The bizarre and unsettling YouTube channel of the ‘homeless drifter’ who allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old boy to death in Palm Beach Gardens last month has come to light, and shows the suspect’s paranoia and severe mental health problems. Semmie Williams, 39, is accused of fatally stabbing Ryan Rogers when the two crossed paths on November 15. Around 7:30 pm that evening, surveillance video captured footage of a man believed to be Williams walking towards the I-95 overpass on Central Boulevard, where Ryan’s body was later found. On Thursday morning, police announced charges against Williams after they revealed law enforcement in Miami took him into custody in connection to Ryan’s death.

The parents of the Michigan teen who allegedly shot up his school earlier this week were found early Saturday in the basement of a Detroit building. Jennifer and James Crumbley were arrested several hours after Oakland County prosecutors charged them each with involuntary manslaughter in connection with their son Ethan Crumbley’s deadly attack. The couple’s SUV was found in the Motor City, some 50 miles from their Oxford home, just before 2 a.m., Fox 2 reported. Law-enforcement, including Detroit police and US Marshals, discovered the fugitives inside the building where their vehicle was parked, the report said.

As tensions mount between Washington and Moscow over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence has found the Kremlin is planning a multi-front offensive as soon as early next year involving up to 175,000 troops , according to U.S. officials. The Kremlin has been moving troops toward the border with Ukraine while demanding Washington guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO and that the alliance will refrain from certain military activities in and around Ukrainian territory. The crisis has provoked fears of a renewed war on European soil and comes ahead of a planned virtual meeting next week between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Belarus on Friday condemned new economic sanctions from the United States and its allies, promising a “tough response” as the West increases pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko over his use of migrants. in battles with the European Union and wider crackdowns on opposition to his regime. “Tough, asymmetric, but appropriate measures will be taken by us exclusively as a response,” the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said in a statement a day after the European Union, Canada, Britain and United States unveiled new sanctions targeting people and entities associated with Lukashenko’s government.

James and Jennifer Crumbley the parents of the accused Michigan school shooter are now on the run from police, just hours after a prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against them and revealed stunning details about the murder weapon that was a Christmas gift for the 15-year-old, whom police say shot dead four students after penning a disturbing note saying ‘thoughts won’t stop, help me.’ Police have issued a ‘be on the lookout alert’ and dispatched fugitive teams to search for James and Jennifer Crumbley, who were charged Friday with four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with Tuesday’s deadly shooting and have until 4pm to turn themselves in. The charges carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.

Twitter’s new CEO, Parag Agrawal, announced a major reorganization of the company Friday, putting his stamp on the organization following the sudden departure of co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey earlier this week, according to a companywide email. Two executives, head of engineering Michael Montano and Dantley Davis, will step down as part of the reshuffling. They will leave the company by year’s end, Agrawal said in the email to employees. Twitter spokeswoman Liz Kelley subsequently confirmed the moves, and Twitter reported them to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing.

The Chinese ride-hailing platform Didi Chuxing says it will delist from the New York Stock Exchange and instead move to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after coming under intense Chinese regulatory scrutiny. The announcement reflects the rapid reversal in the transportation company’s fortunes as China goes on a regulatory blitz targeting some of the country’s biggest private technology firms. “The rules are really tightening,” said Lester Ross, a Beijing-based partner at law firm WilmerHale. “It reflects real pressure … to tighten control over data, which is regarded as an integral element of national security.”

President Biden explained Friday that his cough and raspy voice is due to a grandson who had a cold and not the coronavirus. He is tested for the virus every day and recent results were negative, he said. “I’m okay,” he told a reporter who noted the difference in his voice after he concluded his remarks at the White House on the latest jobs report. “I have a [coronavirus] test every day.” “What I have is a one-and-a-half-year-old grandson who had a cold who likes to kiss his pop,” Biden added. “It’s just a cold.”

Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen has been questioned by police after ‘bags and bags’ of cash and checks were found in about 500 envelopes in a bathroom wall at Lakewood Church in Texas. A plumber who worked at the church and only gave his first name, Justin, called into a Houston radio morning 100.3 The Bull show to tell them about his shocking discovery, which comes seven years after about $600,000 in donations was stolen and hasn’t been recovered. Justin was called in to America’s largest church, Lakewood Church, on November 10 to fix a broken toilet, he said.

The iPhones of at least nine US state department officials were recently hacked by a government using -NSO Group spyware, according to a new report that raised serious questions about the use of Israeli surveillance tools against U.S. government officials around the world. The claims, comes just weeks after the Biden administration placed NSO on a US blacklist and said the surveillance company acted “contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the US”.

