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Voice actor Joe Alaskey lost his battle with cancer on Wednesday. He was 63.
Alaskey was best known as the voice of Looney Toon characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck after he took over the vocal helm from the original voice actor Mel Blanc in 1989.
Alaskey also voiced many other well-known characters over the years:
Ralph Kramden in The…
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On the heels of Chicago's most violent January in 16 years, Cook County Board Commissioner Richard Boykin is calling for Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner to declare a state of emergency for the city.
The local Fox affiliate reported that according to recent statistics from the Chicago Police Department, there were 51 murders in the city of Chicago in January…
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According to several concerned lawmakers in Washington, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to cut 50 percent of the budget for aerial surveillance along the Southern U.S. border.
In an effort to understand why DHS are cutting funding, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) wrote a bi-partisan letter to DHS Secretary Jeh…
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Last May, 83 people in Colombia lost their lives as a result of heavy rain and landslides.
This video, shot by the Colombian police, displays a scary situation that happened in the town of Salgar during the catastrophe. A dog got caught in the river that was overrun by flood waters. The Colombian police sprang into action, chasing the dog down the rapidly moving…
Maryland-based blogger Daryush Valizadeh, who advocates for legalizing rape, is organizing an “International Meetup Day” for supporters in numerous locations around the world.
There will be 165 locations in 43 countries where supporters of Valizadeh and his pro-rape ideology can “meetup” on Saturday night.
As reported by WGN, Valizadeh is best known for his books in which he gives advice…
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A Daallo Airlines commercial flight out of Mogadishu had to make an emergency landing after an explosion blew a hole in the cabin, which left one person dead and two others injured.
Late Tuesday night, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that Somali authorities confirmed one passenger had been killed after being blown or ejected out of the hole created by the…
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GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
According to Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, Trump supporters claimed in their nomination letter that Trump deserved the prize because of “his vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against…
Black student groups across most of North America are giving schools lists of demands that include “safe spaces” where only students of color may congregate.
Some of the groups are asking for segregation without calling it segregation.
Professor James Huffman, Dean Emeritus at Lewis and Clark Law School in Oregon, made an interesting observation on the societal change regarding segregation in…
Twenty years ago today, legendary actor/choreographer/singer Gene Kelly passed away. He was 83 at the time of his death.
Kelly was the star of such Hollywood classics as Singin’ in the Rain and An American in Paris.
Gene Kelly was born in 1912. He received a degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh during the Great Depression.
After being a student of music and dance for…
In the “What Are We Offended By Today” section of life, a school in Minnesota says it will not observe Valentine’s Day and other “dominant holidays."
Bruce Vento Elementary School in St. Paul has listed that they will also not recognize Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, because you know… "tolerance.”
The principal of the elementary school, Scott Masini, explained in a letter to parents…
