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While New York City Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly said buses of migrants arriving in his city from border states were unannounced, the city of El Paso reportedly said otherwise. According to New York’s FOX 5, the communications director for the Texas city, Laura Cruz-Acosta, said that when the first bus traveled from El Paso to the Big Apple on Aug. 23, New York’s Emergency Management Department, New York NGOs and the mayor’s office had been aware. She told the station that El Paso had developed a manifest.”We would provide the manifest to the NGO at the final destination,” Cruz-Acosta said. “So…

Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was unexpectedly led out of the closing ceremony for the Chinese Communist Party meeting Saturday while he sat next to President Xi Jinping. The 79-year-old, the direct predecessor to Xi, was seated to the left of the Chinese leader before what appeared to be security officials approached him and forced him to leave his seat.The ceremony marked the end to a week-long congressional meeting that solidified a third term for Xi, making him the longest serving Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. XI JINPING CALLS FOR CHINA TO CREATE ‘WORLD-CLASS MILITARY’ AS HE TARGETS TAIWANVideo footage of…

Steven Barker has served 12 years in prison after being jailed in 2009 for his part in the death of Baby P – 17-month-old Peter Connelly who endured over 50 injuriesBaby P ‘s stepdad has yet again been denied parole after being jailed for causing the tragic tot’s death. Steven Barker has so far served 13 years in prison in relation to the toddler’s death and for raping a two-year-old girl. It is the fourth time he’s been refused parole since 2017. The panel this time said he had not made sufficient progress for possible release, including refusing to take…

A Florida woman claims her nearly $2 million Harry Winston emerald and diamond ring was stolen by the same jeweler who sold it to her decades earlier. Ninotchka Manus, 75, bought the platinum ring — with a pear-shaped emerald surrounded by pear-shaped diamonds — 23 years ago from Harry Winston salesman and executive Max Pincione. It was valued at $1.95 million in January 2000. Manus claims Pincione came to her in 2018, claiming he could sell the ring on her behalf. She believed him “because of their decades-long personal and professional relationship,” and gave him the ring, she said in…

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people applauded — and some wiped away tears — as a Mississippi community unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, not far from where white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager over accusations he had flirted with a white woman in a country store.“Change has come, and it will continue to happen,” Madison Harper, a senior at Leflore County High School, told a racially diverse audience at the statue’s dedication. “Decades ago, our parents and grandparents could not envision that a moment like today would transpire.”The 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the…

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Bitcoin is trading slightly bullish at $19,223 during the European session, having bounced off the support area of $19,000. On October 22, the BTC/USD started the day at $19,175 and fluctuated between a high value of $19,191.00 and a low value of $19,125. A slew of fundamentals seem to be under BTC demand. Can we expect BTC to surge by 20%? Let’s find out.Mobile Bank N26 Begins Trading CryptocurrenciesThe German fintech N26, which is worth $9 billion, has added cryptocurrency trading to its mobile app. N26 Crypto’s users will be able to buy and trade 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ether, beginning in Austria and expanding to…

Alex Jones arrives at the court house as he faces a second defamation trial over Sandy Hook claims in Waterbury, Connecticut, September 22, 2022.Michelle McLoughlin | ReutersConspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, who say they were subjected to harassment and threats from Jones’ lies about the 2012 Newtown school shooting.Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis’ pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and “a substantial miscarriage of justice.””Additionally, the amount of the…

SUMMERFIELD, Fla. — A 14-year-old girl caused a stir at a north Florida middle school when she handed out more than $10,000 that she is accused of stealing from her grandmother, officials said.Marion County deputies responded to Lake Weir Middle School in Summerfield on Thursday after reports that a student was giving classmates hundreds of dollars each, according to an arrest report. Summerfield is about 60 miles northwest of Orlando.School officials conducted a search of the girl’s backpack and found about $2,500, deputies said. The girl said she had been given the money by an unknown former student who wanted…

CNN  —  A resident of Kherson has described the situation in the Russian-occupied city as tense, with people “emotionally exhausted,” the streets empty from mid-afternoon onwards, and Russian soldiers often seen in civilian clothes. The woman was reached by CNN through a third party, and was speaking shortly before the Russian-appointed administration in the city ordered civilians to leave. The administration said Saturday that “due to the tense situation at the front, the increased danger of massive shelling of the city and the threat of terrorist attacks, all civilians must immediately leave the city and cross to the East bank…