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The US economy could hemorrhage $1 billion in lost productivity in a single day when “Grand Theft Auto VI” launches this fall. Economists and workforce analysts are tracking a mounting wave of planned absences tied to the Nov. 19 release…
Bo Bryan has spoken out after suffering a gruesome collarbone injury during a high school football game in Tennessee. The 18-year-old quarterback, son of country star Luke Bryan, 50, was hurt last Friday while playing for Battle Ground Academy in…
Jalen Hurts will miss the remainder of the NFL season as doctors discovered his blood clot condition was far more severe than initially diagnosed. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, 26, had been expected to return within weeks after what the team…
A Pennsylvania homeowner is refusing to remove Halloween decorations depicting bagged bodies hanging from trees outside his Bristol Borough property despite demands from local civil rights leaders. The display, which features phony corpses wrapped in bags suspended from a tree,…
Eric Dickerson has filed a lawsuit against an elite California private school, alleging his young son endured a year of racist bullying while administrators ignored the family’s pleas for help. The Hall of Fame running back, 66, accuses Oaks Christian…
Katherine Marroquin fought off three masked attackers with her metal water bottle after they ambushed her during her nightly bike ride through Central Park. The 32-year-old Bronx resident, who works maintenance on the Upper West Side, had stopped to retrieve…
Kaylub Giamanco called his mother minutes after fatally shooting a teenage gunman inside his daughter’s elementary school. Giamanco, 36, was on his lunch break Thursday when he drove past Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, and spotted armed suspect…
Dawood Faisal, 22, was indicted on hate crime charges Monday for allegedly vandalizing a Jewish-owned bagel shop in Queens twice before the fatal hit-and-run that killed a 71-year-old woman. The Fresh Meadows man was already jailed on manslaughter charges in…
Tech Sgt. Ian Patterson’s widow and family are not ready to speak publicly about his death. Patterson, 38, a 15-year veteran assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, died Saturday after falling…
UC Santa Barbara Dean of Students Joaquin Becerra has intervened in a widening Greek-life crisis, launching a formal review of an alleged recruitment “bias incident” at Alpha Phi sorority and pleading with students to halt a campus witch hunt. Becerra,…
Mia Dawson, 20, faces multiple felony charges after Baton Rouge police say she struck and killed an engaged couple walking along a roadside early Sunday. The Baton Rouge Police Department arrested Dawson on charges including vehicular homicide, hit-and-run driving, operating…
Gurinder Gill was arrested on murder charges after detectives exposed holes in his claim that ICE had detained his missing wife. Jasmine Gill, 30, a registered nurse and mother to an 8-month-old son, was last seen at her Sacramento home…
A French video game clerk is being hailed as a hero after footage of him standing alone against rioters went viral. Pierre, a sales assistant at a Micromania branch in Nice, confronted a mob trying to loot the shop during…
President Trump urged France Monday morning to seal itself off from the rest of Europe following a weekend of rioting that led to at least 2,400 arrests and reduced the country’s major cities to a state of anarchy. “The migrants…
Donald Trump made a blunt remark about Melania Trump during a White House executive order signing. The president, 78, spoke on stage last week after the First Lady, 55, introduced him at an outdoor event where the couple presented a…
East Bakersfield High School is mourning equipment manager Robert “Bobby” Rocha after he died from a heart attack on the football sideline last Friday. Rocha, who also served as a kicking coach and mentor, collapsed during the varsity game between…