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George Floyd's girlfriend was Daunte Wright's high school teacher, it has emerged, in a tragic link between the two families. Courteney Ross spoke of her connection to the 20-year-old after appearing at a joint press conference with the Floyds and the Wrights and attorney Ben Crump on Tuesday. Her boyfriend George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May last year after cop Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck while Daunte Wright was shot dead by officer Kimberly Potter during a traffic stop in a city suburb Sunday. ... He was a 'silly boy, as goofy as can be,' and 'needed...

A Mississippi family is demanding answers after 43-year-old Brad Malagerie suffered a mysterious stroke just hours after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Malagerie received the vaccine last week after leaving work from his office in D’Iberville around Noon. He went back to work after getting the shot where he was found a few hours later unresponsive, and colleagues had to rush him to the hospital. “They called me and said he had that vaccine and something is wrong, we think it’s a stroke,” said Celeste Foster O’Keefe, Malagarie’s aunt. The hospital found that Malagerie suffered a stroke likely...

A Santa Cruz man who was facing 126 years to life in prison for the murder of 8-year-old Maddie Middleton, is now going back to the juvenile court system where he could go free in four years. In a Santa Cruz courtroom Tuesday, 21-year-old Adrian Gonzalez admitted to all charges in connection to the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Maddie more than five years ago. “I'm glad the case is coming to an end it's been hard especially for Maddyson's family and our heart goes out to the family and everyone effected by it,” said Larry Biggam, Gonzalez’s defense attorney....

Lee Aaker, Child Actor on 'The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,' Dies at 77 5:51 PM PDT 4/13/2021 by Mike Barnes FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy Everett CollectionLee Aaker spent five seasons on 'The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin' He also appeared in such films as 'Hondo,' 'High Noon,' 'The Greatest Show on Earth' and 'The Atomic City' — all before he was 10. Lee Aaker, a child actor in the 1950s who starred as the orphan Rusty alongside a German shepherd on ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and in films including Hondo and The Atomic City, has...

On April 14, 1983, Brooklyn man Charles Dingle made headlines after shooting the owner of Herbie’s Bar in Jamaica, Queens, in the head.

At least a third of French wine production this year, representing almost two billion euros ($2.4 billion) in sales, will be lost due to a bout of unusually cold early spring weather, a federation said Wednesday. National Federation of Agricultural Holders’ Unions (FNSEA) secretary general Jerome Despey told AFP that the estimate was made after consultations with all the players in the sector.

@ColumbiaBugle Tucker Carlson Discussing The News Today That The Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Won't Be Charged, But The Video Editor (Sam Montoya) Who Captured Babbitt's Death On Video Had His Home Raided & Has Now Been Thrown In Jail "We have a right to know who shot Ashli Babbitt and why." Video clip...

Regis High School, one of the most prominent Catholic schools in the country, said it planned to fire the Jesuit priest who serves as its president after an investigation found he had engaged in sexual misconduct involving several adults, including school employees. The Rev. Daniel Lahart, who has been president of Regis, a prestigious all-boys school in Manhattan, since 2016, has been on administrative leave since late February, the school said in a statement. His firing will be effective April 21, the school said. “The investigation is now coming to a close, and the board of trustees has determined, based...

Meanwhile, with no major mainstream media reporting on it, it may be too late to rescue Canada from heavy Chinese influence, but not too late for America to understand the risk to them coming from the oh-so-polite country next door America’s deadliest enemies are not all in the Middle East, they have for decades been operating with impunity from the country right next door. Patently ignored by a long succession of American presidents, Canada, whose people are identified as polite to a fault, shares the longest undefended border in the world with the USA. While its inhabitants are, by and...

Abbot Tryphon, the head of the All-Merciful Savior Monastery on Vashon Island in Washington and the author of the popular “The Morning Offering” blog and podcast, has been locked out of his Facebook account, where he also posted his daily reflections. On April 3, the monastery website reported: “Just a short note here – Abbot Tryphon was temporarily locked out of his Facebook account due to security reasons.” However, yesterday, Fr. Tryphon reported that he was leaving Facebook for alternative social media site MeWe, having been permanently locked out of his Facebook account. His page remains on Facebook and past...

When Orange County announced last week that it would be starting a vaccine “passport” pilot program this month, it caused uproar among some residents who believe it would encroach on their freedom. The announcement came amid a national conversation over potential government-issued vaccine passports, which the state and federal government aren’t requiring. About 200 residents showed up to speak at an Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday to voice their opposition to the county’s program. Orange County Health Care Agency Director Clayton Chau and the supervisors sought to allay their concerns before the public comment period. Chau said...

WASHINGTON—Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on April 14 pushed back on warnings about a rising federal budget deficit and national debt due to an aggressive fiscal response to the pandemic and said the “current level of the debt is very sustainable.”“There’s no question of our ability to service and issue that debt for the foreseeable future,” he said during a virtual interview hosted by the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.He warned, however, that the national debt is growing “meaningfully faster” than the U.S. economy.“That’s by definition, unsustainable over time. It’s a different thing to say that the current level of...

The bishop of Down and Connor has urged politicians to be more careful about their language as Belfast has been engulfed in nightly violence for over a week. Bishop Noel Treanor also appealed to young people “to stop engaging in disturbance and violent activity now” after 74 members of the police service were injured. The city has witnessed some of the worst rioting in recent years and last night (April 8) the police used water cannon to disperse young Protestants angry at the decision for the first time in six years. Petrol bombs, fireworks and stones were used to attack...

A pair of Florida women used a Swiffer mop to try to eject a baby alligator that invaded a home and documented the experience in a live-streamed video. Sazan Powers said her neighbor, Erika Venza, had left the sliding glass door open at her home in Wesley Chapel, just outside of Tampa, and her dog alerted her just before noon that there was an invader inside the house. Venza discovered the 1-foot alligator wandering around inside the house and called Powers for backup. Powers streamed the experience on Facebook Live as she and Venza attempted to use a Swiffer mop...

Political relic John Boehner must’ve been 8-cocktails deep when he decided to start a feud with the very nimble and savage Ted Cruz. It wasn’t smart and it didn’t work out in his favor. It all started when Boehner wrote a book. And speaking of that book – besides Liz Cheney and the pedophiles at the Lincoln Project, who on God’s green earth would buy a book that John Boehner wrote? At any rate, some clueless publishing house had cash to burn and decided to pay John Boehner money to recall his booze-filled days as Speaker of The House. And...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Three days after the preacher of the papal household called on Catholics to repent for the ways they are dividing the church, the Vatican secretary of state said the divisions are real and they are harmful. “Anyone who sees the situation of the church today has to worry about these things because they are there,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, told Spain’s church-owned COPE radio network April 5. “It does a lot of damage to the church.” Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, had spoken about the divisions in the church April 2...

On Tuesday night a second round of riots and looting took place in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, which is not far from the riot-and-crime-ridden city of Minneapolis. Footage of Dollar Tree and other storefronts being burglarized in act of civil protest against racial injustice circulated online, and gunshots were routinely heard in the distance.A few stores in Brooklyn Center were left unmolested, however: businesses guarded out front by armed civilians.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said Wednesday she would not support Donald Trump if he decided to launch another White House bid in 2024. "I would not," Cheney told Fox News' Neil Cavuto when asked if she would support the former President if he ran again. Cheney was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for "incitement of insurrection" following the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. In a statement before she cast her vote, Cheney said Trump "summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack."...

Liberal MP caught naked during House of Commons video conference A screenshot obtained by The Canadian Press shows him standing between the Quebec and Canadian flags, his private parts hidden, in what appears to be his office.