Soldier, 19, found dead after reporting ‘abusive’ boss

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Soldier Jaysley Beck, a Royal Artillery Gunner based at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire, was found dead at her base camp in December 2021.

This week, an inquest showed the teenager was “scared” by the “psychotic and possessive” behavior by her boss, Bombardier Ryan Mason, prior to her decision to take her own life.

Mason sent Beck over 3,600 message in a period of a single month and his behavior was determined to be a “casual factor” in her passing.

In one of the message beck sent to Mason, the young soldier wrote that she felt “trapped” and that his obsessive behavior “was freaking her out.”

Further, the soldier’s mom, Leighann McCready, said her daughter felt unsafe as the situation involving her boss intensified.

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During the hearing, the court showed a number of WhatsApp message between Soldier Beck and her boss between October 2021 and December 2021.

A message from October 21, showed Mason writing: “Love you Jayse. As a friend.” One sent on October 27 read: “I’m renaming you in my phone as the magician.”

Then on November 11, he wrote: “You’re amazing Jayse, I appreciate you so much, I love everything about you, even your flaws.

“I will always be there along for the ride with you, I have said it before but you’re stuck with me forever now. I love you x As a friend, I love you.”

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On November 25, Gunner Beck wrote back to her boss: “This whole falling in love with me, its becoming a bit too much, I have just come out of a relationship and I’m just not wanting to be involved in anything like this.

“It’s weighing me down a little bit, I’ll be totally honest with you.”

She added: “Totally honest here, I just don’t want to hear how you feel about me.”

According to her mom, Beck said she felt Mason had hacked her phone as he knew exactly where she was at every moment.

Days before her death, Beck called her mother and expressed her fears over Mason yet again. She said she was “creeped out” by him.

The inquest, that took place on February 11, 2025, revealed that the young soldier was allegedly assaulted by another colleague, Battery Sergeant Major Michael Webber, after a work social gathering in July 2021.

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He only received a minor sanction, and Beck received an apology letter from him.

That incident discouraged her from reporting Mason.

Beck didn’t experience any mental problems in the past, but her boss’ obsessive behavior towards her took its toll. She became withdrawn and distressed which affected her mental well-being.

The inquest into this young soldier’s death is ongoing. The question raised is whether the military could have done more than they did to protect her and prevent a tragedy from taking place.

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Reality star hospitalized for surgery after doctors discover multiple tumors in her brain

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Teddi Mellencamp, star of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, had been experiencing “severe and debilitating” headaches and was later hospitalized for “unbearable” discomfort.

The TV personality, who was part of the reality show for three seasons, revealed that following the doctor’s visit, they discovered she had multiple tumors in her brain.

 
 
 
 
 
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“Yesterday the pain was unbearable and required hospitalization,” Mellencamp wrote on her Instagram page Wednesday. “After a CT scan and MRI, doctors found multiple tumours on my brain, which they believe have been growing for at least six months.”

 
 
 
 
 
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She informed her followers that doctors would surgically remove two of the tumors that day, February 12. The rest of the tumors, the smaller ones, will “be dealt with via radiation at a later date.”

“I am blessed to be surrounded by my children, family, friends, doctors, nurses and surgeons who are doing everything possible to get me back into better health,” she wrote. “Thank you to everybody who has reached out, and to everyone who has supported me along this journey.”

Before the procedure, Mellencamp, who was diagnosed with stage II melanoma back in 2022, documented her journey before the surgeries.

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Sharing a photo of herself from the hospital bed, she wrote, “Counting down the minutes until my babies get here.”

She also added a saying by her dad, the famous rock star John Mellencamp, that read, “As my dad said this am, God only gives hard stuff to those of us who can handle it. It’s a hard day but I have faith and amazing surgeons and know everything will be ok.”

Mellencamp shares three children and a stepson with former husband Edwin Arroyave, whom she separated from in November.

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Arroyave was by her side during her procedures and shared an update on the reality star’s condition, telling her followers that the surgeries went well.

“So many people asking for updates. All I will say right now is surgery went well. That said, I’ve never seen @teddimellencamp in so much pain. She’s finally getting some much needed rest. I know she is grateful for the outpouring of love.”

This isn’t the first time Mellencamp to undergo surgeries. In fact, she revealed on the podcast Him & Her in February that she had over 20 surgeries due to her skin melanoma diagnosis.

We wish Teddi Mellencamp a speedy recovery.

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Stranded astronauts to be paid a shocking amount after 8-day mission turns into months

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When they began their mission to space in June 2024, astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore probably didn’t expect that the planned eight days at the International Space Station would turn into months.

