Florida girl awarded $800,000 for McDonald’s Chicken McNugget burn

A Florida jury has awarded an eight-year-old girl $800,000 (£622,000) in damages after she was severely burned when a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget fell on her leg.

The “dangerously hot” McNugget burned Olivia Caraballo in 2019, then four, as she opened her Happy Meal in the car at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Tamarac, Florida.

Her family had sought $15m in damages.

A jury in May found McDonald’s and its franchise liable for the injury.

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The View: Trump Thinking Like Mussolini, Could End Up ‘Hung’ Like Him

ABC News and Disney were back to spew dangerous rhetoric through their vile mouthpiece known as The View. On Wednesday, the liberal ladies suggested Republicans were itching to live under a dictatorship and suggested that former President Trump was thinking like former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini because he wanted to rein in the rogue Environmental Protection Agency. They even warned that Trump could end up like Mussolini “hung … upside down in a square.”

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Ont. children’s camp owner and her convicted sex offender husband arrested in human trafficking investigation

A convicted sex offender living on the same property as a summer camp for children with autism in Essa Township was arrested, along with his wife, in a human trafficking investigation two days after Ontario Provincial Police issued a rare public advisory about him.

Lauriston Maloney, 42, and Amber Maloney, 36, were taken into police custody on Wednesday morning and charged with multiple offences related to recruiting, exercising control, exploitation, assault, forcible confinement, and financial benefit from committing a crime.

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Dean of Canterbury defends appointment of tattooed priest

The Dean of Canterbury has defended a tattooed priest appointed to the city’s cathedral.

Celebrating her new role, the cathedral tweeted a photo of Reverend Wendy Dalrymple in a short-sleeved dog-collared dress that revealed her religious tattoos.

But she was targeted by online trolls who branded the Anglican cleric as “prideful” and “vain” for “the peacock display”.

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Porn sites want exemption from C-11 regulation on grounds they don’t express Canadian cultural identity

Since when is a Beaver not Canadian?

Porn sites have asked not to be regulated under the federal government’s Online Streaming Act, arguing that they don’t advance the legislation’s aim to enrich and strengthen the cultural fabric of Canada.

In a formal submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, MindGeek, which owns a portfolio of explicit adult sites including Pornhub, Brazzers and YouPorn, says the sites should be granted the same exemption as video games.

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Nuclear threat from Ukraine war prompts Ottawa to update plans for catastrophe

OTTAWA – Canada is dusting off and updating emergency protocols to deal with fallout from a possible tactical nuclear exchange in Europe or the spread of radiation across the ocean from a Ukrainian power plant explosion.

Internal Public Safety Canada notes show the measures include updating a highly secret plan to ensure the federal government can continue to function in a severe crisis.

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Mom of US soldier Travis King who defected to North Korea can’t imagine son ‘doing anything like that’

Travis King NOKO Defector

The mother of the US soldier who has been detained in North Korea after crossing into the country without authorization said the risky behavior was unlike her son.

The 23-year-old Army private, Travis King, was stationed in South Korea and was on a tour of the demilitarized zone between the two countries Tuesday when he strayed from the group and ran across the border.

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Terror threat to rise as jailed Islamists are freed

Authorities shocked terrorist was named Mohammud

The terror threat from jailed Islamists being freed into the community is set to rise this year, a new Home Office strategy has warned.

Dozens of convicted terrorists are due to be released in 2023, posing a threat that could “last for decades,” according to the updated Contest counter-terrorism strategy published on Tuesday.

It warned that four of the nine declared terrorist attacks in the UK since 2018 were perpetrated by serving or recently released prisoners. As of March 2023, there were 232 people in jail for terrorism-connected offences but officials are braced for a surge in releases this year after a series of successful prosecutions a decade ago.

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