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✈️ Daredevil 93-year-old Betty Bromage
Betty Bromage, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, performed a full loop strapped to a plane over Rendcomb Airfield, near Cirencester, as she raised funds for the palliative care charity Sue Ryder.
Ms Bromage, who took on the fundraising challenge with wing-walking team AeroSuperBatics, said the idea to take to the skies first came to her when she was watching an advert for a Cadbury’s Crunchie bar.
Ms Bromage, who has arthritis, has been fundraising since the age of 87 and has already raised more than £23,000 for local charities.
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Betty Bromage, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, performed a full loop strapped to a plane over Rendcomb Airfield, near Cirencester, as she raised funds for the palliative care charity Sue Ryder.
Ms Bromage, who took on the fundraising challenge with wing-walking team AeroSuperBatics, said the idea to take to the skies first came to her when she was watching an advert for a Cadbury’s Crunchie bar.
Ms Bromage, who has arthritis, has been fundraising since the age of 87 and has already raised more than £23,000 for local charities.
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🚨 Police Update on Salman Rushdie Stabbing
🔹 Suspect ID’d as 24-year-old Hadi Matar
🔹 Charges have not yet been determined
🔹 Motive unclear
🔹 Investigators believe suspect was acting alone
🔹 Rushdie stabbed at least once in the neck and abdomen
🔹 Officials trying to obtain warrants to search backpack, electronics found on scene
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🔹 Suspect ID’d as 24-year-old Hadi Matar
🔹 Charges have not yet been determined
🔹 Motive unclear
🔹 Investigators believe suspect was acting alone
🔹 Rushdie stabbed at least once in the neck and abdomen
🔹 Officials trying to obtain warrants to search backpack, electronics found on scene
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🖥 The FTC is pushing for changes to how Big Tech handles data
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new notice calling for input into how tech companies handle consumer data, a crucial first step in setting binding rules for the industry. Formally known as an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), the filing calls for public comment on data collection, algorithmic discrimination, and commercial surveillance.
The FTC has also scheduled a public hearing on the proposed rules on September 8th in which members of the public are encouraged to give testimony on the issue.
Most recently, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act cleared committee in the House but is still awaiting a floor vote and faces an uphill battle in the Senate. Similar efforts to strengthen antitrust standards or regulate algorithms have also failed to bear fruit.
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The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new notice calling for input into how tech companies handle consumer data, a crucial first step in setting binding rules for the industry. Formally known as an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), the filing calls for public comment on data collection, algorithmic discrimination, and commercial surveillance.
The FTC has also scheduled a public hearing on the proposed rules on September 8th in which members of the public are encouraged to give testimony on the issue.
Most recently, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act cleared committee in the House but is still awaiting a floor vote and faces an uphill battle in the Senate. Similar efforts to strengthen antitrust standards or regulate algorithms have also failed to bear fruit.
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‼️ US army deploying roughly 260 soldiers to Europe in response to Ukraine conflict ➡️ LIVE UPDATES
The US Army is deploying approximately 260 soldiers from the state of Kentucky to Europe in response to Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Army Public Affairs said in a statement.
"The Department of the Army announced today the fall deployment of the 101st Division Sustainment Brigade headquarters, from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to support the United States’ unrelenting commitment to our European and NATO allies," the statement said on Friday.
The deployment is not a permanent change to overall US Army force posture in Europe and is a temporary action in response to the conflict in Ukraine, the statement added.
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The US Army is deploying approximately 260 soldiers from the state of Kentucky to Europe in response to Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Army Public Affairs said in a statement.
"The Department of the Army announced today the fall deployment of the 101st Division Sustainment Brigade headquarters, from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to support the United States’ unrelenting commitment to our European and NATO allies," the statement said on Friday.
The deployment is not a permanent change to overall US Army force posture in Europe and is a temporary action in response to the conflict in Ukraine, the statement added.
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✈️ Spirit Airlines employee suspended after viral video
A Spirit Airlines vendor at DFW International Airport has suspended a gate agent involved in a violent altercation that went viral online.
“Our vendor at DFW has suspended the agent. Spirit Airlines does not tolerate violence of any kind, and we are working with local law enforcement to investigate this matter,” the airline wrote in a statement.
The video posted to Twitter shows the employee yelling at the traveler in the airport, telling her not to touch him. The video has more than 6 million views as of Friday afternoon.
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A Spirit Airlines vendor at DFW International Airport has suspended a gate agent involved in a violent altercation that went viral online.
“Our vendor at DFW has suspended the agent. Spirit Airlines does not tolerate violence of any kind, and we are working with local law enforcement to investigate this matter,” the airline wrote in a statement.
The video posted to Twitter shows the employee yelling at the traveler in the airport, telling her not to touch him. The video has more than 6 million views as of Friday afternoon.
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🛣 Over $2B announced for roads across US
US transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country.
