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The case in Victoria involves an H5N1 virus, but the strain is not the same as those responsible for outbreaks in the United States, Looker said.

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Concern is rising in Australia about the global outbreak of bird flu.

Today in Victoria, the Government has advised preliminary tests have confirmed the presence of avian influenza on an egg farm near Meredith, following an investigation of poultry deaths. The farm has been placed under quarantine.

This comes after yesterday’s announcement by the Victorian Department of Health that a child had made a full recovery after contracting the H5N1 virus overseas.

The egg farm preliminary results indicate that it is not the much feared highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A H5N1 virus clade 2.3.4.4b, according to a statement made by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the latest attempt by Hunter Biden to pause his upcoming gun trial while the president’s son pursues some long-shot appeals.

The trial is scheduled to begin June 3 in Delaware.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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A 73-year-old British man died and more than two dozen other passengers were injured when a Singapore Airlines flight from London was struck by severe turbulence and plunged 6,000 feet in the span of some a few minutes Tuesday over the Indian Ocean.

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Routine collection of immigrants’ DNA by federal authorities has ballooned since 2020, with a 50-fold spike in the number of samples held in a national database of the sensitive genetic information, according to a report released Tuesday.

In nearly four years, the DNA database — which is shared with law enforcement agencies nationwide — added more than 1.5 million noncitizen profiles, according to the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology. That compares with about 30,000 total samples obtained since 2005, when Congress authorized DNA collection by federal immigration authorities, the study found.

The center said the sharp rise raises questions about whether immigrants’ privacy rights are being violated as well as the overall constitutionality of the program.

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Federal officials are using their authority to confiscate drug-related cash to seize money from people whose actions don’t rise to the level of criminal charges, according to a new government report.

Justice Department auditors reviewed 100 instances of civil asset forfeiture, a policy that allows law enforcement officers to seize cash from people suspected of carrying the money in connection with the drug trade. But fifty-six of the seizures did not relate verifiably to ongoing investigations or lead to arrests or prosecutions, the inspector general noted.

“When seizure and administrative forfeitures do not ultimately advance an investigation or prosecution, law enforcement creates the appearance, and risks the reality, that it is more interested in seizing and forfeiting cash than advancing an investigation or prosecution,” the IG report said. “[T]he risks to civil liberties are particularly significant when seizures that do not advance or relate to an investigation are conducted without a court-issued seizure warrant, the presence of illicit narcotics, or subsequent judicial involvement prior to administrative forfeiture.”

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A University of Pennsylvania student who claimed she was left “homeless” when administrators kicked her off campus for participating in an anti-Israel encampment is the daughter of a wealthy Filipino family.

Eliana Atienza, 19 — who told the Philadelphia Inquirer she had nobody to turn to for help in the US after she was kicked off campus in early May — is the daughter of Kim Atienza, a prominent media personality in the Philippines who is partial to showing off his extravagant lifestyle online.

Her mother, Felicia Atienza, graduated from the Wharton Business School and has served as the president and CEO of several international schools over the years, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic in Boston’s Seaport amid Biden visit

Updated: 5:48 PM EDT May 21, 2024

STARTS RIGHT NOW. WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS AT 530 AS A PRESIDENTIAL VISIT BRINGS OUT PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS IN BOSTON. AS WE MENTIONED ABOUT 15 MINUTES AGO, THOSE PROTESTERS ARE ON THE MOVE RIGHT NOW. OUR JOHN ATWATER IS IN BOSTON WITH WHERE THEY ARE AND WHAT’S HAPPENING, JOHN. WELL, BEN, THEY HAVE MOVED FROM SOUTH STATION HERE TO THE SEAPORT. YOU CAN SEE THEM ALL BEHIND US HERE, SEVERAL DOZEN PROTESTERS NOW HERE AT THE INTERSECTION OF CONGRESS AND B STREET IN THE SEAPORT.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — The FBI’s Springfield Field Office is warning of complex, four-phase scam that is targeting members of Chinese communities in the United States, including students attending U.S. universities.

“This complex scam consists of multiple layers and perpetrators, making it extremely convincing to victims,” said FBI Springfield Field Office Special Agent in Charge David Nanz. “By creating public awareness, we hope to educate Chinese communities about this threat and empower victims to file a report or contact FBI Springfield.”

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Scarlett Johansson on Monday (May 20) accused OpenAI of creating a voice for the ChatGPT system that sounded “eerily similar” to the actress after she declined to voice the chatbot herself.

