U.S.ReutersHuman remains found in Florida park amid search for Gabby Petito's fiance -FBI
(Reuters) -Partial human remains were found on Wednesday in a Florida wilderness area where authorities were searching for Brian Laundrie, the fiance of Gabby Petito, a young woman who vanished on a road trip with Laundrie, the FBI said on Wednesday. The Sarasota County Medical Examiner's Office was called on Wednesday morning to the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park where the search for Laundrie was under way, a spokesperson for the office said earlier. FBI investigators were working at Carlton Reserve, which is near the park, the agency's Tampa division said.
PoliticsAxiosMarjorie Taylor Greene fights with House colleagues during vote to hold Bannon in contempt
Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) exchanged harsh words on the House floor amid Thursday's vote to hold former Trump strategist Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. Details: “This is a joke,” Greene said on the House floor, presumably about the vote. “Why don't you care about the American people?” she asked Raskin, a member of House Jan. 6 Select Committee.
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.
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.
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.HuffPostJen Psaki's Response To Peter Doocy's Question Leaves Him Momentarily Speechless
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy seems to pride himself on asking hard-hitting questions of White House press secretary Jen Psaki. However, on Tuesday, Psaki was the one who asked a question that left Doocy momentarily speechless. It happened when Doocy asked about the possibility of “tons” of police officers and members of the military quitting to avoid COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
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Sheriff to announce what killed California family on hike
A California sheriff has scheduled a news conference to announce the causes of death of a Northern California family and their dog who were found in a remote hiking area in a case that has baffled authorities. Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese will hold the news conference Thursday to discuss the mysterious deaths of John Gerrish, his wife, Ellen Chung, their 1-year-old daughter, Miju, and their dog. The family went hiking on a trail close to the Merced River in the Sierra National Forest, where they were found dead Aug. 17 after a family friend reported them missing.
BusinessBusiness InsiderSome Hooters employees say they won't wear the new uniform shorts that are now optional: 'I feel like I'm working in my underwear'
Hooters employees went viral on TikTok while decrying the company's new, more revealing shorts. Hooters of America agreed to make the new uniform shorts optional for workers. Four workers and one previous employee told Insider what they thought about the new shorts.
PoliticsAxios“How about zero?” Manchin, Sanders get heated behind closed doors
Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) squabbled behind closed doors Wednesday, with Manchin using a raised-fist goose egg to tell his colleague he can live without any of President Biden's social spending plan, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The disagreement, recounted to Axios by two senators in the room, underscores how far apart two key members remain as the Democratic Party tries to meet its deadline for reaching an agreement on a budget reconciliation framework by Friday. It also shows that despite the "kumbaya meeting" between Manchin and Sanders on Monday — after which they posed together for photos — the two remain sharply divided.
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Surgeon transplants a pig's kidney into a brain-dead human in groundbreaking surgery
Robert Montgomery, a New York transplant surgeon, conducted a successful surgery that transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead human
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.
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.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.
WorldSheKnowsPaulina Porizkova Shows Off Her Gorgeous Long Legs in Bed in This Sultry New Nude
Paulina Porizkova took a much-needed social media break at the end of September, but she announced her return to Instagram with a new nude photo — and it is stunning. The supermodel spent three weeks on a “top-secret, grand adventure” that she's keeping under wraps until “next spring. That's much as she's going to reveal about the project, but Porizkova is coming back to her Instagram account strong with her latest photo.
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.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.
U.S.Business InsiderTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick paid out his first voter fraud bounty to a progressive poll worker in Pennsylvania who caught a Republican voting illegally
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick set a minimum $25,000 bounty in November 2020 for proof of voter fraud. The winner was a progressive Pennsylvania poll worker who turned in a Republican for voting twice. One week after the presidential election in 2020 where President Joe Biden toppled former President Donald Trump, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick set a bounty of up to $1 million to anyone who could find instances of voter fraud in the US.
