Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.South Dakota’s attorney general — after fatally striking a pedestrian last year — allegedly had the victim’s glasses inside his car, according to newly-released interviews.The state’s Department of Public Safety on Tuesday of investigators questioning Jason Ravnsborg about the Sept. 12 crash that dead.The footage shows how, during a Sept. 14 interview, detectives told Ravnsborg that they had discovered a pair of broken glasses on the front passenger floorboard of his vehicle.During a second sit-down on Sept. 30, interviewers asked...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.South Dakota’s attorney general — after fatally striking a pedestrian last year — allegedly had the victim’s glasses inside his car, according to newly-released interviews.The state’s Department of Public Safety on Tuesday of investigators questioning Jason Ravnsborg about the Sept. 12 crash that dead.The footage shows how, during a Sept. 14 interview, detectives told Ravnsborg that they had discovered a pair of broken glasses on the front passenger floorboard of his vehicle.During a second sit-down on Sept. 30, interviewers asked...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, better known by her handle “That Vegan Teacher,” amassed more than 1.7 million followers on TikTok — until this week.As of Monday night, when you on the video-streaming platform it says “couldn’t find this account.” Her account was reportedly banned for “violating community guidelines” following the publication of a Change.org petition, which accuses her of to force her views on the public.Now she is challenging her audience to “rise up” in her defense.“Many of you woke up this morning and found out that my...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, better known by her handle “That Vegan Teacher,” amassed more than 1.7 million followers on TikTok — until this week.As of Monday night, when you on the video-streaming platform it says “couldn’t find this account.” Her account was reportedly banned for “violating community guidelines” following the publication of a Change.org petition, which accuses her of to force her views on the public.Now she is challenging her audience to “rise up” in her defense.“Many of you woke up this morning and found out that my...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday joked about his controversial and bellowed “Freedom!” in a homage to “Braveheart” during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.The Texas Republican’s speech began with a joke about his travel to Mexico last week after his constituents lost heat and electricity due to frigid temperatures impacting energy production.“God bless CPAC,” the Texas senator began, “I’ve gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It’s not as nice as Cancun, but it’s nice.”The remark was met with laughs and gasps from the...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday joked about his controversial and bellowed “Freedom!” in a homage to “Braveheart” during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.The Texas Republican’s speech began with a joke about his travel to Mexico last week after his constituents lost heat and electricity due to frigid temperatures impacting energy production.“God bless CPAC,” the Texas senator began, “I’ve gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It’s not as nice as Cancun, but it’s nice.”The remark was met with laughs and gasps from the...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez growled on Twitter on Thursday about the NYPD’s new robotic dog, which was tested on her home turf in the Bronx this week.“Shout out to everyone who fought against community advocates who demanded these resources go to investments like school counseling instead,” the .“Now robotic surveillance ground drones are being deployed for testing on low-income communities of color with under-resourced schools,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.deployed at the scene of a home invasion in the Bronx this week, is getting a test run as...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez growled on Twitter on Thursday about the NYPD’s new robotic dog, which was tested on her home turf in the Bronx this week.“Shout out to everyone who fought against community advocates who demanded these resources go to investments like school counseling instead,” the .“Now robotic surveillance ground drones are being deployed for testing on low-income communities of color with under-resourced schools,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.deployed at the scene of a home invasion in the Bronx this week, is getting a test run as...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Leading female Democratic pols largely stayed silent Thursday on the against Gov. Andrew Cuomo — even though some have been outspoken on the subject in the past.New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was among the elected officials who didn’t respond to requests for comment on the claims made by former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan.Gillibrand’s reluctance to weigh in on the escalating scandal came despite having advocated a “zero-tolerance” policy that of Minnesota to in 2017.Vice President Kamala Harris, who also called on Franken to resign...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Leading female Democratic pols largely stayed silent Thursday on the against Gov. Andrew Cuomo — even though some have been outspoken on the subject in the past.New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was among the elected officials who didn’t respond to requests for comment on the claims made by former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan.Gillibrand’s reluctance to weigh in on the escalating scandal came despite having advocated a “zero-tolerance” policy that of Minnesota to in 2017.Vice President Kamala Harris, who also called on Franken to resign...