Dr. Anthony Fauci complained during a Tuesday evening talk that many Americans see forced masking policies as a violation of their liberties.
During the talk, Fauci, who is President Biden’s chief medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, expressed concern about Americans’ aversion to both forced masking and receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. I have characterized individuals’ concerns with such policies as “unexplained.”
“When you tell people they need to mask in an indoor congregate setting when you’re in a zone that has a high dynamic of infection — that is looked upon by a lot of people, not everybody, as an encroachment on your freedom,” Fauci remarked during the event hosted by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center campus in Seattle.
“We’ve never had that before,” he added. “It’s almost inexplicable.”
FAUCI ADMITS THAT COVID-19 VACCINES DO NOT PROTECT ‘OVERLY WELL’ AGAINST INFECTION
Prior to his comments on mask mandates, Fauci also lamented that while the majority of Americans have been vaccinated against COVID-19, most people haven’t received a booster shot.
“You have people who don’t want to get vaccinated for any of a variety of reasons, ranging from pure anti-vax to just because we’re telling them to get vaccinated,” Fauci said. “We’re in a very difficult situation.”
FAUCI SOUNDS ALARM ON ‘NEED’ FOR COVID VACCINES THAT ‘PROTECT AGAINST INFECTION’
He continued: “We have 67% of our population vaccinated. Of those, one half are boosted. That means a third of the people in the country are vaccinated and properly boosted. How could that possibly be when you have a disease that’s killed one million Americans and you have a hesitancy to use a life-saving intervention, which is a vaccine and a booster?
“It seems like—what world are we living in?”
Dr. Anthony Fauci during a White House meeting on Jan. 4, 2022. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
New COVID-19 cases nationwide have steadied to between 300-400 cases per million people over the last several months compared to the mid-January peak of 2,396 cases per million, according to Johns Hopkins University data. COVID-19 deaths have stayed below 1.70 deaths per million since April.
Nearly 80% of Americans over the age of 5 have received one dose of the vaccine, while 67% are fully vaccinated, 32% have received a booster and 10% have opted for a second booster.
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Fauci, meanwhile, recently suggested that the pandemic wouldn’t go away anytime soon.
“I think we’re going to be living with this,” Fauci told Politico in July.
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer at Fox News Digital
If you have been struggling to find a carton of eggs at your local supermarket, you are certainly not alone.
Shoppers have been left frustrated by yet another staple item disappearing from supermarket shelves, with Coles even introducing a two-carton limit for customers.
Australia is in the midst of a national egg shortage, meaning supply is patchy and prices are on the rise.
But what is behind the egg supply crisis?
Suppliers have claimed part of the problem stems from lockdowns, when farmers had to decrease their chicken numbers.
However, Edith Cowan University senior lecturer and WA president of the Australasian Supply Chain Institute (ASCI), Flavio Macau, said the shortage is a reflection of customers preferring free-range eggs over caged eggs.
The production of free-range eggs is more affected by the colder and short days of winter, I have explained in an article for The Conversation.
Sales of free-range eggs have shot up over the years, leading many farmers to invest heavily in increasing their free-range production.
“Like many agricultural industries where farmers respond to price signals and predictions, this led to overproduction, leading to lower prices and profits,” Associate Professor Macau said.
NSW’s total flock size peaked in 2017-18 but the overproduction and lower profits led to a 10 per cent drop in egg production the following year.
Then came increased compliance costs, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in 2018 introducing rules around what is classified as free range.
Under the rules, hens need to have “meaningful and regular access” to an outdoor area during the daylight hours of their laying cycle.
“This experience has likely influenced farmers’ reluctance to increase their flocks based on predictions of higher demand,” Associate Professor Macau explained.
It isn’t only the increased land requirements that make producing free-range eggs more expensive, it is also the less consistent laying.
Unlike cage or barn hens, free-range hens don’t live in optimized conditions to stimulate laying, such as consistent temperatures and being exposed to 16 hours of light every day.
“Free-range hens are affected by hot or cold temperatures, wind and rain, and length of daylight,” Associate Professor Macau said.
“In winter months they have less energy and produce (on average) 20 per cent fewer eggs than a chicken confined indoors in controlled conditions.”
He said economic and environmental events in 2022 have made things difficult for farmers, who are facing time lags and cost pressures.
“Increasing a laying flock takes about four months. An egg takes about three weeks to hatch. Under ideal conditions, chicks need another 17 weeks before they are ready to begin laying,” he said.
