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Day: December 16, 2019

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Harry Dunn’s mother ‘distraught’ after suspect filmed driving in US

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Footage of Anne Sacoolas, who returned to the US after the crash that killed British teenager, angers parents Harry Dunns mother has said she is distraught after the American suspect in the crash that killed the teenager was filmed back behind the wheel. Dunn, 19, died after his motorbike after Northamptonshire police interviewed Sacoolas in the US. Chief crown prosecutor Janine Smith has previously said she will meet Harrys family once a charging decision has been made. But the family has spoken of their frustration at the length of time…

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Six People, Including One Police Officer, Killed in Jersey City Shooting: Authorities

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Six people are dead, including a New Jersey detective, after two suspects opened fire at a kosher market in Jersey City on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said one officer, three bystanders, and the two suspected gunman were all killed in an intense gun battle that lasted for hours in the Greenville neighborhood. The shooting began at Bay View Cemetery, where 39-year-old Detective Joseph Seals was found dead, and then continued at JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Drive, where the rest of the…

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Dear God, Thank You

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Marisa Donnelly Updated February 28, 2019 By Grace Chung For this little muscle beating inside my chest. Thank you for its resilience, for its strength. Thank you for helping it beat, through every Stairmaster workout, through every terrifying scene in a scary movie, through every kiss, through every morning when I was so so tired, and didn’t want to face the world. Thank you for giving me physical strength—to overcome obstacles, to push myself, to never quit. Thank you for my emotional strength—to let people in, to forgive, to share…

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Winning Photos Of British Ecological Society Competition Capture Vibrant, Intimate Details Of Our Planet

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From the Birch forests in Belarus to the darting rivers of northern India, the 2019 British Ecological Society (BES) photo competition winners delicately capture the “vibrancy and intimate detail” of the world around us. Submissions from 1,200 BES member ecologists from more than 40 countries celebrating the diversity of flora and fauna found around the globe will be presented later this month in Belfast. Until then, IFLScience has compiled the photographs to take you on a tour of our planet.   Red Night By Roberto García Roa, Overall Winner A Malagasy tree boa perches in a tree. Roberto García Roa During…

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How the Salvation Army is trying to change its ‘anti-LGBTQ’ reputation

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(CNN)Salvation Army bell ringers, the folks you see jingling bells by red kettles at Christmastime, will be carrying a new prop this year: A card explaining the Christian church and charity’s approach to LGBTQ people. But to some in the LGBTQ community, the Salvation Army has another reputation. For decades, they’ve accused Salvationsts of denying some services to same-sex couples, advocating against gay rights and adhering to a traditional theology that considers gay sex sinful. At times, LGBTQ activists have dropped fake dollar bills or vouchers protesting the Salvation Army…

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Meghan McCain Dismisses Mayor Pete as Sparkly, Shiny Object

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg seems like the kind of reasonable Democratic candidate that Meghan McCain, who has made her surged to the top of a very reputable poll in Iowa, The View co-host dismissed him as little more than a sparkly, shiny object. After Joy Behar accurately characterized Buttigieg as a moderate, McCain said, He wasn't, and now he is. He was both campaigning extremely left sort of in the Beto [ORourke] lane, kind of saw the tea leafs on that, and now he's moderate. Behar tried to make the case…

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‘Amazing deal’ or ‘capitulation’? Why the US-China trade truce may not last

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Donald Trump hailed the agreement, but others think it masks a process of deglobalisation as the two superpowers struggle for hegemony The trade war between the US and China may never be settled, experts fear, even after the two sides agreed on an outline phase one deal. Economists and investors have been poring over agreement would also require China to make structural reforms and other changes to its economic and trade regime in the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture, financial services, and currency and foreign exchange. In exchange,…

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30 Hilarious Palindromes For Literary Nerds

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By Thought Catalog Ask Reddit has put together the best palindromes, which are sentences that can be read the same forwards and backwards. By Thought Catalog 1. No parts? STRAP-ON! 2. Do geese see God? 3. A Santa Lived As a Devil At NASA. 4. Tulsa night life: filth, gin, a slut. 5. Step on no pets. 6. Dammit I’m mad. 7. Do not tell E.T. to nod. 8. Pooping is a sign I poop. 9. A nut for a jar of tuna. 10. Never odd or even. 11. Neil,…

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You Can Now Purchase Some Of The Most Famous Original Images Of Alleged UFO Sightings

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One of the most notorious groupings of alleged UFO images can be yours for the cool price tag of just a few thousand dollars. The images were captured by self-proclaimed prophet and UFO religion founder “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier in the spring of 1975 in Switzerland. Born in 1937, Meier is one of the most well-known “believers” in modern history and claims that he was contacted by extraterrestrials in childhood and on-and-off throughout the decades. He also claims to be the seventh reincarnation after six prophets that feature in Judaism,…

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Qantas Sydney to Perth flight evacuated via slides after smoke fills cabin

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Terrifying ordeal forced plane to return to Sydney airport shortly after takeoff Passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth evacuated via slides after the Airbus A330 was forced to return as the cabin filled with smoke. Qantas said flight 575 returned to Sydney shortly after takeoff on Sunday morning due to a hydraulic issue. Once back at the gate, the captain made the decision to evacuate the aircraft as a precaution and three emergency slides were deployed, the airline said in a statement. Passengers were evacuated through both…

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Modern Apes May Be Smarter Than Our Australopithecus Ancestors

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Four million years ago our ancestors had brains larger than modern apes, but they were probably less intelligent than gorillas or chimpanzees new research indicates. When attempting to estimate the intelligence of extinct species anthropologists have relied on measuring brain case size. Bigger brains are assumed to mean greater thinking power, a theory that generally holds up today after some allowance for body size, at least among mammals. However, Professor Roger Seymour of the University of Adelaide has called that into question. He argues energy consumption, not size, is what…

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