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Democrats can’t include a $15 minimum wage hike as part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, a key Senate official ruled on Thursday.Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s decision dealt a blow to progressives, who had been pushing to include such a provision in the bill.MacDonough, the nonpartisan arbiter of Senate rules, issued a guidance saying she didn’t believe the change complied with guidelines of , the fast-track process that Dems are using to pass the bill.Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders, who...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Democrats can’t include a $15 minimum wage hike as part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, a key Senate official ruled on Thursday.Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s decision dealt a blow to progressives, who had been pushing to include such a provision in the bill.MacDonough, the nonpartisan arbiter of Senate rules, issued a guidance saying she didn’t believe the change complied with guidelines of , the fast-track process that Dems are using to pass the bill.Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders, who...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Over thirty House Democrats are asking President Biden to consider renouncing his authority to launch nuclear weapons.In a letter sent Tuesday but , 31 lawmakers led by Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) urge the commander in chief to “consider modifying the decision-making process the United States uses in its command and control of nuclear forces.”“As president, two of your most critical and solemn duties are the security of the country and the safeguarding of its nuclear arsenal,” the letter reads, noting the...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Over thirty House Democrats are asking President Biden to consider renouncing his authority to launch nuclear weapons.In a letter sent Tuesday but , 31 lawmakers led by Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) urge the commander in chief to “consider modifying the decision-making process the United States uses in its command and control of nuclear forces.”“As president, two of your most critical and solemn duties are the security of the country and the safeguarding of its nuclear arsenal,” the letter reads, noting the...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.The Chinese government has used anal swabs to test US diplomats for COVID-19 – but Beijing insisted to Washington that the butt checks were made “in error,” according to a report.“The State Department never agreed to this kind of testing and protested directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when we learned that some staff were subject to it,” a State Department rep on Wednesday.Washington complained that the rather invasive procedure was undignified, according to the report.The State spokesperson said Beijing had assured...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.The Chinese government has used anal swabs to test US diplomats for COVID-19 – but Beijing insisted to Washington that the butt checks were made “in error,” according to a report.“The State Department never agreed to this kind of testing and protested directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when we learned that some staff were subject to it,” a State Department rep on Wednesday.Washington complained that the rather invasive procedure was undignified, according to the report.The State spokesperson said Beijing had assured...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Coca-Cola employees were urged to be “less white” as part of the company’s alleged diversity training — but the material was yanked offline following a viral whistleblower post.The “Confronting Racism” course in question was offered by LinkedIn Education and allegedly utilized by the soft-drink titan.“In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” reads one of the slides, allegedly sent from an “internal whistleblower” and by YouTube commentator...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Coca-Cola employees were urged to be “less white” as part of the company’s alleged diversity training — but the material was yanked offline following a viral whistleblower post.The “Confronting Racism” course in question was offered by LinkedIn Education and allegedly utilized by the soft-drink titan.“In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” reads one of the slides, allegedly sent from an “internal whistleblower” and by YouTube commentator...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.A teacher’s aide in Maryland masturbated during a Zoom call with eighth-graders — but insists he thought the online lesson had ended.Marc Schack, an assistant for special education students at Shady Grove Middle School in Gaithersburg, Wednesday he was unaware his self-love session had been captured on the virtual call until being interviewed.“I thought I was logged out when class was over,” Schack told the bimonthly mag. “I had no clue that Zoom was still on. Why would I do that? That’s my job. I had no clue that Zoom was on. I mean,...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.A teacher’s aide in Maryland masturbated during a Zoom call with eighth-graders — but insists he thought the online lesson had ended.Marc Schack, an assistant for special education students at Shady Grove Middle School in Gaithersburg, Wednesday he was unaware his self-love session had been captured on the virtual call until being interviewed.