The parents of the teen charged with the fatally shooting of four people and the wounding of seven others at a Michigan high school have been charged in connection with the rampage, authorities said Friday. James and Jennifer Crumbley have each been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, they said. The suspect, 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, faces 24 charges in the shooting, including four counts of first-degree murder. Crumbley made his first court appearance on Wednesday and entered a plea of not guilty.

Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, has proposed an extraordinary plan to create a state paramilitary unit that he, rather than the federal government, would control. DeSantis, a Republican, has asked state lawmakers to fund the establishment of what he is calling the Florida state guard to assist with “state-specific emergencies”. This force of 200 selected volunteers would “not be encumbered by the federal government”, the governor said. Florida has previously created a state guard in 1941 to fill in for national guard members who were fighting in the second world war, but the unit was disbanded in 1947.

Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized Fox Nation host Lara Logan Thursday for her comments comparing him to an infamous Nazi war criminal earlier this week, calling the conservative journalist’s comparison ‘slanderous’ and ‘disgusting.’ Speaking to MSNBC host Chris Haye Thursday night, Fauci called on Fox to take disciplinary action against the journalist – who faced backlash Monday after she compared the chief White House medical adviser to Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor whose hideous experiments on Jewish concentration camp victims during World War II earned him the chilling moniker ‘Angel of Death.’

A Columbia University doctoral student was stabbed to death near the Manhattan campus on Thursday by a gang member who was arrested after stabbing a 27-year-old tourist 15 minutes later, police said. Davide Giri, 30, a PHD candidate in computer science, died after being stabbed in the stomach by a 25-year-old member of the Bloods gang off-shoot, Every Body Killer, who had 11 prior arrests dating back to 2012. Police arrested the gang member after they found an Italian tourist injured with multiple stab wounds in the torso on West 110th Street and Cathedral Parkway. The gang member was later spotted in Central Park threatening a third man, 30, with a large kitchen knife.

The economy added just 210,000 jobs in the month of November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent from 4.6 percent. Economists had been expecting a gain of 535,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to fall to 4.5 percent. Friday’s release comes after payroll company ADP reported a gain of 534,000 private sector jobs in November, down from 571,000 in the previous month. “It is unsettling to see that we were unable to build on October’s strong numbers, with uncertainty only set to increase as the winter progresses,” said Steve Rick, chief economist at CUNA Mutual Group.

A group of well-dressed women who’ve been spotted accompanying Elizabeth Holmes to her fraud trial are her Stanford pals and sorority sisters, it has been claimed. The disgraced former Theranos chief executive called former friends and sorority sisters from Kappa Alpha Theta at Stanford University to ask if they would accompany her to court as a show of support during her trial for fraud. One of them has been identified as Jackie Lamping, who attended college with Holmes, and now works as a marketing boss in New York City.

Georgia elections workers are suing a popular far-right website that repeatedly spread false accusations that the workers committed mass voter fraud, arguing The Gateway Pundit’s claims led to racist threats and real-world harassment. The defamation suit, filed in Missouri where the site’s publishers Jim and Joe Hoft reside, says that The Gateway Pundit wrote a series of articles falsely accusing Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss of altering election results after former President Donald Trump narrowly lost the state in the 2020 election.

When Olympics organizers held a video call with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai this week, many activists and experts said it was merely a continuation of a decades long trend in which the International Olympic Committee has enabled and even emboldened authoritarian regimes. Peng, a three-time Olympian and former doubles world No.1, wasn’t seen for three weeks after making sexual assault allegations against Zhang Gaoli, a former vice premier who was one of China’s most powerful officials.

A group of lawyers aligned with former President Donald Trump including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood — were ordered Thursday by a federal judge to collectively pay more than $175,000 in sanctions related fees stemming from a bogus election fraud lawsuit they filed last year. US District Judge Linda Parker ordered that the lawyers pay the $21,964.75 in attorneys’ fees for the Michigan state officials they sued in the lawsuit. She also ordered that the lawyers pay $153,285.62 in attorneys’ fees for the city of Detroit.

The biggest thing out of Miami Art Week, which includes events like Art Basel is Andres Valencia a 10-year-old child prodigy a San Diego native that sold his entire collection of 17 paintings in three days. But Jordan Belfort — the trader-turned-felon who inspired the Scorsese film — snapped up a painting this week . So did “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara. Channing Tatum and artist Shepard Fairey also stopped by Andres’ booth at Art Miami after hearing about the prodigy.

Scientists in South Africa say omicron is at least three times more likely to cause reinfection than previous variants such as beta and delta, , according to a preliminary study published Thursday. Statistical analysis of some 2.8 million positive coronavirus samples in South Africa, 35,670 of which were suspected to be reinfections, led researchers to conclude that the omicron mutation has a “substantial ability to evade immunity from prior infection.”

