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A Texas taxi driver accused of murder who had been on the FBI’s Top Ten list of refugees was arrested after being paralyzed since 2008, according to reports. Yaser Abdel Said, 63, of Lewisville, northwest of Dallas, was apparently arrested when his daughters, ages 18 and 17, started dating non-Muslims, …

After boycotts of playoff games on Wednesday to protest against Jacob Blake’s police shooting, NBA players held an exciting rally that apparently ended “ugly”. According to reports, the Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers voted early in the season, though one ESPN report described it as “polling” instead of a …

The GOP scrapped one scheduled appearance hours before it was scheduled to speak Tuesday night. Mary Ann Mendoza was removed from the line-up of the night after retweeting a thread earlier in the day with an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about a Jewish plan to control the world. But others have …

A woman who was diagnosed with HIV almost 30 years ago may have been cured of the virus – without taking medication or having a bone marrow transplant. Scientists have been studying Loreen Willenberg for decades, with the 66-year-old insisting she never took medication to keep the virus at bay. …

(WIRED reached out to Cal Fire, but they were unable to comment for press time due to the ongoing wildfire in California.) Crews are still checking the area around the observatory, seeing as this group of wildfires, known as the SCU Lightning Complex, continues to blacken the region. As of …