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Maryland high school placed on lockdown after handgun found in substitute teacher’s backpack

A high school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was placed on lockdown Friday afternoon when a handgun was discovered in a backpack belonging to a substitute teacher. Glen Burnie High School principal Kevin Carr said in a letter to families that the substitute left the backpack in a classroom as students were dismissed from third …

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Sirens heard as dozens of rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel

The rocket fire was launched from multiple locations in Gaza starting at 06:30 am (0330 GMT), the AFP journalist reported. The Israeli army warned of sirens across the country’s south and central areas for more than an hour, urging the public to stay near bomb shelters. The military also said “a number of terrorists have …

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Sirens warn of rockets launched towards Israel from Gaza: News reports

Dozens of rockets have been fired from the blockaded Gaza Strip towards Israel, and sirens warning of incoming fire have been heard as far away as the greater Tel Aviv area, according to news reports. The rocket fire began from multiple locations in Gaza starting at 06:30 am local time (03:30 GMT) on Saturday and …

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Shawna Trpcic Dies: ‘The Mandalorian’, ‘Ahsoka’ & ‘Firefly’ Costume Designer Was 56

Shawna Trpcic, an Emmy-nominated costume designer best known for her work on several Star Wars series on Disney+ and her collaborations with Joss Whedon has died, Lucasfilm announced Friday. She was 56. A cause of death was not provided but Trpcic’s passing appears sudden; as recently as three days ago she was chronicling a desert …

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Bill Maher Talks About The Migrant Crisis As “A Disaster For The Democrats”

Bill Maher was off television for five months, thanks to the WGA strike. So naturally, he had a lot to catch up on in Friday’s edition of Real Time on HBO. Maher kept the focus squarely on politics in his opening monologue and in his panel discussion, with particular emphasis on covering the immigration border …

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Trump’s Latest Gamble Is Outlandish—but It Just Might Work

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team went big in their latest effort to derail the prosecution against him for conspiring to interfere in the 2020 election: They filed a motion to dismiss that could be called a motion to make U.S. presidents into kings. The 52-page legal motion filed in the D.C. case asks U.S. …

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Trump ‘Not Fit for the Job,’ Gives Foreign Leaders Reason to Worry: Bolton

Reports alleging that ex-President Donald Trump shared U.S. nuclear submarine secrets with an Australian billionaire came as no surprise to former National Security Adviser John Bolton, who told CNN that Trump has “no filter between his brain and his mouth” and that “he’s not fit for the job” of president. Bolton was reacting to news …

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Mortgage Rates in the US Rise for a Fourth Week, Reaching 7.49%

(Bloomberg) — Mortgage rates rose for a fourth straight week, reaching the highest level since December 2000. The average for a 30-year fixed loan was 7.49%, up from 7.31% last week, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday. Borrowing costs have topped 7% since mid-August, a streak that helped send applications for home-purchase loans to …

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October, 2023’s most crowded month, is here | Kaser Focus

A chill breeze, a red leaf on a tree, the distant sound of “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” playing — October has officially arrived. And while my non-gamer, civilian self revels in the sudden appearance of pumpkins, fall foliage and literal spooky, scary skeletons … my gamer self is battening down the hatches. Because the most crowded, …

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Press Hit Play: Meet P-Pop’s Modern Storytellers Aiming To Be The Voice Of This Generation

When people across the globe encounter the term “PHP,” they may automatically think it stands for the Philippines or its currency, the Philippine Peso. But in the Filipino pop music industry (dubbed Pinoy Pop or P-Pop), it has a whole other meaning: the up-and-coming all-male group Press Hit Play. Composed of members CHRLS (Charles), JP, …

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