Some Hooters servers on TikTok are saying new shorts are too short

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 The videos have reignited criticisms of Hooters for fostering an outdated concept centered around sexualizing servers' bodies.

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

In an aerial view, container ships and shipping containers are seen at the Port of Los Angeles on September 20, 2021 near Los Angeles, California. LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner. The finger-pointing at the busy Los Angeles County ports comes as scores of container ships are anchored off the California coast, waiting in some cases for weeks to unload their freight.

'I was naive’: Mia Khalifa on life after adult films and reclaiming her power with OnlyFans

Now Khalifa is speaking out about her experience in the adult film industry and the path that led her there. The influencer and content creator is vocal about the exploitation she experienced and hopes her story can shield other women from going through the same. What I can take away from this is protecting other women and being a cautionary tale,” says Khalifa.

Vietnamese woman dragged and physically forced to take COVID-19 test by authorities to sue

A Vietnamese woman will file a lawsuit against the Vietnamese government after she was physically forced by authorities to take a COVID-19 test. What happened: On Sept. 28 in the city of Thuan An, police broke into the woman's house and forced her to take a COVID-19 test, reported Radio Free Asia. Authorities cut the lock on the door of Hoang Thi Phuong Lan's apartment and dragged her to a testing site outside of the building.

Matthew Mindler’s mom issues warning after his toxicology results show he intentionally overdosed on sodium nitrate

Matthew Mindler — the former child star who appeared in 2011's Our Idiot Brother — died from "complications of sodium nitrate toxicity." The 19-year-old was reported missing in late August during his first week of college at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, and his body was discovered days later, after a search. The Lancaster County Coroner's Office ruled the manner of his death suicide, pending toxicology results.

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  Former Child Star Matthew Mindler Died Of Sodium Nitrate Toxicity (Reports)

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  Matthew Mindler, Former Child Star, Died By Suicide With $15 Amazon Product

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Matthew Mindler, Former Child Star, Died By Suicide With $15 Amazon Product

Mindler bought the product for $15. The Lancaster County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that he died from suicide by sodium nitrate toxicity. Sodium nitrate is used to preserve foods and kills by causing low blood pressure and limiting the flow of oxygen to the body.

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  ‘Our Idiot Brother’ child actor Matthew Mindler’s suicide was a result of sodium nitrate overdose

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  Former Child Actor Matthew Mindler's Cause of Death at 19 Revealed as Sodium Nitrate Toxicity

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This couple retired 2 years ago on about $27,000 a year. Here’s how that’s going

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. In May 2019, Joan and Steve Reid left their part-time day jobs — Joan at the public library and Steve at a florist — and relocated from the affluent New York City suburb of Pearl River, N.Y., to the oceanfront community of Vero Beach, Fla. The aim for the couple, both 67 at the time, was to retire, slash their spending and live off an income of less than $30,000. Back then, Next Avenue wrote about the Reids and their plans in what became one of its most popular stories, “Retiring on a Shoestring.”

'Lawless city?' Worry after Portland police don't stop chaos

A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn't stop them. Portland Police Bureau officials say that's because of legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers this year, which restricts the tools they can use to confront people vandalizing buildings and causing mayhem. “The reason that we did not intervene goes back to what we talked about last month with House Bill 2928 and the restrictions placed on us in a crowd control environment,” KOIN reports that Portland Police Lt. Jake Jensen said in a neighborhood meeting Thursday.

'After leaving my abuser, I’d assumed that the worst was behind me – I was wrong’

Three years later, we were married and I was living in the UK on a spousal visa. Shortly after I arrived in the UK, the emotional and psychological abuse began. Although I earned more than twice his monthly income, he barred me from opening my own bank account.

Kim Jong Un applauds as North Korean soldiers' hands smashed and bodies beaten

Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, applauded his nation's soldiers as they performed a series of extreme martial arts. Kim and the hermit nation's leaders applauded the "Self-Defense 2021" exhibition that saw soldiers getting their hands smashed with sledgehammers, jumping and head-butting through what appeared to be Sheetrock, being beaten, and jumping over cars, footage of the event showed. The event was broadcast on state-run TV, according to a report.

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  Shirtless North Korean soldiers break bricks with their heads, lay on glass and nails for Kim Jong-un

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  Topless North Korean soldiers displayed a bizarre show of strength to Kim Jong Un by performing dropkicks and lying on glass shards

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From condiments to condoms: new California laws bring change

California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the summer campaigning to keep his job and, with a landslide victory in hand, he's continued pushing progressive California further left. In the four weeks after beating back a recall attempt, the Democrat signed laws that require gender-neutral displays of children's toys and toothbrushes in large department stores, made it illegal to remove a condom without consent during intercourse and cleared the way for a nation's first ban on the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers. California is among the deepest blue states in the country — Democrats control all statewide offices and have super majorities in the Legislature, which nowadays often acts as a laboratory for liberal policies that would not get to a vote in many other states.

