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Abel Jax Mailey was less than eight weeks old when his father Oliver Mailey is alleged to have inflicted fatal injuries at their home in Burnley on November 28, 2021.A man killed his newborn baby by shaking him with force similar to a car accident or a fall from a multi-storey building, a has court heard. Abel Jax Mailey was less than eight weeks old when his father Oliver Mailey was alleged to have inflicted fatal injuries at their home in Burnley on November 28, 2021. Mailey first claimed he found the child limp and lifeless in his cot, but…

Los Angeles police released body-camera video showing what led up to an officer deploying his taser on a man who later died. The incident happened on Jan. 3 and involved Los Angeles resident Keenan Darnell Anderson, the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors. Anderson, 31, a Black man, died at a hospital after suffering a medical emergency about four and a half hours after his arrest, said Kelly Muñiz, a police spokesperson, in a video statement.The situation began around 3:35 p.m. when a Los Angeles police officer was flagged down about a traffic accident, Muñiz said. Witnesses directed…

Downing Street’s net-zero tsar is set to recommend a fivefold increase in solar power, an earlier ban on new gas boilers by 2033 and curbs on the export of plastic waste by 2027 in a far-reaching report to be published on Monday. Chris Skidmore, Tory MP and former science and universities minister, was commissioned in the autumn to conduct a review of Britain’s 2050 emissions target to ensure that it is consistent with the government’s pro-growth and pro-business strategy. With Britain in the grip of a cost of living crisis, some Conservative MPs are suspicious of the net-zero target, believing…

The software that failed and forced the Federal Aviation Administration to ground thousands of flights on Wednesday is 30 years old and not scheduled to be updated for another six years, according to a senior government official. This system was installed in 1993 and runs the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, which sends pilots vital information they need to fly, the official said.After the FAA was able to get planes flying again, a government official said a corrupted file that affected both the primary and the backup NOTAM systems appeared to be the culprit.But the new revelation raised…

A man from Indiana broke a state fishing record twice in a single day right before the New Year.Scott Skafar, 48, of Valparaiso, Indiana, went fishing in Porter County on Dec. 30, 2022, where he caught two record-breaking fish from Lake Michigan, according to a press release issued by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (Indiana DNR) on Wednesday, Jan. 11.RECORD-BREAKING FISH: HUGE CATCHES THAT MADE HEADLINES IN 2022Both of the fish Skafar caught were burbots, a gadiform freshwater fish (AKA cod fish), that’s native to Lake Michigan, according to the Indiana DNR. The first burbot Skafar caught weighed 10.2…

Hong Kong’s financial regulator is expected to create a dedicated whitelist of tokens that retail users will be allowed to trade.The new token whitelist was proposed on Wednesday by Julia Leung, the CEO of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) during a panel discussion in Hong Kong. Leung did not reveal which specific tokens she had in mind for the proposed whitelist, but she said her agency will now seek public opinion about guardrails for retail crypto trading.As a starting point, it is expected that at least bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) will make the list, given that there…

CNN  —  Alabama’s Republican attorney general said this week that women in the state who use prescription medication to terminate their pregnancies could be prosecuted under a chemical-endangerment law, even though Alabama’s anti-abortion law does not intend to punish women who receive abortions. Steve Marshall made the comments in the wake of a decision earlier this month by the US Food and Drug Administration to allow certified pharmacies to dispense the abortion medication mifepristone to people who have a prescription. “The Human Life Protection Act targets abortion providers, exempting women ‘upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be…

Billionaire Mark Cuban believes an age-old market manipulation tactic could be the next thing to rock the cryptocurrency industry.”I think the next possible implosion is the discovery and removal of wash trades on central exchanges,” the longtime crypto investor tells TheStreet.A wash trade is when a trader buys and sells the same financial asset multiple times in order to generate fake volume and make it appear as if there is a high demand for the asset. This artificially inflated demand can mislead other traders into investing real money into the asset.Since higher demand typically leads to higher prices, traders can…

The Nova Scotia RCMP says the suspicious death of a woman in Five Islands has been ruled a homicide. In a release, police said officers with the Colchester County District RCMP and the Cumberland County District RCMP responded to reports of shots fired in the area of Sand Point Hill Lane and Wharf Road shortly after 7 p.m. Monday. There, they found a dead woman inside a home on Sand Point Hill Lane.Earlier this week, police said the death was “suspicious,” but said Thursday that it has been ruled a homicide.The release said Cumberland County RCMP officers took a “person…

U.S. border authorities announced changes to their policy for pursuing smugglers and other crime suspects on Wednesday, following an extensive review and criticism by immigrant advocates who pointed to cases in which passengers died when drivers fled law enforcement.Customs and Border Protection announced the changes Wednesday, just days after a crash in southern New Mexico that killed two people and injured eight others on Sunday. Another crash on Jan. 5. followed the shooting of a Border Patrol officer.The agency said the updated directive provides a framework for weighing the risks of a pursuit against the law enforcement benefit or need.…