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The former Minneapolis police officer seen in the viral video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd before his death in police custody posted a $1 million bond and was released Wednesday. Derek Chauvin, who is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter, was released from Oak Park Heights prison, where he had been held since May 31, a Minnesota Department of Corrections spokesperson confirmed to Fox 9 Minneapolis.

Singapore will offer a one-time payment to aspiring parents during the coronavirus pandemic. The country's deputy prime minister said the incentive would help reassure people who face financial pressure and are worried about their jobs. "We have received feedback that Covid-19 has caused some aspiring parents to postpone their parenthood plans," Heng Swee Keat told lawmakers on Monday. "This is fully understandable, especially when they face uncertainty with their income," he added. Heng said the payment would help parents with expenses, but he did not confirm how much would be paid out. Despite a largely successful public health response to...

TALBOT COUNTY, MD (October 5, 2020) - The Office of the State Fire Marshal Bomb Squad has been busy over the last 36-hours, responding to suspicious devices attached to political campaign signs. On October 4, 2020, at approximately 9:00 a.m, Easton Police Department were dispatched to Idlewild Park in the 100 block of Idlewild Road for a suspicious device located on the rear of a campaign sign. After observing the device, officers requested the Office of the State Fire Marshal Bomb Squad's assistance. Bomb Technicians responded and determined the device was innocuous and removed the device. Since that time, Bomb...

Shocking moment staff member at crematorium interrupts the service to shout at man who moved his chair closer to his mother to comfort her at his father's funeral The shocking moment a member of staff at a crematorium interrupted a funeral in order to berate mourners for being too close together has been caught on camera. Craig Bicknell, from Milton Keynes, revealed he had moved his chair in order to comfort his mother at the funeral of his father Alan Wright on 2nd October at Crownhill Crematorium, before other mourners followed suit. But it wasn't long before a member of...

DENMARK (WGME) -- Two people from New Jersey have been issued a summons, after police say they stole pro-Trump signs from a home in Denmark. Video allegedly shows 25-year-old Christopher Svetik and 24-year-old Naomi Touchstone stealing three signs, including two Trump signs and one thin blue line flag sign, from a home on Wabunaki Road late Thursday night. The owner of those signs says nothing like this has happened to him before. “When I first saw the video, I was shocked, because in all the years we've been here, we've never had any incidents like that,” Denmark resident Chuck Flahive...

Julie Ann Engsberg stole President Donald Trump and Senator Martha McSally campaign signs andstashed them on her property. [Photos courtesy Cottonwood Police] On Friday afternoon, a 61-year-old Sedona woman, Julie Ann Engsberg, was cited and released for the theft of President Donald Trump and Senator Martha McSally campaign signs. According to Cottonwood Police, the theft was reported on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 by a resident who saw Engsberg take some campaign signs from the corner of West Mingus Avenue and Airport Road and put them in her vehicle and drive away. The resident followed Engsberg to Sedona where she made...

A prisoner in Urmia, northwestern Iran, was sentenced to amputation of four fingers, according to Kurdistan Human Rights group. The 2nd Branch of the Urmia Criminal Court sentenced Arash Ali Akbari to the amputation of four fingers on his right hand for theft. The 32 year old father was arrested in September 2019 for 16 counts of theft and was tried on July 9. The finger amputation sentence was announced on July 28 by the Urmia Criminal Court. Arash has a diploma and works as a welder. He was deprived of the right to a lawyer of his choice. Before...

In case you haven’t noticed, racially charged political movements are invading every area of American life. High school football games are no exception. Parents attending a football game at Lakewood High School in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, were outraged when someone took to the public address system before the game to declare that the school would henceforth be an “agent of change” in combatting “systemic” racism in “society as a whole.” “All of the visiting parents were completely caught off guard,” popular Cleveland radio host Bob Frantz, whose son was playing in the game, told PJ Media. “We were standing respectfully...

Leftist operatives are trying to break through police roadblocks in the area of Habima Square and are holding a procession while blocking traffic arteries. "Beyond the fact that the procession is not approved and constitutes a violation of public order, the violators of the order are marching in violation of emergency regulations: Failure to maintain distance from each other, number of participants above what is defined in the regulations and more. This action is contrary to regulations and constitutes a violation of public safety," the police say. At least 10 protesters were arrested and dozens of tickets were issued ...

WICHITA FALLS, TX – A professor at Midwestern State University is facing some online backlash after a rather unsavory comment of his on Facebook (which detailed an adoration for cops being killed) wound up being broadcast and circulated.

