By Joel Malkin
May 24, 2021
A bit of a let down for folks in the city of Riviera Beach, where a watch party was held Sunday night, in hopes that Palm Beach County native Willie Spence would prevail as the winner of American Idol.
He wound up the runner-up to ultimate winner of last night s finale Chayce Beckham.
While Willie was born in West Palm Beach and has family still in the area, his hometown visit that featured in last night s show was focused on his current hometown of Douglas, Georgia.
If you still want to root for a Florida resident to win a singing competition, you have another chance.
SMOTHERING HEAT
Heat dome to cover southeast US this week as temperatures soar to record-breaking levels for a third of population
Updated: May 24 2021, 16:45 ET
THE southeast US will be under a heat dome this week as temperatures reach record-breaking highs.
Almost a third of the population will endure scorching temperatures at around 90degrees or higher during the sweltering workweek.
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The southeast US will be under a heat dome this week as temperatures reach record-breaking highsCredit: AFP
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Almost a third of the population will endure scorching temperatures around 90 degrees or higher for the work weekCredit: AFP
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Some of the cities that will be most affected by the coming heat are Atlanta, Nashville, Tennessee, Baltimore, and Montgomery, AlabamaCredit: Getty
Updated: May 24 2021, 19:51 ET
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DONALD Trump has said he is all but certain that Covid-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, after a bombshell report claimed three scientists there fell ill at the beginning of the outbreak in November 2019.
Speaking to Fox Nation s Dan Bognino on Monday, the former president said: I think you can take the word ‘potential’ out that it came from the lab.
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Trump s comments come after it was revealed three scientists were hospitalized in November 2019 with Covid-like symptomsCredit: AP
Bongino and Trump were talking about the theory that the virus did originate in a lab in Wuhan, which the president often mentioned on the campaign trail.
By Joel Malkin
May 24, 2021
A bit of a let down for folks in the city of Riviera Beach, where a watch party was held Sunday night, in hopes that Palm Beach County native Willie Spence would prevail as the winner of American Idol.
He wound up the runner-up to ultimate winner of last night s finale Chayce Beckham.
While Willie was born in West Palm Beach and has family still in the area, his hometown visit that featured in last night s show was focused on his current hometown of Douglas, Georgia.
If you still want to root for a Florida resident to win a singing competition, you have another chance.
By Joel Malkin
May 24, 2021
A bit of a let down for folks in the city of Riviera Beach, where a watch party was held Sunday night, in hopes that Palm Beach County native Willie Spence would prevail as the winner of American Idol.
He wound up the runner-up to ultimate winner of last night s finale Chayce Beckham.
While Willie was born in West Palm Beach and has family still in the area, his hometown visit that featured in last night s show was focused on his current hometown of Douglas, Georgia.
If you still want to root for a Florida resident to win a singing competition, you have another chance.