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OTTAWA — Every day on his way to work in 2016, Veldon Coburn drove past Bordeleau Park, by the edge of the Rideau River near downtown Ottawa. On a September day that year, while he drove past the park, Coburn heard on the radio that a body had been found in the river.Days later, he learned that the person found in the river was Annie Pootoogook, a renowned Inuk artist who won the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2006 and whose work has been shown around the world.She was also the biological mother of Coburn’s adopted daughter, Napachie, who was…

Instagram contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.From razor-edge cat eyes to backseat feasts, this week’s best beauty Instagrams were all down to moments of indulgence. The bathroom selfie game had some major players, including Camila Mendes, who tended to her skin with an extensive menu of sheet masks, and Alexa Chung, her brunette lengths combed into a low knot featuring fingerwaves worthy of a modern flapper. Elsewhere, Nicola Peltz Beckham shared a close-up capture of her feline flicks, while Lupita Nyong’o showed off a parade of premiere beauty defined by locs, braids, and ethereal…

A Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that blew up a passenger plane over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, is in American custody, authorities in the U.S. and Scotland said Sunday. “The United States has taken custody of alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi,” a Department of Justice spokesperson told NBC News. “He is expected to make his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.”In a separate statement Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said that the victims’ families had been told that he…

The head of conservative Christian group in Virginia is speaking out after members of her organization were turned away from a restaurant based solely on their religious views.Victoria Cobb, president of the non-profit Christian lobbying organization Family Foundation of Virginia, told Fox News Digital that several members of her group were scheduled to hold a private event at a side room at Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond, Virginia when they received a call an hour and a half before the reservation saying their reservation had been canceled. The reason given for the cancelation, according to Cobb, was that a member…

BEIJING: One of China’s top health experts has warned of a surge in COVID-19 cases, state media said Sunday, in the wake of the government’s decision to abandon its hardline coronavirus strategy. Shops and restaurants in Beijing are deserted as the country awaits a spike in infections following the decision to reduce the scope of mandatory testing, allow some positive cases to quarantine at home and end large-scale lockdowns. Top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan told state media in an interview published Sunday that the Omicron strain of the virus prevalent in China was highly transmissible and could lead to a surge…

Journalist Bryony Gordon, who formed a bond with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, believes he already wanted to leave the Royal Family when he was young but only thanks to his wife he took the plungeVideo LoadingVideo UnavailableThe video will auto-play soon8CancelPlay nowPrince Harry “wanted out from the crazy cult of royalty” since childhood but only managed to leave after meeting Meghan Markle as she was a “catalyst” for it, a friend of the Sussexes has claimed. Journalist Bryony Gordon, who worked with Harry during her mental health campaigning in 2016, says the couple’s new Netflix documentary is “neither contrived…

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) entertained Republicans in Manhattan Saturday night with a range of one-liners trolling the political left on hot-button topics. “I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” she said of her role at the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The controversial congresswoman was one of several high-profile conservative firebrands – including Donald Trump, Jr. and commentator Jack Posobiec – who bashed President Joe Biden, progressives and more at the annual event hosted by the New York…

CNN  —  Buoyed by the steep drop in child poverty last year, a group of Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocates are pushing hard to restore at least part of the enhanced child tax credit that stabilized many families’ finances in 2021. Though its prospects are slim, the coalition’s priority is making the credit more refundable so more of the lowest-income families can qualify, as they did last year thanks to the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan’s temporary expansion of the credit. Nearly 19 million kids won’t receive the full $2,000 benefit this year because their parents earn too little,…

Nicole Foltz, a mother of five, died tragically three days after suffering burns on most of her body after a gruesome firepit accident in her backyard, according to multiple reports. She was only 38 years old.She and her husband, Jeff Foltz, had initially started the fire to keep bugs away in their home in Pinellas County, Florida, according to reports.FLORIDA MOM OF 5 DIES AFTER BACKYARD FIREPIT ACCIDENT THAT ALSO SEVERELY INJURED 7-YEAR-OLD SON: REPORTS”I had just gone inside and to my knowledge, she decided to try to keep the fire going, keep the fun going, and she put another log…