The Boeing capsule they traveled to space with experienced technical issues, including helium leak. As a result, the two astronauts were forced to stay in space. The mission of their possible return home has been delayed several times so far. Now NASA expects them to get back home somewhere in March.

Williams and Wilmore will be transported via the Crew-10 mission.

President Donald Trump accused Biden’s administration for abandoning the two astronauts and called Elon Musk and SpaceX to “go get them.”

“Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe,” Trump said. “Good luck Elon!!!”

Musk took to X to answer that he will do so.

However, while the media refers to the astronauts as stranded, astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell says that’s not the case. He highlights that “the party line at NASA is that the astronauts are not stranded,” insisting that “it’s way overblown.

“They’re fine,” McDowell explains. “They just got to do an extra spacewalk, which they love. They’ll come home on the next ride.”

Despite finding themselves in a situation that is out of their control, NASA claims Williams and Wilmore are in good spirits, assuring the public that their basic needs, like food and clothing, are well taken care of.

During a call, Williams said, “It’s just been a joy to be working up here.

“It doesn’t feel like we’re cast away. Eventually, we want to go home, because we left our families a little while ago, but we have a lot to do while we’re up here.”

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In fact, the astronauts are doing a series of experiments, spacewalks, and other routine operations while in space.

Expectedly, the question of how much they will be paid for their overly-prolonged stay was raised by the media and the public.

However, the answer isn’t something we’d expect.

Retired NASA astronaut Cady Coleman revealed for the Washingtonian that being federal employees, besides their salary, astronauts are paid the same as any employee at a business trip anywhere on Earth.

“There is some small amount of money per day for incidentals that they end up being legally obligated to pay you,” she said.

For her, it was around $4 (£3.19) per day. 

If this is the case, both Williams and Wilmore would only be paid an extra $1,004 (£801.27) for their time.

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Man releases chilling never-before-seen footage of Twin Towers collapse

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A never-before-seen-footage of the collapse of Twin Towers was shared by a witness 23 years after the horrific event.

The video, posted on YouTube by Kei Sugimoto, was taken from a previously “unseen angle.”

According to Kei, it was taken “from the roof of 64 St Marks Place in NYC on a Sony VX2000 with teleconverter” on September 11, 2001, with a Sony VX2000 camera.

He recalled the tragic day saying he first believed that a fire broke in the building. However, it wasn’t until the second attack took place that he realized what had really happened.

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Kei discovered the footage after going through some old boxes.

He was concerned that some of the tapes were ruined, but he then tried to digitize the one of the Twin Towers collapsing and shared it online.

The footage of the Twin Towers collapsing is a painful reminder of the day that changed not only America but the entire world.

“This footage offers a unique perspective not seen from the south or east,” one person commented. It wasn’t long until many realized it was indeed a unique recording.

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“It’s crazy that we’re almost 23 years out and still getting new footage,” a person on Reddit commented.

The release of the video, that has since gone viral, highlights the importance of preserving historical records. “Makes me wonder how much history is being stored in people’s attics or basements waiting to be unearthed,” someone commented. Honestly, we ask ourselves the same question.

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This never-before-seen footage that offers a different perspective serves as a reminder for the future generations of the scale of the tragedy and the lasting impact it left.

The 9/11 attack, when 19 members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group hijacked four planes and used them as weapons in a coordinated assault on the United States, with two of those planes striking the World Trade Center in New York City and causing the Twin Towers to collapse, resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths.

It was a sad, sad day for America and its citizens.

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The US secrets Donald Trump wowed to declassify, including Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘client list’

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Following his election win over opponent Kamala Harris, Donald Trump returned to the White House for the second time and didn’t waste any time fulfilling the promises he made during the presidential campaign.

Mere hours following his inauguration, Trump signed a number of executive orders and promised to declassify files related to major global events that have been the subject of conspiracy theories over the years.

Trump appointed Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna to lead the declassification task force after her call for “transparency” in federal government.

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So, what can the public expect to be declassified under Trump’s presidency?

Files related to COVID-19, the virus that spread worldwide and claimed the lives of many, is one of the events the president wants to look into, more precisely, documents detailing the virus’s origin, which was believed to be released from a laboratory in China.

Further, Trump would allow classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy to be released. With this, he would also declassify documents of the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Speaking of the files regarding these cases of assassination, Trump said, “Lot of people are waiting for this for a long, long time, for years, for decades, and everything will be revealed.”