“Any farmer who has begun this process in the past month will be producing more eggs by December. But then it will be summer, when they won’t need 20 per cent more hens to make up for their winter slump.”
The rising cost of living also means feed, electricity and transport costs have shot up, forcing many farmers to be careful about how they conduct their business.
“It is preferable to undersupply than to go bankrupt through oversupply,” Associate Professor Macau said.
The notion of the winter slump has been backed up by farmers.
Last week Xavier Prime, owner of Chooks at the Rooke, a free-range egg farm southwest of Melbourne, told 3AW that “to lay the optimum”, hens needs 15-16 hours of daylight every day, but at the moment they are experiencing just 10-11 hours.
“Free-range eggs, in that sort of space the birds are open to the elements, and with the daylight hours being shorter, that has a lot to do with how many eggs the chickens lay,” he explained.
Associate Professor Macau said a short-term fix to the supply issues seemed “unlikely”, noting wet weather forecasts from August to October were not favorable laying conditions.
However, once the weather warms up, production should return to normal levels.
“Unless consumers are willing to pay more to ensure a constant supply in winter months, our shift to free-range eggs carries a higher likelihood of winter shortages,” he said.
“We must do what we have done through every disruption in recent times: endure, adapt and prepare for the next crisis.”
Radio host Kyle Sandilands was seen frantically leaving the show mid-air after discovering his pregnant fiancée Tegan Kynaston had gone into labor on Thursday morning.
WATCH IN THE VIDEO ABOVE: Kyle Sandilands leaves radio show to welcome his baby boy
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The 51-year-old quickly said his goodbyes to the KIIS team before removing his headphones – as he rushed out the door to be by Kynaston’s side in hospital.
Shortly after, co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson confirmed on the show the couple had welcomed their baby boy Otto after receiving a text message from Sandilands’ manager Bruno Bouchet.
“Little Otto was born this morning. Mum and bub both doing well,” the text from Bouchet read.
Kyle Sandilands from the hospital. Credit: Supplied
“Kyle’s beyond excited.”
Earlier on Thursday, Sandilands said he was broadcasting from home when he received the best personal news.
“I might have to leave the show and go to the hospital,” he abruptly said during the radio show.
“It’s time? Oh, it’s time!” co-host Jackie O Henderson was heard saying from the studio.
“It’s time,” Sandilands confirmed.
Jackie O Henderson reacts to the news. Credit: Supplied Kyle Sandilands leaves the radio show. Credit: Supplied
The studio broke out in applause as the dad-to-be prepared to leave.
“Calm down, we don’t want the kid coming out too soon,” Sandilands joked.
“You ready?” he was heard saying off the microphone before telling the team, “Guys I’m so sorry, I feel very unprepared – I don’t even know if…”
“It’s okay,” Henderson reassured him, asking “Have you got your bag packed and everything?”.
Kyle and Tegan find out they’re having a boy. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
“Yes, I’ve got my bag,” he replied.
“I’ve got to run, I feel like I’m abandoning you,” Sandilands added, before rushing off.
Boy or girl?
After announcing the pregnancy news in February, Sandilands and Kynaston celebrated by throwing a gender reveal party on a boat in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Courtesy of the Kyle and Jackie O Show’s Instagram, the excited couple was seen arriving on the boat as a live band played.
Pictures were shared of the four-tier gender reveal cake, ‘baby Sandilands’ decor, an elaborate candy bar – all in shades of blue and pink.
Kyle and Tegan before the gender reveal. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
The parents-to-be found out live on air that they were expecting a little boy.
The gender was announced by plans that flew over their boat spewing blue smoke.
Live on air, you could hear the crowd cheer as the plans flew past.
“We did expect a girl but we’re very, very happy,” Sandilands said after the plans flew past.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: Kyle Sandilands announces the birth of his unborn child
Kyle Sandilands announces the birth of his unborn child.
Kyle Sandilands announces the birth of his unborn child.Some snapshots from the gender reveal party. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
Sandilands and Kynaston, who began dating in 2019, shared that they already decided on potential baby names.
Announcing to his listeners on 13 February, Sandilands said: “We’re having a baby!” prompting the entire KIIS FM studio team to cheer.
“We are having a friggin’ baby. I couldn’t be happier,” he added.
Co-host Henderson – who’s a mother to daughter Kitty, aged 10 – told the couple she was “so happy”, and told them their lives would soon change forever.
Kyle Sandilands announces his baby’s gender in Sydney harbour.
