The Tyre Nichols horrifying video; then the Pelosi ugly video; Trump after DeSantis; SNL pans V.P. Harris; Palestinian attacks Jewish synagogue on Sabbath killing 7; many stories to make you smile
Parents concerns in America; workplace absences in U.S. due to COVID; FDA proposes blood donation change; Google's shame; Chipotle to hire 15,000; Novak Djokovic wins again; Succession is back
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My take: The Tyre Nichols video shows what we all know. There are a number of bad policeman on forces throughout the United States. I am not going to get into the meaningless debate over more good than bad. Statistics would obviously show that. What is more important is that we take the strongest action in this case against these officers if they are found guilty. I have no issue with making an example. All of us in our day have run into officers who use their authority in a verbally or physically abusive manner. This should not happen — not once, never. I am well aware that in the United States Armed Forces there are those who abuse their power and resort to violence against innocent human beings. The strongest of acton should be taken in these cases as well. These men and woman are here to protect and serve not take their own dysfunction and anger out on a fellow human being. So many questions came from that disgusting video including why 5 officers could not restrain this young man and he got away. It also is important to consider why no officer or bystander did anything to help Tyre. It also will be interesting to see how public reaction and legal decisions are effected by the fact that all of these officer were black as was the victim. On a side note, I must ask is there any other lawyer in the United States who handles these cases other than Ben Crump? Seems like there is not. My hope is that all the officers receive a fair trial but let us remember Tyre was not treated fairly. Let’s get out the evidence that we can see here and realize that all the officers are responsible for what happened to this this son, father, friend and more who simply knew his fate when he began to cry out for his mother.
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😀😀😀 Park Rangers check camera trap and discover 400 of the 580 photos it took 'Were Bear Selfies': The camera trap that captured the glamorous, pose-loving bear was placed by Boulder, Colorado's Open Space and Mountain Parks office.
Start with a smile: This Texas woman just turned 100: But it's her life of service that will amaze you.
and again: Alabama town learns farmer secretly paid people’s pharmacy bills:
Hody Childress donated $100 a month for neighbors who couldn’t pay their prescriptions until his recent death.
and the best: 'The most lovable moment of 2023': Delta Flight Attendant charms Internet by helping nervous passenger: A Delta flight attendant is going viral for helping a passenger get through a flight and explaining "every sound and bump."
couldn't help one more: Dad donates kidney to stranger after daughter's transplant: A father has donated a kidney to a stranger after his own daughter received her own life-changing kidney from a donor. Arfon Jones, from Cardiff, joined a living donor scheme although he found he was not a match for daughter Seren, 19, who became seriously unwell and ended up having both kidneys removed. He became a donor last month after she received a donor kidney in April. "I felt that I had given someone a nice Christmas present," he said.
What we care about: From Pew Research: Parenting in America Today: Mental health concerns top the list of worries for parents; most say being a parent is harder than they expected.
Absence from work at record high as Americans feel strain from Covid: More than a million people have called out sick for the past three years, and CDC says long Covid probably a contributor too.
Tyre Nichols video footage
Tyre Nichols: Arraignment date set for 5 ex-Memphis police officers charged in fatal beating: Five ex-Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichols death to be arraigned in mid-February.
Memphis Police disband unit whose officers were charged in Tyre Nichols’s death: Mr. Nichols’s family and activists had demanded the scuttling of the group, the Scorpion unit, which patrolled high-crime areas of the city.
Map: tracking Nichols protests around the United States: Protests erupted in about a dozen cities in the first hours after police released bodycam footage of Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating.
FDA proposes updated blood donation rules for gay, bisexual men
Link copied: The FDA proposed new rules today that could make it easier for gay and bisexual men to donate blood. NBC News’ Joe Fryer has more details on the potential guidelines.
Police body-camera video of Paul Pelosi hammer attack released: Footage shows husband of former House speaker opening door with intruder in home and pair wrestling over hammer.
How classified documents became a schoolgirl’s show-and-tell: On a winter’s day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn’t supposed to have them. That someone was 13-year-old Kristin Preble. She took the papers to school as a show-and-tell project for her eighth grade class. Her dad had found them in his Cleveland hotel room several years earlier and taken them home as a souvenir. As a different sort of show and tell unfolds in Washington over the mishandling of state secrets by the Trump and now Biden administrations, the schoolgirl episode from four decades ago stands as a reminder that other presidents, too, have let secure information spill. The Grade 8 escapade and one known as Debategate both involved the mishandling of classified documents that Democratic President Jimmy Carter used to prepare for a debate with Republican rival Ronald Reagan in Cleveland on Oct. 28, 1980. In the latter instance, the Reagan campaign obtained — some said stole — Carter’s briefing materials for the debate.