“I thought I was logged out when class was over,” Schack told the bimonthly mag. “I had no clue that Zoom was still on. Why would I do that? That’s my job. I had no clue that Zoom was on. I mean,...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Even Mr. Potato Head finds gender conformity un-apeeling!The classic spud-shaped plastic toy is getting a new, gender-neutral name — just plain Potato Head —  with the toymaker Hasbro scrapping the “Mr.” portion.The company said , which first hit the shelves nearly 70 years ago, needed a fresh, modern makeover. The toy’s new moniker will begin appearing on boxes next year.“Culture has evolved,” Kimberly Boyd, Hasbro’s senior vice president of global brands, “Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Even Mr. Potato Head finds gender conformity un-apeeling!The classic spud-shaped plastic toy is getting a new, gender-neutral name — just plain Potato Head —  with the toymaker Hasbro scrapping the “Mr.” portion.The company said , which first hit the shelves nearly 70 years ago, needed a fresh, modern makeover. The toy’s new moniker will begin appearing on boxes next year.“Culture has evolved,” Kimberly Boyd, Hasbro’s senior vice president of global brands, “Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.CloseA city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’ who “dismantle institutions,” education officials confirmed to The Post on Tuesday.The “woke’’ offensive at the East Side Community School in Manhattan features a ranking list titled which ranges from “White Supremacist’’ to “White Abolitionist.”The curriculum, written by , an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, claims, “There is a regime of...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.CloseA city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’ who “dismantle institutions,” education officials confirmed to The Post on Tuesday.The “woke’’ offensive at the East Side Community School in Manhattan features a ranking list titled which ranges from “White Supremacist’’ to “White Abolitionist.”The curriculum, written by , an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, claims, “There is a regime of...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday was forced to again fend off questions about how the Biden administration’s detention camps for child immigrants differ from those that Democrats including President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decried during the Trump administration.Psaki was asked how she felt about the widely adopted term “kids in containers” — as opposed to the Trump-era Democratic accusation of “kids in cages” — for the Biden administration centers while saying she couldn’t comment on progressive...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday was forced to again fend off questions about how the Biden administration’s detention camps for child immigrants differ from those that Democrats including President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decried during the Trump administration.Psaki was asked how she felt about the widely adopted term “kids in containers” — as opposed to the Trump-era Democratic accusation of “kids in cages” — for the Biden administration centers while saying she couldn’t comment on progressive...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.The Federal Reserve said it is restoring services that were thrown offline Wednesday by an “operational error” that spurred outages in a dozen areas, including check clearing and Fedwire, which handles trillions of dollars in transactions daily for the world’s biggest banks.“A Federal Reserve operational error resulted in disruption of service in several business lines,” the Fed . “We are restoring services and are communicating with all Federal Reserve Financial Services customers about the status of operations.”All nine of the Fed’s...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.The Federal Reserve said it is restoring services that were thrown offline Wednesday by an “operational error” that spurred outages in a dozen areas, including check clearing and Fedwire, which handles trillions of dollars in transactions daily for the world’s biggest banks.“A Federal Reserve operational error resulted in disruption of service in several business lines,” the Fed . “We are restoring services and are communicating with all Federal Reserve Financial Services customers about the status of operations.”All nine of the Fed’s...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.“Home Improvement” actor Zachery Ty Bryan cut a plea deal Tuesday to avoid jail time in the “choking” in Oregon last year, according to reports.The 39-year-old actor pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of menacing and fourth-degree assault in exchange for three years of probation in the Oct. 16, 2020, attack on his girlfriend in his Eugene apartment, .Prosecutors agreed to drop six other charges — which included strangulation and coercion — against Bryan, the station said.The actor also agreed not to contact the victim.Police said...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.“Home Improvement” actor Zachery Ty Bryan cut a plea deal Tuesday to avoid jail time in the “choking” in Oregon last year, according to reports.The 39-year-old actor pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of menacing and fourth-degree assault in exchange for three years of probation in the Oct. 16, 2020, attack on his girlfriend in his Eugene apartment, .Prosecutors agreed to drop six other charges — which included strangulation and coercion — against Bryan, the station said.The actor also agreed not to contact the victim.Police said...