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Video taken by a guest shows an unidentified handler at Scales & Tails Utah, in suburban Salt Lake City, talking to some adults and children about the alligator Saturday when it bit her hand and dragged her into the water. Shane Richins, the company’s owner, said...this time the reptile “got a little extra spunky.” One of the guests, later identified as Donnie Wiseman, yelled “We’ve got trouble in here!” before jumping into the water and climbing on top of the reptile. Wiseman got the alligator pinned, and the handler calmly gave him and another man, Todd Christopher, instructions to help...

The outcome of next month's California gubernatorial recall election will be "a matter of life and death" amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to an ad Governor Gavin Newsom's campaign released Monday. The ad contrasted Newsom's approach to implementing vaccine requirements with that of his top Republican challenger, the conservative radio host Larry Elder. As numbers of new virus infections rose in California with the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, Newsom announced a vaccine mandate for health care workers and last week implemented a similar mandate for teachers and school staff as children began returning to their classrooms for...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: McConnell Air Force Base, KansasMcConnell Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located four miles southeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. The airbase was named in honor of the brothers Fred and Thomas McConnell of Wichita, who had both been Air Force pilots and veterans of World War II. It is the home of Air Mobility Command's 22d Air Refueling Wing (22 ARW), Air Force Reserve Command's 931st Air Refueling Wing (931 ARW), and the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th...

No links or source due to anonymity. A Bentonville principal sent an email after the first day of school directing teachers to allow boys identifying as girls to use the girls bathrooms, and vice versa. In addition, teachers are no longer allowed to separate students into Boys lines and Girls lines. They are also directed to change bathroom passes to eliminate boy and girl designation on the passes.

Congressional Democrats aren't sparing a president from their own party of criticism over the chaotic U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan as the Taliban seized control of the country and images of fleeing Afghans at Kabul's airport surfaced worldwide. “There’s no way to hide it. The situation in Afghanistan is another shame on this admin. Withdrawal was never going to be easy but it didn’t need to come to this,” Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat and a Foreign Affairs Committee member, tweeted on Sunday. “The US must do everything in its power to help our partners & allies to safety &...

GeorgeStephanopoulos @GStephanopoulos · 1h I’m sitting down with President Biden on Wednesday for an exclusive interview. What would you ask him? 5:44PM•August 16, 2021

How the pandemic laid bare America’s diabetes crisis COVID-19 has torn a particularly lethal path through the 1 in 10 Americans with diabetes, including many who never caught the virus. That's because when the pandemic hit, people with the chronic disease were already in worse shape than in years. It took the deadly disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic to expose a deeper, more intractable U.S. public-health crisis: For more than a decade, the world’s richest nation has been losing the battle against diabetes. Long before the pandemic, Kate Herrin was among the millions of Americans struggling to control their diabetes....

As construction crews on Monday began preliminary work on the $700 million Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, a local advocacy group was prepping for another run at stopping it. Protect Our Parks said it would appeal a federal court judge’s decision to deny its emergency request to halt construction. The group is among several that have battled the Obama Foundation in court to move the complex two miles away to Washington Park. Protect Our Parks and other neighborhood organizations want the center built farther south because they believe it will better bolster a needier area with jobs and development,...

We are now hearing reports there are thousands of American citizens still throughout Afghanistan that have not made it to the airport https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1427426732584407041

With his extensive background in the military and in U.S. intelligence, Lt. Col Tony Shaffer reacts to the chaos in Afghanistan and President Biden's speech. https://banned.video/watch?id=611aef3d86c415568927baa4

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec · 1h Afghan air force flees en masse: Uzbekistan SHOOTS DOWN one fighter plane and forces another FORTY SIX helicopters and planes to land carrying 600 Afghan soldiers Uzbekistan forced landing of 46 Afghan military aircrafts The 46 Afghan aircrafts were 'forcibly landed' at Termez aiport in southern Uzbekistan on Saturday and Sunday while one Afghan military plane was shot down, injuring the two pilots (pictured). dailymail.co.uk

You don't have to wait for the sun to go down at the drive-ins anymore. Up until now, drive-in movie theaters could only operate at night, but at the newly opened Loco Drive-In in Loudon, Tenn., viewers can see films anytime they'd like, including during the day. Equipped with a 35-foot by 63-foot LED video board screen, Loco Drive-In, the country's first daytime drive-in movie theater, is capable of screening films without the aid of darkness. The screen, affectionately deemed the "LoCo Tron," uses Samsung technology to display a 4K picture, similar to a traditional television. "There's no facility that...

Even now, Washington seems completely out of touch with events on the ground in Afghanistan. Its intelligence officers said the Taliban could take Kabul within 90 days. That was four days ago. They know nothing. One gets the impression of a confused, decaying empire looking with bamboozlement upon even those parts of the earth it rules. But above all of that, above even the political and military incoherence of the American empire, there is the corrosive cultural dynamic. This might just be the most important factor in the Afghan humiliation – the fact that the US, and the West more...

"The evacuation of some 40,000 Brits, Americans and Afghans who sided with the West from Taliban-occupied Kabul is set to take weeks while thousands of people camp out at the US-controlled Kabul airport."

The astonishing video of a humble domestic cat winning a territory battle with a young brown bear was filmed on 31 July by a group of fishermen in the north of Irkutsk region. The friends were having a party after a day on the Angara River near Ust-Ilimsk, when a brown bear approached their camp. The predator was several metres away from the campfire, when cat Vasily, or Vasya, taken along on the trip as a companion, pounced forward and stood between the humans and the bear. The video filmed by angler Sergey Tarasov shows the puffed up cat with...

Uzbekistan's air defense system confirmed that it downed an Afghan military plane on Sunday that was attempting to enter its airspace illegally, the AP reported on Monday. ...Local media originally reported the incident as a crash before confirming the plane was intentionally brought down. It has not yet been made clear what type of plane it was or how many people may have been aboard.

The 5-year-old Israeli boy who was the sole survivor of the cable car disaster in northern Italy that killed 14 people is reportedly at the center of a bitter custody battle between his two aunts – one of whom accused the other of kidnapping the child. Eitan Biran made it out alive when the cable car plunged 20 feet into the side of a mountain near Lake Maggiore on May 24, but his parents, 2-year-old brother and great-grandparents perished. The orphaned boy, who was released from a Turin hospital in June, has been living with his aunt Aya Biran-Nirko, the...

Hope Solo is not exactly in agreement with her former U.S. Women’s National Team player Megan Rapinoe’s political activism and accused the famous midfielder of “bullying” fellow team members into taking a knee at games. In an interview with soccer website Goal.com for its program “All of US: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Show,” Solo said she didn’t agree with the current USWNT captain’s decision to bring politics onto the pitch. “I think the rhetoric surrounding this team has been both divisive and inclusive. I guess it’s kind of where we are in politics in this day and age,” Solo said....

Over the past five years, the Pentagon had reduced the American presence to under 10,000 troops. The presence was a deterrent and led to few American casualties. Indeed, over that period, far fewer Americans have died in Afghanistan than residents of Baltimore have died in automobile accidents. Past efforts to nation-building were an expensive and misguided mistake, but not the American military presence which had evolved into a mission set not dissimilar from what the Pentagon maintains in Korea.

"Russia says Afghan president fled with cars and helicopter full of cash - RIAMOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia's embassy in Kabul said on Monday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in, the RIA news agency reported. Ghani, whose current whereabouts are unknown, said he left Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban entered Kabul virtually unopposed. He said he wanted to avoid bloodshed. read more Russia has said it will retain a diplomatic presence in...