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"More than 10,000 are missing, according to the Libyan Red Crescent. Six days on, searchers are still digging through mud and hollowed-out buildings, looking for bodies and possible survivors. The Red Crescent has confirmed 11,300 deaths so far."

"Entire districts of Derna, one of eastern Libya's major cities, were swept away or buried in brown mud after two dams south of the city broke on Sunday night unleashing torrents of floodwater down a usually dry riverbed."

"An outbreak at a Queensland Hospital has been confirmed on Saturday, sparking fears hospitals across the state could have been exposed to contaminated food."
"At this stage, there is no evidence that the infection was acquired from food consumed in a hospital."

Iran's official IRNA news agency denied that Amjad Amini was arrested, but it did not say if he was briefly detained or warned."

"Dressed in black, thousands of teachers and school staff occupied a street near the National Assembly, chanting slogans and holding up signs that read: 'Grant teachers immunity from child emotional abuse claims.' The protesters said more than 9,000 teachers have been reported by parents for child abuse in the past eight years."

"Newly unsealed court records indicate special counsel Jack Smith’s team warned that former President Trump could 'precipitate violence' unless the court shielded its efforts to obtain information on his Twitter account."

"Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote that Chan did not appear for a scheduled interview and therefore would be compelled to testify in order to establish the 'extent the Executive Branch has coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech'.“

"The three unmarked white Border Patrol buses can be seen pulled over on the side of the road as they begin releasing several hundred migrants onto the city streets across from a transit terminal..."

"The officers did not initially disclose they were at the wrong address, acknowledge their error or attempt to protect or console Kimberly Dotson and the couple’s two children, it says. Rather, they handcuffed all three family members and took them to the police station for questioning."

“We do not know why the cases keep surfacing. In 2018, we found the outbreak in Kerala was related to bats. We are not sure how the infection passed from bats to humans. The link could not be established. Again we are trying to find out this time. It always happens in the rainy season."

"After receiving the call from the provincial health office, Anthony Damalerio, head of the provincial disaster risk reduction and management office head, dispatched emergency responders from Trinidad, San Miguel, and Alicia to the school and brought 195 students to the President Carlos P. Garcia Memorial Hospital in Talibon town.
However, only two were admitted."

"As we speak, we have an ambassador and diplomatic staff who are literally being held hostage in the French embassy. They are preventing food deliveries. He is eating military rations."

“We can confirm that U.S. forces in Niger have conducted “ intelligence and reconnaissance ” flights to ward off threats and ensure the protection of our forces,”

"There was nothing in his biography about this and last year he made a similar claim about being raised in the 'Puerto Rican community at home, politically' even though very few Puerto Ricans lived in the area he did in Delaware at the time he started his career.  He also claimed he went to 'the black church'  as well -- after he went to Catholic mass every morning in high school and college." 

"According to early reports, the incident occurred when the owner of the house, Lieutenant Sonephet (last name retracted) brought out a grenade to show his colleagues while they were having dinner.
Sonephet then took out the pin of the grenade but forgot to put it back..."

"They also talk about threats that have 'coincided with attacks on the FBI and the Justice Department by congressional Republicans and former President Donald Trump, who have accused both agencies of participating in a conspiracy to subvert justice amid two federal indictments of Trump.'
So, read that again. They've created a unit to investigate 'threats,' and the media is attaching it to Republicans raising questions about the two-tier system of justice."

The FBI has created a stand-alone unit to investigate threats from members of the public who think agents and prosecutors haven't been tough enough on the president's son.

"The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday prohibiting bans on the sale of gas-powered vehicles. Iowa’s federal delegation in the House supported the bill, with all four voting in favor of the measure
The bill looks to prohibit bans on the sale of gas-powered vehicles by states like California."

"In addition to cash payments and private jet travel, former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson received 'thousands of dollars worth of commercial sex' with a sex worker as bribes during his time as chair of the now-defunct Michigan Medical Marihuana Licensing Board, according to a federal court filing published Thursday."

"Russia initially claimed that the rogue pilot had shot at the British plane, which was carrying 30 airmen and women, but communications have revealed that the shot was actually approved by Russian ground control."

