U.S.USA TODAY6 dead after floatplane crashes in southeast Alaska, Coast Guard says
A sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board, including the plane's pilot, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The five passengers were Holland America Line cruise passengers, the cruise line said on Twitter. "An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka located the wreckage at 2:37 p.m. and lowered two rescue swimmers who reported no survivors," the Coast Guard said in a statement.
U.S.Miami HeraldWhat happens when you allow hundreds of snake hunters in the Everglades? You get a winner
Gov. Ron DeSantis, in between battling with President Joe Biden about mask mandates, announced that the 2021 Florida Python Challenge has a new king. The 10-day event, from July 9-18, resulted in the removal of a record 223 invasive pythons from South Florida, DeSantis said.
WorldBusiness InsiderIsrael vaccinated fast and looked like it had beaten COVID-19. It just brought back a swathe of restrictions amid a Delta surge.
Daily new cases rose to 3,260 on Tuesday, according to The Times of Israel - the country's highest level of new cases since March. Ministers on Tuesday approved rules that require mask-wearing at outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people. Close contact such as hugging and kissing and indoor socializing is discouraged, the paper reported.
ScienceThe WeekScientists fear a critical Atlantic Ocean system might collapse, triggering 'extreme cold' and sea level rise
Scientists are worried the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a "critical aquatic conveyer belt" that drives currents in the Atlantic Ocean, is at risk of near-complete collapse due to climate change, The Washington Post reports. A shutdown of the crucial circulation system could "bring extreme cold to Europe and parts of North America, raise sea levels along the U.S. East Coast, and disrupt seasonal monsoons that provide water to much of the world," the Post reports. "The mere possibility that the AMOC tipping point is close should be enough for us to take countermeasures," warns Levke Caesar, a climate physicist at Maynooth University.
SportsINSIDERAll but one of the US women's soccer starters knelt to protest racism ahead of the team's Olympic bronze-medal match
All but one of the US women's soccer team players knelt before the Olympic bronze-medal match. Carli Lloyd stood as her teammates took a knee before kickoff - after the national anthem played. Players from teams around the world have knelt during the games to protest racism and inequality.
U.S.The Daily BeastOregon High School Janitor Stockpiled Weapons for Mass Shooting: Cops
A janitor at an Oregon high school was prepared to gun down students and teachers at the school where he worked and made detailed plans for the shooting spree, local police said Thursday. Kristopher Clay, the 24-year-old janitor for South Medford High School, surrendered to the Medford police department on July 20, allegedly confessing to officers he had “homicidal thoughts.” Budreau said Clay had mentioned his plans and his homicidal intentions to other people who did not take him seriously and did not report him to the authorities.
HealthThe TelegraphStatistics showing more young people hospitalised with Covid are not what they seem
On Thursday, Amanda Pritchard, the new NHS chief executive, claimed that a fifth of Covid hospital cases in England were young people. Ms Pritchard told the BBC about 1,000 young adults were "really unwell" in hospital, adding that the number being admitted was four times higher than at the peak last winter. NHS England clarified by saying that patients aged 18 to 34 made up more than 20 per cent of those admitted to hospital last month, up from around one in 20 – 5.4 per cent – at the January high point.
BusinessBusiness InsiderBig Tech salaries revealed: How much engineers, developers, and product managers make at companies including Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Uber, IBM, and Salesforce
So, to get a sense of what salaries in the industry are like these days, Business Insider analyzed the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification's disclosure data for permanent and temporary foreign workers to find out what companies pay employees in key roles, including engineers, designers, and salespeople. When you're done checking out this industry data, take a look at Insider's searchable database of over 250,000 salaries from more than 250 companies so you can know how much you should be paid. Google's software engineers can make more than $300,000.
U.S.INSIDERAn Ohio family accidentally threw out $25,000 while cleaning their grandmother's home but miraculously managed to recover it
A family in Lorain County, Ohio, accidentally binned $25,000 in cash while cleaning their grandma's home. They made an urgent call to the local waste collection agency to try to locate the garbage truck. Workers at a local recycling center sifted through six tons of trash to help the family recover the sum.
