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Google on Wednesday said it has allowed Donald Trump's Truth Social app in its Play Store for Android devices -- after receiving assurances the app would meet the platform's standards for moderating harmful content.The app -- which Trump launched after being barred from Twitter over the 2021 Capitol riot -- had been kept out of Google's store over its lack of moderation tools, including for violent threats.Google said Truth Social has since been updated to comply with its policies barring objectionable posts, and has built in effective systems for reporting and removing unwanted content as well as blocking abusers."Apps may...

PLANO, Texas - A manager of a Hooters restaurant was brutally attacked last week all over some chocolate bars. The fight happened on Oct. 6 at the Hooters off Central Expressway near Southwestern Avenue in Plano.

People living with HIV may be more likely to develop long-term symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection—commonly known as long COVID—and this might be related to differences in immune function, according to research published in the October 1 edition of AIDS. The study, conducted by Michael Peluso, MD, of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and a team of colleagues that includes long-time HIV cure researchers Steven Deeks, MD, and Timothy Henrich, MD, found that HIV status “strongly predicted” long COVID. “There are lots of reasons why this might be the case based on what we know about the effects of...

In a sign that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has been advancing, the annexed region's Moscow-installed head Vladimir Saldo has asked Russia to help evacuate residents from the whole area. (snip) But as Zelensky's men continue their lightning counteroffensive, they are said to be narrowing in the occupied Black Sea city. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed Russia was preparing to evacuate civilians in the Kherson region suggesting the possibility that Russian troops will attempt to consolidate a new front line west of the village of Mylove after retreating about 12 miles in the north of the Kherson sector earlier this month....

LIVE Jury reaches decision in Nikolas Cruz sentencing trial: Live updates. 15 mins ago (Looks like NO death penalty. )

Viktor Orban believes Donald Trump is the only person who can end the war in Ukraine. The Hungarian Prime Minister doesn't believe peace talks should be conducted between Ukraine and Russia, but between Vladimir Putin's regime and the US, with the former president leading the negotiations, rather than current American commander-in-chief Joe Biden. Speaking at a panel event in Berlin, Orban said: “The Ukrainians have endless resources because they get all that from the Americans “That’s why the Americans have to come to an agreement with the Russians. And then the war will be over. Anyone who thinks that this...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has a plan to impose a carbon allowance that will control what you buy, eat, do, and where you to. It is outlined in an article we already discussed, ‘My Carbon’: An approach for inclusive and sustainable cities. It needs to be re-stated. THE GUISE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY The piece began by expressing how easy it was to get the world to submit to their view of “social responsibility” [using COVID] – they just had to nudge [strike fear in] people to get it done. “A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were...

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - SEPTEMBER 2022 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.4 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.1 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 8.2 percent before seasonal adjustment. Increases in the shelter, food, and medical care indexes were the largest of many contributors to the monthly seasonally adjusted all items increase. These increases were partly offset by a 4.9-percent decline in the gasoline index. The food index continued to rise, increasing 0.8 percent over...

The founder of the Oath Keepers and other leaders of the self-styled militia organization were in contact with Secret Service officials multiple times in late 2020 and leading up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an agency official and court testimony in Stewart Rhodes’s ongoing seditious conspiracy trial. A former member of the Oath Keepers testified last week that Rhodes, the group’s founder, claimed to be in touch with someone in the Secret Service in the months before the riot. A Secret Service official confirmed that members of the agency’s protective intelligence division...

Kamikaze Economics A single S300 missile costs over $1,000,000. "How much does an s300 missile cost? (One S-300 missile system is estimated to cost some $115 million, the cost of each missile is over one million US$.)" A complete S300 system would be North of $100M; A beggar nation like Malorossiya would not be able to afford huge numbers of them. Now, I haven't seen any real cost figures for the little Iranian kamikaze drones, but... The electronics and air-frame couldn't easily be more than around $1000 The warhead, another 1000 maybe (guessing) Thje only thing halfway expensive in the...

