U.S.Washington ExaminerNYPD hunting for man involved in apparent broad daylight sexual assault of woman: Video
The New York City Police Department is hunting for a suspect captured on video groping a woman in broad daylight on a borough sidewalk, authorities said. An unidentified man was captured on surveillance footage running up to a 35-year-old female and tackling her from behind before he "reached into her shorts and forcibly grabbed her buttocks," a spokesperson for the NYPD told the Washington Examiner. The incident occurred around 8 a.m.
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Malaysia's government to reconvene parliament this month
Malaysia's parliament will reconvene this month, a minister said on Friday, just days after the king repeated his call for parliament to meet to discuss steps taken to deal with the health and economic crises caused by COVID-19. The date will be decided at the next cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Takiyuddin Hassan, the minister in charge of parliament and law, said in a statement. Two days earlier, King Al-Sultan Abdullah had asked the speakers of both houses of parliament to propose to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin that he call for a special sitting.
U.S.Associated PressCalifornia mother charged in killings of her 3 children
An East Los Angeles woman was charged Wednesday with killing her three children, including a baby, earlier this week. Sandra Chico, 28, appeared in court but a judge postponed until next month her arraignment on three counts each of murder and assault on a child causing death. “In an instant, three innocent children were taken from us and we are crestfallen,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.
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‘We went to the screams.’ Surfside cops who were first at building collapse meet Biden
“We went to the screams of the people and we were trying to figure out where we can go to help them,” Lovellette told reporters Thursday, a week later, after he and his colleagues met with President Joe Biden and Gov. Ron DeSantis. Lovellette, who responded to the building collapse with Officers Ariol Lage and Kemuel Gambirazio, said the trio rushed to the south side of the building looking for survivors. “It's getting in our eyes; we had to keep wiping our eyes,” said Lovellette, who was the acting sergeant on the scene.
WorldReutersIn Beijing, pride and hopes for a stronger China on party centenary
People gathered on Thursday in Beijing to take photographs of celebratory flyovers and sing revolutionary songs as the ruling Communist Party celebrated its 100th birthday, expressing pride in China's development and wishes for a more powerful country. Some congregated by an ancient canal once used to bring grain into the city, but now overshadowed by the skyscrapers of the financial district, to watch helicopters fly over, spelling out "100" across the sky. President Xi Jinping hailed a "new world" created by the Chinese people as the party marked the centenary of its founding with a ceremony in the capital's central Tiananmen Square.
U.S.NBC NewsSupreme Court won't overturn ruling against business that refused to serve gay weddings
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to wade into the contentious issue of whether businesses have a right to refuse service for same-sex wedding ceremonies despite state laws forbidding them from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. The court dodged the wedding question three years ago in a case involving a Colorado baker who said baking a cake to celebrate a same-sex marriage would violate his right of free expression and religious beliefs. The issue came back in an appeal brought by Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers and Gifts in Richland, Washington.
SportsWashington ExaminerBiden commits error at 'Dodger Day' and butchers Cy Young winner's name
President Joe Biden honored the 2020 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House Friday during a quip-filled ceremony heading into the holiday weekend after a somber trip to Surfside, Florida. During his opening remarks, Biden congratulated the team for its historic run but joked that he doesn't think he "can handle [Los Angeles Mayor Eric] Garcetti if you win twice," prompting laughs from the team and crowd in the East Room. Biden also asked if second gentleman Doug Emhoff, a die-hard Dodgers fan, was in attendance.
WorldAssociated PressOver 6 million EU citizens apply to settle in post-Brexit UK
More than 6 million European Union citizens applied to settle in the U.K. before the end-June deadline that the British government had imposed as part of the country's departure from the bloc. In a statement Friday, Britain's Home Office said of the 6.02 million people who had applied, 400,000 applications were made in the final month before the end of the EU Settlement Scheme. “Having more than 6 million applications to the scheme is an unprecedented achievement and I am delighted that we have secured the rights of so many EU citizens — our friends, neighbours and family members," Home Secretary Priti Patel said.
