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http://youtu.be/miXj9AMV6Lc President Biden demanded Friday that Russia release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich after he was arrested this week on spying charges. “Let him go,” Biden told reporters when asked if he had a message to Moscow about Gershkovich, before adding vaguely that “we’re in the process.” When asked if he was going to retaliate for the reporter’s detention by expelling Russian diplomats or journalists from the US, the 80-year-old commander-in-chief replied: “That’s not the plan right now.” Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters at a news conference in Zambia that the administration was “deeply concerned” about Gershkovich’s arrest. “We will not tolerate — and condemn, in fact — repression of journalists,” Harris said. Read more at http...

http://youtu.be/jBA5w85eFFw Soft-swinging Mormon influencer Taylor Frankie Paul was arrested on domestic violence charges last month after fighting with her boyfriend over a concert they didn’t attend, newly released police bodycam footage shows. A 10-minute heavily redacted video published Friday by the Daily Mail begins with a hysterically emotional and “hammered” Paul, 28, claiming her boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, 30, “threw her into the garage,” at her Utah home. “Because she is attacking the crap out of me!” Mortensen said. Paul was arrested Feb. 17 and later charged with two felony counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child and a felony count of aggravated assault, as well as one Class A misdemeanor count of child abuse and one Class B misdemeanor count of criminal mi...

http://youtu.be/44ygykNx0kI A tornado plowed through Little Rock and surrounding areas on Friday afternoon, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter. More than 350,000 people were at risk as what the National Weather Service called a “confirmed large and destructive tornado” tore through business districts and neighborhoods in Little Rock and North Little Rock. Passengers and airport employees at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock took shelter in bathrooms and were ordered to stay there until 3:45 p.m. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/31/tornado-slams-little-rock-arkansas/ #arkansas #littlerock #tornado The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news...

http://youtu.be/W9JX49Nr76M A Virginia woman has been found guilty of murdering her two young daughters in what prosecutors said was a twisted attempt to get revenge on her ex-husband, who planned to move away with one of the girls. Veronica Youngblood, 37, had admitted that she killed her kids, 15-year-old Sharon Castro and 5-year-old Brooklynn Youngblood — but she pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the Aug. 5, 2018, murders, according to the Washington Post. However, the jury was not convinced that mental illness was a major factor in the slayings. The panel on Wednesday convicted Youngblood, a former sex worker who defense attorneys said was physically and sexually abused by her own family, of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of felony firearm use, the newsp...

http://youtu.be/papnxYfZ3kQ A Delta Airlines passenger on a flight from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Saturday was arrested for allegedly opening an emergency exit door aboard the plane and causing the plane’s emergency slide to be activated prior to takeoff. According to Los Angeles Airport Police, at approximately 10 a.m. EST., an unidentified passenger, wearing a striped red and navy blue sweater with black pants, rushed to the front of the plane while the plane was pushing away from the gate and asked the flight attendant, “what do I do now?” Passengers told FOX 11 that the flight attendant insisted that the man sit down, but he ran from the Delta Air Lines flight attendant and went to the plane’s emergency exit doors, turned the latch, opened the door, and slid down t...

http://youtu.be/NnKl6MAzbQE Chilling video shows the moment a deadly Mississippi tornado tore through a local school — ripping the structure to shreds. The tornado — which has left at least 26 people dead in two states — wreaked havoc and devastation as it plowed into portions of rural Mississippi and Alabama Friday night, flattening blocks of buildings during its hour of carnage. New footage from inside an Amory, Miss., school depicted the sheer strength of the storm. The video, posted online by school IT director Sam Strickland, shows the hallway of Amory High School just before 11 p.m. when the building began to shake amid the escalating rumbling and howling of the wind. The ceiling crumbles and pieces of the structure are sent flying over the course of several seconds — with even...

http://youtu.be/w4V2szOD_gg An activist could be seen in video footage wrestling with a Texas senate official who was trying to stop a transgender witness from testifying over the allotted time. In the video that went viral, officials repeatedly asked Loren Perkins to abide by state senate rules to stop giving testimony at the end of her allotted two minutes on Thursday. However, the unidentified activist continued to obstruct the official as Perkins compared lawmakers to Nazis for trying to criminalize sexual drag performances in front of kids. She continued her tirade, comparing a pair of drag show bills to a “fascist ideology” like that from “a small man with a smaller mustache” in 1930s Germany. After repeated ignored requests, an official — later IDed as Sergeant-at-Arms Austin O...

