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Celebrities are just like Us! Gigi Hadid opened up about her experience launching a fashion brand — and how it isn’t as easy as it might look. “I have imposter syndrome all the time,” Hadid, 27, said during a Vogue interview that was published on Friday, October 14, in regard to the anxiety she feels after launching her Guest in Residence cashmere brand last month.  While Hadid remains booked and busy in the model world, she revealed that being a mom to 2-year-old daughter Kai — whom she shares with ex Zayn Malik — is what motivated her to take…

A demonstration took place Friday evening near Kingston, Ont.’s Integrated Care Hub (ICH) on Montreal Street, to send a message to the city about the possibility of looming evictions. “No one should be forced to go somewhere they don’t want to go,” says Mutual Aid Katarokwi-Kingston (MAKK) member Sayyida Jaffer.Residents of an encampment community near the ICH, and some of their supporters rallied to say ‘no’ to evictions under the encampment protocol.“Us being forced to move out of here, being kicked out of here, has brought a lot of stress,” says unhoused Kingstonian Margaret Halliday. “And we’ve got enough stress…

A Mexican citizen has been sentenced to nine years in prison following a record-breaking drug seizure of more than 17,500 pounds of methamphetamine and another 388 pounds of fentanyl from a truck trying to enter the United States, federal prosecutors said Friday. Carlos Martin Quintana-Arias admitted to driving the tractor-trailer on Nov. 18, 2021, through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California, the Justice Department said. DEMOCRAT-RUN EL PASO ESCAPES LIBERAL MAYORS’ IRE FOR BUSSING MIGRANTS He pleaded guilty earlier this year to the importation of a controlled substance. Both amounts mark the largest seizures of either drug in…

Atlanta Braves rookie pitcher Spencer Strider took the ball for the first time in close to a month and quickly took down the first six Phillies batters. But the success was short-lived. A leadoff walk in the third inning spelled the beginning of trouble. A wild pitch on a pickoff attempt moved the Phillies runner from first base to third. Strider then gave up an RBI double to fellow rookie Bryson Stott. Braves manager Brian Snitker then elected to intentionally walk Kyle Schwarber. Strider’s next pitch in the top of the third inning to Rhys Hoskins was hit 394 feet for a three-run…

A United Airlines passenger jet bound for Miami had to return to Chicago on Friday after hitting a bird, the airline said.The bird strike happened just after it took off from O’Hare International Airport, according to United. Flight 1930, a Boeing 737-900, returned to the airport.”The aircraft landed safely and passengers deplaned at the gate,” United said in a statement. Passengers were put on a different plane, it said.The Chicago Department of Aviation said that it got a call for “standby alert” at 11:14 a.m.Reported bird strikes on civil aircraft have generally been increasing over the years, although the number…

CNN  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant relocation program planned to transport “approximately 100 or more” migrants to Delaware and Illinois between September 19 and October 3, according to documents obtained by CNN through a public records request. The documents are memos sent to the Florida Department of Transportation’s state purchasing administrator from James Montgomerie, the CEO of Vertol Systems Company Inc., the company that Florida contracted to arrange transport for the migrants. The memo explicitly states that Vertol Systems would provide the services to transport the migrants, “from Florida.” Two “projects” were planned, according to a September 15 memo.…

Rep. Ro Khanna is paying a cadre of political consultants in the early presidential nominating states, which some say is a possible sign he’s exploring a presidential run as early as 2024.Khanna, a three-term California Democrat, has on his campaign payroll political consultants and strategists throughout the Northeast as well as in Iowa, Nevada and Colorado. The relationships were first disclosed on Friday in filings Khanna’s re-election campaign made with the Federal Election Commission.”He’s clearly exploring the possibility of running for president at some point,” said Brad Bannon, a Democratic political strategist who has worked on multiple high-profile campaigns. “It…

CNN  —  The political arm of a voting rights group founded by Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on Friday that it would launch an investigation into whether it incorrectly paid consultants. The announcement came in response to the publication of a Fox News report describing Fair Fight PAC’s payments of consulting fees to three individuals who had personal connections to the group’s director. There is no suggestion of legal wrongdoing. In a statement, Fair Fight PAC said it “became aware that PAC funds may have been incorrectly paid to consultants” a day earlier and that it would immediately begin…

A father and son were fishing for striped bass and tuna off the Jersey Shore near Belmar on Wednesday when they hooked a prize memory: A massive humpback whale breached the sea inches from them.The son, Zach Piller, 23, of the Philadephia area, captured the moment on video. The water boiled with activity, with dozens of small fish jumping from the sea, before the humpback’s head emerged next to the duo’s small boat.”Uh-oh,” Piller is heard saying just before the animal breached the surface and raised its head above the boat’s midships.Humpback whale breaches the water near fishermen in NJ.zachpiller18…

Brian Daboll knew how Kayvon Thibodeaux would handle not having a sack five games into his rookie season because the Giants head coach asked the first-round draft pick about it the first time that they met. In a meeting at the NFL combine in February, Daboll accidentally spoke of a possible scenario in which Thibodeaux was playing for the Giants and facing mounting pressure to get his first sack after five games. “We’re going to figure out how next week we’re going to take advantage of whoever we play and get three sacks,” Thibodeaux said at the time, per Giants.com.…