Police reveal new details showing just how quickly armed citizens neutralized the mall killer: Nothing short of heroic: Law officials disclosed on Tuesday that the hero who averted a mass shooting at an Indiana mall eliminated the assailant in a matter of seconds, highlighting how effective the response was. What did the police say? Tuesday afternoon, Greenwood police chief James Ison corrected himself, stating that 22-year-old armed resident Elisjsha Dicken took down the murderer in just 15 seconds. Ison previously misunderstood the notes at a press conference and stated it took 2 minutes, which was incorrect. The murderer entered the…
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More than 1,000,000 NHS staff to receive a pay rise of at least £1,400: It has been reported that more than 1 million NHS employees, including nurses, paramedics, and midwives, will receive a wage increase of at least £1,400. Those on the lowest pay scale, such as porters and cleaners, will see a boost of up to 9.3 percent. Doctors and dentists who qualify will see their pay increase by 4.5 percent. Nurses’ average basic wage would climb from £35,600 to £37,000, while newly qualified nurses’ earnings will jump by 5.5 percent, from £25,655 to £27,055. The salary increases were…
Justice Department opens civil probe into Amazon’s workplace safety practices: According to a representative for the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, a civil investigation into workplace safety at Amazon facilities and suspected “fraudulent” actions to conceal worker injuries from federal regulators have been launched. According to the spokesman, investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) went to warehouses in New York City, Chicago, and Orlando on Monday morning to conduct worker safety inspections on behalf of the US attorney’s office. “The civil division of the Southern District of New York is investigating potential worker safety hazards at Amazon…
All charges dropped against 61-year-old NYC deli worker Jose Alba who fatally stabbed a bigger, a younger attacker: According to the New York Times, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office dropped all charges against 61-year-old deli worker Jose Alba, who fatally killed an attacker earlier this month. What are the details? Despite video showing a much larger and younger man — 35-year-old Austin Simon — going behind the counter of a Harlem deli on July 1 and physically attacking Alba, who works there, Bragg’s office charged Alba with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon and sent him to…
UPS driver collapses in extreme heat in doorbell camera video: Brian Enriquez, a Scottsdale, Arizona homeowner, received a notification from his Ring doorbell system last week while at work. Despite his inability to open the door, the Ring’s camera filmed a stunning event. A UPS driver was seen walking up to Enriquez’s front door, setting down an envelope, then collapsing. The driver lies down for a moment on the ground, then gets up, rings the doorbell, and returns to his vehicle. Enriquez wished he could have checked on the driver while seeing the footage. “I was concerned because he was…
Netflix investors brace for subscriber losses as the company works on long-term fixes: Netflix publishes second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, and the buildup has the sense of hurricane preparation. A storm is on its way. It’s almost certainly going to be horrible. Shareholders are hoping that the foundation will be strong enough to resist the damage. Netflix remains the world’s largest streaming service, but the business earlier this year recorded its first quarterly subscriber drop in more than a decade and warned that it expected to lose 2 million global members in the second quarter. That would be the company’s single…
Chrissy Teigen Celebrates One Year of Sobriety: On July 18, the 36-year-old turned to Instagram Stories to commemorate her one-year alcohol-free streak. She posted a screenshot of an app showing her reaching a 365-day sober streak, “haha finally.” Chrissy, who admitted to Cosmopolitan in 2017 that she’d been “point blank, simply drinking too much,” has been publicly documenting her sober journey on social media since then, and has been upfront about her ups and downs. In December 2020, the former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model said on Instagram that she had been clean for four weeks and was “done with making…
Health experts are quitting the NIH and CDC in droves because they are embarrassed by ‘bad science’: According to recent reports, both the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are experiencing staffing shortages. Many people began to doubt the leadership of the organization when it made decisions such as closing schools and then asking students to wear face masks once the schools reopened. Some of the leading medical organizations in the United States have recently expressed confusion regarding the licensure of COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than four years old. The ‘Common Sense’…
FCC chair proposes raising the broadband standard to 100Mbps: The FCC’s threshold for internet speed was 25 Mbps in 2015, which sounded fast at the time; but, that was seven years ago, and the current leadership of the agency believes it’s time to boost that baseline. Jessica Rosenworcel, who serves as Chairwoman, has proposed increasing the minimum definition of broadband to include download speeds of 100 Mbps and upload speeds of 20 Mbps. According to Rosenworcel, the prior standard of 25/3 is not only out of date but also conceals the exact number of low-income and rural internet users who…
Brittney Griner was prescribed medical cannabis for ‘severe chronic pain,’ lawyers tell the court: On Friday, the attorneys for WNBA star Brittney Griner testified before Russian judges that their client was given a prescription for medical cannabis to treat “severe chronic pain.” The legal team representing Griner provided the Russian court with a letter from a medical center in the United States that stated Griner will be granted permission to use medical cannabis in the state of Arizona in the year 2020. Griner suffers from chronic pain as a result of sports injuries. Also on Friday, the trial of Griner…