http://youtu.be/eGw44BKUWp0 The typically raucous crowd at former President Donald Trump’s Waco, Texas, rally didn’t give him any love when he mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his expected presidential rival, on Saturday. Speaking to his supporters, Trump recounted how DeSantis asked him for an endorsement for his 2018 governor’s race, claiming the Florida Republican came to him with “tears in his eyes.” The former president ultimately touted himself as DeSantis’ savior, claiming it was his endorsement that secured a win for the Florida governor. But as Trump imitated DeSantis in a pleading voice, the throngs were unusually silent, failing to cheer as they did when he attacked other foes such as Hillary Clinton or Ted Cruz. The incident is only the latest in a series of jabs between ...

http://youtu.be/jwM40kjqImY Seven people were killed, including three children, after a shooter opened fire inside a private Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday. Police said they received a call at 10:13 a.m. about an active shooter at the Covenant School, with police rushing to the scene to clear the halls. At the scene, police heard gunshots on the second floor and came across a young woman who appeared to be in her teens and was strapped with two assault rifles and a handgun. The shooter had killed three students and three staffers before she was fatally struck by responding officers by 10:17 a.m. Police have yet to publicly identify the shooter or the victims, and have yet to find a motive or connection between the shooter and the school. Read more at https://nypos...

http://youtu.be/iyHLMCO9huo Brain scans showed that Botox injected into the forehead altered people’s brain chemistry, impacting how they interpreted other people’s emotions, a new study published in Scientific Reports found. Botox is an injectable that temporarily reduces or eliminates facial fine lines and wrinkles and is popularly used to reduce the appearance of frown lines, forehead creases and crow’s feet near the eyes. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the US recorded 4,401,536 Botulinum Toxin Type A procedures, which includes Botox and similar products, in 2020 — the year with the most recent data. Botox injections have increased by 459% since 2000, becoming the most common minimally invasive cosmetic procedure. As more and more people across the country c...

http://youtu.be/JMuyZiPSVEk An Oklahoma state representative was caught on film yelling at police that they couldn’t arrest him for public drunkenness because he is a politician and above the law. Dean Davis, 50, ran into the police last Thursday when he and some friends refused to leave the Skinny Slims bar, in Broken Arrow. Although the bar was closed, the group continued to drink on the outdoor patio. Davis, a Republican, appeared insulted and confused in newly released bodycam videos, with the politician demanding the arresting officers call their supervisors and warning them of consequences to come. “You chose the wrong person, congratulations,” Davis can be heard telling the officers as he claimed he was “privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature.” Read more ...

http://youtu.be/enF_jPuuhvw The White House has blamed Republicans’ opposition to gun reform for the latest school shooting in Tennessee that left seven dead, including three children. Nashville police said a 28-year-old woman entered the private Covenant School, where she was a former pupil, on Monday morning, killing three students and three staffers before police shot her dead. The woman was reportedly equipped with at least two assault rifles and a handgun, with the White House saying that the shooting could’ve been avoided if the GOP joined efforts to ban assault weapons. “While we don’t know yet all of the details in this latest tragic shooting, we know that too often our schools and communities are being devastated by gun violence,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre...

http://youtu.be/DGcYbjcVkrw President Biden joked Monday that he only showed up to a White House event because he heard there would be ice cream — before addressing the horrific mass shooting that left six dead at a Nashville elementary school hours earlier. “My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband,” the 80-year-old president began his remarks at an East Room gathering of women-owned businesses. “And I eat Jeni’s ice cream — chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream,” he said. “By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs,” Biden added at his only scheduled public appearance of the day. “You think I’m kidding? I’m not.” Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/bidens-bizarre-ice-cream-joke-in-nashville-shooting-remarks/ #joeb...

http://youtu.be/vh1xR2k9Iq0 The future of cancer treatment — hailed as the “holy grail” of early detection — is now being put to the test. Following a radically successful trial on cancer patients, a new blood test that promises to predict tumors more than a year before they begin to form is now being applied in hospitals across the United Kingdom. “This is the first pan-cancer blood test,” said Ashish Tripathi, founder and CEO of Tzar Labs as well as chairman of Epigeneres Biotech, the Indian firm where the test was first developed in 2021. An updated report on their findings was published this month in the journal Stem Cells. “We can detect [cancer] earlier than other known technologies … before the tumor has physically formed,” Tripathi continued during a new interview with author a...

http://youtu.be/Kc3uX_UZdUo Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale sent a friend a chilling “suicide note” minutes before slaughtering three children and three adults – writing her: “I’m planning to die today.” Hale, 28, messaged Averianna Patton, her former middle school basketball teammate, on Instagram at 9:57 a.m. Monday, NewsChannel 5 reported. “So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note. I’m planning to die today,” Hale wrote, using the name Aiden, according to messages Patton gave the outlet. “THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!” wrote Hale, who identified as transgender. “You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die.” Hale added: “This is my last goodbye. I love you … See you again in another life.” She signed the missive “Audrey (Aiden).” Rea...