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76-year-old woman shoved to ground in unprovoked attack in NYC
A 76-year-old woman was seriously injured when she was shoved to the ground by a man walking a dog in Brooklyn, and police took a suspect into custody after surveillance video was released.
WorldReutersRussia says parties to Iran nuclear talks need more time before new meeting
Some parties to the Iran nuclear talks need more time before resuming negotiations in Vienna and a new round is unlikely before next week, Russia's envoy said on Thursday. Iran and the United States have been holding indirect talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers that imposed restrictions on Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for lifting international sanctions. "The #ViennaTalks on #JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) will resume as soon as all the participating states are ready for what is supposed to be the final stage of negotiations," Mikhail Ulyanov, Moscow's ambassador to the U.N. atomic watchdog, said on Twitter.
WorldArchitectural Digest11 Dreamy Candles to Capture Your Summer Mood
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U.S.Associated PressWildfire consumes small British Columbia town that hit 121 F
A wildfire that forced people to flee a small town in British Columbia that had set record high temperatures for Canada on three consecutive days burned out of control Thursday as relatives desperately sought information on evacuees. The roughly 1,000 residents of Lytton had to abandon their homes with just a few minutes notice Wednesday evening, after searing the previous day under a record high of 121.2 F (49.6 C). The province's public safety minister, Mike Farnworth, said Thursday afternoon that most homes and buildings in Lytton had been destroyed and some residents were unaccounted for.
U.S.Lexington Herald-LeaderOne year after 6-year-old boy killed on July 4th, California police name new suspect
California police said they have identified another suspect in the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy on July 4th last year. The appeal to the public to help find Deshaune Lumpkin, 18, of San Francisco as a second shooting suspect comes nearly a year after Jace Young was shot and killed on July 4, 2020, San Francisco police said in a news release Thursday. Jace was with his family watching fireworks when he was shot, KTVU reported.
WorldLA TimesAs Communist Party turns 100, China's Xi rallies his compatriots and warns his critics
“Long live the great, glorious, correct Chinese Communist Party!” cried Xi Jinping, China's president and general secretary of the party, as he closed an hourlong speech Thursday marking the party's 100th anniversary. The crowds rose to their feet, waving bright red party flags. It was a gray, drizzly morning of choreographed joy, preceded by a months-long nationwide campaign to propagate an official history that had been airbrushed to erase the tens of millions of deaths caused by Communist Party rule.
HealthReutersGSK, Alector to develop Parkinson's, Alzheimer's drugs in $2.2 billion deal
The tie-up comes weeks after U.S. authorities approved the first new Alzheimer's drug in almost two decades, Biogen Inc's Aduhelm, reinvigorating the industry's efforts to develop more treatments in a challenging therapy category. Alector will receive $700 million upfront from GSK and could receive up to $1.5 billion more payments tied to drug development-related milestones and royalties. GSK and Alector will develop two of the U.S. company's experimental treatments that target a protein called progranulin, to fight off neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, which affect the nervous system and can cause problems with regular mental and physical functioning.
CelebrityTODAY‘Fresh Prince' star calls out Phylicia Rashad for Cosby tweet: 'What are you thinking?'
Just hours after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Bill Cosby's conviction for indecent assault and ordered his release from prison, his longtime friend and former television wife, Phylicia Rashad, posted on Twitter to celebrate the news. And not long after that, another familiar face from prime-time past spoke up on social media, too. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star Janet Hubert, best known to fans as the original Aunt Viv from the series' first three seasons, called out Rashad over a tweet in which “The Cosby Show” alum claimed that “a terrible wrong is being righted” and referred to Cosby's earlier conviction as a “miscarriage of justice.
U.S.Miami HeraldMiami firefighter’s daughter found in collapse rubble. He’s been on site every day
A Miami firefighter kept vigil for eight nights after his 7-year-old daughter's home crumbled in the collapse of Champlain Towers in Surfside. Overnight Thursday, rescue workers confirmed every parent's nightmare as they pulled the firefighter's daughter from the ruins. First confirmed to the Miami Herald by Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, the loss of the girl was one of two deaths announced by officials on Friday.
