The former governor of Russia's Far Eastern Khabarovsk Region, Sergey Furgal, cannot be charged for one of the murders he is accused of ordering, as he was already found to be innocent during the original investigation.

That was back in 2004, long before Furgal took the helm in Khabarovsk, fourteen years later. He's accused of ordering three murders in the mid-2000s, one of which was unsuccessful. One of the men killed was Evgeny Zori, a businessman who was shot in the center of Khabarovsk following a protracted conflict with Furgal, who at the time was involved in buying and selling scrap metal.

According to Russia's Investigative Committee, Furgal had repeatedly threatened the businessman, and ordered him to be killed once Zori won their dispute in court.

Zimbabwean wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of 12 elephants last week in a forest north of the country's famed Hwange National Park, an official said Sunday.

Eleven carcasses were discovered on Friday and another on Saturday in the Pandamasuwe forest tucked between Hwange and Victoria Falls town.

"We have ruled out things like poaching because the tusks are intact, we have also ruled out cyanide poisoning because no other animal has been affected including vultures which are feeding on them," parks and wildlife spokesman Tinashe Farawo told AFP.

A creep pushed a 25-year-old woman on an Upper East Side subway platform to the floor and then attempted to rape her in a brazen daytime attack, cops said.

The woman was waiting on the platform for the F train around 11 a.m. Saturday inside the Lexington Avenue and East 63 Street train station when the man approached her, police said.

Video taken by a witness showed the man on top of the woman before a crowd of bystanders intervened.

"Hey, get off her!" the group was yelling at the attacker, cops said.

After 4 years of the most vicious, hyperbolic and incendiary character assassination campaign in the nation's history, the media finally claimed its first fatality in a shootout in Portland on Saturday night. The victim - whose name has not yet been disclosed - was shot by an (allegedly) Antifa member who saw the man's hat as sufficient provocation to gun him down in cold blood. This is the first incident in which the hysteria generated by the media and its accomplices in Democrat party can be directly linked to a political assassination justified on the basis that the victim espoused political beliefs different than those of the perpetrator. Simply put, he was killed because he was identified as a Trump supporter and, thus, "fair game".


The media has fanned the flames of political hatred and retribution from the very beginning; from advising the public to reject the results of the 2016 elections to openly challenging Trump's legitimate right to govern the country. They have fueled the animosity towards Trump by denouncing him as a fascist, a racist, a homophobe, a misogynist and a Russian agent. The media has employed all of its prodigious powers of persuasion to relentlessly demonize Trump, and they are responsible for the highly-charged and toxic atmosphere in which a tragedy - like Saturday's shooting - became unavoidable. They cleared the path for a confrontation in which a self-righteous perpetrator felt entirely - justified in killing an unarmed man whose only crime was that he openly supported the president of the United States. There is no way to overstate the media's culpability in this shocking incident.

It would always come to this. At some point there would be a reckoning for BLM and Antifa.

The shootings in Kenosha, WI are a dividing line for America.

This is the moment where normal people finally said, "Enough. There will be consequences. "

This is a war between radicalized lunatics bathed in unquenchable envy and self-pity and those who refuse to act like victims.

But they are victims.

All of us are. On both sides of the divide.

We are victims of a vicious program to divide and conquer the U.S. through a culture war designed to dehumanize each other.

The Andrews Labor government is facing a multibillion-dollar COVID-19 bill from businesses shut down during the stage four lockdown for failures in hotel quarantine, in a landmark class action that names Health Minister Jenny Mikakos, Jobs Minister Martin Pakula and their department secretaries.

The man who successfully sued the Queensland government for as much as $1 billion following the 2011 floods is launching one of the country's largest claims, expected to be worth billions of dollars and potentially crippling to Victoria, after Premier Daniel Andrews went it alone this year to pass laws that support the class action industry.

Mr Andrews' latest woes comes as federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg labelled the Premier's handling of the pandemic as a "slow car crash" and a "massive drag on the national economy", as the state recorded 114 new cases and 11 deaths.

After the UK government published its new obesity strategy, a leading think tank has suggested drastic measures to reduce childhood obesity. Such 'nanny state' nonsense only hits personal freedom and the pockets of the poor.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is a left-leaning think tank that has a track record of supporting state intervention in our lives. Moreover, the IPPR's new report, The Whole Society Approach: Making A Giant Leap On Childhood Health, has been bankrolled by three charities - Cancer Research UK, Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation - that have also been keen supporters of the government micromanaging our lives and suppressing our 'bad habits.'

There's a formula to such reports. First, overstate the problem. Second, exaggerate the benefits of solving the problem. Third, claim that the proposed solution is much more effective than it really is, while ignoring the potential downsides.

A crash involving a U.S. military vehicle killed four South Koreans, prompting U.S. Forces Korea to temporarily suspend training in the area, which is near the border with North Korea, officials said Monday.

An SUV carrying the four civilians rear-ended the armored personnel carrier -- a tracked vehicle -- at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday on a road near the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in the city of Pocheon, local police and fire officials said.

The four civilians were pronounced dead at the scene, a fire official said. The two soldiers in the military vehicle were not seriously injured. One was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation but was cleared and released back to his unit, according to the 2nd Infantry Division.

Kenosha, Wisconsin is situated in the southern part of the state, about an hour and a half from Chicago, and has a population of approximately 100,000. Republican Rep. Bryan Steil, who represents Kenosha in Wisconsin's First Congressional district, told The Federalist the city "is like a lot of cities in Wisconsin." Steil says Kenosha is "family-centered" and "hard-working."

Kenosha became a very different place after police shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times. Subsequent video footage showed that Blake was armed with a knife and had been wrestling with officers, threw off a Taser, and was disregarding police commands to stop after they were called to address a domestic violence complaint.

Following the shooting that left Blake paralyzed, rioting erupted in the city. Although the first night was relatively peaceful, after the second night, things were "spiraling out of control," said Steil. Fire and looting consumed uptown and downtown Kenosha, and Steil said the city was no longer the "Kenosha we know."

Piers Corbyn has become one of the first people to receive a £10,000 fixed penalty under new coronavirus laws restricting public gatherings of more than 30 people.

The weather forecaster and climate change denier, who is the older brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was arrested and fined for his part in organising Saturday's demonstration in central London against lockdown restrictions.

He said he was arrested on the stage set up in Trafalgar Square at the end of the event, while protesters marched off down Whitehall.

The 73-year-old told the Guardian:

"After the rally had finished, I was saying goodbye to people ... I was just looking around thinking I had better go now, and then they [the police] just grabbed me from behind. I was not expecting it at all. They frogmarched me - they didn't handcuff me - and told me they were arresting me for contravening the coronavirus regulations for organising a gathering of more than 30 people."