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Religious Group Attempts to Distance Itself From Oklahoma Murder Suspects Oklahoma State Bureau of InvestigationA religious group linked to the abduction and slaying of two Kansas moms has condemned the attack as a “senseless act of murder” that goes “against God’s word,” asserting it has no ties to the alleged murderers. The condemnation from the group, “God’s Misfits,” came days after probable cause affidavits revealed that the suspects accused of murdering Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley were part of an organization by the same name, which met weekly and was characterized by authorities as “anti-government.”Those suspects are Tifany Adams, the grandmother and guardian of Butler’s children, as well as her boyfriend, Tad Bert Cullum, and their friends, Cora and Cole Earl Twombly. Each were arraigned Wednesday on murder and kidnapping charges in an emotionally-charged hearing that nearly became violent.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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GOP Rep. Jake LaTurner Says He Won’t Run for Re-Election Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesRep. Jake LaTurner (R-KS) announced on Thursday that he will not be seeking re-election, splashing into the steady stream of Congress members who are opting out of the rat race.In a statement, LaTurner said that he would stay in his seat for the remainder of his term, but that he would not seek re-election, so he could spend more time with his four children. The Kansas Republican wrote, “the busy schedule of serving in Congress has taken a toll. The unrepeatable season of life we are in, where our kids are still young and at home, is something I want to be there for.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Climate Protesters Tumble Off Stage During Scuffle at GOP Senator’s Speech X/ScreengrabThings got physical when a group of climate protesters clashed with other event-goers at a gala hosted by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Thursday. Several activists were pushed off stage and fell on top of one another while resisting attempts by the event attendees to remove them.Murkowski was giving a speech at the Bryce Harlow Foundation’s awards ceremony when she was suddenly interrupted by about 10-12 climate protesters, who rushed the stage and took over, according to a source who attended the event.Climate Defiance, the protest organizer, posted a video of the scuffle on social media.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Meghan Markle Shows Up (Online) For Her Jam Pal’s Parenting Charity The Daily Beast/Kelly McKee Zajfen/InstagramOne good turn on Instagram deserves another.After Meghan Markle’s friend Kelly McKee Zajfen posted a glowing review of her pal’s new American Riviera Orchard strawberry jam earlier this week, Meghan on Thursday posed with McKee Zafjen, the pair sporting branded T-shirts supporting her charity, Alliance of Moms. Meghan, 42, was photographed wearing the shirt bearing the slogan, “Love like a mother.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Crashes the Trump Trial Circus YouTube/screengrabHot on the heels of his latest “Let’s Make a Poop” game show special featuring Rob Schneider, “Weird” Al Yankovic, and more, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was spotted engaging with the MAGA faithful outside of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Downtown Manhattan this week. Now, the fruits of his comedic labors have arrived on YouTube for us all to enjoy.“Triumph doesn’t have a formal gig right now, but I’ve been wanting to cover the election,” Robert Smigel, the former Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien writer who created the iconic puppet, wrote in a message to The Daily Beast on Thursday. “Since this trial was right here in New York some writers and I just went for it, shooting with iPhones. We were low on cigars, but hopefully people support Triumph’s special and YouTube channel and he’ll buy some new ones.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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The ‘Tortured Poets’ Leak Is Tearing Swifties Apart Matt Winkelmeyer / GettyTaylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, isn’t set to officially drop until tomorrow night, but whoever posted a Google Drive leak of audio files bearing the 16 track names from the main album; plus one of the bonus tracks and and screenshots of alleged lyrics, clearly didn’t care too much about official business. The seemingly authentic leaked tracks dropped Wednesday evening and have officially disseminated into all corners of the internet, defying copyright removals on X and on other platforms. As such, Swifties have spent all day combing through the illicit offerings rather than doing anything else productive. And opinions amongst the community of passionate fans who track the pop star’s every utterance are thoroughly divided. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Dashcam Shows Moment Madison Cawthorn Allegedly Smashes into Florida Trooper’s Car Alex DeLuca of The Miami New Times / YouTubeNew dash camera footage shows the explosive moment when former U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) allegedly slammed into the parked car of a Florida State Trooper on Monday.Drivers on I-75 were brought to a stand-still earlier this week after a Mercedes which was driving “erratically and aggressively,” according to one witness, tore past them down the highway, and rear ended a cop’s car. As the drivers rode past, many were able to identify the driver of the Mercedes as none other than the avid Donald Trump supporter and accused insurrectionist.Footage released to the Miami New Times via a public records request shows the exact moment Cawthorn allegedly crashed into the Florida Highway Patrol cruiser. