PoliticsAssociated PressFormer Justice Dept. lawyer cuts Jan. 6 deposition short
A former assistant attorney general who aligned himself with former President Donald Trump after he lost the 2020 election has declined to be fully interviewed by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, ending a deposition after around 90 minutes Friday. Jeffrey Clark, who championed Trump's efforts to overturn the election, presented the committee with a letter saying he would not answer questions based on Trump's assertions of executive privilege, including in an ongoing court case, according to a person familiar with the closed-door meeting who was granted anonymity to discuss it. Clark left the interview with his lawyer, who told reporters that they were heading "home.”
U.S.MarketWatchAndrew Cuomo court date delayed after prosecutor says sexual-harassment charge is ‘potentially defective’
Soares, who has said he was caught off guard by the filing, said in a letter to Judge Holly Trexler on Thursday that his office had been investigating the matter for several months. See also: As Andrew Cuomo exits, a step-by-step guide to getting help if you're sexually harassed at work “We were in the middle of that investigation when the Sheriff unilaterally and inexplicably filed a compliant in this court,” Soares wrote in the letter. Unfortunately, the filings in this matter are potentially defective in that the police-officer-complainant failed to include a sworn statement by the victim such that the People could proceed with a prosecution on these papers.
WorldHuffPostLeopard Cub Runs For Its Life From Hyena And A Tall Savior Emerges
When a leopard cub got chased by a hungry hyena in South Africa's Kruger National Park, it looked like curtains. The cub was left alone by its mother in a bush at South Africa's Kruger National Park and got sniffed out by the hyena, which sprinted at its desperate prey in a video posted by Latest Sightings on Tuesday. The videographer, Moosa Varachia, told Latest Sightings that when he first saw the “clan of hyena” approaching, “I knew that this situation may not end well for the leopard cub.”
U.S.Associated PressLas Vegas police arrest man sought in deadly store gunfire
Police in Las Vegas said they arrested a man sought after opening fire as he entered a convenience store early Thursday, killing one person in a vehicle outside and targeting at least one person inside. Lt. Ray Spencer told reporters about 5 p.m. the man surrendered after a standoff with officers. Authorities acted on a tip about his location and surrounded a home a little after noon in a residential neighborhood not far from the store southwest of the Las Vegas Strip, Spencer said.
HealthINSIDERAaron Rodgers says he's taken ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine since testing positive for COVID-19
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he has taken ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat symptoms of COVID-19 since testing positive for the virus earlier this week.
U.S.The Daily BeastRuggs’ Corvette Seen Flying Down Street Moments Before Fiery Fatal Crash
Moments before Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III's fiery fatal crash early Tuesday morning, a security guard noticed a Corvette flying by at incredible speed. Just 10 seconds later, Alex Hart, who was patrolling an apartment complex on Las Vegas' South Rainbow Boulevard, “heard a vehicle trying to stop as tires were screeching, followed by a loud collision,” the complex's owner said in a statement to 8 News Now on Friday. Hart ran down the street to find Ruggs lying on the road beside his smashed up Corvette, and a Toyota RAV4 with Tina Tintor, 23, and her 3-year-old golden retriever, Max, trapped inside.
PoliticsAssociated PressIn Richmond, Youngkin to face 'the Senate Democratic Alamo'
Republican Glenn Youngkin spent months talking to voters about his plans to roll back Democrats' “left, liberal, progressive agenda." When he takes office in January as Virginia's next governor, he'll need to talk to Senate Democrats about that. Youngkin's victory was part of a Republican sweep on election night that saw the GOP retake Virginia's two other statewide offices and likely flip control of the state House.
U.S.The IndependentBrian Laundrie - update: FBI probe slain fugitive’s texts and emails as they try to close Petito case
Key Points Carlton Reserve warns visitors of 'affected' trail conditions North Port Police department did 'phenomenal work' North Port Police operated in 'support role' when Gabby Petito investigation was launched Gabby and Brian moved to New York before their cross-country trip, police chief reveals Instagram posted claimed - without evidence - she was a former girlfriend of Brian Laundrie Brian Laundrie's parents: Who are Christopher and Roberta Laundrie? Brian Laundrie's parents may never tell their side of story, says attorney Laundrie family have yet to receive Brian's remains10:56 , Celine Wadhera Brian Laundrie's remains have not yet been returned to his family, despite having been fo...
