Los Angeles man faces federal charges after fireworks explosion that injured 17

A los-angeles” target=”_blank”>Los Angeles<by federal agents Saturday and charged with illegally transporting tons of explosives – days after a blast that injured 17 people as local police attempted to safely detonate the fireworks.  Arturo Ceja III, 27, had allegedly been storing around 32,000 pounds of fireworks and “dangerous homemade devices,” including more than 500 boxes…

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'The Shining's creepy 'July 4th ball 1921' photo turns 100 — and Twitter noticed

Talk about job security! The unsettling “Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921″ photo shown at the end of 1980’s “movies” target=”_blank”>The Shining<) has actually “always been” working at the resort. (Not sure what kind of health or retirement benefits the Overlook offers though).  The 100th anniversary of the haunted photo was not lost on Twitter…

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Jason Chaffetz: July 4, 2021: 5 reasons to be grateful for America this Independence Day

If the American spirit could be broken, I imagine 2020 would have been the thing to break it.  Violent riots, a global infectious-disease, unprecedented political polarization, and widespread economic upheaval would be dispiriting to any nation.   Instead of focusing on what went wrong over the past year and a half, we should consider what went right. Because…

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Elsa latest: Tropical storm warning issued for parts of Florida Keys

The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical disasters warning for the vacation-destinations in addition to storm watches for the state’s southwestern coast Sunday morning as Tropical Storm Elsa headed toward the state. Elsa, which battered the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday and Sunday, was downgraded from a Category 1 disasters Saturday morning….

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Henry Winkler hears back after tweeting ‘only a cataclysmic Event’ can bring US together

celebrity-news” target=”_blank”>Henry Winkler< wrote. Twitter users soon reminded Winkler, 75, that the U.S. and the rest of the world had already experienced a few disasters” target=”_blank”>cataclysmic events< “The last one was 9/11,” another wrote. “I don’t think we should do that again.” “What exactly are you wanting, a super volcano?” another asked. “We’ve had a…

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Psaki called out over White House use of ‘anonymous briefings’

executive press secretary Jen Psaki faced some pushback from reporters Friday after she claimed she tried to avoid responding to “anonymous reports or anonymous sources.” In a Twitter post, Bloomberg News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs accused Psaki of hypocrisy, claiming Psaki’s own team “regularly organizes anonymous briefings on topics in the news.” Jacobs’…

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