'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.

Ted Cruz told the millions of Americans who lost their unemployment benefits on Labor Day to 'um, get a job?'

Cruz tweeted "Um, get a job?" in response to news that federal unemployment benefits had expired. Cruz's tweet shared an article with the headline "Jobless Americans have few options as benefits expire." Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reacted to news that millions of Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Labor Day by telling those who are out of work to "get a job."

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  Unemployment benefits expire for 7.5 million people

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China 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.

Man 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.

AOC 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."

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  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemns Gov. Abbott’s 'disgusting' rape and abortion comments

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  Texas Gov. Abbott signs new GOP voting restrictions into law

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Former 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.

A 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.

Rep. 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."

Law 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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  High-profile lawyer steals money from firm, company says

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  Lawyer shot in head after his wife and son were murdered says he is quitting job and going into rehab

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Women 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.

Watch: 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.

Kuwait 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.

Man 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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  A man is facing criminal charges after a Tesla's onboard camera captured him apparently pretending to get hit by the car

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World 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.

Texas 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.

Rare 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).

US 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.

Newsom'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.

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Leo 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.

Texas 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.

‘He went downhill so fast.’ Dad who lost 15-year-old KY student to COVID warns others

Justin Cline, 15, died from COVID-19 on Sunday after testing positive on Aug. 9, according to his father, George Cline. The teenager loved to dance to Johnny Cash, go swimming, and spend time with his loved ones. “To sit there and watch it is the most difficult thing I've ever went through,” said Doyle Manley, a longtime friend of Cline's family who, along with his wife, helped take care of Justin.

Rep. Jim Jordan Gets Jabbed On Twitter After Screwing Up Basic U.S. History

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) received a history lesson on Twitter on Monday after making an incorrect claim about vaccines in the United States. As PoliticFact previously noted, Gen. George Washington ordered his troops to be inoculated against smallpox in 1777 via a precursor to vaccination called variolation. Healthline reported last month that school vaccine mandates have existed in the United States since the 1850s when the first one was enacted in Massachusetts to stop the spread of smallpox.

China chases 'rejuvenation' with control of tycoons, society

An avalanche of changes launched by China's ruling Communist Party has jolted everyone from tech billionaires to school kids. The party has spent the decade since then silencing dissent and tightening political control. Now, after 40 years of growth that transformed China into the world's factory but left a gulf between a wealthy elite and the poor majority, the party is promising to spread prosperity more evenly and is pressing private companies to pay for social welfare and back Beijing's ambition to become a global technology competitor.