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Dow leaps 585 points as US stocks win back most of Friday’s wipeout

August 4, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Dow leaps 585 points as US stocks win back most of Friday’s wipeout

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied on Monday and won back most of their sharp loss from last week, when worries about how President Donald Trump’s tariffs may be punishing the economy sent a shudder through Wall Street. The […]

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Justice Department Opens Grand Jury Probe Into ‘Russiagate’

August 4, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Justice Department Opens Grand Jury Probe Into ‘Russiagate’

The Department of Justice staff will act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the reputed conspiracy to tie Donald Trump to Russia before and after the 2016 election. […]

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Texas Republicans Threaten to Have Democrats Who Fled State in Redistricting Fight Arrested

August 4, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Texas Republicans Threaten to Have Democrats Who Fled State in Redistricting Fight Arrested

The Texas House of Representatives voted Monday to force Democrats who fled the state in an attempt to prevent congressional redistricting to return to the state Capitol under threat of arrest. On Monday, dozens of Texas Democrats […]

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Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died

August 4, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital […]

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Hank Hill returns to a changed world in new ‘King of the Hill’ episodes

August 4, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Hank Hill returns to a changed world in new ‘King of the Hill’ episodes

NEW YORK (AP) — Hank Hill is back and he’s the same ol’ Hank Hill, but a lot of things around him have changed. The lovable animated hero of “King of the Hill” has returned […]

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Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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From what language did English borrow the word "ukulele"?

In the Hawaiian language the word ukulele roughly translates as 'jumping flea', perhaps because of the movement of the player's fingers. Legend attributes it to the nickname of Englishman Edward William Purvis, one of King Kalākaua's officers, because of his small size, fidgety manner, and playing expertise.

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On what show did Heather Locklear make her TV debut in a recurring role?

In 1982, Locklear began a long term association with television producer Aaron Spelling. First, she was cast in a recurring role as Sammy Jo Dean on Spelling's Dynasty. The following year, while still appearing on Dynasty, Locklear took on a starring role as Officer Stacy Sheridan on the police drama T.J. Hooker.

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Originally called pimento, what popular spice was first grown in Jamaica?

Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.

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Who recorded the song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"?

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the English pop rock band Tears for Fears from their second studio album Songs from the Big Chair (1985).

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Who wrote the book "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind.

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