U.S.Associated PressNow 41, man who killed 4-year-old at age 13 granted parole
Eric M. Smith, who was 13 when he killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock in western New York, has been granted parole, corrections officials said on Saturday. Smith, now 41, appeared for the 11th time before the Board of Parole on October 5 and was granted release as early as Nov. 17, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said in an emailed statement. Smith was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994 for luring Derrick Robie into woods near the younger boy's home and striking his head with a rock.
U.S.DeadlineVanessa Bryant, Kobe’s Widow, May Be Forced To Take Psychiatric Exam By L.A. County In Lawsuit
Los Angeles County is asking Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant's widow, and other family members to submit psychiatric exams in their legal dispute over photos of the helicopter crash scene that took her husband and daughter's lives. It stems from a legal point: Did Vanessa Bryant and the others suffer emotional distress because photos of their dead relatives were shared by county fire and sheriff's department employees after the crash? Or was the emotional distress only from the crash itself?
U.S.Washington ExaminerShort order: Some Hooters waitresses concerned about underwearlike new uniforms
While Hooters of America will showcase the tighter, shorter shorts at various locations, the Original Hooters will keep the older uniforms. Complaints of the tight shorts went viral on TikTok on various Hooters servers' accounts. "Love my job but don't love wearing undies to work," one Hooters employee said in a TikTok that has garnered more than 1.9 million "likes."
NewsYahoo News UKPolice hunt female gang after passengers attacked with bottles on busy train
Police are hunting a gang of girls who bottled two women and a man in separate attacks on a busy train. All three victims were left injured after the attacks which took place on a train as it travelled between Kent and central London on a Saturday evening. British Transport Police said the girls were among a rowdy group of around six men and women who started shouting at each other after boarding the train at Slade Green station in south east London just before 6pm on 11 September.
WorldThe TelegraphMatt Hancock loses UN job just four days after his appointment
Matt Hancock has lost his new job at the United Nations just four days after being appointed, following outrage from figures who condemned the “jaw dropping” decision to appoint him as a special envoy for Covid recovery in Africa. The UN's Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said his appointment was “not being taken forward,” following days of criticism. Mr Hancock, who resigned his job as Health Secretary in June after he was pictured on CCTV kissing an aide, told The Telegraph on Saturday: “I was honoured to be approached by the UN and appointed as Special Representative to the Economic Commission for Africa, to help drive forward an agenda of strengthening markets and bringing investment...
U.S.Miami HeraldTwo kinds of blood pressure medication recalled for possibly too much of a carcinogen
Irbesartan, 75 mg, 30-count bottles with lot Nos. H000843, H805727 and H901579 and 90-count bottles with lot Nos. H000844, H000964, H804311, H805267, H805268, H805269, H805725, H805726, H901497, H901577, H901578, and H902258.
U.S.Associated PressSUV of Ohio mom, 2 kids missing since 2002 found in river
Search crews pulled from the Ohio River in Indiana an SUV that belonged to an Ohio mother missing since 2002 along with her two young children, authorities said Friday. Side sonar scan technology led divers to the 1997 Nissan Pathfinder Thursday near Aurora in southeastern Indiana, Indiana State Police said Friday in a news release. The vehicle was registered to Stephanie Van Nguyen, who in 2002 disappeared with her 4-year-old daughter, Kristina, and 3-year-old son, John.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderJeffrey Epstein believed he could make a deal with prosecutors by revealing the secrets of Donald Trump or Bill Clinton, a new book says
Jeffrey Epstein believed he could make a deal with prosecutors by flipping on Trump or Clinton, a new book says. Steve Bannon reportedly told Epstein he feared him during Trump's campaign, as he thought he knew secrets. The claims are made in a new book by journalist Michael Wolff, who spent time with Epstein before he died.
U.S.Washington ExaminerLazy 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.
U.S.Associated Press'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.
U.S.INSIDERBlack students in Georgia were suspended for planning a protest after white students waved a Confederate flag and allegedly used racial slurs
White students were captured on video waving a Confederate flag at a Georgia school and did not face disciplinary action from administrators, WGCL-TV reported. In response, students at Coosa High School planned a protest against racism. A group of Black students was suspended for organizing the demonstration, while the non-Black organizers weren't, students told the outlet.
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Grocery store shelves bare? These products may be hard to find due to supply chain issues
As the world reaches the two-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, more items are becoming scarce because of a supply chain shortage across the globe. Supply chain concerns are due to “record-level congestion at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach that has spread to the East Coast, the widespread power outages across China, shortages of truck drivers and service workers, and COVID-19-fueled infections and restrictions,” Tinglong Dai, a business professor at Johns Hopkins University, told USA TODAY in an email. This frozen treat is usually the perfect dessert, but in an email on Sept. 14, Ben & Jerry's parent company Unilever cited labor shortages as the reason for reducing the amount of flavors produced.
U.S.Associated PressPuerto Rico ponders race amid surprising census results
The number of people in Puerto Rico who identified as “white” in the most recent census plummeted almost 80%, sparking a conversation about identity on an island breaking away from a past where race was not tracked and seldom debated in public. The drastic drop surprised many, and theories abound as the U.S. territory's 3.3 million people begin to reckon with racial identity. “Puerto Ricans themselves are understanding their whiteness comes with an asterisk,” said Yarimar Bonilla, a political anthropologist and director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York.
