Astonishing newly released footage shows a team of Georgia firefighters displaying incredible athletic skill and bravery, catching children as they're thrown by their desperate father from a ladder two stories up.

More than 45 firefighters battled a raging inferno at a Georgia apartment complex in DeKalb County outside Atlanta on January 3, rescuing a total of 12 people in the process. A firefighters' union released footage of the heroics, which has quickly become an online sensation.

Simone Biles, America's most decorated gymnast, has joined the list of athletes who say they were sexually abused by longtime US women's gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar.

In a post shared on her Twitter and Instagram pages on Monday, Biles detailed the ordeal she says she suffered while competing for the national gymnastics squad.

"I too am one of the many survivors that was sexually abused by Larry Nassar," the gymnast wrote in her post. "There are many reasons that I have been reluctant to share my story but I know now it is not my fault."

A convicted murderer has attacked and injured several guards in a French prison, local trade union says. The incident comes days after a similar assault by a convicted terrorist triggered nationwide protests from prison guards.

The inmate, whose name hasn't been released, attacked seven prison guards in Mont-de-Marsan prison in the southwest department of Landes on Monday afternoon, France Info radio network reported, citing local SNP-FO prison union. At least five guards received various injuries, including broken bones, the union added. A female guard was among those injured. It's not yet clear if the convict used a weapon to attack the guards.

The attack took place when prisoners were doing sports, Fabrice Cologni, a local secretary of the union, said. A search of the convict's bag provoked the incident, the prison administration said, adding that the prisoner was transferred to the disciplinary section of the facility.

When 16-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi stood up to Israeli occupation soldiers, she couldn't have known just how much of her story mainstream US media would cut away and twist.

Salient facts - like how Ahed has spent her entire life under military occupation and Israel's near-fatal violence against her cousin - were either ignored outright or downplayed. Others - such as the indisputable reality that Palestinian land is being stolen by Israel - were treated as if they were simply matters of opinion.

Some in the US press even presented Ahed as the aggressor, rather than the Israeli forces she challenged through mild physical contact.

Ahed's use of slapping, kicking and angry rhetoric received more attention from David M. Halbfinger in The New York Times and especially from Dana Dovey in Newsweek than the much more harmful Israeli resort to violence, theft and seemingly permanent occupation.

Jorge Garcia shared a tearful goodbye with his wife and two children as he was deported to Mexico by ICE agents at Detroit Metro Airport. The 39-year-old never lived in Mexico as an adult, but is too old to qualify for DACA.

Garcia's wife Cindy sobbed on Monday morning as the couple and their two children held a group hug ahead of the airport security checkpoint, the Detroit Free Press reports. Garcia, reportedly brought to the US illegally at the age of 10, was said to have paid taxes and had no criminal record, according to supporters. However, because he is 39 years old, he is disqualified from applying for protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Supporters who came to see him off cried as well, carrying black-and-white signs which read "Stop Separating Families."

The New York Times now has a "gender editor" and "gender team," created in the wake of the #MeToo movement to infuse feminist sensibility even further throughout the paper. The gender editor, Jessica Bennett, penned an op-ed last month that serves as a template for the hypocritical state of modern feminism. Bennett had unforced sex with a 30-year-old acquaintance when she was 19 because "saying 'yes' [was] easier than saying 'no,'" as the op-ed's title puts it. She allowed the encounter to proceed out of "some combination of fear (that I wasn't as mature as he thought), shame (that I had let it get this far), and guilt (would I hurt his feelings?)." Naturally, Bennett attributes her passivity and embarrassment at that moment to "dangerously outdated gender norms." It is the patriarchy, she claims, that makes "even seemingly straightforward ideas about sex-such as, you know, whether we want to engage in it or not-feel utterly complex."

Actually, it is not the patriarchy that makes sexual decisions "utterly complex"; it is sex itself. Sex is the realm of the inarticulate and irrational, inherently fraught with "fear," "shame," and "guilt." Sexual seduction is carried on through ambiguity and indirection; exposing that ambiguity to light, naming what may or may not be going on, is uncomfortable and risks denial and rejection. "Dangerously outdated gender norms" are not what make it difficult to say no to sexual advances; contemporary gender norms have confused these already fraught situations. Traditional mores set the default for premarital sex at "no," at least for females. This default recognized the different sexual drives of males and females and the difficulties of bargaining with the male libido. The default "no" to premarital sex meant that a female did not have to negotiate the refusal with every opportuning male; it was simply assumed. She could, of course, cast aside the default assumption; that was her power and prerogative. But she did not have to provide reasons for shutting down a sexual advance.

Japanese media outlet NHK has apologized for issuing a false report of a North Korean missile launch Tuesday evening local time.

An apology was issued on the Japanese language version of NHK's website and later shared on its social media platforms.

"Around 6:55pm earlier we reported on the NHK's news site and NHK's news disaster prevention application 'Pattern of North Korean missile launch' but this was incorrectly issued. J alert has not appeared. I must sincerely apologize," the news outlet wrote.

Jay Brown Sr., a hospital housing administrator and seminary student caught a violent arrest on camera Jan. 11 in Rockaway, NY (Queens). Brown said the man driving the white Camaro, Stacy Marcellin, was pulled over by the NYPD and immediately harassed by New York's finest. He said the police officer pulled Marcellin over for failure to use a turn signal. But before the incident was finished, the motorist would be tased and beaten.

Marcellin told Brown, "They're about to pull me over because I'm black," as he entered the parking lot of a local car wash. Brown says the police officer pulled over Marcellin and approached the car. Brown says the officer aggressively demanded the motorist's drivers license by saying, "Give me your fucking license."

That address angered the motorist who, according to the police officer, responded by saying he would "break his jaw." While it's difficult to hear exactly what the motorist said during the traffic stop, what can be heard seems to dispel all doubt.

Hacker group Fancy Bears has published emails purportedly showing how an International Olympic Committee (IOC) honorary member accused the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of an "anti-IOC and anti-Europe attitude."

The material published by the hacking group allegedly shows an email sent by late IOC honorary member Hein Verbruggen in October 2016.

"The dramatic events of the last months in anti-doping have made us all think about WADA's role and responsibilities. I think we have suddenly all realized that this organisation has in fact during 17 years been in the hands of four people: Mr Pound, Mr Howman, Mr Reedie and Mr Niggli," Verbruggen, who died in June last year, allegedly wrote.

A federal judge has dismissed the most serious charge of 'criminal sexual activity' against a Michigan doctor charged in the first female genital mutilation (FGM) case in the US.

US District Court Judge Bernard A. Friedman dropped the count - the most severe charge Dr Jumana Nagarwala was facing as it carried a sentence of up to life in prison - reducing the counts from seven to six.

The prosecution alleges that Nagarwala performed FGM on two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota last February 2017 in Livonia, Michigan. Eight people have been charged in relation to the case, one of which is Dr Fakhruddin Attar, who allegedly allowed Nagarwala to perform the procedure in his clinic.

Nagarwala's defense attorneys argued the government was using the definition of 'criminal sexual conduct' under state law and 'sexual act' from another federal statute to characterize FGM as a 'criminal sexual activity.'