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A massive alligator was caught Friday carrying the lifeless body of a Floridian down a canal. A witness first spotted the 14-foot reptile with its victim clenched between its jaws on a residential street in Largo, a small community just four miles south of Clearwater. “I could tell there was a body in his mouth, so I started recording,” witness JaMarcus Bullard told Spectrum Bay News 9. Bullard, who was on his way to a job interview, alerted the Largo Fire Department, which was stationed just steps away from the gory scene. Emergency personnel quickly pulled the gator from the...

Amara Roberts was throwing a friend’s birthday party the night she accidentally overdosed. She swallowed a pill she thought was MDMA. Then she lost consciousness. This was about a year and a half ago, long before Amara, 17, knew illicit pills of all varieties were suddenly carrying traces of fentanyl, a deadly opioid up to 50 times as potent as heroin. There was no Narcan around. No one called 911. “Nobody knew what to do,” she said. “We were all scared of getting caught.” Amara didn’t make it to the hospital that night; medical care is expensive — sometimes too...

A former Ministry of Defence police officer has won a discriminations case after she was sacked for failing the bleep test exam. An employment tribunal ruled that the multi-stage fitness exam, which sees participants run back and forth at increasing speed, did not take into account 'innate biological differences' between men and women. Koren Brown, 33, was successful in arguing she was a victim of unlawful discrimination after she failed to meet the force's fitness standards and was subsequently fired. During the grueling fitness test she scored just 6.7 instead of the required 7.6. She continued to be deployed in...

Despite Biden administration efforts, children’s hospitals across the country report some chemotherapy drugs commonly used for leukemia and lymphoma are hard to find. Pediatric cancer doctors are sounding the alarm about a growing shortage of chemotherapy drugs for children. The dwindling supplies add another layer to the ongoing cancer drug shortage crisis that’s left doctors scrambling and forced patients to make difficult choices about treatments since early February. The Biden administration has taken steps to address the crisis, in some cases successfully: Doctors say that shortages of two cancer drugs, carboplatin and cisplatin, have eased significantly in recent weeks. However,...

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to sue former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele over his infamous opposition research document on Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. The dossier, commonly called the "Steele dossier," has since been discredit and found to have false, misleading and/or inaccurate information. “The president’s claim seeks remedies including that the inaccurate data contained within the Steele Dossier be erased or rectified together with the payment of damages,” Orbis Business Intelligence attorney Tim Lowles said in a statement, according to the New York Post. The Independent reports that a two-day hearing on the matter is...

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An elderly woman 'died' twice in two days after doctors at a Spanish hospital wrongly certified her death and sent her to a local mortuary, only for her to be rushed back to a bed when a worker found her breathing. Doctors at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Zaragoza, northern Spain, certified the death of the unnamed woman, 90, and sent to the city's mortuary after she went into cardiac arrest. The woman's daughter was told, upon arriving at the hospital, that she would not be able to see her mother's body as it had already been sent...

Mexican industry leaders call for end to Texas state inspections forcing drivers to spend the night outside ports of entryMexican industry leaders are calling for an end to Texas border truck inspections given they are hindering components assembled in Juarez from reaching U.S. distribution centers. They also are concerned that limited operating hours at smaller ports of entry outside the El Paso-Juarez urban sprawl are jeopardizing drivers and their trucks. “The cargo vehicles that spent the night (waiting to cross the Santa Teresa, New Mexico port of entry) had their tires slashed,” said Manuel Sotelo, president of the Juarez Transportation...

... When Deaton first came to America in 1983, he recalls being gobsmacked by how indifferent his fellow economists were to rising inequality, and how ideologically opposed they were to government intervention in the economy. Deaton, after all, had been educated at Cambridge, which was steeped in Keynesian economics (John Maynard Keynes had launched the Keyensian revolution, which provided an intellectual framework in favor of greater government intervention in the economy, while teaching there). "I was appalled when one of my new colleagues (publicly) proclaimed that 'government is theft,'" Deaton writes. "I had grown up in a country where I,...

This is one of those under the radar jams. Has a 2000s vibe to it.

