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ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A Pensacola man was charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault after he allegedly shot at two women who were asking for jumper cables Wednesday night on Mobile Hwy., according to Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies. Lee David Wilkerson, 38, was charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, firing a weapon, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, a weapon offense and trafficking amphetamine. VIDEO: Watch the latest video stories in the WKRG News 5 Video Center On Jan. 4, deputies said they responded to Bingo Paradise on Mobile Hwy., in reference to a shots fired...

Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people's health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We found that a staggering 90% of people living with long COVID initially experienced only mild illness with COVID-19. ...women have twice the risk of men and four times the risk of children... We analyzed data from 54 studies reporting on over 1 million people from 22 countries who had experienced symptoms of COVID-19.... ...Among all people...

In 2021, only 486 people died using California's assisted suicide program, but that same year in Canada, 10,064 died used MAID to die that year. MAID has now grown so popular that Canada has both anti-suicide hotlines to try and stop people killing themselves, as well as pro-suicide hotlines for people wanting to end their lives. MAID has fallen into further scrutiny over claims that people are now seeking assisted suicide due to poverty and homelessness or mental anguish, as opposed to the traditional method of the terminally-ill seeking a painless death. Dying With Dignity Canada associates Ellen Wiebe and...

Anti-terrorist investigators arrested an Iranian national in the Ruhr area who is said to have prepared an Islamist attack. The investigators searched the 32-year-old 's apartment in Castrop-Rauxel on Sunday night. The man is suspected of having obtained the toxins cyanide and ricin for the crime, said the Düsseldorf public prosecutor , the Recklinghausen police and the Münster police early on Sunday morning. The 32-year-old was reportedly taken into custody along with another man. It was initially unclear how far the attack plans had progressed and whether there was already a concrete target. The investigation was still ongoing in the...

The second-term governor is no stranger to firing off public broadsides against her critics.Last month, South Dakota State University (SDSU) sparked fierce criticism from conservatives after allowing a "kid-friendly" drag show to be hosted on campus. Among those critics was Norman Woods, director of the state-based social-conservative advocacy group Family Heritage Alliance (FHA), who penned an open letter to Governor Kristi Noem urging her to take action: "Innocent children should not be exposed to drag shows. Full stop," Woods wrote. "Considering you have the power to hold the South Dakota Board of Regents accountable and fire at will, I am...

A working mom of three from Massachusetts mysteriously vanished after leaving home to catch a flight on New Year’s Day — sparking a statewide police search as her loved ones fear the worst. Ana Walshe, 39, of Cohasset ordered a rideshare bound for Logan International Airport in Boston at 4 a.m. to commute to Washington, DC, for her job at a real estate firm, according to police. But Walshe, who has three young sons, ranging from 2 to 6 years old, never boarded the plane... ...The mystery deepened later Friday, when a fire reportedly broke out at the family’s former...

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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem appears to be showing off her bona fides ahead of what's expected to be a competitive 2024 Republican presidential primary as she gave her second inaugural speech Saturday. Noem, who won re-election by 26 points, spoke ahead of the speech, which included a reference to David Letterman's famous 'Top 10' lists and discussed how her leadership can offer lessons for the rest of the country. She was asked Saturday if she wasn't ruling out a 2024 run and responded that 'that's fair to say. But there are a lot of people out there talking about...

Anyone wishing to gain entry into Thailand will soon be required to show proof of receiving at least two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine prior to their arrival. The measure will apply to all arrivals in the kingdom regardless of nationality. The Ministry of Public Health is planning to reintroduce the old entry requirement amid concerns that Chinese tourists will import a caseload of Covid into Thailand when China – where the virus is rampant – reopens its border on Sunday, January 8. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was not clear about when the measure would come into effect. It...

Introduction The development of myocarditis following mRNA vaccination is rare, occurring in < 2 per 100,000 individuals. It remains an unpredictable mysterious occurrence. Some have suggested that it is linked to the overproduction of antibodies or abnormal immune responses. Autoantibody production due to polyclonal B cell activation and proliferation has also been suggested, as has immune complex formation and inflammation. Finally, some think that cardiac antigens closely resembling the spike protein are targeted by autoantibodies formed as a result of molecular mimicry. The immune response to these vaccines in these patients needs to be better understood in order to determine...

