Ten people, including nine children, died Saturday in a fiery 15-vehicle crash in storm-drenched Butler County, Alabama, according to local authorities.
Cops said the two of the vehicles — an SUV carrying a father and daughter and a small bus hauling girls from Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch — likely hydroplaned on I-65’s wet roads just before 2:30 p.m. as Tropical Depression Claudette plowed through the region, AL.com reported.
The father and daughter, identified by the county coroner as Cody Fox, 29, and 9-month-old Ariana, were killed, as were eight girls who were traveling in the bus.
Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock said a bystander successfully pulled the bus driver, ranch director Candice Gulley, from the vehicle, but that, “It was too late to get back to [the girls] because the bus was engulfed in fire.
The Biden administration will not take a hard line with China about cooperating in an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, the White House’s national security adviser admitted Sunday.
“We are not at this point going to issue threats or ultimatums. What we’re going to do is continue to rally support in the international community,” Jake Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“And if it turns out that China refuses to live up to its international obligations, we will have to consider our responses at that point.”
Instead, Sullivan said, the approach to determine whether the deadly virus began in a Chinese lab would follow “two tracks,” including supporting a World Health Organization-led investigation.
The driver of a pickup truck that struck two men, killing one, at a Pride parade in Florida was connected to the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus, and so were the victims, the group’s president said Saturday.
The truck was to be part of the chorus’ entry in the Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors, the organization said.
“Our fellow Chorus members were those injured and the driver is also a part of the Chorus family,” Justin Knight said in a statement. “To my knowledge, this was not an attack on the LGBTQ community.”
One man was killed and another injured after they were struck by the truck Saturday evening just as the parade was about to get underway near Fort Lauderdale, officials said.
A MAN is in custody after he allegedly ran over at least two people during a Pride march in Florida on Saturday, according to local reports.
The horrifying incident unfolded during the Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors, around 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, at 7pm local time this evening.
The hardliner favored by Iran’s religious establishment — and under US sanctions for human rights violations — won a decisive victory Saturday to become the nation’s next president.
Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s chief jurist and a protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, received 62 percent of the vote in an unusually low-turnout election.
More than half of the nation’s eligible voters stayed home, in stark contrast to the 70 percent who voted in 2017’s presidential contest. The 49 percent turnout was seen as a protest against the regime’s tightly restricted slate of candidates and its dismal handling of the economy.
In addition, officials said, 3.7 million of the 29 million votes cast were voided, triple the number of spoiled ballots seen in past elections — another indicator of public dissatisfaction with the candidates on offer.
Raisi’s 17.9 million votes swamped the totals of his closest rivals. Former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei, another conservative, came in second with 3.4 million votes, and moderate Abdolnasser Hemmati, an ally of outgoing President Hassan Rouhani, was third with 2.4 million supporters.
“He was our constant, cherished companion during the last 13 years and was adored by the entire Biden family,” the statement said.
It added: “Even as Champ’s strength waned in his last months, when we came into the room, he would immediately pull himself up, his tail always wagging, and nuzzle us for an ear scratch or a belly rub.
“Wherever we were, he wanted to be, and everything was instantly better when he was next to us.”
The statement goes on to remember the pooch’s younger days, playing with the Biden family at their home in Delaware.
“We love our sweet, good boy and will miss him always,” the statement concludes.
Champ had been a part of the Biden family since 2008, which the now-president was first elected VP.
Imagine being paid to appear on TV and continually lie, spew venom, and survive scandal after scandal like MSNBC’s Joy Reid. It must be quite the life as, on Thursday’s ReidOut, she offered a rather sinister lie that not only do conservatives want to make discussion of Juneteenth in schools “illegal” so “your kids can’t learn about it,” but slavery as a whole because it’s too offensive to those hateful white people.
For as long as we’ve had news cycles about critical race theory, the liberal media have sought to minimize and/or shut down debate by ascribing the worst motives to those opposing it (i.e. cry racist), deny CRT is being taught in schools, or extend the proposed bans out to include anything negative in U.S. history.
Members of a specialized Portland, Oregon, police unit that deals with crowd control have resigned from the assignment en masse a day after a fellow officer was indicted on an assault charge stemming from alleged illegal use of force during a protest last year.
The Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response Team, which is primarily responsible for providing public safety at crowd events, consisted of approximately 50 officers, all of whom resigned Wednesday, the bureau announced. The assignment is voluntary and the officers will remain on the force and continue their regular assignments, the bureau said.
Houston resident Brandon English, whose home has an internet-connected smart thermostat installed, was shocked to learn of the practice after his wife and infant daughter “woke up sweating.”
Speaking with KHOU 11, English stated that despite his wife turning down the temperature before taking a nap with their 3-year-old child, the temperature in their home rose significantly.
“They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”
English, who expressed concerns over the potential for his young child to overheat and dehydrate, said it wasn’t long after that his wife received a text alert noting that the thermostat had been remotely altered during a three-hour “energy saving event.”
WASHINGTON — President Biden doesn’t believe the U.S. will see any new lockdowns in the coming months, even as he warned about the new Delta variant of the coronavirus, which is much more transmissible than other versions of the pathogen.
That variant originated in India and took hold in the U.K. during the course of the spring. Its rapid proliferation led British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to delay full reopening by a month. That reopening was supposed to take place on June 21, only to be scuttled by the new viral strain.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deemed Delta a “variant of concern.” Its prevalence in the U.S. is rising, leading some to worry that the country could see a return of closures and restrictions just as society appears to be reemerging from 15 months of pandemic-induced misery.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted overwhelmingly to draft a formal document on the meaning of the Eucharist after a contentious debate on whether President Biden and other politicians who support abortion policies are worthy of receiving Communion at Mass.
More than 73% of the U.S. bishops casting ballots at a virtual conference this week supported tasking the USCCB’s doctrine committee to draft language on maintaining consistency with the Eucharist. A section of the document is expected to include a specific admonition to Catholic politicians and other public figures who disobey church teaching on abortion and other core doctrinal issues.
The vote tally announced Friday was 168 bishops in favor, 55 opposed and six bishops abstaining.
The Iranian people will be the losers in Friday’s election no matter which candidate wins because their votes are not important, according to a senior fellow at a U.S.-based research institute.
In many ways, the outcome of the presidential race is a foregone conclusion, said Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“Iran really has only one important voter … and that’s the supreme leader,” he said, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“So you could say whoever wins, of the candidates that you mentioned … the Iranian people will certainly lose,” he told CNBC’s “Capital Connection” on Friday.
A spokesperson for the Iran Foreign Ministry wasn’t immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
Ben Taleblu pointed to anti-government protests in recent years, where demonstrators called for their leaders to resign. They were “not seeking reform, as in years past — but seeking, really, revolution,” he said.