Twitter has shut down thousands of state-linked accounts in China that seek to counter evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang , as part of what experts called an “embarrassingly” produced propaganda operation. The operations used photos and images, shell and potentially automated accounts, and fake Uyghur profiles, , to disseminate state propaganda and fake testimonials about their happy lives in the region, seeking to dispel evidence of a years-long campaign of oppression.

The man suspected of murdering music legend Clarence Avant’s wife at her Beverly Hills home was arrested after he shot himself in the foot in a botched robbery at a separate home, police announced Thursday. Aariel Maynor, 29, a parolee with an extensive criminal history, was found in the backyard of a different Beverly Hills residence with the wound shortly after he allegedly killed Jacqueline Avant, Beverly Hills Police Department officials said.

Elon Musk debuted his avant-garde new look when he was photographed landing in Miami on Wednesday night. Musk, 50, flew in on a private jet ahead of Art Basel Miami, the exclusive international art fair known for glamorous parties and celebrity sightings, which got under way Thursday and will run through Saturday. Photos of Musk from his time at PayPal 20 years ago show the fresh-faced South African native with a visibly receding hairline.

A federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s former attorney Sidney Powell has uncovered evidence that Powell filed false incorporation papers with the state of Texas for a non-profit. she heads, Defending the Republic, according to sources close to the investigation. In the incorporation papers, Powell – who filed lawsuits across the US questioning the 2020 election result which Trump lost to Joe Biden.

The Omicron variant has now been detected in at least five states, after multiple states announced their first cases of the strain on Thursday night. At least 10 total cases have now been reported in the U.S., as local leaders are warning that the variant is now spreading within some communities. New York, California, Hawaii, Minnesota and Colorado have now reported cases.

House and Senate lawmakers on Thursday approved a Into early next year, narrowly averting a shutdown. after some Republicans sought to seize on the imminent fiscal deadline to fight President Biden over his vaccine policies. The two successful evening votes spelled an end to a brief yet tense period that would have brought Washington to a halt come Saturday morning.

Alec Baldwin has said he does not feel guilty about his accidental on-set shooting of camerawoman Halyna Hutchins, because someone else was responsible for bringing the live ammunition onto set. Hutchins, 42, was shot and killed on October 21 on the set of the Western film Rust, which was being filmed in New Mexico. – George Stephanopoulos Interview

The former house manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida, estate testified on Thursday that the very first time he met Ghislaine Maxwell, , in approximately 1991, she made it very clear to him that she occupied a central role in Epstein’s affairs. “She right away took over,” Juan Alessi told the jury on the fourth day of Maxwell’s criminal trial on multiple charges of child sex trafficking.

Antonio Brown and his Buccaneers teammate, safety Mike Edwards, have been suspended for the next three games without pay over misrepresenting their vaccination status under NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 protocols, the league announced Thursday. Brown, recently accused of acquiring a fake COVID vaccine card by his former chef, has accepted the discipline and waived his right to an appeal, in addition to Edwards.

Google is finally making its own in-house smartwatch that’s set to launch in 2022, according to a person familiar with the matter. While Google has made its own smartphones for years under the Pixel line (which has since extended to other accessories, like wireless headphones), the company has never designed its own smartwatch, despite the fact that Google has had a companion wearable platform for Android since 2014.

Within hours of the first confirmed infection from the new omicron variant in the United States, – the Biden administration on Thursday announced an array of measures to protect Americans, including campaigns to increase vaccinations and booster shots ,more stringent testing requirements for travelers entering the country and plans to make rapid at-home coronavirus testing free for more people.

Mayor Bill de Blasio did an end run around state laws to open the Big Apple’s two supervised shooting galleries, using needle exchange licenses already possessed by the facilities to allow them to provide supervised injection and permit other illicit drugs to be used within their confines.

DNA evidence led police to arrest a homeless man from Miami on allegations he murdered Ryan Rogers, a 14-year-old boy found fatally stabbed last month in Palm Beach Gardens. Semmie Lee Williams, 39, was taken into custody from Miami on Wednesday, and booked into a Palm Beach County on a charge of first-degree murder.

In Florida, an ecological disaster has led to the deaths of more than 1,000 manatees. The large, slow-moving marine mammals graze on seagrass in shallow coastal areas, but a massive die-off of seagrass has left them without enough to eat. The lack of food is most acute in Indian River Lagoon. That’s a 150-mile-long saltwater estuary where more than 90% of the seagrass, the manatee’s main food source, has died.

New York Police Department – armed standoff with the a man wielding a shotgun outside the United Nations building, police reported. The man is seen on video pacing outside building in Tudor City, along the East River. The incident was reported at 10:39 am at the bus stop at the intersection of E 42nd Street and 1st Ave.

