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A final rose isn’t forever. Not every couple survives the reality TV curse, especially in Bachelor Nation. However, that doesn’t change the fact that the franchise is one of the most — if not the most — popular reality show on TV. When The Bachelor first debuted in 2005, not even then-host Chris Harrison would have predicted that it would result in five different spinoffs: The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad, Bachelor in Paradise, Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise and The Bachelor Winter Games. In 2020, the show is a bit different after a handful of scandals surfaced. During season 4 of Bachelor…

POCHEON, South Korea: South Korea has plans to bring in about 110,000 migrant workers this year to work at its farms and factories, but some businesses believe even more will be needed to keep them running.  These sectors are currently facing a labour shortage, as many young South Koreans shun jobs that are deemed dirty and dangerous. In a recent survey by the Korea Enterprises Federation, a major business lobbying group, about 40 percent of the small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) surveyed said they did not think the government had fully grasped the scale of the problem. They said the…

Nine minutes after Meta announced that it will allow Donald Trump back on its platforms, the disgraced ex-president was on his own Truth Social app posting about supposed election fraud in the 2020 election. It’s nothing unusual for Trump. A research report published earlier this month by the watchdog group Accountable Tech found that Trump had written more than 200 posts containing “harmful election-related disinformation” since he was banished from Meta’s platforms. But now, once again, Trump is Meta’s problem. The social media giant announced on Wednesday, unsurprisingly, that Trump will be permitted back on Facebook and Instagram, setting the…

Mayor Eric Adams applauded a group of Bronx-based merchants so fed up with shoplifters that they hired private security guards to police Fordham Road, while also ordering his own police force to “arrest” and “prosecute” suspects. Hizzoner dubbed the Fordham Road Business District’s new patrol group a “wise strategy” when pressed about the plan Wednesday morning interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We see the front page of the New York Post here this morning — I’ll hang it up — talking about how there are some here in the Bronx shopkeepers that there’s a sense of feeling the police aren’t…

The City of Calgary has received an application for a zoning change on the property where the former Kensington Manor apartment building once stood in the city’s northwest. The property, at 32110 Street N.W., has sat vacant since the ill-fated apartment complex was demolished in the spring of 2020 after it was deemed unsafe.The land was recently sold and the new owner is looking to develop a new building with both street-level commercial space and residential apartments on the upper floors.O2 Planning and Development submitted the application to rezone the land, to allow for an eight-storey development — one storey…

The founder of an investment firm plunged to his death from a Manhattan rooftop bar on Wednesday night, cops and law enforcement sources said. The 46-year-old man plummeted from Bar 54 at the Hyatt Centric Times Square New York in front of at least two witnesses around 6:30 p.m., police and the sources said. He landed on the street below and was pronounced dead on scene, cops said. Two people at the rooftop bar told police that the man jumped off the building, sources said. One woman called 911, saying she heard a loud noise. The death is being investigated…

A fire broke out in a Queens home operating as an illegal daycare center on Wednesday, sending one child to the hospital in serious condition and injuring 17 other kids, officials and sources said. A lithium-ion battery from an electric scooter is believed to have caused a fire in the basement of the two-story home at 147-07 72nd Drive in Kew Gardens Hills just after 2 p.m., FDNY officials and sources said. One child was transported to Cornell Hospital in serious condition for smoke inhalation, FDNY and sources said.  The other 17 children were in stable condition and “refused medical…

NASA is partnering with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to use a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, according to reports.In a press release on Tuesday, NASA said the nuclear thermal rocket engine could one day be used for NASA crewed missions to Mars. Both agencies will collaborate on the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations, or DRACO, program, under a “non-reimbursable agreement.”NASA’S ARTEMIS I LAUNCH TO BRING US STEP CLOSER TO ‘SUSTAINABLE HUMAN FOOTPRINT ON THE MOON’The agreement, the release read, is designed to benefit both agencies while outlining roles, responsibilities and processes that could accelerate…

JP Mancini II has always been attracted to luxury. He just assumed the barrier of entry was too high.Then, last January, he decided to rent out his $400,000 boat. Upon listing the 37-foot boat, docked in Key West, Florida, on a rental platform called Boatsetter, he booked 11 trips in a month. The next month, that number doubled.Sensing opportunity, the 32-year-old sales professional began listing his boat on other rental platforms like Get My Boat — and bought a second, smaller boat for rentals in Hampton, Virginia, where he lives. Today, Mancini’s two boats bring in an average of $38,800…

Three, two, one — pose! Park rangers had an amusing surprise after they checked the nine cameras across wildlife land in Boulder, Colorado. Colorado’s Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) staff has cameras placed across the 46,000-acre land system for research purposes, as news service SWNS reported.And they discovered that some bears had quite the photo shoot. CONNECTICUT FAMILY FINDS BLACK BEAR HIBERNATING UNDER THEIR OUTDOOR DECK: ‘NOT BOTHERING US’One bear in particular was featured on the trap camera.Of the 580 pictures captured, 400 photos were bear “selfies” of one bear, noted the City of Boulder. Open Space and Mountain Parks senior wildlife…