The competitive grants are more than double the amount awarded the previous year under the same program. The influx comes from a $1 trillion infrastructure law backed by President Joe Biden, which provided an additional $7.5 billion over five years for the grants.
A total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion.
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US transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country.
The competitive grants are more than double the amount awarded the previous year under the same program. The influx comes from a $1 trillion infrastructure law backed by President Joe Biden, which provided an additional $7.5 billion over five years for the grants.
A total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion.
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‼️ JUST IN | Idaho Supreme Court allows state to implement near-total abortion ban
The Idaho Supreme Court will allow the state to enforce a near-total abortion ban while legal challenges are carried out in the court system, the bench ruled Friday.
Abortions will effectively be banned in Idaho; however, doctors will be allowed to argue in court if the procedures were performed in order to prevent the mother’s death, or in cases of rape or incest, with the doctor having been given a copy of a police report.
The ruling will take effect August 25.
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The Idaho Supreme Court will allow the state to enforce a near-total abortion ban while legal challenges are carried out in the court system, the bench ruled Friday.
Abortions will effectively be banned in Idaho; however, doctors will be allowed to argue in court if the procedures were performed in order to prevent the mother’s death, or in cases of rape or incest, with the doctor having been given a copy of a police report.
The ruling will take effect August 25.
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🚨 Police Update on Salman Rushdie Stabbing 🔹 Suspect ID’d as 24-year-old Hadi Matar 🔹 Charges have not yet been determined 🔹 Motive unclear 🔹 Investigators believe suspect was acting alone 🔹 Rushdie stabbed at least once in the neck and abdomen 🔹 Officials…
🚨 Author’s agent: Rushdie placed on ventilator, may lose eye after stabbing attack
Author Salman Rushdie, who has been attacked in New York, is on a ventilator, cannot speak and is likely to lose an eye, media reported.
On Friday, Rushdie was stabbed twice as he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.
“The news is not good. Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie told The New York Times, adding that the writer is on a ventilator and cannot speak.
Author Salman Rushdie, who has been attacked in New York, is on a ventilator, cannot speak and is likely to lose an eye, media reported.
On Friday, Rushdie was stabbed twice as he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.
“The news is not good. Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie told The New York Times, adding that the writer is on a ventilator and cannot speak.
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🔥 4 injured after fiery crash in Virginia
Authorities are investigating after a vehicle crashed into a building Friday evening injuring at least four people in Arlington, Virginia, according to police and fire officials.
Arlington County Police reported the crash on Twitter around 7:00 p.m. Friday. They say a vehicle crash into the Ireland's Four Courts pub in the 2000 block of Wilson Boulevard.
Medics took the four people with critical injuries to a hospital, and they were also treating more patients on the scene, Arlington Fire and EMS said.
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Authorities are investigating after a vehicle crashed into a building Friday evening injuring at least four people in Arlington, Virginia, according to police and fire officials.
Arlington County Police reported the crash on Twitter around 7:00 p.m. Friday. They say a vehicle crash into the Ireland's Four Courts pub in the 2000 block of Wilson Boulevard.
Medics took the four people with critical injuries to a hospital, and they were also treating more patients on the scene, Arlington Fire and EMS said.
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🦠 Polio detected in NYC’s sewage
The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the US in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday.
The presence of the poliovirus in the city’s wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, health authorities from the city, New York state and the federal government said.
The authorities urged parents to get their children vaccinated against the potentially deadly disease.
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The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the US in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday.
The presence of the poliovirus in the city’s wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, health authorities from the city, New York state and the federal government said.
The authorities urged parents to get their children vaccinated against the potentially deadly disease.
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🚨 FBI, Trump & Mar-a-Lago: What Exactly is Going On?
The FBI claims to have taken 11 sets of classified files—including "TS/SCI" (Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information) documents—in their shocking raid of former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate Monday. Items allegedly retrieved include:
🎞 Binders of photos
📄 Leather-bound box of documents
📃 One "potential" presidential record
📝 Single handwritten note A document containing "info re: President of France”
Trump responded by:
Calling out “sleazy” FBI officials who he suggested could have planted evidence
Denouncing allegations he’d mishandled nuclear weapons documents as “a hoax”
Fiercely condemning the raid, labeling it “unprecedented political weaponization of law enforcement” by “radical left Democrats”
The FBI claims to have taken 11 sets of classified files—including "TS/SCI" (Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information) documents—in their shocking raid of former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate Monday. Items allegedly retrieved include:
🎞 Binders of photos
📄 Leather-bound box of documents
📃 One "potential" presidential record
📝 Single handwritten note A document containing "info re: President of France”
Trump responded by:
Calling out “sleazy” FBI officials who he suggested could have planted evidence
Denouncing allegations he’d mishandled nuclear weapons documents as “a hoax”
Fiercely condemning the raid, labeling it “unprecedented political weaponization of law enforcement” by “radical left Democrats”
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🚨 FBI, Trump & Mar-a-Lago: What Exactly is Going On? The FBI claims to have taken 11 sets of classified files—including "TS/SCI" (Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information) documents—in their shocking raid of former US President Donald Trump's Mar…
The warrant gave the FBI the green light to search “storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate.”
