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Agroup of social workers, mental health professionals and concerned community members met outside Buffalo City Hall Thursday to denounce Mayor Byron W. Brown's proposal for a new police unit that would pair officers with social workers on mental health emergency calls. Brown first outlined plans for a behavioral health team Aug. 22. .. The mayor noted that mental health professionals routinely request assistance from the Buffalo Police when they receive a call for service in a situation that involves a person experiencing a mental health crisis, and said such a joint approach to assisting people in distress was endorsed by...

Celebrated with trumpet blasts, prayers, and festive meals, this holiday is a time for reflection and marks the start of the Jewish high holy days.Food, sound, prayer, reflection, celebration. Jewish people around the world will wish one another “Shanah tovah” (Hebrew for “good year”) during Rosh Hashanah, the observance of the Jewish New Year. Here’s what you need to know about the holiday, which takes place this year between sundown on September 18 and sundown on September 20 and kicks off the Jewish high holy days. Origins and meaning of Rosh Hashanah Jewish people welcome the new year in...

U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Broadway League renewed the call for dedicated federal funding for Broadway and other New York live venues today, reiterating the push for the $10 billion bipartisan Save Our Stages campaign. “Today we are fighting hard to keep stages alive, stories told and shows going on,” Schumer said at an outdoor press conference in New York’s theater district near the TKTS Booth. The senator joked that he would demand “a Lion King’s share of federal relief” for Broadway. Citing the $15 billion contributed by Broadway to New York’s economy last year, the 100,000...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she'll withhold millions of federal dollars from Connecticut schools that won't withdraw from an athletic conference that allows transgender students to enter competitions based on their chosen gender. Students and parents have argued the some transgender students, particularly boys who identify as girls, have dominated sports like track and field, limiting playing time and opportunities for college scholarships. The move by the Education Department would withhold about $18 million intended to help schools desegregate, according to The New York Times. The department's Office for Civil Rights has warned officials at three Connecticut school districts several...

The six-week early voting period that Virginia stupidly allows began today, and voters turned out en masse in an amazing display of ferver to get to the polling places. Take a look at this: My God, it looks for all the world like a waiting line to get into a Trump Rally. Joe Biden, on the other hand, has literally never seen anything like it. From a story at the New York Post: Long lines packed with hundreds of voters were seen across Virginia Friday as in-person early voting kicked off there and in other states for the upcoming November...

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has introduced a plan to effectively ban ballot harvesting ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Ballot harvesting allows political operatives to collect and deliver as many ballots as they want so long as they are not paid based on the number of ballots they deliver. The loophole allows these operatives to be paid in most cases. Gabbard said the reform is vital to ensuring that special interest groups do not corrupt the voting process for voters. Gabbard said in a statement.: This bill protects assistance from family members, household members, and caregivers as well as election...

"Of course, when Jeff Bezos bought the Post and Woodward brands in 2013, he had no more idea than Vladimir Putin did that the host of “Celebrity Apprentice” would one day sit in the Oval Office. Bezos acquired them for the same reason the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs picked up the Atlantic—to defend the industry, tech, and political arrangements with China’s manufacturing base that drive their profits from “political interference.”"

A few years ago, some waggish citizen of the internet decided he would take bits and pieces from horror film “The Shining,” score them to Peter Gabriel doing “Solsbury Hill” and create a trailer for a wholesome, fun, feel-good father-and-son tale, called “Shining.” Everything seen in the trailer really was taken from the movie, but to edit is to distort. Or even to create, as we saw in CNN and ABC’s town halls this week. Polls show the American people hold similar views of President Trump and Joe Biden; an Economist/YouGov poll of likely voters last week put Trump’s favorability...

Virginia voters turned out big time for the state’s first day of early voting Friday. Lines of voters stretched hundreds deep in northern Virginia and other parts of the state. Friday marked the first day of early voting across the commonwealth. In past presidential elections, Virginia voters needed a reason to cast an early ballot. This year, however, anyone can vote early.