PoliticsRolling StoneParis Hilton Recounts Being ‘Strangled,’ ‘Slapped,’ and ‘Watched in the Shower’ While Calling for Troubled Teen Industry Reform
The entrepreneur and reality star was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to advocate for accountability alongside survivors, advocates, and group of Democratic lawmakers including Senator Jeff Merkely (D-Ore.) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Merkely and Khanna are co-sponsoring the new Accountability for Congregate Care Act, which will soon be introduced in both houses of Congress. “I'm confident that this bill will create a world where all youth have the support and opportunity to heal, thrive, and not just survive,” Hilton said Wednesday of the ACCA.
WorldReutersRussia scrambles fighter jets to escort U.S. strategic bombers over Black Sea
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia scrambled two Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to escort a pair of U.S. B-1B strategic bombers over the Black Sea, Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday, an incident that coincided with a visit to the region by the U.S. secretary of defense. The supersonic U.S. Cold war-era planes were originally designed to carry nuclear bombs and missiles but now carry conventional payloads. "Russian fighter crews identified the aerial targets as two U.S. Air Force supersonic strategic B-1B bombers, accompanied by two KC-135 refuelling planes, and escorted them over the waters of the Black Sea," the defence ministry said in a statement accompanied by video footage of the U.S. aircraft in flight.
PoliticsHuffPostTrump Gets Taken To School After Botching Basic U.S. History In Latest Rant
New York City announced it was moving a statue of the Founding Father and nation's third president out of its City Council Chamber due to his history as a slaveholder. It's not yet clear where the statue will go, but Trump predictably threw a fit over Jefferson ... even if he's a little hazy on what, exactly, Jefferson did. Trump called him “a principal writer of the Constitution of the United States.”
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Ex-porn star gets 10 years in prison for role in Florida murder
A former porn star is heading to prison for her role in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a makeshift grave in the Florida Panhandle, prosecutors announced this week. Lauren Wambles, who performed in adult movies using the name Aubrey Gold, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday after pleading no contest to one count of accessory after the fact to second-degree murder. Guillen's body was found in Holmes County nearly two months after the murder, according to the 14th Circuit State Attorney's Office.
WorldReutersTaliban praise suicide bombers, offer families cash and land
The Taliban praised suicide bombers who died during the war against the former government and its Western allies and offered their families sums of cash and promises of land, the movement's interior ministry said in a statement. Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting interior ministry who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head as a "specially designated global terrorist", met the families at a ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which was itself targeted by suicide bombers in 2018. Official photographs of the meeting on Tuesday obscured his face.
WorldUSA TODAYOne of the world's deadliest snakes found in shipping container sent from India
South Essex Wildlife Hospital received a call from a local British stonemasonry firm about a long, spotted snake they found in a shipping container from India. Turns out, the snake is a saw-scaled viper, one of the deadliest snakes in the world, according to South Essex Wildlife Hospital on Twitter. South Essex Wildlife Hospital is a wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation charity in the U.K. While most snakes are harmless to humans, the saw-scaled viper is a dramatic exception.
U.S.INSIDERVideo shows a truck 'rolling coal,' or purposefully blowing a cloud of thick black exhaust fumes, into a busy Texas restaurant
A driver of a truck was caught on camera "rolling coal" into a Texas restaurant. Rolling coal is a term used when diesel-truck drivers modify the emissions controls on their vehicles to intentionally blow smoke. The practice is illegal in some states but not in Texas.
WorldAssociated PressRetired pope hopes to soon join friends in 'the afterlife'
Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife,” in a sign that the 94-year-old pontiff is not only accepting his eventual death but welcoming it. Benedict penned an Oct. 2 letter to a German priest, thanking him for letting him know of the passing of the Rev. Gerhard Winkler, a Cistercian priest and academic colleague of the former Joseph Ratzinger. “Of all my colleagues and friends he was the closest to me,” Benedict wrote, according to the letter reproduced in German media.
“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.”