Patrick Crusius killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about HispanicsA white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims of the racist attack, according to an order signed by a judge Monday. Patrick Crusius was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in July after pleading guilty to federal hate crime charges following one of the nation’s worst mass killings. Court records show his attorneys and the Justice Department reached an agreement over the...

Researchers have developed an airborne mRNA vaccine offering a vehicle by which to rapidly vaccinate the masses without their knowledge or consent.A team from Yale University has developed a new airborne method for delivering mRNA right to your lungs. The method has also been used to vaccinate mice intranasally, “opening the door for human testing in the near future.”While scientists may celebrate this invention as a convenient method to vaccinate large populations, skeptics raise obvious concerns about the potential misuse of an airborne vaccine, including the possibility of covert bioenhancements a concept that has previously been suggested in academic literature....

Now that the Supreme Court has banned race-based affirmative action, Harvard University’s admissions office has come up with a creative work-around: asking more questions about students’ backgrounds on their applications. But now the school newspaper’s editorial board has suggested the new essay prompts — which are designed to diversify the student body — are racist. A September 12 Harvard Crimson editorial board op-ed argued that imposing word limits and asking students about intellectual experiences “has a disparate impact that falls heaviest on those from marginalized backgrounds.” And that hot take apparently “represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board”...

The abject cruelty and racism within the criminal justice system in the United States has been well documented. But a new report from the United Nation’s foremost human rights experts is shedding new light on the atrocities within our justice system for all of the world to see. The report found that racism and the legacy of slavery persist within our modern criminal justice system. Experts who met with 133 “affected individuals” in cities throughout the country — noted that Black children were subjected to life imprisonment, pregnant women were chained during childbirth, and people were subjected to forced labor...

— And if I do, how long should I wait?Updated COVID shots are becoming available in the U.S. amid what appears to be a surge in cases -- leaving some to wonder whether they need an updated shot if they recently recovered from an infection. Official CDC guidanceopens in a new tab or window states that people who are currently infected should wait "at least until recovery from acute illness" before getting a shot. But they also "may consider delaying" their updated shot by 3 months from symptom onset, or from a positive test if the infection was asymptomatic. Camille...

A former contractor who worked with the Internal Revenue Service until 2021 was accused of disclosing tax return information of a high-ranking government official and "thousands of the nation's wealthiest people" without authorization, according to criminal information filed Friday in Washington, D.C. Although the court documents do not reveal the name of the government official, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News that it is former President Donald Trump. Charles Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., allegedly obtained Trump's tax return information and gave it to a news organization, the court documents said. He has been accused of...

The signs are all around. Governments from coastal America to Communist China and businesses from automakers to toymakers have promised that they will produce no net carbon emissions by some date conveniently far in the future. But as years have gone on, those dates have come to seem inconveniently near. Something has to give. Political scientist Francis Fukuyama has described the process of improving societies — making them more politically democratic, economically advanced and culturally tolerant — as “getting to Denmark.” And in fact, Denmark, though far from perfect, has done a better job of getting there than just about...

In an easily missed moment during Wednesday night’s chaotic GOP presidential primary debate, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would sign a federal 15-week abortion ban. Throughout his campaign, DeSantis, who has signed both a 15-week and six-week abortion ban in Florida, has walked a very fine line on abortion access, saying that he would be a “pro-life” president and support “pro-life legislation,” but has stopped short of saying he would support any national abortion ba This is a complete flip from the last debate in August, where the governor indicated that he would prefer states to make their own abortion...

— The fact is, we have not maximized their actual best useI was an early believeropens in a new tab or window in the usefulness of at-home rapid COVID tests. Used correctly, they can decrease the spread of COVID-19. The Biden administration announcedopens in a new tab or window last week that free tests will once again be available on the Covid.govopens in a new tab or window website. Wait, What Do Rapid Antigen Tests Tell Us Again? A positive rapid antigen COVID test means you have COVID, and you're likely to be contagious at the time of the test....

The United States warns that Serbia is preparing to attack Kosovo as large deployments of tanks and artillery head toward the border.