
The sanitation worker who found the body of Houston influencer Alexis Sharkey said he can't stop thinking about the moment he discovered the deceased 26-year-old in Houston. "It's been playing back in my head every day," John Richardso of the City of Houston Solid Waste told local outlet KHOU. Sharkey, a budding Instagram influencer, was found dead the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

An Australian man swam to shore and walked 300 metres to get help after suffering “extraordinary” injuries in a shark attack, in a story of survival paramedics have described as “remarkable”. The 29-year-old man was badly bitten by the shark while surfing in D'Estrees Bay off Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Paramedic Michael Rushby said that the surfer had “serious” lacerations on his back, backside and leg “consistent with quite a large shark bite”.

Nine months into the coronavirus pandemic and people are still throwing tantrums about wearing masks in public places. Last Thursday, a passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cincinnati to Tampa had such a tantrum, Fox News first reported. Videos taken by a friend of Fox producer Griffin Frank shows a little of the action.

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Mellissa Carone, a witness in the Trump campaign's election fraud lawsuit in Michigan, was recently on probation for harassing her fiance's ex-wife, it emerged on Saturday. Over two years, Carone harassed the woman and sent her tapes of herself having sex with the boyfriend. Carone told the Huffington Post that it was her fiance who had really sent the sex tapes, and she agreed to a plea deal to avoid further court appearances.

Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace interrupted Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar mid-interview on Sunday to remind the Trump Cabinet official that Joe Biden is in fact the president-elect, and should no longer be referred to by his previous title of “vice president.” Mr Azar was downplaying the significance of Mr Biden announcing he will publicly advocate for all Americans to wear masks in the early days of his presidency, saying the Trump administration has been promoting mask-wearing for months to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. “We welcome Vice President Biden to the club,” Mr Azar said .

The body of a Texas man was found after what authorities believe was a deadly mountain lion attack. Christopher Allen Whiteley, 28, was reported missing on Thursday after last being seen early Wednesday morning in Lipan, Texas, the Hood County Sheriff's Office said Saturday. Whiteley's body was found in a nearby wooded area after a search.

To the editor: As the COVID-19 pandemic surges to a climax that dominates the remaining weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump's behavior has become increasingly egregious as he perpetuates a leadership vacuum with a country that is essentially on a war footing. President Trump might have been able to salvage his reputation by ending his term with a show of leadership and interest with regard to vaccines. Instead, Trump has been completely disconnected from the reality of an out-of-control pandemic and is consumed with the futility of overturning the election, ensuring that as Jan. 20 approaches, his scarred legacy becomes increasingly more embedded.
Video shared online shows police moving in on the protesters and hitting them with batons. One protester was reportedly arrested. Protesters say they are opposed to Garcetti, who co-chaired Biden's campaign, based on his handling of issues such as homelessness and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Japanese navy attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor 79 years ago, bringing the US into World War II with a devastating blow. Now it's possible to compare Pearl Harbor's present-day idyllic settings with the scenes on that "day of infamy" eight decades years ago. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

A California man punched a 350-pound bear in the face after it began attacking his dog Buddy. Kaleb Benham rescued his pitbull from the bear attack outside their home in Grass Valley, California the day before Thanksgiving. "I just ran down there, plowed into the bear, tackled it and grabbed it by the throat and started hitting it in the face and the eye until it let go," he told CBS Sacramento.

Seventeen years ago, a Waste Management employee was emptying trash bins in Cook County's Stickney Township when she found a pair of newborn twins. The infants were dead, and their umbilical cords were still attached, according to Chicago Tribune reporting at the time. On Saturday, however, the Cook County Sheriff's Office announced a breakthrough: They'd charged the infants' mother, Antoinette Briley, with two counts of first-degree murder.

States that haven't yet certified their votes for president or that face legal challenges are rushing to resolve any remaining disputes by Tuesday, known as safe harbor day. Under federal law, Congress must count the electoral votes from states that act by Dec. 8 to choose their presidential electors — the people who meet next week in each state to cast the actual votes for president — and to resolve any remaining legal disputes over the choice. Under the law, Congress must count the electoral votes from states that chose their electors and resolve any legal disputes over the choice by the act's deadline, which is six days before the electors meet to vote.

It's been a month since major news organizations projected President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, but 83% of Republicans don't believe the reporting, according to a new Gallup poll. The poll said 99% of Democrats, 64% of independents, and 17% of Republicans characterized the news reports as "accurate." The vast majority of Republicans — 89% — did not believe the electoral process worked well, while 92% of Democrats said it did.

