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The niece of Chicago Police Department's Internal Affairs chief was caught on body camera video warning cops conducting a drug bust that her aunt is a police officer and is 'probably your boss.' Internal Affairs Chief Yolanda Talley's niece, who has not been named, was driving her aunt's silver Lexus on February 1, when police officers pulled the vehicle over after allegedly observing a passenger toss 84 baggies of heroin worth $6,300 out the window. That passenger, 34-year-old Kenneth Miles, has been arrested. Body camera video that was obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times in response to a Freedom of Information...

Brittney Griner’s wife Cherelle has thanked everyone for their support of the WNBA star, who was arrested last month in Russia. Cherelle Griner posted a picture Sunday on Instagram of her with the Phoenix Mercury center. “Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me regarding my wife’s safe return from Russia. Your prayers and support are greatly appreciated,” she wrote. Brittney Griner was detained at a Moscow airport after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges. They were identified as containing oil derived from cannabis, which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years...

JUST IN - Russian Deputy PM Alexander Novak threatens to embargo oil exports, halting gas supplies through Nord Stream 1 (n-tv)— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 7, 2022

Paramount Pictures actress Laurel Goodwin has passed away at the age of 79, her family revealed in an obituary. Goodwin, who has worked with the likes of Elvis Presley and Jackie Gleason, died on February 25 in Cathedral City, California. 'If she knew you, you quickly became family,' read a line from her obit. Laurel was born in 1942 in Wichita, Kansas and signed a contract with Paramount when she was just 19 years old. She would go on to co-star with Elvis Presley in the 1962 musical comedy Girls! Girls! Girls! as Laurel Dodge. In the flick, Laurel finds...

An Ohio nursing assistant was arrested last week after authorities said she filmed herself raping and sexually assaulting several elderly male dementia patients at the assisted living facility where she worked. Tiara Lynn Ford, 23, was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of rape, a first-degree felony, and two counts of gross sexual imposition, both fourth-degree felonies, court records show. Ford, who worked as a state-tested nurse's aide at The Inn at University Village in Massillon, was arrested after authorities conducted a two-week investigation into the allegations, which included a number of 'video recordings of Ms. Ford sexually assaulting...

With America's eyes fixed on Ukraine, the Biden administration just gave Communist China its greatest gift yet. In a little-noticed February 23 university speech, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department's National Security Division announced the department would be terminating its preeminent counter-espionage program, the China Initiative. This comes as the Biden DOJ is ramping up its pursuit of Americans on the basis of purported "domestic terror" threats it has never explicitly defined or substantiated. The initiative was more than justified given China's penetration of America's schools, research centers and businesses. As FBI Director Christopher Wray recognized just...

With the US reportedly said to vote as soon as Tuesday on a proposal to ditch trade relations with Russia and Belarus, including suspending oil imports despite repeated objections from Germany which has stated that a collapse in supply threatens “social cohesion”, Russian Deputy PM Novak said that a ban on Russian oil would result in catastrophic consequences for global market according to Interfax, warning that Europe is pushing Russia towards an embargo on gas deliveries through Nord Stream 1, which is currently filled to maximum capacity, although Moscow has not taken this decision yet. Warning that “no one would...

Dow drops nearly 800 points as market turmoil from Russia-Ukraine war, inflation fears continues

Yanchang Wei and colleagues at Shanghai Jiao Tong University showed that parthenogenesis is possible in mammals through a targeted technique that edits DNA methylation marks, which are chemical modifications that can alter gene activity without changing the underlying DNA sequence. The authors applied the epigenetic rewriting approach to seven imprinting control regions in mouse oocytes, successfully modifying DNA methylation in one copy of the gene but not the other. The transfer of modified embryos into foster female mice then resulted in the generation of viable full-term offspring, the researchers said. 'Following parthenogenetic activation, these edited regions showed maintenance of methylation...

Spring in the northern hemisphere is two weeks away, and interest in planting gardens could rise as the breadbasket of Europe was choked off by the Russian invasions of Ukraine, jeopardizing global food exports resulting in skyrocketing prices. Even before the turmoil in Ukraine, American households were under pressure due to soaring food and gas prices. The invasion just made things a lot worse as commodity prices jumped the most last week since the stagflationary period of the mid-1970s. New UN global food price, released on Friday, showed global food prices in February surpassed a previous record set in 2011....

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Monday slammed the Biden administration’s secret oil meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as a “huge PR boost” for the socialist regime. “Biden Admin secret meeting with #Maduro was a huge PR boost for #MaduroRegime,” Rubio tweeted after Biden reportedly sought an oil deal with the socialist nation.

Five years ago, Ukraine’s Maidan uprising ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, to the cheers and support of the West. Politicians and analysts in the United States and Europe not only celebrated the uprising as a triumph of democracy, but denied reports of Maidan’s ultranationalism, smearing those who warned about the dark side of the uprising as Moscow puppets and useful idiots. Freedom was on the march in Ukraine. Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and...

I asked "while you're at it, hang up some stars and stripes hearts with the words close the southern border now!" She cussed me out...

Four months ago, Alec Baldwin shot a woman dead. There’s no doubt about what happened, no ambiguity. The actor was the one holding the gun that discharged live ammunition that killed film cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and also wounded director Joel Souza. Of course, nobody believes Baldwin did this on purpose. It was clearly a terrible, horrendous accident, and the result of appalling safety protocol failures on the set of his Western movie, “Rust.” But he still did it. The gun was in his hand when it fired a deadly bullet into his co-worker’s body and snuffed out her life....

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — There’s no easy way to tell Huma Abedin’s story. So, she’s telling it herself, bringing her voice to an international stage in the United Arab Emirates and speaking about her recently published memoir. For more than two decades, Abedin has been the ever-loyal aide to Hillary Clinton, starting as a young intern to the First Lady in 1996 and rising to become her advisor and trusted confidante as Clinton became senator, secretary of state and, ultimately, the Democratic presidential nominee. “I was kind of the invisible staff person behind the primary person. And...

Seven years after Russia annexed Crimea and created an armed separatist movement in Donbas, the industrial eastern hub of eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian government, and its entire business class, is mired in problems so deep it is a wonder they can ever dig themselves out of it.

Washington (AFP) – The United States on Monday announced tougher emissions standards on trucks and buses starting from 2027, and said it would spend almost $1.4 billion on expanding green public transit. The proposed new standards for gasoline and diesel heavy vehicles would place stricter limits on nitrogen oxides (NOx) that cause smog and soot, and set new greenhouse gas standards from 2030. "Seventy-two million people are estimated to live near truck freight routes in America and they're more likely people of color and those with lower income," Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) director Michael Regan told reporters at an event...

Previous research has found that male survivors of the virus sometimes suffer erectile dysfunction and other genital tract issues, though it is often believed to be a result of inflammation as an immune response to the virus. These researchers now believe that it is the virus itself, not the immune system, causing genital issues for infected males, changing the calculous for how this type of condition would be treated. Researchers, who posted their findings last week in bioRxiv pending peer review before journal publication, performed research on three male rhesus macaques, a breed of monkey often used for such studies...

Syria under the Assads has long harbored a soft spot for Nazism. The revolution is changing that Those around me who sported some vague admiration for Hitler almost always supported the Assads, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, or Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Some of them sought to join the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), established by Antoun Saadeh, a 20th century politician who spoke of the superiority of Middle Eastern Arabs over Africans and Syrians over neighboring peoples. Unlike the Assads’ Arab Socialist Baath Party and the many other political and social movements that called for a unity of Arab nations, the...