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Airplane

Commercial plane carrying 136 passengers skids off runway into river in Jacksonville, Florida


RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 02:48 UTC
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A chartered commercial plane from Guantanamo Bay, reportedly carrying over 130 people, has landed in St. Johns River after sliding off a runway in Jacksonville, Florida. At least two minor injuries were reported.

The plane, a Boeing 737 chartered by the Department of Defense, reportedly skidded off the runway and into the river after landing at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville. The flight originated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. According to local media, it was carrying 136 passengers and 7 crew members. The plane was not submerged, and there were no fatalities.

Fire and Rescue services are on the scene, working to control jet fuel escaping into the water. All passengers have been accounted for, according to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, who said President Donald Trump contacted him after the accident to offer help.

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Rocket

IDF claims at least 50 rockets launched from Gaza Strip to southern Israel - after launching airstrikes on Gaza


South Front
Sat, 04 May 2019 10:41 UTC
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UPDATED: According to pro-IDF sources, a total of 90 rockets were launched.

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At least 50 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip at Israeli targets in the morning of May 4, according to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). According to pro-IDF sources, "tens" rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.

Especially intense explosions were reported in the area of Ashkelon.

Comment: Another video from RT:


Robert Inlakesh reported right before the rockets that the Gaza Strip was being under attack, 60 demonstrators had been shot and at least 2 killed, and Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza:


But do expect to hear all about the rockets and nothing about the Israeli aggression.

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Eye 2

Woman sues doctor who allegedly operated on wrong eye, fixed mistake without anesthesia

Karma Allen
ABC News
Fri, 03 May 2019 04:42 UTC
Eye surgery
A Chicago woman filed a lawsuit against a doctor who allegedly performed surgery on the wrong eye and tired to fix the mistake without anesthesia.

Sutton Dryfhout, 21, filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Benjamin Ticho, an ophthalmologist at The Eye Specialists Center near Chicago, after a 2017 surgery that allegedly left her screaming with "bloody tears" in her eyes, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

Dryfhout, who was 19 at the time, said she went in to have the doctor remove a cyst from her left eye. Ticho allegedly operated on her right eye instead and intentionally inflicted pain on her during a corrective surgery later that day.

Ticho noticed his mistake while in the middle of another surgery when a recovery room nurse asked him why Dryfhout's right eye was bleeding when she was supposed to have surgery on her left eye, the woman's attorneys said Thursday.
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Airplane

Passenger claims man kissed, spit on her during evening flight

Janine Puhak
Fox News
Thu, 02 May 2019 18:01 UTC
Reginald Hatcher
© Indianapolis Airport PoliceReginald Hatcher, 61.
One woman traveling on a Republic Airlines flight under American Airlines has claimed that one of her fellow passengers got a little too close for comfort on a recent trip from Miami to Indianapolis, reportedly making inappropriate verbal comments, kissing her cheek and spitting on her chest.

Shauna Smith alleges that passenger Reginald Hatcher made her feel uncomfortable soon after boarding the April 26 evening flight, Fox 59 reports.

Smith said that the 61-year-old man was "talking incessantly" in a nearby seat, and moved to sit next to her when her own seat mate got up and moved. Immediately, explicit remarks began to fly.
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Eagle

Authorities struggle to solve 'systemic' poisoning of bald eagles in Maryland

Scott Dance
Baltimore Sun
Wed, 01 May 2019 16:30 UTC
Bald eagles at the Conowingo Dam
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State and federal wildlife officials are investigating the deaths of at least seven bald eagles and a great horned owl on the Eastern Shore this spring, saying they signal a "systemic" problem with use of an illegal poison on the Delmarva Peninsula.

The birds died under similar circumstances as 13 eagles found dead near Federalsburg in 2016.

Authorities believe they were killed by carbofuran, a banned chemical used to kill farm pests such as foxes and raccoons that is highly toxic to birds.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife investigator urged anyone with information about what authorities are calling "reckless" use of the poison to come forward. In the years since the eagles died near Federalsburg, the agency has interviewed "numerous" landowners, farmers and hunters, but none provided any insights into the poisonings.

