U.S.Yahoo News UK'I tried to stop him but I couldn't': Girl, 15, raped in sea at Bournemouth speaks out about ordeal
The girl said another man was making her friend feel uncomfortable but she managed to get out of the sea. "I was alone now and the guy started pulling me out to deeper water and I couldn't feel my feet on the sea floor. "It's then he started touching me and I was telling him 'no' and to get off me.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderAOC breaks down basic biology after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said women who are raped have 6 weeks to get an abortion
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said women who have been raped have six weeks to get an abortion. AOC said Abbott lacked knowledge of basic biology and six weeks means two weeks late on a period. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's response on abortion for people who had been raped "disgusting."
WorldINSIDERChina built a massive 190-foot statue of a god of war that locals don't like. Now it'll cost more than $20 million to move the hulking work of art.
Chinese officials are wincing at the hefty $20 million cost of moving a 190-foot-tall bronze statue. An order was issued in December 2020 to relocate the colossal monument of Chinese warrior-god Guan Yu. It'll cost the Chinese city of Jingzhou a whopping $20 million to relocate a 190-foot-tall statue of Chinese warrior-god Guan Yu.
BusinessYahoo Finance'It's game over. It's mRNA or nothing:' Expert on future of vaccines
Pfizer (PFE) and its partner BioNTech (BNTX) recently got FDA full approval for the most widely-approved and sought after COVID-19 vaccine in the world, to date. It signals an important change in how vaccines of the future could look, according to Arnaud Bernaert, formerly head of Global Health and Healthcare at the World Economic Forum. Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna (MRNA) are invested in the tech, with announcements of pursuits of combination flu-covid shots as well as other diseases.
U.S.Business InsiderTed Cruz told the millions of Americans who lost their unemployment benefits on Labor Day to 'um, get a job?'
Ted Cruz tweeted "Um, get a job?" in response to news federal unemployment benefits had expired. Cruz's tweet shared an article titled "Jobless Americans have few options as benefits expire." Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas reacted to news that millions of Americans had lost their unemployment benefits as of Labor Day by telling those who were out of work to get a job.
U.S.Washington ExaminerFormer New York House candidate Kyle Van De Water dies at 41
Afghanistan War veteran and former New York congressional candidate Kyle Van De Water died suddenly on Tuesday, according to local officials. Van De Water, a Republican attorney who challenged incumbent Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado in 2020, was located by police at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery after someone reported a "man down." Police sources said his death is being investigated as a suicide, according to the Mid Hudson News.
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15 Toxic Human Foods You Should Never Feed Your Cat
It's understandable wanting to share a snack with your cat-but before you do, it's important to know what foods are toxic for cats, since many popular human foods are poisonous to our feline friends.
U.S.ComplexA Viral TikTok Shows a Shoplifter Get Abandoned By Her Getaway Driver Moments Before Arrest
A now-viral video posted to TikTok shows a woman trying to unsuccessfully steal an entire rack of Nike Pants from a local sporting goods store in Illinois, and it's all the fault of her getaway driver. The video, which was uploaded to TikTok by the account @faxisfax, shows the would-be heist go haywire after the woman, who is seen on the TikTok clutching a whole rack of pants, tries to open the back door of her getaway driver's car. As she screams at the driver to unlock the door and knocks on the rear door mirror, the driver skirts out of the parking lot, leaving her behind.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderRep. Matt Gaetz says Trump will probably run for president because he 'wants to throw punches as a combatant, not a heckler from the stands'
Matt Gaetz said Trump would probably run in 2024 because he "wants to throw punches as a combatant." Politico reported that Trump's leadership PAC was steadily laying the groundwork for a 2024 bid. Gaetz added that "a good rule in politics is to be a candidate for as short a time as necessary."
NewsYahoo News SingaporeMan who raped his step-daughters gets 28 years' jail, 18 strokes of cane
The culprit, who cannot be named to protect the identities of the victims – who were aged 14 and 16 at the time of the offences in 2017 and 2018 – pleaded guilty at the High Court to two charges of rape involving each victim. Another seven similar charges were considered in sentencing: two counts of rape and four counts of aggravated molest involving the younger victim, and one count of rape involving the older victim. In September 2017, the younger victim, who was then 14, came home from school early as she was sick.
