Watch vehicles go flying in terrifying train crash with car hauler

The video above captures what happened after a semi truck carrying a load of vehicles got itself high-centered on a railroad crossing Friday near Thackerville, Okla. An Amtrak train hits the incapacitated truck at speed in one of the most spectacular crashes we can recall, sending the truckload of vehicles flying and crumpling the car trailer. Worse, five people aboard the Amtrak were injured and were transported to a hospital, according to Love County firefighters, though the injuries were non-critical. In the video, you can see someone jumping up and down in a vain attempt to warn the train.

Trump Can’t Help Himself, Lashes Out at Colin Powell

Now, the former president is lashing out at Colin Powell the day after he died from Covid-19 complications. “Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media,” Trump wrote in a statement released Tuesday through his Save America PAC.

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  Report: Ex-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell dies of COVID complications

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  Blinken pays tribute to Colin Powell

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America isn't running out of everything just because of a supply-chain crisis. America is running out of everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.

Disruptions in global supply chains have generated the phrase "everything shortage." Supply-chain professionals plan to alleviate the backlog container by container. Americans are buying everything they can get their hands on, and they'd be buying even more if it weren't for those pesky supply-chain snarls, the National Retail Federation said.

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  What’s causing America’s supply chain issues?

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  The global supply chain crisis is having an impact on store shelves nationwide

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Train riders held up phones as woman was raped, police say

A man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia harassed her for more than 40 minutes while multiple people held up their phones to seemingly record the assault without intervening, authorities said. More than two dozen train stops passed as the man harassed, groped and eventually raped the woman, the police chief for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said at a news conference Monday. Both the man and woman got on the train at the same stop Wednesday night in North Philadelphia.

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  Police: commuters held up phones as woman raped

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  Pennsylvania train passengers held up phones ‘to record rape’ instead of intervening, say authorities

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Hooters clarifies uniform policy after servers’ outcry over controversial new shorts

A change to the Hooters uniform at some locations has prompted a handful of the restaurant chain's servers to share their concerns on TikTok. In the videos, which have racked up millions of views since popping up on the platform last week, Hooters servers hold up the new black shorts while sharing their thoughts. The videos have reignited criticisms of Hooters for fostering an outdated concept centered around sexualizing servers' bodies.

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  Hooters Servers Are Complaining About the Chain's Inappropriate New Uniforms

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  Hooters won't require new shorts servers complained were too short

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Plane crashes near Houston without serious reported injuries

A private plane carrying as many as 21 people crashed in a field outside of Houston, Texas, with only one person sent to the hospital for injuries, officials said Tuesday. The incident happened Tuesday morning in the southeast corner of Waller County, located near the Houston Executive Airport, a public facility that typically caters to corporate passengers, the Texas Department of Public Safety said, according to KTRK. Videos and images show firefighters dousing the aircraft remains, which appeared to be small bits of the remaining fuselage along with the back tail engine of the plane.

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  No major injuries after plane crashes and burns near Houston

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  Plane goes down near Houston Executive Airport in Brookshire

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China, Russia navy ships jointly sail through Japan strait

TOKYO (Reuters) -A group of 10 naval vessels from China and Russia sailed through a strait separating Japan's main island and its northern island of Hokkaido on Monday, the Japanese government said, adding that it is closely watching such activities. It was the first time Japan has confirmed the passage of Chinese and Russian naval vessels sailing together through the Tsugaru Strait, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Pacific. While the strait is regarded as international waters, Japan's ties with China have long been plagued by conflicting claims over a group of tiny East China Sea islets.

The Most Common Places COVID Is Spreading Right Now (And Where It's Not)

The types of places that carry the biggest risk for COVID-19 transmission have changed over time ― partly because experts have learned more about how the virus works and partly because the virus itself has changed. The delta variant is more than two times as contagious as previous strains, which has obvious implications for transmission. Throughout the pandemic, it's been pretty clear that restaurants and bars are sources of COVID-19 transmission, and recent evidence suggests that continues to be the case.

Ex-Spy Behind Salacious Trump Dossier Has Damning Theory About Alleged Pee Tape

Christopher Steele, the British former spy behind a salacious and unverified dossier about Donald Trump, said he believes one of the most infamous allegations in the document. Steele told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the “pee tape” is “probably” real, according to a promo for the upcoming series, “Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier.” The dossier claims Trump in 2013 hired prostitutes in Moscow to perform a golden showers show as he watched.

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  Christopher Steele stands by discredited anti-Trump dossier claims about Michael Cohen in Prague and 'pee tape'

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  Ex-British spy Christopher Steele defends Trump dossier and says kompromat tape ‘probably’ exists

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Yellen says Democrats raise proposed IRS bank reporting threshold to $10,000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday she welcomed a revised proposal from congressional Democrats to raise a bank account tax reporting threshold to $10,000 in annual transactions from a proposed $600 level, with an exemption for wage earners. The change was made after major opposition https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-banking-lobby-groups-oppose-proposed-tax-reporting-law-2021-09-17 from banking and other lobbying groups who charged that initial proposal would raise financial privacy concerns by requiring financial firms to track and submit to the Internal Revenue Service data on aggregate inflows and outflows from every bank account above a minimum threshold of $600 a year.