Speaking to podcaster Joe Rogan, President Trump revealed,”I did partially open [the files].

“I think I’ve opened 50% but I was asked not to do it, and I thought that was a reasonable ask. But now I’m going to do it. I’m going to do it very soon. There’s a lot of interest in it.”

Another case that has been of great interest to the public, and the president himself obviously, is the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who was jailed for s*x trafficking and s*x charges.

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Epstein’s death in prison while awaiting trial on new child trafficking charges led to numerous conspiracy theories about the clients who were using his services.

Under Trump’s presidency, Epstein’s “client list” is expected to be made public once the files are declassified by the federal government.

While Trump was a known associate of Epstein in the past, there are no suggestion of any wrongdoing by the president in the case of the s*x offender.

Whether this “client list” differs from Epstein’s so-called “black book” which includes high-profile figures is yet to be seen.

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Karen Valentine, the star of ‘Room 222,’ recalls an ‘awful’ experience she had on ‘The Dating Game’

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Back in the day, The Dating Game was the first ever dating reality show which opened the path for a number of similar shows that followed. This one, however, served another purpose, too, that of a launchpad for new actors, among which Suzanne Somers, Tom Selleck, Leif Garret, and Karen Valentine.

Before agreeing to be part of the show, Valentine was a former beauty queen who was then given the chance to interview three eligible bachelors hidden behind a dividing wall.

However, as she believed the experience would be a fun one, her ‘pick’ made it terrible.

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Recalling her appearance on The Dating Game, the now 77-year-old actress shared with Closer Weekly, “That was awful, because the guy thought that this was really going to be a date, right? The Dating Game got more serious later where people would be sent on trips.” She then added: “I only got to go to the Ambassador Hotel to see a show, but the guy thought we were going to make out in the limo and it, was, like, ‘You know this is a first date, right?’ It was so sleazy. You’d go to dinner and then to a show, which is the prize I won, but the guy thought this was serious. I wanted to get out of the date. You know, ‘Save the money, who needs to go on a date? Let me do another show. Give me a shot at acting or something.’”

Although the experience wasn’t a pleasant one, the show did help her land roles, including the one in Room 222, which catapulted her into stardom.

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In 1970, Room 222 cleaned up at the Primetime Emmy Awards, earning titles for Outstanding New Series, while Valentine and Michael Constantine both won supporting roles.

This was everything a young actress like Karen Valentine dreamed of.

It seemed surreal that she earned such a prestigious award at the start of her career.

“It was kind of mind-blowing to have that happen so soon, so quickly,” said Valentine of her first nomination and win. “And to meet Carol Burnett and her saying, ‘Well, congratulations for this.’ It was like, ‘Thank you.’ But that Carol Burnett would know me? Just incredible.

“I remember I was taking singing lessons at the time, and I went to my singing class,” Valentine started. “Also taking lessons was Gregory Peck… When he walked by, I was at the teacher’s piano and he saw me through the window and kind of mimed, ‘You did it!’ I was like, ‘Oh my God. It’s Gregory Peck!’ How was it that I had the fortune to meet these stars and talented people from the get-go?”

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The series was a huge hit, with incredible rankings and positive critics, but then, during season four, people’s interest in it declined and it was canceled in the middle of season four.

“Why things changed, I have no idea,” Valentine recalled when the network told the cast the show was cut. “But they did have the wherewithal to give us the word that it was happening, and it was sad… Well, it’s always sad, but especially when you feel you have a good product and a good show, for it to be taken away. But in the end, the network made the decision to go in a different direction. That’s what they always say, ‘We’ve decided to go in a different direction.’”

Karen Valentine appeared in a number of series and films, with her latest one, Wedding Daze, released in 2004.

Karen Valentine attends the Chiller Theatre Expo at Sheraton Parsippany Hotel on October 26, 2013 in Parsippany, New Jersey. (Photo by Bobby Bank/WireImage)

Speaking of the role in Room 222, the actress has only fond memories of it.

“Working with all of those people, and to have that kind of experience first time out–the show just brings back the fondest and best memories in the world to me.

“…It also kind of spoiled me, because it set the bar really high. So when other things come to you, you think, ‘What is this?’ It was different, you know. But I was fortunate that I did get material that was pretty fun and well done.”

Valentine has been married two times. She and her second and current husband, Gary Lewis Verna, tied the knot in 1977.

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Celebrities who left the U.S. after Donald Trump took office

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Donald Trump took office for the second time, becoming the 47th president of The United States of America, and while many are in awe with him running the country again, there are also those who are against his politics, and that involves a number of celebrities.