A Las Vegas police officer was killed Thursday morning after an exchange of gunfire. The officer, Truong Thai, 49, was pronounced deceased at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a news conference. The shooting took place near the 800 block of East Flamingo Road. The suspect, Tyson Hampton, 24, was taken into custody near East Desert Inn Road and South Eastern Avenue, Lombardo said. The Clark County office issued a statement: “Clark County joins with the entire community in mourning the death of Officer Truong Thai, following his tragic death in the line of duty while...

Someone is not happy with AOC.

At least two executives at Meta (parent company of Facebook) were accused of participating in a bribery scheme to help elevate the reach of OnlyFans, a company notorious for porn. A newly revealed court filing exposed two Facebook executives and a third employee in a California lawsuit accusing them of “accepting bribes on behalf of OnlyFans as part of a scheme to help the adult platform dominate its industry rivals,” according to Gizmodo’s “exclusive” reporting on the document Wednesday. The lawsuit accuses Meta Global Affairs President Nicholas Clegg, Meta Global Business Group Vice President Nicola Mendelsohn, and a third employee...

Nearly eight pounds of fentanyl was seized in San Francisco by officers during an arrest of a suspected drug dealer. The bust and arrest of the suspected dealer happened October 8 at approximately 1:30 a.m. in the city’s Tenderloin District at the corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Larkin Street.

On October 5, 2022 at the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies a round table entitled “NAFO and Winning the Information War: Lessons Learned from Ukraine” was held.Any information activities that are considered successful in the countries of the NATO bloc try to replicate and apply in further work. Therefore, the emergence of such a strange NATO ally called the North Atlantic Fellas Organization and its recognition as an important element of the Western military-propaganda machine indicates that the US and its satellites in Europe will expand this experience. Therefore, we should get ready for the next information provocations,...

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A Fort Worth neighborhood wants answers after a man has been observed sneaking around late at night, trimming trees. They're calling him Edward Scissorhands. "I was talking to my wife, Emily and I was like 'hey we had a storm last night' and she was like 'oh no that's Edward Scissorhands..' and so I was like 'uh what?'" Jerry Balkenbush said. "People in the neighborhood were talking about it and it seems like he was just hitting certain streets," Emily Balkenbush said.Several of their neighbors have caught him on their home surveillance videos, normally out...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly condemned Russia's "attempted illegal annexation" of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and called on all countries not to recognize the move, strengthening a diplomatic international isolation of Moscow since it invaded its neighbor. Three-quarters of the 193-member General Assembly - 143 countries - voted in favor of a resolution that also reaffirmed the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. "It's amazing," Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told reporters after the vote as he stood next to U.S. Ambassador to the United...

Moscow reportedly brought Iranian personnel affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the occupied regions of Ukraine to train Russian troops to use Iran-made drones. According to the Ukrainian Resistance Center, Russian forces on Wednesday “brought an unspecified number of Iranian instructors” to the town of Dzankoi in the annexed Crimea, as well as to Zalizniy Port and Hladivtsi in the Kherson region, southern Ukraine. The report claimed this personnel would teach Russian troops how to use Shahed-136 attack drones. The center also stated that the “Iranian instructors directly control the launch of drones on civilian targets in...

In a speech today, President Biden claimed his son Beau "lost his life in Iraq"; Beau Biden served in the Delaware Army National Guard and was deployed to Iraq from 2008 to 2009, and later died in the United States of brain cancer in 2015.

TEL AVIV/ZURICH - Israel's Redefine Meat has struck a partnership with importer Giraudi Meats to drive European distribution of its "New Meat" steak cuts produced on 3D printers, it said on Thursday. Early hype about plant-based meat alternatives, seen as better for animals and the environment, has ebbed as inflation and recession worries make some consumers return to cheaper animal meat products, while staffing shortages have hit fast-food chains, an important sales channel for plant-based burger patties. Redefine Meat, which makes its products from ingredients including soy and pea proteins, chickpeas, beetroot, nutritional yeasts and coconut fat, has ambitious plans....