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The Bay Area woman charged with starting a California wildfire that destroyed more than 100 homes near Redding will undergo a psychiatric exam before returning to court, multiple media outlets reported. Alexandra Souverneva, 30, of Palo Alto made a court appearance in Redding on Tuesday, and the court agreed with her lawyer's request to have his client meet with one to two psychiatrists to assess her mental stability before her next appearance in November, KTLA reported. Souverneva faces a felony arson charge with an enhancement because the fire ignited during a state of emergency. She pleaded not guilty last month...

Matt Hancock made a surprise comeback last night as he was given a United Nations role just four months after resigning as health secretary. The former Cabinet minister will advise African nations on how their economies can bounce back from the pandemic. The Daily Mail understands he won the unpaid job thanks to Nimko Ali, a campaigner against female genital mutilation who is a close friend of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie. Mr. Hancock, who will remain a MP, was forced to resign as health secretary in June after he breached social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. CCTV...

After being shuttered for 17 months, the upmarket Hujan Locale restaurant in the Balinese town of Ubud is slowly coming back to life... ...‘We do not want backpackers’ The pandemic has prompted a debate about the role of tourism in Bali, with some arguing the island should become less dependent on the sector and instead develop other areas of the economy. Reports of foreign tourists who remained on the island during the pandemic but refused to follow health protocols has added to such sentiments. This week, Bali’s governor said that tourism had benefited “a handful of people, especially foreign investors”,...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Former President Barack Obama will campaign with fellow Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the final stretch of the Virginia governor's race. “The stakes could not be greater,” McAuliffe said, as he announced the news Tuesday morning on MSNBC. McAuliffe's race against the GOP nominee, first-time political candidate Glenn Youngkin, is tightening, according to the latest polls. His effort to win a second, nonconsecutive term in office is one of only two regularly scheduled governor's races in the country this year and is being closely watched for indications of voter sentiment ahead of next year's midterms. .... Stacey Abrams,...

The man suspected of a multi-parish crime spree that left two people dead, including a Louisiana state trooper, has been released from the hospital and booked into prison. Louisiana State Police say Matthew Mire, 31, was taken to the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison wearing the handcuffs that belonged to Master Trooper Adam Gaubert, who Mire is suspected of killing. "Those handcuffs are symbolic to every Trooper within LSP," police wrote in a Facebook post showing the handcuffed suspect... ...Gaubert was killed while he was in a parked patrol unit in Ascension Parish after working a traffic crash, Superintendent Lamar...

About 100 Central California properties and a shuttered oil refinery were under threat from a rapidly growing wildfire that forced the closure of a major highway near Santa Barbara overnight, per the Los Angeles Times. The big picture: The Alisal Fire that ignited near the Alisal Reservoir on Monday has grown to 13,400 acres with 5% containment, officials said. Nearly 800 firefighters are now battling the wind-driven blaze that caused thousands of people to evacuate.

Pastor Karma Patras stated in a sermon that animal sacrifice was unnecessary, citing the Bible. Muslims accused him of blaspheming against Islam and threatened to burn his sons alive if they did not leave town. Patras was arrested. In October 2012, Pakistani Christian pastor Karma Patras delivered a speech at a funeral. In it, he explained the Biblical teaching that animal sacrifice was no longer necessary because of Christ’s sacrifice. The speech came only a few days before Eid-al-Adha, an Islamic holiday where ritual animal sacrifice is a common custom. There were some Muslims at the funeral, but there was...

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Venice, a city deserted. Filming while wearing protective masks, filming in a northern Italy that has been devastated by the coronavirus. Markus Frings and Marco Polo, both from South Tyrol, needed special permission to travel through northern Italy. They wore masks and gloves to protect themselves from the virus. They filmed checkpoints and nighttime disinfection crews cleaning the streets. They talked to virologists, local business people and of course the residents themselves. Cameraman Marco shows us how his family in Bolzano has come to terms with these exceptional times of closed schools and restricted movement. And we learn that many...

