Christmas Barbie is Coming!

Christmas Barbie is Coming!

Barbie has had many jobs throughout the years like astronaut, chef & fashion designer! Now, she’s going to be add Queen of Christmas to her resume! Mariah Carey is officially getting her own Barbie this year in her classic sparkly red dress! Maybe she’ll sing All I Want For Christmas Is You!!

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Paper.

Paper.

The highly anticipated spinoff of “The Office” is coming soon! “The Paper” premieres on Peacock September 4th and features one of the characters from the original show, Oscar Martinez. The show doesn’t have anything to do with the Scranton Branch of the paper company from “The Office” Dunder Mifflin, but deals with a struggling newspaper company.

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Friday, July 11, 2025: You Don’t Need an Everything Shower; Raven’s Smoking Update; Earning Your Mommy Margarita!

Friday, July 11, 2025: You Don’t Need an Everything Shower; Raven’s Smoking Update; Earning Your Mommy Margarita!

Have you heard of an “Everything Shower?” Experts are saying that it’s technically not the right way to shower.

Are you up to date on this week’s biggest news story? Anna and Raven will get you caught up on the trending news including Justin Bieber’s new album and a fast food diss track that was released!

Anna saw Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox playing a game on their phones and now she’s hooked… again. Find out what game it was and what Raven and Producer Julie have bought because of celebrity endorsement!

Anna had been addicted to Candy Crush for years! Dr. Rachel Kowert PhD, and founder of Psychgeist Research Psychologist explains why people get addicted to games on their phone! You can find Rachel at https://rkowert.com/!

Raven said he was going to quit smoking about two months ago! Anna does a Wellness Check on him; has be successfully quit?! Find out!

It’s the return of Fight Friday! A viral video of what happened on a golf course, and it may be the most viral fight! What was the dumb fight that you saw?

Anna says for all you do, and all you put up with this week, you’ve earned yourself a drink. What did you do to earn your Mommy Margarita?

 Tony and Miranda rescued a cat and the cat is very aggressive. He’s had enough of it; it even scratched him in the middle of the night. He says that the cat either becomes an outdoor cat, or they give it away/return it to the shelter. She says that they don’t give up on animals and the cat has already been returned before, they have to keep it.

Raymond has a chance to win $1900! All he has to do is answer more pop culture questions than Raven in Can’t Beat Raven! 

Why People Are Addicted To Games On Their Phones!

Why People Are Addicted To Games On Their Phones!

Anna had been addicted to Candy Crush for years! Dr. Rachel Kowert, PhD and founder of Psychgeist Research Psychologist explains why people get addicted to games on their phone! You can find Rachel at https://rkowert.com/!
Photo Credit: Dr. Rachel Kowert, PhD

Woman charged with leaving child alone boardwalk

Woman charged with leaving child alone boardwalk

A Lynbrook woman has been charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child after she left a 6-year-old child alone on the boardwalk in Long Beach. The child is now being cared for by a relative.

Santos says President Trump will not to pardon him

Santos says President Trump will not to pardon him

George Santos who must report to prison by July 25th to serve more than seven years in prison, claimed on social media that House Speaker Mike Johnson had somehow influenced President Trump not to pardon him.

Santos also alleged that Nassau GOP chair Joseph Cairo and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman are not supporting him because it would hurt them in upcoming elections.

Stop & Shop to close 4 Long Island supermarkets

Stop & Shop to close 4 Long Island supermarkets

Stop & Shop will close 32 “underperforming” supermarkets across the northeast, including four on Long Island by early November. The company says workers will be given opportunities to transfer to other nearby stores.
The stores closing on Long Island are in Greenvale, Coram, Hempstead and East Meadow.

Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration

Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration

NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York.
For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless.
“I cannot describe the pain of that night,” Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. “This is something I will never forgive.”
Now, weeks after regaining his freedom, Khalil is seeking restitution. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.
The filing — a precursor to a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act — names the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the State Department.
It comes as the deportation case against Khalil, a 30-year-old recent graduate student at Columbia University, continues to wind its way through the immigration court system.
The goal, Khalil said, is to send a message that he won’t be intimidated into silence.
“They are abusing their power because they think they are untouchable,” Khalil said. “Unless they feel there is some sort of accountability, it will continue to go unchecked.”
Khalil said he plans to share any settlement money with others targeted in Trump’s “failed” effort to suppress pro-Palestinian speech. In lieu of a settlement, he would also accept an official apology and changes to the administration’s deportation policies.
A White House spokesperson deferred comment to the State Department, which said its actions were fully supported by the law.
In an emailed statement, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, called Khalil’s claim “absurd,” accusing him of “hateful behavior and rhetoric” that threatened Jewish students.
Harsh conditions and an ‘absurd’ allegation
The filing accuses President Donald Trump and other officials of mounting a haphazard and illegal campaign to “terrorize him and his family,” beginning with Khalil’s March 8 arrest.
On that night, he said he was returning home from dinner with his wife, Noor Abdalla, when he was “effectively kidnapped” by plainclothes federal agents, who refused to provide a warrant and appeared surprised to learn he was a legal U.S. permanent resident.
He was then whisked overnight to an immigration jail in Jena, Louisiana, a remote location that was “deliberately concealed” from his family and attorneys, according to the filing.
Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.”
Khalil, who has condemned antisemitism before and since his arrest, was not accused of a crime and has not been linked to Hamas or any other terror group. “At some point, it becomes like reality TV,” Khalil said of the allegations. “It’s very absurd.”
Deported for beliefs
A few weeks into his incarceration, Khalil was awoken by a fellow detainee, who pointed excitedly to his face on a jailhouse TV screen. A new memo signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged Khalil hadn’t broken the law, but argued he should be deported for beliefs that could undermine U.S. foreign policy interests.
“My beliefs are not wanting my tax money or tuition going toward investments in weapons manufacturers for a genocide,” Khalil said. “It’s as simple as that.”
By then, Khalil had become something of a celebrity in the 1,200-person lock-up. When not dealing with his own case, he hosted “office hours” for fellow immigrant detainees, leaning on his past experience working at a British embassy in Beirut to help others organize paperwork and find translators for their cases.
“I’m pretty good at bureaucracy,” Khalil said.
At night, they played Russian and Mexican card games, as Khalil listened to “one story after another from people who didn’t understand what’s happening to them.”
“This was one of the most heartbreaking moments,” he said. “People on the inside don’t know if they have any rights.”
Lost time
On June 20, after 104 days in custody, Khalil was ordered released by a federal judge, who found the government’s efforts to remove him on foreign policy grounds were likely unconstitutional.
He now faces new allegations of misrepresenting personal details on his green card application. In a motion filed late Wednesday, attorneys for Khalil described those charges as baseless and retaliatory, urging a judge to dismiss them.
The weeks since his release, Khalil said, have brought moments of bliss and intense personal anguish.
Fearing harassment or possible arrest, he leaves the house less frequently, avoiding large crowds or late-night walks. But he lit up as he remembered watching Deen taking his first swim earlier in the week. “It was not very pleasant for him,” Khalil said, smiling.
“I’m trying as much as possible to make up for the time with my son and my wife,” he added. “As well thinking about my future and trying to comprehend this new reality.”
Part of that reality, he said, will be continuing his efforts to advocate against Israel’s war in Gaza, which has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. On the day after his release, he led a march through Manhattan, draped in a Palestinian flag — and flanked by security.
As he poured Deen’s milk into a bottle, Khalil considered whether he might’ve done anything differently had he known the personal cost of his activism.
“We could’ve communicated better. We could’ve built more bridges with more people,” he said. “But the core thing of opposing a genocide, I don’t think you can do that any differently. This is your moral imperative when you’re watching your people be slaughtered by the minute.”

Thursday, July 10, 2025: Best Companies to Work For; Accidentally Throwing Things Away; Pros and Cons of Summer Birthdays!

Thursday, July 10, 2025: Best Companies to Work For; Accidentally Throwing Things Away; Pros and Cons of Summer Birthdays!

Katie Holmes liked a post that announced that her ex-husband Tom Cruise is now with a new woman and she immediately unliked it! Anna and Raven talk about how to avoid accidentally liking a post and the platform that shows you who is looking at your profile!

Would you let your teenager take a car that is driven by a robot? Waymo is making that possible, so Anna asks her 16-year-old daughter Hayden who she thinks is a better driver: her or Waymo.

Anna lists three news stories that seem almost out of this world, and Raven can only pick and hear about one!

Find out what the top 10 companies are to work for! Do you work for one of these companies and what makes it so good!

Anna accidentally threw away something that was important to her daughter, not thinking it was important! Raven has gone through this before too! But find out what Anna threw away!

Are you up to date on this week’s biggest news story? Anna and Raven will get you caught up on the trending news including Moo Deng’s first birthday is today, Sofía Vergara and Tom Brady seen together!

Summer birthdays can be tough! Producer Julie asks the Office Squad what they think about their summer birthdays!

 Erik and Dana’s parents are so excited that they’re pregnant. It’ll be the first grandchild on both sides of the family. Dana, of course, wants her mother in the delivery room with her- and much to her horror, her mother-in-law mentioned that she plans to be in the room as well. She says that her husband needs to tell his mom, no, she can’t be in the room, she can wait until after the delivery to meet the baby. He argues that it isn’t fair that her mom gets to be in the room and part of the event, and his mom doesn’t. What do you think?

Jackie has a chance to win $1800! All she has to do is answer more pop culture questions than Raven in Can’t Beat Raven!

Over 112 ghost gun found in Medford home

Over 112 ghost gun found in Medford home

A Medford man is accused of running a large-scale gun manufacturing and trafficking business out of his residence in Medford, making untraceable firearms with no serial numbers using 3D printers and specialized gun-building machinery.
A raid on the home resulted in the seizure of more than 112 illegal firearms. The Suffolk County Das office says it is the largest ghost gun seizure in Suffolk County history.

NYS summer programs safe but concerns remain after-school program cuts with Trump funding freeze

NYS summer programs safe but concerns remain after-school program cuts with Trump funding freeze

New York State Department of Education says public school summer programs are continue even though the Trump administration has frozen more than $6 billion in federal grants for after-school and summer programs nationwide. The freeze is part of a review to ensure the funding aligns with the White House’s priorities. States and schools had expected the money to be released on July 1.