Updated: September 22, 2016 2:56 PM [ET] | Originally published: September 20, 2016 5:39 PM EDT;
In ABC’s new show Designated Survivor, Kiefer Sutherland plays a U.S. Cabinet member who unexpectedly becomes president after an attack on the Capitol during the State of the Union wipes out everyone ahead of him in the presidential line of succession.
Sutherland’s character, Tom Kirkman, is chosen as the so-called “designated survivor,” a low-level government official who sits in a secure, undisclosed location, ready to take charge in case an attack kills those in attendance at the State of the Union address, a presidential inauguration or another event that brings the country’s leaders together.
This man thinks he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ
Fast forward to 2017, where he is now known as Jesus Christ, Daily Mail reports. Here is what you need about this unbelievable transformation of a 54-year-old man born on January 14, 1961. He is currently the founder of the Church of the Last Testament. ADVERTISEMENT
He went from being a traffic cop to claiming to be Jesus Christ reincarnated in 1989. Now, he leads a religious sect in Siberia.
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Vice Media Group Takes Full Control of Pulse Films, Co-Founders Thomas Benski and Marissa Clif
Vice Media Group has taken full control of “Gangs of London” producer Pulse Films.
Pulse co-founders Thomas Benski and Marisa Clifford, who founded the edgy production outfit back in 2005, have departed the company following the takeover, although Variety understands it was their decision to step down ahead of the acquisition.
Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pop a 'Peppercorn' Dilated Pore of Winer from a Patient's Back
The video begins with Dr. Lee making a small incision over the top of dilated pore of winer while asking her patient if they're in any pain. Once she finds out they are find, she finishes up the incision and takes her trusty comedo extractor and beings to apply pressure to the pore. The accumulated dead skin has turned black on the surface due to oxygen exposure and as it pops free, it looks just like a peppercorn you'd put into a grinder.
What Haley, Ramaswamy and Harris Mean to Indian Americans
In late August, days after he got into a heated exchange with the other Indian American on the presidential debate stage, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy’s website got an update. “Keep lying, Namrata Randhawa,” the site soon read, incorrectly spelling former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s birth name.
It was an unusually blunt effort by Ramaswamy to paint Haley as inauthentic, given both identify as American-born children of Indian immigrants. It also didn’t go unnoticed by other South Asians.
What to know about the worlds first vagina museum
Unlike traditional museums that often focus on art, history, or science, this unique museum has a mission to promote understanding and destigmatise conversations about vaginas and related topics. Why was the museum created? The idea for the Vagina Museum began in 2017 when Florence Schechter, a science communicator, noticed that while there were museums dedicated to the male anatomy, such as the Icelandic Phallological Museum, there was no equivalent for vaginas.
Why Billionaire Frank McCourt Thinks He Can Save TikTok
Billionaire Frank McCourt has long argued that the internet needs to be radically changed on an infrastructural level in order to reduce its toxicity, misinformation, and extractive nature. Now, he’s hoping to slide into a power vacuum in pursuit of that goal. McCourt is putting together a bid to buy TikTok from Chinese technology company ByteDance, which faces a U.S. ban at the end of this year unless it sells the wildly popular app.
Why Russia Wants Its Orthodox Churches Back
Though not even two decades have passed since the Soviet state collapsed in 1991, the Orthodox Russians who came to France to flee communism say they’re starting to view Moscow with mistrust again. The reason: the recent move by Russia to take control of a dazzling Orthodox cathedral built in Nice during the reign of Czar Nicholas II, which some opponents say is part a wider, nationalistic power play by Moscow to regain symbols of Russia’s historical, cultural and religious grandeur abroad.
Wise Potato Chips Maker Slapped With Lawsuit
April 5, 2017 11:43 AM EDT
Two customers are suing the makers of Wise potato chips for allegedly filling the bags less than halfway.
On Monday, Sameline Alce and Desiré Nugent filed a lawsuit against Wise Foods for systematically leaving potato chip bags 58% to 75% empty. The two said they felt deceived into overpaying for the snack.
Alce and Nugent both said they would have paid less for their chips if they had known more than half the space in the bags was empty or if the bags were “proportioned” to their contents, Reuters reported.