Kyle Sandilands announces his baby’s gender in Sydney harbour.
‘He’s very emotional about it’
Speaking on air, Kynaston said Sandilands had been “excellent” since she’s fallen pregnant.
“He’s been very emotional… very happy about it,” she said.
Sandilands said his manager Bruno Bouchet found it challenging to deflect questions from the media after Kynaston was spotted on February 2 with a “slight bump”.
Kyle and Tegan, who began dating in 2019, have already decided on names for both genders. Credit: Kyle and Jackie OAnnouncing to his listeners, Kyle said: “We’re having a baby!” prompting the entire KIIS FM studio team to cheer. Credit: KIIS
The couple announced their engagement live on air in January after he proposed in Port Douglas.
“I apologize to the women of the world, as I am officially off the market,” Sandilands said at the time.
He told his listeners Kynaston had “no clue” the proposal was coming.
The 50-year-old went into detail about his elaborate proposal plans that were set to feature fireworks, live music, an array of candles and a lavish meal.
However, not everything went according to plan.
A still from the proposal video posted to Instagram. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
The KIIS FM host had organized for singer-songwriter Conrad Sewell to fly in from overseas and perform the couple’s favorite song while Sandilands got down on one knee.
The radio host shared that “two days before the proposal, Conrad rang and he was very upset because he had caught COVID.”
“I couldn’t postpone it because there were chefs, fireworks and I had hired a venue,” Sandilands said.
Despite the complications, Sandilands told listeners the proposal went ahead without live music, explaining to then-girlfriend Kynaston that they were attending a pop-up art show.
Kyle Sandilands, left, and Tegan Kynaston, right. Credit: Getty Images/Facebook
“When we got there, we got out, I swung the door open and they played the Conrad song. There were candles and soft lighting,” Sandilands said.
Following the romantic proposal, the couple watched the fireworks display alongside close family and friends.
Kynaston, who is 15 years younger than her fiancé, met Sandilands as his personal assistant in 2019.
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“I joined the Indigenous Football Australia council to share my life experience in sport and business to help others on a similar journey. I am looking forward to learning from other experts who are on the council. But most of all it is about the young people and giving them the best opportunity to achieve their dreams.”
While Goodes has rarely – if ever – spoken about the AFL since his retirement, he has occasionally opened up on his lifelong affinity for soccer, and once revealed he did not miss a moment of Alessandro Del Piero’s magical two-year stint at Sydney FC, which coincided with his final years at the Swans.
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“I even left [former Sydney Swans player] Benny McGlynn’s engagement party at the Clovelly Hotel halfway through,” he told a Fox Sports podcast two years ago when he was announced as a patron of the Moriarty program.
“The boys were like, ‘where are you going?’ I said, ‘Del Piero’s playing Adelaide tonight at the footy stadium, I’ve got to go watch.’ That’s just the passion and love that I have for the game, when these greats of the world come to Australia to play, albeit in the twilight years – for me, it’s incredible just to see the best.
“Here in Australia, we’re starting to develop some of the best players in the world – and what I want to see is some of those best players in the world being Indigenous players.”
IFA is not directly connected to Football Australia, which last year launched its own National Indigenous Advisory Group headed by ex-Socceroo Jade North. But John Moriarty Football is Australia’s longest-running and most successful Indigenous soccer initiative and has expanded across the country in recent years after starting out in Borroloola, the remote community where Moriarty was born.
Also on the majority-Indigenous IFA council are Goodes’ Waverley Old Boys teammate Craig Foster, ABC journalist and presenter Stan Grant, current A-League Women players Gema Simon, Allira Toby and Jada Whyman, and Danny Townsend, the chief executive of the A -Leagues.
“The diversity and strengths of this Indigenous-led Council are unparalleled,” Moriarty said. “Each member is more than a symbolic appointment. They all bring unique, lived experience plus skills, aligned values and goals for Indigenous football in Australia. Each member is committed to creating tangible, equitable and lasting change.”
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When 18-year-old Afghan migrant Mehdi Safari from Launceston passed his driving test, he was “hopping around” with excitement.
It made it easier for him to travel to his part-time job at a local hardware store, and to school every day.
“Yo puedo [also] go out more with friends, and even when I’m going out to play sport, it’s very helpful to have a license,” he said.
It was also an important milestone for the Launceston Migrant Resource Center’s learner driver program, Drive4Life, as Mr Safari was its 500th participant to pass the P-test.
Coordinator Janice Molineux said it was incredibly significant for those migrants and refugees and their families.