http://youtu.be/0dw7Iu3XzjQ Two Nashville news anchors reporting on the mass shooting at a local Christian academy broke down on air Monday while covering the tragedy in which three young students and three adults were shot and killed. “Now, we have just learned three children are confirmed dead in this,” Holly Thompson said during a live WSMV broadcast as the news broke. “My heart is just hurting right now. Thoughts and prayers for these families.” Thompson choked up as she both learned and reported the news for the local NBC affiliate station. Her co-anchor Amanda Hara reached out her hand and held Thompson’s arm before turning the broadcast over to a reporter at the hospital. Later during the same broadcast, Hara broke down after listening to an emotional, live interview another re...

http://youtu.be/PYI1fyXngUs Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale ran an art website that included a disturbing image dedicated to “The Shining” and its backward spelling of “MURDER.” The 28-year-old who hunted down and shot dead six people — including three kids — at the Covenant School on Monday claimed online to be a professional freelance illustrator and graphic designer. A self-portrait of “Audrey the Artist” claimed the soon-to-be mass killer was “on a mission to change the world.” “My illustrations usually bring a whimsical and light-hearted feel,” wrote Hale, who appeared to recently start using “he/ him” pronouns and the name Aiden but whose mom on Monday referred to as “my daughter.” However, a section of Hale’s online “AH Illustrations” portfolio is devoted to the title “Mad...

http://youtu.be/8vL7vuIsnJ8 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was pictured Monday showing off a new, smaller nuclear warhead — as he vowed to increase the production of weapons-grade material to expand his nuclear arsenal. Kim inspected the tactical warheads — called Hwasan-31s — during a visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute, state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Tuesday. The visit to the institute came at the conclusion of joint naval exercises between South Korea and the United States, intended to strengthen defense and response capabilities. North Korea has long viewed such military drills as a rehearsal for an invasion. The outlet said Kim pressed scientists during Monday’s visit to “expand in a far-sighted way” the production of nuclear fuel to meet goals of expandin...

http://youtu.be/TriwsQqaaIw Here are The Post’s biggest business headlines for March 28, 2023: Meta is reportedly set to slash bonus payments and step up the frequency of its employee reviews as a part of Mark Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency," Sam Bankman-Fried can use a cell phone without internet as a part of new bail conditions while he awaits trial on federal fraud charges, a freelance NBC reporter is facing backlash for a now deleted tweet in which he wrote that the Nashville school shooter, Audrey Hale, identified as trans and that "Nashville is home to the 'Daily Wire', a hub of anti-trans activity." #meta #markzuckerbuerg #sbf #ftx #nashville #technology #business The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion...

http://youtu.be/SY8eaZHTDKs Whoopi Goldberg has come to the defense of disgraced weatherwoman Barbie Bassett. Goldberg slammed a Mississippi news station’s decision to oust Bassett, ostensibly because the anchor quoted a Snoop Dogg lyric on live television. On Monday’s episode of “The View,” Goldberg insisted that “just because we’re on television, doesn’t mean we know everything.” “We don’t know everything you’re not supposed to do,” she said earlier this week, taking a jab at NBC affiliate WLBT during her routine criticism bit. Bassett, the Jackson network’s first chief meteorologist, was let go from her desk after uttering a racial epithet — “fo shizzle, my nizzle” — on air while reporting on rapper Snoop Dogg’s latest addition to his Cali wine line. Read more at https://nypost.co...

http://youtu.be/oFA3lYgf1Zk At least 68 people across the US are now known to have been infected by contaminated eyedrops — killing three, blinding eight and leaving four others needing an eyeball surgically removed. The over-the-counter drops by EzriCare and Delsam Phama, first recalled in February, have now been linked to cases in 16 states across the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an updated alert Tuesday of a tally from March 14, meaning it could now be higher. That includes cases in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, the CDC said. At least 37 were “linked to four healthcare facility clusters,” the CDC said, without detailing where they are. “Three people have died and there have been 8 reports of vision loss and 4 reports of enuc...

http://youtu.be/-9bscG8o7Ww Here are The Post’s biggest video headlines for March 23, 2023: The grand jury will not weigh the Donald Trump hush-money case brought on by Manhattan AG Alvin Bragg for the second straight day, over-the-counter eye drops by EzriCare and Delsam Pharma contaminated with a rare bacteria have now infected at least 68 people across the US, Reggie Jackson opened up to Howard Stern about his past as a serial cheater. #donaldtrump #alvinbragg #eyedrops #reggiejackson The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Pos...

