ScienceReutersOne of world's last two northern white rhinos dropped from race to save the species
One of the world's last two northern white rhinos, a mother and her daughter, is being retired from a breeding programme aimed at saving the species from extinction, scientists said on Thursday. There are no known living males and neither of the two remaining northern white rhinos can carry a calf to term. Northern white rhinos, which are actually grey, used to roam freely in several countries in east and central Africa, but their numbers fell sharply due to widespread poaching for their horns.
U.S.The WrapHere’s How a Prop Gun Using Blanks Can Still Fire a Fatal Shot
And while it's true that those are also prop guns, the term also applies to real guns that are used as props. The reason a production would use a real gun is simple: Verisimilitude. As firearms instructor Dave Brown wrote for American Cinematographer magazine in 2019, real firearms add authenticity to close-up shots in particular.
U.S.Atlanta Black StarA 4-foot-8 Black Woman Was Accosted By Group of Boys, Minutes Later a Louisiana Deputy Was Flinging Her By Her Hair In Shocking Video; Investigation Launched
An investigation has been launched in a New Orleans suburb after a video captured a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputy flinging a 4-foot-8 Black woman just minutes after she had been attacked by a group of boys. It's unclear who captured the graphic footage, but in a clip that has since gone viral, the unidentified deputy could be seen grabbing Shantel Arnold by the wrist and dragging her along the pavement. At times, the deputy could be seen lifting Arnold up and slamming the 100-pound woman to the ground repeatedly.
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Coast Guard rookie has a stormy start to his career, saving the crew of a sinking sailboat
A U.S. Coast Guard team stages a daring rescue of six crew members from a sinking sailboat off the California coast.
U.S.TODAYAlec Baldwin seen in photos after fatal shooting incident on movie set
Alec Baldwin appeared distraught in two photographs taken after a deadly incident on the set of his movie “Rust” in New Mexico on Thursday. The actor, 63, fired a prop weapon that killed the movie's director of photography and injured the director, according to a press release issued Thursday by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office. A spokesperson for Baldwin said the incident was an “accident” involving the “misfire of a prop gun with blanks.”
U.S.USA TODAYViral video shows man who served in the Marine Corps shutting down an armed robbery
A video of a man who served in the U.S. Marine Corps shutting down a would-be armed robbery went viral this week. According to a press release from the Yuma County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a report of an armed robbery at a Chevron in the city of Yuma, Arizona, on Wednesday. When they arrived, deputies were told that multiple suspects entered the store, and one was armed with a handgun.
U.S.Associated PressPlane that crashed in Houston had not flown in 10 months
A private jet that ran off a runway and crashed through an fence before bursting into flames at a Texas airport had not been flown since December and investigators are looking into maintenance performed on the plane, federal authorities said Thursday. National Transportation Safety Board member Michael Graham said the plane left 1,200 feet (365 meters) of tire marks on the runway at Houston Executive Airport in Brookshire, Texas, on Tuesday. There was a heavy braking event, which appears to be an aborted takeoff, so we do know that the brakes were effectively working before the aircraft exited the runway,” Graham said at a briefing.
WorldHuffPostElephant Makes Rare Fatal Attack To Protect Her Baby
Nadav Ossendryver, founder of Latest Sightings, which posted the footage, told HuffPost that in his 10 years of sharing wildlife moments, he had never seen an elephant pounce on a croc. Elephants can lift up to 770 pounds with their trunks, according to FactAnimal.com, so the croc proved to be no problem. The tons of crushing pressure from the elephant “resulted in the inevitable death” of the crocodile, Latest Sightings wrote in the video description.
U.S.The Daily Beast‘Delinquent’ Matt Gaetz Currently Blocked from Practicing Law
This is one bar tab Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) may regret not paying. Faced with an onslaught of accusations that he engaged in underage sex trafficking—and bracing for criminal charges—Gaetz has allowed his license to practice law in his home state of Florida to lapse. As of Wednesday, Gaetz had not paid the fees he owes to The Florida Bar, which regulates lawyers there, prompting the organization to deem him “delinquent” and “not eligible to practice law in Florida.”