SportsWashington ExaminerJimmy Graham is ‘confused’ by NFL rule after he was ‘basically forced’ to get COVID-19 vaccine
Chicago Bears tight end Jimmy Graham expressed frustration over a National Football League policy that would require players who use or enter team facilities to get tested for the coronavirus every day. Graham shared a picture of the policy, which was announced by the NFL Player's Association on Wednesday, saying he was “basically forced into getting the vaccine.” The league is looking to follow the same coronavirus-related restrictions it imposed in 2020 to keep players, teams, and staff members safe, according to the statement.
WorldINSIDERPolice arrest a woman in China who they say used her medical-technology company as a front for buying and selling babies
The head of a medical company in China is accused of running a child-trafficking business. A medical tech company in east China is under investigation on suspicion that it's a front for an illegal baby-trafficking business, the city of Weifang's Public Security Bureau said. Local police arrested the company's head on Monday after anti-trafficking advocate Shangguan Zhengyi conducted a sting operation with the help of Xia Ruchu from The Paper, a Shanghai news outlet.
U.S.Kansas City Star‘A straight up monster.’ World record 125-pound bighead carp caught by Missouri man
A Missouri man is a new world-record holder after a behemoth fish he caught last month — but not without a little help. The Missouri Department of Conservation confirmed Thursday the 125-pound, 5-ounce bighead carp shot by Matt Neuling shattered the previous record of 104 pounds, 15 ounces. Neuling said he and his friend initially thought it was a 30-pound grass carp they both shot.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderMary Trump says Trump used his infamous 'it is what it is' dismissal when she brought up concerns about her father's burial
Mary Trump wrote that Donald Trump's use of the phrase "it is what it is" to dismiss COVID-19 deaths brought back a childhood memory. Mary, the daughter of Trump's late brother Freddy, said her family used the phrase to minimize others' suffering. Mary Trump, former President Donald Trump's niece, wrote in her newly-released book, "The Reckoning: Our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal," that her uncle's use of the phrase "it is what it is" to dismiss the rising COVID-19 death toll last year brought back a chilling childhood memory.
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Florida student: ‘I and many others would feel much safer if masks were required’
ABC News' Trevor Ault speaks with Lila Hartley, 12, who wrote a letter to her school board out of concern for her 10-year-old brother Will, who is too young for a vaccine.
U.S.The New York TimesTexas High School Principal Sees Racism in Calls to Remove Intimate Photos
In June 2019, shortly after James Whitfield, a Black educator, was hired as the principal of a middle school in Colleyville, Texas, an administrator with the school district called and asked him to take down photos on Facebook that showed him and his wife, who is white, embracing intimately on a beach. Puzzled why someone had dug up 10-year-old images of the couple celebrating their anniversary in Mexico, Whitfield nonetheless complied by changing the settings to “Only Me.” But the photos have now resurfaced amid a controversy over racism that erupted in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District after Whitfield on Saturday wrote a Facebook post about the request. When Whitfield, 43, asked in 2019 what was wrong with the photos, “The response was 'nothing,'” he recalled in an interview Wednesday.
SportsNextSharkPeople are changing their Tinder locations to Japan so here are more Olympic athletes the internet can’t get over
People are setting their Tinder locations to Olympic Village in the hopes of finding love with one of the world's top athletes. A TikTok trend: Kassie Yeung made headlines in May when she, a self-proclaimed “petty” ex-girlfriend, shared her 5,953-mile journey to Seoul to remove a “love lock” that she and her ex had once attached to a symbolic fence on Namsan tower. In a video posted Monday, she's seen swiping through a new feed after setting her Tinder location to the Olympic Village in Japan.
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High school custodian says he was planning mass shooting in Oregon with stockpiled weapons, police say
A high school custodian who confessed he was planning a mass shooting in southern Oregon has been arrested and charged with multiple crimes, police said Thursday. Kristopher Clay, 24, allegedly walked into the lobby of the Medford Police Department on July 20 and told an officer he was “having homicidal thoughts with plans to carry them out,” MPD said in a statement. Clay was transported to Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center and placed in protective custody in the behavioral health unit, police said.
