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DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Things didn’t go as planned for newlyweds who hoped to honeymoon in Florida but, instead, spent their wedding night in a south Alabama jail. Abbeville police stopped their vehicle for speeding along U.S. Highway 431 on Thursday night, but Chief Eric Blankenship said things turned out to be anything but a routine. He told WTVY News 4 that officers discovered drugs in the automobile occupied by Shavarious Jawan Moses and Alexus Demetria Armstrong who were still wearing their wedding attire, including his tuxedo and her veil. Moses, 28 of Riverdale, Georgia, is charged with Possession of...

Explanation: What's causing the commotion in the Tadpole Nebula? Star formation. Dusty emission in the Tadpole Nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga). The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, bright newly formed cluster stars are seen all around the star-forming nebula. Notable on the lower-right of the featured image are two relatively dense streamers of material trailing away from the nebula's central regions....

Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) will be appointed the U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs, the State Department announced Monday. The role will involve focusing on advancing economic development and investment opportunities in Northern Ireland. It will also focus on “strengthening people-to-people ties between the United States and Northern Ireland,” according to the State Department. The role is intended to build on the U.S. commitment to stability in Northern Ireland and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. President Biden, through his time in office, has stressed his commitment to protecting the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

Five people are dead after a 73-year-old man allegedly went on a shooting spree inside a condominium in Toronto on Sunday night. Police were called and upon arrival confronted the attacker and killed him. Five killed in Toronto shooting: police York Regional Police say 5 people have been killed in a #shooting tonight at a condo building in Vaughan, Ontario, north of #Toronto #Canada pic.twitter.com/Nqcf0Kz1Ew — Chaudhary Parvez (@ChaudharyParvez) December 19, 2022 City News Toronto quoted York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween saying it was a “horrendous scene.”

Elon Musk’s Twitter Files part 7 was released Monday morning by Michael Shellenberger. Part 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop 1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7 The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020 — Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 19, 2022 TRENDING: BREAKING: Twitter Files Part 7 Released: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop Recall, in Twitter files 6, we saw the constant contact the FBI...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol escalated its clash with Republican lawmakers on Monday, recommending a formal ethics inquiry into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and other top allies of former President Trump for their refusal to cooperate with the probe. The recommendations to the House Ethics Committee mark a milder step than the criminal referrals to the Justice Department that the select committee made Monday against Trump and several members of the former president’s inner circle for their role in the Capitol riot. But as a political matter, the ethics complaints...

even though the Mazars report ... suggested Binance's situation was solid, it also showed bitcoin liabilities were $245 million bigger than assets, the WSJ reported. Nearly half of the company's $75 billion reserves are in its own stablecoin BUSD and its native token binance coin (BNB) ... On Friday, the accounting firm suspended its proof-of-reserves work with Binance and other crypto clients "due to concerns regarding the way these reports are understood by the public, Investors are worried that cracks are starting to appear at Binance after the shocking collapse of FTX. The crypto exchange giant faces questions about its...

Update: The January 6 Committee approved criminal referrals against Trump. It will ultimately be up to US Attorney General Merrick Garland whether or not to charge Trump. NBC News reported: The House Jan. 6 committee voted Monday to recommend the Justice Department pursue a batch of criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his role in an effort to overturn the 2020 election and the fomenting of a deadly mob at the Capitol. The select committee also took aim at Trump’s top allies — on and off Capitol Hill — who worked with the 45th president to block certification...

BURIRAM, Thailand—Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda said he is among the auto industry’s silent majority in questioning whether electric vehicles should be pursued exclusively, comments that reflect a growing uneasiness about how quickly car companies can transition. Auto makers are making big bets on fully electric vehicles, investments that have been bolstered by robust demand for the limited numbers of models that are now available. Still, challenges are mounting—particularly in securing parts and raw materials for batteries—and concerns have emerged in some pockets of the car business about the speed to which buyers will make the shift, especially as...

ransomnote: The video excerpt (transcript below) is undated, was recorded when President Trump was in office, and is likely from 2019. The video was uploaded to YOUTUBE on Dec 1, 2022.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZaNqkKGt8aATRANSCRIPT of video clip:Why are we the only ones that give the big money to the Ukraine?We give money to Ukraine, and it’s bothered me from Day 1; and you have plenty of people, just here; I say, "how come it’s always the United States that gets ripped?"Frankly, Ukraine, we wanna help them.What I was having a problem with are two things.Number 1, Ukraine is known (audience: Zelensky?) –before him,...

