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Despite Democrats’ claim the January 6 protests were an “armed insurrection,” the FBI has now revealed no one arrested was carrying a single firearm on the Capitol grounds that day. One America’s Pearson Sharp reports.Video

An semi-armless teenager who acted as getaway driver on a jewellery heist, driving at 100mph during a police pursuit "despite needing somebody to change the gears for him", has escaped jail, the Telegraph reports. John Smith, 18 - who has no arms below the elbow - was in charge of a Ford Focus during the robbery of Ernest Jones in Hempstead Valley shopping centre near Rainham, Kent, on 17 December last year.

SNELLVILLE, Ga. — A man died of a heart attack after being head-butted by an armless man during a fight over a woman, and no felony charges will be filed, authorities said today. Investigators said they made the determination after learning that Charles Keith Teer, 49, had heart problems long before the confrontation with William Russell Redfern, an artist who has won recognition for drawings he does with his feet. "The autopsy revealed he had serious heart disease and blockages and they'd been there for quite awhile," Snellville Police Chief Roy Whitehead said. He added, however, that misdemeanor charges such...

SNELLVILLE, Ga. -- Police questioned an armless man Monday about the death of his neighbor. Relatives of Charles Keith Teer, 47, claim he died after the armless man head-butted and kicked Teer during a fight. The two men lived across the street from each other on Pine Street in the Atlanta suburb. Teer's relatives told police the men were arguing over a woman. "He's dating my brother's ex-girlfriend," said Teer's sister Lynn Elliot. "My neighbor left my brother for this guy, so it's a verbal argument between them the whole time." Elliot said the armless man attacked her brother. "They...

LAND O' LAKES, Fla. (AP) - There was a time when nothing could keep Michael Francis Wiley from behind the wheel—not even a triple amputation that makes simple tasks like tying a shoe impossible. Even police, who busted Wiley so many times that it's now a felony for him to drive, couldn't stop him. But now he is at the end of the road: He is scheduled to face a judge Friday for sentencing on a new round of felony traffic and drug possession charges. Prosecutors want to put him in jail for five years, and this time, Wiley says...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Doctors at a Kuwaiti hospital on Wednesday began treating an Iraqi child who touched hearts around the world after he lost his arms and most of his family during a bombing raid on Baghdad. Ali Ismaeel Abbas was also badly burned when a missile hit his home during the U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein, and doctors have warned he would die if he did not receive specialist treatment in the next few days. A spokesman for Ibn Sina hospital in Kuwait said U.S. forces flew Ali from Baghdad to an airfield in Kuwait, where an ambulance...