Daily Mail (UK),
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Jennifer Smith
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Jennifer Sey, former USA gymnast and the brand president of Levi's has revealed she has been fired for repeatedly speaking out against draconian COVID restrictions in schools, and turned down $1million in severance pay that she was offered on the condition she wouldn't publicly share why she had been ousted. Sey, 52, has repeatedly spoken out against school shut-downs and mask mandates since the start of the pandemic.(Snip)She stopped speaking out in November, after being told she was on track to become the next CEO, but says she told last month it was 'untenable' for her to stay because outside detractors put pressure on the company to fire
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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The conservative Heritage Foundation says economic freedom is at an all-time low under President Biden. The Washington-based think tank said the U.S. fell 2.7 points from its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom to a record-low score of 72.1 and to its lowest ranking globally, from 20th last year to 25th, in 2022 as the U.S. struggles with rising inflation and debt. “This year’s Index of Economic Freedom paints a disturbing picture, both at home and abroad,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a statement reported by Fox News. “The decline of American economic freedom is serious cause for alarm and has real and tangible consequences for all
New York Post,
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Patrick Reilly
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A Texas physics teacher was chased and beaten by a group of middle school students who broke his arm in the attack, video shows.
The assault occurred at Langham Creek High School in Houston on Thursday when students from Aragon Middle School attacked assistant baseball coach and high school physics teacher Michael Shott during a baseball practice, according to reports. Cellphone video posted on social media shows Shott sprinting away at full speed through the high school parking lot, attempting to evade several pursuing students while others follow, taking videos of the attack on their phones.(Snip)Students and social media users say the coach was jumped because
New York Post,
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Ben Kesslen
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The NFL’s dismal number of black head coaches shows a lack of “generic decency” from a league that hasn’t kept its promises, President Biden said in an interview airing Super Bowl Sunday.
“They haven’t lived up to what they committed to and lived up to being open about hiring more minorities to run teams,” Biden told NBC News, referencing the football league’s purported commitments to diversifying leadership. “The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color as well as so diverse, that there’s not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL teams, it just seems to me that it’s a standard
New York Post,
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Sam Raskin
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The NYPD is searching for a shoplifter who allegedly brutally attacked a woman pharmacy worker on Friday in Manhattan after being confronted about the theft. The alleged thief walked into a Duane Reade in Morningside Heights about 10:30 a.m. Friday and began pilfering products from a freezer and putting them in his bag, police said. When he was approached by a 21-year-old woman store employee who directed him to put the items back, the man allegedly punched the worker in the face, grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground, according to the NYPD. The man—described by police as about 40 years old, 6-feet tall
Washington Times,
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Jacob Calvin Meyer
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Before quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Joe Burrow take to the air in Super Bowl 56, a historic flyover will honor the 75th anniversary of the United States Air Force. The Air Force Heritage Flight will be a first-of-its-kind flyover at the end of the national anthem at SoFi Stadium. The flyover will feature a formation of five iconic aircraft to recognize the Air Force’s evolution since 1947. The five aircraft that will be flown are the P-51 Mustang, A-10C Thunderbolt II, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor and F-35 A Lightning II. The P-51 Mustang was first flown during World War II
New York Post,
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Patrick Reilly
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A homeless man in Utah allegedly slit a woman’s throat after she let him into her home to shower, cops said. Officers responded to a call of a woman heavily bleeding from the neck around 5 p.m. last Sunday at her home in Salt Lake City, according to cops. She was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and underwent emergency surgery. Her condition was later upgraded to stable, but her current condition is unknown, cops said. The woman told investigators she let the man, later identified by police as 30-year-old Eric Jones, into her home to bathe. Jones was located by city police around 1 a.m.
New York Post,
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Larry Celona *
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A woman was stabbed to death inside her Chinatown apartment early Sunday after she was unknowingly stalked by a random man following a night out, police and sources said. A neighbor across the hallway on the top floor of 111 Chrystie Street called 911 about 4:30 a.m. Sunday after hearing the 35-year-old victim screaming, law-enforcement sources said. NYPD cops arrived at the scene and found a man inside the apartment who tried to flee via the fire escape, before barricading himself inside the apartment, according to law-enforcement sources.(Snip)Though the victim was an Asian woman, cops do not suspect the incident was a hate crime
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
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Glenn Howatt
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Many Minnesota ambulance services are struggling to respond to emergency calls as workers leave the field in pursuit of better pay and working conditions. The exodus comes as demand for emergency medical services is increasing statewide, not only from heart attacks, strokes and car accidents but also patient transfers from hospital to hospital because of crowded conditions caused by COVID-19. "I've never seen so many workers leave the EMS field," said Buck McAlpin a lobbyist for the Minnesota Ambulance Association. "It is alarming." Nearly 60% of the state's 10,465 certified emergency medical technicians did not provide patient care in 2021, suggesting they left the workforce altogether, according to state data.
Fox News,
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Houston Keene
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was lit up with criticism during an Instagram live video over the city’s vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. Wu started up her Instagram live question-and-answer session this week addressing several coronavirus mandates in Beantown. The stream did not go as Wu had planned. Angry Bostonians unleashed a torrent of criticism at Wu over the COVID mandates. "Why do you hate kids? Teachers? Cops? Firemen?" one of the commenters said, while another accused Wu of "ruining" Boston.(Snip)Wu appeared stunned by the onslaught of messages, her smile dropping as the comments rolled in. The video quickly went viral, with thousands piling on
Daily Mail (UK),
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Ronny Reyes *
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US officials warned that Russia could begin cyberattacks against America as it prepares for a possible invasion of Ukraine that a congressman called 'inevitable.' The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a 'Shields Up' alert on Friday night, warning all organizations in the US, regardless of size, to 'adopt a heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity and protecting their most critical assets.' 'While there are not currently any specific credible threats to the U.S. homeland, we are mindful of the potential for the Russian government to consider escalating its destabilizing actions in ways that may impact others outside of Ukraine,' the agency said in a statement.
New York Post,
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Georgett Roberts *
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Two teen brothers with a raft of prior arrests were ordered held without bail Saturday in the shooting of an off-duty police officer who was attending a memorial service in West Harlem. Paris Francis, 17, and Prince Francis, 16, of Manhattanville, were in Manhattan Criminal Court to face the music following their Thursday arrests.(Snip)Manley, an off-duty NYPD housing cop, was shot in the foot about 4:30 p.m. after he attended a memorial service for a community member at the Manhattanville Houses in West Harlem.(Snip)Prince Francis is a robbery recidivist whose rap sheet goes back to 2019 and includes at least four arrests,
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