U.S.In The Know by YahooWoman 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.
U.S.Miami HeraldHomestead 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.
PoliticsHuffPostMitch 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.
WorldReutersUkraine'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).
PoliticsJezebelNikki '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.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Omar vote ‘about targeting women of color’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y. called out House Republicans' efforts to oust Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn. from a prominent committee on Feb. 2, noting inconsistencies in their stances on racially motivated attacks.
U.S.Yahoo NewsCalifornia 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.
HealthFox WeatherDangerous 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.
HealthTODAYA 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.In The Know by YahooKim Kardashian's micro bikini line is so tiny a TikToker used tortilla chips for scale: 'If I wore that in public, people would call the police'
The “micro bikini” from Kim Kardashian's SKIMS collection is taking a major beating on TikTok this week after one woman brilliantly illustrated just how impossibly tiny it really is. According to TikTok user @bbysarita's post, the barely-there bikini set leaves very little to the imagination — and might as well be like walking naked on the beach. “If you've been eyeing the SKIMS micro bikini and wondering about the size, these are tortilla chips for scale,” she says in the now-viral TikTok.
U.S.NextSharkChinese 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.” The city council approved the company's $700 million proposal to build the mill last year, citing economic development success. Although city officials initially supported the mill's construction in the hopes of generating jobs and tax revenue, Mayor Brandon Bochenski issued a statement on Tuesday asserting that the proposed mill “should be stopped.”
U.S.JezebelA Woman Was Ordered to Stop Breastfeeding to Accommodate the Father’s Visitation Rights
A woman in Virginia has been ordered by a judge “to make every effort to place the child on a feeding schedule and use a bottle” in order to accommodate the baby's father's visitation rights and schedule, the Washington Post reported this week. Since Arleta Ramirez's daughter was born last July, she's been breastfed, which Ramirez says is in accordance with all guidance from her doctors. Ramirez's baby needs to be fed once an hour, and feeding time interferes with her ex's visitation time, prompting the court order for Ramirez to stop breastfeeding.
U.S.Yahoo SportsKellen Winslow Jr. requests 14-year prison sentence be reduced due to 'physical trauma' from football
Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. has requested his 14-year prison sentence be reduced with the argument that the physical trauma he sustained while playing football entitles him to a shorter stay behind bars under a new California law, according to USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer. Winslow reportedly mailed a handwritten habeas corpus petition in November from a state prison in Tehachapi, California, and is representing himself without an attorney. The former Cleveland Browns first-round draft pick and Pro Bowler received his 14-year sentence in March 2021 under a plea arrangement that saw Winslow convicted of forcible rape, rape of an unconscious person, assault with intent to commit rape, indecent exposure and lewd conduct in public.
U.S.The RootSir, Have Several Seats: Stephen Jackson Ignorantly Criticizes Al Sharpton's Tyre Nichols Funeral Speech
Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy and Ben Crump also shared words. The reason why, Mr. and Mrs. Wells [Nichols's stepfather and mother], what happened to Tyre is so personal to me is that five Black men that wouldn't have had a job in the police department, would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad in the city that Dr. King lost his life, not far away from that balcony, you beat a brother to death,” Sharpton said. Crump stated: “Why couldn't they see the humanity in Tyre?
U.S.Women's HealthThe 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.
PoliticsYahoo FinanceWhy 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.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderAOC to GOP: Don't tell me you're condemning anti-Semitism when a Republican 'who has talked about Jewish space lasers' gets a plum committee assignment
AOC unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy with their vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from her committee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy Thursday while defending her fellow "squad" member, Rep. Ilhan Omar. Republicans voted to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her controversial comments in the past about Israel.
U.S.Miami HeraldDave & Buster’s employee dies days after cook attacks him at work, Florida cops say
A Dave & Buster's employee died days after he was attacked by a cook while at work, according to a Florida sheriff's office. A witness told deputies that the cook, later identified as Cordell Bentley Russell, 34, was in a “bad mood” that day, the report says. The victim said, “Put the food right there,” in a “strong tone,” the report says, and Russell became angry.
U.S.Associated PressFate of last ex-cop charged in Floyd murder lies with judge
The attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd said in court filings Tuesday that his client is innocent of criminal wrongdoing and should be acquitted on state charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter. Tuesday was the deadline for prosecutors and defense attorneys to file final written arguments in the case of Thao, the last of the four former officers facing judgement in Floyd's killing. The state and federal cases against Derek Chauvin and the two other officers involved have largely been resolved, except for Chauvin's appeal of his murder conviction.
WorldUSA TODAYPay 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.
BusinessFortuneThere’s a wild theory that the price of Bitcoin is being propped up—and the academic who proved manipulation in 2017 suspects it may be happening again
A number of experts who follow crypto trading from day to day see no plot to inflate the prices, but a well-functioning market. I don't see a cabal of insiders,” says Andrew Thurman, a researcher at Blockchain analytics provider Nansen. The price movements in Bitcoin are notoriously cyclical by nature.
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China angered by U.S.-Manila deal on military bases
STORY: The U.S. and the Philippines on Thursday announced American forces will gain access to four new military bases in the Pacific island nation, expanding a staging ground as Washington seeks to counter China in region. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Manila met his Philippine counterpart and hailed the agreement as a significant security measure. We discussed concrete actions to address destabilising activities in the waters surrounding the Philippines, including the West Philippine Sea.
HealthINSIDERAn MSNBC anchor was told she had acid reflux. The next day she was rushed to the hospital to have fluid drained from around her heart.
MSNBC anchor Yasmin Vossoughian revealed a doctor misdiagnosed her heart problems as acid reflux. Vossoughian said she has pericarditis and myocarditis, both brought on by a common cold. The journalist told Insider she blames herself for not listening to her body more closely, which might have contributed to the initial misdiagnosis.
PoliticsHuffPostHillary Clinton Mockingly Reveals What Trump Was Doing In Infamous Debate Moment
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton jokingly took supporters behind the scenes of one of the most infamous debate moments of the 2016 campaign. All three debates were marked by frequent outbursts from former President Donald Trump, but the second was particularly unusual as there were no lecterns and the candidates roamed the stage. That led to some odd body language ― as well as strange photos that quickly turned into memes.
WorldAssociated PressRadioactive capsule that fell off truck found in Australia
Authorities in Western Australia on Wednesday recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck while being transported along a 1,400-kilometer (870-mile) Outback highway last month in what an official said was like finding the needle in the haystack. Officials said the capsule the size of a pea was found south of the mining town of Newman on the Great Northern Highway. It was detected by a search vehicle travelling at 70 kilometers (43 miles) per hour when specialist equipment picked up radiation emitting from the capsule.
“Streaming is beginning to look an awful lot like the old-fashioned analogue TV it was supposed to replace.”
“Streaming isn’t going away … You’re still going to have a lot of choice for a long time.”
“In the future, [streaming] likely will cost more, have a little less library content and cancel more shows more quickly.”
“Streaming is still a game of content … It’s not a matter of who’s spending more, it’s who’s spending smartly.”
“Streamers are retreating from any sort of creative risk in favor of humdrum, lowest-common-denominator shows.”
