Watch vehicles go flying in terrifying train crash with car hauler

The video above captures what happened after a semi truck carrying a load of vehicles got itself high-centered on a railroad crossing Friday near Thackerville, Okla. An Amtrak train hits the incapacitated truck at speed in one of the most spectacular crashes we can recall, sending the truckload of vehicles flying and crumpling the car trailer. Worse, five people aboard the Amtrak were injured and were transported to a hospital, according to Love County firefighters, though the injuries were non-critical. In the video, you can see someone jumping up and down in a vain attempt to warn the train.

America isn't running out of everything just because of a supply-chain crisis. America is running out everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.

Supply-chain professionals plan to alleviate the backlog container by container. Americans are buying everything they can get their hands on, and they'd be buying even more if it weren't for those pesky supply-chain snarls, the National Retail Federation said. "Spending might have been higher if not for shortages of items consumers are eager to purchase," Jack Kleinhenz, the NRF's chief economist, said in a statement issued on Friday.

The Most Common Places COVID Is Spreading Right Now (And Where It's Not)

Fully vaccinated people are not only less likely to become hospitalized or die, they're also far less likely to spread the virus (despite some confusing public health messaging around this second point). So here's what we know about the places where transmission is the highest right now, and places where the spread isn't as bad as people might think: Where COVID Is Spreading The Most Right Now Inside restaurants and bars Throughout the pandemic, it's been pretty clear that restaurants and bars are sources of COVID-19 transmission, and recent evidence suggests that continues to be the case.

Woman jailed for throwing killer litter from 50th floor in CBD after tiff with boyfriend

After an argument with her boyfriend, a woman threw a speaker, a soundbar and a television set from her 50th-floor unit along Shenton Way. Lluen Saenz Maria Isabel, a 49-year-old Peruvian, was jailed for seven weeks on Tuesday (19 October), after she pleaded guilty to one count of committing a rash act which endangered the safety of others. Saenz, a teacher at the Canadian International School, was about to end their relationship last year when the man assaulted her.

GOP congressman says he expects to be indicted for lying to the FBI

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) told supporters on Tuesday he expects to be indicted on allegations he lied to federal investigators. Driving the news: In a video uploaded to YouTube, the congressman sat with his wife and dog in a vintage pickup truck as he announced federal prosecutors in California "accused me of lying, and are charging me with this." A spokesperson referred to the video when Axios called for comment.

Diver finds 900-year-old sword on the Mediterranean seafloor

An Israeli amateur diver found a large, 900-year-old sword dating back to the Crusades at the bottom of Mediterranean Sea last week, Israeli researchers said on Monday. The diver, identified as Shlomi Katzin from Atlit, Israel, discovered the weapon on Saturday among other artifacts on the Mediterranean seabed, including ancient stone anchors, other anchors made of metal, and pottery fragments, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The sword has a blade over 39 inches long and a hilt measuring nearly 12 inches, and it likely once belonged to a crusading knight.

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  Israeli scuba diver discovers ancient Crusader sword

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Train riders held up phones as woman was raped, police say

A man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia harassed her for more than 40 minutes while multiple people held up their phones to seemingly record the assault without intervening, authorities said. More than two dozen train stops passed as the man harassed, groped and eventually raped the woman, the police chief for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said at a news conference Monday. Both the man and woman got on the train at the same stop Wednesday night in North Philadelphia.

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  Woman raped on train as passengers did not get help, police say

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Fox News Hosts Trashed For ‘Disgraceful’ Spin On Colin Powell’s Death

Personalities on Fox News were slammed for using the death of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from complications of COVID-19 to question the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. Powell, 84, was fully vaccinated, but had multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that attacks the immune system, making him more susceptible to the effects of the virus. Cain used the news of Powell's death to rail against President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates.

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  Blinken pays tribute to Colin Powell

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  Report: Ex-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell dies of COVID complications

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Bourbon producer signals intent to hire replacement workers

Declaring an impasse in contract talks with striking union workers, global spirits producer Heaven Hill said Monday it will start hiring permanent replacement workers for bottling and warehouse operations in Kentucky. Union leaders responded that they're willing to continue negotiations and accused the company of wanting to replace longtime employees with non-union workers. About 420 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D have been on strike for more than five weeks They voted overwhelmingly last month to reject a new five-year contract offer and formed picket lines at Heaven Hill's operations in Bardstown.

Scientists are closely tracking a new variant spreading in the UK that could be 10% more infectious than Delta

Scientists are closely tracking a new coronavirus variant called AY.4.2, a subtype of Delta. Early data suggested it could be 10% more infectious than Delta, one expert said. Cases are low outside the UK.

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  Delta sub-variant: What we know as it ‘expands’ throughout England

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  Oxford scientists working on new Covid vaccine to target Delta variant

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Florida police officer, 28, killed in overnight confrontation with teenage suspect

It all started with a call about a suspicious person. A flurry of police in tactical gear rushed the neighborhood after a police officer was shot and killed, leading an overnight search by foot and air for hours. With no time to wait, police grabbed Officer Yandy Chirino, rushing him in a police cruiser to Memorial Hospital, where doctors were unable to save his life.

