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A Florida man was kicked off a United Airlines flight Wednesday after attempting to fly with a red thong on his face in place of a mask.

Adam Jenne told NBC affiliate WBBH that he’s pulled the panties stunt on several flights in an effort to make a statement.

“I think the best way to illustrate absurdity is with absurdity,” he said. “Every single flight has been met with different reactions from the flight crew.”

The United flight crew was not amused. Jenne was removed from the flight.

“The customer clearly wasn’t in compliance with the federal mask mandate and

President Joe Biden will deliver a speech on Tuesday addressing the omicron variant, where he will unveil new steps the administration is taking to help communities in need of assistance, a White House official told NBC News on Saturday.

Biden is expected to go beyond his already unveiled “Winter Plan” with additional measures while “issuing a stark warning of what the winter will look like for Americans that choose to remain unvaccinated,” the official said.

The news comes amid a rise in Covid-19 cases and pleas from federal health officials to get vaccinated.

Aides said the president’s administration is “prepared

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un marked the 10th anniversary of the death of his father and predecessor on Friday, attending a ceremony with top officials at a palace where his body lies in state while people across the country held commemorations.

Kim Jong Il, the second of the Kim family dynasty, ruled North Korea for 17 years until his death on Dec. 17, 2011. State media at the time did not report his death until two days later.

As his son reached 10 years in power struggling to navigate the country out of deepening pandemic-related hardships, the country also

Donald Trump should never have been allowed to retain ownership of his Washington, D.C., hotel while president. A new report confirmed that the controls allegedly in place to limit potential corruption failed completely. Trump exposed these flaws in the system; Congress must act now before they are exploited again.

This week, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure issued a report finding that the General Services Administration — the federal agency that oversees the Trump Organization’s lease of the Old

It was dark as Zhang Zhan walked along the building in Wuhan, China, a constant, dull roar in the background.

“It’s 12:40 a.m. The sound of the funeral home’s crematorium,” she said in the February 2020 video, one of dozens she posted on YouTube. “They work day and night.”

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, when the Chinese government was trying to contain the initial outbreak, reporting by citizen journalists like Zhang questioned the scale of the crisis and the government’s response. But they worried their aggressive reporting wouldn’t be tolerated for long in a country where the

The levers of government are being primed for an escalating crackdown on excessive food price inflation, which the Biden-Harris Administration and its Congressional allies believe is partially a result of over-concentration and lack of competition in the food and grocery supply chain.

With inflation at its highest point in almost 40 years, American families are facing higher prices at the checkout and are making do with leaner meals. Once deemed essential, workers in grocery stores now say they feel expendable, and have been rewarded with only marginal increases in wages they say leave them unable to cover their own rising

Multiple people were found dead Saturday night inside a Minnesota home, police said.

The Moorhead police and fire departments responded at about 7:50 p.m. to the house following a welfare check by family members, Moorhead police said in a statement.

There were no signs of violence or forced entry, police said.

It was not immediately clear how many people were found dead inside the home or what caused the deaths.

An investigation is ongoing.

Moorhead is a city along the state’s western border with North Dakota. The city sits across the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota. 

The current flu vaccines appear to be a bad match for the dominant strain so far this influenza season, new research suggests, leading experts to warn that the United States could be in for a bad flu season, on top of what’s already shaping up to be another devastating surge of Covid cases. 

Before each flu season, scientists must predict which strains will be the most common, and design a flu shot to match these predictions. This year’s flu shot includes four strains. 

But one, a version of the H3N2 strain of influenza, is turning out to be a bad

Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys on Thursday launched their defense of Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidante by putting on the stand a former assistant who insisted she “never” saw any abuse.

But as the first of the expected 35 defense witnesses were called to the stand, it became increasingly unlikely that Maxwell would testify on her own behalf with each passing hour.

A spokesperson for Maxwell told The Telegraph this week that Maxwell, 59, is unlikely to testify because she is “too fragile.”

And just before court ended Thursday, Maxwell’s defense team informed U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan that it could wrap its

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol on Friday questioned Roger Stone under oath about the attack, but the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump said he didn’t give them any answers.

“I did invoke my Fifth Amendment rights to every question not because I have done anything wrong, but because I am fully aware of the House Democrats’ long history of fabricating perjury charges on the basis of comments that are innocuous, material or irrelevant,” Stone told reporters as he was leaving.

Stone, who has said he was in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6