“I was very happy… [and] now it’s 511 [people who have passed]. I just think it’s such a great thing,” she said.
Mr Safari got a “lecture” from his father about the serious responsibility of driving well.(ABC Northern Tasmania: Sarah Abbott)
license to independence
Arriving in Launceston with his family from the Iranian city of Ahvaz in 2013, Mr Safari said he was passionate about cars and wanted to become a mechanic or engineer since childhood.
“Growing up, I tried to buy toy cars and I’d disassemble them to try to work out how they worked,” he said.
But in Tasmania, once old enough to obtain a driver’s licence, Mr Safari found it a challenge to accrue the required number of hours of practice as a learner driver.
“It was difficult for me to find a car to practise,” he said.
A car provided by the Drive4Life program allowed him to gain the supervised driving practice and skills he needed to get his P-plates.
Odds stacked high
In many ways, Mr Safari and the 510 other migrants who have now passed through Drive4Life have beaten the odds in obtaining a licence, according to Ms Molineux.
“One challenge… is knowing someone with a full driver’s license to help them gain the required hours to sit for their P-test,” Ms Molineux said.
Another is knowing enough English to pass.
Janice Molineux enjoys seeing Drive4Life graduates driving around town.(ABC Northern Tasmania: Sarah Abbott)
Ms Molineux said some learners who were capable drivers were not able to gain their Ps due to interpreters not being allowed in the car with them during tests.
That restriction was introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Ms Molineux said her organization was working on a proposal to address it.
“We are hopeful that people who are still learning English can acquire their licences. It should not be ‘English first, then a license’,” she said.
“Safety must always come first… [but] you don’t need perfect English to be able to drive.”
Ms Molineux said being able to drive was life-changing for many migrants and refugees living in Tasmania.
“A license lets them gain independence, get to English classes and travel to work where public transport options are not viable,” she said.
Bring your own tutor
Launceston’s Migrant Resource Center started its Drive4Life program in 2009.
The program operates with around ten volunteer driving tutors providing lessons in two dual-controlled cars. The 500 drivers it has helped to gain a license have come from countries ranging from Afghanistan to Sudan.
But the program’s success means it now has a long list of learner drivers waiting to join it, and not enough driving tutors to keep up.
Ms Molineux said it was due to the “battle” of finding driving tutors, particularly bi-lingual ones, that she began a ‘Bring Your Own Mentor’ initiative last year.
“It doesn’t matter where you are on the [learner waiting] list, if you bring someone who’s happy to be inducted as a Drive4Life mentor, then they help you and someone else from the top of the list,” Ms Molineux said.
Abbas Safari is a fluent Farsi speaker and tutors Farsi-speaking Launceston locals.(ABC Northern Tasmania: Sarah Abbott)
The volunteer tutors go through a driver induction, which involves “some theory, but mostly practice” in a dual-control car with the program’s head mentor.
It was through this initiative that Mr Safari successfully passed his Ps, after being tutored in a Drive4Life car by his father, Abbas.
“With him… teaching me it was alright, because we had that father-son bond and connection, so I was comfortable with him,” Mr Safari said.
“It made the learning experience a bit easier.”
Finally finding their legs
Abbas Safari has gone on to tutor his other son, 16-year-old Milad, and Farsi-speaking Launceston mother-of-nine, Shah Jafari.
He said he enjoyed teaching “very much”, and was motivated to volunteer by his desire to help people in Tasmania’s Afghan community get their license “so they can go on with their lives”.
“Not having a license is like having extra weight on your shoulders,” he said.
Shah Jafari looks forward to having her license so she can help with school drop-off.(ABC Northern Tasmania: Sarah Abbott)
Abbas Safari is keen to keep tutoring into the future, and has inspired his older son to one day “definitely” do the same.
“I would like for everyone in the right age bracket to have their license,” Mehdi Safari said.
“Because I experienced that feeling when you get your license and… it’s like you finally find your legs, so you can travel everywhere.”
Other posts were more explicit, “I’m just going to say it. [Attorney General Merrick] Garland needs to be assassinated. Simple as that.” Another user posted, “kill all feds.”
Users also encouraged others to post the address of the magistrate judge they believe signed off on the search warrant. “I see a rope around his neck from him,” a comment under a picture of the judge read.
Amid the users on the forum Monday night was a convicted US Capitol rioter.
One reply to the top-rated “lock and load” post came from an account with the username bananaguard62 and asked “Are we not in a cold civil war at this point?”
