🚔 Eight people were injured after a stolen vehicle pursuit ended in an AC Transit bus crashing into a home in San Francisco.

Nobody on the bus was transported to hospital, however all four people in the stolen vehicle were injured, and one is in critical condition, CHP officials said.

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😳More than 90 snakes were found under a house in northern California

Al Wolf, director of Sonoma County Reptile Rescue, was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her house. Wolf stated that he found over 90 rattlesnakes preparing to hibernate. It took him 3 trips to the woman's house to remove all the snakes.

🪱All the snakes were Northern Pacific rattlesnakes, the only venomous snake found in northern California.

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🇦🇫💵 The US has offered to pay the families of Afghans who died in the August 29 drone strike in Kabul - the last such act before American troops officially withdrew from Afghanistan.

In a Friday statement, the Pentagon pledged an unspecified condolence payment to the relatives of 10 civilians after a drone strike targeted a van being driven by Zemari Ahmadi. It was believed that Ahmadi had ties to the Islamic State; however, the claim has since been debunked.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby has since described the drone strike as a “tragic mistake” that ultimately killed “innocent victims who bore no blame.”

⚡Multiple injuries have been reported as shots were fired during a high school football game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama

⚡️ Texas constable deputy fatally shot, two others injured during 'ambush' outside nightclub

😨 Like something out of a blockbuster action movie!

Check out this video of a train smashing through a truck transporting several cars on a crossing in Oklahoma, US.

🔍 Late US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to lure dozens of women from Russia and other post-Soviet countries into sexual slavery, according to a lawsuit filed by an unnamed Russian woman against Epstein's estate executors and his former assistant Lesley Groff.

📌 The plaintiff, using the pseudonym "Jane Doe" in place of her real name, filed a class action on behalf of herself and a putative class of similarly situated women with a New York district court earlier this week.

🤔 Are nails the biggest problem for the US military?

US Army Major General Jo Clyborne was ridiculed on social media after she protested that the military would not allow her to wear a French manicure to work.
Clyborne tweeted a photo on Thursday evening which showed her removing her manicure.

Aren't there more important issues that need to be addressed?

Former US President Bill Clinton will stay in the hospital for another day - until Sunday, a spokesperson said.

The former president "has continued to make excellent progress over the last 24 hours."

WATCH|🚒 Firefighters responded to a working structure fire in the area of California and Acacia, in Stockton, California, where crews worked quickly to knock down the blaze.

⚡️The Venezuelan government says it is suspending its participation in talks with the opposition over the extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from Cape Verde to the United States.

⚧ Texas Senate passes athlete bill targeting transgender youth

With the bill, male-born athletes in Texas schools will only be allowed to play on boy's sports teams, whereas female-born athletes will only be allowed to play on female teams, unless there is no all-girls team at the school.

The new bill claims that it protects "girls’ safety and their right to equal access to athletic opportunities,” according to the bill’s author.

Robert A. Durst has been placed on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19 — days after being sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2000 murder of his friend, Susan Berman.

🗣 “All we know he’s tested positive for Covid-19, he’s in hospital and on a ventilator," his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, reportedly told the media.

Westchester County prosecutors are expected to select a grand jury within weeks to examine evidence on the case against Durst in his first wife’s disappearance.

🚔 Police in Philadelphia have arrested a suspect in connection with the alleged rape of a woman on a train on Wednesday night.

Fishton Ngoy, 35, is now reportedly facing rape and several other charges.

What's even more disturbing about this incident is that the reported sexual attack happened while other passengers allegedly “did nothing” to stop the man.

“Were they watching? I don’t know. Again, we’re still going through the video but there was a lot of people, in my opinion, that should’ve intervened. Somebody should’ve done something. It speaks to where we are in society," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Tim Bernhardt said, according to local media.

👮 "Harder than ever": US President Joe Biden said that cops in America are faced with modern-day expectations that have made their work harder than it has ever been.

🗣"We expect everything of you, and it's beyond the capacity of anyone to meet the total expectations. Being a cop today is one hell of a lot harder than it's ever been," the US president said to members of law enforcement and other attendees of the 40th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service.

But hasn't it always been hard for police to live up to expectations?