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France has announced a temporary ban on almost all commercial fishing in the Bay of Biscay to protect dolphins.
It will start on Monday and run until 20 February affecting fishing grounds off the country's Atlantic coast.
French marine experts CIEM estimate around 9,000 dolphins die in the bay each year after being accidentally caught in fishing gear.
Local fishermen say the ban is "absurd" and fear losing money - but the government has promised compensation.
A new Defense Department inspector general report reveals that a little-known in-house pharmacy at the White House erroneously dolled out prescription medications to staff and wasted $750,000 in taxpayer money.
One former pharmacy staff member told investigators that a doctor once asked if the staffer could "hook up" someone with a controlled substance "as a parting gift for leaving the White House."
The report, according to an article in Stat News, revealed that the pharmacy office dispensed controlled medications like Ambien and Provigil without verifying the patient’s identity.
Stat reported that in an office in the White House there was a sign that read "Pharmacy," but the people in charge of it insisted it wasn’t actually one.
The investigation, which was published this month, was conducted by the Department of Defense’s independent Office of the Inspector General as the White House pharmacy is run by the White House Military Office and its associated medical unit.
The probe was prompted by internal complaints the DOD received in 2018 about a senior military medical officer, who is not named, engaging in "improper medical practices." It covers only activity in the office through early 2020 under the Trump administration, but investigators interviewed staffers who also worked there under former President Obama, according to Stat.
According to the report, the "pharmacy" let people grab over-the-counter medicines from open bins.
It also found that a larger affiliate of the office inappropriately covered care for a whole host of personnel who weren’t eligible, costing more than $750,000 in wasted taxpayer funds in just three years. Stat notes that even that number is "fuzzy" because so many records were poorly kept and even handwritten.
The Bay of Biscay, the body of water between northern France and the Iberian peninsula, is home to an incredible 25 percent of all the world’s cetacean species. The shallow waters of the bay itself drop off over the continental shelf some 12,000 feet deep, where there’s an uprising of nutrients that creates this unique ecosystem, as well as tasty meals of giant squid for bigger, toothed whales.
The potential for sightings is incredible, so have your binoculars ready. You could see dolphins, fin whales, sperm whales, sei whales, and pilot whales, with the best months betweenJuly and September.
The California Google engineer accused of pummeling his wife to death last week hosted guests for dinner the night before, including one who told police the host was staring blankly into space at the dinner table, according to court documents.
Liren Chen, 27, faces a murder charge after police found him "spattered with blood" near the body of Xuanyi Yu on Jan. 16. Both were Google employees at the time of the incident.
"The [reporting party] had eaten dinner with Chen and [the victim] the previous evening at their home, and he was concerned about a noticeable change in Chen's demeanor," detectives wrote in a statement of facts related to the case. "Chen was quiet and staring blankly for much of the evening."
The friend who observed Chen's bizarre behavior at dinner tried calling in the morning but no one picked up. He returned to the house to check on the couple, peeked in a window and saw Chen kneeling with his hands up, still "staring blankly," before police had even been called, prosecutors allege.
Police arrived and Chen allegedly remained motionless. A responding officer pronounced Yu dead at the scene.
Yu had blunt-force injuries to her head, and Chen's right hand was "extremely swollen and purple," according to the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office.
His clothes were covered in blood and so were his hands, legs and arms, prosecutors said. He had minor scratches on his left arm, according to investigators.
"However, he did not appear to have any lacerations on his body that would have produced this blood," the detective noted.
"I punched my wife," he allegedly replied. "Yesterday."
Massive Fire Levels Seafood Processing Facility in Western Washington
ILWACO — Pacific County's most intense industrial fire in a generation on Monday leveled one of Ilwaco's two large seafood processing facilities.
Although legal title is held by a subsidiary, Bellingham-based property owner Bornstein Seafoods is a well-known presence on the Lower Columbia River, operating in the Astoria area for decades. Company personnel and independent crabbers who deliver to the plant were in the final stages of getting set for the "pre-soak" period of commercial crab season on Jan. 29, with deliveries back to port starting the morning of Feb. 1 after a two-month regulatory delay.
EL MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Deputies found five people dead in a Southern California desert community on Tuesday night, authorities said.
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies were called to an area off Highway 395 in El Mirage for a wellness check around 8:15 p.m. and found the bodies, sheriff’s spokesperson Mara Rodriguez said in an email. Members of the department’s specialized investigations division responded to conduct the investigation.
El Mirage is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles.
Authorities did not release details about how or when the people died or who they were.
A mystery has unfolded as five people were found dead along a remote desert road in California.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said that the bodies around 8.16pm on Tuesday after they responded to a welfare check off of Highway 395 in El Mirage.
Police scanner reports revealed that the people were found near the intersection of Shadow Mountain Road and Lessing Avenue, Victor Valley News Group reported.
Helicopters were on standby to assist at the scene but once authorities realized that the victims were all dead, they were called off.
It is unclear how the victims died, but there have been reports that they were all shot as bullet holes were found in the back window of the gray mini van that was parked along the road.
A fifth friend has come forward claiming he was present at the Kansas City Chiefs watch party that resulted in three men freezing to death in their pal’s backyard — and has revealed new details about the trio’s final hours.
The fifth person, who has not been named publicly, had joined the group — which included David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36 — at Jordan Willis’ Kansas City rental on Jan. 7 to watch their hometown team play their last regular season game, attorney John Picerno told FOX 4.
The man told the outlet that when he left the home, Willis and his other three friends were still awake.
The man also stressed that he was not the last person to see Harrington, Johnson and McGeeney alive before they froze to death in Willis’ yard and went unnoticed for two days.
JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) -- Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shooting deaths of eight people in Joliet after the suspected gunman was found dead by apparent suicide in Texas on Monday night.
"We can't get inside his head. We just don't have any clue as to why he did what he did," Joliet Police Chief Bill Evans said Tuesday afternoon of the suspected shooter, 23-year-old Romeo Nance.
Five people – two girls, ages 14 and 16; two women, Alexandria Nance, 20, and Christine Esters, 38; and a 31-year-old man, Joshua Nance – were found dead in one house at 2212 W. Acres Rd., and two people – a 35-year-old man, William Esters II; and a 47-year-old woman, Tameka Nance – were found dead in the other at 2225 W. Acres Rd., according to Evans and the Will County Coroner's office.
Meanwhile, Evans said during the investigation into the Acres Road murders, they were also looking for a 3-year-old who was unaccounted for – but who was later found with family in a nearby community. Police did not say how the toddler was connected to these crimes.
originally posted by: Thoughtful3
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Elon Musk- Mystery Donation- $5.7 Billion
It could be hidden in that donation. Mr. Pool eerily seems to predict events but this is the most direct one pointing to a specific person. I find Musk confusing. Remember when he tweeted about prosecuting Fauci with hints of more twitter reveals and then nothing. Fauci committed crimes against humanity and then Musk is reluctant to reveal the tweet evidence? He just doesn't add up.
"My pronouns are Prosecute?Fauci"
The Covid Subcommittee has another witness- Martin McKary-
More testimony