A surfer was attacked by a shark on Sunday off the coast of Seaside, Oregon, authorities said. The Seaside Fire Department said a fire and rescue team and local Medix ambulance crew was called to Seaside Cove at approximately 3:30 p.m. When rescue members arrived at the scene, an off-duty lifeguard at Seaside Beach applied a field tourniquet to his leg to prevent blood loss, according to the department.

Rudy Giuliani described a Michigan court ruling about a local marijuana measure as a "big win" for President Donald Trump's campaign. A judge in Antrim County on Friday ordered that ballots be preserved from 22 tabulation machines after a voter argued that damaged ballots might've caused a village marijuana proposal to win by a single vote, the Detroit Free Press reported. "BIG WIN FOR HONEST ELECTIONS.

According to a statement, the crew of a Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau helicopter spotted the first monolith on November 18 in southeastern Utah while helping the Department of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep. The crew spotted the object and landed to investigate, the statement says. Crew members found the nearly 12-foot-tall monolith "installed in the ground in a remote area of red rock" with no clear indication of its origin.

Estonia-based Ööd has unveiled a $19,900 office in a box that will soon be available for purchase on Amazon. The office comes in two sizes, with the larger one including a kitchenette and bathroom. Ööd has unveiled a $19,900 backyard office in a box that will soon be available for purchase on Amazon.

When she heard a knock on the door, Colin Monahan figured it had to be about the new garage. Monahan and her wife, Shannon Lastowski Monahan, had just finished dinner. Colin had just finished installing a new, prefabricated garage on their property, painted in a shade of brown to complement the waving grasses of the surrounding valley.

USA TODAY's coverage of the 2020 election and President-elect Joe Biden's transition continues this week as he rolls out more of his picks for top jobs in his administration and the final states certify their vote counts before the Electoral College ballots are officially cast on Dec. 14. President Donald Trump has cleared the way for Biden's team to use federal resources and get briefings during the transition, although Trump has yet to formally concede the race. Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and President Donald Trump's personal attorney, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Israel's latest actions against Iran have left regime hardliners furious and demanding revenge on Israeli or Jewish sites around the world. In the past year alone, the US and Israel have killed Iran's top military commander, top ally in Iraq, and — most recently — top nuclear scientist. European and Israeli security officials are now preparing for an imminent attack by Iran on their people and agencies, with Israel sending notes of warning to citizens abroad, and European officials heightening surveillance on Jewish sites.

Shirley Williams, the mother of Wendy Williams, has passed away, the TV host confirmed on her talk show on Monday. “My mom passed away many, many, many, many weeks ago,” Williams told her millions of viewers. Mrs. Williams regularly appeared on The Wendy Williams Show throughout its 12 years on-air.

President Donald Trump will reportedly fall far shorter than the “several hundred million” doses of Covid-19 vaccines he suggested would be made available to the American public before the New Year from the White House. In a seemingly premature celebratory event in the Rose Garden in May, the administration touted its Operation Warp Speed, created in response to the pandemic as part of an effort to ramp up vaccine production and build a pathway to immediate nationwide distribution. In that event, the leader of the initiative, pharmaceutical executive Moncef Slaoui, spoke alongside the president and said he had “very recently seen early data from a clinical trial with a coronavirus vaccine, and these data made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020.”

Gordon Caplan, a prominent New York attorney, was sentenced Thursday in Boston federal court to one month in prison for paying $75,000 to have someone correct answers on his daughter's ACT test to inflate her score. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani also sentenced him to one year of supervision upon release, a $50,000 fine and 250 hours of community service. Caplan, a corporate attorney and former partner at one of the world's largest international law firms, is the fourth parent sentenced in the nation's college admissions scandal.

New York Giants head coach Joe Judge changed the team's travel schedule, which had been in place since 2004. The Giants now fly out to road games on Saturday afternoon and stay overnight on Sunday before flying home on Monday afternoon. Judge said the plan avoids jet lag and promotes sleep and that players like the new schedule.


“The prospect of a 2024 run is politically significant. It’s also a complete fiction.”
“His flirtation with a 2024 bid ensures he’ll remain the dominant force in the Republican Party.”
“He shouldn’t run for president again. There’s a better job and life for him on the horizon.”
“Trump is in for years of scandals and humiliations…He’ll have to devote much of his energy to trying to stay out of prison.”
“If Trump himself passes on the opportunity, his two very political children could also potentially pick up the mantle.”