http://youtu.be/IfS4Swftfds An off-duty pilot flying as a passenger helped take control of a Southwest jet after the captain was “incapacitated” by a medical emergency. Flight 6013 took off from Las Vegas just after 6:30 a.m. Wednesday when one of its on-duty pilots “needed medical attention” on the way to Columbus, Ohio, Southwest confirmed to The Post. “A credentialed Pilot from another airline, who was on board, entered the Flight Deck and assisted with radio communication while our Southwest Pilot flew the aircraft,” said airline spokesperson Chris Perry. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/23/off-duty-pilot-helps-land-jet-after-captain-incapacitated/ #southwestairlines #pilot #emergency The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, busines...

http://youtu.be/bBe7vKLs2wI Shockwaves rippled across Los Angeles when a rare tornado touched down roughly 11 miles outside the city’s downtown Wednesday morning. The small twister, described by the National Weather Service as the “strongest tornado to impact” the area since 1983, ripped off the roofs of commercial buildings in a Montebello industrial park and sent debris circling into the sky, according to footage of the wild scene. The EF-1 tornado packed winds of up to 110 mph and damaged 17 buildings, 11 significantly, the weather service said. “It’s definitely not something that’s common for the region,” said weather service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld. One person was injured and they were taken to a local hospital, said a Montebello spokesperson. The person’s condition was unk...

http://youtu.be/y3zJybZaREM Ukrainian soldier and vlogger Andrii Babychev published drone footage on his YouTube channel showing smoke billowing over residential blocks, as well as destroyed houses. Reuters was able to verify the location from the buildings, road and field seen in the video which matched satellite photography of the area. Reuters was not able to confirm the date the video was filmed. Russia's Wagner mercenaries, trying to capture Bakhmut in what has become the longest and bloodiest battle of the war, "are losing considerable strength and are running out of steam," Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi said on the Telegram social media site. There was no immediate response from Moscow to the latest claims its forces in Bakhmut were losing momentum. Source: MotolifeUA via ...

http://youtu.be/GcgC6gXsGgk A transgender cyclist proudly said she felt like a “superhero” while winning her latest women’s race in New York — just days after a former champ quit the sport in anger at losing to another trans rider. Tiffany Thomas, 47, was photographed with her arms aloft in victory at the top of the podium at the Randall’s Island Crit on Saturday — at least her 20th win since she started racing in 2018, while already in her 40s. The NYC-based biologist posted photos of herself in full flight from the race while wearing the bright orange team kit of her team sponsor, LA Sweat. “I’m not going to lie, sometimes it made me feel like a superhero when I wore it,” she said alongside one image of her fully focused in the NYC race. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/23/tr...

http://youtu.be/608LgMApDgM The grieving parents of a Long Island teen who committed suicide after watching hours of “psychologically disturbing” TikTok videos broke down during a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday. Dean and Michelle Nasca, whose 16-year-old son, Chase, took his own life last year after receiving more than 1,000 unsolicited videos of violence and suicide, openly sobbed a US Rep. Gus Bilirakis recounted their son’s tragic death. “Your company destroyed their lives,” Bilirakis, a Florida Republican, told TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about the teenager’s parents. “His ‘For You’ page was sadly a window to discover suicide. It’s unacceptable, sir!” The Nascas filed their lawsuit against the Chinese-owned social media giant in Suffolk County Supreme Court on Tuesday, claiming ...

http://youtu.be/wy2YzJldMlY A California school district meeting descended into chaos this week when a woman reportedly told a black man to “get out of the country” after he criticized the board’s hiring of an anti-critical race theory consultant. In a livestream of the heated Wednesday proceedings, the concerned man can be heard telling the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) that its recent approach to critical race theory (CRT) is “asinine.” TVUSD voted to prohibit CRT – an educational concept that examines how social structures uphold racism and prejudice – in December, The Press-Enterprise reported. The district also made headlines earlier this month when it approved allocating $15,000 in taxpayer funds for sessions with anti-CRT consultant Christopher Arend. At Wedn...

http://youtu.be/6MtM9_IqWn4 Four cops dragged off a woman off a Frontier Airlines flight by her limbs after she threatened to attack a fellow passenger and tried to bite responding cops. Simone Bryna Kim, 24, of Killeen, Texas, was caught on camera Tuesday arguing with a man aboard a flight bound for Philadelphia on the tarmac at the Miami International Airport. “I’ll beat you the f–k up. What you trying to be on,” Kim yelled at a male passenger. “I’m going to rock your s**t.” “‘If you’re real, show me what’s up. I’m going to beat you the f–k up on this s–t, I guarantee you, I guarantee you,’ she continued. “You’re not even from Philly,” she said to the man at one point, as a woman tried to intervene. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/23/frontier-airlines-passenger-dragged-off...