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Lindsey Vonn has reacted to news that her ex-boyfriend Tiger Woods and rushed into surgery on Tuesday.“Praying for TW right now,” the Olympic skier — who dated the golf great for about three years beforeAt the time, Vonn said the breakup was “mutual.”In 2018, she expressed admiration for her ex during his golf resurgence, saying “I support him. We’re friends, we congratulate each other … it’s really nice to see him playing so well again.”Woods was in surgery on Tuesday after rolling over his car in California — a crash that required...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Lindsey Vonn has reacted to news that her ex-boyfriend Tiger Woods and rushed into surgery on Tuesday.“Praying for TW right now,” the Olympic skier — who dated the golf great for about three years beforeAt the time, Vonn said the breakup was “mutual.”In 2018, she expressed admiration for her ex during his golf resurgence, saying “I support him. We’re friends, we congratulate each other … it’s really nice to see him playing so well again.”Woods was in surgery on Tuesday after rolling over his car in California — a crash that required...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.A California couple has been accused of trying to break quarantine rules in Hawaii by pretending to be locals, prosecutors said.Miriam Rosas, 22, and Abel Rosas, 34, of Fresno tried to check into a hotel after arriving last week to the state without providing a negative coronavirus test,.After being told they needed to quarantine, they refused to check in and left the premises, prosecutors said.The pair then checked into another hotel on the pretense of being Hawaii residents, officials said.But authorities caught up with the...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.A California couple has been accused of trying to break quarantine rules in Hawaii by pretending to be locals, prosecutors said.Miriam Rosas, 22, and Abel Rosas, 34, of Fresno tried to check into a hotel after arriving last week to the state without providing a negative coronavirus test,.After being told they needed to quarantine, they refused to check in and left the premises, prosecutors said.The pair then checked into another hotel on the pretense of being Hawaii residents, officials said.But authorities caught up with the...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.One person’s “kids in cages” is another’s “reopening overflow facilities.” The Biden White House is being accused of hypocrisy for reopening border facilities to house migrant teenagers — including one that both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris savaged then-President Donald Trump about on the campaign trail and before.Biden blasted Trump repeatedly for separating families and failing to reunite them, decrying during an October debate that migrant children were “ripped from their [parents’] arms and separated.”Harris, then a senator, said...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.One person’s “kids in cages” is another’s “reopening overflow facilities.” The Biden White House is being accused of hypocrisy for reopening border facilities to house migrant teenagers — including one that both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris savaged then-President Donald Trump about on the campaign trail and before.Biden blasted Trump repeatedly for separating families and failing to reunite them, decrying during an October debate that migrant children were “ripped from their [parents’] arms and separated.”Harris, then a senator, said...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.CloseThe Trump administration deserves credit for the “breathtaking” speed at which two COVID-19 vaccines were developed, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s boss said.Speaking in an interview released Monday evening, National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins made the remarks after being asked what the previous administration got right in their pandemic response.“The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to [former Health and Human Services] Secretary [Alex] Azar, was an effort that many of us were not...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.CloseThe Trump administration deserves credit for the “breathtaking” speed at which two COVID-19 vaccines were developed, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s boss said.Speaking in an interview released Monday evening, National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins made the remarks after being asked what the previous administration got right in their pandemic response.“The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to [former Health and Human Services] Secretary [Alex] Azar, was an effort that many of us were not...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.CloseThroughout the pandemic, the media have been excoriatingly harsh on a governor who was slow to act, unnecessarily endangered the lives of the elderly, alienated experts and cooked the numbers. They just thought the governor in question was Florida’s Ron DeSantis, rather than New York’s Andrew Cuomo. After it has become clear that Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic was not just criminal in the metaphorical sense, , the press has begun, only reluctantly and belatedly, to abandon its long-running Cuomo hagiography. It never made any...