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San Francisco police say a concert-goer who fell to his death from the upper level of a basketball arena is believed to have “leapt from an elevated area of the arena,” causing his death. “Immediately before the victim leapt, he did not appear to have any physical contact with any person or barrier/railing,” The 47-year-old man died. Nearly an hour later at 9:45 p.m., on-duty officers were alerted to another man who had fallen. He was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, as was a man he fell on. Police have not provided any details about what caused...

Despite being forced to mute most of their ALCS postgame show Monday night because of impassioned and unruly Red Sox fans, Fox kept their studio crew outside of Fenway Park Tuesday night. The crowd was back at it with profane chants, but this time, Fox was less heavy-handed with the mute button. After attempting to block out as many “[---] YOU A-ROD” and “[----] ALTUVE” chants as they could on Monday, Fox allowed shouts of “[----] Joe Biden” to enter the broadcast 24-hours later. At one point during the broadcast, the at-home audience was able to hear four consecutive profane...

Olivia Newton-John’s dance-pop anthem “Physical” turned 40 this year — and it’s still as iconic as ever. The Australian singer, 73, looked back on the song’s legacy and revealed the lyrics may have been a bit too “raunchy” at the time of its release. SNIP In fact, she didn’t immediately get that it was salacious. “I don’t think I was really aware of how raunchy it was when I was recording it until afterward, and that’s when I freaked out.” SNIP “Physical” was originally written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick for British rocker Rod Stewart and then later offered...

The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers’ vaccination status. The company’s Fisherman’s Wharf location — its only one in San Francisco — was temporarily shut by the Department of Public Health on Oct. 14. “We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government,” Arnie Wensinger, the chain’s chief legal and business officer, said in a statement. Wensinger called San Francisco’s mandate unreasonable, invasive and unsafe for employees to “segregate customers” into groups who can and can’t be served. “We fiercely disagree with any government dictate that...

"One and God make a majority." "Without a struggle, there can be no progress." "The soul that is within me no man can degrade." "Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude." "Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work." "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." "The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." "At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed." "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." "A gentleman will not insult me, and no...

Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” network anchor Jim Cramer sounded the alarm on inflation and how it is affecting investment. According to Cramer, inflation in the United States is “much worse than we thought.” “I mean, look, I, think Paul Tudor Jones, as always, is right about inflation. It’s much worse than we thought,” Cramer advised. “I keep hoping that the capacity will come on and make it so that it’s not as bad, but it just can’t seem to come on as fast enough. I mean, for instance, I was going over it with my friend Frank Mitsch, who’s...

Nearly 80 percent of Republicans want former President Donald Trump to run for office in 2024, according to a new poll. Republicans by a 78 percent to 16 percent margin want Trump to mount a White House bid in 2024, an increase of 13 percentage points since May, a Quinnipiac University National Poll shows. On the other side, 94 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents say the former president should sit out the election. “While a majority of Americans say, ‘Been there, done that’ about Trump, and half feel he has damaged the underpinnings of democracy, support for...

Senator Joe Manchin swiftly denied a report he is considering leaving the Democratic party. Mother Jones reported Wednesday Manchin has been talking to associates about leaving the party, which set off a whirlwind of political speculation — and skepticism. Manchin was asked by reporters about this and said rather bluntly, “I can’t control rumors, and it’s bullshit. Bullshit spelled with a B-U-L-L, capital B!”

The London Metal Exchange took action to calm turmoil in the copper market late on Tuesday by introducing temporary limits on some prices, after a plunge in stocks of the metal in its warehouses disrupted trading. The LME said it would adjust its rules requiring large holders of the metal to lend it back to the exchange. It also said it would bring in a limit on backwardation — a scenario whereby spot contracts trade at a premium to futures contracts, indicating that the market is undersupplied. Robust demand and rising copper prices pushed inventories of copper on the LME...

Hospital staffing shortages due to COVID-19 vaccination disputes have continued across the U.S. this month, leaving patients untreated amid surges of the virus' delta variant. Health care workers against vaccine mandates have stood their ground, despite the fact that millions of Americans have been safely vaccinated against coronavirus with a Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson shot at the hands of colleagues in their field. In upstate New York, several maternity staff members resigned from Lewis County General Hospital, worsening an existing shortage and forcing the hospital to stop delivering babies and potentially curtail services in five other departments. "The...

