U.S.In The Know by Yahoo‘Drama queen’ chihuahua has ‘love-hate’ relationship with winter booties
This tiny chihuahua went on an emotional rollercoaster when he put his booties on. Thomas Wilde wanted to keep his chihuahua Vern's paws safe from the snowy streets. “It's a love-hate kind of feeling toward the booties,” Wilde wrote in the caption.
U.S.INSIDERCar of a missing college student and skeletal remains found in an unsolved 4-decade-old case
The car of a missing college student and remains have been found in an unsolved case in Georgia. Kyle Clinkscales, 22, went missing in January 1976, and his car was missing until this week. Police also found a wallet and skeletal remains during the investigation.
WorldBusiness InsiderUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson facing calls to resign after a leaked video showed Downing Street staff joking about having a Christmas party while the country was under strict COVID rules
UK PM Boris Johnson is facing calls to resign over a leaked video of his staff joking about a Christmas party. Senior SNP MP Ian Blackford said Johnson "can no longer lead" on the UK's pandemic response. Johnson has apologized for the leaked video, which dates from December 2020.
TechnologyIn The Know by YahooWoman uncovers alleged stalking tactic increasing in popularity: ‘Seems it’s happening to a lot of people’
Then, @angel.edge95 stated that locating the tracking device may not be possible because there was a chance that law enforcement or Apple Support wouldn't be able to assist without the device's serial number. After, she received a second “unknown accessory” message. In the comments of her video, @angel.edge95 said she's working with law enforcement to resolve the problem and noted that they didn't want her to share an update just yet.
U.S.The Daily BeastGhislaine Maxwell and the Ecstasy of the Feet
When the feds raided Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion in 2019, they unearthed a trove of evidence including binders of CDs containing tens of thousands of photographs. The exhibits contain several snapshots showing Maxwell giving Epstein a foot rub, seemingly on his private jet. The cheery pictures are at odds with the disturbing accusations against them: that for years, Epstein molested and raped scores of teenage girls after paying them for “massages,” and Maxwell allegedly played the role of scheduler and recruiter.
U.S.Fox NewsChicago Police release plan for weekend, consider closing off downtown: report
Chicago's police department is reportedly telling its commanders to familiarize themselves with a plan to shut down the city's central business district ahead of potential unrest this weekend. The drastic measure -- mentioned in a new internal memo circulating amongst staff -- is just an option on the table at this point, according to WLS. Last weekend, violence plagued Chicago's Loop neighborhood and officers have been ordered this week to cancel upcoming days off "to address current crime patterns."
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Mandatory food recycling to begin in California
Starting in January, banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't be allowed in most California trash bins under a mandatory food recycling program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfills. Dec.
U.S.MarketWatch‘The days you were considered fully vaccinated with two shots are going to be a thing of the past’
With employer vaccination requirements already widespread, workplace experts say it's possible some companies will convert their full vaccination requirement, now two shots, into a three-shot requirement as the omicron variant emerges. Pfizer and BioNTech said three of its vaccine doses can “neutralize” the omicron variant, while two doses may not be enough to prevent infection, according to very early-stage results released Wednesday. “I think the days — at least for Pfizer and Moderna — the days you were considered fully vaccinated with two shots are going to be a thing of the past,” said Christopher Feudo, a partner at the Boston-based law firm Foley Hoag representing management in employment law matters.
U.S.Business InsiderA Capitol riot suspect and his wife were found hiding from the FBI with their kids in an unheated trailer in the Nevada wilderness, report says
Josiah Kenyon is charged with assaulting an officer at the Capitol riot. Deputies found Kenyon and his family hiding in the Nevada mountains on December 1, KOLO reported. Kenyon wore a costume at the Capitol and attacked officers with a table leg, the FBI said.
BusinessAssociated PressPublix heiress known for philanthropy dies in Florida at 65
The billionaire daughter of the Publix Super Markets founder has died after having early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, the company announced Wednesday. Carol Jenkins Barnett was 65. Barnett died Tuesday night at her home in Lakeland, Florida, Publix said in a news release.