PoliticsBusiness InsiderRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed James Carville, saying 'wokeness' is 'a term almost exclusively used by older people these days'
AOC slammed strategist James Carville for blaming "wokeness" for Terry McAuliffe's defeat. On Friday, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York - a leading progressive voice within her party and the youngest woman ever elected to Congress - slammed long-time Democratic strategist James Carville for being out of touch with the modern Democratic Party amid the debate over its election losses. "The average audience for people seriously using the word 'woke' in a 2021 political discussion are James Carville and Fox News pundits," the congresswoman wrote on Twitter.
U.S.Associated PressWitnesses: Threat, lunge for gun from 1st Rittenhouse victim
The first man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was “hyperaggressive” that night, threatened to kill Rittenhouse and someone with him, and later lunged for Rittenhouse's rifle just before the 17-year-old fired, witnesses testified Thursday. The testimony at Rittenhouse's murder trial came from two witnesses who had been called to the stand by the prosecution but gave accounts far more favorable to the defense in the politically charged case. Rittenhouse, now 18, is charged with shooting three men, two of them fatally, in the summer of 2020.
PoliticsHuffPostJimmy Kimmel Spots The Awkward Problem With Trump's Latest Desperate Email
Jimmy Kimmel spotted a strange new appeal for money from Donald Trump's PAC, which promises loyal supporters of the former president a gift of wrapping paper in exchange for a $35 donation. Of course he has wrapping paper,” Kimmel commented. His specialty is covering things up.
PoliticsPeopleWetting Her Pants & Hiding the Boss's Ugly Clothes—Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton Talk New Memoir
Cindy Ord/WireImage; Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Huma Abedin (left), Hillary Clinton "The men in the room can close their ears." That content advisory from Huma Abedin to a Thursday night audience at New York City's 92nd Street Y came as the freshly minted memoirist—her Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds was released on Nov. 2—and her boss, Hillary Clinton, dished on the book's scenes from their 25-year relationship. Like that time Abedin wet her pants in front of Clinton.
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Man attacks women after bar close in Upland on Halloween weekend, follows them home to Ontario
Police in Upland said that a man was accosting four women after bar close in Upland on Halloween weekend. One of the women reportedly got offended by his comments and hit the suspect in the face, after which point he punched all four women and ran away. Authorities said that man followed two of the women home to Ontario where he punched them both again and robbed them.
U.S.NBC News'Breaks my heart': Family of woman killed in Henry Ruggs crash mourn as grim details emerge
Loved ones of a 23-year-old Las Vegas woman have been left emotionally paralyzed since she was killed, allegedly by a drunken pro football player who slammed into the back of her car. Tina Tintor, who died Tuesday in a fiery wreck involving now-former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III, spent her final hours hanging out with her dog and a friend in a park near the victim's grandmother's home, 25-year-old brother Djordje Tintor said. The grieving sibling said his parents are devastated and struggling to hold it together in the wake of their only daughter's unexpected and violent death.
U.S.INSIDERA mom and her biracial child were stopped by police at a Denver airport because a Southwest employee suspected human trafficking
A white mom and her biracial daughter, 10, were stopped by police for suspected human trafficking at a Denver airport. The pair was reported to police as "suspicious" by a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. The mom, Mary MacCarthy, told Insider that she considers the October 22 incident to be "racist harassment."
WorldReutersSupporters of Taiwan independence will be liable for life, says China
China will make people who support "Taiwan independence" criminally liable for life, a spokeswoman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Friday, drawing anger from the island amid heightened tension across the sensitive Taiwan Strait. This was the first time that China has spelt out concretely punishment for people deemed to be pro-Taiwan independence, as tensions rise between China and the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own. China has not ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control, despite the democratic island's claim that it's an independent country and that it will defend its freedom and democracy.
U.S.The Daily BeastAnti-Vaxxer’s Racist Outburst at Council Meeting Turns Into Epic Self-Own
A discussion about coronavirus vaccines became so heated during a San Diego board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday night that one public attendee unleashed a vile, racist attack before being booted by security and ditched by a radio station he worked for. San Diego County lawmakers used the meeting to provide routine updates about new cases of COVID-19, hospitalizations, transmission rates, and how vaccination rates can stall coronavirus from spreading in the county. San Diego doesn't have an indoor vaccine mandate but many attendees used the meeting to cast doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine and question why there were even COVID-19 restrictions.
U.S.Business InsiderRealtor who flew to the Capitol riot on a private jet and said she wouldn't go to jail because of her 'blonde hair' and 'white skin' gets 60 days behind bars
Jenna Ryan was sentenced to 60 days in jail on Thursday for her role in the Capitol riot. Ryan flew on a private plane to Washington, DC, and documented the riot on social media. A Texas realtor who flew on a private jet to Washington, DC, and took part in the Capitol riot was sentenced to 60 days in jail on Thursday, after pleading guilty to a single federal misdemeanor charge of parading in the Capitol, WUSA reported.