Dr. Anthony Fauci has lost too much credibility in the eyes of the American people. The fact that he continues in his role, in spite of the unfortunate reality of his lost credibility, is damaging to public health. Talented, accomplished, credentialed and good-willed though he may be, the best thing "America's Doctor" could do for public health right now would be to step aside.

The Navy has recovered the wreckage of a fatal helicopter that crashed in August off the coast of San Diego, the Naval Air Forces Public Affairs office announced Tuesday. Five human remains were also recovered, and have been transferred to Dover Air Force Base for official identification. A team from the Naval Sea Systems Command's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving recovered the remains and wreckage on October 8 off the coast of San Diego, the Navy announced. On August 31, the MH-60S Seahawk helicopter crashed while it was "conducting routine flight operations" off the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln...

The U.S. delivered 36 ultra-low temperature freezers Tuesday to the Ministry of Health at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) in Hanoi. The freezers are the first of 111 ultra-low temperature, medical-grade storage units worth approximately $1 million that the U.S. Department of Defense is providing to Vietnam, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement. With a capacity of minus 40 degrees Celsius to minus 90 degrees Celsius, the freezers can store vaccines that require extremely cold temperatures, including the Pfizer vaccine, which must be stored at minus 70-80 degrees Celsius. Of the 77 freezers originally offered to...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is 'very disappointed' Democrats will have to trim down their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill after moderates balked at the number, and said the IRS proposal for banks to hand over transaction data would still be included. 'I'm very disappointed that we're not going with the original $3.5 trillion which was very transformative,' the California Democrat told reporters Tuesday upon returning from trip to Europe to meet with G-20 leaders. But she promised: 'Whatever we do well make decisions that will continue to be transformative about women in the workplace.' She cited proposals such...

Metro train derailed Tuesday afternoon on the Blue Line near the Arlington Cemetery station, the transit agency reported. The incident occurred about 4:50 p.m. Metro rail controllers in the Rail Operations Control Center received a report of a disabled Blue Line train in the tunnel between the Rosslyn and Arlington Cemetery stations in Northern Virginia, Metro spokesman Ian Jannetta said. Metro officials said the train, a 7000-series train that is one of Metro’s latest models, partially slipped off the tracks. Metro officials said that 300 to 400 people were on the train and that 187 passengers had been evacuated by...

Reacting to the viral story published in The Daily Wire on Monday about a Loudoun County, Virginia, father who charged that a boy, allegedly wearing a skirt, sexually assaulted the father’s ninth-grade daughter in a bathroom, Rep. Dan Crenshaw fired, “Do you get it now? Keep men out of women’s bathrooms. I can’t believe this story. It’s heartbreaking. Parents: don’t stop. Keep up the fight.” The Daily Wire reported that the father’s attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster, told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible...

Russia must accelerate Covid-19 vaccinations, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated on Tuesday as the country recorded its highest daily death toll since the start of the pandemic. Addressing newly elected lawmakers of the State Duma -- Russia's lower parliament house -- Putin urged the deputies who had gathered in the Kremlin to convince the Russian public to get vaccinated as the situation continues to worsen across the vast country. "You know that the number of infections is growing in many regions and medical specialists are working in difficult conditions. We all know well that vaccination can save us from the...

General Michael Flynn's interview on Tucker Carlson Today The America Project Published October 12, 2021 1 hour

“Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom” (Proverbs 13:10).

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki proudly declared on Tuesday that Joe Biden is using the pandemic to inflict “fundamental change” on the American economy.When asked during the White House press briefing whether some programs in Biden’s $4.5 trillion budget proposal should get cut, Psaki rejected the notion, asserting that the pandemic was the perfect opportunity for Democrats to exploit the pandemic.“The president wants to make fundamental change in our economy and he feels coming out of the pandemic is exactly the time to do that,” Psaki told reporters.“If we don’t do it now, if we don’t address the cost...