Trump hits DeSantis: He's a Covid skeptic phony: The former president slams the Florida governor — and potential 2024 rival — as he hits the campaign trail in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Trump adviser Eastman faces California disciplinary charges: Conservative attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election, was slapped Thursday with a series of disciplinary charges in California that could lead to his disbarment. The State Bar of California’s chief trial counsel, George Cardona, said in a statement that the 11 charges stem from allegations that Eastman assisted Trump with a strategy — not supported by facts — to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election by obstructing the count of electoral votes of certain states.
Ex-publisher of National Enquirer set to meet with prosecutors investigating Trump: David Pecker, the former head of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, is expected to meet with Manhattan prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump, people familiar with the matter said, indicating the probe is escalating. Meanwhile, the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday started presenting evidence to a grand jury on the issue, The New York Times reported. Pecker’s meeting is scheduled for this week, sources tell CNN. He was involved in an effort to stop adult film star Stormy Daniels from going public about a past alleged affair with Trump days before the 2016 presidential election. (Trump has denied the affair.)
Migrants camp outside hotel in protest of being moved to Brooklyn center that ‘lacks good showers and heat’: Dozens of migrants were digging in their heels Monday and refusing to go to the city’s new massive intake center in Brooklyn, leaving some living under tarps on the street in front of a Manhattan hotel.
Single men who recently arrived in the Big Apple after illegally crossing the US’s southern border and claiming asylum are supposed to be boarding free buses en masse from the Hell’s Kitchen hotel to their new digs.
Jan. 6 rioter who maced Brian Sicknick sentenced to 80 months: A U.S. District Court Judge found that Julian Khater made a calculated decision to work his way to the front of the mob and unleash a prolonged spray attack that injured at least three officers.
Harris headed to Munich conference before Ukraine war’s 1-year mark: Harris will reprise her role championing the U.S.-led West’s defense of Ukraine against Russian aggression.
'Saturday Night Live': Disses VP Kamala Harris In Biden’s Classified docs Scandal.
Ukraine warns it cannot defend against Iranian ballistic missiles: Should Russia obtain Iranian ballistic missiles for use in its war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Air Force has warned that it does not have the means to defend against them. “Russia is still willing to receive UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and Fateh and Zolfaghar missiles from Iran. Those are ballistic missiles. We do not have means to defeat them,” Yurii Ihnat, spokesperson for the Air Force Command, said Monday on Ukrainian television. As of November, Iran was preparing to send about 1,000 more weapons, including surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missiles and more attack drones, to Russia to use in its war against Ukraine, officials from a western country that closely monitors Iran's weapons program told CNN at the time.
Palestinian terrorist shoots 7 dead in ‘murderous rampage’ near Jerusalem synagogue: Police kill the lone gunman, who fled scene of Shabbat eve attack in Neve Yaakov neighborhood, opened fire on officers; celebrations in West Bank, Gaza; IDF bolsters forces.
A 13-year-old Palestinian wounded 2 people in an attack in East Jerusalem, police say: Israeli police say a 13-year-old Palestinian shot and wounded two people in East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, just a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside of a synagogue in Jerusalem at the start of the Jewish sabbath, killing seven people. Police say the attacker opened fire near the historic Old City of Jerusalem outside a Jewish settlement site in a Palestinian neighborhood. The wounded men, in their 20s and 40s, were rushed to the hospital. Police said the gunman was shot and wounded.
Israeli police seal off home of Jerusalem synagogue attacker: The move came following a deadly weekend in which seven people were killed and five others wounded in separate shootings in Jerusalem.
Drones attack military plant in Iran, Tehran says: Drones attacked a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, Tehran said on Sunday. “An explosion has occurred in one of the military centers affiliated to the Ministry of Defense,” the deputy head of security for Isfahan governorate Mohammad Reza Jan-Nesari told the semi-official Fars News Agency. Jan-Nesari said the explosion left some damage, “but fortunately there were no casualties.” The state news agency IRNA later said the explosion had been caused by “small drones.”
Israel responsible for Drone attack on Iranian Defense compound, report says: Israel was responsible for the drone strike on an Iranian defense compound on Saturday night, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal. Three drones targeted a munitions compound in the city of Isfahan, with two of them exploding on the facility’s roof while the third was shot down by Iranian forces. “Such actions cannot impact the determination and intent of our experts for peaceful nuclear progress,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a statement, according to the government news service PadDolat. The attack was the first strike on Iranian facilities under re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has seemingly continued the shadow war enacted by his predecessor. It also followed the largest joint exercise between U.S. and Israeli military forces, which brought 7,500 soldiers together to test their capabilities in the event of an attack on Iran.