U.S.Washington ExaminerWorld Trade Center 'surfer' struggles to comprehend his survival 20 years later
As one of only two people who survived 9/11 by surfing down the Twin Towers collapse, Pasquale Buzzelli has a mixture of survivor's guilt and gratefulness. Here I am given this gift, and I wanted to make the most of it,” he told 60 Minutes Australia. At the same time, he struggles to make sense of why he survived and others didn't.
U.S.FTW OutdoorsWatch: Yellowstone wolf bites grizzly bear in the butt
A Yellowstone National Park tourist on Saturday captured video footage showing a wolf repeatedly biting a grizzly bear's butt. The distant footage, captured by Gary Gaston in the northern portion of the park, also reveals a bear whose best defense seems simply to sit and become less vulnerable against the quicker wolf. Gaston told FTW Outdoors that there was a large animal carcass – “probably an elk” – in a nearby thicket, which explains the presence of wolves, bears, and ravens in the same area.
U.S.Associated PressLaw firm: Attorney whose wife, son were killed took money
A lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to death at their home three months ago and was injured days ago when a bullet grazed his head as he changed a tire was taking money from his law firm, the business said late Monday. The statement from PMPED law firm came hours after Alex Murdaugh said he was resigning and entering rehab. The PMPED law firm said it will hire an accounting firm to fully review its books.
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Naked woman, 28, drives golf cart into Florida standoff scene with armed suspect: reports
A tense standoff between Florida authorities and an armed suspect became even more dangerous over the weekend when a naked 28-year-old woman suddenly drove into the crime scene on a golf cart, according to reports. The woman, identified as Jessica Smith, from Boston, had "a distinct odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her person, and she was completely nude," an affidavit of the incident said, according to FOX 13 of Tampa Bay. At the time, police in Dunedin had several Pinellas County sheriff's office vehicles parked around the crime scene, the station reported.
HealthWashington PostWomen said the covid vaccine affected their periods. Now more than $1.6 million will go into researching it.
Shana Clauson was in line to get her first dose of the Moderna shot in March when she saw menstruators on social media discussing how their periods had been altered - earlier, heavier and more painful than usual - after they got their coronavirus vaccinations. Clauson, a 45-year-old who lives in Hudson, Wis., went ahead and got the shot - and, a few days later, also got an earlier and heavier period than she was used to. A few weeks later, in early April, she told The Washington Post that she was frustrated with the lack of research on whether the vaccines impacted menstrual cycles.
BusinessReutersKuwait starts to recycle massive tyre graveyard
More than 42 million old vehicle tyres dumped in Kuwait's sands have started to be recycled, as the Gulf state tackles a waste problem that created one of the world's largest tyre graveyards. But this month Kuwait, which wants to build 25,000 new houses on the site, finished moving all the tyres to a new location at al-Salmi, near the Saudi border, where recycling efforts have begun. "The factory is helping society by cleaning up the dumped old tyres and turning them into consumer products," said EPSCO partner and CEO Alaa Hassan from EPSCO, adding they also export products to neighbouring Gulf countries and Asia.
WorldNerdistRare Tasmanian Tiger Footage Found in Restored Film
It's one thing to see an extinct animal's skeleton in a museum—a terrific way to learn about their lives based on scientific clues and their remains. This creature, also known as a Thylacine, resembles a dog with tiger stripes. Now, the last known images of this animal are available via the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NSFA).
WorldSouth China Morning PostUS security reviews now extend to Chinese acquisitions never filed with government
A little over a week ago, Magnachip Semiconductor was notified by the US Treasury Department that it had identified national security risks in the Delaware chip company's proposed US$1.4 billion sale to Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital. This new focus on "non-notified transactions" illustrates how comprehensively the US is trying to limit China's opportunities to obtain Americans' personal data and intellectual property. The spotlight on these mergers added to other measures - the Treasury Department's blacklist of Chinese companies that allegedly have ties to China's military and the Commerce Department's export control regulation - that prohibit American capital from investing in Chinese firms and restrict sensitive technologies from being sold to China.
