat) and sertraline.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
'Super Mario Bros.' Continues Box Office Reign With Animation Record $58 Million 3rd Weekend
Universal/Illumination’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continues to show “Top Gun: Maverick”-esque legs with $58.2 million grossed in its third weekend, pushing its box office totals to $434 million domestic and $871 million worldwide.
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Netflix Will End Its DVD Service After 25 Years
Call up your Luddite loved ones and your nostalgic friends who still cherish physical media. After 25 years, Netflix is ending its DVD-by-mail business. Before it was upending the entertainment industry and ushering in the streaming era, Netflix was a company whose business model revolved around sending DVDs through the mail in easily recognizable red-and-white envelopes.
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1 year agoCurrent Event jasont
An Online Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar Over Leaked Military Secrets
Youth culture and national defense collided in a community known for edgy jokes. The YouTube celebrity it was dedicated to seemed as surprised as anyone.