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Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything including his wife's gold to feed and house two young daughters in one small room. Elsewhere in Yemen's capital Sanaa, widow Mona Muhammad has work but struggles to buy anything more nutritious than rice for her four children amid high prices. And in a nearby hospital, severely malnourished children receive lifesaving nutritional drinks.
At the 2021 Golden Globe Awards, stars attended in their finest red-carpet attire, from Cinderella-like gowns to couture blazers and dresses.
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Broward Sheriffâs OfficeThe FBI arrested a notorious white supremacist livestreamer in an early morning raid in Florida on Tuesday.FBI agents, working with Fort Lauderdale police and the FBIâs Joint Terrorism Task Force, arrested Paul N. Miller, 32, on one charge of being a âconvicted felon in possession of a firearm.â The FBI said in a press release that Miller was arrested without incident.Millerâs neighbors in Fort Lauderdaleâs Riverside neighborhood reported hearing flashbangs during the raid, which took place around 5 a.m. ET, local TV station NBC 6 reported. One neighbor described seeing law enforcement officers carrying out a box that appeared to have âa shotgun on the front or an AK.âBiden Taps a War on Terror Veteran to Stop White SupremacistsMiller, who goes by the name âGypsy Crusaderâ online, has amassed more than 40,000 followers on Telegram, a messaging app and social media network popular with far-right extremists. Many of Millerâs videos feature him dressing up as characters like the Joker or Nintendoâs Mario, then hurling racial abuse at strangers, including children, through the randomized chat app Omegle. Miller can be seen holding a gun in some of his videos.A grand jury indicted Miller on the firearms charge on Feb. 25, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. Miller is charged with illegally possessing a gun on Jan. 17, 2018. The indictment doesnât describe the 2018 incident in which Miller allegedly had the firearm.Millerâs Tuesday arrest sent shockwaves through internet extremist circles. Miller had recently sold patches promoting his channel to his supporters, with his arrest raising fears among other extremists that the FBI could access his customer files and find out their own names and addresses.In messages captured by extremism researcher Hilary Sargent, Millerâs supporters worried about the possibility that they could soon become FBI targets themselves. If convicted, Miller faces up to 10 years in prison on the gun charge.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
"Not one person in baseball believes Albert Pujols is the age he says he is," former Miami Marlins President David Samson.
Senators Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) and Mike Lee (R., Utah) on Tuesday pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray on the procedures federal law enforcement officials have used to track down those who participated in the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol. âIâm anxious to see those who committed unlawful, violent acts on January 6 brought to justice,â Lee said during a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Tuesday. âI also believe that ⊠with this circumstance, like every other circumstance, we have to make sure that the civil liberties of the American people are protected.â The Utah Republican explained that he had âheard a number of accountsâ of people who were in Washington, D.C. on January 6 who never went near the Capitol but were âinexplicablyâ contacted by FBI agents who knew of their presence in the district that day âwith no other explanation, perhaps, other than the use of geolocation data.â âAre you geolocating people, through the FBI, based on where they were on January 6?â Lee asked Wray. âI think there may be some instances in which geolocation has been an investigative tool, but I canât speak to any specific situation,â Wray responded. âBut what are you using to do that?â Lee asked. âWhatâs your basis for authority? Are you using national security letters?â Wray said, âI donât believe in any instance weâre using national security letters for investigation of the Capitolââ Lee interrupted to ask the FBI director if he had gone to the FISA court, to which Wray responded he did not âremotely believe FISA is remotely implicated in our investigation.â The senator continued pressing Wray, asking if the FBI is âusing warrants predicated on probable cause.â âWe certainly have executed a number of warrants in the course of the investigation of January 6,â Wray said. âAll of our investigative work in response to the Capitol [riot] has been under the legal authorities that we have in consultation with the [Department of Justice] and the prosecutors.â Later, Hawley continued Leeâs line of questioning regarding geolocation data, asking Wray if his position is that he doesnât know âwhether the bureau has scooped up geolocation data, metadata cell phone records from cell phone towers.â âDo you not know, or are you saying maybe it has or maybe it hasnât? Tell me what you know about this,â Hawley said. âSo when it comes to geolocation data specificallyâagain, not in a specific instance, but just even the use of geolocation dataâI would not be surprised to learnâbut I do not know for a factâthat we were using geolocation data under any situation with connection with the investigation of [January 6],â Wray said. âBut again, we do use geolocation data under different authorities and specific instances.â The FBI, Department of Justice and local police in Washington, D.C. are investigating the origins and execution of the January rioting at the Capitol, with the probe resulting in hundreds of arrests so far. Republicans have expressed concern that the methods law enforcement has used to track down rioters could infringe upon personal liberty. Last month Bank of America sparked outcry after it said it would hand over banking information to the federal authorities for people suspected of having involvement in the riots. In the days after the riot, Bank of America handed over data to the FBI on thousands of customers who traveled to Washington, D.C. around January 6, Fox News reported.
