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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A knifeman wearing a Halloween panda mask followed a woman home then stabbed her babysitter after he rushed to help her. Harrowing CCTV captured the moment the incident unfolded in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday evening. It is alleged that suspect Joshua William Cates followed the […]
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TEXAS (REUTERS) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday (Oct 25) signed into law a bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports at public schools, joining a wave of similar measures emerging from Republican-controlled statehouses across the country. Supporters of the bill, due to take effect on Jan 18, say it is aimed at protecting fairness in school […]
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LONDON (REUTERS) – Facebook will fuel more violent unrest around the world because of the way its algorithms are designed to promote divisive content, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British Parliament on Monday (Oct 25). Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower, appeared before a parliamentary select committee in Britain that is examining […]
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Much of the Bay Area was under a flash flood watch on Sunday, with the National Weather Service warning of the potential for mudslides across the region. By Neil Vigdor California bore the brunt on Sunday of what meteorologists referred to as a “bomb cyclone” and an “atmospheric river,” a convergence of storms that brought more than half a foot […]
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The police investigation into a fatal shooting with a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin on a film set was focusing on Saturday (Oct 23) on the specialist in charge of the weapon and the assistant director who handed it to Baldwin. Ukraine-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was struck in the chest and died shortly […]
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NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Real estate heir Robert Durst has been charged in New York state with murder in the 1982 disappearance of his wife, the New York Times reported on Friday (Oct 22), a week after he was sentenced in California to life in prison for murdering his best friend in 2000. New York State Police investigator Joseph Becerra […]
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The mysterious deaths of a family and their dog on a California hiking trail that baffled investigators for weeks was down to excessive heat, the local sheriff said on Thursday (Oct 21). The bodies of Briton John Gerrish, 45, his wife Ellen Chung, 31, and their one-year-old daughter, Miju, were discovered a short way from a […]
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BALTIMORE (REUTERS, AFP) – The United States would come to Taiwan’s defence and has a commitment to defend the island China claims as its own, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday (Oct 21), though the White House said later there was no change in policy towards the island. “Yes, we have a commitment to do that,” Mr Biden said at a […]
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For the second straight year, La Niña is forecast to bring large amounts of snow to the northeast – including up to 32 inches to New York City. Simultaneously, the weather event is expected to leave California in a dry spell that would worsen its drought. It is being called a ‘double-dip La Niña’ because of the consecutive occurrence. The […]
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WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Former United States president Donald Trump declared on Wednesday (Oct 21) evening that he would start a “media powerhouse”. Its flagship operation would be Truth Social, a Twitter-like social network that would “stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech”, he said in a statement. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Latest […]
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