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Roger Sollenberger/The Daily Beast The father of the 18-year-old gunman who killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, this week wants the world to know he is sorry. In an interview with The Daily Beast on Thursday, Salvador Ramos said, “I just want the people to know I’m sorry man, [for] what my son did.” “I never expected my son to do something like that,” Ramos, 42, added. “He should’ve just killed me, you know, instead of doing something like that to… Source link

Phillip Adams, a former NFL cornerback who was accused of shooting six people to death before killing himself in April, had “unusually severe” chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with head trauma and concussions.  The results of Adams’ brain examination were announced Tuesday by Dr. Anne McKee, a neuropathologist who serves as director of Boston University’s CTE Center. She compared Adams’ brain to the brain of Aaron Hernandez, the former New… Source link

Apple and Google hired a bevy of lobbyists in Arizona in early 2021 to kill legislation that would have slashed the profits the companies make through their app stores.  Rep. Regina Cobb was subjected to a flood of text messages and phone calls from those lobbyists in February when she authored an amendment that would have barred Apple and Google from forcing developers to route all in-app payments through their platforms — a policy that lets the tech… Source link

The crypto community — but most of all, the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) community — is pointing out the disastrous consequences of the Richard Nixon administration’s decision to take the dollar off of the gold standard in 1971, exactly 50 years ago. What Happened: The Bitcoin community caused the #wtfhappenedin1971 hashtag to go viral on Twitter Inc.(NYSE: TWTR) to attract public attention to the damage that fiat money has done to the world’s economy. A website dedicated to sharing data of the… Source link

Katherine Diaz Hernandez was struck by lightning while surfing. Images: Instagram A 22-year-old surfer with hopes of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics has died after being struck by lightning on a beach in El Salvador. Katherine Diaz Hernandez was training near her home at the Pacific coast beach of El Tunco on Friday when she was hit by lightning. ‘AWFUL’: Melbourne Cup-winning trainer charged over fatal crash SO SAD: Daniel Ricciardo’s tribute after death of F1 cult figure According to local… Source link

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Florida woman killed after searching Google for restraining order, boyfriend charged  WEAR Source link

King Von is dead at the age of 26 following a shooting involving police in Georgia, TMZ reports. TMZ cites sources as saying 3 people, including King Von, were killed in the shooting. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the incident occurred outside a nightclub in downtown Atlanta early Friday morning. Reporters Chelsea Prince and John Spink noted that “several others” were injured. TMZ put the number of people shot at 6. One person was said to have been struck by a vehicle… Source link