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At least three people were killed and four injured in the second mass shooting to erupt in Los Angeles County in eight days -- the sixth in California this month, according to police. The latest shooting occurred Saturday in the upscale Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills. The mass-casualty shooting unfolded around 2:30 a.m. when police received multiple 911 calls of a shooting in progress at a short-term rental luxury home in the neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A senior LAPD source told ABC News that the three people killed were found in a...

When Isla Bryson was found guilty of two counts of rape, the warrant issued by the High Court in Glasgow recommended that the defendant be sent to HMP Barlinnie, a notorious male-only jail. Instead, Bryson – who until 2020 was known as Adam Graham – was taken to an isolation unit at HMP Cornton Vale, the country’s only women’s jail, sparking a backlash that has engulfed Nicola Sturgeon. The decision was taken by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), and the Scottish First Minister has insisted she played no role in it. However, sources with intimate knowledge of how the prison...

The first victim of Isla Bryson, and the mother of one of his children, say it is "impossible" not to say the transgender rapist is a man and should not have been allowed in a women's prison. Bryson was named Adam Graham when committing the crimes and only started to transition after appearing in court on rape charges. There was uproar last week when the rapist was sent to Cornton Vale women's prison after being convicted, with prison bosses overruling the courts service, which wanted to send Bryson to the all-male Barlinnie prison in Glasgow. Nicola Sturgeon was forced to...

Moderna and the Food and Drug Association (FDA) have been accused of concealing data during the approval process for the pharma giant's bivalent Covid booster. Vaccine advisors who signed off on the updated shot late last year claim they were not shown trial data that indicated the booster was actually less effective at preventing Covid than the older vaccine it was meant to replace. While the early trial results had substantial limitations, 'disappointed' and 'angry advisors say its omission from panel discussions shows a remarkable lack of transparency. US taxpayers ended up shelling out nearly $5billion on the new booster,...

Three former Texas high school student-athletes died in a fiery crash after a police chase, according to a report. Phabian Bynaum, 19, Davarius Bynaum, 20, and Malik Thomas, 21, who previously attended Cameron High School died in the crash on Thursday. Phabian Bynaum was driving more than 20 miles over the speed limit on US 190 between Cameron and Milano, Milam County Sheriff Mike Clore told FOX 7 Austin. He said one of his deputies attempted to stop the vehicle unsuccessfully, and that a chase began. Bynaum lost control of the vehicle as he attempted to pass another car, a...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday defended the continued aid that the United States is providing to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia, saying that as a country “we care about human life.” Romney said in a video post on his Twitter account that the U.S. support for Ukraine is both the “right thing” to do and necessary for U.S. national security interests. “I begin, of course, with just the humanitarian reality, which is we care about human life and about the suffering that’s going on in Ukraine,” he said. “We’re just appalled by the fact that Russia has invaded...

A Harvard Medical School course teaches enrollees how to provide “affirming care” for patients involved in adulterous and sadomasochist sexual lifestyles. The continuing education course, “Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health: A Course for the Whole Healthcare Team,” is not yet scheduled for 2023, but the university wants to open the class up as a national learning opportunity for healthcare professionals. The class is offered by the Fenway Institute, an LGBT advocacy organization. One section of the 2022 course agenda contained the presentation “Alternative Sexualities in Healthcare: Providing Affirming Care for Patients Who Engage in Kink, BDSM, Fetish, Swinging, Ethical Non-Monogamy,...

Atlanta Police are investigating a shooting after police said a boyfriend accidentally shot his girlfriend while playing with a gun. On Saturday, police responded to the Northside Plaza apartment complex located at 400 Markham Street after they received an anonymous call about a person shot. Police located a woman with a gunshot wound to the chest . During the initial investigation, police were able to access footage from a Ring camera that showed the victim and her boyfriend were out in the breeze way of the apartment complex when a gun the boyfriend was playing with went off, striking the...

New York, N.Y., January 27, 2023 – Allegations have recently been made related to gain of function and directed evolution research at Pfizer and the company would like to set the record straight. In the ongoing development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research. Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern. This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities. This research provides a way...

Memphis officials release pole camera video appearing to show multiple police officers beating Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop at an intersection near the home of Nichols’ mother.

