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Amazon Prime Day Is a Week Away: The Best Deals You Can Shop Right Now
What Is Amazon Prime Day? Amazon Prime Day is a major shopping event exclusively for Prime members, offering limited-time deals across top categories like tech, beauty, fashion, home, and more. Launched in 2015 to celebrate Amazon’s anniversary, it has grown into one of the biggest online sales of the year, rivaling Black Friday. The event…
Read MoreTaylor Swift buys giant friendship bracelet from New Orleans Eras Tour for $13K: report
Taylor Swift has forked out $13,000 on a huge friendship bracelet. Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP Taylor Swift has forked out $13,000 on a huge, sentimental item, literally. The 14-time Grammy winner, 35, enlisted the help of her personal services company, Firefly Entertainment Inc., to purchase the 140-foot-long inflatable friendship bracelet that adorned the Caesars Superdome in…
Read MoreColin Allred announces launch for U.S. Senate seat
DALLAS, Texas (Nexstar) — Former U.S. Congressman Colin Allred officially launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The former NFL player said his campaign will focus on “lowering costs and fighting the corrupt politicians rigging the economy against hardworking Texans,” according to the news release announcing his campaign. “Everything’s backwards. Folks who play…
Read MoreUS Senate push to pass Trump’s $3.3 trillion bill extends into second day
US Senate Republicans were still trying to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill early on Tuesday morning, despite divisions within the party about its expected $3.3 trillion hit to the nation’s debt pile. Senators voted in a marathon session known as a “vote-a-rama,” featuring a series of amendments by Republicans and the minority Democrats, part…
Read MoreDear Abby: My husband won’t stop looking at other women
DEAR ABBY: I am a 56-year-old divorcee after a 30–year marriage. I have been dating a man I’ll call “Tom” for the past 2 1/2 years. I love my time with him, except when we are out — he is constantly looking at young women. They smile back at him because he’s smiling at them.…
Read MoreInside Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Incredibly Private Marriage
Family finally complete (with Dad delivering both kids with an assist from the midwife), the two couldn’t stop gushing about how darn happy they were. There were the requisite birthday shout outs, of course, with Burton posting a video in which she and the kids playfully argue over who loves Morgan the most and the actor, in turn, marking…
Read More‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ stars Jen Affleck, Whitney Leavitt join ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 34
“Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” stars Jen Affleck (left) and Whitney Leavitt (right) are joining Season 34 of “Dancing With the Stars.” Shutterstock/Page Six From “MomTok” to the ballroom! “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” stars Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt are joining the Season 34 cast of “Dancing With the Stars.” The exciting news was…
Read MoreFlorida man headbutted by airborne shark while surfing in insane video: ‘Really happy its mouth wasn’t open’
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…shark? A surfer at a Florida beach was suddenly thrown off his board after an aptly-named spinner shark propelled itself into the air and knocked directly into the man’s head last week in an insane caught-on-video encounter. Darren Kaye was surfing off the coast of New Smyrna Beach,…
Read More74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said. One airstrike hit Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City when it was…
Read More‘Real Housewives’, take note. ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ reunion had the best receipts we’ve seen in a long time
Heather Gay isn’t the only one screaming, “Receipts! Proof! Timeline! Screenshots!” On a scale of Lisa Rinna‘s unopened manila folder at the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 12 reunion, to Gay outing Monica Garcia for running Reality Von Tease in the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale, the receipts in The…
Read MoreIs Cheese Giving You Nightmares?
For centuries, folklore and popular wisdom have linked poor eating habits and indigestion to nightmares and restless sleep. In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge at first dismisses the ghosts that torment him as mere dietary disturbances: “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of…
Read MoreIslanders’ AHL team could be moving from Bridgeport to new location
The Islanders’ AHL club might not be long for Bridgeport. Daily FaceOff’s Frank Seravalli reported Monday that the Bridgeport Islanders could move to Hamilton, Ontario after the coming season. Though a deal has yet to be finalized, TD Coliseum in Hamilton is set to undergo a $300 million renovation with the goal of attracting an…
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