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By Sara Mcgiff For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:23 EDT, 15 October 2024 | Updated: 11:42 EDT, 15 October 2024 A giant 60-acre corn maze in California has proven so disorienting that stressed-out customers have called 911 to be rescued. Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, a farming town with 19,000 residents, is run by Matt Cooley, a second-generation farmer who decided to grow pumpkins for Halloween and sell them on the side of the road with his kids. He was given the idea to create the maze, which sits near Interstate 80 outside Sacramento, and it has grown bigger and more labyrinthine through the years,  the Los…

By Amanda Bechara For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:31 EDT, 28 August 2024 | Updated: 22:42 EDT, 28 August 2024 A self-described ‘frugal foodie’ has revealed the secret ingredient that will deliver the ‘perfect’ crispiest roasted potatoes every time. Stephanie Joy de Sousa, a former MasterChef Australia contestant, says adding bicarb soda to parboiled potatoes before roasting is a ‘game changer’.’One thing I am not very good at is making roast potatoes crispy and when I read this hack on how to make them really easily I had to give it a go,’ Steph said in a video. ‘All I did was…

As a hairdresser of 16 years, Lauren Mackellar’s identity was wrapped up in everything hair care.The 38-year-old, from Melbourne, was a stylist to the stars and working on her own line of hair products towards the end of 2021 when everything came crashing down.An ‘excruciating’ migraine brought her to the emergency department where doctors found a fist-sized aggressive tumour in Lauren’s brain and she was rushed to surgery in the matter of hours to have it removed.Surgery removed the entire tumour, but Lauren had to go through 18 months of intense radiotherapy and chemotherapy which killed all her follicles. She was…

The biggest mistake Kamala Harris made during her three-month campaign against Donald Trump has been revealed. Voters disclosed in an exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners national survey that the vice president should have distanced herself from President Joe Biden sooner.According to the poll of 1,000 likely voters, her ‘biggest blunder’ is that she would ‘not change anything’ from the Biden administration. Harris was asked on The View last month about what she would change about Biden’s presidency.’There is not a thing that comes to mind,’ Harris responded.Harris defended the president’s record and added: ‘I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had…

The mother was among three killed in a strike on the Maghazi refugee campBy Elena Salvoni and Ap Published: 12:00 EDT, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 12:14 EDT, 31 October 2024 Heart-wrenching pictures show the tragic moment a Palestinian ambulance worker realised the body he was transporting was his own mother, killed by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza.’Oh God, I swear – she’s my mother! I didn’t know it was her!’ Abed Bardini sobbed as he leaned over his mother, Samira, cradling her head in his arms. Bardini had unknowingly sat in the ambulance beside her body, wrapped in a…

By Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent For Dailymail.Com Published: 07:39 EDT, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 08:22 EDT, 31 October 2024 The screen is dark, illuminated briefly by the word ‘inflation’ and a display of numbers ticking upwards.It cuts to a dark night, as a police officer shines a flashlight and a dark figure runs through the streets as part of what the narrator calls a ‘pandemic of lawlessness.’Allies of former President Donald Trump are launching an ‘American nightmare’ ad to coincide with Halloween on Thursday.The sound of Kamala Harris’ laughter echoes through scenes of a dystopian country, grappling…

By Daniel Matthews and Reuters Published: 17:13 EDT, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 18:48 EDT, 31 October 2024 NBA legend LeBron James has announced that he is backing Kamala Harris in next week’s presidential election.The Lakers star, who plays alongside his son Bronny in Los Angeles, publicly endorsed the vice president on social media on Thursday. ‘What are we even talking about here??’ he wrote to his 53million followers on X and 159m followers on Instagram.  ‘When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!’ To support…

Each month, This is Money puts a senior fund or investment manager to task with tough questions for our I’m a fund manager series to find out how they manage their own money.We want to know where they’d invest for the next year – or even next 10 years – and what pitfalls to avoid.  This week, we spoke to Abby Glennie, fund manager of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust plc.The trust aims for long term capital growth by investing in UK-quoted smaller companies. It currently has around 50 individual holdings.The total value of its assets currently equates to around £450million…

By Sharon Mai and Amy Lamare For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:33 EDT, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 01:53 EDT, 1 November 2024 Emily Ratajkowski put on a busty display in her Jennifer Lopez costume on Halloween.For this year’s spooky holiday, the 33-year-old model dressed up as the pop star wearing her iconic green Versace dress from the Grammys in 2000.EmRata had her hair and makeup done to mimic JLo’s iconic look and shared a short video clip to her Instagram and TikTok accounts.In it, she mouths along to the words ‘I like taking my hair out like this. It reminds me like, when…

AI chatbots impersonating Molly Russell and Brianna Ghey have been found on the controversial site Character.ai.Brianna Ghey was murdered by two teenagers in 2023 while Molly Russell took her own life at the age of 14 after viewing self-harm-related content on social media.In an act described as ‘sickening’, the site’s users employed the girl’s names, pictures, and biographical details to create dozens of automated bots.Despite violating the site’s terms of service, these imitation avatars posing as the two girls were allowed to amass thousands of chats.One impersonating Molly Russell even claimed to be an ‘expert on the final years of…