Namely, in light of the election results, many celebrities expressed their desire to flee the country governed by Trump.

Eva Longoria

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One of the notable Hollywood stars who publicly spoke about her move from the States because of Trump’s win is actress Eva Longoria. Speaking to Marie Claire of the president’s plans, she said, “If he keeps his promises, it’s going to be a scary place. I’m privileged—I get to escape and go somewhere. Most Americans aren’t so lucky.” Since then, Longoria is splitting her time between Mexico and Spain.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

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The former host and her partner made a move to the UK. A source close to the couple shared with The Wrap that they are not planning on returning, at least not until Trump is out of office.

The couple are advocates for the LGBTQ+ rights and they are trying to run away from Trump’s hostility towards the members of the LGBTQ+ community.

America Ferrera

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Among the celebrities who are leaving America following Trump’s win is America Ferrera. While she would be still working in the States, reports say that she’s been looking for schools in London for her children.

“She is going to continue to have a presence in the US for work purposes and to fight for Latinas and women, but she will be overseas for family and to benefit her kids’ education.

“She wants them to have the best opportunities possible and to her, being overseas for that is what is important.”

“She’s not abandoning the US, she is prioritizing her life and focusing on the importance for her kids.”

Barbra Streisand

Streisand was vocal about moving out of the US if Trump returned for a second term, and not that he’s in office again, only time will tell if she would proceed with her plan.

Laverne Cox

Actress and activist Laverne Cox is considering relocating because of concerns over anti-trans sentiments during Trump’s administration.

Speaking to Variety, she said, “As a public figure, with all my privilege, I’m scared. I feel like I could be targeted. I think they spent close to $100 million on anti-trans ads. It’s deeply concerning.”

Lena Dunham

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At the Matrix Awards in 2016, Dunham said, “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will.”

Although she didn’t mention Trump, she did imply the reasons for her move. Dunham replaced the States for her husband’s homeland, the UK.

Sophie Turner

The Game of Thrones star has struggled with the US politics for years. Finally, she moved to her homeland, the UK, last year, following her divorce with Joe Jonas.

Speaking to the Harper’s Bazaar U.K. in 2024, Turner said, “The gun violence, Roe v. Wade being overturned … Everything just kind of piled on. After the Uvalde [school] shooting, I knew it was time to get the f*** out of there.”

Minnie Driver

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After 30 years of living in LA, Driver made London her home.

The list of celebrities who either left the US or are planning on doing it after Trump won the elections doesn’t end here.

Other famous people who shared this desire are Sharon Stone, Vivian Wilson, Cher, and more.

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So sad, Officer Carson

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A police officer and a mother of six, Phylicia Carson, died on duty, leaving her husband and children behind.

Carson, a member of the Osage Beach Police Department in Missouri, was on patrol when she spotted a vehicle speeding down a rural road in Camden County near the Lake of the Ozarks on August 31, 2024.

“The officer activated its emergency equipment and initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle,” police Chief Todd Davis said in a press conference. He added that the vehicle “failed to stop and accelerated,” forcing Carson to go after the car.

Unfortunately, as the pursuit progressed, officer Carson’s vehicle skidded off the roadway, struck into a tree, and caught on fire. The mom-of-six was pronounced dead at the scene.

“Officer Carson perished in the crash,” chief Davis said during the press conference. “Please keep the Carson family, our Department, and our community in your thoughts and prayers as we work through this tragic event,” he continued.

The speeding driver, later identified as 23-year-old Christopher Aaron Bishop Wehmeyer, also crashed minutes later on State Highway A. He was taken into custody and was charged with aggravated fleeing a stop or detention of a motor vehicle, causing a death. 

He remains held in Camden County Jail without bond, awaiting further legal proceedings.

Suspect Christopher Aaron Bishop Wehmeyer

Camden County Prosecuting Attorney Richelle Grosvenor spoke of the case and said, “Rest assured, your Camden County Prosecutor’s Office is going to review the facts.

“We are going to charge appropriately and we are going to pursue this with the resources that we have.”

The Missouri State Highway Patrol paid their tributes to Officer Carson on X.

“On behalf of Colonel Eric T. Olson and the entire Missouri State Highway Patrol, we extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Osage Beach Police Officer Phylicia Carson, who lost her life in the line of duty this morning.

“We also extend condolences to Chief Todd Davis and the men and women who she served alongside at the Osage Beach Police Department,” the post added.

We are so very sorry for this tragic loss.

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