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A disability pensioner is facing homelessness after being scammed out of $40,000 over nearly two years. Tracey Skeates, 63, from Caboolture, in Queensland, met ‘Charlotte’ through Instagram and has ended up selling his car and pawning his guitars to keep up with ‘her’ money requests since October 2023. Mr Skeates told the Courier Mail the $40,000 he…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — And in the end, after another postseason heartbreak, after an emotionally exhausting offseason, after the drama-filled holdouts and the gnarly wave of injuries and the personal tragedies, after a star player’s lash-out and, with a team’s hopes hanging in the balance, an infuriating and surreal tap-out, the San Francisco 49ers’ 2024…
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Warner Bros. You shall not pass … unless you’ve already watched “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” that is. This article contains major spoilers. As sprawling and expansive as the world of Middle-earth is, there’s something to be said for how so many stories set…
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By COLIN FERNANDEZ ENVIRONMENT EDITOR Published: 18:18 EST, 13 December 2024 | Updated: 18:21 EST, 13 December 2024 Ed Miliband yesterday warned local communities not to get in the way of his green energy plans – which mean carpeting the UK with thousands more pylons, wind turbines and solar farms. The Energy Secretary’s ‘clean energy…
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NORTON SHORES, Mich. — There is nothing outside that suggests the machines sitting inside this gray, nondescript building in an industrial office center could disrupt the trading card industry. Sign your name on the clipboard just past the entrance. Walk by a long table with pizza boxes next to a refrigerator and it all feels…
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Static Media/Shutterstock It’s been a wild few years at the box office. The 2020 lockdowns put theaters and Hollywood in a terrible place, and the recovery has been slower than expected. But 2023 offered hope, as the domestic box office hit $9 billion, getting us closer to…
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been criticised as tone deaf after telling Jewish community leaders that ‘Arabs are doing it really tough at the moment’. The PM made the comments after an antisemitic attack in Woollahra last month, in which graffiti was sprayed on cars and buildings, including celebrity chef Matt Moran‘s Chiswick restaurant, and one…
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SAN FRANCISCO — If shooting is an art form, then Chris Hines is a sculptor of gilded frames. A basketball craftsman. A steward of strokes. As an assistant coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves, he watches his latest masterpiece from the sideline: the shooting of Anthony Edwards. “The crazy thing now, and it sucks for me,”…
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Paramount Pictures It seems like box office showdowns have become all the rage in the wake of last year’s Barbenheimer phenomenon, with “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” both becoming gigantic hits. Earlier this year, we saw “The Garfield Movie” and “Furiosa” face off but the whole Garfuiosa thing didn’t…
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By RACHEL BOWMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 17:36 EST, 11 December 2024 | Updated: 18:19 EST, 11 December 2024 A small plane crashed into three cars on a Texas intersection Wednesday, shutting down a busy parkway. Victoria Police Department responded to the crash at the intersection of Zac Lentz Parkway and Mockingbird Lane around 3 p.m.…