U.S.The Daily BeastTexas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus
A GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID. Dickinson City Council member and State Republican Executive Committee member H. Scott Apley, 45, died in a local hospital around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help Apley's family with expenses. “He leaves behind his wife, Melissa, who is COVID positive, as well as their infant son Reid,” according to the fundraiser, which has so far raised almost $15,000 of its $30,000 goal.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderOsama bin Laden told his children 'I advise you not to work with Al Qaeda,' new book reveals
Osama bin Laden urged his children not to join Al Qaeda, according to a new book. One of bin Laden's sons, Hamza, became intricately involved with Al Qaeda and was eventually killed by the US. Bin Laden had five wives and 24 children.
HealthWashington ExaminerMissouri coroner says he omitted COVID from death certificates after family requests
A Missouri coroner reportedly omitted COVID-19 as a cause of death from multiple death certificates after family members requested the virus be struck from documentation. Brian Hayes, Macon County's coroner, claimed he altered at least six coronavirus death records where another medical complication was present, such as pneumonia, at the request of grieving family members, he told the Kansas City Star. The practice has left Macon with 19 deaths from the disease, though the total should likely be over 30, the outlet reported.
SportsNextSharkChina's youngest athlete at Tokyo Games wins gold with THREE perfect 10s in women's diving
Quan Hongchan is already an Olympic gold medalist at just 14 years old. Young champ: Hongchan, China's youngest athlete at the Tokyo Games, performed two dives that the judges scored unanimously as 10 in the women's 10-meter (32.8 feet) platform diving to win her gold medal on Thursday, ESPN reported. Quan finished with a dominating score of 466.20, while her Chinese teammate Chen Yuxi won the silver medal with 425.40 points.
U.S.Associated PressArrest in hit-and-run death of 'Gone Girl' actor Lisa Banes
An arrest was announced Friday in the hit-and-run death of “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes, who died almost two months ago. Brian Boyd, 26, was arrested Thursday and charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and failure to yield to a pedestrian, New York City police said in a news release. Banes was hit by a scooter or motorcycle in June while she was crossing a street on the way to her alma mater, the Julliard School.
U.S.Washington ExaminerAshli Babbitt family lawyer says officer killed her in 'ambush' without warning
Ashli Babbitt was the victim of an "ambush," says the Babbitt family attorney preparing a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $10 million in damages against the Capitol Police and the officer who fatally shot the woman during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. The flash of violence was caught on video showing the officer off to the side holding a gun and Babbitt making her way through broken glass-paneled doors. At the center of the debate is the question of what was shouted and heard in the moments leading up to Babbitt's death.
U.S.Business InsiderA Louisiana congresswoman whose husband died of COVID-19 is urging people to get vaccinated
Rep. Julia Letlow of Louisiana is urging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. A Republican US congresswoman from Louisiana whose husband died of COVID-19 last year is urging people to get vaccinated against the virus. Rep. Julia Letlow's husband, Luke Letlow, had just been elected to congress when he died of COVID-19 in December, before he could get a vaccine.
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White House doesn’t deny it is considering withholding funds to force vaccinations
The White House did not deny a report that the Biden administration is considering leveraging federal financial muscle to push institutions to require Americans get vaccinated. "As we always are, the administration is discussing a host of different measures we can continue to boost vaccinations across the country," a White House official told Fox News. The statement comes after the Washington Post reported Thursday that the administration is considering withholding federal funds and using federal regulatory powers in a bid to push Americans to get vaccinated.
“If nothing else, Tokyo 2020 may end up being remembered as the wake-up call everyone needed.”
“Cancel the Olympics—for good.”
“Olympians haven’t really changed. These athletes still showcase extraordinary human achievement from around the world.”
“Delivering more excellence and less sideshow will probably require giving athletes a bigger voice in how the Olympics are run.”
“The Olympics were conceived in 1896 as a sporting event, and they’ve become a construction event.”