U.S.Associated PressEXPLAINER: What came of hero testimony at Rittenhouse trial?
An effort by prosecutors at Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial to portray one of the men he shot as a hero never got off the ground Friday — and one legal expert said they were probably fortunate it didn't. Rittenhouse, 18, is on trial on several counts including homicide in the August 2020 shootings during street unrest in Kenosha. Among the dead was Anthony Huber, a 26-year-old protester who was seen on bystander video hitting Rittenhouse with a skateboard before he was fatally shot.
U.S.Milwaukee Journal SentinelWitness says he stood just 15 feet away when Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot first person
Richie McGinniss had come to Kenosha on Aug. 24, 2020, from Washington, D.C., to cover events for the news website, The Daily Caller. The next night, he interviewed Kyle Rittenhouse on camera as the teen cradled an AR-15-style rifle in front of a car shop he said he was there to protect. Fourteen minutes later, McGinniss was just 15 feet away when Rittenhouse fatally shot the first of two men.
WorldThe TelegraphFrom ‘wellness’ to shotguns: how Leonardo DiCaprio’s Belize eco-dream turned sour
When the actor-turned-eco-warrior arrived in Glasgow on Tuesday, he chose not to join world leaders centre-stage, but headed to the gritty suburb of Maryhill, meeting activists at a fringe event. In 2015, the actor announced plans to build a “ground-breaking” eco-tourism resort at Blackadore Caye, a two-mile-long island in the Caribbean off Belize. Composed of luxury villas priced at up to $15m (£11m), the resort would be the “greenest luxury development” ever, according to its New Agey eco-blurb - parts of which sound like they might be aimed at Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow or the Duchess of Sussex.
U.S.Associated PressNoem contradicts labor secretary on meeting with daughter
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem contradicted her own labor secretary Thursday about a meeting last year in her office, saying it didn't include any discussion about how her daughter could still win a real estate appraiser license after a state agency moved to deny it. The Republican governor answered questions from South Dakota reporters on the episode for the first time Thursday, more than a month after The Associated Press first reported on it. Noem's secretary of labor defended her department's actions to lawmakers last week by explaining that state regulators before the meeting had already reached an agreement to provide Noem's daughter, Kassidy Peters, with an opportunity to fix issues with her application.
U.S.Lexington Herald-LeaderKY police find missing girl after she alerts driver on I-75 with hand signal from TikTok
Police located a 16-year-old girl missing from North Carolina after a driver on Interstate 75 in Southern Kentucky noticed her in another car making a distress signal and alerted authorities. Police charged the driver who had the girl in his car, 61-year-old James Herbert Brick of Cherokee, N.C., with unlawful imprisonment and possession of material showing a sexual performance by a minor, according to a news release from Laurel Couty Sheriff John Root. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, spokesman for Root's office, said the girl and Brick were acquainted.
U.S.The Daily BeastCops Say Raiders’ Henry Ruggs Screamed at Them After Deadly Drunken Crash
Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was incoherent and combative after the high-speed DUI crash that killed a young woman—trying to pull out his IVs at the hospital and screaming at cops, according to a police report. “Get me the **** out of here,” Ruggs, 22, yelled while being treated at University Medical Center, saying the report obtained by Las Vegas TV station KLAS. Prosecutors revealed in court Wednesday that Ruggs had a blood alcohol level of .161—twice the legal limit—and was traveling at 156 miles per hour in a Corvette Stingray when he slammed into the rear of a Toyota RAV4 after partying at a swank golf venue.
ScienceReutersA father and son's Ice Age plot to slow Siberian thaw
In one of the planet's coldest places, 130 km south of Russia's Arctic coast, scientist Sergey Zimov can find no sign of permafrost as global warming permeates Siberia's soil. As everything from mammoth bones to ancient vegetation frozen inside it for millennia thaws and decomposes, it now threatens to release vast amounts of greenhouse gases. Zimov, who has studied permafrost from his scientific base in the diamond-producing Yakutia region for decades, is seeing the effects of climate change in real time.
“The U.S. is facing a world in which it may not control or even lead the world’s payment systems.”
“These currencies come with serious risks. Without additional privacy measures, central bankers shouldn’t establish them.”
“A digital dollar would give everyone, including the poor, access to a digital payment system and a portal for basic banking.”
“Even in prosperous times, [digital dollars] would provide a huge target for hackers and terrorists seeking fortune or havoc.”
“Many of the benefits of future innovation should be equally attainable with private blockchain-based tokens.”