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    • Official: NORAD tracking Chinese spy balloon in U.S.

      A senior U.S. defense official said they "are confident" the massive balloon was dispatched by China's government, and that this incident isn't the first one.

      Biden has 'asked for military options' »
      • Man cleaning out grandma's home shot by police, dies

      • Woman found alive in body bag at funeral home

      • Vt. man dies after brawl during middle school game

      • 'Stunned': N.J. governor reacts to lawmaker's death

      • GoFundMe scam: TikToker arrested for faking cancer

    • U.S.
      Associated Press

      Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

      A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled Wednesday that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others. The father of Anthony Huber, one of two men shot and killed by Rittenhouse, filed the lawsuit in 2021, accusing officers of allowing for a dangerous situation that violated his son's constitutional rights and resulted in his death. Anthony Huber's father, John Huber, also alleged that Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, conspired with law enforcement to cause harm to protestors.

      • Wisconsin federal judge rules wrongful death lawsuit against Kyle Rittenhouse can proceed
        Fox News
      • Kyle Rittenhouse lawsuit brought by father of man killed can proceed
        BBC
    • Health
      Fox Weather

      Dangerous fungal illness rapidly spreading across country, doctors warn

      Doctors are warning of a dangerous fungal illness rapidly spreading across the country, especially affecting those living or visiting the California and Arizona areas. If you think it sounds like something from the cutting room floor of "The Last of Us" series, where a parasitic fungal infection devastates mankind, there are some very base-level similarities. Valley fever (also called coccidioidomycosis or "cocci") is a significant cause of pneumonia, said Dr. Brad Perkins, chief medical officer at Karius, a company that provides advanced diagnostics for infectious diseases.

    • Politics
      Jezebel

      Nikki 'Women Don't Care About Contraception' Haley Is Running for President

      Nikki Haley—former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador—is set to announce her intentions to run for president later this month. Barring any other last-minute eager beavers, Haley will be former President Donald Trump's first official challenger for the 2024 Republican nomination. Personally, I will always remember Haley for her steadfast belief that “women don't care about contraception.” When on The View in 2012, Haley made that bold statement to a room full of women who...seemed to disagree.

      • Trump, Haley, who else? The Republicans who could run for president in 2024
        Yahoo News
      • Nikki Haley, once Trump's UN ambassador, to take him on in 2024
        Reuters
    • U.S.
      In The Know by Yahoo

      Woman deletes her TikTok account after being called out by fitness influencer

      If you post a TikTok of you at the gym and receive a stitch from Joey Sergo (@thejoeyswoll), you've probably done something wrong nine times out of 10. Currently, Swoll has over 6 million followers on TikTok and over 2.2 million followers on Instagram. Swoll recently stitched a video with creator Jessica Fernandez (@jessica.frndz) after she posted a video accusing a man of being a “weirdo” to her in the gym.

    • Business
      Business Insider

      Bill Gates said he'd rather fund vaccines to 'save lives' than go to Mars, but he thinks someday Elon Musk will be a 'great philanthropist'

      Bill Gates told the BBC he does not think traveling to Mars is a good use of money. "You can buy measles vaccines and save lives for $1,000 per life saved," Gates explained. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he'd rather pay for life-saving vaccines than spend money going to Mars, commenting on how his priorities differ from one of the other richest men on Earth.

      • Bill Gates would rather pay for vaccines than travel to Mars
        BBC
      • Bill Gates calls ChatGPT 'every bit as important as the PC' or the internet
        Business Insider
    • U.S.
      Storyful

      Officer's Bodycam Shows Driver Pulled From Flaming Car on Las Vegas Strip

      The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has released bodycam footage showing the moment a driver was pulled from his car just before it went up in flames on the city's strip on Friday, January 27. The video shows LVMPD Convention Center Area Command Officer Derek Stebbins finding the driver unconscious in the crashed vehicle on the Las Vegas Strip. He then pulls the man from the burning car, with the help of a bystander, before flames engulf the driver's side.

    • World
      Reuters

      Ukraine's new weapon will force a Russian shift

      The United States has answered President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's plea for rockets that can strike deep behind the front lines of the nearly year-long conflict with Russia. Now Russian forces will need to adapt or face potentially catastrophic losses. The new weapon, the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), will allow Ukraine's military to hit targets at twice the distance reachable by the rockets it now fires from the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).

    • Politics
      HuffPost

      Mitch McConnell May Have Just Pulled The Ultimate Revenge On 2 Rival Senators

      Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) may have just delivered some harsh payback to fellow Republican Sens. Scott, who confirmed his and Lee's removal, didn't seem to think so. “This is what happens when you challenge leadership,” Scott told the New York Post on Wednesday.

      • Scott: ‘I don’t think it made any sense’ for McConnell to boot me from Commerce
        The Hill
      • McConnell pulls rival Rick Scott off powerful Commerce Committee
        The Hill
    • Health
      TODAY

      A woman with a 100-pound leg spent her childhood hiding. Now she’s a model.

