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“Police Academy” star Steve Guttenberg described the terrifying scenes of the Palisades Fire in Southern California where he lives, calling it the “most unbelievable” blaze he’d ever seen.
Speaking to KTLA 5 News, the 66-year-old actor on Tuesday pleaded with people who had abandoned their cars during evacuation to leave their keys behind so they could be moved to allow first responders into the area to battle the fires blazing thanks to high speed Santa Ana winds.
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Read MoreA 13-year-old leukemia patient has been brought into full remission during a clinical trial for a groundbreaking new cancer treatment.
The patient, David Stan, is recovering from a devastating diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a KMT2A genetic mutation.
Led by Dr. Branko Cuglievan, the trial tested a novel combination therapy using the menin inhibitor revumenib, venetoclax, and decitabine/cedazuridine.
Within just two weeks of treatment, David’s leukemia c
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Read MoreA Dairy Queen restaurant in British Columbia began offering “Trudeau Resignation Burgers’ on Monday – at the discounted price of $2 each – to celebrate leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement he would soon vacate the position.
The restaurant was also reportedly offering a discount on poutine named after Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.
Trudeau, who has been the head of Canada’s government for nearly a decade, announced on Monday that he would resign from leading the left-wing Liberal P
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Read MoreThe Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania last week ruled that Amos and Rebecca Miller, farmers who produce raw milk, may continue to sell raw milk outside the state while a lawsuit filed by the state against them moves through the courts.
The Commonwealth Court also acknowledged that the Millers raised “potentially meritorious constitutional challenges” to Pennsylvania’s Milk Sanitation Law. These challenges involve the Commerce Clause, the Supremacy Clause, the right to travel, and the fundamental right to purchase “traditional foods directly from the producer of that food.”
“The total number of customer complaints to any government agency for any food product of Amos Miller’s is a big fat zero, the highest known customer satisfaction rate of any farmer in America.
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Read MoreAn Alberta policeman disciplined for speaking at a Freedom Convoy rally has had his suspension without pay overturned. The punishment was “not justifiable,” ruled an Edmonton judge.
“While taking into account the higher standards placed by law on a police officer that can limit the officer’s freedom of expression compared to the freedom enjoyed by other citizens, we are left in my view with factual distinctions that could be drawn from the evidence,” wrote Justice James Nelson of Alberta Court of King’s Bench. “Facts and evidence” were garbled in justifying the suspension, he said.
Staff Sergeant Richard Abbott of the Edmonton Police Service, a watch commander, served 26 years with “no prior disciplinary misconduct.” He was suspended in 2022 after delivering a videotaped speech at a Freedom Convoy rally.
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Read MoreLOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday in New York, publicist Ken Sunshine said. Yarrow had bladder cancer for the past four years.
“Our fearless dragon is tired and has entered the last chapter of his magnificent life. The world knows Peter Yarrow the i
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Read MoreSinger Post Malone gave a single mom an unexpected gift during her shift as a bartender on Christmas Eve.
Renee Brown, 36, told her story to the outlet Music Mayhem. The restaurant worker said she was sad to be scheduled to work during the holiday because it meant she couldn’t spend it with her 9-year-old daughter, Iliana. But her night took a turn when the “Sunflower” singer, whose real name is Austin Post, made a stop at The Railyard in Houston, Texas, during her shift.
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Read MoreCardinal Raymond Burke’s words appeared to be a response to controversial comments made in September by Pope Francis, when he stated that ‘every religion is a way to arrive at God.’
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Read MoreNASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.
Originally planned to deliver 30 sample tubes to Earth by the 2030s, the Mars Sample Return mission has faced rising expenses and delays, prompting the US space agency to explore more streamlined solutions.
The pivot comes as China progresses towards a simpler “grab-and-go” sample return mission to the Red Planet “around 2028,” according to state media, potentially making it the first nation to achieve the feat.
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Read MoreUniversity of Alberta President Bill Flanagan announced that the post-secondary institution intends to shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion policies effective immediately.
In an op-ed penned for the Edmonton Journal by Flanagan, he began by quoting the university’s first president Henry Marshall Tory. Upon founding the post-secondary school, Tory stated that the school’s mandate was “to create an intellectual and spiritual atmosphere in which prejudice and hatred could not live, a just institution whose work would be to assist in the unification of the diverse elements which enter our national life.”
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