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The Navy veteran who plowed his car through a pedestrian-packed, midday Times Square in 2017 — telling a traffic cop afterwards, “I wanted to kill them” — will avoid jail time despite taking the life of an 18-year-old tourist in the rampage that also left 22 others injured.
That was the decision of a Manhattan jury Wednesday that deliberated just six hours before buying the insanity defense of Richard Rojas, 31, finding him “not responsible” due to mental illness.
On Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department announced a change in its foot-chase policy in which officers can no longer pursue criminals on foot under certain conditions.
A U.S. Air Force service member was arrested in connection to an attack on a small American base in Syria that injured four, officials said Thursday.
“As part of an ongoing investigation, on June 16, an Airman was taken into custody stateside in conjunction with the attack in Green Village, Syria,” Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said in a statement, referring to the April incident.
The military hasn’t released the service member’s name unless he or she is charged.
This smells.
Joe Lycett standup joke investigated by police after complaint
The comedian Joe Lycett has said he was investigated by the police after an audience member made a complaint about a joke in one of his shows.
In a post on Instagram, he revealed that he was asked to explain the context of the gag and that the authorities have now closed the case.
Non-binary middle school teacher is upset that people at school aren’t using the “correct” pronouns for “them” pic.twitter.com/ygEmR73gaQ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 21, 2022
Once-hot NFT collections, including the celebrity-backed Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunk series, have tanked alongside cryptocurrencies and the stock market, leaving many digital collectible investors deep in the hole.
The Bored Ape Yacht Club series — which has been endorsed by celebrities including Tom Brady, Madonna, Jimmy Fallon and Future — has seen its value crumble in recent months as the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates and the economy is squeezed by inflation.
I have no words to describe “NFT” mania.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is hastening a transgender ex-neo-Nazi bank robber’s “gender confirmation surgeries” after the inmate filed a lawsuit against the federal agency claiming it denied previous requests for the surgery.
There’s gonna be a movie about this nutter.
President Joe Biden will implore Congress to suspend federal gas and diesel taxes for the three months ending September amid record-high prices at the pump and record-low approval ratings before November’s midterm elections.
Biden will make the pitch to lawmakers in remarks Wednesday, although senior administration officials concede it “alone won’t fix the problem we face, but it will provide families a little breathing room.”
Gas tax break ‘would be irresponsible’ now, federal minister says, as Liberals focus on other priorities
OTTAWA — The federal government has no immediate plans to cut prices at the pump by offering Canadians a temporary reprieve from the federal gas tax, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Tuesday.
We obviously are not yet poor enough.
An NDP nomination contestant is apologizing after a City News reporter accused him of transphobia for saying “you can’t change your entire biological makeup” in response to a post about Caitlyn Jenner.
Saif Kaisar, an Alberta legislative reporter with City News, accused Sharif Haji, the NDP nomination contestant for Edmonton-Decore, of making “transphobic comments” on Monday.
Cleveland ‘Officer of the Year’ Under Investigation for Anti-Semitic, Pro-Hitler Tweets
Cleveland’s 2019 police officer of the year is under investigation for a series of anti-Semitic social media posts that include praise for Adolf Hitler and the Hamas terrorist organization.
Ismail Quran is under investigation by the Cleveland police internal affairs unit for posting “inappropriate social media content,” a department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon on Monday.
This is the Navy’s new training video for our service members to create a "safe space" by using "preferred" pronouns. These people have lost their minds. They won’t stop until our troops ask enemies on the battlefield for their pronouns before they shoot.pic.twitter.com/5ynm5QCOMR
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 20, 2022
MEXICO CITY, June 21 (Reuters) – Two Canadian citizens, a man and a woman, have been killed at the beach resort of Playa del Carmen on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said on Tuesday.
The killings in the state of Quintana Roo follow the fatal shooting in January of two Canadians with criminal records in nearby Cancun.
A senior state official told Reuters the man, whose identity has not been made public, was wanted by Interpol.
Had their throats cut. I wonder what flavour of Canadian they were.
A pro-abortion activist shouted and made obscene gestures toward pro-life college students at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday. Activists on both sides await a ruling that could potentially reverse Roe v. Wade.
Elon Musk’s child seeks name change to sever ties with father
June 20 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed a request to change her name in accordance with her new gender identity and because “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
The petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate reflecting her new gender identity was filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica in April. It came to light recently in some online media reports.
Guess he’s cut off, oh wait that was mean.
Twitter board unanimously recommends shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee last year has decided to mount an insanity defense, his attorneys said Monday.
Darrell Brooks Jr. faces more than 80 charges, including six homicide counts, in connection with the Nov. 21 incident in Waukesha. He pleaded not guilty in February. During a hearing Monday one of his attorneys, Jeremy Perri, told Judge Jennifer Dorow that Brooks is changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