U.S.Associated PressTexas death row inmate seeks pastor's touch at execution
A Texas death row inmate set to be executed Wednesday for killing a convenience store worker more than 17 years ago in a robbery that garnered $1.25 is asking that his pastor be allowed to lay hands on him as he dies by lethal injection. The request by John Henry Ramirez, 37, is the latest clash between death row inmates and prison officials in Texas and other states over the presence of spiritual advisers in the death chamber. Ramirez was condemned for the 2004 killing of 46-year-old Pablo Castro as he took out the trash from a Corpus Christi convenience store.
U.S.USA TODAYMan called 911 to report a Tesla hit him, but the vehicle's cameras told a different story
Authorities arrested a Louisiana man who called 911 to report being struck by a Tesla after police reviewed video footage from the car that told a different story. Around 4 p.m. Friday, the Slidell Police Department said 47-year-old Arthur Bates Jr. called 911, saying the Tesla had backed into him and caused back, leg and neck injuries. Bates had said the driver of the Tesla fled the scene, but when officers got in contact with the driver, they said Bates actually fabricated the whole event – and there was proof he did.
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Officials say motive for Florida family's massacre is not known
Investigators say that when they captured Marine veteran Bryan Riley outside the Lakeland, Fla. home where he allegedly killed a couple, their 3-month-old son and the boy's grandmother, he told them, “You know why I did this.
PoliticsAssociated PressNewsom's nightmare: How one November day fueled the recall
On a single day last November, two events helped set the course for just the second recall election against a governor in California history: Gov. Gavin Newsom dined with 11 friends and lobbyists at one of the country's most expensive restaurants as he pleaded with Californians to stay home, while those looking to kick him out of office won four more months to qualify for the ballot. Photos of the maskless dinner showed the Democratic governor going against what he had been urging for months to combat the coronavirus: don't gather in groups, keep your distance, wear a mask. “We had a perfect storm with the judge's ruling, with the French Laundry incident, with the greater environment of COVID and the economic disaster," said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California.
ScienceNational ReviewInternal Documents Further Contradict Fauci’s ‘Gain-of-Function’ Research Denials
Newly released documents appear to contradict Dr. Anthony Fauci's repeated claims that the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The internal documents detail the work of EcoHealth Alliance, an American research non-profit which used NIH funding to research novel bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab. Among the documents, which were obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request, is a previously unpublished EcoHealth Alliance grant proposal filed with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, which is run by Fauci.
BusinessDirtLeo DiCaprio Buys $13.8 Million Malibu Retreat, Lists Longtime Carbon Beach House
This time, his attention is on Malibu, where records reveal the perennial A-lister has plunked down $13.8 million for an oceanfront retreat squirreled away in the city's far westward reaches, well out of sight from prying eyes and away from the traffic-thronged downtown area. Back in the day, DiCaprio actually owned three Malibu houses, all of them oceanfront. Another house — a substantially larger affair just outside the Malibu Colony gated community — was sold off in 2013 for $17.4 million to its current owners, New York-based hedge fund mogul Christian Leone and his husband, interior designer Malcolm Kutner.
PoliticsAssociated PressTexas GOP bets on hard right turn amid changing demographics
Republicans in America's largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan “Keep Texas Red,” a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics. Faced with increasingly dire demographic threats to their party's dominance, Texas Republicans have championed a bevy of boundary-pushing conservative policymaking that dramatically expands gun rights, curbs abortions and tightens election laws — steering a state that was already far to the right even more so. “Texas, obviously, is a national leader as it concerns the laws that we pass and other states follow,” Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is fond of vowing to make Texas the “freedom capital of America,” said Tuesday.
“As an individual, your choices have very little impact.”
“Doing something bold like giving up flying can have a wider knock-on effect by influencing others and shifting what’s viewed as ‘normal.’”
“Instead of calling for restrictions on people’s behavior … we should focus on the kind of action that’s really going to be effective.”
“Individual actions matter in that they can reduce emissions … But, alone, it is nowhere near enough.”
“Building community around action should be our measure of success, and it can happen right now.”