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<p>A man who said he was fed up with racism against black people was convicted of killing four white men in a race-related rampage in California’s Central Valley, prosecutors announced Friday.</p> <p>Kori Ali Muhammad was convicted by a Fresno County jury Wednesday of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, attempted murder and other crimes, the Fresno County district attorney’s office said.</p>

This video was filmed by a drone controlled by a man sitting in a lawn chair. He would move his location to different sections where wall construction was taking place. Music and title work were then added and VOILA ! ... the resultant video. The filming was done in January 2020.

Drew Carey has mastered the art of forgiveness. The funnyman, 61, chatted it up with the hosting cast of “The Talk” on Wednesday, in an interview that aired on Friday, and admitted that as much as he has forgiven Gareth Pursehouse, the man who is charged with murdering his ex-fiancée Amie Harwick, the toll her murder has had on him has been difficult to understand. “After Amie’s murder, I took a week off. Really, I couldn’t function,” Carey said, adding that upon his return to the show for “Kids Week,” he had an opportunity to speak with high school students...

Jameis Winston, one of the biggest remaining question marks in free agency, is finalizing a one-year deal to play for the New Orleans Saints in 2020, sources tell Yahoo Sports. The deal is expected to be completed quickly now that the NFL draft has wrapped, bringing Winston’s surprisingly long free agency trek to an end. Sources told Yahoo Sports that Winston’s 2020 salary will be very economical, fitting inside the Saints’ already tight salary cap for next season.

A combat veteran who made a customized steel flag for President Trump has retooled his Alabama home decor business during the coronavirus pandemic to design free products for everyday heroes on the frontlines of the crisis. Colin Wayne, CEO of Redline Steel in Huntsville, decided to give away steel wall decor as a thank you to professionals putting their health on the line during the pandemic, including nurses, truckers, health care workers and U.S. Postal Service mail carriers. "It's just been a tremendous way that I can -- from a small town in Alabama -- make a difference," Wayne, a...

A one-time employee of the infamous Joe Exotic's Oklahoma zoo said that law enforcement is likely to file new charges against more people -- if investigators examine the web of those involved in animal cruelty crimes exposed by the Netflix series "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness." "A 'monster' is a relative term. And Joe fits the bill," Kelci "Saff" Saffery, a former worker at the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, told former prosecutor and Fox Nation host Nancy Grace. According to Saffrey, Exotic -- whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage -- was motivated above all else by greed and...

Our favorite family of British Shorthairs. White kitty Coco having fun playing with her younger siblings. Video, 10 minutes & 35 seconds

The new sale of 1,400 tons of beef, made in the week period beginning April 10, comes on top of a 1,500-ton purchase made earlier this month — the highest weekly purchase ever for China, according to U.S. Meat Export Federation spokesman Joe Schuele

Dear friends, in the last month and a half; because of the coronavirus quarantine, many of us have experienced things which we never thought possible! The closure of schools, businesses, churches, national sports leagues including March Madness college hoop! A collapsing stock market, massive unemployment, a two trillion dollar national stimulus package, a national shortage of toilet paper etc... etc...! We as a nation have been moving at light speed as a society and a nation and in the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Divine WISDOM and PROVIDENCE of Almighty God our Creator, He has allowed such events to say; Slow down and...

Some liberals keep ruining the idea that public radio is an oasis of civility and nonpartisanship. Take Bob Collins, a longtime political editor at Minnesota Public Radio. Anthony Gockowski of the Minnesota Sun site pointed out some Twitter savagery from Collins (account name @MyLittleBloggie). Many of his recent tweets are just the usual Democrat hack stuff -- Trump should resign, his supporters are rats. But on Friday, Collins erupted in hate, suggesting Republicans should commit suicide by shooting themselves in the chest.

