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Shocking bodycam footage shows a Florida cop pushing an 18-year-old off a roof as his colleague shouts, “Push him off!”
The unidentified teen, accused of taking his girlfriend’s car without permission, was cornered by cops in Florida as he sat calmly on the edge of a first-story roof in Kissimmee, according to WFTV. Continue reading “Florida officer shoves teen from roof as partner shouts, ‘Push him off!’”
The family of a British teenager killed in a wrong-way crash involving the wife of an American diplomat said President Donald Trump dropped a “bombshell” during a meeting at the White House, revealing that the woman was waiting to meet them in the room next door.
Harry Dunn, 19, was killed after his motorcycle was hit by Anne Sacoolas, who admits driving on the wrong side of the road near a British military base used by the United States. Continue reading “Harry Dunn’s family reject Trump’s ‘bombshell’ offer to meet Anne Sacoolas”
At 12:32 p.m. on Monday, April 19, 1993, FBI agent Byron Sage placed his right hand on his PA system’s power switch and flicked it from on to off.
Sage knew the small gesture was momentous. For the previous seven weeks, he and 51 other negotiators from various agencies had tried to persuade the Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his more than one hundred followers to leave their home, a rambling, multilevel structure on a 77-acre property ten miles east of Waco known as Mount Carmel. Now that building was engulfed in fire. Continue reading “The FBI Agent Who Can’t Stop Thinking About Waco”
The Eagle – by Megan Rodriguez
The Food and Drug Administration deemed a Texas A&M AgriLife researcher’s genetically modified cotton seed as safe to consume — a milestone in the 25-year project that could improve agricultural sustainability across the globe.
The feat comes one year after A&M plant biotechnologist Keerti Rathore and his team received U.S. Department of Agriculture approval, which permit the seeds to be grown anywhere. While cotton seeds are high in protein, the naturally produced toxic substance gossypol has prevented people and single-stomach animals from eating the plant. But Rathore told AgriLife Today that this ultra-low gossypol version could change the game, since the annual output of cotton seeds around the world could meet the basic protein requirements of more than 500 million people. Continue reading “FDA gives green light to edible cotton seeds developed by Texas A&M AgriLife researcher”
Rossiter Elementary School in the Helena Valley was evacuated Tuesday morning after a detonated explosive device, which authorities describe as a soda bottle wrapped in duct tape, was found on the school playground. Continue reading “Sheriff: Explosive device at school was soda bottle wrapped in duct tape”
CEYLANPINAR, TURKEY – Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government forces and Turkish troops. At the same time, tensions grew within NATO as Turkey defied growing condemnation of its invasion from its Western allies.
Now in its seventh day, Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish fighters has upended alliances and is re-drawing the map of northern Syria for yet another time in the eight-year-old war. Continue reading “Russia swoops to fill void left by U.S. in northern Syria, getting between invading Turks and Assad’s forces”
Fort Worth police announced at a news conference Monday that the officer who shot and killed a woman in her home Saturday has resigned.
Chief Ed Kraus identified the officer as Aaron Dean. He said he was going to fire the officer if he had not resigned Monday morning. Continue reading “Fort Worth officer who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson has resigned amid investigation”
New York Post – by Dean Balsamini
Dumbo’s getting hosed.
A diminutive fire hydrant in the well-heeled Brooklyn neighborhood is responsible for more parking fines than any of its more robust cousins across the city, startling stats show.
Like most things in the Big Apple, part of the 2.5-foot-tall hydrant’s secret to success is location, location, location. Continue reading “Hidden Dumbo fire hydrant continues to trick drivers into getting tickets”
Journalists from across the TV-news sector will miss Shepard Smith at Fox News. The bean counters at the cable-news outlet’s parent, Fox Corp., will not.
Smith sent media circles teetering off their centers Friday by announcing in the final minutes of his mid-afternoon show that he was leaving the network as soon as he finished uttering the last sentence on his teleprompter. “I heard Shepard’s sign off in real time on my car radio and had to pull over to process it,’says Alisyn Camerota, the CNN “New Day” anchor who worked at Fox News for more than a decade. Continue reading “Shepard Smith boosted Fox News’ credibility, not its bottom line”
A white Fort Worth officer fatally shot a black woman inside her home early Saturday after police were called to the house to do a welfare check, according to police and the neighbor who called them.
Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was killed in a bedroom, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. Continue reading “Woman killed in own home when Fort Worth officer shoots her, police and witness say”
TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) — A large demonstration by protesters demanding climate change policy reform blocked traffic for nearly two hours in Manhattan’s Times Square, resulting in 62 arrests for civil disobedience.