Hog wanders into Texas roadway at night, causing fatal car crash, Texas officials say

Police in Texas say a hog caused a fatal car crash on Sunday night. According to the state Department of Public Safety, 24-year-old Aaron Lee, of Winona, was driving on a road in Smith County around 9:40 p.m. when he hit a hog that had wandered into the middle of the road, the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported. Lee lost control of his 2008 Lexus, swerved off the road and slammed into a tree, officials told KETK.

Democrats to announce narrowing IRS bank reporting proposal to $10,000 transactions

Democrats under pressure from the GOP and the banking industry have agreed to raise the cap to $10,000 on a proposal that all bank transactions of more than $600 be reported to the IRS. Ron Wyden of Oregon, who heads the Finance Committee, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are set to lead the party in announcing the change on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after the proposal was endorsed by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. “Today's new proposal reflects the Administration's strong belief that we should zero in on those at the top of the income scale who don't pay the taxes they owe, while protecting American workers by setting the bank account threshold at $10,000 and providing an exemption for wage earners like teachers and firefighters,” Yellen said in a statement.

Woman jailed for throwing killer litter from 50th floor in CBD after tiff with boyfriend

After an argument with her boyfriend, a woman threw a speaker, a soundbar and a television set from her 50th-floor unit along Shenton Way. Lluen Saenz Maria Isabel, a 49-year-old Peruvian, was jailed for seven weeks on Tuesday (19 October), after she pleaded guilty to one count of committing a rash act which endangered the safety of others. Saenz, a teacher at the Canadian International School, was about to end their relationship last year when the man assaulted her.

Psaki Confirms Illegal Immigrants Being Flown to New York in Dead of Night

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday confirmed reporting by the New York Post that the Biden administration has been quietly flying underage illegal immigrants from the border to New York in the dead of night. During a press briefing, a reporter asked why the administration is “flying thousands of migrants from the border to Florida and New York in the middle of the night.”

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  Biden Administration Quietly Flies Illegal Immigrants to New York in Middle of Night: Report

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  Biden administration secretly flying underage migrants into New York at night: Report

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The Workers Won’t Be Coming Back, Covid or Not. Here Are Theories on Where They Went.

More people are choosing not to work, confounding employers and economists and leading to worrisome labor shortages and supply chain problems. The September jobs report showed the slowest pace of hiring all year, a surprise decline in labor-force participation and a rise in wages. Whatever the explanation for the worsening labor shortage, it goes beyond temporary factors associated with the pandemic.

Bourbon producer signals intent to hire replacement workers

Declaring an impasse in contract talks with striking union workers, global spirits producer Heaven Hill said Monday it will start hiring permanent replacement workers for bottling and warehouse operations in Kentucky. Union leaders responded that they're willing to continue negotiations and accused the company of wanting to replace longtime employees with non-union workers. About 420 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D have been on strike for more than five weeks They voted overwhelmingly last month to reject a new five-year contract offer and formed picket lines at Heaven Hill's operations in Bardstown.

Transgender Biden administration health official to be sworn in as four-star admiral

A top health appointee of President Joe Biden is slated to become the first transgender four-star admiral, the administration said Tuesday. Rachel Levine, who was born male but identifies as a woman, will be sworn in Tuesday as an admiral of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, becoming the organization's first person who identifies as female to achieve that rank. "I'm doing this because of my dedication to service ... with the utmost respect and honor for the uniform that I will be wearing," Levine told the Washington Post, adding that her new position is "not just symbolic."

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  Dr. Rachel Levine Is Now First Trans 4-Star Admiral in U.S. History

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  Rachel Levine sworn in as first openly transgender 4-star officer

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A California Construction Worker Asked a Speeding Motorist to Slow Down. He Was Shot Seven Times In Response.

The family of a California Black construction worker wants answers after their loved one was shot several times in what is now being looked at as a potential hate crime. Bobby Gayle is still recovering, KCRA reported this week, after being shot seven times this month in the town in California's Central Valley. Bobby's brother, Marlon Gayle, told the outlet that his brother had just finished the job when the shooting occurred.

Fiery incident nearly derails wedding reception: 'We absolutely froze in shock'

What was always going to be a memorable wedding nearly took a turn for the worse when a bouquet caught on fire. TikTok user @emilyljackson shared footage of her special day with her audience. A quick-thinking photographer named Molly Stevens (@forthewestandwildphoto) fearlessly grabbed the blazing bouquet and threw it on the ground.

Scientists are closely tracking a new variant spreading in the UK that could be 10% more infectious than Delta

Scientists are closely tracking a new coronavirus variant called AY. a subtype of Delta. Data showed it may be 10% more infectious than Delta, an expert said.

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  Delta sub-variant: What we know as it ‘expands’ throughout England

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  'Delta Plus' subvariant detected in the U.K. Experts say don't panic yet.

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A 16-Year-Old Driver in a Truck Ran Over Six Cyclists—and Still Hasn’t Been Arrested

A 16-year-old truck driver ran over six cyclists out on a training ride on September 25, in Waller County, Texas. The driver was attempting to “roll coal” on the the cyclists when he hit them, according to witnesses. The county District Attorney's office has stated, though, that it views what happened as an assault at minimum.

California congressional race could help tilt House control

What could be one of the most competitive House races in the country is taking shape in California's agriculture-rich Central Valley, where a Democratic assemblyman Monday became the latest candidate to announce a bid to oust Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao. Democrats have 220 seats in the chamber and Republicans have 212, with three vacancies. Five-term Assemblyman Rudy Salas formally announced he is entering the race during a kickoff event in his hometown of Bakersfield, where he had been the first Latino to serve on the City Council.