A top senator said he would be "shocked" if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is not dead or incapacitated. Kim has not been seen publicly in two weeks and North Korean media have been silent on the matter. A CNN report last week said Kim is in grave condition and the United States was monitoring intelligence of his surgery, but President Trump said on Thursday he believed the report was "incorrect." Still, reports swirled on Saturday claiming Kim is either in a vegetative state after receiving heart surgery or dead. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee...

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed Friday evening that 50,000 Americans died because the Senate failed to remove President Donald Trump from office during the impeachment trial in February. (snip) Schiff told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: There is one thing that, really, I have to say haunts me from the trial and it was before that snippet you showed where we knew we had to answer the question to the senators, okay, essentially, house managers, you’ve proved him guilty [sic] (emphasis mine), does he really need to be removed after all? we have an election in nine months....

Grace King came home to her parents in Janesville from UW-La Crosse on March 13. Her spring break had started. It was also the day the first positive test for COVID-19 was recorded in her home county. The family—Grace, her parents and little brother Owen—had planned a weeklong trip to Hawaii. The public knowledge of the pandemic was scant at that point. Rock County didn’t announce its first COVID-19 case until March 19. That was the same day Wisconsin announced its first two deaths. Grace’s mother, Sara, said Hawaii had fewer COVID-19 cases than Wisconsin at that point. She and...

The Westport Police Department, located in Connecticut’s hardest-hit county of Fairfield, has abandoned its idea to use high-tech drones that can detect symptoms of coronavirus infection from up to 190 feet away. The backtracking came after people expressed privacy concerns about the program. On Thursday, Police Chief Foti Koskinas and First Selectman Jim Marpe said the drone surveillance plan would not come to fruition because it was “not well-received,” according to Westport News. “In our good faith effort to get ahead of the virus and potential need to manage and safely monitor crowds and social distancing in this environment, our...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — MUSC Health will be the only health care system in South Carolina to participate in a carefully structured national clinical trial testing the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19. The launch depends on the arrival of the shipment of the medication and the placebo it will be compared to. Andrew Goodwin, M.D., a specialist in treating acute respiratory distress syndrome and an associate professor in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, will lead MUSC Health’s part of the trial. “I think this is tremendously important for a number of reasons. First,...

MADISON — They’re as mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore! Thousands of frustrated Wisconsinites turned out Friday afternoon for a ReOpen Wisconsin rally at the Capitol. They came even though the Evers administration denied event organizers a permit. They came even as government officials and members of the mainstream media labeled them as right-wing extremists, even murderers. They came to demand their state back. “We want Wisconsin back open,” said Tom Kienitz, who demonstrated Friday with his wife, Trish, and their son. Like many, they carried their message on their cardinal and white protest sign....

Minnesota Department of Health has updated its COVID-19 to reflect that 288 cases are hospitalized, with 109 in intensive care. With 23 new COVID-19 deaths attributed to the virus — for a new total of 244 — every new decedent but one was resident in a long-term care facility. The new decedents included one over age 100, 10 in their 90s, seven in their 80s, two in their 70s, and three in their 60s. Over 75 percent of those whose deaths have been attributed to the virus were residents of long-term care facilities with significant underlying conditions. The median age...

SALT LAKE CITY — State and local governments across the United States have obtained about 30 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Trump to treat patients with the coronavirus, despite warnings from doctors that more research is needed. At least 22 states and Washington, D.C., secured shipments of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, according to information compiled from state and federal officials by The Associated Press. Sixteen of those states were won by Trump in 2016, although five of them, including North Carolina and Louisiana, are now led by Democratic governors. Supporters say having a supply on hand makes...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who already face criticism for leading what some have described as the worst, most botched response to the coronavirus crisis, now face even more scrutiny over allegations health officials took no action after being warned that a nursing home was being overwhelmed and needed some patients to be transferred elsewhere. According to multiple investigations, administrators at the nursing home in question, Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill Health Center, sent desperate emails to state Health Department officials in early April asking if some patients could be transferred to one of...