Mount Airy police investigate incident at gas station
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIt was March 10, 2022—day one of a virtual forum held over Zoom to re-write the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), a draft law that for four decades has been the basis for defining who is alive and who is dead in the United States. Many of those assembled were legal professionals who are members of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC), a quasi-governmental entity whose origins go back 125 years. It’s a crowded meeting of five- dozen
HuluThere’s a scene in Shrek where Princess Fiona, after waking from her serene slumber, battles an army of weapon-clad forest men looking to steal her away. This was not the princess archetype we’d come to expect in the early 2000s. Here was a beautiful woman who, though she was saved by an ogre, could fend off injustices with her own two fists. The scene was fun, Fiona continued to surprise audiences with new depth of character, and Shrek won us all over.Now, imagine that one fight scene laste
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFrom the outside, it is a remarkably plain three-bedroom home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Nicknamed “The Peanut,” it is 15 years old, fronted with brick, and within shouting distance of the Tuscaloosa Nazarene Church. If that house of prayer isn’t of interest, there are at least another 19 within 4 miles.The Peanut is notable because of its owners—all 251 of them. Together, they pooled their funds this year to buy, and then rent, the $215
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Universal PicturesHuge news: The Minions are back, baby!The little gibberish-speaking lads are notoriously divisive amongst adults, who perceive them either as cute little distractions or a symbol of society’s downfall. But when it comes to kids, they can’t get enough. A staggering fact: Despicable Me is the highest-grossing animated franchise in history, earning over $3.5 billion over four films.With each film raking in nearly $900 mil
Warner Bros.Tom Hanks is known for being the world’s most popular everyman actor.His leading performances in movies like Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, and Cast Away were so powerful because he created an umbilical cord between the movie and its audience. Thanks to Hanks’ warmth, charm, and relatability, viewers could picture themselves as his characters and, thus, could just as easily imagine overcoming the obstacles that Forrest, Andrew Beckett, Captain John H. Miller, and Ch
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastA few days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, a woman who described herself as an anti-abortion activist showed up in the waiting room of Dr. Marissa Lapedis, a family-medicine doctor who performs the procedure in Atlanta.But she wasn’t there to protest—she had an appointment.“She talked about being in marches, and said she had spent a lot of time volunteering in crisis pregnancy centers—you know, showing patients the ult
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man whose body was found inside a home on Coconut Road in Palm Springs.
Softbank-owned Fortress Investment Group has offered around 200 billion yen ($1.48 billion) to buy Japanese department store unit Sogo & Seibu from parent Seven & i Holdings, Nikkei reported on Sunday, citing sources. Fortress has obtained the first refusal right in the acquisition of Sogo & Seibu, amid investor pressure at Seven & i to focus on its core convenience store business, Nikkei said.
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The pair said the tax cut will amount to £6 billion in value and lift ‘2.2 million people out of paying any National Insurance or income tax’.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's pardon of Kruzan, who received a life sentence when she was 16, was cheered by supporters of criminal justice reform.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nolan Arenado sparked a record barrage of four straight home runs by St. Louis in the first inning, then hit a tiebreaking drive in the ninth that sent the Cardinals over the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6 Saturday. With two outs in the first, Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Dylan Carson homered off Kyle Gibson. It was the first time in major league history a team connected for four homers in a row in the first inning. The Cardinals tied the MLB record for any inning with fo
STORY: “Brutal hostilities continue along the entire front line, in Donbas - the epicentre, of course, in the cities of the Luhansk region. Hostile activity is intensifying in the Kharkiv region,” Zelenskiy said in the evening video message.Zelenskiy added that Ukrainian forces have driven Russian troops from the town of Ivanivka in the Kherson region.“We continue to put pressure in the south of our state,” he said.On Saturday, Andrei Marochko, an officer of the pro-Russian Luhansk People's Militia, was quoted by Russia's TASS news agency as saying that the militia's red hammer-and-sickle flag was now flying over the administrative building in Lysychansk, although Ukraine's military rejected claims that the city was encircled.Russian forces seized Lysychansk's sister city Sievierodonetsk last month, after some of the heaviest fighting of the war that pounded whole districts into rubble.
Toronto FC's road back to respectability hit another bump Saturday. Goals by Dylan Teves and Fredy Montero lifted the undermanned Seattle Sounders to a 2-0 victory over Toronto in an MLS game that left TFC players and coach frustrated. Toronto (5-10-3) was disconnected in the first half and paid for slack defending on both goals. Coach Bob Bradley, who has been tasked with overseeing a massive overhaul of an underachieving 6-18-10 side that finished second from last in the then-27-team league in
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TUNIS (Reuters) -The head of Tunisia's constitution committee blasted a proposed constitution published by President Kais Saied, local media reported on Sunday, reinforcing opposition fears that Saied was seeking to impose a unilateral charter. Sadok Belaid, a former constitutional law professor was named by Saied to draft a "new constitution for a new republic", said Saied's version was dangerous and did not resemble the first draft proposed by the constitution committee, the Assabeh newspaper said. Belaid said the draft constitution published by the president contains chapters that could pave the way for "a disgraceful dictatorial regime".
Japanese mobile carrier KDDI Corp said on Sunday that about 70% of services have been recovered and the company is working hard to restore the rest after nationwide network troubles made calls and connecting to the internet difficult. The disruption, which started about 1:35 a.m. on Saturday (1635 GMT Friday), have also affected a wide range of services, including weather data and parcel delivery to banking and automobiles. "We have been gradually recovering some services, mainly in data communication," KDDI said in a statement.
Branden Grace won LIV Golf's first stop on U.S. soil, an event that drew critics and protesters because of the upstart series' funding by Saudi Arabia.
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