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Norwegian Tourist Denied US Entry After Border Agents Find 'Bald JD Vance' Meme on iPad
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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June 25, 2025
A Norwegian tourist was refused entry into the United States after border officials at Newark Airport found a meme on his iPad depicting Vice President JD Vance bald. The viral image, shared in a private group chat, unexpectedly landed the...
Eat Your Way Through the Big Apple with these 15 Food Tours in NYC
Travel Awaits
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June 25, 2025
As the US’s most densely populated city, it should come as no surprise that NYC’s guided tours number in the thousands. Videos by TravelAwaits From history to street art to cigar lounges to true crime, there’s an intriguing trail of crumbs to...
Norwegian Tourist Fires Back at DHS Denial That He Was Deported Over JD Vance Meme
Mediaite - New York
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June 25, 2025
(Screengrab via Nordly’s/Instagram) A Norwegian tourist who says U.S. border agents deported him over a meme of Vice President JD Vance is pushing back against Homeland Security’s claim that his past drug use was to blame with new allegations, now...
EHP Resort and Marina Hosts AVP Beach Volleyball
27 East - New York
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June 25, 2025
Lexy Denaburg dives for the ball. MPU DINANI EHP Resort & Marina in East Hampton hosted the AVP beach volleyball league this past Saturday and Sunday. BRYAN MALLOCH EHP Resort & Marina in East Hampton hosted the AVP beach volleyball league this...
A record number of Americans will travel over the July 4th holiday
Consumer Affairs
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June 25, 2025
AAA Projects Record-Breaking 72.2 Million Travelers for July 4th Holiday Week Car Travel Hits All-Time High, With Over 61 Million Drivers Expected on the Road Top U.S. Destinations Include Orlando, Seattle, and Anchorage; Vancouver Leads...
‘Next Gen NYC’ Star Georgia McCann Insists She’s “Very Healthy” Despite Not Washing Her Hands: “I Stand By It”
Decider
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June 25, 2025
Georgia McCann is Next Gen NYC‘s breakout star. As a fourth-generation New Yorker, the brand and events creative strategist has carved out her place in this world, remaining unapologetically herself in the dramatic group of Gen Z nepo babies....
LeBron James Shows Off Impressive Memory in Recalling His Most Egregious Travel
Sports Illustrated - New York
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June 25, 2025
1. This was good stuff from LeBron James, via his Mind the Game podcast with Steve Nash, on the most egregious travel he ever got away with in his career. James somehow recalled taking a few steps during a random regular-season game when he was...
The whare that travelled the globe
Otago Daily Times
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June 25, 2025
One hundred years ago the Mataatua Whare returned to New Zealand. The traditional carved meeting house was sent to Dunedin for the 1925 Great Exhibition from London where it had languished for 40 years in the basement of what became the Albert and...
Revolutionary War era boat from Philly being restored after centuries beneath NYC
NBC 10 Philadelphia - Pennsylvania
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June 25, 2025
Workers digging at Manhattan's World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been buried more than two centuries earlier. Now, over 600 pieces from the...
The Art World This Week: Joel Shapiro Dies at 83, Louvre Staff Strikes, Tourists Damage Van Gogh’s Chair, and More
MutualArt
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National Gallery of Canada Receives Gift of 61 Works Valued at $16.8m The donation, from the Vancouver-based collector and businessman Bob Rennie, is the largest in the gallery's history. The Art Newspaper > ‘Strong and Busy Start’ at Art Basel...
New York senators urge governor for action on stranded citizens in Israel
Nassau Standard - New York
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June 24, 2025
Senator Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, alongside Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt and the Senate Republican Antisemitism Working Group, has called on Governor Kathy Hochul to assist New Yorkers in Israel. The request was made through a letter...
Pro-Palestine socialist Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor primary
Middle East Eye
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June 25, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, a self-declared socialist and supporter of Palestine, has won the Democratic primary to become next candidate for mayor of New York. Originally seen as an outsider candidate, Mamdani ran an avowedly left-wing campaign promising...
NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary: All about Zohran Mamdani’s educational qualifications
The Times of India
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Who says you’ve got a shot to make history only if/when you come out of Ivy League Schools!Zohran Kwame Mamdani sure is clearly going against the current and proving otherwise!Mamdani is making history, paving the path for the same since the last...
Stunning blow to the 'billionaire-backed status quo' delivered from an unlikely source in NYC
AlterNet
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June 25, 2025
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani prevailed in Tuesday's Democratic mayoral primary in New York City after running a grassroots campaign centered on delivering transformative change and lower costs in the expensive metropolis. Disgraced former...
AAA predicts heavy Fourth of July holiday travel
WIBW 13 - Kansas
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June 25, 2025
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - AAA is projecting strong travel volume for the upcoming Independence Day holiday. Nearly 700,000 Kansans are expected to take trips of 50 miles or more from their homes across the upcoming holiday weekend, which runs from...
Irish tourists travelling to US warned wipe phones after man 'refused entry' over meme
Galway Beo
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June 25, 2025
Irish tourists thinking of visiting the US have been advised to wipe their phones of social media accounts after a Norwegian holidaymaker claimed he was barred from entering the USA and given a hard time by ICE officers, all because of a JD Vance...
Upstate NY teens go camping without phones, trigger large emergency response
Syracuse.com - New York
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June 25, 2025
Two Upstate teens triggered a large emergency response last week after doing the unthinkable—they went camping without their cell phones. The pair left a residence in Cassadaga, Chautauqua County, at 10 p.m. on June 18, taking with them everything...
Norwegian Tourist Claims U.S. Denied Him Entry Over a J.D. Vance Meme. Authorities Said It Was His Drug Use
TIME Magazine
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June 25, 2025
“Two pictures spoiled Mads’ dream vacation,” read a headline from Norwegian newspaper Nordlys on Monday, which was amplified by British tabloid the Daily Mail on Tuesday. Mads Mikkelsen—not the Danish actor but a 21-year-old tourist from...
Hiker dies after fall on trail to one of New York’s tallest waterfalls
Democrat & Chronicle - New York
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A 70-year-old hiker died after falling on a popular Catskill Mountains trail in the town of Hunter, Greene County, on Friday. New York State Police responded at 6:16 p.m. to a call reporting an injured hiker in the Kaaterskill Wild Forest,...
How to check for bedbugs now that summer travel season is here
The North Jersey Record - New Jersey
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Bedbugs are reddish, brown insects that are about the size of an apple seed. Bedbug bites typically appear as small red bumps that can be irritatingly itchy. Symptoms of irritation can last about a week. Summer is here and that means time for...