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.

AR-15-wielding MAGA religious group buys 130-acre holy retreat in Tenn. for $460,000

A pro-Trump religious group, led by Pastor Hyung-jin “Sean” Moon, that uses AR-15 rifles during ceremonies has purchased a 130-acre holy retreat in Tennessee. “Spiritual download”: Moon leads services at Rod of Iron Ministries, also known as The World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, while wearing a metal crown of bullets and carrying a golden rifle. In a recent broadcast of Moon's “The King's Report,” he said the nearly-half-a-million-dollar Tennessee property is similar to a spiritual retreat in Cheongpyeong, a city in South Korea, and made him feel a “spiritual download.”

Senator Sinema rejects vote on big Biden package before infrastructure -source

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a key moderate, told fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives this week that she will not vote for a multitrillion-dollar package that is a top priority for President Joe Biden before Congress approves a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, according to a source briefed on the meeting. Aides for Sinema, who has the power to stop legislation from advancing in the 50-50 Senate, did not respond to a request for comment. In a previously unreported online meeting on Wednesday, Sinema and fellow moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said they would not abide by any deadlines adopted by leadership to force votes on the package.

Off-duty NYPD cop shoots her girlfriend and another woman after finding them in bed, killing one of them, sources say

An off-duty police officer, enraged at finding her girlfriend and another woman in bed together, shot them both Wednesday — killing the new woman in the relationship and wounding the girlfriend, police sources said. The officer, Yvonne Wu, 31, who is assigned to the 72nd Precinct in Brooklyn, opened fire on the lovers in a home at 19th Avenue near 80th Street in Bensonhurst just after 5 p.m., hitting both women in the chest, police sources said. The officer's girlfriend, 23, suffered a non-life-threatening wound; the other woman, 25, was critically injured and died of her injuries, sources said.

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  An off-duty NYPD officer shot her ex-girlfriend and killed another woman, police say

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  Female Cop Accused of Shooting Ex-Girlfriend, Killing Ex's New Lover

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US to restore full pension of FBI official fired under Trump

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago, his lawyers announced Thursday. McCabe, a frequent target of then-President Donald Trump's ire, was fired in March 2018 after the Justice Department's inspector general concluded he had authorized the release of information to a newspaper reporter and then misled internal investigators about his role in the leak. The termination by Jeff Sessions, the attorney general at the time, came hours before McCabe was due to retire, denying the FBI official his pension.

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  Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe still has concerns after lawsuit settlement: 'I don't feel free'

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  Deputy FBI chief fired by Trump wins retirement benefits in settlement

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Gay Couple Brutally Beaten Outside Gay Nightclub, Police Unresponsive

Two gay men were viciously assaulted by a group of men yelling homophobic slurs outside a nightclub in England over the weekend. And despite at least five calls to Essex police in the immediate aftermath of the attack, the couple didn't hear back from authorities until the following day. Dan Wilson told Echo News he and his boyfriend Rob Morris were walking home Sunday morning after leaving the Colors nightclub in Basildon when they were set upon by the group of men.

High court rejects gas company's pipeline stay request

Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected a Supreme Court stay request from the St. Louis-based natural gas company Spire Inc. to allow it to keep operating a pipeline through Illinois and Missouri. Roberts did not comment Friday in refusing to temporarily pause a lower court order affecting the operation of the Spire STL Pipeline. The company could be forced to stop operating the pipeline on Dec. 13 unless the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission extends an emergency order granted in September.

2022's Social Security Raise Could Come With This Sneaky Surprise

For those who are single, a provisional income under $25,000 means Social Security won't be taxed. But singles with a provisional income range of $25,000 to $34,000 risk taxes on up to 50% of their benefits. And those with a provisional income above $34,000 risk taxes on up to 85% of their benefits.

Ron Watkins, the man widely rumored to have started the QAnon movement, said he is running for Congress

Ron Watkins in a video said he would be running for Congress in Arizona as a Republican. A statement of intent to run was filed with state authorities using an email address associated with Watkins. Ron Watkins, the former 8chan administrator widely rumored to have seeded the QAnon conspiracy theory, has said that he intends to run for a congressional seat in Arizona.

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  QAnon figure says he's running for Congress in Arizona

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  Is the man believed to be the source of QAnon running for Congress in Arizona?

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White man appeals conviction for Black student's killing

A white man serving a life sentence for stabbing a Black college student to death at a bus stop at the University of Maryland has asked the state's second highest court to throw out his murder conviction. WTOP-FM reports that Sean Urbanski's attorneys argue that the trial judge shouldn't have allowed jurors to see or hear about racist memes that investigators found on Urbanski's phone after he killed Lt. Richard Collins III in May 2017. On Tuesday, they asked the Court of Special Appeals to order a new trial.