Feds say they were looking for:
“Any physical documents with classifications markings” and surrounding boxes
“Information…. regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material”
"Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021."
Any evidence of the “knowing alteration, destruction, or concealment of any government and/or Presidential Records” or classified documents
As Federalist co-founder Sean Davis pointed out on Twitter, this means Attorney General Merrick Garland “demanded the seizure of literally any record Trump ever saw, read, or created over the entire 4-year term of his presidency.”
Feds say they were looking for:
“Any physical documents with classifications markings” and surrounding boxes
“Information…. regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material”
"Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021."
Any evidence of the “knowing alteration, destruction, or concealment of any government and/or Presidential Records” or classified documents
As Federalist co-founder Sean Davis pointed out on Twitter, this means Attorney General Merrick Garland “demanded the seizure of literally any record Trump ever saw, read, or created over the entire 4-year term of his presidency.”
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The warrant gave the FBI the green light to search “storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings…
The warrant reveals the FBI is investigating Trump for three potential violations of the Espionage Act:
18 U.S. Code §2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation generally
18 U.S. Code § 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
18 U.S. Code § 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations
🕵️♂️ The ESPIONAGE ACT was created to silence anti-war voices in the run-up to WWI
- It was used to jail dissidents like Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs, who was sentenced to 10 years hard labor for speaking out against US involvement in the war
- US government use of the act spiked under President Obama, with prosecutions in recent years focusing on whistleblowers like Edward Snowden
- US prosecutors have invoked the Espionage Act in their effort to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the Australian publisher revealed videos showing war crimes committed by US forces
18 U.S. Code §2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation generally
18 U.S. Code § 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
18 U.S. Code § 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations
🕵️♂️ The ESPIONAGE ACT was created to silence anti-war voices in the run-up to WWI
- It was used to jail dissidents like Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs, who was sentenced to 10 years hard labor for speaking out against US involvement in the war
- US government use of the act spiked under President Obama, with prosecutions in recent years focusing on whistleblowers like Edward Snowden
- US prosecutors have invoked the Espionage Act in their effort to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the Australian publisher revealed videos showing war crimes committed by US forces
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🚨 Princess Parking Wanted
Doug Emhoff, the husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris, recently turned heads at a Whole Foods Market in California after his motorcade blocked several handicapped parking spaces while he shopped.
The incident unfolded just outside the store’s Brentwood establishment, and lasted for about 20 minutes, according to reports. Photos have since shown the second husband casually strolling back to his SUV, as his Secret Service detail remains nearby.
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Doug Emhoff, the husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris, recently turned heads at a Whole Foods Market in California after his motorcade blocked several handicapped parking spaces while he shopped.
The incident unfolded just outside the store’s Brentwood establishment, and lasted for about 20 minutes, according to reports. Photos have since shown the second husband casually strolling back to his SUV, as his Secret Service detail remains nearby.
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🏛 Minnesota’s Finstad sworn in as newest member of Congress
Minnesota Republican Brad Finstad was sworn in Friday as the newest member of the US House, giving the GOP one more seat, which means Democrats can’t afford to lose more than four votes on close issues like their flagship climate change and health care bill.
Finstad, a former state representative from New Ulm who served as state director for USDA Rural Development during the Trump administration, won a special election Tuesday to fill out the remaining months of the term of the late Republican US Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died of cancer in February.
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Minnesota Republican Brad Finstad was sworn in Friday as the newest member of the US House, giving the GOP one more seat, which means Democrats can’t afford to lose more than four votes on close issues like their flagship climate change and health care bill.
Finstad, a former state representative from New Ulm who served as state director for USDA Rural Development during the Trump administration, won a special election Tuesday to fill out the remaining months of the term of the late Republican US Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died of cancer in February.
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Anne Heche is “not expected to survive” her horrific car crash. She has “suffered a severe anoxic brain injury” due to the accident and “remains in a coma,” according to her representative, quoted by Page Six. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs…
Anne Heche died on Friday at the age of 53 after a car crash on August 11.
The Los Angeles Police Department reportedly determined that Heche was under the influence of cocaine at the time of the accident.
According to media, the results of the actress' blood test also came back positive for fentanyl; however, they noted that fentanyl may have been administered to her at the hospital to help manage her pain after the accident
The Los Angeles Police Department reportedly determined that Heche was under the influence of cocaine at the time of the accident.
According to media, the results of the actress' blood test also came back positive for fentanyl; however, they noted that fentanyl may have been administered to her at the hospital to help manage her pain after the accident
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