Blinken to visit Israel and West Bank amid outbreak in violence: CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports from Jerusalem ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is traveling to Israel and the West Bank amid an outbreak of violence that has raised security concerns in the region. Update: Blinken meets Netanyahu at turbulent moment for Israel: Violence and mass protests are shaking the country as the secretary of state arrives to talk with the returning Israeli prime minister.
At least 25 die in Peru when bus plunges off cliff, police say: At least 25 people died Saturday when a bus carrying 60 passengers plunged over a cliff in northwestern Peru, police said. The bus, belonging to the Qorianka Tours company, had departed from Lima and was en route to Tumbes, on the border with Ecuador, when for unknown reasons it left the road near the town of Organos, according to police.
U.S. military raid in northern Somalia kills a senior ISIS leader and 10 ISIS fighters: The target of the strike was Bilal al Sudani, who U.S. officials described as a key operative and facilitator for the terrorist group’s global network.
Rishi Sunak fires minister Nadhim Zahawi after tax investigation: UK prime minister acts after Whitehall probe finds ‘a serious breach of the ministerial code.’
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel elected president of Czech Republic: Retired NATO general Petr Pavel beat a billionaire former prime minister in an election run-off on Saturday to become the fourth president of the Czech Republic, final results showed. Pavel, a former paratrooper, won 58.3 percent of votes while Andrej Babis scored 41.7 percent, said the Czech Statistical Office. "I would like to thank those who voted for me and also those who did not but came to the polls, because they made it clear they honoured democracy and cared about this country," Pavel said after the results showed his victory.
3 Florida nursing schools sold 7,600 fake diplomas that helped applicants skip essential steps to becoming licensed nurses, federal prosecutors say: Three schools in Florida sold 7,600 fake credentials to nursing license applicants, officials said. The faux diplomas and transcripts qualified applicants for the national nursing board exam. They would have allowed buyers to potentially skip thousands of clinical trainings, prosecutors said.
Woman, 29, arrested for allegedly posing as high school student in New Jersey: Investigators accuse Hyejeong Shin of providing fake birth certificate to enroll in New Brunswick high school.
Man suspected of kidnapping and beating a woman in Oregon may be using dating apps to evade police: Authorities in southwestern Oregon are warning that a man suspected of kidnapping a woman and beating her unconscious may now be using dating apps to evade capture or find potential new victims, according to police. The suspect, 36-year-old Benjamin Obadiah Foster, has so far evaded capture but he appears active on online dating services, the Grants Pass Police Department said in a statement Friday. “The investigation has revealed that the suspect is actively using online dating applications to contact unsuspecting individuals who may be lured into assisting with the suspect’s escape or potentially as additional victims,” Grants Pass Police said.
Inside the secretive process to select the first astronauts for NASA’s next moon mission: At the top of everyone’s list for the first Artemis crew is Reid Wiseman, a 47-year-old decorated naval aviator and test pilot who was first selected to be a NASA astronaut in 2009. Wiseman stepped down as chief of the astronaut office in November, a prestigious job historically responsible for selecting the initial crew assignment for each mission, but which also comes with a big catch — the chief isn’t eligible to fly in space. “Being chief is a crummy, lousy job,” former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman told CNN. “No one wants it, especially now.”
DOJ seeks to ban Sam Bankman-Fried from contacting FTX employees: Founder of failed crypto exchange allegedly reached out to the general counsel for the firm’s U.S. operation.
Fired Google Exec: My Sexual Misconduct Complaint was ignored because I’m a man.
Chipotle seeks to hire 15,000 restaurant workers ahead of busy spring months: Chipotle Mexican Grill is seeking to hire 15,000 restaurant workers ahead of its busiest time of the year, which runs from March to May. In recent months, restaurants have found it easier to attract and retain workers, a reversal after the labor crunch that ensued after pandemic lockdowns. However, the sector has always had high turnover, and restaurants are still concerned about having enough employees to meet demand, even as some consumers pull back on going out to eat amid persistent inflation.
Southwest lost $800 million from cancellation meltdown: Southwest Airlines has been in damage-control mode since its December cancellations meltdown, working to defend its reputation. Now, that episode has an actual price tag. The airline said today the snafu cost it $800 million in the fourth quarter (around $620 million on an after-tax basis), driving it to a net Q4 loss. And it expects to take another $300 million to $350 million hit to revenue for the current quarter as well: Canceled return trips from those nixed flights bled into January, and bookings are lower than usual for February, it said. Southwest's stock closed down 3.2% today. It has been steadily recovering since falling 10.8% in the middle of the chaos in late December. The airline canceled 16,700 flights between Dec. 21 to 31, stemming from extreme winter storms grounding flights, and then exacerbated after its scheduling systems got overwhelmed by the deluge of flight changes.