By combing through bananaguard62’s posts, Advance Democracy, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that conducts public-interest investigations, identified Tyler Welsh Slaeker as running the account.
Slaeker was charged by the Justice Department last summer in connection with the January 6 attack. Slaeker’s in-laws tipped off the FBI about his presence at the Capitol, according to court filings, making him one of the many January 6 rioters who were turned in by family members.
He was initially charged with four nonviolent misdemeanors, and pleaded guilty in June to one count of entering a restricted building. His sentencing is scheduled for November.
NBC News was first to report Advance Democracy’s findings on Slaeker. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It can be difficult to distinguish between empty and serious threats of violence online, but it cannot be ignored, said Daniel J. Jones, a former US Senate investigator who led the investigation into the CIA’s use of torture and now runs Advance Democracy, a non -partisan, non-profit organization that conducts public-interest investigations.
“We are seeing conspiratorial rhetoric from elected officials, political leaders, and political entertainers that is fueling calls for real-world violence,” Jones said. “The conspiratorial and divisive rhetoric — from elected officials and others who should know better — is continuing to undermine our institutions and democracy at an alarming rate.”
A congressional security official told CNN shortly after news of the search warrant broke Monday night, US Capitol Police began about discussions monitoring and planning for potential violent rhetoric.
Of particular concern is the possibility of violence could be directed at members of Congress or other federal law enforcement, the security official said.
The Capitol Police declined to comment on security plans.
One post CNN found called for violence against FBI agents. The FBI declined to comment on the post or wider security concerns due to violent rhetoric.
After the January 6 attack, alternative social media platforms became more popular among Trump supporters after companies like Facebook and Twitter banned Trump and some other prominent figures who spread election conspiracy theories.
Those platforms, like Trump’s own Truth Social site, tout themselves as bastions of free speech, with looser rules and moderation. But that can result in the proliferation of violent rhetoric. CNN reported in June how threats against members of the January 6 House select committee circulated on those platforms.
But talk of violence isn’t exclusive to the more fringe platforms.
There was a surge in tweets Monday mentioning “civil war” — at some points more than one tweet a second, according to a CNN review of data from Dataminr, a service that tracks Twitter activity. While some mentions of “civil war” came from Trump critics expressing fear of what his supporters might do – one researcher posted multiple screenshots of Twitter accounts outright calling for civil war.
Jones, whose group Advance Democracy has been tracking online threats since the FBI raid on Monday, said political leaders posting on their main social media accounts are stoking more violent rhetoric.
“The attack on the Capitol on January 6th showed that we can’t ignore calls for political violence online — no matter how fringe the theories are behind those calls for violence,” Jones said.
Magistrate judge’s bio removed from court website
The biography of a federal magistrate judge in Florida, along with their contact information and office address, were removed from the court’s website amid the right-wing backlash to the FBI search.
The magistrate judge has been identified by some media outlets as the judge who approved the FBI warrant. CNN has not independently confirmed that this is the judge in question and is not naming him at this time.
Records reviewed by CNN show the webpage with the judge’s information was removed from the official website for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida sometime between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.
Reached for comment Tuesday, officials from the court didn’t say why the judge’s webpage was removed. CNN has requested comment from the FBI, the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department and the US Marshals Service.
On Tuesday, on pro-Trump social media sites, there were calls for the publication of the judge’s home address, according to Ben Decker, the CEO of Memetica, a threat analysis company.
Decker has seen a “massive surge” in threats targeting the judge since Monday, including, he told CNN, on message boards “that played a notable role in the lead-up to January 6.”
In the federal court system, magistrate judges often handle procedural matters before the cases are assigned to a district judge, which is a much more prominent position and requires a presidential appointment and Senate confirmation.
Magistrate judges differ from the US district judges who are appointed by presidents and confirmed by the Senate. Magistrate judges handle tasks like authorizing search warrants and conducting the preliminary proceedings in a criminal case, though they don’t have all the powers as a district judge.
This story has been updated with additional details.
Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan has been spotted out and about for the first time in over a year as he ran errands in his crime and homeless-ridden Los Angeles neighborhood.
The reclusive Australian-born actor wearing jeans and a denim shirt looked gaunt as he pumped gas and washed his windows last month in his Venice neighborhood that has been overrun by vagrants.
The last time Hogan, 82, was photographed in public was last May when he was thought to be pinning up an angry note to vagrants camped outside his $3.5million Venice mansion.