"Human activity and appetites have weakened Earth's resilience, pushing it far beyond the 'safe operating space' that keeps the world liveable for most species, including our own, a landmark study said on Wednesday"

"President Joe Biden made a bizarre claim in a speech that he'd taught political theory at an Ivy League university - despite only serving there as a visiting fellow and honorary professor."

The officer asked the man if he was credible with the information, the report states. The man said he would show the deputy and then pulled a small plastic bottle out of his left pocket. The bottle had crystal-like substances of suspected methamphetamine inside of it. After the man showed the officer the bottle, he was taken into custody at 7:43 a.m. for suspicion of possession of a controlled substance. Bail: $2,637.

"InternetNZ has announced today a fund of $680,000 from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) to provide grants to minimise the harms of disinformation in New Zealand. The Free Speech Union acknowledges that disinformation is a perennial threat to democracy, which can only be debunked through debate and open discourse..."

“Well, I tell you what, I don’t know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me. And now, the best I can tell, they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government.”

"Nothing says desperation like threatening to sic a smear merchant on innocent families. This is all you need to know about how worried Democrats and the White House are about having to answer for Joe Biden’s culture of corruption."

“That’s one of about a dozen crimes that Hunter Biden’s committed, and ironically that’s the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into."

"I think she was trying to indirectly say something along the lines of: 'I'm going to send my kid wherever I want while denying Chicago families the right to educational choice, please stop asking me about it.'"

"Leung is accused of having three copies each of 'The Guardians of Sheep Village,' and other titles in the series -- which the authorities say glorifies protesters who fought back against riot police during the 2019 protest movement, 'beautifying bad behavior' and 'poisoning' children's impressionable minds."

"Vittal and another accused, who is now dead, had stolen two buffaloes from a resident of Mehker village in Karnataka in 1965. In the same year, the cattle were tracked and returned to their owner by police."

"Oklahoma's medical marijuana industry has seen an unprecedented rise, with about 10% of its residents now holding marijuana cards...
The surge in demand and the state's affordable licensing system has positioned Oklahoma ahead of established markets like Colorado, Oregon, Washington and California in terms of cannabis retail stores and farms.
However, this growth is not without its challenges."

"A very blunt memo to the White House: Back off - the American media is not your damn mouthpiece.
On Wednesday morning, the President made his visceral disdain for the press exceedingly clear when his White House blasted a Soviet-style communique out to every major media organization in the country.
It should be received in the spirit that it was sent - and filed in the garbage where it belongs."

"In Missouri v. Biden, the court found that government officials frequently met with and pressured those businesses to remove information they objected to. Social media companies 'gave the officials access to an expedited reporting system, downgraded or removed flagged posts, and deplatformed users,' the opinion reads."

"A typhoon brought sustained heavy rains to southern China last week. Deluges around the city of Maoming in Guangdong province caused a lake at a commercial crocodile farm to overflow with more than 70 crocodiles escaping, local media reported."

"President Biden’s White House has told America’s news organizations — including CNN, the New York Times and Fox News —  to 'ramp up their scrutiny' of House Republicans 'for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.'”

"The technology can be used for crowd analytics, augmenting smart spaces, and possibly even as a cyber attack vector."

Zoo director Sabine Grebner told reporters that the 33-year-old woman, a German citizen from Bavaria, was assigned that day to put insect repellent on the rhino’s body because they are very sensitive to insect bites. "The 30-year-old female rhino, Jeti, attacked the keeper though it was not clear why, Austria’s APA news agency cited Grebner as saying."

"On Sunday, Mediterranean storm Daniel deluged Derna with 440 millimeters of rain, according to Karsten Haustein, a climatologist at Leipzig University. Dams collapsed. Levees burst with floodwater. The city's main roads suddenly became rivers, and the rushing currents floated cars downstream like dinghies."

"Some locations have already removed their self-serve soda machines, customers pointed out on social media. One person on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, said the change happened at their regular McDonald's location not long ago. The customer said they asked an employee for a refill and it took more than five minutes to get the the drink."