Leading US attorney Prof. Alan Dershowitz told Galei Tzahal's Morning News Show with Efi Triger that the government's planned reforms to Israel judicial system will open the Jewish State to greater international criticism and make it more difficult for supporters like him to defend Israel. "I have no doubt that if the plan is implemented it will weaken the position of Israel and the position of the its Supreme Court in the world, I am certainly afraid that it will be much more difficult for people like me to defend Israel against its critics," Dershowitz said. .....

𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧 @HamlinIsland Putting love into the world comes back 3xs as much… thankful for everyone who has reached out and prayed. This will make me stronger on the road to recovery, keep praying for me! 🫶🏾3️⃣ 2:14 PM · Jan 7, 2023

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“FWIW, @ByronDonalds is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy. His name being in the mix is not progress — it’s pathetic,” Bush tweeted Wednesday. If progressives like Bush actually cared about black people being used as props or tokens, she would have had a problem with Joe Biden wanting specifically a black woman to be his vice president before selecting Kamala Harris. She would have wagged her finger at Democratic pundits and strategists advocating a black female to take a Supreme...

A “relentless parade of cyclones” from the Pacific Ocean is expected to bring additional flooding and heavy snow to parts of the West Coast this weekend after the region was pummeled by heavy precipitation and hurricane-force winds amid intense storms over the past week. The National Weather Service (NWS) said the main focus of the storms will be on Northern California, where tens of thousands of people already lost power and at least two people were killed on Thursday as a result of a storm. The NWS said the heavy precipitation hitting Northern California on Saturday morning will strengthen at...

Houston, Texas – An armed robber was shot to death by a patron at a taqueria on S. Gessner just before midnight on Thursday night. Surveillance video shows a male in a black ski mask walking around the taqueria and robbing customers at gunpoint. A bald man seated near the robber jumped into action and shot the suspect dead.

As I post this, it is the evening before the 233rd anniversary of the first ever SOTU, American time. Nobody now knows definitively how to fight terrorism. Being ruled by fear of them can drag us down to where they are. I recall reading a Douglas MacArthur quote somewhere along the lines of "I cannot fight the enemy, if I cannot see him." Understanding the enemy is a part of this process. In approaching such problems, which modern leader comes closest to emulating George Washington?

Victoria Lee, a mixed martial arts prodigy and younger sister of current ONE Championship champions Angela and Christian Lee, has died at the age of 18. Lee’s death, which occurred on Dec. 26, 2022, was announced on Angela Lee’s personal Instagram account on Saturday morning. The cause of death was not disclosed at the time of the announcement. All the latest sports news from Hawaii’s sports station As a wrestler at Mililani High School, Lee won an HHSAA championship in the 117-pound weight class in 2020. She signed her first professional mixed martial arts contract later that year at the...

'In the morning it was morning, and I was still alive,' wrote novelist Charles Bukowski, presumably after something of a late and drunken evening. One imagines that newly elected Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy must have woken up Saturday with just such a feeling. 'That was easy, huh?' McCarthy quipped in his late-night acceptance speech, just a short time after Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers had to be physically restrained as he appeared to lunge at top GOP rebel, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who had just derailed McCarthy's speakership – again – on the 14th vote. Thankfully members of Congress...

A son of left-wing billionaire and philanthropist George Soros has made repeated visits to President Joe Biden's White House as he boosts Democrats with campaign donations and has promoted his frequent meetings with Democratic politicians, records show. George Soros, founder of the major liberal grant-making Open Society Foundations network, has often kept a low profile while influencing Democratic politics through the bankrolling of myriad causes. Alexander Soros, his 37-year-old son who has been more public on social media about his cozy relationships with lawmakers, has made six separate trips to the White House since Biden assumed office and gained influence...