WorldBBCCanada heatwave: Hundreds of sudden deaths recorded
Abnormally high temperatures have been recorded across North America. British Columbia Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said on Wednesday: "It is believed likely that the significant increase in deaths reported is attributable to the extreme weather BC has experienced and continues to impact many parts of our province." She said many of those who died in the heatwave had lived alone in homes that were not ventilated.
WorldBusiness InsiderAlmost as soon as the US military left its biggest airbase in Afghanistan, looters rolled in
Bagram, the biggest airbase in Afghanistan, was ransacked within hours of the US withdrawal. Afghan officials said the US didn't coordinate the withdrawal with them, though the US military denies this. Looters stole laptops and gas canisters.
U.S.Kansas City StarMissouri patient in his 40s ‘so sorry’ he didn’t get the COVID vaccine. Then he died
The email from a nurse manager about a patient's death from COVID-19 “grabbed me,” CoxHealth system director of public relations said. It told the vivid story of what healthcare workers in the Ozarks are facing as hospital beds are filling again, this time with cases from the delta variant. The numbers are skyrocketing in Branson and rural areas, and the vaccination rate is so low it's made national news.
U.S.The IndependentSurfside condo collapse: What we know about the victims and 145 missing people
Officials have confirmed the deaths of 18 people in the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. A further 145 remain unaccounted for amid the rubble of the 13-story beachfront condo, which collapsed in the middle of the night on Thursday without warning. The 11 people who are identified as having died in the collapse are Michael David Altman, 50, Marcus Joseph Guara, 52, Frank Kleiman, 55, Leon Oliwkowicz, 80, Luis Bermudez, 26, Anna Ortiz, 46, Christina Beatriz Elvira, 74, Antonio Lozano, 82, Gladys Lozano, 80, Manuel LaFont, 54, and Stacie Fang, 54.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderTrump spent hours watching charges against his company and CFO unfold, complaining about the prosecutors, report says
Former President Donald Trump spent hours watching coverage of the Trump Organization and its CFO being charged with tax crimes, The Washington Post reported. A close Trump advisor told the Post that he spent much of Thursday watching the events, and complained about how it looked. He was angry about the visuals of Allen Weisselberg, the CFO, in handcuffs, and he called the prosecution "chicken s----" , that person said.
PoliticsRaleigh News and ObserverMeghan McCain’s departure from ‘The View’ sparks strong reactions. ‘Bye bye snowflake’
Meghan McCain is calling it quits at “The View,” and some fans aren't too choked up over it. McCain, the show's resident conservative, announced Thursday that she is leaving the daytime talk show after four years. The Fox News alum and daughter of late Sen. John McCain joined co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin in 2017.
LifestyleINSIDERI've worked on cruise ships for years. Here are the 14 common mistakes I see passengers make.
If you don't set your phone to airplane mode, you may rack up overseas roaming charges. After six years working on ships for a major cruise line, I've witnessed tons of travel blunders that prevent guests from having the best possible experience. Passengers usually come on the ship excited for a good time, and for many, this involves a drinks package.
U.S.USA TODAYSupreme Court sides with Amish who argued septic systems violate their religious beliefs
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday sided with an Amish community that is challenging on religious grounds a Minnesota county's requirement that its members install septic systems to treat wastewater. The high court overturned a state court ruling that had sided with the county and asked the state's courts to review the case again in light of its recent ruling in favor of a Catholic foster care agency in Philadelphia that refused to screen same-sex couples. Fillmore County in 2013 began requiring that the Swartzentruber Amish, who reject modern technology as part of their religion, install septic systems to treat the wastewater from laundry, bathing and cooking – known as gray water.
“Obamacare is getting stronger every time the Republicans try to kill it.”
“It is far from certain the Supreme Court will safeguard the Affordable Care Act the next time the law reaches the court’s chambers.”
“Although ACA cost Obama an enormous amount, it’s become clear that he will have the last laugh.”
“Even the feistiest Republicans have given up talking seriously about repeal.”
“Current and future cases will largely concern the administration and enforcement of the ACA, not its underlying architecture.”