The protest, which began before 10 a.m. Thursday, forced the closure of intersections including Seventh Avenue at 44th Street and Broadway at 46th Street. Continue reading “62 arrested in climate change protest that blocked traffic in Times Square”
Morning commutes were treacherous and schools, government offices and businesses were closed or opening late Thursday because of a major snowstorm moving across the Northern Plains.
Drivers in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, the Dakotas, Colorado and Nebraska found dozens of roads closed by snow and accidents. Continue reading “Dozens of Crashes Close Roads as Snowstorm Hits Northern Plains”
New York Post – by Amanda Woods
A “potentially historic” fall snowstorm is set to wallop a large stretch of the country — evolving into an “all-out blizzard” as it passes over the Dakotas and sending an arctic blast into much of the northern US, forecasters predict.
Denver was downright balmy on Wednesday with a high in the lower 80s — but the temperature had already plummeted into the upper 20s by 1 a.m. as snow began to fall, according to Accuweather. From 1 to 3 inches of snow is expected to fall in the Mile High City on Thursday. Continue reading “Temperature drops more than 50 degrees as ‘all-out blizzard’ sets sights on Dakotas”
SAN FRANCISCO — One of California’s largest hospital systems is facing a trial over accusations that it has used its market dominance to snuff out competition and overcharge patients for medical bills.
Opening arguments begin Thursday in the antitrust case against Sutter Health, which operates 24 hospitals with 5,500 doctors across Northern California. It was first brought by employers and unions amid growing frustration over the rising cost of health care in 2014; California’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filed a similar suit last year following a six-year DOJ investigation. Continue reading “Large hospital chain faces trial for allegedly overcharging patients”
Power is being shut off to nearly 800,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in Northern California due to the threat of wildfires, and in some areas, officials declared emergencies and curfews to deal with the blackouts.
A state of emergency was declared for Santa Clara County as the area prepared for additional outages on Wednesday, according to KRON-TV. Meanwhile, in the city of Morgan Hill, a curfew was in place from 7 p.m. Wednesday night until 6:30 a.m. Thursday as authorities worked to reduce the possibility of crime in blackout areas, according to the Associated Press.
A Philadelphia jury has ordered medical company Johnson & Johnson to pay $8 billion in punitive damages in the case of a man who said he developed breasts after taking the company’s anti-psychotic drug Risperdal as a child. The case is unrelated to a string of big-money lawsuits the company is facing over its signature baby powder.
In the Risperdal case, a jury found that Johnson & Johnson failed to warn 26-year-old Nicholas Murray of the drug’s side effects. Murray claimed that taking the Risperdal as a child caused him to develop breasts, an incurable condition known as gynecomastia. Thousands of others have filed lawsuits alleging the same. Continue reading “Johnson & Johnson hit with $8 billion verdict over drug linked to boy growing breasts”
A witness in the Amber Guyger murder trial who was fatally shot last week in Dallas was killed during a drug deal, Dallas police said Tuesday.
Capital murder arrest warrants have been issued for two suspects, Michael Diaz Mitchell, 32, and Thaddeous Charles Green, 22, in the killing of 28-year-old Joshua Brown on Friday night at his apartment complex, Dallas police said in a Tuesday afternoon news conference. Continue reading “Witness in Amber Guyger murder trial killed in drug deal, according to Dallas police”
A Harvard psychologist questioned President Donald Trump’s mental health after the U.S. leader’s claim to have unmatched wisdom and his threat to destroy Turkey’s economy.
Trump made the comments amid bipartisan criticism of his military withdrawal from Syria, paving the way for Turkey to invade and attack the armed Kurdish groups that the U.S. had allied with against the Islamic State terror outfit. Turkey views Kurdish fighters as terrorists. Continue reading “Harvard Psychologist Says Donald Trump’s Claims About Destroying Turkey’s Economy Would ‘Normally Trigger A Mental Health Hold’”
You might not know the name David Fravor, but you probably know what he saw … even if he’s still not sure what that was. Fravor is the retired U.S. Navy Commander who in 2017 told the New York Times that he spotted a Tic Tac-shaped UFO from the cockpit of his F/A-18F Super Hornet—“around 40 feet long and oval in shape”—100 miles off the coast of San Diego in 2004. Continue reading “Navy Pilot Says ‘Dark Mass’ Made Torpedo Disappear”
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s challenge to the release of eight years of his tax returns for a New York state criminal probe, saying on Monday that he could not grant such a “categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity.”
Trump’s lawyers notified the judge that they will immediately appeal the ruling. Continue reading “Judge tosses out Trump challenge to tax return turnover”