Some auto insurers are refusing to cover certain Hyundai and Kia models: Progressive and State Farm, two of America’s largest auto insurers, are refusing to write policies in certain cities for some older Hyundai and Kia models that have been deemed too easy to steal, according to the companies. Several reports say the companies have stopped offering insurance on these vehicles in cities that include Denver, Colorado and St. Louis, Missouri. The insurance companies did not tell CNN which cities or states were involved.
The incredible story of finding my brother in my 60s: We were born a week apart, in the same hospital, to different mothers — and that is just the beginning of our healing journey.
Daughter completes Bucket List her late dad made the year she was born: 'I Know He's Proud': Laura Carney spent nearly six years completing a bucket list of items penned by her father, which she discovered over a decade after he was tragically killed by a distracted driver
How Chess.com built Mittens, the evil cat Bot destroying players’ souls
‘Stranger Things’ rules 2022 Streaming charts, Nielsen says: Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ & ‘Ozark’ Big Winners too:
TV anchors T.J. Holmes, Amy Robach leave ABC amid romance: T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, anchors at the afternoon extension of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” are leaving the network after their romance was reported in November.
The pair were taken off the air and placed on temporary hiatus after photos surfaced of them holding hands and spending time together. Both were married to other people at the time but had separated. “After several productive conversations with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, about different options, we all agreed it’s best for everyone that they move on from ABC News,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement. “We recognize their talent and commitment over the years and are thankful for their contributions.”
Priscilla Presley is contesting validity of Lisa Marie Presley’s will: Priscilla Presley is challenging the validity of her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s will.
In a court filing obtained by CNN, attorneys for Priscilla Presley filed a petition disputing a 2016 amendment to her daughter’s will. The petition states that Lisa Marie Presley removed her mother and her former business manager, Barry Siegel, as co-trustees and replaced them with her children Riley and Benjamin Keough. Benjamin Keough later died in 2020.
Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, dies at age 64: Loring was just five when she starred in the 1964 TV adaptation of Charles Addams’ macabre cartoons – a performance that has set the character’s tone for decades. ‘An icon for goth girls everywhere’ – thank you, Lisa Loring, for making Wednesday Addams great.
Amy Robach straddles T.J. Holmes after ABC exit: See the PDA-packed pics: If T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach were bothered by their joint departure from ABC, they certainly weren’t showing it on Friday. The former “GMA3” anchors, whose romance sparked an international media storm in late 2022, were photographed packing on the PDA in Los Angeles – hours after they both signed exit agreements with ABC. Robach, 49, was seen straddling Holmes, 45, as she jumped into his arms and wrapped her legs around his waist outside of a restaurant.
Novak Djokovic beats Stefanos Tsitsipas to win 10th Australian Open title and record-equaling 22nd grand slam: The result was familiar, the ease with which it was achieved somewhat of a surprise. The historic implications of this match certainly did not shackle Novak Djokovic as the Serb beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets to win a 10th Australian Open title and a record-equaling 22nd grand slam. After securing the 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) victory, Djokovic went to the players’ box and uncontrollably sobbed, the significance and emotion of his achievement overcoming him. Even as he returned to his seat on the court, Djokovic hid his face in a towel, the television cameras picking up the sound of his continued crying.
NHL player rips out tooth 😖: Hockey players are built different
The most loving countries and cities in the world, based on 15 million Tweets: Thousands of years ago, the Ancient Greeks decided to officially categorize all of the different types of love it was possible to feel, from the head-over-heels love you share with a romantic partner to the deep connection felt for life-long friends.
No matter who is the object of affection, there are all sorts of ways that people express their love, and the ways that we feel the most love vary just as much. For example, one poll found that over a third (38%) of U.S. adults prefer spending quality time with a romantic partner in order to feel loved. Different cultures can also have their own unique ways of expressing love. In South Korea, you might see a love-struck couple wearing matching outfits to showcase their relationship to the world. Meanwhile, in Germany, it’s tradition to offer your beloved a pig trinket on Valentine’s Day. But wherever you’re from, sometimes the easiest way of letting someone know you love them is by… well, telling them. And we’re all about words at Crossworld Solver, so we wondered: based on how many times people say ‘love you’ online, which countries in the world are the most loving?
How saliva changes the flavor of food: The liquid impacts how we perceive taste and can influence what we choose to eat.
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