Governor says state is responding to Jackson's water crisis
Gov. Tate Reeves says he has spoken to Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and the state is helping the city with its water crisis.
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The TelegraphWannabe-astronauts beg billionaire for spare seat on first civilian space mission
Budding American astronauts have been asked to make Dragon’s Den style pitches to a billionaire tech mogul in order to win a place on the first ever civilian space mission. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of payments technology company Shift4 Payments is offering three seats on a SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket to people who show entrepreneurial flair, generosity and hope. The venture is supporting efforts to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to fight childhood cancer, with half the sum already donated by Mr Isaacman. An accomplished jet pilot, he will be the commander on the mission, making it the first ever all-civilian trip to space. One seat has already been given to a hospital worker from St Jude’s and another will be given to someone who donates to the research hospital via an online portal. The third winner will be decided in a Dragon's Den-style contest run by Shift4 Payments in which users have to design their own website on the platform.
- The Independent
Mystery 41kg Russian metal object found on beach in Bahamas ‘could be from spacecraft’
Space experts believe object could have come from satellite or spacecraft
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Prince Harry says 99-year-old Prince Philip just slams his laptop shut instead of hanging up at the end of Zoom calls
The prince told James Corden that he'd had a few Zoom calls with his grandparents where they got to see Archie running around.
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Queens woman ended up in medically induced coma after nose piercing caused infection
Dana Smith said, ‘I couldn’t hold water down. At some point I started to throw up blood’
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Population of Mexico's monarch butterflies falls 26%, conservationists find
The population of monarch butterflies that arrived in Mexico's forests to hibernate this winter fell 26% from a year earlier, the country's Commission for National Protected Areas and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said on Thursday. Millions of orange and black monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico on a 2,000-mile (3,220-km) journey each year from Canada across North America. But the butterflies occupied only 2.1 hectares in December 2020, compared with 2.8 hectares the previous winter season, the conservationist group WWF said in a statement.
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Anger as Florida lawmaker Greg Steube says transgender people ‘offend’ God
GOP’s Greg Steube attacked for comments by Democrats during Equality Act debate
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Who’s John Boehner’: Ted Cruz reacts to former Speaker telling him to ‘f*** himself’
Texas senator shamed for Cancun trip delivered a high-energy CPAC speech studded with Star Wars references
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Donald Trump Jr says dropping Springsteen’s DWI charge example of ‘liberal privilege’
The Boss’s blood alcohol level was one quarter of limit for driving
- The State
16-year-old drowns rescuing little brother after they fall through ice, OH officials say
A department of natural resources officer also died after suffering a “medical emergency” at the scene, officials say.
- The Independent
Fury as New York town hosts ‘barbaric’ squirrel hunt
Event condemned as ‘barbaric, cruel, senseless and environmentally terrorising money grab’
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Trumps accused of treating White House staff like ‘concierge’
Employees also claim that Barack Obama and his family craved privacy while in executive mansion
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John Boehner tells Ted Cruz to go ‘f*** himself’ in unscripted audiobook recording, report says
Former House speaker previously referred to Texas senator as ‘Lucifer in the flesh’
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Gaza is open again, to the south. But for how long?
A fleet of yellow Mercedes taxis lines up outside Gaza's newly reopened Rafah crossing into Egypt, polished again and ready to roll, but with no idea for how long. Uncertainty is a fact of life in the Palestinian border town, where 4,500 people have crossed into Egypt in the two weeks since one of Gaza's few lifelines to the outside world swung open on Feb. 9. The opening eased the years-long blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt on the coastal strip, compounded by measures imposed by all sides to halt the spread of COVID-19.
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Woman accused of using $149,000 Covid relief loan to buy diamonds and go to IKEA
Jasmine Johnnae Clifton allegedly spent funds at more than 20 stores
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Honduran president says U.S. probe of his alleged drug ties could scuttle cooperation with Washington
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said on Wednesday that allegations by U.S. prosecutors of his involvement with organized crime could affect cooperation with Washington in fighting drug trafficking. U.S. prosecutors, in a federal court filing in New York on Feb. 5, said Hernandez used Honduran law enforcement https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-honduras-idUSKBN2A8291 and military officials to protect drug traffickers as part of a plan “to use drug trafficking to help assert power and control in Honduras.”
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The surprising real-life age differences between 14 famous movie pairs
Some on-screen love interest age gaps are surprising, and other times, actors are almost the same age as their on-screen children.
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Donald Trump Jr vows father remains future of GOP as he unloads on Biden – and Mr Potato Head
In closing remarks spanning attacks on Joe Biden and outrage over right-wing grievances with The Muppets and Mr Potato Head, Donald Trump Jr said his father’s “Make America Great Again” agenda remains the “the future” of the Republican Party following his loss in the 2020 presidential election. Moments before Trump Jr’s speech, Trump adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle said that the former president “from his desk at Mar-a-Lago will accomplish more for America in the next four years than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could ever dream of.”
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Republican Ralph Norman’s effort to hold 30-second silence for Rush Limbaugh turned down
‘The chair cannot entertain the gentleman’s request’
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Lexington man identified as victim of fatal motorcycle crash
The 59-year-old motorcyclist was heading north on Boiling Springs Road in Lexington Wednesday when he struck the rear of a van that had slowed to make a turn, officials said.
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Lady Gaga’s bulldogs returned unharmed after kidnapping
The singer’s two French bulldogs have been recovered after being stolen