The School called Smith and they told him his daughter had been in an altercation with a male. When he arrived, he determined that what had happened was far more serious. The school said it was handling the incident in-house. Smith was dumbfounded. Deputies from the sheriff’s office responded to the school – not to investigate the alleged rape of a child but because school administrators called them on him for making a scene about it. “Six cop cars showed up like a f—ing SWAT team” to respond to the complaint about an assertive parent, he said. “Thank God that...

In recent days, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) has told associates that he is considering leaving the Democratic Party if President Joe Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill do not agree to his demand to cut the size of the social infrastructure bill from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion, according to people who have heard Manchin discuss this. Manchin has said that if this were to happen, he would declare himself an “American Independent.” And he has devised a detailed exit strategy for his departure.

West Long Branch, NJ – With two weeks to go before Election Day, Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are locked in a close battle for governor of Virginia. The last Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll of the race before the election marks a gain for the GOP candidate from prior polls. Youngkin’s improved position comes from a widening partisan gap in voter engagement and a shift in voters’ issue priorities, particularly around schools and the pandemic. Youngkin (46%) and McAuliffe (46%) hold identical levels of support among all registered voters. This marks a shift from prior Monmouth polls where...

Surgeons at a New York City hospital have successfully attached a pig’s kidney to a person, whose immune system didn’t immediately reject the organ — a ground-breaking procedure that may one day lead to the use of animals in life-saving transplants. The recipient at NYU Langone Health was a brain-dead woman who received the kidney of a pig whose genes had been altered so its tissues no longer harbored a molecule known to trigger almost immediate rejection, according to Reuters. The family of the patient — who showed signs of kidney dysfunction — consented to the experiment before she was...

Today on International Pronouns Day, we share why many people list pronouns on their email and social media profiles. Read more here on @ShareAmerica : https://go.usa.gov/xMzhX.

It began as an exciting trip. Every year, the elderly couple Lela, 83, and Raymond Howard, 88, took a drive out from their home in from Salado, Texas, to go to a music festival in the nearby town of Temple. It wasn’t a long way, just about 15 miles, so when Lela’s son begged to let him drive them, they refused, instead opting to take the trip just the two of them as they always had. Although Lela’s son, Hal Copeland, was concerned due to Lela’s signs of early Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the fact that Raymond had suffered...

Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and Republican Glenn Youngkin are locked in a tie with less than two weeks to go until Virginia's gubernatorial election, according to a poll released on Wednesday. McAuliffe and Youngkin both drew support from 46 percent of registered voters, according to the Monmouth University survey. Additionally, the poll showed Youngkin leading with independent voters, 48 percent to McAuliffe's 39 percent. Last month's polling from Monmouth showed McAuliffe leading Youngkin 48 percent to 43 percent.

Republican Mike Carey holds an 11-point lead over state Rep. Allison Russo (D) in a poll of the race to replace former Ohio Rep. Steve Stivers (R), who resigned in May after holding the seat for a decade. The Tuesday survey from Emerson College-NBC4 shows Carey has 50 percent support among voters, while Russo receives 38.9 percent. Eleven percent of voters are still undecided two weeks before the vote, but among those, 59.3 percent say they are leaning toward Carey, with only 40.7 percent leaning toward Russo.

Two Intel staffers believe web services can be made more secure by not only carrying out computations in remote trusted execution environments, or TEEs, but by also verifying for clients that this was done so.Software engineer Gordon King and Hans Wang, a research scientist at Intel Labs, proposed the protocol to make that possible. In a paper distributed this month through ArXiv, they describe a HTTP protocol called HTTPS Attestable (HTTPA) to enhance online security with remote attestation – a way for apps to obtain an assurance that data will be handled by trusted software in secure execution environments.Essentially, it's...

Chris and Roberta Laundrie, the parents of fugitive Brian Laundrie, ventured into Florida's Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park early Wednesday morning, where Fox News Digital saw an officer apparently tell parents that law enforcement "might have found something." Steven Bertolino, who represents the Laundrie family, confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Laundries informed law enforcement last night of their intentions to search the park and met officers there. Bertolino confirmed that while searching areas that Brian frequented, "some articles belonging to Brian were found."