Cast member saves children from runaway Disney World boulder

Cast member saves children from runaway Disney World boulder

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Motorbike collection worth $40m seized from Olympian turned ‘drug kingpin’

Mexican police have seized a $40m (£30m) motorcycle collection believed to be owned by the former Olympian and alleged drug kingpin Ryan James Wedding.

Wedding, a snowboarder who represented his native Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is responsible for trafficking 60,000 kg of cocaine every year, according to the FBI.

The US department of justice has described the 44-year-old as the “largest distributor of cocaine in Canada” and on a par with the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar.

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British taxpayers fund Kenyan sex chatbot

A “pleasure-oriented” sex chatbot for Kenyan teenagers was developed using aid money from British taxpayers, The Telegraph can disclose.

The app was built as part of a £41m UK aid programme which aims to invest in “radical technology solutions” to issues in the developing world.

h/t Patti Jo

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Federal Investigators Discover Minnesota’s Somali Daycare Fraud Dates Back a Decade

A federal fraud investigation into Minnesota daycare centers has uncovered a troubling discovery — the scheme may have been operating undetected for more than a decade.

The discovery was unearthed from evidence in a 2018 fraud case out of Hennepin County against multiple daycare centers for allegedly swindling the government out of more than $1 million. A video of a 2015 Fox 9 KMSP report alleged that low-income parents would sign up their children for daycare services, which would then claim reimbursement for those services that were never provided.

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Toronto hate crime suspect denied refugee status in 2018

Osman Azizov Muslim Sex Predator

One of the Toronto men recently charged with alleged hate and extremism-motivated crimes targeting women and Jews was denied refugee status more than seven years ago, according to court records.

Government records obtained by Global News show that Osman Azizov is an Azerbaijani citizen who, accompanied by his parents, crossed into Canada between official border points near Lacolle, Que., in 2017.

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