Man punches and slaps girlfriend's daughter after he misses birth of his child

Frustrated about missing the birth of his child, a man punched and slapped his girlfriend's three-year-old daughter who was left in his care. The 24-year-old on Monday (25 October) pleaded guilty to ill-treating the girl, now five, with another two charges of causing hurt to be considered when he is sentenced on 10 December. He was aware that the girl has slow mental development.

‘Poses Real Problems’: Ex Minneapolis Cop Has Murder Conviction Reversed and Sentencing Reduced; New Precedence Draws Concern as Derek Chauvin Seeks to Appeal His Conviction

Minneapolis' first cop to be convicted of murder may regain his freedom sooner than anticipated. In an unprecedented turn of events, a Minnesota judge re-sentenced former cop Mohamed Noor to five years in prison for manslaughter. Noor has already served 29 months behind bars, making him eligible for early release, contingent upon good behavior, as soon as June 2022.

At 56, Elizabeth Hurley's Toned Abs Rule The Beach In A New Bikini Pic

Elizabeth Hurley practically lives in a bikini (seriously, peep her Instagrams). And she just dropped a new pic of herself soaking up the sun in one. It's been six weeks since the 56-year-old's last bikini photo, so this is kind of a BFD for her.

A mom told Jeff Bezos that Amazon was underpaying her $90 a month, sparking an internal probe that found the company was shortchanging some workers, a report says

An Amazon worker on leave emailed Jeff Bezos to say she'd been underpaid, The New York Times said. A subsequent investigation found that Amazon was systematically underpaying some workers on leave. A spokesperson told The Times that Amazon was still identifying underpaid workers.

'Cowboys for Trump' founder turns on Trump during QAnon conference

The founder of "Cowboys for Trump" may be moseying along on his lonesome. Couy Griffin is a New Mexico county commissioner who made headlines as the founder of the "Cowboys for Trump" activist group. Griffin made an appearance at the Patriot Double Down event, a QAnon conference in Las Vegas from Oct. 22-25, where he appeared to express doubt in former President Donald Trump's dedication to the cause.

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  Cowboys for Trump founder turns against former president

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  ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder Now Just a Cowboy After Bashing Former President

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China warns of further spread in latest COVID-19 flare-up

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's latest COVID-19 outbreak is increasingly likely to spread further, a health official said on Sunday, as authorities urged all regions to step up monitoring and called for a reduction in travel across provinces. China has largely contained the virus but it is determined to stamp out any sporadic local outbreaks, particularly in the run-up to the 2022 Winter Olympics in February. More than 100 locally transmitted cases have been confirmed over the last week across 11 provincial areas, with most linked to 13 different tour groups.

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  Race to stamp out new Covid outbreak before Beijing Winter Olympics

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  China battles new Covid outbreak with eye on Winter Olympics

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Autopsy of Brian Laundrie's remains came back inconclusive, attorney says

Human remains were found in Florida's Carlton Reserve on Wednesday after more than a month of searching for Laundrie, who was a person of interest in the disappearance of his fiancée, Gabby Petito, before her body was discovered in Wyoming. The remains, described as "skeletal" by the North Port Police Department, were confirmed to be Laundrie's after a review of dental records, officials said Thursday. According to the FBI, the remains were found alongside personal items, such as a backpack and a notebook, belonging to Laundrie.

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  Brian Laundrie's parents won't have a funeral for their son, a producer said the family's attorney told her

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  Gabby Petito Case: Brian Laundrie Will Not Have Funeral Service Amid Inconclusive Autopsy Results

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People Are Calling Out Scams That Are So Normalized, You Don't Even Notice Them, And There Are No Lies Detected

When I told them I would not be renewing, they listed my apartment for the same monthly rate I had been paying all along." u/Firedown31 "I just quit my gym membership because of this. They had big posters advertising the new low rate, but they wouldn't switch me to that without paying an exorbitant fee.

Colombia's most wanted drug lord captured in jungle raid

Colombian security forces have captured the country's most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right. President Iván Duque likened the arrest Saturday of Dairo Antonio Úsuga to the capture three decades ago of Pablo Escobar. Colombia's military presented Úsuga to the media in handcuffs and wearing rubber boots preferred by rural farmers.

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  Colombia's most-wanted drug lord told armed forces: 'You beat me' when caught -government

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  Colombia's most-wanted drug lord to be extradited

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Sunny Hostin Clashes With Gretchen Carlson on ‘The View’: You Sound ‘Very Republican’

Things got slightly tense between The View's Sunny Hostin and guest host Gretchen Carlson on Monday when Hostin accused Carlson of sounding “very Republican” after the former Fox News anchor insisted she is actually an independent voter. Following Meghan McCain's acrimonious departure from The View over the summer, the popular ABC daytime talk show has featured a series of rotating guest hosts to fill the conservative seat until they settle on a permanent co-host. Carlson, the longtime Fox & Friends co-host who blew the whistle on Roger Ailes' reign of sexual harassment and misconduct at Fox News in 2016, was greeted with a warm welcome when she sat down at The View table Monday morning.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell still hasn't given a basic response to Dominion's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit

Mike Lindell and his company MyPillow haven't filed answers to Dominion's defamation lawsuit. A judge ruled in August that Dominion's lawsuits against MyPillow, Lindell, Sidney Powell, and Giuliani could proceed. Giuliani and Powell filed responses, but MyPillow and Lindell have dragged their feet.