Election denier Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) announced Monday that the January 6 Committee would refer former President Donald Trump for criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for four charges. These charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States; obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to make a false statement; and inciting, assisting, or aiding and comforting an insurrection against the country. Raskin himself has objected to the past certification of election results — the action at the center of the charges that he, and the rest of the committee, voted unanimously to refer the former president for prosecution.

After nearly two years of the Biden administration’s failed diplomacy, the revival of the Iran nuclear deal—aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—is all but dead, likely making Tehran thrilled with its burgeoning friendship with Moscow. Why? Well, it turns out that Russia can do many things to support Iran in a post-nuclear deal world—and Tehran likely is expecting that, considering what it already has done for Moscow in its unjust war on Kyiv. As we are aware, Iran has provided several hundred—likely more—combat drones to Russia for its military campaign in Ukraine. The Iranian drones have had a sizable...

The epic is heading for a strange head-to-head with Barbie at the box office Universal has released the first full trailer for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist closely associated with the invention and detonation of the first atomic bomb in the 1940s. The tone is epic and serious as we see a montage of the bomb being devised and prepared at the Manhattan Project site in New Mexico, while Cillian Murphy, as Oppenheimer, looks on, aghast at his creation. “They won’t fear it until they understand it, and they won’t understand it until they’ve used...

The head of Ukraine's National Defense and Security Council, Oleksi Danilov, assured Monday that the Chechnya region will only be part of Russia "as long as (Vladimir) Putin is alive" and insisted that "once Putin leaves it will be a free country." Danilov has pointed out that Putin and the leader of the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadirov, have reached an agreement whereby the Russian president "gives everything." "Money, opportunities, orders, welfare, everything. In return, Chechnya remains part of Russia, but as soon as Putin leaves, it will become a free country," he stressed. "Whether with Kadyrov or without him, it...

Metabolism studies reveal surprising insights into how we burn calories—and how cooperative food production helped Homo sapiens flourish It was my daughter Clara’s seventh birthday party, a scene at once familiar and bizarre. The celebration was an American take on a classic script: a shared meal of pizza and picnic food, a few close COVID-compliant friends and family, a beaming kid blowing out candles on a heavily iced cake. With roughly 380,000 boys and girls around the world turning seven each day, it was a ritual no doubt repeated by many, the world’s most prolific primate singing “Happy Birthday” in...

Members of Pussy Riot, a Russian punk rock band known for political stunts to draw attention to societal issues, was detained in Qatar after trying to storm the field at the World Cup on Sunday, activists say.The band members were looking to protest against Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, the imprisonment of Russian political activist Alexei Navalny and the oppression of women in Iran that have sparked protests throughout the Islamic Republic, according to Reuters.Nika Nikulshina, an associate of the group, and Peter Verzilov, who is from Ukraine, were detained before they could get onto the field at Lusail Stadium, the...

I have to go on Medicare early next April. I have my credit reports frozen. Does anybody know which ones I need to un freeze in order to log on? Foot traffic to the local SS office is backed up late February. The local SS office had no clue which credit report I needed to unfreeze.

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U.S. stock indexes fell on Monday, led by shares of Tesla and other megapcap companies, as investors feared that the Federal Reserve's monetary policy tightening campaign could push the U.S. economy into a recession. The main U.S. benchmarks have sold off sharply in December, putting them on course for their worst annual declines since the 2008 financial crisis, after mixed economic data and the Fed's hawkish stance fueled worries of a recession. Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) fell 1.6%, reversing strong premarket gains in the wake of a Twitter poll that showed majority of users voted for Elon Musk to step down...