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A pair of activists on Sunday doused a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest climate change.  The two activists from the group Last Generation can be seen in a video throwing a thick substance over Monet’s “Les Meules” at Potsdam’s Barberini Museum, then gluing their hands to the wall below the painting.The group later confirmed that the mixture was mashed potatoes.”We make this #Monet the state and the public the audience,” the group later tweeted along with a video of the incident. “If it takes a painting – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to…

CNN  —  A family of four that “unexpectedly left their home” in Fremont, Michigan and went missing for nearly a week were located by authorities on Sunday. Anthony Cirigliano, 51, and Suzette Cirigliano, 51, along with their two sons Brandon, 19, and Noah, 15, who both have autism, were found in Wisconsin, Fremont Police said. The family had not been heard from since October 16, and the couple and their sons were last seen on Monday at a gas station nearly five hours north of their home. Surveillance footage showed the family “purchasing fuel and food,” police said earlier. Fremont…

Flood-weary residents in the northern Victorian town of Echuca are on high alert as they prepare for the worst flooding in over 100 years.Floodwaters from the Campaspe and Goulburn Rivers combined with the Murray River have caused river levels to exceed the 1993 flood.The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting levels may peak near 94.9 metres, with more major flooding expected.An evacuation order remains in place for residents in the town not already cut off by floodwaters. Source: Sky News

Lulu lives at Sea Life Brighton and has been in captivity throughout the entirety of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and the Second World WarCampaigners are calling for the world’s oldest captive green sea turtle to be granted her freedom to live out her final years. Lulu, who’s 82, lives at Sea Life Brighton, the world’s oldest aquarium. Before that, she spent 19 years at Sea Life in Blackpool but outgrew her tank. She had previously spent 30 years at London Zoo. It is understood that she was taken from the wild as a tiny hatchling back in 1940 by a…

CNN  —  New York City police are on the hunt for a man seen pushing a subway commuter from the platform on the train tracks in Brooklyn before running away on Friday afternoon. The NYPD has released security footage of the incident and confirmed the victim was not hit by a train but was physically injured. The unidentified suspect “intentionally without being provoked charged at a 32-year-old male victim” who was walking by, pushing him on the tracks at the Wyckoff Avenue and Myrtle Avenue subway station around 2.40 p.m., the NYPD said in a statement late Saturday. New York…

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., expressed concern Sunday about young and working-class voters turning out for Democrats in the midterm elections.Having been alienated by high inflation and rising gas prices, the young and the working class might be discouraged from voting for the Democrats in November, the 81-year-old senator told CNN host Jake Tapper during an appearance on “State of the Union.””I am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting Democratic,” he said. “And I think, again, what Democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the Republicans.”Sanders…

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a plan this week to ban unsanctioned homeless encampments and build 20,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.”The magnitude and the depth of the homelessness crisis in our city is nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe,” Wheeler said on Friday, noting that many homeless people in Portland are dealing with untreated mental health issues and drug addiction.”Collectively, this is a vortex of misery for all involved.”Portland’s homeless population has shot up 50% from 2,037 people in 2019 to more than 3,000 homeless people this year, resulting in more than 700 encampments spread out…

Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime has been on quite a roll of late. The Montreal native defeated Sebastian Korda of the United States 6-3, 6-4 to claim his second consecutive ATP Tour title win at the European Open on Sunday. Auger-Aliassime entered the tournament having won the Firenze Open last week.“It’s amazing you know, to win again, back-to-back tournaments, and to win for the first time here in Antwerp against a player like Sebi (Korda) who is a fantastic player — one of the greats to come,” Auger-Aliassime said in his post-match interview. “And it was a tough week really. I had…

Washington CNN  —  Jim Marchant, the Republican candidate for Nevada elections chief, has repeatedly promoted false conspiracy theories about elections in his closely contested state. Now, with the November 8 midterms fast approaching, Marchant is going further – pushing a preposterous claim that prominent congressional Democrats in California and New York did not legitimately win reelection, though they actually won fair and square by overwhelming margins. Marchant is one of at least 11 Republican candidates for state secretary of state in 2022 who have rejected, questioned or tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He is the…

Olivia Wilde Anthony Harvey/ShutterstockAfter Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis’ children’s former nanny alleged that the Don’t Worry Darling director gave up her puppy to date Harry Styles, the animal shelter she adopted the pooch from is clearing the air. “Gordy was adopted to @oliviawilde at 2 months old and after giving him much love and training and travel adventures, she realized that Gordy didn’t love the travel life and wasn’t happy around toddlers,” Mae Day Rescue, an animal rescue based in Los Angeles, captioned a Saturday, October 22, Instagram photo, in which they shared their excitement that the canine has since found his forever home.…