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An Illinois man faces murder charges after law enforcement officials found his deceased cousin in a wheelbarrow on Wednesday, according to officials.Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a home on West Shenandoah Trail in Wadsworth, Illinois just before 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday to check on the welfare of 47-year-old Monica Green, who lived at the home. The sheriff’s office said in a press release that a relative of Green’s reported to police that they were supposed to pick her up for an appointment but grew concerned when Green did not respond to the doorbell ringing or phone calls.ILLINOIS EMS…

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg avoided some phone calls and requests for public appearances while he was on paternity leave in 2021, according to internal documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.Documents obtained by the group Protect the Public’s Trust show Buttigieg declined a request for a call with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in September 2021 to discuss an application for funds toward a bridge in his state.”Unfortunately, the Secretary is currently on leave due to the birth of his twins, and that may lead to a delay in possibly scheduling in the future,” a staffer emailed Grassley’s office, according…

PETA is calling for the University of Georgia to be “a winner not only in football but also in its treatment of” animals.In the wake of its second straight National Championship, the animal rights organization wants the school to immediately halt its use of its live mascot, an English bulldog named Uga.The group claims that the school’s use of Uga “drives demand for breathing-impaired breeds (BIBs),” like pugs, boxers, and English and French bulldogs. “As the back-to-back national champion, can’t UGA find it in its heart to honestly examine the impact of its promotion of deformed dogs and call time…

The metaverse, described by Wikipedia as “the sum of all virtual spaces”, has recently been garnering significant attention as a key component of the future internet. Major technology companies and banks are investing heavily in this space, with some experts forecasting that the metaverse is building towards a value of $13 trillion by 2030.However, there are also skeptics who believe that the hype surrounding the metaverse is premature, and that developers have yet to create tangible products that will be widely adopted by users.Enter RobotEra: A Metaverse Building 3D Game WorldOne project that is working to create a tangible product…

Minneapolis CNN  —  The US government recorded a deficit of $85 billion in December, bringing the total deficit to nearly $1.42 trillion for the 2022 calendar year, the Treasury Department reported Thursday. The government, which runs on a fiscal year that starts in October, is running a deficit of $421.41 billion for its fiscal first quarter of 2023, a 12% increase from the fiscal first quarter of 2022, Treasury data shows. December’s deficit was nearly four times as large as the $21.3 billion deficit recorded in December 2021 as spending grew and revenue fell last month. Receipts totaled $454.94 billion,…

The cost of food is still hard to swallow, but the latest Consumer Price Index shows that those price increases — by and large — are at least growing at slower rates. In December, “food at home” prices increased 0.2% from the month before, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the smallest monthly increase since March 2021. On an annual basis, however, grocery prices remain stubbornly high (and nearly double the rate of overall inflation) at 11.8% year over year. “Even though we’re seeing inflationary pressures ease, we still have a war in Ukraine,”…

NASA is funding a concept for a space seaplane that could investigate the chemistry of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.The TitanAir project from Planet Enterprises’ Quinn Morley could both soar through Titan’s nitrogen-and-methane atmosphere and navigate its oceans. “Flying on Titan would be relatively easy thanks to its low gravity and thick atmosphere. Morley conceived a flying, heavily instrumented boat that would seamlessly transition between soaring through Titan’s atmosphere and sailing its lakes, much like a seaplane on Earth,” NASA said, noting that all NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) studies are not considered official agency missions. The NIAC program, within NASA’s Space Technology…

Wildlife photographers in Florida’s Everglades National Park recorded a wild video of a massive Burmese python slithering across a road earlier this month.Kym Clark was with friends when they came upon the snake laying in the middle of the road before the reptile began sidewinding its way into the grass away from the group.”No, Siri, we don’t want to proceed to the route!” Clark joked in a caption on the Instagram post, estimating that the predator was at least 15 feet long.Clark said the photographers pinned the python’s location and reported it to authorities since the reptiles “are a huge…

A magistrate in Zambia on Thursday granted bail to eight Croatian nationals charged with child trafficking.Magistrate David Makalicha in Ndola, in the mineral-rich Copperbelt province, said the eight should each pay about $1,000 bail and surrender their passports to the court.The eight were named as Damir Magic, 44, Nadica Magic, 45, Zoran Subosic, 52, Azra Imamovic Subosic, 41, Ladislav Persic, 42, Aleksandra Persic, 40, Noah Kraljevic, 45, and Ivona Kraljevic, 46, when they first appeared in court on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to charges of child trafficking.They are defended by a legal aid lawyer, Kelvin Silwimba. In the charges…

The Lightwater Valley’s Ultimate Coaster was the longest in the world when it opened in 1991, but after more than 30 years it is set to be dismantled and sold for scrapIt’s had its ups and downs, but a roller coaster that was once the longest in the world is now heading for the scrap yard. The Ultimate Coaster runs for almost a mile and a half and was the longest in the world from 1991, when it opened, until 2000, when it was overtaken by a ride in Japan. Now the Lightwater Valley theme park has decided The Ultimate,…