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Uncredited/AP Jahi McMath remains on life support at Children’s Hospital Oakland after doctors declared her brain dead following a supposedly routine tonsillectomy. OAKLAND, Calif. – A California judge has ordered a second medical evaluation to determine whether a girl on life support following tonsil surgery is brain dead. The order by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillio calls for ...

’Tis the season to be jilted. Fewer couples will be kissing under the mistletoe this week as breakup season brings a blizzard of splits just before Christmas. If you’re about to get dumped, rest assured, you’re not alone in being alone. Since when did the most wonderful time of the year become a lump of coal for relationships? The anecdotal ...

France 3 Haute-Normandie via You An X-ray shows the surgical scissors that had been left inside the woman’s womb. A new mom who was in pain weeks after giving birth has discovered the surgeon left a pair of surgical pliers in her womb. The pliers had been inside her body for more than six weeks before being discovered. The unnamed ...

Vince Eaton and Sara Valencia at their wedding at Hallockville Museum Farm, on TLC’s “Secret Wedding,” airing Dec. 27. Here comes the bride — and she looks stunned. Brooklyn bride Sara Valencia got the surprise of her life on her wedding day thanks to her husband and a little help from TV host Cat Deeley. Vince Eaton, 29, tricked his ...

NICK KOON/ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/VIA KRT Captain Noushad reportedly would not fly Pakistan International Airlines’ flight PK-711 from Allama Iqbal International Airport, in Lahore, until he could get his gourmet food. A foodie pilot fed up with the on-board menu delayed a flight to New York for two-and-a-half hours so sandwiches could be delivered from a five-star hotel. Captain Noushad reportedly ...

Michael Schwartz for New York Daily News State Sen. Jeff Klein leads press conference announcing a Bronx homeowners’ class action suit against The Bad Ass Group of developers It was a “badass” way to do business. A dozen first-time homeowners say a developer known as the Bad Ass Group steered them into purchasing shoddily-built homes that the city had not ...

Paul Dazeley/Kabuto Noodles The seasonal service will get hung-over employees to work in slightly better shape the day after the corporate Christmas party. A noodle company across the pond has come up with a brilliant service for the holiday season: a “hangover taxi.” In early December, Kabuto Noodles, a UK-based instant ramen maker, introduced the Kab-U-To Work service to bring ...

For decades, dozens of New York’s Finest would cram themselves each day into the 122nd Precinct House, a squat concrete box on Staten Island’s Hylan Blvd. With a blank exterior, few windows and low ceilings, it’s the kind of place neither the public nor the public servants wanted to spend much time in — the kind of cheap, bland government ...

LDProd/Getty Images/iStockphoto The French are no longer sexting. Now, when they exchange dirty text messages, it is called ‘textopornographie.’ The language of love now has its own word for sexting: textopornographie. L’Académie française, France’s official language authority, decided that “sexting” needed a French equivalent, Vice Motherboard reported. RELATED: FRENCH IS SEXIEST LANGUAGE: POLL The academy, which was established in 1635 ...

Leslie Barbaro/Newsday Westchester New York Assemblyman Steve Katz (R-99) is putting his money where his lungs are, joining forces with venture capitalists to raise $ 10 million for medical marijuana-related businesses. ALBANY — A New York state assemblyman from Westchester County who was charged with marijuana possession in March is now high on pot as an investment. Republican Steve Katz ...