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Carlee Russell could be on the hook for at least part of the cost of the law enforcement investigation into her disappearance which ended up being a hoax, according to a former FBI agent. Russell, 24, went missing on July 13 at around 9:34 p.m. after reporting a toddler walking along the southbound side of Interstate 459 near Birmingham, Alabama, according to the Hoover Police Department. The 24-year-old woman returned home at around 10:45 p.m. and police say she was seen walking along the sidewalk in the area beforehand. Through her attorney, Emery Anthony, Russell admitted to never seeing a...

Losses are going up on Ford’s electric vehicle business, but profit from its traditional internal combustion engine vehicles allowed it to beat Wall Street expectations. [Snip] The company was able to beat the estimates despite the fact that its losses before interest and taxes (EBIT) grew to $1.1 billion from its EV business, which the company calls its Model e division, up from the $722 million EBIT losses in the first quarter. And those losses are going to rise, at least in the short term. Ford said it expects a Model e EBIT loss of $4.5 billion for the full...

Russian lawmakers have passed legislation changing the age categories for those called up for the military potentially meaning that older troops could be sent to fight in Ukraine. With President Vladimir Putin's forces reportedly facing heavy losses in his invasion of Ukraine, Russia's parliament, the Duma, has this week passed a raft of measures to help with mobilization, including tougher fines for those who avoid the draft as well as extending upper age limits for reserves. The State Duma said Tuesday it had adopted a law raising the maximum age by half a decade for those who had already completed...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has legitimate grievances with President Joe Biden. He has no good excuse, however, for rebuking House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy has provided stalwart support to Israel since entering the speaker's office. Still, Netanyahu most certainly did rebuke McCarthy when he published a photo of his meeting with the Chinese ambassador on Wednesday. The image of Netanyahu's smiling face as he reads a book by America's preeminent adversary, Xi Jinping, is telling. This photo was clearly designed as a message to America. And not a very nice one..."

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A sizzling summer has made climate change a hot topic. We are literally in uncharted territory, with unprecedented global temperatures. Because of this, climate change is adding a layer of complexity to topics that have not traditionally had environmental dimensions. Take, for instance, sports. Many of us watch and participate in athletic events but have not really connected sports to climate change. But every sport, especially those played outdoors, is vulnerable to extreme weather. Looking ahead at tennis, outdoor matches could be doomed. One tennis prediction, conducted by FiveThirtyEight, a polling and news website, used United National forecasts to predict...

A New York City taxi driver was viciously beaten by a group of five brutes on a busy Midtown Manhattan street last week in a disturbing attack that was caught on camera. The horrific footage shows three women and two men repeatedly striking the 60-year-old cabbie with shoes and closed fists near Sixth Avenue and W. 34th Street on July 19. The male driver attempts to avoid their blows and bends down to pick an item off the street, but is continuously pummeled. He is knocked off balance and slumps along the side of his cab as one of the...

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Travelers have had to suffer through a record number of flight delays and cancellations this summer. Although ongoing crew shortages partly explain such disruptions, there is another factor that will be harder to remedy: climate change. Indeed, severe weather events linked to the rising mercury are proving to be a challenge for airlines across the globe. "There are a lot of ways climate change can affect air travel. Thunderstorms are an obvious one," Wired magazine reporter Amanda Hoover told CBS News. "When there is more heat in the air, there is more moisture, more thunderstorms." "Really high heat can cause...

Martha Crawford started having climate change dreams about 11 or 12 years ago. Unlike many of her previously remembered dreams, these were not fragmented or nonsensical—they were “very explicit,” she recalls. “They didn’t require a lot of interpretation.” In one, she’s reading a textbook about climate change and then throws it behind the back of her couch, pretending it doesn’t exist. The dreams eventually inspired her to start the Climate Dreams Project in 2019, and since, she’s been facilitating a space where people can share climate dream anecdotes, mostly anonymously. One dream submitted to the collection was of people digging...

Dr. Michael S. Heiser talks about the idea of there being alien life and what that could mean for Christianity. He discusses the popular idea that aliens are related to demons, or are demons. In addition, he takes a look at the phenomena of alien abduction and whether or not there is some truth to the events of what people have reported happened to them.

While many traditional countries would gladly clamp down on prostitution and go after the pornography industry, Western countries resist efforts to cast pornography and prostitution in a negative light.Indeed, Western countries are at the forefront of promoting unfettered sexual freedom, including legal prostitution and pornography, and have not been willing to acknowledge the role these play in sex-trafficking.

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The state of Illinois improperly paid out billions of unemployment tax dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic, with tens of millions going to people who were either dead or in prison, according to a newly released audit. The Illinois auditor general on Wednesday published a report that showed how the state agency that distributes unemployment benefits issued “overpayments” to the tune of $5.2 billion in fraudulent or excessive claims from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2022. The report is the fullest accounting yet of the large-scale fraud and overpayments that occurred in Illinois during the pandemic. Of the $5.2 billion,...

In 2022, doctors recorded the first confirmed case of tick-borne encephalitis virus acquired in the United Kingdom. […] For the past 30 years, the U.K. has become roughly 1 degree Celsius warmer (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) on average compared to the historical norm. Studies have shown that several tick-borne illnesses are becoming more prevalent because of climate change. Public health officials are particularly concerned about TBE, which is deadlier than more well-known tick diseases such as Lyme, due to the way it has quickly jumped from country to country. Gábor Földvári, an expert at the Center for Ecological Research in Hungary,...

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Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as 'Take It Easy' and 'The Best of My Love' and stepped out front for the waltz-time ballad 'Take It to the Limit,' has died, the band said Thursday. Meisner died Wednesday night in Los Angeles of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the Eagles said in a statement. He was 77. The bassist had endured numerous afflictions in recent years and personal tragedy in 2016 when his wife, Lana Rae Meisner, accidentally shot herself and died. Meanwhile, Randy Meisner had been diagnosed with bipolar...

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