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Oprah Winfrey says she bought a private plane after a rude encounter with someone at the airport

Oprah Winfrey says she had an encounter with a rude fan at the airport in the ’90s, and that led her to use a private plane for travel.

Winfrey, who is on the cover of British Vogue’s August issue, spoke with the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful for an interview. When asked about her “greatest luxury,” the actress and humanitarian said that it is having her own airplane — which she convinced herself to indulge in after she met an unpleasant person.

“There are days when I am more open and warm than others,” Winfrey explained. “One of the things that actually caused me in 1991 to get my own plane, I was in the airport and I was just minding my own business and a woman came up and she said, ‘You’re not acting like you do on TV.'”

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She Found Her Long-Lost Dad Right Under Her Nose

1. Andrew
Hands trembling, the young woman could barely believe that her fingers were able to act faster than her brain. She dialed a number that she’d worked so hard to acquire, filled with hope. A man answered. Breathlessly, she asked for the name she’d been given. “Andrew?”
Everything hinged on this fragile moment. This was the last missing fragment of the puzzle she had wanted to complete all her life. If she had succeeded in her search, the man on the other line was her father. But she was met with deafening, paralyzing silence.

2. Ensnared By Addiction
Twenty-four years before, a young Arizona man named Will Russell was fighting to regain some semblance of control over his life. Barely in his twenties, his path was anything but straight and well-defined. Caught in a downward spiral, he had fallen prey to a slew of addictions.

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Meet Tommy Connolly, The World’s Youngest Grandpa At Only 23

A person’s early twenties are often littered with college courses, parties, and travel. For stand-up guy Tommy Connolly, his early twenties came with some heavy responsibilities that were completely unanticipated.

This young man has become the world’s youngest grandfather, and his story is truly remarkable!
Life Was Good

At 23-years old, Tommy had a lot on his plate. Between working part-time, maintaining his relationship with his girlfriend, Olivia, and going to school at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, he had very little free time. On top of all that, Tommy was also the star of his university’s track and field team and regularly competed.

With what seemed like an already jam-packed schedule, Tommy’s life would get end up getting much busier after receiving a random Facebook message from a relative he hadn’t heard from in over 10 years.

The Message That Changed His Life Forever

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4 children, suspect found dead after Orlando hostage situation, police say

(CNN) One man and four children are dead after a standoff of more than 20 hours, Orlando police Chief John Mina said.

Mina said officers were in contact with Gary Lindsey Jr., directly and indirectly, by phone throughout the day Monday after he shot an officer around 11:45 p.m. Sunday and barricaded himself in an apartment with the four children, ages 1, 6, 10 and 11.

They had gone to the apartment in response to a domestic violence call from Lindsey’s girlfriend.

At one point, Mina said, officers tried to give Lindsey another phone because his WiFi phone had a bad connection, and during the exchange they saw that one of the children was dead.

Orlando police Chief John Mina arrives for a news conference during Monday’s hostage standoff.

Officers entered the apartment around 9 p.m. Monday, Mina said, and found the children dead of gunshot wounds in two bedrooms. Lindsey’s body was found in a closet with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

Mina said two children are believed to be Lindsey’s and two are his girlfriend’s.

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Meghan and Harry to tour Australia and New Zealand

(CNN) Royal newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tour Australia and several neighboring countries later this year, Kensington Palace announced.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit Australia, Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga, and New Zealand in a tour to coincide with the Invictus Games which will be held in Sydney from October 20 to 27.

Prince Harry founded the Invictus Game, a sporting event for wounded or sick servicemen and veterans, in 2014. It’s held in a different city every year.

Prince Harry, who served with the British army in Afghanistan, was the first member of the Royal family to enter a combat zone since 1982.
The Games also hold extra significance for the royal couple; they made their first public appearance together at the 2017 Games in Toronto, Canada.

 

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Supreme Court sides with death row inmate after lawyer said he was guilty

Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a death row inmate on Monday who argued his constitutional rights were violated when his lawyer told the jury he was guilty, even though the inmate wanted to proclaim his innocence.

The ruling means the inmate Robert McCoy will get a new trial.
Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that a lawyer “may not admit her client’s guilt of a charged crime over the client’s intransigent objection to that admission.”

Ginsburg said McCoy’s lawyer, Larry English, was in a difficult position as he sought a lesser conviction of second-degree murder in order to save his client from the death penalty. But even though McCoy was an “unruly client” and “faced a strong government case,” English’s proposed strategy to admit guilt “was incompatible with the Sixth Amendment.”

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‘Brave’ mother uses taco to distract fake cop terrorizing family, police say

A California woman was praised for her “momma bear instincts” after she distracted a gun-toting fake cop who was terrorizing her husband and four children on Sunday by simply offering him a taco, police said.

The family was enjoying carne asada tacos and soda from a food truck in the City of Industry in Los Angeles County around 6:30 p.m. when a “dangerous stranger” approached the family and began terrorizing them, police said in a news release Monday. The family had stopped to get food after a day at the waterpark.

The man, identified as Juan Rodriguez, allegedly claimed to be an undercover cop and flashed his gun concealed on his waistband and flashed a badge in an attempt to prove his identity, police said.

The mother, however, saw right through the disguise, police said.

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The bizarre reason why the Queen has 2 birthdays

Being the Queen comes with special privileges, like owning 200 of the same handbag, and having not one but two birthdays.

The Queen turns 92 on her actual birthday on April 21, but she also has an official birthday that is celebrated every year on a Saturday in June.

The reason for the second birthday has to do with the weather. Sovereigns whose real birthdays fall in colder months have often celebrated an official birthday on a different date in the hope of good weather for their birthday parade, known as the Trooping the Colour, according to the Royal Family’s official website.

Because British weather can be cold on April 21, the Queen celebrates her official birthday in June. The Queen’s official celebration usually falls on the second Saturday of June.

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School lunch lady given new car by the teens she serves

California high school students who restored a car in their automotive class gave the refurbished vehicle to someone they couldn’t imagine a day without — their lunch lady.

“Thank you all so much, thank you all so much,” Debra Davis, a cafeteria worker at Hoover High School said as she spotted the car. “I’m looking for my reward in heaven and you all gave me a little bit here on earth.”

Davis, known as “Aunt Debbie” to the students, told KFMB she has a strong relationship with the teens.

“I feed the kids, I prepare the food, I talk to them, I stop them from fighting,” Davis said. “They don’t cuss. They have to respect, and they call me ‘Aunt Debbie.'”

 

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Kansas stepmom dead after leading investigator to dead boy

WICHITA, Kan. — A woman who led an investigator to the decomposing remains of her 5-year-old stepson three months after reporting him missing was found dead early Friday in a Wichita home with three suicide notes and a rifle at her feet, police said.

Officer Charley Davidson said during a press briefing that officers responded around 1:40 a.m. after Jonathan Hernandez called to report finding his former girlfriend, Emily Glass, dead of a gunshot wound at his Wichita home.

Hernandez said in a statement that Glass killed herself. Davidson said the official cause of death will be determined by the coroner’s office. He said he didn’t know whether Glass was living at the home or who owned the rifle. Davidson did not say to whom the three suicide notes were addressed.

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