Hogan denied writing the sign that read, ‘THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS,’ despite being pictured holding a red marker near the note. He claimed he was carrying the red marker near the sign because he was leaving instructions for an electrician.
Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan was seen last month running errands in his Venice, Los Angeles, neighborhood
The 82-year-old wore an all-denim outfit as he pumped gas into his black SUV
The last time Hogan, 82, was photographed in public was last year when he was thought to be pinning up an angry note to vagrants camped outside his $3.5million Venice mansion
Hogan denied writing the sign that read, ‘THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS,’ despite being pictured holding a red marker near the note
Hogan is best know for depicting heartthrob adventurer Mick Dundee in the 1986 romantic adventure classic
Hogan is best known for depicting heartthrob adventurer Mick Dundee in the 1986 romantic adventure classic.
He moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with his then-love interest and former co-star Linda Kozlowski, who he met on the set of Crocodile Dundee.
He left his first wife Noelene to pursue a love affair with much-younger Linda, now 64, and they wed in 1990.
In 2014 she filed for divorce but they are said to still be on good terms and live in the same neighborhood while co-parenting their son Chance, 24.
In an interview with Sunrise last year, Hogan said he was ‘desperate’ to return to Australia and leave his life in America behind.
‘I am desperately homesick,’ he said.
Hogan moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with his then love interest and former co-star Linda Kozlowski
Hogan wore dark black shades and black sneakers while he ran his errands on a Thursday afternoon
Despite yearning to come back to Australia, Paul said he would remain living in Venice to be apart of his son Chance’s life. Pictured in December 2016. Chance is now 24
His home is in the eleven-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where a vast increase in homelessness has been seen hundreds of tents line the beach’s famous boardwalk and a sharp increase in crime.
‘I’m living in LA County, which is 10 million people and half of them have got Covid. So am I homeick? You bet your life,’ Hogan complained.
When asked how he was coping with Los Angeles’ crime wave, Hogan simply said he ‘doesn’t go anywhere.’
‘[I’m] bored in lockdown, and the minute I can get on the plane without being locked in a hotel for two weeks, I’m back,’ he said in 2021.
Despite yearning to go back to Australia, Hogan said he would remain living in Venice to be a part of his son’s life.
‘Where Paul lives is hell on earth,’ Hogan’s neighbor Tyler Proctor, a local politician, said last year. ‘His house from him is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out.’
The actor lives in the eleven-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where an increase in homelessness has resulted in a terrifying crime wave
‘Where Paul lives is hell on earth,’ Hogan’s neighbor Tyler Proctor, a local politician, said last year. ‘His house from him is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out.’ The outside of Hogan’s home is pictured
Hogan isn’t the only Venice resident who is fed up with the homelessness. DailyMail.com revealed last month that Hunter Biden moved out of a $25,000-per-month rented canal-front home in Venice. Hunter’s former home is pictured left
Photos show tents, umbrellas, trash bags, camping chairs, blankets and shopping carts piled up, filling the width of the sidewalk and stretching down the Venice street
Hogan isn’t the only Venice resident who is fed up with the homelessness.
Hunter Biden’s former neighbors in Venice, California, are outraged that their neighborhood has turned into a ‘tent city’ since he left
DailyMail.com revealed last month that Hunter Biden moved out of a $25,000-per-month rented canal-front home in Venice.
The First Son’s trendy digs came with a 24-hour Secret Service protection, and mysteriously coincided with the disappearance of any homeless encampments from the street, neighbors said.
But since Hunter up and moved to Malibu, a ‘tent city’ of homeless people camping out on the sidewalk has sprung up again, prompting outrage among residents.
Tents, umbrellas, trash bags, camping chairs, blankets and shopping carts were seen piled up, filling the width of the sidewalk and stretching down the Venice street where Hunter’s former home sits.
His former neighbors are now incensed that their street has turned into a ‘tent city’ since he left – with no more Secret Service agents to move homeless people along.
Controversy swirling over the upstart LIV Golf series got “a little more personal” when 11 LIV rebels sued the US PGA Tour this week, according to Northern Ireland star Rory McIlroy.
McIlroy and fellow US PGA Tour pro Justin Thomas both welcomed a judge’s ruling that denied a request by three LIV Golf players for a temporary restraining order that would have allowed them to play in the St. Jude Championship this week, the first event of the US PGA Tour’s season-ending playoffs.
The three players qualified for the playoffs were among 11 golfers who filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the US Tour challenging the indefinite suspensions imposed by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan upon those who played in any of the Saudi-backed LIV tour’s first three events.