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.CloseThroughout the pandemic, the media have been excoriatingly harsh on a governor who was slow to act, unnecessarily endangered the lives of the elderly, alienated experts and cooked the numbers. They just thought the governor in question was Florida’s Ron DeSantis, rather than New York’s Andrew Cuomo. After it has become clear that Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic was not just criminal in the metaphorical sense, , the press has begun, only reluctantly and belatedly, to abandon its long-running Cuomo hagiography. It never made any...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.​Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who lost a runoff re-election bid in January, is launching a voter registration group called “Greater Georgia” that will rival an outreach program started by Stacey Abrams that has been credited with helping elect Democratic candidates., will focus on registering “conservative-leaning” voters, enhancing election security and turning out voters at the polls, reported on Monday.“Our state is greater – and our democracy is stronger – when everyone’s voice is heard, and that’s exactly what Greater Georgia’s...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.​Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who lost a runoff re-election bid in January, is launching a voter registration group called “Greater Georgia” that will rival an outreach program started by Stacey Abrams that has been credited with helping elect Democratic candidates., will focus on registering “conservative-leaning” voters, enhancing election security and turning out voters at the polls, reported on Monday.“Our state is greater – and our democracy is stronger – when everyone’s voice is heard, and that’s exactly what Greater Georgia’s...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met with multiple current Biden administration officials several years ago to “undermine” former President Trump’s dealings with the country, a report claims.One of the meetings between Zarif and Robert Malley, now the special envoy for Iran policy, took place in 2019 after Trump withdrew the US from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, reported Sunday.Former Secretary of State John Kerry also met with Zarif in the first few years of Trump’s presidency — which he had publicly acknowledged. And so did...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met with multiple current Biden administration officials several years ago to “undermine” former President Trump’s dealings with the country, a report claims.One of the meetings between Zarif and Robert Malley, now the special envoy for Iran policy, took place in 2019 after Trump withdrew the US from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, reported Sunday.Former Secretary of State John Kerry also met with Zarif in the first few years of Trump’s presidency — which he had publicly acknowledged. And so did...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.The White House is declining to condemn President Biden’s pick for budget chief over her divisive comments about lawmakers, despite withering criticism from both sides of the aisle — and says the commander in chief thinks she is the “right person” for the job.Asked about concerns over Neera Tanden’s rhetoric Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki called it “an overstatement” to say that there was not a new tone of unity in Washington simply because of her nomination.Psaki was responding to one of many questions about the...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.The White House is declining to condemn President Biden’s pick for budget chief over her divisive comments about lawmakers, despite withering criticism from both sides of the aisle — and says the commander in chief thinks she is the “right person” for the job.Asked about concerns over Neera Tanden’s rhetoric Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki called it “an overstatement” to say that there was not a new tone of unity in Washington simply because of her nomination.Psaki was responding to one of many questions about the...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Sign up for our to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.The Wuhan Institute of Virology — the Chinese lab being investigated for possibly leaking the coronavirus — has been authorized to receive US taxpayer funding for animal research through 2024, according to a report.Prior to the outbreak, researchers at the lab had been studying bat-based coronaviruses in a project partially supported by $600,000 in US government funding routed from the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, .EcoHealth president Peter Daszak — the only American...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Sign up for our to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.The Wuhan Institute of Virology — the Chinese lab being investigated for possibly leaking the coronavirus — has been authorized to receive US taxpayer funding for animal research through 2024, according to a report.Prior to the outbreak, researchers at the lab had been studying bat-based coronaviruses in a project partially supported by $600,000 in US government funding routed from the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, .EcoHealth president Peter Daszak — the only American...WW…

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get all people in every nation vaccinated as soon as possible.The U.N. chief told a high-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine and declared that “at this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test...…Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get all people in every nation vaccinated as soon as possible.The U.N. chief told a high-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine and declared that “at this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test...WW…