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Ron DeSantis asked Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday to arrange a head-to-head debate that would allow the Florida governor to take on former President Trump. “Well, Sean, I don’t think we’ve spoken since that debate, and the reaction that I’ve gotten has been incredible in terms of obviously being able to show that freedom works, and the California model’s a failure, what that means for the country,” DeSantis said. DeSantis praised Hannity’s moderating skills and suggested he hold additional debates with either of his top competitors in the presidential primary

Sharon Stone, 64, is mourning the loss of her brother Patrick Stone, who died suddenly Sunday in Pennsylvania. He was 57. The coroner’s office told TMZ that Patrick suffered a sudden cardiac death due to heart disease. It’s unclear whether he was hospitalized at the time of his death. SNIP River was Patrick and Tasha’s 11-month-old son who died of organ failure in August 2021.

John Fetterman, Democrat senate candidate in Pennsylvania, had a stroke and can barely speak. This is his first public speech in months. He talked for just a few minutes. There’s no way this guy has the physical ability to be a senator. Scary: pic.twitter.com/ExUkkrzKH0— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 15, 2022

A cargo truck jammed with people who appeared to be Central American migrants rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge over on a highway in southern Mexico on Thursday, killing at least 49 people and injuring nearly five dozen others, authorities reported. Luis Manuel Moreno, the head of the Chiapas state civil defense office, said a preliminary estimate listed 49 dead and 58 injured. He said about 21 of the injured had serious wounds and were taken to local hospitals.

AUSTELL — The victim of a fatal wrong-way crash Saturday afternoon has been identified as Marine Lance Corporal Gregory M. Suedmeyer. Cobb police said Suedmeyer, 21, and his 19-year-old wife, Katelyn Suedmeyer, were driving just before 5 p.m. on Interstate 20 at Six Flags Drive when their green 2000 Mitsubishi Mirage sedan collided head-on with a gray 2008 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Gregory was transported to Grady Hospital where he later died of his injuries, police said. His wife was transported by helicopter to Atlanta Medical Center, where she is listed in critical but stable condition, Cobb Police Officer Joe...

SEATTLE – The Pierce County Sheriff's Office says a deputy, critically wounded in a shootout a week ago, has died. Deputy Kent Mundell's wife was at his side Monday evening when doctors turned off life support. Officials say Dep. Mundell passed quickly and died at 5:04 p.m. Mundell and Sgt. Nicholas Hausner were shot Dec. 21 while responding to a domestic violence call. When the deputies tried to get the suspect, David Crable, to leave his brother's home, he opened fire on them. Hausner was hit in the neck. Crable's brother and his girlfriend pulled Hausner into another room and...

A recent survey revealed that one in three young adults had no idea that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Other religious blank spots included the role of the Archangel Gabriel, with more than a quarter having no idea that Gabriel brought God's message to Mary at her home in Nazareth to say that she would give birth to a son. So what do Britain's youngsters really know about Christmas? Femail quizzed four to nine-year-olds at four primary schools in Britain to find out. What gifts did the three wise men bring? Rashneet, six, from Broad Oak Primary School, Manchester: "The...

Sheep don't mix well with grizzly bears and wolves. Now they won't mix at all on more than 70,000 acres in the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness. A 74,000-acre sheep grazing allotment south of Big Timber in the Gallatin National Forest has been permanently closed and the ranchers who used it for generations have been paid to move their sheep elsewhere... The agreement is the eighth -- and second-largest -- in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in recent years that has led to the retirement of about 300,000 acres from grazing. The latest involves the Ash Mountain and Iron Mountain allotments used for generations...

NEW YORK -- The body of a 9-year-old developmentally disabled boy was found in a laundry chute at an East Harlem health care center Tuesday. The boy, identified by police as Frashawn Jones, of Brooklyn, lived at the Specialty Hospital at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, a residence for the disabled. Staff had reported him missing at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, and his body was found in the chute around 8:45 a.m., the facility said in a statement. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.