House and Senate leaders on Thursday announced they had reached a deal on a bill to fund the government into mid-February, opening the door for lawmakers to narrowly avoid a shutdown entering this weekend. The agreement on a new stopgap spending measure set the House on a path to vote before the end of the day, though swift action still seemed uncertain in the Senate.

A second case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant has been detected in the U.S. The Minnesota Department of Health confirmed the infection on Thursday in a resident who had recently traveled to New York City. The person was fully vaccinated and had mild symptoms, but has since recovered.

Two Manhattan hospitals affiliated with Columbia University reached a $71.5 million settlement with dozens of women that were molested by gynecologist Robert Hadden Wednesday, an agreement that one victim said will help her – “move on.” Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital agreed to pay 79 former patients.

A triple-vaccinated Israeli doctor has raised fears over the Omicron variant having been in the UK for weeks after saying he believes he caught the strain at a conference in London attended by 1,250 people on November 23.Elad Maor, 45, travelled to the capital on November 19 and stayed at a hotel in Islington while attending the three-day convention at ExCeL London in Newham, east London, before returning to Israel.

Alec Baldwin was emotional as he talked about the Rust set shooting in an ‘intense’ interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.Baldwin revealed the horror he felt when he picked up the gun and it went off, killing Halyna Hutchins. ‘I think back, I think: ‘What could I have done?’ Baldwin said in a teaser -interview will air tomorrow.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony took place on on Wednesday, December 1, starting at 7 pm and lasting until 10 pm. Authorities say the event drew one of the largest crowds in Manhattan since the start of the pandemic. Stars including Harry Connick Jr, Rob Thomas and Norah Jones performed.

As cases rise in the colder months and amid concerns of a new COVID-19 variant, President Joe Biden to announced a plan Thursday for a winter coronavirus strategy that includes making at-home rapid tests free, extending the mask requirement on public transit and requiring more stringent testing protocols for all international travelers.

Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri was formally charged Wednesday with illegally spying on relatives of sailors whose submarine sank in 2017, one of the most embarrassing incidents of his presidency. Judge Martín Bava’s ruling of “prohibited intelligence actions” can be appealed before any trial would begin.

Jill Biden’s Christmas decorations at the White House have been slammed as boring as the first lady appears to be playing it safe following years of Melania Trump’s controversial holiday décor – including her infamous hallway of blood red trees in 2018. With her theme of ‘Gifts From the Heart,’ Jill Biden has decorated the White House with a collection of Christmas trees, stockings, a gingerbread White House, balloons.

Honduras’ ruling party conceded defeat Tuesday in presidential elections held two days earlier, giving victory – to leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro and easing fears of another contested vote and violent protests. Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura, presidential candidate of the National Party, said in a statement that he had personally congratulated Castro.

Cuban health authorities said that researchers in the communist-run country are upgrading its homegrown COVID vaccines to ensure protection against the new Omicron variant. The Caribbean island nation, whose economy hinges on tourism – sharply eased entry requirements in mid-November.

Most consumer cannabis transactions are done in cash, legal or not. Since the United States classifies cannabis as a Title IV drug, the banking industry is unwilling and unable to provide services to cannabis operations. That leaves dispensaries managing and protecting massive sums of cash, and the stores cannot offer a modern retail payment system to the consumer.

Miami International Airport – will retain price controls after Miami-Dade County leaders reversed course on a request by retailers and restaurants to lift the consumer protections in exchange for paying workers higher wages.Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who earlier this year proposed ending the long-standing price caps as part of a COVID-19 relief package.

Apple has apparently introduced a business-only program that enables members to obtain and eventually upgrade computers for a relatively low monthly fee. . A tweet from writer Max Weinbach shows an image of Apple’s “New Mac Notebook Upgrade Program” promotional material that popped up for a customer with access to a business portal.

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First Amendment. The order, issued by a federal district court in Austin on Wednesday night, granted an injunction proposed by NetChoice and the CCIA that puts the HB 20 law on hold until the conclusion of the case.

The Biden administration reached a deal with the Mexican government to restart the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program that requires asylum seekers to wait outside U.S. territory while their claims are processed, two U.S. officials and a Mexican government official said late Wednesday. The governments are planning to announce the agreement Thursday, according to two of the officials

Symone Sanders, the senior adviser and chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, is expected to leave the White House at the end of the year, according to five administration officials familiar with the matter. It was not immediately clear where Sanders is heading next or when she will be leaving the vice president’s office.

The House select committee that is investigating the January 6 Capitol riot voted Wednesday evening to recommend contempt charges against former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, making him the second associate of former President Donald Trump the committee’s taken action against for failing to comply with its investigation.