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Parul Khakhar describes herself as a ‘homemaker first – and a poet, second’ One morning in early May, a poetess living in a nondescript town in India’s western state of Gujarat finished her chores and picked up the newspapers. India was in the throes of a deadly second wave of the coronavirus. Disturbing pictures of India’s holiest river, the Ganges, swollen with bodies of people feared to have died of Covid-19 filled the front pages. There were reports of overflowing cremation grounds, and of… Source link

The Daily Beast This Belarusian Currency Trader Is Buying Up Tiny Vermont Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyA Belarusian currency speculator named Pavel Boguslavovich Belogour is buying up huge swaths of tiny Vermont—thousands of acres of the Green Mountain State, and even patches of land over the border in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.At first, Belogour, who goes by “Paul,” was received as something of a novelty. An idiosyncratic character with long hair and scant online… Source link

The Week House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy apparently pays $1,500 to live in a 12-bedroom, 16-bath penthouse Tucker Carlson was right: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is living in the Washington, D.C., penthouse of Republican pollster and messaging maven Frank Luntz, and it does sound like a pretty sweet deal. Carlson was tipped off to the roommate arrangement, and McCarthy confirmed it Tuesday, telling Fox & Friends he has “rented a room from Frank for a couple of months, but… Source link

Angela Lang/CNET It’s over. On May 4, Yahoo Answers went offline, putting an end to one of the weirdest, oldest and… Source link

Angela Lang/CNET It’s over. At some point on May 4, Yahoo Answers will be taken offline — putting an end to one of… Source link

A woman is being investigated by the police after her one-year-old daughter was found dead in her pool and the autopsy revealed the cause of death was not drowning. Heloisa was found dead in the swimming pool at her home, where she lived with her mother and grandmother in the Brazilian municipality of Juquitiba last month. According to reports, the trio and the boyfriend of Heloisa’s mother were at the house the night before the little girl was found dead and empty beer cans were found close… Source link

At least three people have been killed at an apartment complex in a shooting incident in Austin, Texas, US authorities say. Austin police, calling the situation “an active shooting incident,” said they were searching for a suspect. “While a suspect is still at large, it appears this is a domestic situation that is isolated and there is no risk to the general public,” Austin police said on Twitter. Emergency responders say several people have been fatally shot in Great Hills Trail in Northwest… Source link

With the looming closure of Yahoo Answers, one Twitter user has compiled 500 questions from the site into a mod for The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. In response to the closure of Yahoo Answers, the site’s most memorable questions have been memorialized as a dictionary mod for The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. Built as a blend of zombie shooter and typing instructor, The Typing of the Dead franchise has… Source link

Yahoo Answers, the go-to online resource for delightfully earnest and nonsensical user-submitted questions, is shutting down forever on May 4. But the bizarro questions themselves will live on in one form — arguably the best form — as phrases for Sega’s zombie type-’em-up, The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. For those unfamiliar with The Typing of the Dead, it’s a spin-off of Sega’s zombie light gun arcade game series, The House of the Dead. Instead of guns, players and in-game… Source link

Several people have been killed in a supermarket shooting in the US state of Colorado after a gunman opened fire. Officers arrived at King Soopers grocery store in Boulder before 3pm (local time) on Monday just minutes after a 911 call, the Boulder Police Department tweeted. “We have multiple victims who lost their lives. One of the victims is a Boulder police officer,” the department said. A man being taken away by police with what appears to be blood running down his leg. Source:… Source link