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MMA fighter Valerie Loureda celebrates Bellator contract with twerking video

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Valerie Loureda certainly knows how to celebrate. Last week, the 22-year-old MMA fighter announced she had signed a multi-fight extension with Bellator MMA, commemorating the exciting news by twerking to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP.” “Just signed an exclusive multi-year, multi-fight extension with @bellatormma not going anywhere ????????????,” Loureda captioned the Instagram clip....

Pentagon’s UFO announcement is ‘exciting,’ raises ‘controversies’: expert

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The Pentagon’s announcement establishing a task force to “detect, analyze and catalog” unidentified aerial phenomena is a welcome addition in the now very public search for UFOs, albeit one with its own controversies, according to one expert. “I support this initiative, which rightly frames the issue in terms of security,” Nick Pope, a former employee...

What is the USPS crisis and how does it affect the 2020 election?

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With less than three months to go until Nov. 3, the cash-strapped United States Postal Service has been thrust into the center of the presidential election. The independent federal agency is facing financial setbacks made worse by the coronavirus pandemic — as well as fears of disenfranchisement with more and more COVID-19-wary voters turning to...



De Blasio calls for ‘clear standards’ for facial recognition tech for NYPD

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Mayor Bill de Blasio called for “clear standards” for the NYPD when using facial recognition tech after officers were spotted using information from the department’s unit when trying to arrest a Black Lives Matter protester for an alleged assault on a cop. “There is a place for facial recognition, but with really clear checks and...

Trump backers more likely to vote in person than Biden supporters: poll

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Nearly half of Joe Biden’s backers said they plan to mail in a ballot for their candidate, while two-thirds of President Trump’s supporters plan to vote in person on Nov. 3, according to a poll released Monday. Only 26 percent of Biden voters said they would do so in person at a polling place on...

Harvey Weinstein challenges NY law protecting sex abuse victims

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Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is claiming New York’s Child Victims Act is unconstitutional — in a bid to get a court to toss accusations that the fallen movie mogul sexually abused a woman nearly 20 years ago when she was just 16, court papers show. Weinstein’s right to due process was violated when Kaja Sokola...

Israel aims to cooperate with UAE on business opportunities in tech

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Israel signaled that it is willing to explore business opportunities with the United Arab Emirates following the normalization of relations established last week, including in the areas of commercial space and high tech, a report said Monday. “The timelines are quite immediate,” Israel’s Minister for Science and Technology Izhar Shay said in an interview on...

This is when and how the universe is expected to end

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It’s not expected to happen anytime soon, but one scientist has calculated when the universe will end. The research, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, notes that sometime over the “next few trillion years,” when the universe is dead as we know it, stars will continue to explode, not with...

Japanese ship involved in Mauritius oil spill breaks apart

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A stricken Japanese oil tanker that’s leaked tons of oil into the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Mauritius split apart Saturday, spreading remaining fuel into the area. The Mauritius National Crisis Committee shared photos on social media of the MV Wakashio, saying the boat “split in two pieces” with tug boats “already at...

Trump actually praises CNN after new poll shows virtual tie with Biden

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This is one CNN poll even President Trump can get behind. The national poll of registered voters Aug. 12-15 showed Trump down just four points, with 46 percent against Biden’s 50 percent support and a 3.7 percent margin of error that put them in a virtual dead heat. It captured a snapshot of the race...





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