"It is hard to believe that not one person has information of persons placing a toxic poison that has killed no fewer than twenty eagles in these areas," Agent in Charge Jay Pilgrim said in a statement. "The only way this stops is if the local communities come forward with information."
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Laptop

Best Buy 'Geek Squad' workers discover child porn on customer's laptop; man arrested

Karma Allen
ABC News
Thu, 02 May 2019 10:40 UTC
Bet Buy store
An Iowa man was arrested this week after Best Buy workers discovered child pornography on his broken laptop.

Robert Watson, 54, of Des Moines, brought his gravy-soaked laptop into a local Best Buy back in August and asked workers to transfer his files onto his new device, according to police.

That's when employees with the store's "Geek Squad" said they found several inappropriate images of underage girls, police said.

"During this file transfer process employees at Best Buy 'Geek Squad' observed multiple images they believed contained child pornography," police said in a complaint. "Once this transfer was complete both computers were collected by Des Moines police as evidence."
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Attention

California high school may remove George Washington mural because it 'traumatizes' students

Graham Piro
The College Fix
Thu, 02 May 2019 14:40 UTC
life of Washington mural
A Northern California public school district may remove a mural of George Washington from the halls of George Washington High School due to concerns that it's offensive and demeaning to Native Americans and African-Americans.

The controversy comes after a working group determined the mural, made up of several panels, "traumatizes students and community members." But advocates for keeping the 83-year-old mural say that removing it ignores the intent of the artist and represents an attempt to erase history.

In 1936, Victor Arnautoff painted the 13 panels that make up the "Life of Washington" mural at the San Francisco Unified School District campus. Arnautoff was a prominent Russian-American painter who created the murals as part of a Works Progress Administration project undertaken during the New Deal.
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Megaphone

UN rights experts lambast Assange's 'disproportionate' prison sentence in UK


RT
Fri, 03 May 2019 17:16 UTC
assange protest
© AFP / Daniel Leal-Olivas
United Nations human rights experts have voiced criticism over the UK's decision to imprison WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for nearly one year for skipping bail, describing the harsh sentence as excessive.

Comprised of five independent experts, the UN rights group said that Assange's 50-week internment at the high-security Belmarsh prison made it seem "as if he were convicted for a serious criminal offense."

Claiming that Assange had received a "disproportionate sentence," the UN experts argued in a statement that his punishment "appears to contravene principles of necessity and proportionality." The statement also described the skipping bail charge as a relatively "minor violation."

The same panel issued an opinion in 2015 that Assange was being arbitrarily detained, after the WikiLeaks figurehead was forced to seek political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault.
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Newspaper

French interior minister slammed over fake news of hospital attack by Yellow Vests


RT
Fri, 03 May 2019 17:00 UTC
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner
© AFP / Gerrard JulienInterior Minister Christophe Castaner
Yellow Vests protesters and opposition politicians have slammed French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner for describing an incident at a Paris hospital as an "attack." Social media footage tells a different story.

After thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris to mark International Workers' Day on Wednesday, Castaner took to Twitter to condemn what he said was an attack on the city's Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital.

The protesters, he said "assaulted nursing staff," and "wounded a policeman mobilized to protect it."

Health Minister Agnes Buzyn described the alleged break-in as "unspeakable," while Prime Minister Edouard Philippe condemned it as "totally irresponsible."
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Attention

Mount Everest is covered in tons of trash and dead bodies - Nepal initiates new clean-up program

Ryan W. Miller
USA Today
Thu, 02 May 2019 13:30 UTC
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© Agence France-PresseThis picture taken on May 23, 2010 shows a Nepalese sherpa collecting garbage, left by climbers, at an altitude of 8,000 metres during the Everest clean-up expedition at Mount Everest.
Mount Everest has a trash problem.

A clean-up team in Nepal recently picked up more than three tons of garbage from the area around the world's highest peak, and they plan to grab a total of 11 tons in a 45 day cleaning initiative that started April 14, local media reported.

"Our goal is to extract as much waste as possible from Everest so as to restore glory to the mountain. Everest is not just the crown of the world, but our pride," Dandu Raj Ghimire, Nepal's tourism director, told reporters earlier this week in Kathmandu, according to the Hindu.
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