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CNN  —  A San Antonio Police Department officer has been fired after shooting a 17-year-old boy who was eating a meal in a McDonald’s parking lot Sunday, the department said. The unnamed officer, described by the department as a probationary officer with seven months’ experience, was fired for violating the department’s “tactics, training, and procedures,” police said. The SAPD said in a video statement the officer was handling an unrelated disturbance call at the McDonald’s Sunday night when he saw a car he believed had evaded police the previous day and called for backup. Before backup officers arrived, body camera…

When the musical film Black is King was released in 2020, African audiences and some critics said it defamed and distorted the continent’s culture and history. They described its Afrocentric portrayal of Africa as “Wakanda-esque”, a reference to the fictional East African country popularised by Black Panther, the seminal 2018 movie about Black superheroes. Directed and written by American singer Beyoncé, who was also its executive producer, Black is King is described by Disney – on whose platform it can be streamed – as a project aimed at highlighting “the beauty of tradition and Black excellence” and honouring the “voyages of Black families,…

SEOUL: North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday (Oct 9), the South’s military said, in the latest in a blitz of launches amid tensions over US-led military exercises in the region, Yonhap reported. The South Korean military’s joint chiefs of staff announced the launch – the seventh in two weeks – without giving further details, Yonhap said. The Japanese prime minister’s office also confirmed the launch on Twitter. “North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile. More updates to follow,” the office said. The missile seems to have fallen outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone at sea, the…

SEOUL: North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday (Oct 9), the South’s military said, the latest in a blitz of launches amid tensions over US-led military exercises in the region, Yonhap reported. The South Korean military’s joint chiefs of staff announced the launches from the southeast of the country — the seventh and eighth in two weeks – without giving further details. “While strengthening our monitoring and vigilance, our military is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the United States,” the joint chiefs of staff said, Yonhap reported. North Korea on Saturday had…

New York CNN  —  ExxonMobil has been ordered to reinstate two scientists who were fired after being suspected of leaking information to The Wall Street Journal, the US Labor Department said Friday. A federal whistleblower investigation found the oil and gas giant terminated the two computational scientists illegally in late 2020. The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration also ordered ExxonMobil to pay the two employees back more than $800,000 in back wages, interest and compensatory damages. An article in The Wall Street Journal last year claimed ExxonMobil might have inflated its production estimates and the value of oil…

Charley Hull has a maiden major championship win in her sights after ending a lengthy losing run on the LPGA Tour.The 26-year-old has long been seen as one of the biggest talents in the game, but major success has so far eluded Hull.Hull snapped a six-year winless run on the LPGA Tour at the Volunteers of America Classic last week, with the victory topping off a good season for the English player.GolfHull wins the Ascendant, her first LPGA title in almost six years02/10/2022 AT 21:18A tied-third finish at the Evian Championship was her best result in the majors in 2022,…

From Teddi Wright to Rachel Recchia, Jill Chin is weighing in on how her Bachelor besties are coping amid their respective heartbreaks. “I think she made the right decision for her in the moment,” Jill said on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast about Teddi after she abruptly quit Bachelor in Paradise on the Tuesday, October 4, episode. “It’s a really tough environment — having to explore your feelings with people that you care about and also doing it on TV is super hard. She just knew what was best for her in that situation, and that was…

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has appointed a new commander to the armed forces in Ukraine as Moscow looks to turn around its dwindling fortunes. General of the Army Sergei Surovikin will take over as Commander of the Joint Group of Russian Forces in Ukraine effective immediately, drawing on experience from the second Chechen war and campaigns in Syria and Tajikistan, Russian outlet Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported. Surovikin previously held command of the Southern group in June and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces in 2017.His Chechen war experience, where he led the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, will draw scrutiny as a…

Tyler Merritt, CEO of Nine Line Apparel of Savannah, Georgia, and a retired Army captain, simply wants to help others — particularly those who have been impacted in Florida by Hurricane Ian.Yet his ability to raise money for needy people through sales of his company’s “Florida Strong” T-shirts has been rejected by Facebook, he said.Appearing this week on “Fox & Friends,” Merritt said, “We want to support Florida. We want to show a commitment to rebuild in this incredible devastation that Ian’s left behind.”FLORIDA HOMEOWNERS HIT HARD BY HURRICANE IAN ARE DESPERATE FOR HELP FROM SAMARITAN’S PURSE AND OTHERSAnd yet…

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