      Mahogany Geter, a model in Tennessee, spent her childhood avoiding mirrors. “I felt hideous, like a freak of nature,” Geter, 25, tells TODAY.com. Geter was born with lymphedema in her left leg, which she says caused it to eventually swell to 100 pounds.

    • U.S.
      Yahoo News

      California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

      A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both legs, holding a knife but leaving his wheelchair and shuffling away from the officers. Jeffrey Fagan, a Columbia University law professor who is an expert on policing, told Yahoo News in an email that the details of the case call into question whether the use of lethal force was warranted.

      • California police face scrutiny after killing double amputee
        BBC
      • California Police Shot And Killed Black Double Amputee As He Attempted To Flee
        HuffPost
    • World
      USA TODAY

      Pay for entry: US travelers will soon have to pay a fee to enter the United Kingdom

      U.S. citizens will soon have to apply for permission before their United Kingdom trips and pay a small fee to enter as part of the country's upcoming Electronic Travel Authorization scheme. The ETA scheme is meant to secure the U.K.'s borders by giving them more accurate data on who is passing through, according to a U.K. official for the British Consulate General. The move is part of the U.K.'s plan to fully digitize its borders by 2025.

      • Visiting the UK Will Soon Require an Online Application With a Fee — What to Know
        Travel+Leisure
      • U.S. citizens will soon need to apply, pay to visit U.K.
        KCPQ
    • Health
      NewMediaWire

      Ideal blood pressure may remodel brain clearance pathways linked to brain health, dementia

      Research Highlights: Close review of MRI scans found more intensive high blood pressure treatment (targeted to achieve a systolic pressure less than 120 mm Hg) was more effective than a less-intense treatment goal of 140 mm Hg systolic in achieving a positive structural change in the brain's perivascular spaces: pathways that are important to clearing toxins and other byproducts. If the brain cannot properly clear metabolic byproducts, they accumulate and may contribute to the development of dementia, researchers said. The new findings are from MRI scans of several hundred adults in the SPRINT-MIND trial that previously found intensive blood pressure-lowering slowed cognitive impairment.

    • U.S.
      Yahoo Sports

      Bengals RB Joe Mixon issued arrest warrant for allegedly pointing gun at woman; agent expects charge to be dropped

      An arrest warrant was issued for Bengals running back Joe Mixon on Thursday afternoon after he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman in downtown Cincinnati last month, according to multiple reports. According to the warrant, obtained by WCPO's Evan Millward, police said Mixon pointed a gun at a woman on Jan. 21 and said, “You should be popped in the face, I should shoot you, the police [can't] get me. Other specifics surrounding the incident — which officials said occurred just one day before their divisional round playoff game against the Buffalo Bills in New York — are not yet known.

      • Joe Mixon’s agent says charges against Bengals RB to be dropped
        Bengals Wire
      • Bengals Running Back Joe Mixon Wanted on Arrest Warrant Issued for Allegedly Pointing Firearm at Woman
        People
    • Politics
      Business Insider

      2 House Republicans caught saying Ilhan Omar removal was the 'stupidest vote in world' before begging reporters to not tell GOP leadership what they said

      House Republicans removed Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from one of her committees on Thursday. The dejected duo called it the "stupidest vote" and panned leadership for making Omar a "martyr." Two disillusioned House Republicans unloaded on their vengeful leadership for inadvertently making a hero out of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar by publicly stripping her of a high-profile committee assignment in what one deemed the "stupidest vote in the world."

      • House Republicans vote to oust Democrat Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs committee
        Associated Press Videos
      • Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from high-profile U.S. House committee
        Reuters
    • U.S.
      Miami Herald

      Homestead teacher confesses to having sex in classroom with 12-year-old, police say

      An elementary school teacher in Homestead was charged Wednesday with having sex with one of his students. Davis Augustine Hodge Jr., 30, is facing four counts of using his authority to have sex with a child. Investigators say Hodge used his position as a sponsor of the school's chess club to lure the then-12-year-old into his classroom at the West Homestead K-8 Center after school on Fridays, where they engaged in sexual contact at least four times.

      • West Homestead K-8 Center teacher arrested, accused of sex with student
        CBS Miami
      • Students beaten up inside school bus in Homestead
        CBS Miami
    • World
      Reuters

      Chinese spy balloon flies over the United States, Pentagon says

      A suspected Chinese spy balloon has been flying over the United States for a couple of days, U.S. officials said on Thursday, in what would be a brazen act just days ahead of a planned trip to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Fighter jets were mobilised but military leaders advised President Joe Biden against shooting the balloon out of the sky for fear debris could pose a safety threat, advice Biden accepted, U.S. officials said. The United States took "custody" of the balloon when it entered U.S. airspace and had observed it with piloted U.S. military aircraft, one of the officials told reporters on condition of anonymity.

      • Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
        Associated Press
      • Suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says
        CBS News Videos
    • Business
      Fortune

      Warren Buffett’s right-hand man Charlie Munger, who once called crypto ‘rat poison,’ says we should follow China’s lead and ban cryptocurrencies altogether

      Charlie Munger is no fan of crypto. As vice chairman of the nearly $700 billion megaconglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, Munger has helped Warren Buffett make billions for investors since 1978 using a strict fundamentals-based approach to acquiring “high-quality businesses.” “A cryptocurrency is not a currency, not a commodity, and not a security,” Munger argued in a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed.

      • Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger Calls for Crypto Ban in the US
        CoinDesk
      • Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger Calls Cryptocurrency a 'Gambling Contract'
        CoinDesk
    • U.S.
      Women's Health

      The Hotel This Influencer Wanted To Stay At For Free Is Now Billing Her Millions

      Soon after YouTuber Elle Darby asked Dublin's White Moose Cafe and Charleville Lodge if she could stay for free, NY Mag reports the hotel's owner Paul Stenson shut her way, way down. In a January 16 Facebook post, Stenson screengrabbed Darby's apparent email in which she asked for a comped stay essentially in return for traffic to the hotel. She notes her tens of thousands of YouTube and Instagram followers as proof this arrangement would be beneficial to the hotel.

    • U.S.
      Yahoo Sports

      Eagles OL Josh Sills indicted on rape and kidnapping felony charges, placed on Commissioner's Exempt List

      Content Warning: This story contains depictions of sexual assault. Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Josh Sills has been indicted on rape and kidnapping felony charges, the Ohio Attorney General and a county sheriff announced Wednesday. Sills, 25, was issued a summons to appear at Guernsey County Common Pleas Court on Feb. 16.

      • Eagles reserve lineman accused of rape ahead of Super Bowl
        Associated Press
      • Eagles’ OL Josh Sills indicted on rape and kidnapping charges
        NBC Sports Philadelphia
    • Science
      WFXT

      Look up tonight! A rare green comet will make a close encounter with Earth for 1st time in 50K years

      The dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times, according to NASA. Discovered less than a year ago, this harmless green comet already is visible in the northern night sky with binoculars and small telescopes, and possibly the naked eye in the darkest corners of the Northern Hemisphere. While plenty of comets have graced the sky over the past year, “this one seems probably a little bit bigger and therefore a little bit brighter and it's coming a little bit closer to the Earth's orbit,” said NASA's comet and asteroid-tracking guru, Paul Chodas.

    • U.S.
      NextShark

      Chinese corn mill in North Dakota deemed ‘significant threat’ by US Air Force

      The construction of a Chinese-owned corn mill in North Dakota will likely be halted after the U.S. Air Force flagged it as a “significant threat to national security.” Fufeng Group, an MSG and xanthan gum manufacturer based in Shandong province, China, previously bought 370 acres of farmland in Grand Forks through its American subsidiary. The city council approved the company's $700 million proposal to build the mill last year, citing economic development success.

      • Air Force opposes Chinese-owned corn plant for North Dakota
        Associated Press
      • Air Force warns Chinese company's North Dakota mill would be 'significant' national security threat
        Fox News
    • World
      Associated Press

      Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US

      The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down over concerns of hurting people on the ground, officials said Thursday. The discovery of the balloon puts a further strain on U.S.-China relations at a time of heightened tensions. A senior defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has “very high confidence” it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon and it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information.

      • Large white balloon lingers over Montana sky
        Associated Press Videos
      • Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western U.S.
        Politico
    • U.S.
      CBS News

      Prehistoric and endangered Atlantic sturgeon found on East Coast beach

      A rare Atlantic sturgeon that lived on Earth with the dinosaurs washed up on a beach on the East Coast. A photographer snapped photos of the prehistoric and endangered fish on Assateague Island, which runs between Maryland and Virginia. Atlantic sturgeon can be found from Canada to Florida.

    • World
      The New Voice of Ukraine

      Members of Russian 155th Marine Brigade surrender in Donbas

      Ten Russian servicemen surrendered in total, he said. "The 155th Brigade is known from the Kyiv axis, when they were storming the city of Kyiv (in February and March 2022)," Dmytrashkivskyi said. According to Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, more than 1,200 civilians were killed in Bucha area during the Russian occupation.

    • Politics
      Yahoo Finance

      Why Republicans won’t reveal their spending cuts

      House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, will demand government spending cuts as a condition of raising the debt ceiling and allowing more federal borrowing so the Treasury can keep paying the nation's bills. President Biden and his fellow Democrats will insist on a “clean” debt-ceiling hike with no conditions. The real political battle, however, is over which side can most effectively trash the other before a last-second deal averts a financial crisis and Congress raises the debt ceiling.

      • Biden, McCarthy meet face-to-face on debt crisis worries
        Associated Press
      • McCarthy: We can find 'common ground' with Biden over U.S. debt ceiling
        Reuters
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