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A POPULAR ride at Disney World has closed down, leaving people selling bizarre souvenirs for as much as £200. The 30-year-old ride was permanently shut down this week after it was the subject of controversy. Now some of the last people to ride on it are trying to earn a bit of pocket money by flogging mementos they took away from the park. Splash Mountain was a popular ride among Disney World fans, set in a southern bayou and based on the 1946 film Song Of The South. However, Disney announced that the ride would be closing for good due to its racist stereotypes and portrayal of African Americans in post- Civil War South. The movie is best known for the song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. Read More on Disney World STOP THE BLUES Best Blue Monday travel deals - with Disney World, UK breaks & long-hauls FAIRYTALE FAIL I went on honeymoon with my man to Disney World and it was mortifying The Disney attraction was a … [Read more...] about Disney World closes popular ride – and people are selling souvenirs from it for £200

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 GENEVA (AP) — The question of if and how Russia competes at the Olympics hangs over the 2024 Paris Summer Games. Just as it has now for five straight Olympics during Thomas Bach’s leadership of the IOC, whose support this week for some Russians to compete in Paris was publicly challenged Friday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia and its athletes have been at risk of being banned — though ultimately competed — at each Olympics since the steroid-tainted 2014 Sochi Winter Games that was Bach’s first as president of the International Olympic Committee. This time it is Russia waging war on Ukraine. Previously it was Russian state-backed doping and then Russian authorities trying to cover up evidence of that scandal. Zelenskyy wants Russia excluded from taking part in Paris while its military is occupying and attacking his country. … [Read more...] about Russia issue looms for Paris Olympics, Zelenskyy rebukes IOC

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for January 26 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Hundreds of people sailed through my life during three decades at The Washington Post, but none matched the impact that Bob Andrews had on me. Bob died December 2, from Parkinson’s, silencing a man whom hundreds of others — from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the mountains of Afghanistan — could not. He was 85. From the moment he ambled up behind me two short years ago outside my gym in Washington’s west end, I sensed a force field around him. Here was a real spy, a highly decorated soldier who fought in wildernesses, jumped out of airplanes, wrote novels and military textbooks, sealed business deals, knew presidents and sheiks, advised former astronauts and rained horror down on bad guys. GOP BILL WOULD STICK CONGRESS MEMBERS WITH VETERANS’ HEALTH … [Read more...] about America lost a little-known patriot named Bob Andrews. He lived an amazing life defending the nation he loved