Human remains found in Florida park amid search for Gabby Petito's fiance -FBI

(Reuters) -Partial human remains were found on Wednesday in a Florida wilderness area where authorities were searching for Brian Laundrie, the fiance of Gabby Petito, a young woman who vanished on a road trip with Laundrie, the FBI said on Wednesday. The Sarasota County Medical Examiner's Office was called on Wednesday morning to the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park where the search for Laundrie was under way, a spokesperson for the office said earlier. FBI investigators were working at Carlton Reserve, which is near the park, the agency's Tampa division said.

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  Human remains, 'items of interest' found in Florida park amid search for Gabby Petito's fiancé

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  Human remains found during search for Brian Laundrie in Florida

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Indiana Cops Find People Chained Up in ‘Gruesome’ House of Horrors

A 36-year-old Indiana woman is behind bars after police discovered two people tied up and shackled in her home—one of them “deceased and beyond help.” The woman, identified by Evansville authorities as Heidi Carter, faces a string of charges in connection with the Tuesday night incident, which police say took even them by surprise. It all began after a woman flagged down an Indiana State Trooper late Tuesday night, saying she'd stopped by Carter's home only to find “a dead body” inside, Evansville Police Department Spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Gray told reporters late Wednesday.

‘Sunny Is Just As Smart’: Condoleezza Rice’s ‘Brazenly Condescending’ Back and Forth with ‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Called Out by Viewers

Sunny Hostin and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have different views regarding the Capitol riots that took place on Jan. 6. On Wednesday, Oct. 20, during an appearance on the daytime television talk show, Rice, while referencing Mitch McConnell's recent statements regarding the attacks, suggested that Americans have moved on from the incident and are more focused on “kitchen table issues — the price of gasoline, inflation, what's happening to their kids in school.” “Our institutions have to be upheld,” but before Hostin could utter another word, Rice added, “Let me finish, Sunny.”

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  Condoleezza Rice spars with The View host while discussing Capitol riot

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Gas prices are at a 7-year high, with one California town reaching a whopping $7.59 per gallon

Gas prices in a small California town hit $7.59 per gallon of regular unleaded this week. This week at your average American gas station, you're likely to find prices in the $3.50 range for one gallon of regular unleaded gasoline. It's not just you: Gasoline prices are at a seven-year high, according to federal data. Though there are some clear reasons for this that are particular to this moment in time, such as the ongoing effects of the global pandemic, gas prices are the result of a variety of complex factors.

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  Missouri gas prices shoot above $3 per gallon for first time in seven years

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  California coastal gas station charging nearly $8 a gallon

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Elephant Makes Rare Fatal Attack To Protect Her Baby

Nadav Ossendryver, founder of Latest Sightings, which posted the footage, told HuffPost that in his 10 years of sharing wildlife moments, he had never seen an elephant pounce on a croc. Elephants can lift up to 770 pounds with their trunks, according to FactAnimal.com, so the croc proved to be no problem. The tons of crushing pressure from the elephant “resulted in the inevitable death” of the crocodile, Latest Sightings wrote in the video description.

Russia scrambles fighter jets to escort U.S. strategic bombers over Black Sea

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia scrambled two Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to escort a pair of U.S. B-1B strategic bombers over the Black Sea, Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday, an incident that coincided with a visit to the region by the U.S. secretary of defense. The supersonic U.S. Cold war-era planes were originally designed to carry nuclear bombs and missiles but now carry conventional payloads. "Russian fighter crews identified the aerial targets as two U.S. Air Force supersonic strategic B-1B bombers, accompanied by two KC-135 refuelling planes, and escorted them over the waters of the Black Sea," the defence ministry said in a statement accompanied by video footage of the U.S. aircraft in flight.

Liberal poll worker proves instance of voter fraud and collects bounty from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick

The lieutenant governor of Texas cut the check on his first bounty for voter fraud evidence to a poll worker in Pennsylvania, but it wasn't the proof he was expecting. Almost a year after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced that he would pay for evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, someone has received their payout. Patrick sent a $25,000 check to Eric Frank, a Democratic poll worker from Chester County, Pennsylvania, who reported a 72-year-old Republican for voting twice.

I know what can happen to a woman after she’s spiked on a night out

Rape myths permeated my brain, telling me maybe no one would believe me, or they'd blame me. Pointing a finger at the victim for what happened, expressing disbelief and believing that only certain “types” of women are targeted, all uphold rape myths.

Restaurateur whose business was raided by sheriff gets $5M

Maricopa County officials approved a settlement Wednesday with a restaurant owner in metro Phoenix who claimed in a lawsuit that then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office had defamed him and violated his rights about seven years ago when investigating whether employees at his restaurants used fraudulent IDs to get jobs. The $5 million settlement with Uncle Sam's owner Bret Frimmel came weeks after officials signed off on a separate $400,000 settlement to resolve similar claims brought by Uncle Sam's manager Lisa Norton. Frimmel and Norton were arrested by Arpaio's office in January 2014 on employment-related identity theft charges that were dismissed after a judge ruled one of Arpaio's detective recklessly disregarded the truth in affidavits used to get search warrants and ultimately found that there was no probable cause to back up the warrants.

Paulina Porizkova Shows Off Her Gorgeous Long Legs in Bed in This Sultry New Nude

Paulina Porizkova took a much-needed social media break at the end of September, but she announced her return to Instagram with a new nude photo — and it is stunning. The supermodel spent three weeks on a “top-secret, grand adventure” that she's keeping under wraps until “next spring. That's much as she's going to reveal about the project, but Porizkova is coming back to her Instagram account strong with her latest photo.

