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CNN  —  The Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire shared at a Thursday event the hoax claim that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools. Don Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general who is challenging Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, made the comments while speaking to supporters in North Hampton, according to audio obtained by CNN’s KFile from an attendee. The claim, which has occasionally been cited by some Republican politicians, has been repeatedly debunked. “Guess what? We have furries and fuzzies in classrooms,” Bolduc told the crowd. “They lick themselves, they’re…

The Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Olympic Team have received the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports from the Princess of Asturias Foundation. The award, which recognises the opportunities that the ORF and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team provide to young, displaced people around the world to access sport, was presented to IOC President Thomas Bach. He was accompanied by Refugee Olympic Team members Eldric Sella (boxing) and Masomah Ali Zada (cycling), two athletes who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The annual Princess of Asturias Awards were established in 1981…

A woman who says she is the stepdaughter of suspected Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape says he abused his children and has a “monster in him” despite trying to be “a good person.”DePape, 42, is accused of assaulting Pelosi, 82, with a hammer just before 2:30 a.m. Friday at the couple’s multimillion-dollar San Francisco estate, according to officials. Nancy Pelosi was not present in the home at the time. Inti Gonzalez said in a Friday Facebook post that her younger brothers remembered DePape, who was in a relationship with their mother for years, “physically and sexually abusing” her and her siblings…

An engagement so nice, they did it twice! Thomas Jacobs proposed to fiancée Becca Kufrin nearly five months after she popped the question, and their Bachelor Nation pals are beyond excited. The happy couple shared photos from Jacobs’ proposal via Instagram on Friday, October 28. The California native, 30, had carved the words “Marry Me” into a pumpkin before getting down on one knee. “Oui, si, ja, ken, da, ye, yas yes YES! Love you forever, my little pumpkin ??,” the former Bachelorette, 32, wrote on Friday. “Now let’s get married!” The real estate broker’s proposal quickly earned the approval of…

The sister of a B.C. woman with disabilities, who died while in care, is speaking out about the conditional sentence the caregiver received after the death. Florence Girard weighed just 56 pounds when she died of starvation.  The 54-year-old, who lived with down syndrome and was in the care of Astrid Dahl, was recently convicted of failing to provide the necessities of life and given a conditional sentence.The victim’s sister told Global News she has written to Crown counsel asking for an appeal.“(The) Crown hasn’t responded. Not at all. Obviously, the courts don’t care,” said Sharon Bursey, Girard’s sister. “Probation…

Russia announced it is withdrawing from the UN-facilitated Black Sea grain export agreement after an attack on its naval forces in Sevastopol, Crimea.”We’ve seen the reports from the Russian Federation regarding the suspension of their participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative following an attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. Secretary General, said in a press release Saturday morning. “We are in touch with the Russian authorities on this matter.””It is vital that all parties refrain from any action that would imperil the Black Sea Grain Initiative which is a critical humanitarian effort…

A Turkish man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of throwing his pregnant wife off a cliff to collect her life insurance policy.Hakan Aysal, 41, was sentenced to life behind bars after being convicted of pushing his seven-months-pregnant wife, 32-year-old Semra Aysal, off a cliff while vacationing at a popular tourist attraction in southern Turkey in June 2018, New York Post reported.Authorities believe Aysal lured his wife to the edge of the cliff by convincing her to take a selfie before pushing her off.After his wife was killed by the fall off the 1,000-foot cliff, authorities…

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk said he was not involved in the social media giant lifting a restriction on Ye’s account, telling a user that it was done before he completed his $44 billion acquisition of the company. On Friday, Musk wrote that the platform is “forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints” and will make “no major content decisions or account reinstatements” before the council convenes. One user, however, questioned why Ye’s account — which was temporarily restricted over an “anti-Jewish” comment — was “already restored.””Twitter should not be a platform to spew racism and antisemitism,” the…

The two candidates in the closely watched Colorado Senate race went on the attack in a second debate Friday, after an uneventful first debate Tuesday.Sen. Michael Bennet accused Republican opponent Joe O’Dea of being a “liar” after O’Dea sought to portray his record in Washington as ineffective and closely aligned with President Biden and national Democrats.THE SLEEPER SENATE RACES THAT MAY DETERMINE WHETHER DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS CONTROL THE MAJORITY”Joe, you know that your assertion that I’ve only passed one bill in the time I’ve been in the Senate — you’ve said it over and over again, it’s been fact-checked as…

Rescue teams work at the scene where dozens of people were injured in a stampede during a Halloween festival in Seoul, South Korea, October 29, 2022. Kim Hong-ji | ReutersAt least 146 people were killed and 150 more were injured as they were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital of Seoul, South Korean officials said.Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise and that an unspecified number among the injured were in critical conditions following the stampede in Itaewon on Saturday night.Officials say people…