China, Russia navy ships jointly sail through Japan strait

TOKYO (Reuters) -A group of 10 naval vessels from China and Russia sailed through a strait separating Japan's main island and its northern island of Hokkaido on Monday, the Japanese government said, adding that it is closely watching such activities. It was the first time Japan has confirmed the passage of Chinese and Russian naval vessels sailing together through the Tsugaru Strait, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Pacific. While the strait is regarded as international waters, Japan's ties with China have long been plagued by conflicting claims over a group of tiny East China Sea islets.

DeSantis' critics fall silent as Florida's COVID-19 cases drop

In New York, for example, the rate of new cases is more than double that of Florida's at 25 per 100,000 residents over the past week. In Washington state, the rate of new infections per 100,000 residents was at 31 during the past week. Critics have vilified Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for a pandemic response that deviated early from what other states did to limit transmission.

Ex-Spy Behind Salacious Trump Dossier Has Damning Theory About Alleged Pee Tape

Christopher Steele, the British former spy behind a salacious and unverified dossier about Donald Trump, said he believes one of the most infamous allegations in the document. Steele told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the “pee tape” is “probably” real, according to a promo for the upcoming series, “Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier.” The dossier claims Trump in 2013 hired prostitutes in Moscow to perform a golden showers show as he watched.

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  Christopher Steele stands by discredited anti-Trump dossier claims about Michael Cohen in Prague and 'pee tape'

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  Ex-British spy Christopher Steele defends Trump dossier and says kompromat tape ‘probably’ exists

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Israeli scuba diver discovers ancient Crusader sword

An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country's Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders. Israel's Antiquities Authority said Monday the man was on a weekend dive in northern Israel when he spotted a trove of ancient artifacts that included anchors, pottery and a meter-long (yard-long) sword. The diver was about 150 meters (170 yards) off the coast in five-meter-deep (5.5-yard-deep) water when he made the discovery.

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  Crusader sword recovered from Mediterranean seabed

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Woman's body recovered from mountain after she sent message for help

Rescue personnel and a helicopter successfully completed the highly technical recovery of a 29-year-old Denver woman's body from Kit Carson Peak in Colorado on this weekend. Anna DeBattiste of the Colorado Search And Rescue Association confirmed to CBS Denver that rescue team members safely returned from the operation some time after midnight on Saturday after recovering the body of Madeline Baharlou-Quivey. Kit Carson Peak Climber Madeline Baharlou-Quivey's Body Retrieved By Rescue Crews, Helicopter https://t.co/cp4tHpeXlr pic.twitter.com/efkuciFFH7 — CBSDenver (@CBSDenver) October 17, 2021 Using ropes and climbing harnesses, Alamosa Volunteer Search and Rescue personnel made the climb from...

A California Construction Worker Asked a Speeding Motorist to Slow Down. He Was Shot Seven Times In Response.

The family of a California Black construction worker wants answers after their loved one was shot several times in what is now being looked at as a potential hate crime. Bobby Gayle is still recovering, KCRA reported this week, after being shot seven times this month in the town in California's Central Valley. Bobby's brother, Marlon Gayle, told the outlet that his brother had just finished the job when the shooting occurred.

California congressional race could help tilt House control

What could be one of the most competitive House races in the country is taking shape in California's agriculture-rich Central Valley, where a Democratic assemblyman Monday became the latest candidate to announce a bid to oust Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao. Democrats have 220 seats in the chamber and Republicans have 212, with three vacancies. Five-term Assemblyman Rudy Salas formally announced he is entering the race during a kickoff event in his hometown of Bakersfield, where he had been the first Latino to serve on the City Council.

The Workers Won’t Be Coming Back, Covid or Not. Here Are Theories on Where They Went.

More people are choosing not to work, confounding employers and economists and leading to worrisome labor shortages and supply chain problems. The September jobs report showed the slowest pace of hiring all year, a surprise decline in labor-force participation and a rise in wages. Whatever the explanation for the worsening labor shortage, it goes beyond temporary factors associated with the pandemic.

'I was a mess': 'Ferris Bueller' star opens up about his 'ferocious' blood poisoning experience

Alan Ruck is opening up about his "ferocious" near-death experience. In an interview on WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, the "Succession" star recalled contracting a blood infection in 2001 that he feels "lucky" to have survived. The now 65-year-old began by explaining that he still doesn't know how he managed to contract blood poisoning — but that it was debilitating.

Trump says he 'would have stopped the people from doing anything bad' if he had been at the Capitol on January 6

Trump told a journalist that he would've stopped his supporters from "doing anything bad" at the Capitol if he'd been there. Former President Donald Trump claims that he would have stopped his supporters from breaching the Capitol on January 6 if he'd been on the grounds with them. Trump told Washington Examiner senior political correspondent David Drucker that he wanted to march to the Capitol with his supporters but that the Secret Service refused to greenlight his proposal.

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GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn's Unhinged Parenting Advice Panned As 'Dangerous’

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) urged mothers to raise their sons to be monsters in an off-the-rails speech slammed on social media as “dangerous” and sociopathic. The extremist first-term lawmaker said society wants to “de-masculate young men” because “they don't want people who are going to stand up” in footage shared online Monday by activist group Right Wing Watch. “All you moms here — the ones who I said are the most vicious in our movement — if you are raising a young man, please raise them to be a monster,” added Cawthorn, who's pushed Donald Trump's election lies, warned “bloodshed” will be inevitable if “our elections continue to be rigged,” and once posed for pictures at Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's vacation retreat.

Fiery incident nearly derails wedding reception: 'We absolutely froze in shock'

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.