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Rory McIlroy says the PGA had a little win against LIV Golf after a court’s decision to bar three players from playing in the FedEx Cup at TPC Southwind. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images
McIlroy, who has been a critic of the new series offering stunning $20 million purses for its 54-hole events as well as signing bonuses reportedly worth tens of millions for some stars, said he believed golfers had the right to choose the new tour — but the US PGA Tour also had the right to exclude those who made that decision.
“Guys are going to make their own decisions that they feel is best for them and that’s totally fine,” McIlroy said after playing a pro-am round at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.
“I don’t begrudge anyone for going over to play LIV or taking guaranteed money.
“I think where the resentment comes from the membership of this tour is the fact that they want to try to get their way back in here with no consequences, and anyone that’s read the PGA Tour handbook or abided by the rules and regulations, that would feel very unfair to them.”
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As a PGA Tour board member, McIlroy has even-handedly fielded questions about LIV Golf — spearheaded by Australian Greg Norman — for months. It comes as the Australian world No.2 Cameron Smith is said to have joined the rebels on a deal worth $140 million.
But I have acknowledged that the lawsuit hit close to the bone.
“I certainly have a little more respect for the guys who haven’t put their names to the suit,” McIlroy said.
“It’s become a little more personal because of that.”
The fact that Australian Matt Jones and Americans Talor Gooch and Hudson Swafford weren’t given temporary relief from their suspensions to compete in the playoffs was, McIlroy said, “a good day for the Tour and for the majority of the membership.”
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I have noted, however, that it remained to be seen how the full lawsuit would play out.
“It’s like you birdied the first hole, but you’ve still got 17 holes to go,” he said.
– Play golf, stop worrying –
Thomas said he’s not looking too closely at what promises to be a protracted legal battle.
“The only thing I really care about is this golf tournament and trying to play well and trying to win the FedExCup,” Thomas said.
“And to be honest, I just don’t care about all that stuff that’s going on.
“However it’s going to happen is going to happen. I may have an opinion here or there, but at the end of the day, once it gets to this point, it’s way out of my hands in terms of getting to lawyers and judges and things of that nature.
“So I just want to play golf and stop worrying about it,” added Thomas, who described being asked about the controversy at a wedding he attended recently.
That said, Thomas agreed with McIlroy that the lawsuit, and the demand of LIV rebels that they be allowed to return to the PGA Tour, intensified feeling around the issue.
“You can have your cake, but you don’t need to eat it, too,” he said.
“And they got their fair share of a large, large amount of cake and go eat it on your own means. You don’t need to bring it onto our tour.”
The recent end of the long-running soap Neighbors has raised the question: why was Ramsay Street not Ramsay Court?
Key points:
Ramsay Street was a cul-de-sac, which would have earned it a different street name in NSW
Councils determine the road type, which they submit to the state’s Geographical Names Board
Some Sydney suburbs have themes in their streets, including the names of cricketers and famous battles
Pin Oak Court in Melbourne’s east doubled as the famous fictional street, correctly acknowledging its cul-de-sac status.
But why is a street not a road, an avenue not a boulevard and a crescent not a circuit?
ABC Radio Sydney Drive presenter Richard Glover put these questions to the New South Wales Geographical Names Board.
If Ramsay Street were under the purview of the NSW board, it would have been a court, a close or a place, deputy surveyor general and director of survey operations Thomas Grinter said.
“With all the high drama that happened on Ramsay Street, I’m pretty sure it would have come to our attention,” Mr Grinter said.
Pin Oak Court has doubled as Ramsay Street for decades.(ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
The authority is in charge of naming places in NSW like mountains, railway stations and suburbs. However, roads are typically named by local councils.
Mr Grinter said the state authority receives applications from councils, which are then reviewed to avoid duplicates.
When is a street a street?
While “road” is a generic term used for vehicle passages from one place to another, “street” refers to a passage found in a town or an urban environment.
Mr Grinter explained the board’s definitions for other common road types:
Avenue: a broad open-ended road usually lined with trees
Boulevard: a wide open-ended road usually ornamented with trees and plants
Drive: a wide thoroughfare without many cross-streets
Parade: a public roadway with good pedestrian facilities on either side
Parkway: a roadway through parklands or open grassland area
Terrace: a roadway where the homes are raised above the road level
Some areas use a particular road type frequently, which is taken into account by council when putting forward the names of road types.
