Gov tells Bette Midler to kiss dog's 'heinie' - and shows it

Gov. Jim Justice has a message for singer and actress Bette Midler, who called West Virginians “poor, illiterate and strung out” in a tweet after Sen. Joe Manchin refused to support President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act. The 70-year-old Republican governor ended his televised State of the State address Thursday night by lifting up his English bulldog and flashing its rear end to the cameras and crowd. “Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there: Kiss her heinie," Justice said, grinning as people applauded and some gave him a standing ovation.

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  West Virginia governor flashes his dog's rear end to legislators and tells critics to kiss it

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  West Virginia gov tells critics to kiss his bulldog's butt

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Kellyanne Conway Promotes Her Memoir And Everyone Makes The Same Damning Point

Critics, though, recalled Conway's penchant for “alternative facts,” her downplaying of the COVID-19 pandemic, her infamous “Bowling Green massacre” comment and the many, many, many times she cynically tried to spin away the chaos that engulfed Trump's presidency.

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  Alternative Facts: A Memoir

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  Kellyanne Conway Confirms Post-White House Memoir, Promises 'One-of-a-Kind' Perspective on Trump

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Woman allegedly gang raped, tortured and paraded through streets

Police in the Indian capital have arrested 11 people, including nine women, after the alleged brutal gang rape and torture of a young woman that included her being paraded through the streets and humiliated. The incident took place on Wednesday in East Delhi's Kasturba Nagar area as the nation celebrated Republic Day — marked by a grand military parade through Central Delhi. The victim's head was shaved, face blackened, and a garland of shoes put around her neck as she was hit and paraded through the streets in East Delhi.

'Willful ignorance': Joe Rogan’s comments on Blackness challenged by Vanderbilt professor

Michael Eric Dyson, professor of African American and Diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University, appeared Wednesday on Don Lemon Tonight and addressed comments made on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Tuesday. Rogan's guest, psychologist and commentator Jordan Peterson, questioned Dyson's Blackness because he is fairly light-skinned. Peterson also questioned his own whiteness, trying to make the point that unless someone's skin is literally black or literally white, then that person should not be called Black or white.

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  Joe Rogan causes outcry with segment on who should be considered ‘Black’ during Jordan Peterson interview

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  Joe Rogan: Only ‘100 percent African’ people should be called Black, Trevor Noah Claps Back

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Aging Pittsburgh bridge collapses in early morning while cars were driving on it

Officials said a bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday. The bridge was listed as being in "poor condition" by Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation. An aging bridge in Pittsburgh that was listed as being in poor condition collapsed early Friday morning, public-safety officials said.

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  Bridge collapse causes injuries in Pittsburgh

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  Pittsburgh bridge collapses before Biden visit to tout infrastructure needs

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‘Secret button’ on iPhones a big hit after going viral on TikTok. What to know

After a viral TikTok, iPhone users are discovering their device has one more button than they thought — and it can make their lives easier. You're using your iPhone wrong,” TikTok creator @ellyawesometech says, if you aren't utilizing the “secret button” on the back of your phone. The video, which reached 1 million views after one day, reveals an accessibility feature one user said “changed (their) life forever.

TikTok is shocked by how much mom and daughter look alike: ‘She cloned herself’

This TikToker and her daughter look so similar they could almost be twins! Danielle Sylvester (sylvester_danielle_) is a TikToker and parent who shares funny videos, many of them in collaboration with her teenage daughter, Thyri. In a recent video that received 4.9 million views and counting, Danielle shared just how much she and Thyri look alike, and the video had TikTokers in shock!

Missing North Carolina mother and daughter found safe after five years

More than five years after a North Carolina mother and her then-1-year-old daughter vanished, they were found safe just 20 miles away from home. Amber Renaye Weber, then 21, and daughter Miracle Smith were found at a home in Bunnlevel, N.C., Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals announced. Weber and Smith were last seen on Dec. 4, 2016, in Fayetteville and reported missing several weeks later on Jan. 31.

Penn. man followed woman home, shot her after she accidentally bumped into him at store, police say

Police in Pennsylvania are searching for a man suspected of shooting at a woman after she accidentally bumped into him at a grocery store Wednesday. The woman bumped into Moenell A. Coleman just before 10 a.m. at the Coatesville Market and apologized, but he "began to get irate and threaten to shoot her," according to a statement from the Coatesville Police Department. The woman, who has not been identified, left the store as Coleman, 25, continued to threaten to shoot her, police said.

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  Woman bumps into man at market, then he follows her home and shoots her, PA cops say

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  Police: Man followed woman home, shot her after she bumped him inside store

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Voting machine company won't comply with Wisconsin subpoena

A Nebraska-based voting machine company told the Republican-hired attorney leading an investigation into the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin that it will not comply with subpoenas issued seeking a broad array of information. Attorneys for Election Systems & Software told former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in a letter dated Jan. 21 that it would not comply, calling the subpoenas issued last month a “quintessential fishing expedition.” Gableman has subpoenaed the mayors of Wisconsin's five largest cities, the state's top elections official, an immigrant rights group, ES&S and Dominion Voting Systems as part of his ongoing probe ordered after President Joe Biden narrowly defeated Donald Trump in the battleground state.

Man Killed in Hail of Police Bullets Fired by NINE Cops on Nashville Interstate

Nine police officers in Tennessee opened fire on a 37-year-old man on Thursday afternoon after a confrontation on an interstate highway in Nashville. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation identified the victim late Thursday as Landon Eastep. Samantha McGill-Barge, Eastep's sister-in-law, told The Daily Beast she was baffled that he was on the highway Thursday.

