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The Safeway supermarket chain has announced that it will close down one of its key locations in San Francisco in February due to concerns that customers and employees were at risk from rampant theft and threats to their safety. The closure, which had been put off for 11 months, will affect the Safeway store on Webster Street in the Fillmore …

President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday — after praising his wife, Melania, as a “great” and “popular” first lady and vowing to make the American economy great again. Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. AP Standing in front of his 2024 Time “Person of the Year” …

Donald Trump savaged Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed White House bid in his Time “Person of the Year” interview — saying her biggest mistake was “taking the assignment” altogether. The President-elect — who was given the magazine’s lofty title on Thursday — said Harris’ campaign was doomed from the start “because you have to know what you’re good at.” Prez-elect …

A scruffy, bearded man who identified himself as missing Missouri resident Travis Timmerman was found in Syria Thursday — and said he was imprisoned after traveling to the country “for spiritual purposes.” Timmerman, 29, said he had spent more than half a year in the government prison when he was freed by rebel fighters armed with AK-47s on Monday as …

Hannah Kobayashi, the missing photographer found alive on Wednesday, planned to fly to New York City with her alleged fake husband to create proof and fool immigration officials their marriage was real, according to a report. Kobayashi, 30, was traveling from Los Angeles International Airport with her ex, Amun Muniz-Miranda, his own Green Card wife Marianne, and the Argentine national …

Meteorologists perched atop the Northeast’s highest peak, known for the world’s worst weather, took advantage of recent icy conditions to engage in a rather unusual activity: subarctic surfing. After days of freezing temperatures and high winds, officials at Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire said the summit had unique rime ice formations everywhere. Rime ice forms when liquid water droplets …

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty recalled slain colleague Brian Thompson as “one of the good guys” and encouraged employees to “honor his life” by helping patients and their families in a new memo Wednesday, according to reports. “Brian was one of the good guys,” Witty wrote, according to a memo obtained by Newsweek. “He was certainly one of the smartest …

A former top adviser to President Biden slammed Hunter Biden’s pardon earlier this month, arguing that it amounted to an “attack on our judicial system.” Anita Dunn, a longtime Biden ally who served as his senior adviser for communications, indicated that she supported the decision to pardon the 54-year-old first son but not for the reasons the president used to …

The commute home for thousands of New Yorkers became the thing of nightmares when they got stuck underground for hours after a power outage stranded two F trains — forcing them to evacuate through the subway tunnels and service exits. Approximately 3,500 straphangers spread between the two trains had to be rescued by firefighters when the power went out around …

A Georgia middle school teacher resigned after he tossed an 11-year-old student across the classroom and allegedly made sexual remarks about the child’s mother. DeRenne Middle School student, identified as TJ, stood up from his desk and approached his teacher BeTreylin Elder at the front of his classroom to stop him from talking about his mom, according to WTOC. “I …