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Gloria Allred and Armie Hammer Shutterstock (2)Famed women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred is no longer representing Effie Angelova, who accused Armie Hammer of “violently” raping her during their alleged sexual relationship. Angelova recently criticized the attorney for taking part in the Discovery+ documentary House of Hammer, which premiered earlier this month and featured interviews with several of the women who claimed they were sexually abused by the Call Me By Your Name star. Angelova herself did not participate, but the episodes included a clip from her 2021 press conference. “It came as a shock to find out that Gloria had…

A North Dakota judge on Friday denied a request to lift his stay of a law banning abortion while a challenge to the law’s constitutionality is pending.Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick rejected Attorney General Drew Wrigley’s argument that he hadn’t sufficiently considered whether a Fargo abortion clinic would succeed with its lawsuit.The Red River Women’s Clinic, the state’s only abortion clinic, argues that the state’s constitution grants a right to abortion. Though it continues to pursue that claim, it closed its Fargo location in August and opened a clinic in neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota, where abortion remains legal.NORTH DAKOTA JUDGE…

After years in the making, NASA has captured audio of space rocks slamming into the surface of Mars. Between 2020 and 2021, the agency’s InSight Lander detected seismic waves resulting from multiple impacts on the red planet since 2018. All the crashes appeared to be near the planet’s Elysium Planitia plain, ranging from 53 to 180 miles away from each other.The discovery allowed NASA to release recorded seismic and acoustic activity on Earth’s neighbor for the first time. The meteoroids entered Mars’ atmosphere in September 2021 where it exploded into three-piece that left craters in their wake. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirmed…

FIRST ON FOX: The Federal Emergency Management Agency distributed more than $3.7 billion in improper and potentially fraudulent payments through an aid program for state workforce agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security found.DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari found that FEMA “did not implement controls to prevent” the billions of dollars in improper payments from the agency’s Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program.FEMA implemented the $44 billion program in August 2020 to ease the economic burden for people who lost work due to the coronavirus pandemic. Under the program, which was active for six…

Restaurant workers are among the hardest working Americans who keep the country moving.The restaurant industry has faced serious struggles over the past several years, from violent protests in American cities in 2020 to excessive COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic.More recently, rising inflation and the increase in remote workers has added stress and tension. WHY RESTAURANTS IN DEEP-BLUE CITIES ARE STRUGGLING MIGHTILY RIGHT NOWBut when the going gets tough — the tough get going. That describes Kim Mahoney, the manager of the historic Warren Tavern in Charlestown, Mass.Mahoney, who lives in the greater Boston area, has worked at the Warren Tavern for…

Travelers from the U.S. may want to reconsider their Mexico travel plans with the U.S. State Department issuing an updated Travel Advisory for travelers, citing an “increased risk of crime and kidnapping.”The State Department noted that violent crime, such as homicide, kidnappings, carjacking, and robbery, is “widespread and common” in Mexico. The updated Travel Advisory includes new information on the Coahuila, Mexico, Nayarit, and Zacatecas states. Travelers should “exercise increased caution when traveling to” Coahuila, Mexico and Nayarit and “not travel to” Zacatecas. There is also updated information on the “kidnapping risk” for the states of Colima, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Baja California, Chihuahua,…

Veteran play-by-play announcer and voice of the New York Yankees, Michael Kay, has turned down an offer to cover Friday night’s potentially historic game against the Boston Red Sox amid reports that the Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network (YES) was efforting a deal to simulcast the game with Apple TV+ in anticipation of Aaron Judge’s 61st home run of the season. Apple TV+ reportedly declined an offer from YES to broadcast Friday’s game against the Red Sox – an offer that included Kay, David Cone, Paul O’Neill and its own production to support the broadcast, the New York Post first reported…

A man who was missing for 17 days after an earthquake in China’s southwest Sichuan province has been found alive, according to local media reports.The 28-year-old hydropower station employee Gan Yu had stayed behind with his colleague Luo Yong after the magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit Sichuan on Sept. 5. The quake killed 93 people and injured hundreds.Gan administered first aid for his colleagues and helped prevent flooding by releasing water from the dam, according to the state-owned China National Radio. Both Gan and Luo then stayed in the station for over a day without food or mobile signal.6.8-MAGNITUDE CHINA EARTHQUAKE DEATH…

He solves crime for a living — but allegedly couldn’t get away with his own. A rookie cop has been accused of trying to turn criminal mastermind when he allegedly swiped a pair of AirPods from a Lower Manhattan restaurant worker — and got caught on camera doing it, police sources said. Terrence Gittens, 36, was picked up Thursday and charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, cops said Friday. Gittens was inside Cava at 50 Spring St. just after 12 p.m. Wednesday when he allegedly grabbed an unattended pair of wireless headphones, which belonged to the…

Life in plastic was not fantastic. “Barbie” actress Margot Robbie said she was “mortified” after photos from her new film were leaked onto the internet, which drew hundreds of people to the set and inspired the look of summer 2022: Barbiecore. “I can’t tell you how mortified we were, by the way,” Robbie, who is playing the iconic Mattel doll, said Tuesday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “We look like we’re like laughing and having fun, but we’re dying on the inside. Dying. I was like, this is the most humiliating moment of my life.” The photos, which…