Mercedes-Benz DRIVE PILOT self-certified in state of Nevada for SAE Level 3 conditionally automated driving DRIVE PILOT available in the U.S. for model year 2024 S-Class and EQS Sedan models, with the first cars delivered to customers in the second half of 2023 Mercedes-Benz is the world's first automotive company to bring SAE Level 31 conditionally automated driving to the U.S., with Nevada being the first state to confirm the compliance of the system with state regulations. This significant milestone sets the ground-breaking Mercedes-Benz DRIVE PILOT system apart as the first and only SAE Level 3 system in a standard-production...

In 2022, almost a third of American adults said the news was untrustworthy or biased and just 26% said they trusted most news most of the time. So where does that leave us? Lost in our social feeds, drowning in disinformation and ultimately cynical about all information. When we can’t agree on the facts, we can’t have productive conversations about the important issues in our lives. And accepting a common body of facts is essential to the functioning of democracy. Of course, it’s up to the news media to be transparent and demonstrate why we should trust them. But as...

University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics researchers achieved the first observation of de Broglie-Mackinnon wave packets by exploiting a loophole in 1980’s-era laser physics theorem. A research paper by CREOL and Florida Photonics Center of Excellence professor Ayman Abouraddy and research assistant Layton Hall ’22MS has been published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Nature Physics. Observation of optical de Broglie–Mackinnon wave packets highlights the team’s research using a class of pulsed laser beams they call space-time wave packets. In an interview with Dr. Abouraddy, he provides more insight into his team’s research and what it may hold...

Booking photos of Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman taken on May 30, 2020. In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education — boarding school, Princeton, a law degree from New York University — should have rendered him a peacekeeper, not an instigator. “You’re not one of the oppressed. You’re one of the privileged,” senior Eastern District of New York Judge Brian Cogan told Colinford Mattis, even as he expressed admiration for what the...

So-called "red flag" laws, or extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), allow law enforcement to temporarily seize guns from individuals believed to be a threat to themselves or others. Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have already implemented such measures — but more could follow.

Authorities in Western Australia have warned the general population that a radioactive capsule used as a gauge in a mining operation has been lost on a stretch of road that is about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) long. The risk to the population is considered minimal, but people need to be warned of what to do in case they see it. The gauge is tiny. It’s 8 millimeters by 6 millimeters (0.31 inches by 0.24 inches), roughly like two hearing aid batteries stuck together. It was being taken from the town of Newman to the Northeastern suburbs of Perth. Exposure to...

SAN FRANCISCO — The police body camera video showing the attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband at their San Francisco home last October will be released to the media on Friday morning, according to court officials. A statement released by the San Francisco Superior Court said the video and audio in the case of the People vs. David DePape will be made "available to accredited media members" Friday morning at 9 a.m. in accordance with Judge Stephen M. Murphy's order Wednesday. Media representatives will be able to pick up the CD's containing the footage and audio recordings...

The Virginia teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student texted a loved one before she was wounded that the boy was armed and that school officials were failing to act, according to a source close to the situation. The source on Tuesday said Abigail Zwerner sent the text about an hour before she was shot on Jan. 6, saying that the student said he had a gun in his backpack and administrators at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren’t helping. The text “showed her frustration,” said the source, who only disclosed details of the single text message to...

A total of 16 cars were broken into early Thursday morning by five teenagers, according to the Dunwoody Police Department. Dunwoody police officers arrived at an active car break-in in the parking lot of Peachford Hospital. Once police arrived, the teens ran away. The teens were found climbing the fence behind a business and eventually arrested, according to police. Officers found two stolen firearms, along with multiple other items, among the teens. The following teens are facing multiple felony charges: Kenneth Laster – 17-year-old male Teneldric Boykins – 17 year old male Quavion Black – 17-year-old male Marcus Carter –...

On Friday, the Republican National Committee will vote to reject or reelect Ronna McDaniel as the party’s chair. I wanted to let the dust settle before writing about it, preferring to take a bigger look at the state of things and consider it alongside the battle in the House over the speakership. But two things happened today that upped the ante and are worth touching on in brief. First, in an interview with Charlie Kirk, Gov. Ron DeSantis weighed in against McDaniel from Florida and said it is time for new leadership. He accurately summarized her tenure as a disappointment....