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A tornado hit parts of Alabama Thursday, causing “significant damage” in Selma, the city’s mayor said. Mayor James Perkins Jr. asked residents to “please refrain from traveling the roadways and stay away from down power lines.”Emergency response crews were already on the ground to provide assistance. A tornado in Selma, Ala. on Jan. 12, 2023.Caleb LeGrone via Facebook”We are asking everyone to stay calm and stay in place until further notice,” city officials said in a Facebook post. Most city streets are closed due to downed power lines and trees, according to another post from the city.”All schools have reported…

Europeans are feeling the pinch of multiple crises, with nearly half of them saying they have already seen a decline in their standard of living.A staggering 46% of Europeans living in the European Union bloc of countries say their standard of living has recently decreased, while 45% say they are having “some” or “a lot” of difficulties with their income, according to a new Eurobarometer reported on by EuroNews this month. Another 39% of respondents envision a decline to their standard of living in the future, according to the survey, which described the “polycrisis mood” facing Europe.Europeans have seen a…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has offered a sweetheart plea deal to a suspect charged in the brutal anti-Semitic beating of a Jewish man in Midtown, prosecutors confirmed. Waseem Awawdeh — who defiantly said “I would do it again” after his arrest in the cowardly assault on Joseph Borgen near a pro-Israel rally in May 2021 — has gotten a six-month plea deal offer from the controversial Big Apple prosecutor. That would be a slap-on-the-wrist compared to the up to 10 years he would face if convicted. Awawdeh, 24, was part of a gang of brutes busted in the…

A Nebraska lawmaker who sponsored a failed total abortion ban last year announced Wednesday that she will introduce a new bill this week that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo, which is generally around the sixth week of pregnancy.State Sen. Joni Albrecht, of Thurston, announced at a news conference that she would introduce the bill Thursday or Friday. It will require an ultrasound to be performed before any abortion and would bar abortions if cardiac activity is detected. It will include exceptions for cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the…

After an illustrious career, P.K. Subban will be honoured on the same ice where he made himself a household name in Montreal and among Canadiens fans everywhere. The now-retired defenceman is known for his dedication not only to hockey, the storied club and its fans, but also to the city and its people as a whole.Global Montreal hockey analyst Brian Wilde weighed in on Subban’s return to his beloved Montreal for a tribute at the Bell Centre ahead of Thursday’s game against the Nashville Predators. The hockey star announced last year he would be retiring after 13 NHL seasons with…

Nick Kyrgios is well aware that no Australian tennis player in men’s singles has been able to claim the Grand Slam title in Australia since Mark Edmondson did it in 1976. But, following his first finals appearance last year, he’s confident he has the ability to change that. Kyrgios, 27, was introduced to the media Thursday to speak about his new role in the National Basketball League after becoming part of the South East Melbourne Phoenix ownership group. But the focus of the press conference quickly shifted to the Australian Open, where Kyrgios enters as one of the tournament favorites. “Well, I…

At least three people were killed after a fiery crash involving semi-trucks on a freeway east of Phoenix early Thursday, authorities said,Arizona Department of Public Safety officials said the chain-reaction crash around 6 a.m. Thursday blocked multiple lanes of Interstate 10.DPS said a big rig crashed into a passenger car that was pushed into another semi-truck and two other vehicles.PROBLEMS PERSIST AT FAA DESPITE $23+ BILLION BUDGET Two people inside the car died at the scene and the third victim was inside another vehicle, according to DPS.The names and ages of the people killed weren’t immediately released by authorities.Video from…

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Just after my 18th birthday, I had a mammogram. What I knew about mammograms was that women my mom’s age had them — not teenage boys. Yet there I was one day after school, shirtless, in a dim room where a large machine sat with an open mouth, waiting to bite down when the nurse maneuvered the skin of my chest into its cold, flat teeth. As I soon found out, men can also have breast cancer.Today, conversations about gender are common. The acceptable behaviors we assign to bodies are questioned. Not so in the early ’90s. Not in conservative,…

CNN  —  Dozens of messages, social media posts and videos show that leaders of the far-right Proud Boys not only planned for the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack but recruited others to help stop Joe Biden from becoming president, federal prosecutors said Thursday during opening statements in the seditious conspiracy trial. “Let’s bring this new year with one word in mind…revolt,” defendant and then-Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio wrote to others in the group on January 1, 2021, according to prosecutors. “New year’s revolution.” Prosecutor Jason McCullough told the jury that Proud Boys leaders were afraid a Biden presidency…