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  Officers shoot, kill man walking on interstate

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  Officers pleaded with man to drop box cutter before shooting

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16 simple low-calorie food swaps that helped me lose 35 pounds and keep it off

Popcorn is actually very low calorie when it's not covered in sugar, syrup, or butter. Next time you get a craving for chips, try some lightly salted popcorn. A 17g individual bag of salted popcorn is around 84 calories, compared to 123 calories for a 25g individual packet of salted chips.

Porsche sent its Taycan EV cross-country to claim a 'charging time' record

A standard 2021 Porsche Taycan has broken the Guinness World Record for the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle. It only needed a cumulative charge time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds to cover a 2,834.5-mile drive from Los Angeles to New York. While the record it broke is highly specific, there was a previous holder: A Kia EV6, which had to be charged for 7 hours, 10 minutes and 1 second to make a similar, but just slightly longer, trip from New York to LA.

Rand Paul Tweaks Neil Young Song To Support Joe Rogan And Twitter Can't Even

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has no heart of gold when it comes to Neil Young. The far-right lawmaker parodied the rock icon's “My My, Hey Hey” song to mock him after he demanded that Spotify remove his music. Young blasted the streaming platform for airing Joe Rogan's hugely popular podcasts, which regularly spout dangerous misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines.

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  Spotify will remove Neil Young music following Joe Rogan dispute

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  Spotify removes Neil Young's music after falling out over Joe Rogan

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Michigan school not providing litter box for students identifying as cats

An online article shared on Facebook claims a school in the US state of Michigan placed a litter box in a bathroom for use by students who identify as cats. "CULTURAL INSANITY – MI School Providing Litter Boxes In Bathroom For Students Who Identify As Cats (Furries)," says the headline of an article published on January 22, 2022 by the TrendingPolitics website. "Radical school administrators and teachers are indoctrinating children, entrusted to them by loving parents, with every deviant and social justice cause imaginable," the article says.

Family who died in freezing cold by US-Canada border identified

Canadian authorities believe the deaths of four Indian nationals found steps away from the Canada-US border are connected to a human smuggling scheme. Jagdish Patel, 39, Vaishailben Patel, 37, and their children Vihangi, 11, and Dharkmik, 3, died from exposure due to the frigid cold in Manitoba, Canada. Temperatures dropped to -35C (-31F) on the night the Patel family attempted to cross into the US on foot.

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  India probes illegal immigration after tragedy near Canada border

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  Indian village mourns family who froze to death on U.S.-Canada border

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Fox News' Tomi Lahren told officers at a policing conference that prominent police killings could have been avoided if people 'would just comply'

Tomi Lahren was among several who spoke at a police training conference in Atlantic City in October. Lahren described Black Lives Matter as "thugs, felons, and criminals" and as a "terrorist organization." Fox News personality Tomi Lahren told police officers that significant numbers of police brutality cases could have been avoided "if people would just comply with police, would follow orders, and not resist arrest."

Russia signals possible vote to stop U.N. meeting on troop build-up

Russia signaled on Friday that it could call a vote to prevent the U.N. Security Council from meeting publicly on Monday, at the request of the United States, to discuss a build-up of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. "I can't recall another occasion when a Security Council member proposed to discuss its own baseless allegations and assumptions as a threat to international order from someone else," Russia's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy posted on Twitter on Friday. "Hopefully fellow UNSC (U.N. Security Council) members will not support this clear PR (public relations) stunt shameful for the reputation of U.N. Security Council," Polyanskiy said.

Sammy Gravano, notorious gangster turned FBI informant, reflects 30 years later

Almost 30 years after providing testimony that brought the powerful Gambino crime family to its knees, notorious gangster Sammy "The Bull" Gravano said he still has his regrets. Despite a dramatic betrayal that turned Gravano against "the family" and brought down powerful Gambino boss John Gotti for good, no regret loomed as large as the ones about his real family, said Gravano. "Being a gangster, actually in my life, was a curse," Gravano said, "and it did affect my family."

Filipino dictator's son loses 1 of 3 votes on elections bid

One of three Philippine election commissioners handling petitions to disqualify late dictator Ferdinand Marcos' son from the May presidential polls said Thursday that she voted in favor of the petitions and suspected there were efforts to nullify her vote against the leading candidate criticized by human rights groups. Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said she voted to uphold the petitions, which sought Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.'s disqualification from the race because of a previous tax conviction. An offense of “moral turpitude” is one of the grounds to bar a candidate from seeking and holding public office.

Trump says his publisher — Donald Trump Jr. — can't find enough paper, ink, glue, or leather to make copies of his 'very successful photo book'

Former President Donald Trump is claiming that he can't find the supplies to produce his book. Trump said that he was told his publisher can't find enough paper, ink, glue, or leather to produce the book. Trump's book is published by Winning Team Publishing, a company co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. in 2021.

‘Equivalent to the n-word’: Woman kicked out of Richmond store for using Cantonese slang term

One of the store's staff members reportedly approached them and asked about the person who assisted them the last time they went to Shaw, to which the woman replied in Cantonese, “I think it's a 'gweilo. is a Cantonese term that translates literally to “ghost man” or “devil man. The term has been historically used as a slur against white people that approximates to “foreign devil,” although it has been argued that the term has taken on more neutral connotations in present times.

Omicron subtype has apparent transmission advantage - UKHSA

LONDON (Reuters) -The BA.2 subtype of the Omicron coronavirus variant appears to have a substantial growth advantage over the currently predominant BA.1 type, Britain's UK Health Security Agency said on Friday. UKHSA said that there was an increased growth rate of BA.2 compared with BA.1 in all regions of England where there were enough cases to compare them, and that "the apparent growth advantage is currently substantial". "We now know that BA.2 has an increased growth rate which can be seen in all regions in England," said Dr Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor for the UKHSA.