BusinessReutersTrump deal delivers $420 million windfall for dealmaker
(Reuters) -A merger with former U.S. President Donald Trump's new social media venture has delivered a potential windfall of $420 million for a former finance executive who has been trying for a decade to reinvent himself as a serial dealmaker. Benessere Capital CEO Patrick Orlando's stake in Digital World Acquisition Corp, the Miami-based blank-check acquisition firm he is leading, was worth $423 million on Thursday after his deal to merge with Trump Media and Technology Group was announced, according to a regulatory filing and Reuters calculations. Orlando invested only $3 million in Digital World, and is set to receive the windfall because the deal entitles him to additional compensation in shares as sponsor of the firm, the filing shows.
WorldBusiness InsiderThe White House had to row back Biden's comments after he suggested the US would defend Taiwan from an attack by China
Biden told a CNN town hall on Thursday the US would defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack. The White House later clarified that the US policy of "strategic ambiguity" had not changed. China's recent military activity has raised fears it will try to seize the island, which it considers its own.
WorldThe TelegraphI know what can happen to a woman after she’s spiked on a night out
Rape myths permeated my brain, telling me maybe no one would believe me, or they'd blame me. Pointing a finger at the victim for what happened, expressing disbelief and believing that only certain “types” of women are targeted, all uphold rape myths.
U.S.Associated PressForecasters predict warmer winter for two-thirds of US
Expect a drier, warmer winter down south and a wetter winter up north, U.S. government forecasters said Thursday. The National Weather Service predicted two-thirds of the U.S. will see above average temperatures from December through February, while the Pacific Northwest and southern Alaska will likely get colder than usual. The Midwest, Northwestern states and Hawaii should expect above normal precipitation while the South will have less.
U.S.USA TODAYA 'monster' coming this weekend: Bomb cyclone, atmospheric river to blast western US
A series of potent storms is poised to deliver torrents of rain and feet of snow across the West over the next few days, including one on Sunday that's being called a "bomb cyclone" because of its ferocity. Supercharged by a classic atmospheric river pattern, the storms could lead to flash floods and dangerous debris flows in a wide swath of the region already devastated by wildfires, CNN said. California has been hit especially hard by the drought.
PoliticsAtlanta Black Star‘Sunny Is Just As Smart’: Condoleezza Rice’s ‘Brazenly Condescending’ Back and Forth with ‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Called Out by Viewers
Sunny Hostin and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have different views regarding the Capitol riots that took place on Jan. 6. On Wednesday, Oct. 20, during an appearance on the daytime television talk show, Rice, while referencing Mitch McConnell's recent statements regarding the attacks, suggested that Americans have moved on from the incident and are more focused on “kitchen table issues — the price of gasoline, inflation, what's happening to their kids in school.” “Our institutions have to be upheld,” but before Hostin could utter another word, Rice added, “Let me finish, Sunny.”
U.S.Associated PressRestaurateur whose business was raided by sheriff gets $5M
Maricopa County officials approved a settlement Wednesday with a restaurant owner in metro Phoenix who claimed in a lawsuit that then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office had defamed him and violated his rights about seven years ago when investigating whether employees at his restaurants used fraudulent IDs to get jobs. The $5 million settlement with Uncle Sam's owner Bret Frimmel came weeks after officials signed off on a separate $400,000 settlement to resolve similar claims brought by Uncle Sam's manager Lisa Norton. Frimmel and Norton were arrested by Arpaio's office in January 2014 on employment-related identity theft charges that were dismissed after a judge ruled one of Arpaio's detective recklessly disregarded the truth in affidavits used to get search warrants and ultimately found that there was no probable cause to back up the warrants.
PoliticsHuffPostMatt Gaetz Gives Himself, Lauren Boebert And Marjorie Taylor Greene A Nickname
Matt Gaetz (R-Fla. shared a nickname for himself and two other Donald Trump-adoring extremists on Thursday, appearing to band them together as a right-wing alternative to the group of progressive House lawmakers known as “The Squad. The Pro-America Squad,” Gaetz wrote on Twitter about this photo of himself, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.
