😲A north Texas community is fuming after an official high school counselor’s account posted inappropriate content on Instagram. On Sunday, the Emerson High School counselors’ Instagram account reposted a “self-help” graphic from another account. While some of the advice was relatively innocuous, like “don’t pressure yourself” and “prioritizing self-love is important for your mental and physical health,” one of the tips was “toys can help you overcome your sexual anxiety.”

The original post was meant to advertise a discount code for the “Empress 2 clitoral vacuum stimulator.”

The post quickly came to the attention of state representative Jared Patterson, who represents a portion of Frisco in the Texas Legislature. “The sexualization of our kids has to stop. The lack of accountability has to stop. The lies have to stop. The cover ups have to stop,” Patterson, whose children attend FISD schools, said in a Facebook post.

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🚫🚘California regulators voted Thursday to approve a first-of-its-kind rule that would ban the sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035. Governor Gavin Newsom proposed the 2035 ban two years ago with an executive order that directed California Air Resources Board (CARB) and others to determine how to implement the plan.

The new rule requires automakers to hit milestones along the way. By 2026, 35 percent of new cars in California must be zero-emission vehicles, and the quota will rise to 68 percent by 2030, and 100 percent in 2035.

The rules would not impact used vehicles, allowing them to stay on the roads. The rules will not be immediate, and will go into effect in 2026, said CARB member Daniel Sperling. "The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution," Newsom said on Wednesday.

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🚀🧑‍🚀NASA and Boeing are now targeting early 2023 for the first crewed flight of Boeing's long-delayed Starliner spacecraft, officials said during a joint press conference Thursday.

Launch officials say the mission could take off as early as February, according to Steve Stich, the manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Starliner had been slated to get astronauts off the ground by the end of 2022. But continued work on several major issues that were identified on an uncrewed test flight of Starliner in May pushed the schedule back.

Starliner is already years behind schedule. It's intended to serve the same purpose as SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, which has been ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station since May 2020.

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🐶Despite the rising cases of parvo (a contagious virus mainly affecting dogs), the second largest meet-up of golden retrievers in the United States is still planning to take place in northern Michigan.

The Northwest Michigan Golden Retriever Club plans to hold its third annual gathering in Benzie County.

The club's founder Jeff Rabidoux said the club will continue to follow the advice of health officials.

"We're kind of in a holding pattern as it is, Michigan State University is obviously, in our state, the greatest source for veterinary knowledge,” Rabidoux said. “At this point, we're kind of sitting and waiting to see what additional information they might be able to provide so that we can make the best decision."

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🔎A judge in the United States has ordered the Department of Justice to publicly release a redacted version of an affidavit that underpinned the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home earlier this month.

US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart's Thursday order came hours after a Justice Department spokesman confirmed that prosecutors had submitted a sealed copy of its affidavit with proposed redactions to the judge. Those redactions are likely to be extensive, so it is unclear how much new information about the investigation will be revealed.

Reinhart said the Justice Department had valid reasons to keep some of the document secret, including the need to protect the identities of witnesses and federal agents, the government's investigation, strategy, and grand jury material.

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😵‍💫 Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. offered "gender-affirming" hysterectomies for young people between the ages of 0-21, a webpage which was deleted on the 18th of August shows.

▪️ A recently archived web page on Children's National Hospital's website listed "gender-affirming medical care and gender-affirming hysterectomy" among the services offered for "kids between the ages of 0-21" through the hospital's gynecology program.

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👮 Police in New Jersey report that multiple people were injured on a Six Flags Great Adventure roller coaster on Thursday evening.

▪️ A spokesperson for the Jackson Township Police Department said that the injuries happened on the El Toro ride, and stated that most of the injuries were minor.

▪️ Several people were taken to a local hospital for "bumps and bruises," the spokesperson said.


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⚡️ British energy regulator Ofgem raises energy price cap by 80 percent

📹 A resident of the Kharkov region expresses her gratitude to Russia for providing humanitarian aid.

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⚡️ Russia's FSB detained a Ukrainian intelligence agent spying on military facilities in Kursk, western Russia

📹 Footage showing the detention of the Ukrainian intelligence agent in the city of Kursk.

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📹 On Ukraine's Independence Day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces once again scattered "butterfly" mines in residential areas of Donetsk.

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💻 Unknown persons gained access to the confidential information of the American developer of programs for storing passwords LastPass as a result of a hacker attack.

▪️ The company is investigating the hack.

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✈️ WATCH: A new video showing Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets carrying out multiple missions during 'Ex-Pitch Black 2022' exercises have emerged on social media.

🇮🇳🇷🇺 Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters are produced by India under a Russian license.

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😧 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used intimidation against Turkish businessmen involved in trade with Russia, prying into their real estate contracts with Russians, Turkish daily Yeni Safak reported on Friday.

▪️ According to the newspaper, the CIA Turkey chief called and "openly threatened" the officials of construction companies with links to housing purchases made by Russian entities and individuals. The CIA official reportedly interviewed Turkish businessmen, asking them about the number of houses sold to Russians, the currency used in transactions and other confidential details.

▪️ Another instance of "meddling" in Turkish internal affairs includes a letter which, according to Yeni Safak, US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo sent to Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD). The letter, reportedly dated this Monday, threatened to impose sanctions on TUSIAD members that were doing business with Russia.

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⚡️ Kiev cuts last power line to Zaporozhye NPP, no way to deliver electricity to Ukraine - authorities

📹 📹 Footage of Western Miltitary District's Grad multiple rocket launcher crews engaged in the destruction of AFU positions in the special military operation zone.

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⚡️ Australian embassy car blown up by land mine in Baghdad, report says

❗Energy prices in Germany for next year jumped above €800 on Friday, which is nearly ten times higher than the same period last year, Bloomberg reports.

📹 📹Footage of the combat operation of Central Military District’s traffic police as they celebrate the 80th anniversary of their service in the special military operation zone.

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❗An update from Russia’s MoD:

▪️Russian forces performed concentrated strikes on combat positions of the Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade and 101st Territorial Defense Brigade. As a result, more than fifty Ukrainian neo-Nazis were eliminated and nine Ukrainian armored vehicle and motor vehicle units were destroyed.

▪️Due to heavy combat losses, Ukrainian service personnel from the 53rd Mechanized Brigade and the 3rd Mechanized Brigade left their positions and withdrew from battle areas in the DPR and in Kharkov region.

▪️Russian forces hit nine Ukrainian command posts in the DPR, Kherson, Kharkov and Nikolaev regions.

▪️Russian forces destroyed five missile and artillery weapons and ammunition depots in the DPR, Nikolaev, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions. In addition, one fuel storage facility Golitsinovo in the Nikolaev region and one Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Kharkov region have been destroyed by Russian forces.

▪️Three Ukrainian platoons of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems as well as two Ukrainian platoons of D-30 howitzers and two platoons of Giatsint-B guns have been suppressed by the Russian forces as a part of counter-battery warfare.

▪️Russian anti-aircraft weaponry destroyed six Ukrainian UAVs and intercepted one Tochka-U ballistic missile, as well as six HIMARS and Olha rockets.

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