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Is This the Most Miserable Job to Have in New York City Right Now? Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesNothing is certain in life except death, taxes, and that jury duty sucks.So many of us have been through it, you get that notice in the mail and wonder if you can just pretend you didn’t see it. Maybe you’re the sort of person who is just able to travel for a month or two and didn’t keep up with your snail mail? No, you’re not that interesting, and anyway, jury duty does mean you can have an excuse not to go to work.Oh, and also you’re a good upstanding citizen who respects the law and the values on which this country was founded—and you want to do your part!Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Columbia Uni Directs NYPD to Remove Students Protesting War REUTERS/Caitlin OchsScores of Columbia University students were arrested Thursday afternoon after they rebuffed authorities’ pleas to vacate an on-campus tent city erected in support of Palestine.“Since you have refused to disperse, you will now be placed under arrest for trespassing,” the NYPD told protesters through a loudspeaker. “If you resist arrest, you may face additional charges.”Police officers began taking protesters into custody at around 1:30 p.m., putting them in flex-cuffs and loading them onto buses parked nearby. “Shame! Shame!” some chanted as the arrests unfolded. Others broke out in their own chant of, “Columbia, Columbia you will see, Palestine will be free,” and “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, will not rest.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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It’s 2024 and Rosie O’Donnell Is Sparring With Bill O’Reilly on Trump NewsNation/screengrabComedian and former talk show juggernaut Rosie O’Donnell was willing to lay down some serious cash (for most people) with a bet that Donald Trump would be found guilty on any charges brought against him—but conservative commentator and Trump hype man Bill O’Reilly chickened out of an opposing bet against her Wednesday night during a cable news segment that felt like a throwback to another era. O’Donnell and O’Reilly were guests on the ex-CNN host Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation show when they got into a verbal sparring match about Trump’s impact on the country. “Democracy is on trial,” O’Donnell said on the show this week. “We have to get everyone back together again in some way,” she continued, “Without this, we’re nothing as a nation.”O’Reilly jumped in to defend Trump, saying “Rosie, with all due respect, you’re not gonna be successful saying that democracy is on trial and anybody who supports Donald Trump is a fascist,” he said. “Those people are gonna reject you because there’s a lot more to it than you are presenting.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Top Dem Goes Nuclear on GOP for ‘Diddling Around’ While People Die in Ukraine Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Care Can't Wait ActionRep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) went off on House Republicans on Thursday, mincing no words as she decried the group for preventing the swift delivery of aid to Ukraine.During a debate on foreign aid on Thursday, DeLauro told the House Rules Committee that she remembered when certain GOP members said they would approve sending additional aid to Ukraine, if they could achieve a bipartisan agreement to boost border security.“We accomplished bipartisan border security,” she said, referencing the, now-dead Senate bill which tied aid to tighter border restrictions. “And you know what? It was Donald Trump who said: Don’t. Give. Biden. A Win.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Iran Issues Unprecedented Nuclear Threat in Duel With Israel Reuters/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANAIran warned on Thursday that it might review its nuclear “doctrine,” threatening a potential break from the publicly stated “peaceful” objectives of its nuclear program.“The threats of the Zionist regime [Israel] against Iran's nuclear facilities make it possible to review our nuclear doctrine and deviate from our previous considerations,” said Ahmad Haghtalab, a top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, according to Tasnim. “If the Zionist regime wants to take action against our nuclear centers and facilities, we will surely and categorically reciprocate with advanced missiles against their own nuclear sites,” Haghtalab said, adding the era of “hit and run" is over.The threat to change course comes as Israel has been deliberating a response to Iran’s attack on April 13, when Tehran launched over 300 missiles and drones towards Israel. The attack—conducted in retaliation for the killing of a top commander at an Iranian embassy in Syria earlier this month—was largely thwarted, causing no major damage in Israel.