The Senate majority leader said that the Senate will take up President Biden's $1.9 trillion relief bill as early as Wednesday.
CrossFit has publicly disavowed Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over the Republican's previous support for QAnon and other conspiracy theories.
Texas is experiencing an uptick in reported COVID-19 cases after the winter storm, and it has more hot-spot counties than any other state.
A recent piece by NBC Asian America reporter Kimmy Yam has readers divided for how it framed the recent attacks Asians are facing in the U.S. According to Yam, the 2,800 hate incidents collected by watchdog Stop AAPI Hate over five months last year âweren't necessarily hate crimesâ as they included âless severe, yet insidious, forms of discrimination.â
An SUV packed with 25 people pulled in front of an oncoming tractor-trailer on a two-lane highway cutting through farmland near the Mexican border early Tuesday, killing 13 and leaving bodies strewn across the roadway. When police arrived some of the passengers were trying to crawl out of the crumpled 1997 Ford Expedition, the front end of the rig still pushing into its left side and two empty trailers jackknifed behind it. Twelve people were found dead when first responders reached the highway, which winds through fields in the agricultural southeastern corner of California about 125 miles (201 kilometers) east of San Diego.
New polling from Morning Consult shows Ted Cruz's job approval fell more after traveling to Mexico than when he objected to the election results.
An Insider reporter struggled to book an appointment and had to wait in line for hours to get the first dose of the Moderna vaccine.
Kat Von D rose to fame as a tattoo artist on "Miami Ink" and "LA Ink." She later founded a beauty brand - and faced a plethora of controversies.
A US general says that he believes Iran "expected to destroy a number of US aircraft and to kill a number of US service members."
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The Duchess of Sussex faced several bullying complaints from members of her staff during her time as working royal, it was claimed on Tuesday night, as tensions between the couple and Buckingham Palace deepened. She was accused of driving two personal assistants out of the household and undermining the confidence of a third employee, the Times reported. A spokesman for the Sussexes told the Telegraph: âThe Duchess is saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself and is deeply committed to supporting those who have experienced pain and trauma. âShe is determined to continue her work building compassion around the world and will keep striving to set an example for doing what is right and doing what is good.â Jason Knauf, the Duke and Duchess of Sussexâs communications secretary at the time, submitted a formal complaint about the claims in October 2018 in an apparent bid to protect his staff. In his email, Mr Knauf said: âI am very concerned that the Duchess was able to bully two PAs out of the household in the past year. The treatment of X was totally unacceptable.â
President Joe Biden's pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, has withdrawn her nomination after she faced opposition from key Democratic and Republican senators for her controversial tweets. Eleven of the 23 Cabinet nominees requiring Senate approval have been confirmed, most with strong bipartisan support. âUnfortunately, it now seems clear that there is no path forward to gain confirmation, and I do not want continued consideration of my nomination to be a distraction from your other priorities,â Tanden wrote in a letter to Biden.
By late summer last year, Operation Warp Speed accounts were running dry, so the Trump administration appears to have used a financial maneuver allowing Department of Health and Human Services officials to divert $10 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and health care providers affected by the coronavirus pandemic, Stat News reports. Congress granted the HHS permission to move pandemic-related money between accounts, though the agreement stipulated the agency had to give lawmakers a heads up. In this case, it appears the HHS siphoned the funds quietly, albeit with permission from its top lawyer. Other attorneys told Stat that the agency likely did have the wiggle room to carry out the action. Former Office of Management and Director Russ Vought defended the decision and said "we would do it again," telling Stat that not only did the administration have the authority, it was also "the right thing to do in order to move as quickly as possible because lives were on the line." Other Trump officials seemed to agree, per Stat, arguing that successful vaccines would reduce hospitalizations, making Warp Speed the more consequential outlet. It's still unclear whether the decision has resulted in less money for health care providers, as the Biden administration remains mum on the subject, Stat reports. Read more at Stat News. More stories from theweek.comWill COVID-19 wind up saving lives?The biggest jazz star you've never heard of7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's CPAC appearance