“In one particular suburb or town, you might have a lot of very similar road types throughout,” Mr Grinter said.
Another interesting rule is that the road cannot be named after a living person, according to Mr Grinter.
Themes of your town
Some areas of the city appear to have been exempt from that rule though.
In Newington, which hosted the athletes’ village for the 2000 Olympics, some streets are named after living Australian athletes.
Examples include Perkins Avenue, Thorpe Place and O’Neill Avenue, named after Kieran Perkins, Ian Thorpe and Susie O’Neill.
Swimmer Ian Thorpe has Thorpe Close named after him in Newington in Sydney’s west.(AAP: Julian Smith)
Other suburbs have adopted themes when naming their local arteries.
Cremorne in Sydney’s lower north shore has many names of cricketers, including Spofforth Street, Bannerman Street, Boyle Street and Murdoch Street.
Croydon Park holds castle names, such as Windsor Avenue, Balmoral Avenue and Dunmore Street.
Marsfield on the Upper North Shore kept to its namesake, naming its roads after famous battles including Waterloo Road, Balaclava Road and Agincourt Road.
Many of Lithgow’s streets are named after weapons in a possible node to the city’s old small arms factory.(ABC Central West: Gavin Coote)
The tradition is not limited to Sydney suburbs. Lithgow in the state’s Central Tablelands has many streets named after weapons such as Carbine Street and Rifle Parade, possibly in recognition of the city’s small arms factory.
Some Sydney streets pay homage to ancient history, for example The Appian Way in Bankstown.
For some streets, the authority may have simply tried to have it both ways — see Avenue Road in Mosman, Glebe and Hunters Hill.
DA announces arrest, charges against two suspects who killed Monterey Park police officer
Two suspects have been arrested for fatally shooting a Monterey Park police officer in Downey. According to the DA’s office, Gardiel Solorio was killed during an attempted robbery.
THE ANGELS – Two people – including a 17-year-old – have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an off-duty Monterey Park police officer who was gunned down outside an LA Fitness in Downey on Monday.
Gardiel Solorio, 26, was shot multiple times while sitting in his car outside the gym in a busy shopping center located in the 12000 block of Lakewood Boulevard Monday around 3:45 pm.
Officials said the suspect, Carlos Delcid, 20, approached Solorio as he was sitting inside his car and tried to rob him. Security footage shows Solorio’s car backing up and slamming into a parked van as he tried to get away. That’s when Delcid allegedly shot Solorio five times at close range, authorities said.
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Delcid fled the scene in a car driven by a 17-year-old, LA County DA George Gascón announced Wednesday. He said his office will also be filing charges against the getaway driver.
Monterey Park police killing: 2 including juvenile arrested, charged
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced charges against two people involved in the killing of off-duty Monterey Park Police officer Gardiel Solorio.
Delcid was arrested and charged with one count each of murder, attempted robbery and possession of a firearm by a felon with the special circumstance allegation that the murder was committed during a robbery.
Gascón said they will be seeking life without the possibility of parole for Delcid.
At this time authorities do not believe Solorio was targeted because he is a police officer.
“Senseless gun violence has once again taken someone who pledged to protect and serve others,” Gascón said.
Los Angeles County jail records show Delcid has been booked a half-dozen times in the past year — the most recent coming Tuesday, a day after Downey police arrested him. He is being held on $2 million bail.
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Solorio had joined the department as a recruit in January, but only graduated from the sheriff’s training academy on July 22, and began his field training on July 25.
Multiple arrests made in killing of off-duty Monterey Park police officer
Authorities tell FOX 11 they do not believe Gardiel Solorio was targeted because he was a police officer.
“We all knew from the moment we met him that he had the heart of service and was going to be a great officer,” MPPD Chief Kelly Gordon said. “And I could tell that from the moment he walked in and did our first introductions in my office. The family and department are grieving right now, and this is an especially difficult tragedy. It’s a senseless act of violence. He was only 26 years old. I don’t know about all of you, but I have children that age. So to me this is particularly difficult.”
Friends of Solorio said he dreamed of being a policeman since he was a child.
“He was living his dream. Why would someone kill him outside the gym?” a friend said.
Gardiel Solorio Death: Off-duty Monterey Park cop killed in Downey
We are learning more about the off-duty Monterey Park police officer killed in broad daylight in Downey.
A procession was held Monday night as Solorio’s body was transported from the crime scene to the LA County coroner’s office.
Solorio is survived by his parents, brothers, sisters and fiancée. His family of him has started a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral expenses
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