Police have identified 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa as the suspect in the Boulder, Colorado, shooting that left at least 10 people dead, including a police officer, on Monday. Boulder Police Chief Maris Harold on Tuesday identified the alleged shooter and the 10 victims, who range in age from 20 to 65. The victims include Denny […]
SANTA ANA—As Santa Ana Unified School District board members prepare to consider a plan for reopening for in-person instruction a year since the COVID-19 pandemic forced students into distance learning, a prominent University of California–Irvine professor of pediatrics said today it’s safe for students to return to campuses. “I think they’re ready to open the
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An Arizona man held National Guardsmen in Texas at gunpoint on Monday, officials confirmed to The Epoch Times. Larry Harris of Wilcox just before 8 a.m. followed Guard personnel from a Love’s Travel Station in Lubbock County and tried to run the vans they were driving, which contained COVID-19 vaccines, off the road, according to
A Facebook page that appeared to belong to the suspect who allegedly shot and killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket on Monday included comments praising Islam, lamenting not having a girlfriend, criticized former President Donald Trump, described alleged stalking incidents, and often posted about UFC events. Authorities in Boulder identified the suspect as
OTTAWA—Health Canada is in the process of adding a warning about a rare possible side-effect of blood clots from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine but is still certain the vaccine is safe and effective against COVID-19. The department’s chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma says the warning comes on the heels of a similar warning in Europe
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Airbnb Inc. is being asked to drop its sponsorship connections to next year’s Beijing’s Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human-rights campaigners. The coalition is headed by groups that oppose rights violations in China including the detention of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Airbnb is one of the International Olympic Committee’s leading 15 sponsors.
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Blaming former President Donald Trump for the current border crisis is ridiculous, according to Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of the former President. “How absolutely ridiculous,” Lara Trump told Fox News on Monday night. “Donald Trump was the first person … to finally call out—remember whenever he announced he was running for president—this problem. No one had
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A federal judge on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest bail request, saying the defendant is a flight risk because of her “substantial international ties.” Maxwell, the ex-girlfriend of the late convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, had offered to renounce her French and British citizenship in addition to having her and her
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An AFP fact-checker and other verified Twitter users spread disinformation about the Colorado shooting suspect, falsely claiming he was white. Uzair Hasan Rizvi, who says he specializes in “debunking misinformation/fake news” for AFP, a global wire agency, wrote in a tweet that “a poor white guy” committed the shooting in Boulder, killing 10. “He was
DHAKA—At least 15 people have been killed in a massive fire that ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, while at least 400 remain missing, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. “It is massive, it is devastating,” said UNHCR’s Johannes Van der Klaauw, who joined a Geneva briefing virtually from Dhaka, Bangladesh. “We
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