Joe Biden’s town hall on CNN drew 3.3 million viewers, an uptick for the network but short of audience that watched Donald Trump’s rally on Fox News later in the evening.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS obtained surveillance video that captures the owner of a small business on Chicago Avenue being assaulted in the heart of a four-block area often referred to as an “autonomous zone” near George Floyd Square. The barricaded zone is a one-block radius from the intersection of Chicago Avenue South and East 38th Street, flanked on the north and south by 37th and 39th streets and on the east and west by Elliot and Columbus avenues. The owner of Mill City Auto Body, who asked to only be identified by his first name, Dan, was knocked unconscious during an...

A woman at a KFC in California was filmed screaming at employees — and even jumping on the counter of the restaurant — after she was allegedly refused service for not wearing a mask. Footage of the Kentucky-fried fiasco shows the maskless woman first becoming aggressive with a female employee before quickly jumping on the counter and yelling, “Gimme something to f---ing eat! I’m hungry!” The woman then directs her largely unintelligible rant at a male employee, at one point daring him to call the cops. She also threatens to “stab” the female employee unless she gets “something to eat”...

Successful? Yeah, if you're a Democrat and you're trying for a one-party ruled Democrat state. And that's the entire point. And their plan. It's a scam. Universal mail-in ballots coupled with ballot harvesting and it's in the bag for the RATS (literally) .

The Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish, Astacopsis gouldi, is the largest freshwater invertebrate in the world.(Supplied: Dan Broun) =========================================================================== Fiona Marshall says she's rarely out of her gumboots or waders these days. "I love working in rivers, they're really fascinating environments, they're really dynamic," the agricultural project coordinator said. Ms Marshall said she was always scouring around in waterways across Tasmania's green, lush north-west as part of her latest project. She has been working with landowners in the region to improve the habitat for giant freshwater crayfish — a threatened species that only lives in Tasmania's north. Ms Marshall said...

The Hill reporter Joe Concha contrasted the easy-going line of questioning Joe Biden received from voters during a CNN town hall on Thursday to the grilling questions President Trump took at a separate town hall this week. Concha’s observation: Biden, Concha said in an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Friday, took “beach balls” for questions during the Pennsylvania town hall but described Trump’s ABC News-moderated town hall as “obviously hostile.” “One town hall was infinitely more challenging than the other,” Concha said. “It’s very apparent what we saw between the two candidates, one obviously hostile the other one hospitable.”

The First Lady and I wish our Jewish brothers and sisters Shana Tova and hope the millions observing this sacred day in America and around the world have a blessed start to the High Holy Days. As this 10-day period of celebration, devout prayer, reflection, and repentance commences, we are reminded of how important faith, family, and fellowship are to each of us. Particularly during these challenging times, the sense of peace and reassurance that comes with these observances has never been more important in helping us seek His wisdom and understanding as we continue to grow in our faith....

Throughout our Nation’s history, America’s sons and daughters have heroically safeguarded our precious freedoms and defended the cause of liberty both at home and abroad. On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we remember the more than 500,000 prisoners of war who have endured incredible suffering and brutality under conditions of extraordinary privation, and the tens of thousands of our patriots who are still missing in action. Although our Nation will never be able to fully repay our debt to those who have given so much on our behalf, we commemorate their bravery and recommit to working for their long-suffering families who...

Intruder with knife, boy being held: No Portland police response for 1 hour, 36 minutes

Claim During his time in the U.S. Senate, Joe Biden cast two votes 10 years apart — one of them the deciding vote — in favor of legislation that taxed Social Security income. Rating Mostly True What's True While serving as a U.S. senator representing Delaware, Joe Biden voted for two pieces of legislation — once in 1983 and once in 1993 — that resulted in taxing some Social Security income of some recipients. ...

We're still a long way from realising the full potential of quantum computing, but scientists are making progress all the time – and as a sign of what might be coming, IBM now says it expects to have a 1,000 qubit machine up and running by 2023. Qubits are the quantum equivalents of classical computing bits, able to be set not just as a 1 or a 0, but as a superposition state that can represent both 1 and 0 at the same time. This deceptively simple property has the potential to revolutionise the amount of computing power at our...