Donald Trump's star on Hollywood's iconic Walk of Fame was once again vandalized early Friday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A man in an Incredible Hulk costume demolished Trump's star with a pickax around 5 a.m., TMZ reported. The LAPD said their officers responded to a report of vandalism at the site at 5:55 a.m.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD confirms Rick Moranis was randomly attacked by a stranger Thursday on the Upper West Side. Police said it happened in broad daylight just before 7:30 a.m. on Central Park West near 70th Street. Surveillance cameras captured the attack on the 67-year-old “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” and “Ghostbusters” actor. Video shows the suspect walk up and punch Moranis in the head, knocking him to the ground. VIDEO AT LINK................... Police said he went to the hospital with pain in his head, back and hip. He later visited the precinct to report the crime. Now,...

A man walks by a house that was damaged during clashes in the Tartar district bordering the Nagorno-Karabakh region, on Sept. 29, 2020. Credit - Tofik Babayev—Xinhua/Getty Images Intense fighting has erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh, a small enclave in the southern Caucasus mountains, setting the entire region on edge. This is a fight primarily between Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics with long-held grievances over land, but the involvement of Russia, Turkey, and others raises the stakes for where a war might be headed. In essence, this is a story of a powerful outsider changing history by drawing arbitrary lines...

Agricultural officials confirm 3 new sightings of Asian giant hornets in Blaine Officials confirmed three new sightings of Asian giant hornets in Whatcom County, increasing to 12 the number that have been reported there. BLAINE, Wash. - Officials confirmed three new sightings of Asian giant hornets in Whatcom County, increasing to 12 the number that have been reported there. The Bellingham Herald reports the total represents the first sightings of the hornets in Washington state and the U.S. since they were first spotted in Whatcom in 2019. All three recent sightings were found near Burk Road, southeast of Blaine, in...

When police pulled a Jeep Wrangler over for running a stop sign in Philadelphia’s Belmont section Monday morning, officers made a horrifying discovery. The front seat passenger, Mia Green [black transexual man], 29, was suffering from a gunshot wound to her neck. She was pronounced dead at Penn-Presbyterian Medical Center within a half-hour. On Tuesday, authorities charged the driver of the vehicle, Abdullah lbn El-Amin Jaamia [heterosexual? Muslim?], with the murder of Green, who was a Black transgender woman, according to a statement from the city’s Office of LGBT Affairs. “This latest act of violence against a member of our...

STOCKHOLM — The scene at Norrsken House Stockholm, a co-working space, oozed with radical normalcy: Young, turtleneck-wearing hipsters schmoozed in the coffee corner. Others chatted freely away, at times quite near each other, in cozy conference rooms. Face masks were nowhere to be seen. It seemed very last January, before the spread of Covid-19 in Europe, but it was actually last week, as many European nations were tightening restrictions amid a surge of new coronavirus cases. In Sweden, new infections, if tipping upward slightly, still remained surprisingly low. “I have potentially hundreds of tiny interactions when working here,” said Thom...

When soldiers saw the donkey on the road, they shot at it. Explosives then went off and the militants immediately came out from their hide-out to open fire on the convoy, an official who was in one of the vehicles in Governor Zulum's convoy told the BBC.

A Delaware State University student was shot and killed Sunday night at a party in Schutte Park, authorities said. According to the Dover Police Department, Devin Wright, 20, was involved in a shootout at about 9:40 p.m. He was shot in the head and died a short time later at Bayhealth Kent General Hospital. Police said about 300 to 500 people were at the party when the shootout happened involving multiple suspects.

<p>Parts of Switzerland, Austria and Germany were surprised by unseasonably early snowfall overnight, after a sharp drop in temperatures and heavy precipitation.</p> <p>The Swiss meteorological agency said Saturday that the town of Montana, in the southern canton (state) of Valais, experienced 10 inches of snowfall — a new record for this time of year.</p>

Six people were killed Saturday, after they fell into a cesspool in the Hebron area, the Palestinian Authority’s security department reported. The remains of five people, all members of the same family, were pulled out of a cesspool in the village of Deir al-Asal, west of Hebron in the Judea area, PA police spokesperson Loai Irzeiqat said Saturday. A sixth person was pulled from the cesspool alive but in critical condition. The sixth victim was evacuated to an Israeli hospital, but was later declared dead. Palestinian Authority officials said that the immediate circumstances of the deaths were not clear, adding...