U.S.TheGrioBlack family to sue American Airlines after being kicked off plane in Charlotte, N.C.
Allan Ali and his newborn-holding partner, Kamia Hoilett, had a negative interaction with a flight attendant Sunday on Philly-bound plane. A Black family traveling with a newborn baby was kicked off an American Airlines flight on Sunday as they headed home to Philadelphia from Charlotte, North Carolina. As seen in a now-viral video, Allan Ali and his partner, Kamia Hoilett, were asked to leave a Sunday afternoon flight before departure after a brief, negative interaction with a white male passenger and a white female flight attendant.
U.S.Kansas City StarDad and son were fishing when they found ‘unique’ elk antler, Missouri officials say
A dad and his son were fishing in Missouri when they discovered a rare elk antler, wildlife officials say. The Missouri Department of Conservation says the “unique” elk antler was attached to the animal's skull plate, as seen in a photo shared on Facebook. In Missouri, “any person who finds and takes into possession a dead elk with antlers still attached to the skull plate must report it to a conservation agent within twenty-four (24) hours to receive possession authorization.”
U.S.Associated PressExpelled Coast Guard cadet sues over policy banning parents
A former cadet who was expelled from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy after becoming a father filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the school's policy that prohibits students from being parents. Isaak Olson was two months from graduating from the academy in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering and a commission as an officer when he disclosed that his fiancee had given birth to their first child several months earlier, according the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut. The academy expelled Olson under a regulation that requires cadets to either resign or be “disenrolled” if they incur a “parental obligation” from a pregnancy over 14 weeks, according to the lawsuit.
U.S.INSIDERRescuers pulled a woman from the waters of Niagara Falls after a car became submerged feet away from the edge
A woman has died after a Coast Guard rescuer pulled her from a car near the edge of Niagara Falls. A woman was pulled from a car that became submerged only about 100 feet away from the edge of Niagara Falls on Wednesday afternoon, according to local news reports. A Coast Guard rescuer was lowered from a helicopter to grab the unidentified woman from the car, which was submerged near the top of the falls with its trunk open, The Buffalo News reported.
WorldThe Weather NetworkPowerful system to deliver heavy snow, howling winds to parts of the East Coast
A deepening low-pressure system is set to pass south of the Atlantic provinces through Thursday, with its effects having begun Wednesday night. Hefty snowfall amounts are expected in Nova Scotia and much of Newfoundland, and as the system departs it will bring some very strong winds, nearing the 100 km/h mark for St. John's by Thursday evening. A deepening low-pressure system brought its first flakes to Nova Scotia Wednesday night as it began passing south of the Maritimes, accompanied by slowly rising winds.
U.S.In The Know by YahooWoman reaches breaking point over her roommate’s ‘ridiculous’ new household rule: ‘She’s being absolutely unreasonable’
The roommate has to wake up at 5 a.m. for three months due to her schedule. Because of this, she banned her housemates from using the kitchen after 6:30 p.m.
BusinessUSA TODAYSouthwest Airlines to introduce new fare category with perks customers will 'happily pay' for
The fares will appear in a fourth column alongside Southwest's current Wanna Get Away, Anytime and Business Select offerings. Details are still under wraps, but Southwest Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Watterson said it will be above the airline's lowest priced Wanna Get Away category and offer enhanced attributes "customers will happily pay a little bit more" for. He stressed that the new product will not take anything away from other fares but offer something more.
HealthTODAY6 states account for more than half of the country’s recent COVID-19 hospitalizations
While much of the world is focused on the new omicron variant, first identified in South Africa, delta is still a threat, as “over 99 percent of sequenced cases in the United States continue to be from” that strain, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday at a White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing. Hospitalizations in Michigan, which has the highest share of new hospitalizations when adjusted for population, are up 70 percent since Nov. 10. In the neighboring states of Indiana and Illinois, hospitalizations have almost doubled.
PoliticsReutersGeorgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards
Protesters filled the meeting room of the Spalding County Board of Elections in October, upset that the board had disallowed early voting on Sundays for the Nov. 2 municipal election. A year ago, Sunday voting had been instrumental in boosting turnout of Black voters. Now a faction of three white Republicans controlled the board – thanks to a bill passed by the Republican-led Georgia legislature earlier this year.
U.S.INSIDERBody camera footage played in court shows Kim Potter collapsing after fatally shooting Daunte Wright: 'I'm going to prison'
Body-worn camera footage captured Kim Potter's response after she shot Daunte Wright in April. Body-worn camera footage played in court during the first day of the Kimberly Potter trial shows the former Brooklyn Center officer collapsing on the ground after fatally shooting 20-year-old Daunte Wright in April 2020. Opening statements took place Wednesday in the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, where Potter, who is white, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter for the shooting of Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year.
U.S.Rolling StoneA ‘Chilling Factor’ for Victims: Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyer Drops Anonymous Accusers’ Real Names in Court
Last week in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, defense attorney Jeff Pagliuca made a show of remembering to respect an alleged victim's request for anonymity. Judge Alison Nathan broke in with a reminder to not say Jane's real name out loud. Pagliuca told the judge not to worry.
U.S.Associated PressScott Peterson resentenced to life term in wife's 2002 death
Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson was resentenced to life without parole Wednesday during an emotional hearing in which family members of his slain pregnant wife, Laci, called him out for the Christmas Eve killing in 2002 and his apparent lack of remorse. Scott, 19 years ago today, you were in the midst of planning Laci's murder,” said her mother, Sharon Rocha, addressing Peterson directly as he sat expressionless, handcuffed in a red and orange jail uniform. I still feel the grief every day, after 19 years,” she said.
U.S.NBC NewsScuba diving YouTuber discovers submerged car of Tennessee teens who disappeared 21 years ago
A scuba diving YouTuber may have cracked the cold case of two Tennessee teens who disappeared 21 years ago after discovering the car they were last seen in at the bottom of a local river. Erin Foster, 18, and Jeremy Bechtel, 17, vanished on April 3, 2000, after leaving Foster's home, according to the White County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Steve Page said in a news release members of Foster's family alerted him on Nov. 28 about YouTuber Jeremy Beau Sides, who uses sonar technology and scuba dives to try to solve missing persons cases on his channel Exploring With Nug.
U.S.Atlanta Black Star‘We Just Want to Know What Your Job Is’: Son Charged with Assault After Mom Calls Police on Black Worker In Tennessee Parking Garage
A white man has been charged with assault and he and his mother are accused of racially profiling after an interaction lead to an altercation with a Black man who was working at a Tennessee parking garage. Johnny Martinez, who identified himself as Black in the video he recorded of the encounter, was checking cars for parking permits in the River House apartment building's parking garage in Nashville for a booting company on the evening of Nov. 27, when he noticed Edward Brennan and his mother, Bitsy Brennan, keeping a closer-than-normal eye on him. Martinez exchanges more words with Bitsy, who notes that “this is a secure building,” and when he asks how she thinks he got in, he turns and Brennan can be seen trying to grab for Martinez's phone as his mother yells for him to stop.
WorldAssociated PressGermany warns Russia will pay a price if it enters Ukraine
Germany's foreign minister warned Russia on Thursday that it would pay a “high political and economic price” if it makes any militaristic moves against neighboring Ukraine. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock emphasized the need to coordinate a common European position when dealing with hostile neighbors such as Russia, which has amassed troops near the border with Ukraine. The territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine aren't up for negotiation for us,” Baerbock said in Paris while making her first foreign trip, a day after taking office.
“I know it doesn’t feel like it, but inflation is both a feature and a bug of a normalizing economy.”
“What is not going to work, and hasn’t worked, is trying to talk people out of the lived reality of higher prices.”
“When inflation expectations rise, actual inflation tends to follow.”
“The Fed must acknowledge that its monetary policy has been a source of inflation, and that it will need to raise interest rates.”
“The supply chain logjams are the core of the problem right now, and that should work itself out over time.”