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Cataleya woke up with the knife on her neck. Her father QA wanted to kill the then 17-year-old because of her homosexuality. She barely survived. "He yelled, 'Are you gay? Are you gay?' and drew the knife through my throat. " With these words, Cataleya described in October 2019 how her father tried to kill her. Cataleya was still a man at the time and only 17 years old. Because of the serious injuries, Cataleya, then called Seran, had to be placed in an artificial coma. With a lot of will to live and luck, she survived her father's knife...

Monday on FNC’s “The Daily Briefing,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attacked his Democrat counterparts, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), for what he deemed “shenanigans” in holding up COVID-19 relief funding. McConnell told Fox News Channel’s Dana Perino the deal could have been made back in July.

Live stream video, the patriots are gone wild. They attempted to break into the Capital building. The State police just declare riot.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least eight Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the U.S. Embassy, causing some minor damage on the compound on Sunday, the Iraqi military and the embassy said on Sunday. The Iraqi military said an “outlaw group” fired eight rockets. Most of the missiles hit a residential complex and a security checkpoint inside the zone, damaging buildings and cars and wounding one Iraqi soldier, a military statement said. Sirens blared from the embassy compound inside the zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions. An anti-rocket system diverted one of...

The suspect, reportedly a 17-year-old Palestinian from Qabatiya, was armed with a Carlo-type submachine gun and shot at a police post. A terrorist attack took place in Jerusalem's Old City on Monday evening, Israel Police reported. Police reported a shooting incident at the Lion's Gate in the Old City between an armed terrorist and police officers who were on the scene. ... The suspect, reportedly a 17-year-old Palestinian from Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, was armed with a Carlo-type submachine gun according to police, and shot at a police post before being neutralized by Border Police officers. ...

After closing two massive budget holes this year, San Francisco faces a new deficit of $653.2 million over the next two fiscal years as COVID-19 surges and a strict economic shutdown continues to ravage the city’s finances. To close the gap, Mayor London Breed plans to direct departments Wednesday to slash costs, which could include painful layoffs and service cuts that have so far been mostly avoided. The city’s budget office projects a $411.1 million hole in the next fiscal year, which begins in July, and a $242.1 million deficit in the year after that. City leaders were hoping for...

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California exhibits the largest gap between mid-level and upper-level wages in the nation. California’s level of inequality is greater than that of Mexico, and closer to that of Central American countries like Guatemala and Honduras than to what is common in “progressive” developed countries like Canada and Norway. Progressive policies, as applied here in California, have driven this widening gap. The coalition that rules the state—tech oligarchs, public employees, and green non-profits—have backed a draconian tax and regulatory environment that has reduced construction jobs and allowed manufacturing to stagnate, while policymakers have targeted the heavily unionized oil industry for extinction....

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Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:12 By Matt Boone 16 hours ago Small business owners in San Francisco said their empty storefronts have become easy targets for vandals and burglars, and the thefts are a symptom of a much larger problem. "So you’re seeing this like, this growing issue of crime and lawlessness that’s being unchecked," said Rory Cox, standing in the middle of his empty gym YuBalance in Noe Valley. Recently, he said someone smashed open a lockbox with keys inside, but didn’t actually break in Restaurant owner Johnny Metheny runs Toy Soldier and Tin Cactus in the Financial...

Animal toxins are research targets owing to their therapeutic and biotechnological potential. Researchers at the Federal University of the ABC (UFABC), Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in Brazil have discovered that VmCT1, an antimicrobial peptide isolated from the venom of the scorpion Vaejovis mexicanus, and its analogs kill Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Previous research has demonstrated VmCT1's potential against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as tumor cells and other protozoans. "VmCT1 contains 13 amino acid residues and displayed good selectivity and high potency against all three developmental phases...

The case highlights the constitutional restraints that European governments face in regulating political Islam and promoting integration."A regulation that only affects a certain group of female students and that remains selective in order to ensure religious and ideological neutrality as well as gender equality misses its regulatory goal and is irrelevant. §43a SchUG therefore violates the principle of equality in connection with the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion." — Austria's Constitutional Court, December 11, 2020."The prohibition of the wearing of Islamic headscarves in elementary schools was never intended to be a restriction of religious freedom, but rather...

As people have been forced indoors it looks like criminal activity hasn’t stopped it’s just adjusted to the new normal.At last check of the San Francisco Police Department, crime statistics comparing November of this year to November of 2019:Burglary shot up by 42% citywideArson has gone up by 39%Stolen cars saw an uptick of 34% Homicides up by a 32%

Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who faced controversy for dressing in black face while in medical school, ordered a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee removed overnight from the United States Capitol. The Washington Post reported it will be replaced by a statue of Barbara Johns, who was a civil rights activist as a teen in Farmville, Virginia. “Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had requested the removal over the summer after a commission chartered by the General Assembly decided that a man who fought to uphold slavery was not a fitting symbol for a diverse and modern state,” the...

Buckle up everybody, for I am here to defend and exalt turnips. In fact, I’d go so far as to claim that turnips, when mashed, are better than their potato counterparts, and a far more interesting vehicle for gravy. Cooked turnips are firm yet velvety, slightly nutty, and bring a bit more oomph to your holiday spread. But, full disclosure, my not all of my turnip-eating Christmases have been merry.

Senator. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called President Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 election “really sad” and “embarrassing” on Sunday. “I understand the president is casting about, trying to find some way to have a different result than the one that was delivered by the American people,” Romney told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It’s really sad in a lot of respects and embarrassing because the president could, right now, be writing the last chapter of this administration with a victory lap with regards to the vaccine.” “He could be going out championing this extraordinary success, and instead he’s leaving Washington...

The San Francisco Unified School District on Friday released an update on its timeline for reopening schools. SFUSD will not begin its phased approach and reopen the first 12 schools to in-person instruction on Jan. 25 as originally planned. However, progress has been made to ensure that when students to return to campuses, they do safely. Some progress includes: Every classroom in the first school buildings proposed to reopen has been assessed for ventilation, physical distancing, etc. A letter of interest to reopen schools has been submitted to the SF Department of Public Health Families in Phase 2A have been...

It's summer in Mars' southern hemisphere, and strange structures are crawling out of the ice. It's summer at the south pole of Mars, and the angels and devils are coming out to play. You can see them both in a stunning new image of the recently thawed pole, taken by the European Space Agency (ESA). The devils, it should be said, are made of dust. Just like on Earth, Martian dust devils form when a pocket of warm air suddenly rises through a column of cool air, creating a spinning updraft. (Unlike on Earth, these dusty cyclones can tower 6...

An Alabama man and his son killed each other in a dispute over a dog, authorities said. Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer told WALA-TV that Kelvin James Coker, 60, discovered his dog had been shot on Saturday. The man then drove to the home of his 32-year-old son, Kelvin Nicholas Coker, who claimed to have killed the animal. The older man shot first, shooting his son in the leg, and the younger man returned fire with a shotgun, Stringer said. Both men died from their wounds. The sheriff called the family “very dysfunctional.”

It comes as no surprise that the holiday crowds are noticeably thin in San Francisco's Union Square this pandemic-plagued year.