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Wreckage of legendary military ship found
"The wreck of a legendary military ship has been found off the coast of Boston, the Coast Guard said. The ship, named the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear, has been missing since it sank in 1963."
BusinessMarketWatchMy girlfriend says I should tip in restaurants. I say waitstaff are just like construction and fast-food workers. Who’s right?
I don't understand why waitresses need to be tipped when they're like all other service staff, such as construction workers, cleaners, fast-food attendees, etc. I'm not expected to tip all other service staff, so why is she bothering me with tipping the waitress every single time we go to a restaurant? They are doing their job like everyone else. She keeps telling me it's the right thing to do — but why?
U.S.Associated PressTruck driver convicted in Colorado pileup that killed 4
A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on a Colorado highway has been convicted of vehicular homicide and other charges. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera Mederos, 25, was convicted by a Jefferson County jury on Friday in connection with the April 2019 crash on Interstate 70 west of Denver, The Denver Post reported. Aguilera Mederos testified that the brakes on his semitrailer failed before he plowed into vehicles that had slowed because of another wreck in the Denver suburb of Lakewood.
WorldBusiness InsiderA priest tried to give the last rites to the murdered British MP who was a devout Catholic, but he was denied access because it was a crime scene, police says
Conservative MP Sir David Amess died after an attack at his Essex constituency surgery. Father Jeffrey Woolnough offered to administer the last rites to Sir David, who was stabbed multiple times. Essex Police, treating the murder as a terrorist incident, told Insider that the crime scene's integrity had to be preserved.
BusinessBarrons.comThe 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.
U.S.Associated PressBitcoin-mining power plant raises ire of environmentalists
Greenidge Generation runs a once-mothballed plant near the shore of Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region to produce about 44 megawatts to run 15,300 computer servers, plus additional electricity it sends into the state's power grid. The megawatts dedicated to Bitcoin might be enough electricity to power more than 35,000 homes. Proponents call it a competitive way to mine increasingly popular cryptocurrencies, without putting a drain on the existing power grid.
WorldThe ConversationHow Sarah Baartman's hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
The celebration of Sarah Baartman's features marks a departure from her historical image. Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman was an African woman who, in the early 1800s, was something of an international sensation of objectification. With celebrities like Beyoncé recognizing Baartman's contributions to the ideal Black female body – and with the curvaceous posteriors of Black women lauded on TV and celebrated on social media – I wanted to understand how this ideal is viewed by the very people it most directly effects: Black women.
PoliticsHuffPostKayleigh McEnany Attacks Jen Psaki With ‘Least Self-Aware Tweet Ever Written’
Donald Trump's former White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, was hammered for hypocrisy after attacking successor Jen Psaki on Twitter. McEnany on Thursday suggested Psaki, President Joe Biden's press secretary, violated the Hatch Act, which bans government employees from political campaigning, when she said: “We're going to do everything we can to help” Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe “and we believe in the agenda he's representing.” McEnany, however, was reminded of her own outrageous conflicts of interest, such as serving as White House press secretary at the same time she was a Trump 2020 campaign adviser.
BusinessYahoo Finance CanadaOil price could drop to US$57 by end of 2022, economist warns
Climbing crude prices are “not a game-changer” for the Bank of Canada heading into its October rate decision, according to the latest analysis from Capital Economics. The London-based research firm expects the rise will be short-lived, and Canada's central bank will remain focused on “more important indicators” like wage growth and soaring inflation. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil (CL=F) is set for its eighth consecutive weekly gain, the North American benchmark's longest winning streak since 2015.
ScienceBusiness InsiderA Russian spacecraft pushed the space station out of position and sent astronauts into emergency mode - again
A Russian spacecraft pushed the International Space Station out of position on Friday morning, prompting astronauts to go into emergency mode. It's the second time Russian hardware has caused such an incident since July. Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky was conducting engine tests on the Soyuz spaceship, which is docked to the ISS, on Friday morning when its thrusters fired too aggressively.
WorldWashington ExaminerChina surprised US officials with August missiles test: Report
China surprised U.S. officials by testing a new hypersonic missile in August that went around the globe before it made its way toward the intended target, according to a report. China had made "astounding progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than U.S. officials realized," two people told the Financial Times Saturday, with another source adding he or she was unsure how China was able to accomplish it. The country has tested 79 Long March 2C rockets that carry the missiles so far, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology.
PoliticsAssociated PressArizona Senate's election review records again ruled public
A judge has rejected the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate's contention that it can withhold a raft of communications between its leaders and private contractors they hired to conduct an unprecedented review of the 2020 election results in the state's most populous county. The ruling released Thursday evening is the latest in a series of losses for the Senate stemming from its efforts to keep secret records showing how the review was conducted. A watchdog group called American Oversight had sued to compel their release and repeatedly won.
“Like tobacco, Facebook is a dangerous product one uses at one’s own risk.”
“A key reason why this latest scandal feels more significant is that politicians on both sides of the aisle feel deceived.”
“These are clearly problems of scale, which Facebook has had many years to deal with and has been fundamentally unable to.”
“We need to recognize the danger we’re in. We need to shake the notion that Facebook is a normal company.”
“Facebook is in trouble … It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it.”