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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‘Abigail’ Somehow Squanders a Murderous Vampire Child in a Tutu Universal StudiosKids do the darndest things, and in Abigail, that includes sprouting fangs and sucking blood while wearing cute tutus. That plot point would, under normal circumstances, be classified as a spoiler, considering that Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s film, which hits theaters Apr. 19, hides its central surprise for its first third. Unfortunately, with the marketing department having totally let the cat out of the proverbial bag in order to get teenagers into multiplex seats, there’s zero mystery to this gruesome horrorshow—which is almost as deleterious as the material’s fondness for exposition over frights, bloat over concision, and clichés over invention.As with their prior Scream and Scream VI, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s latest has modest personality but scant creative terror. Very loosely based on 1936’s Dracula's Daughter (by which I mean, it shares that predecessor’s basic conceit and virtually nothing else), this clumsy bloodbath concerns a seemingly perfect crime that goes horribly wrong. In an unnamed city, adolescent ballerina Abigail (Alisha Weir) travels home from rehearsal in a Rolls Royce to her opulent manor house. Unbeknownst to her, she’s not alone, since a gang of crooks are lurking in her bedroom’s shadows. Led by no-nonsense Frank (Dan Stevens), this gang has been hired by Lambert (Giancarlo Esposito) to kidnap Abigail, transport her to a different lavish residence, and hold her hostage for 24 hours, at the end of which they’ll earn a collective $50 million.Snatching and grabbing Abigail is a cinch for this squad, whose members use a syringe and duffel bag to knock the girl out and haul her to their destination. Upon completing this initial portion of their mission, Lambert welcomes them by stating, “My lovely pack of rats!” and then gives them monikers based on the Rat Pack: junkie medic Joey (Melissa Barrera); tattooed tech whiz Sammy (Kathryn Newton); dim-witted muscle Peter (Kevin Durand); slacker wheelman Dean (Angus Cloud); cool-headed sniper Rickles (William Catlett); and unfriendly Frank. Once Abigail is locked up, the sextet plays a prolonged guessing game regarding their real identities and origins, during which Joey—who’s already proven herself to be the compassionate foil to untrustworthy Frank—cornily lays out everyone’s backstory. More troubling than this ham-fisted info dump, however, is the fact that none of these individuals are unique or funny, chief among them Joey, who’s so obviously positioned as the nominal hero that her every subsequent goody-two-shoes gesture grates.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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‘Shark Tank’ Guy Rages That Trump’s ‘Porn Star Case’ Is Hurting the ‘American Brand’ Fox NewsShark Tank star Kevin O’Leary flew off the handle on Thursday over Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial, claiming that it “hurts the American brand” to “go after the office of the president with porn star cases” because former presidents should be given “a broad swath of latitude.”A Canadian investor who became a household name for portraying a “shark” on a business reality TV show, O’Leary has been an outspoken critic of the criminal and civil cases against Trump, especially in New York. Besides claiming that he’ll never invest in the “loser” state again due to his disgust over Trump’s civil fraud ruling, he’s also called the massive $454 million fine against the ex-president an “attack on America.”During an appearance on Fox News’ midday panel show Outnumbered, O’Leary reacted to sports talk host Stephen A. Smith claiming that the trials give “fodder” to the MAGA argument that liberals are “scared” of Trump and using the legal process to wage a political campaign against him.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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King Charles’ Jam Sells Out After Meghan Markle Unveils Her Preserves Tim Rooke/GettyMeghan Markle’s limited launch of her first American Riviera Orchard product unexpectedly boosted her father-in-law King Charles’ rival jam this week, as royal followers stocked up on the sweet condiment in anticipation of her strawberry preserves.Sales of Charles’ Highgrove Organic Strawberry Preserve skyrocketed this week after a few select influencers began promoting Meghan’s version on social media. The duchess gifted 50 pots of her product to the chosen few but hasn’t announced when it will be available to the public. With the teased release, some royal followers may be stocking up on the king’s jam to put the duchess’ and the king’s products in a head-to-head test.Meghan’s brand is driven by a central Californian identity, its name a reference to Santa Barbara’s designation as the “American Riviera.” Charles’ lifestyle brand Highgrove, by contrast, is named for the king’s private residence in Gloucestershire, England, and practically sells English heritage in its advertising. On the website, Charles’ jam is described as a “quintessentially English strawberry preserve” packaged with “a specially commissioned woodcut design that captures the natural beauty of the gardens at Highgrove” on its label.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Feds Now Using George Santos’ Big Mouth Against Him Drew AngererEx-Rep. George Santos is once again coming face-to-face with his own worst enemy—himself.Lawyers for the truth-challenged former New York lawmaker asked the judge in his fraud case to yank the “confidential” label off material they call “highly exculpatory” that the government produced in the case, arguing that not letting Santos talk about it publicly would violate “his First Amendment right to offer brief insight into his defense.”The government dismissed the defense’s suggestion this material would “exonerate,” and practically laughed at the argument that the automatic confidentiality that both sides in the court fight previously agreed to has in any way constrained the Republican’s right to free expression.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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‘Allman Brothers’ Rock Legend Dickey Betts Dead at 80 Rick Diamond/Getty ImagesDickey Betts—guitarist, singer, and songwriter for the Allman Brothers Band—died on Thursday at the age of 80. Betts died surrounded by family in his home in Osprey, Florida, according to a statement from his family.According to his manager David Spero, the cause of death was cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is commonly caused by smoking. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Russian Court Holds Nutso ‘Terrorism’ Trial to Rage Against Meta Press Secretary AFP via Getty Images A Russian military court convened on Thursday to rage against the press secretary of Facebook’s parent company over a tweet posted more than two years ago.Andy Stone, the press secretary of Meta, was not present in the Moscow District Military Court. Andy Stone will probably never be present in a Russian court.But that did not stop a high-profile prosecutor from trying to call up a witness to make the Kremlin’s case that Stone is guilty of “justifying terrorism” for announcing back in March 2022 that Facebook and Instagram users could write “death to the Russian invaders” as much as they pleased. (Stone made clear at the time, at the height of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that calls for violence against Russian civilians would not be tolerated.) Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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‘Harry Potter’ Actor Warwick Davis Mourns Death of His Wife Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesSamantha Davis, the wife of U.K. actor Warwick Davis has died of sepsis at age 53, her family announced Wednesday.In a statement released by Lucasfilm, Davis, who is best known for his role as Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, paid tribute to his beloved late wife.“My most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career, has passed,” Davis said, referring to her as his “favorite human” and “the most open, warm person I have ever known.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Devastating Image of Aunt Grieving in Gaza Wins World Press Photo of the Year Award Mohammed Salem/ReutersA harrowing photograph showing a woman in Gaza sobbing in a morgue as she cradles the body of her 5-year-old niece won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday.Mohammed Salem, a 39-year-old Palestinian Reuters photographer, captured the image at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave on Oct. 17, 2023. The picture shows Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the shrouded corpse of her niece, Saly.“Mohammed received the news of his WPP award with humility, saying that this is not a photo to celebrate but that he appreciates its recognition and the opportunity to publish it to a wider audience,” Rickey Rogers, Reuters’ Global Editor for Pictures and Video, said at a ceremony in Amsterdam. “He hopes with this award that the world will become even more conscious of the human impact of war, especially on children.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Trump Trial Day 3 Starts With Outed Juror Quitting Jabin Botsford/ReutersThe troubles plaguing Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York City and its anonymous jury are starting to mount, as a nurse slotted as “juror number two” bowed out after details of her personal life revealed in court allowed her to be identified by friends and colleagues, scaring her enough to want to avoid serving on the most significant trial in the country’s history.“I definitely have concerns now… about being in public. Yesterday alone, I had friends, colleagues push things to my phone questioning my identity as a juror. I don’t believe at this point that I can be fair and unbiased and let the outside influences not affect my decision to be in the courtroom,” she told the judge Thursday morning.“Thank you. I’m sorry,” New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan replied. “You’re excused.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Prince William Ambushed With Get Well Cards for Kate and Charles Alastair Grant/Getty ImagesPrince William was handed get well soon cards for his wife and father by a well-wisher Thursday as he made his first in-person appearance since Kate revealed her cancer diagnosis. The prince appeared to be taken aback by the gesture, and, swiftly changed the subject, alighting on a pan of spaghetti hoops as a convenient conversational prop.Although there is no suggestion the charity worker who handed him the cards had anything other than the best intentions, Kensington Palace and William are likely to be irritated at the distraction as they tried to return to business as usual during William’s first job back in the saddle after he spent the Easter holidays focused on his family. William was visiting food distribution charity Surplus to Supper in Surrey, and was touring the facility’s kitchen, when one of the charity’s volunteers, reached below her food serving station and produced two cards for his wife and father which she handed to the prince.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Israel Contract Steve Marcus/ReutersGoogle fired 28 employees late Wednesday after staff members staged protests against the company’s work with the government of Israel during the war in Gaza.The terminations came after nine of the tech giant’s employees were arrested following 10-hour sit-in demonstrations at Google offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday. The workers involved in a group named No Tech for Apartheid say they were objecting to Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion contract awarded to Google and Amazon in 2021 to provide cloud-computing services to the Israeli government.