Bride nearly burns down her own wedding reception after jaw-dropping accident: 'I would’ve left'

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.

Jen Psaki's Response To Peter Doocy's Question Leaves Him Momentarily Speechless

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy seems to pride himself on asking hard-hitting questions of White House press secretary Jen Psaki. However, on Tuesday, Psaki was the one who asked a question that left Doocy momentarily speechless. It happened when Doocy asked about the possibility of “tons” of police officers and members of the military quitting to avoid COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Twitter users took just 2 hours to get into TRUTH Social and create dummy accounts for Donald Trump and Mike Pence, exposing the beta site's vulnerabilities

Hours after Trump announced his new social media platform, TRUTH Social, some Twitter users had already found their way onto the beta site. At press time, the beta testing site for TRUTH Social had been taken offline. It took just two hours for Twitter users to find their way onto the beta site for Trump's newly-announced social media platform, TRUTH Social, and create mock accounts of the former president and Vice President Mike Pence.

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  Trump to launch his own social media platform, calling it TRUTH Social

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  Trump announces launch of his very own social media site

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Taliban praise suicide bombers, offer families cash and land

The Taliban praised suicide bombers who died during the war against the former government and its Western allies and offered their families sums of cash and promises of land, the movement's interior ministry said in a statement. Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting interior ministry who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head as a "specially designated global terrorist", met the families at a ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which was itself targeted by suicide bombers in 2018. Official photographs of the meeting on Tuesday obscured his face.

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  Top Taliban minister praises ‘sacrifices’ of suicide bombers, offers $125 and plot of land for their family

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  Taliban acting interior minister and US-designated terrorist praises suicide bombers and rewards families

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A Capitol riot suspect who said he was 'invincible' because he was wearing a mask has now been arrested

Landon Mitchell boasted that he would likely evade detection because he was "masked up," a complaint said. A Capitol riot suspect who said he wasn't worried about being caught because he was "masked up" on January 6 has been arrested after a friend identifed him. The FBI arrested Landon Mitchell on Wednesday, HuffPost reported, on multiple charges including obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

One of the world's deadliest snakes found in shipping container sent from India

South Essex Wildlife Hospital received a call from a local British stonemasonry firm about a long, spotted snake they found in a shipping container from India. Turns out, the snake is a saw-scaled viper, one of the deadliest snakes in the world, according to South Essex Wildlife Hospital on Twitter. South Essex Wildlife Hospital is a wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation charity​ in the U.K. While most snakes are harmless to humans, the saw-scaled viper is a dramatic exception.

Paris Hilton Recounts Being ‘Strangled,’ ‘Slapped,’ and ‘Watched in the Shower’ While Calling for Troubled Teen Industry Reform

The entrepreneur and reality star was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to advocate for accountability alongside survivors, advocates, and group of Democratic lawmakers including Senator Jeff Merkely (D-Ore.) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Merkely and Khanna are co-sponsoring the new Accountability for Congregate Care Act, which will soon be introduced in both houses of Congress. “I'm confident that this bill will create a world where all youth have the support and opportunity to heal, thrive, and not just survive,” Hilton said Wednesday of the ACCA.

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  Paris Hilton meets with members of Congress to urge reform in the ‘troubled-teen industry’

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  Paris Hilton calls on Biden and Congress to take action against the 'troubled teen industry'

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Biden serves up word salad, appearing to say he rode Amtrak as vice president for 36 years

President Joe Biden fumbled his words during a Wednesday speech, appearing to say he commuted on Amtrak for 36 years as vice president. His latest word salad came as Biden delivered an address in Scranton, Pennsylvania. "I commuted [on Amtrak] every single day for 36 years as vice president of the United States after my wife and daughter were killed, I went home to see my family, never stopped," Biden said.

Retired pope hopes to soon join friends in 'the afterlife'

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife,” in a sign that the 94-year-old pontiff is not only accepting his eventual death but welcoming it. Benedict penned an Oct. 2 letter to a German priest, thanking him for letting him know of the passing of the Rev. Gerhard Winkler, a Cistercian priest and academic colleague of the former Joseph Ratzinger. “Of all my colleagues and friends he was the closest to me,” Benedict wrote, according to the letter reproduced in German media.

Jim Jordan Struggles To Answer House Panel's Questions About Jan. 6 Trump Calls

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) confirmed on Wednesday to a House panel that he had spoken with then-President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but contradicted a previous answer about the timeline of calls that day. The House Rules Committee grilled Jordan, a potential witness in the House investigation of the attack, about his communications with Trump while he was testifying against a resolution to hold former Trump aide Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D- Mass.) asked Jordan about interviews he gave over the summer admitting he had spoken with Trump on Jan. 6.

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  Jan. 6 committee votes unanimously to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress

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  Jan. 6 panel votes to hold Trump ally in contempt

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2022 Ford Maverick Hybrid EPA fuel economy announced, better than expected

When we were conducting our first drive of the 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup, Ford told us it was targeting a city fuel economy rating of 40 miles per gallon for the standard Hybrid version. Now, the EPA has provided its rating, and Ford — as well as potential customers — should be pleased. The official fuel economy numbers for the Maverick Hybrid are 42 mpg city, 33 mpg highway and 37 mpg combined.