In major ocean polluter Philippines, group turns plastic waste into planks

A group of recyclers in the Philippines is trying to ease the country's worsening plastic waste crisis by turning bottles, single-use sachets and snack food wrappers that clog rivers and spoil beaches into building materials. The Plastic Flamingo, or "The Plaf", as they are commonly known, collect the waste, shred it and then mould it into posts and planks called "eco-lumber" that can be used for fencing, decking or even to make disaster-relief shelters. It) is 100% upcycled material, 100% made from plastic waste materials, we also include some additives and colorants and it is rot-free, maintenance-free, and splinter-free, said Erica Reyes, The Plaf's chief operating officer.

Donald Trump Jr. is selling shirts that say 'guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people' after Halyna Hutchins death

Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a movie set last week, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Donald Trump Jr. is selling shirts that say "guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people." Baldwin has long opposed gun rights activists and said his heart was "broken" for Hutchins' family.

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  Joel Souza, Alec Baldwin speak out about the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of 'Rust'

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  Alec Baldwin was practicing drawing and pointing gun when it discharged on 'Rust' set

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Police: Miami teen girl stole, posed for pics with gun later used to kill Hollywood officer

A 16-year-old Miami girl has admitted to taking possession of a stolen pistol that was later believed to have been used by her brother to murder Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino, authorities said. Katherine Banegas was booked into a Miami-Dade juvenile detention center Monday and charged with grand theft of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor and possession of a firearm by a delinquent. She is accused of taking the Glock G43 pistol from a man back in September, and refusing to give it back despite his repeated text messages.

Why this financial advisor has found that some clients save too much money

Pennington said she's “often had a harder time convincing people that they really could spend the money that they had saved for all those years. That's “another part of what a good financial advisor does,” she added. Pennington says that reassessment of priorities and even more focus on saving has been a fundamental change that has come out of the pandemic, where people have “gotten in touch with what's really important in their lives and the legacies that they want to leave to their children, to community organizations, to things that they're passionate about."

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  Here are ways to save more money for retirement: Edward Jones Managing Partner Penny Pennington

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  Why a good financial adviser helps people figure out how to spend their money — not just save it

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San Francisco families no longer 'feel safe,' hire private security amid crime spree

More than 150 families living in San Francisco have hired private security to patrol their streets amid brazen property crimes, with some saying they no longer feel safe in their own neighborhood. "We don't feel safe in our neighborhood," resident Katie Lyons, told CBS SF. Lyons and other families hired patrol special officer Alan Byard to help patrol the streets of the city's Marina District following repeated instances of car break-ins and home burglaries.

Biden 'positive' on budget deal; Manchin OK with wealth tax

Pivotal Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden's scaled-back social services and climate change package. Biden said Monday he felt “very positive” about reaching agreement on his big domestic policy bill, aiming for votes in Congress as soon as this week — though that is far from certain. Democrats are working intensely to try again to wrap up talks, scaling back what had been what had been a sweeping $3.5 trillion plan so the president can spotlight his administration's achievements to world leaders at two overseas summits on the economy and climate change that get underway later this week.

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  Report: Manchin agreeable to Biden's wealth tax plan

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  Biden says he hopes Democrats reach spending deal this week

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A ‘flesh eating’ STI causing 'beefy red' sores is becoming more common. Should Americans worry?

A flesh-eating sexually transmitted infection that causes "beefy red" ulcers is becoming more prevalent in the United Kingdom, a new report out Friday revealed. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the STI, donovanosis, is most common in parts of India, Papua New Guinea, central Australia and the Caribbean and southern Africa. While the numbers are nowhere near the prevalence of other STIs – only 30 cases occurred in the UK in 2019, per public health records –  the potential for more infections in the past two years (that data is not released yet) poses concern for more spreading, especially since it was even rarer to be found in the UK prior to five years ago.

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  Rare ‘flesh eating’ STI becoming more common in the UK, says doctor

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  Donovanosis: What is the rare ‘flesh-eating’ sexually transmitted infection?

  The Independent

Non-Americans Are Sharing The Misconceptions They Had About The US Before Visiting, And I'm Laughing At A Lot Of These

Here are some of the responses. "I thought Americans ate pizza every single Friday, which is why I wanted to visit the USA in the first place." u/daivern 2."

US retail giants pull Chinese surveillance tech from shelves

U.S. retail giants Home Depot and Best Buy have pulled the Chinese video surveillance technology makers Lorex and Ezviz from their stores over links to human rights abuses. In a statement to TechCrunch, Home Depot said it's "committed to upholding the highest standards of ethical sourcing and we immediately stopped selling products from Lorex when this was brought to our attention." Home Depot also stopped selling Ezviz products, a spokesperson confirmed.

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly helped reinstate a video that falsely claims abortion is 'never medically necessary,' caving to complaints of Republican politicians

17 news outlets reported further findings from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's leaked internal documents. Zuckerberg helped reinstate an inaccurate anti-abortion video after Republican politicians protested its removal, records reviewed by the Financial Times reveal. Employees repeatedly urged Facebook execs to stop bending the rules for politicians, the report says.

Trump Has Weekend Freakout Over 'Horrible' Fox News Ads

Donald Trump spent at least part of his weekend yelling at the TV, releasing a new rant calling out Fox News for running ads critical of him. “What good is it if FOX News speaks well of me when they continually allow horrible and untruthful anti-Trump commercials to be run — and plenty of them,” Trump said in a statement. It's not clear which ad triggered the former president, but several anti-Trump groups have been running spots critical of him and his supporters in Congress, often airing them on Fox News in hopes he'll see them.