“They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers,” Chris Rackow, Google’s vice president of global security, wrote in a companywide memo to staff announcing the firings, according to the New York Post. “Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Sheep Suspected in the Double Killing of Husband and Wife Newshub YouTubeA man in New Zealand went looking for his elderly parents on Thursday morning after becoming concerned that he had not heard from them for days, reports say. At their rural rented property in Waitākere, West Auckland, he found a ram in a paddock alongside the lifeless bodies of his parents.The unnamed couple in their early 80s are believed to have both been killed by the sheep, according to The New Zealand Herald. Authorities believe the man had gone out to feed the ram and never returned, his wife then suffering the same fate when she went to check on him, Stuff reports.New Zealand Police said the bodies were found at around 7:30 a.m. local time on Thursday morning. The agency said in a statement that the “ram was in the paddock” when authorities were contacted about the situation.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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If This Taylor Swift Album Leak Is Real, It’s All About Matty Healy GettyTaylor Swift’s most devoted fans went into a tailspin on Wednesday evening when alleged leaks of her forthcoming new album, The Tortured Poets Department, hit the internet in what appeared to be its entirety. “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth / should be a bigger artist / I scratch your head, you fall asleep / Like a tattooed Golden Retriever,” one fragment distributed by Swifties reads. While most of the audio ripping across X on Wednesday has already been taken down due to copyright violations, the overwhelming consensus among fans is already that the bulk of the album’s lyrical content concerns not actor Joe Alwyn, whose six-year relationship with Swift reportedly ended last year, but Matty Healy, the problematic lead singer of The 1975 and a former situationship of Swift’s. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Kremlin Crying About France Seizing Villa From Putin’s Ex-Wife ReutersThe Kremlin is not pleased that French authorities have taken aim at Vladimir Putin’s ex-wife.A French court’s decision to seize the $5.7-million villa belonging to Russian citizen Artur Ocheretny, the new husband of Lyudmila Ocheretnaya (formerly Putina), is “a priori illegal,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. The “Souzanna” villa in Anglet, near Biarritz, was seized back in December 2023 but the news only became public this week, according to the local publication Challenges.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Jawbone of Long Dead U.S. Marine Found in Kid’s Rock Collection Ramapo College of New JerseyCapt. Everett Leland Yager of the U.S. Marine Corps was 30 years old when he embarked on a military training exercise back in California in 1951, and it’s fair to say the World War II vet probably had a lot of ideas about how he wanted to be remembered by his wife and two children should he be killed during his service. Full military honors, perhaps a somber memorial. A burial site where future generations could remember him.He almost certainly didn’t expect any of his remains to wind up in a child’s rock collection. And yet that’s exactly what happened, according to genealogy experts.The “unexpected” discovery was announced this week by the Ramapo College of New Jersey, where a genetics lab determined that Yager’s jawbone had somehow been mistaken for a rock during a “scavenging exploration” in Arizona. The “rock” was finally referred for forensic testing in January 2023, and students ultimately found it was a DNA match to Yager’s daughter.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants a Space Laser to Stop Migrants Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via GettyRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is pushing for the creation of a space laser to defend the U.S.-Mexico border. Yes, really.The MAGA congresswoman, who has notoriously made bizarre comments about “Jewish space lasers” in the past, called for the technology in a proposed amendment to a bill that would provide funding for Israel during its war against Hamas in Gaza. “By the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border,” the text of her amendment reads.“Israel has some of the best unmanned defense systems in the world,” Greene wrote in an X post Wednesday. “I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense. America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Biden’s Uncle Probably Wasn’t Eaten by Cannibals, Actually Anadolu via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Wednesday made a pretty shocking claim about why the body of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was never found after Finnegan’s plane went down during World War II.“He got shot down in New Guinea,” Biden said at the United Steelworkers Headquarters in Pittsburgh. “And they never found the body because there used to be—there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.”Biden mentioned his uncle—known to his family as “Bosie”—in a speech which also criticized his election rival Donald Trump for reportedly calling U.S. veterans “suckers” and “losers.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Kennedy Kin Spurn RFK Jr. Campaign With Formal Biden Endorsement Mario Tama/Getty ImagesMore than a dozen members of the Kennedy family will officially endorse Joe Biden for president on Wednesday, forsaking their own family member, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The family plans to gather with Biden in Philadelphia, where they will make calls and knock on doors on the president’s behalf.According to a draft of Kerry Kennedy’s remarks reviewed by The Daily Beast, she plans to denounce Donald Trump as a threat to America’s “most basic rights and freedoms.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com