PoliticsBusiness Insider'I've lost my joy': Anti-vax Republican, who worked for the Trump campaign and embraced QAnon, says she has COVID-19
She has suggested COVID-19 vaccines are part of a satanic plot. A Delaware Republican who said coronavirus vaccines were part of a satanic plan to cause "mass death" is recovering from COVID-19, she announced Thursday, saying the illness had caused her to lose "all of my senses." Lauren Witzke, a self-styled "Christian nationalist" who embraced QAnon and support from white supremacists, was the Delaware GOP's candidate for Senate in 2020, receiving 186,000 votes in her failed run against Democratic incumbent Sen. Chris Coons.
PoliticsAssociated PressLas Vegas man charged with voting twice in November 2020
A Las Vegas businessman is facing criminal charges of voting twice in the November 2020 election, including with his dead wife's ballot, Nevada state Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Thursday. Donald “Kirk” Hartle, 55, faces two felony charges in a criminal complaint filed Oct. 6 and made public Thursday, three days after Hartle's initial appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court, according to court records. He is due again in court Nov. 18.
U.S.The Daily BeastIndiana Cops Find People Chained Up in ‘Gruesome’ House of Horrors
A 36-year-old Indiana woman is behind bars after police discovered two people tied up and shackled in her home—one of them “deceased and beyond help.” The woman, identified by Evansville authorities as Heidi Carter, faces a string of charges in connection with the Tuesday night incident, which police say took even them by surprise. It all began after a woman flagged down an Indiana state trooper late Tuesday night, saying she'd stopped by Carter's home only to find “a dead body” inside, Evansville Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Gray told reporters late Wednesday.
U.S.Southern LivingLow Mississippi River Levels Reveal Sunken WWII Ship in St. Louis
The Mississippi River water level was low enough to expose a decaying piece of naval history in St. Louis this week. The USS Inaugural, a minesweeper used in WWII, was a National Historic Landmark before it broke free of its moorings during historic flooding in August 1993. When, according to the National Park Service (NPS), "the ship suffered a breach in its hull, took on water, and rolled on its side."
BusinessReutersGM expedites shipment of pickup trucks parked due to lack of chips-exec
General Motors Co is more than halfway through shipping newly-assembled pickups that it had parked due to a shortage of semiconductor chips, a top executive at the No. 1 U.S. automaker said on Friday. The global chip shortage has forced automakers like GM to idle production or in some cases mostly build vehicles and then park them until the necessary chips can be installed, allowing those vehicles to be then shipped to dealers. Last month, GM Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson cautioned that GM's third-quarter wholesale deliveries could be down by 200,000 vehicles because of chip shortages.
U.S.HuffPostStephen Colbert Bestows Steve Bannon With A Horrifying Description You'll Never Forget
Stephen Colbert's audience cheered over the news that a House committee had voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon, a former aide to Donald Trump and a recipient of a last-minute pardon from his old boss, refused to comply with a subpoena from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “It's possible that my prayers are about to be answered,” Colbert said as he described how that means Bannon could face criminal contempt charges.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderMarjorie Taylor Greene got into a screaming match with Rep. Cheney over 'Jewish space lasers' comment
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Liz Cheney argued about Greene's "Jewish space laser" Facebook post. Rep. Raskin said that Greene shouted at Cheney during a House vote to hold Steve Bannon in contempt. The final vote was 229-202, and nine Republicans broke ranks to vote with Democrats.
TechnologyYahoo Finance SingaporeWhich smartphones do tech billionaires use? iPhone, Android or some other?
The iPhone device he uses is said to be outdated (iPhone 5S until recently), and he uses it only to stay abreast of the difference using an iPhone can make as compared to an Android device. Jeff Bezos The Amazon owner and founder used a Blackberry phone back in 2012 and was last seen using a Samsung handset, before he launched Amazon's Fire Phone. Which phone he is presently using is a mystery.
“Like tobacco, Facebook is a dangerous product one uses at one’s own risk.”
“A key reason why this latest scandal feels more significant is that politicians on both sides of the aisle feel deceived.”
“These are clearly problems of scale, which Facebook has had many years to deal with and has been fundamentally unable to.”
“We need to recognize the danger we’re in. We need to shake the notion that Facebook is a normal company.”
“Facebook is in trouble … It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it.”