Johansson made the comments in a statement released hours after the artificial intelligence company said it was taking down the voice, called “Sky”.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement emailed to Reuters on Monday that Sky’s voice was not an imitation of Johansson, but belonged to a different professional actress.

“The voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson’s, and it was never intended to resemble hers. We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms Johansson,” Altman said.

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London High Court Denies Prince Harry’s Bid To Include Rupert Murdoch And Piers Morgan’s names In His Lawsuit  PINKVILLA

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MONROVIA, CA – A man armed with several knives was fatally shot outside the home of a woman who had a restraining order against him on Friday night. The incident occurred around 9:20 p.m. in the 400 block of South Shamrock Avenue.

Officers were dispatched to the residence after receiving a call from the woman, according to a statement from the Monrovia Police Department. Upon arrival, they discovered the man deceased with a gunshot wound.

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Here is how federal prison restrictions on social media could infringe free speech rights

• Federal prisons propose new social media use penalties
• People outside jails could also be affected
• Ban might prod states to follow suit

RICHMOND, Virginia – A U.S. federal proposal to step up penalties barring incarcerated people from using social media is likely to infringe on the right to free speech of both those inside and outside jail, rights advocates said.

A ban on people like family members from posting on behalf of prisoners could create a “chilling effect” on anyone considering helping inmates, or even attempting to contact them about conditions inside, the campaigners said.

“Let’s be clear: prisons and jails do not, under any circumstances, want people who are incarcerated to be able to speak freely to the public,” said Bianca Tylek, executive director of the advocacy group Worth Rises.

Christopher Blackwell, an incarcerated writer, said at first sight such a proposal sounded “extremely far-reaching”.

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SINGAPORE — More than 140 passengers and crew that were on the Singapore Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Bangkok Tuesday after encountering severe turbulence arrived safely in Singapore early on Wednesday.

One passenger died and 30 others were injured onboard the London to Singapore flight on Tuesday, which encountered “sudden extreme turbulence” about 10 hours after departing from Heathrow Airport.

A relief flight carrying “131 passengers and 12 crew members who were on board SQ321 arrived in Singapore” at 5:05 a.m. local time on Wednesday, the airline said in a Facebook update.

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As much of Mexico experiences high temperatures this week with the third heat wave of the season, the latest national drought monitor report published by Conagua (National Water Commission) on Monday shows that drought also continues to increase nationwide.

Some level of drought was affecting 70.76% of the territory in Mexico through May 15, with different locations falling somewhere on Conagua’s range of “moderate” to “exceptional” drought conditions.

That’s up nearly 7% from the agency’s April 15 report.

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A procession in the city of Tabriz was the first in a string of events after Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced five days of mourning.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Mourners in black began gathering Tuesday for days of funerals and processions for Iran’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash, a government-led series of ceremonies aimed at both honoring the dead and projecting strength in an unsettled Middle East.

For Iran’s Shiite theocracy, mass demonstrations have been crucial since millions thronged the streets of Tehran to welcome Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution, and also attended his funeral 10 years later. An estimated 1 million turned out in 2020 for processions for the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was slain in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.

Whether President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others draw the same crowd remains in question, particularly as Raisi died in a helicopter crash, won his office in the lowest-turnout presidential election in the country’s history and presided over sweeping crackdowns on all dissent. Prosecutors already have warned people over showing any public signs of celebrating his death and a heavy security force presence has been seen on the streets of Tehran since the crash.

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Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania are reportedly using European Union funds to detain and abandon migrants in the Sahara Desert, according to an investigation by Spanish newspaper El País, Lighthouse Reports, and other international media outlets.

This practice, aimed at halting the influx of migrants to Europe, has resulted in people being left in unsafe desert areas without basic necessities, exposing them to extreme dangers.

The investigation revealed that tens of thousands of migrants, particularly black individuals, are forcibly exiled to remote parts of North Africa every year.

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The AP decries the seizure of its camera, which Israel says was producing footage used by Al Jazeera.

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MEXICO CITY — It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees.

At least 83 of the midsize primates, who are known for their roaring vocal calls, were found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. Others were rescued by residents, including five that were rushed to a local veterinarian who battled to save them.

“They arrived in critical condition, with dehydration and fever,” said Dr. Sergio Valenzuela. ”They were as limp as rags. It was heatstroke.”

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On Monday, May 20, 2024, detectives assigned to the Threat Management Division arrested a Tyrone Middle School student for Written Threats to Kill or Conduct a Mass Shooting and Aggravated Stalking of a Child.

Detectives say the 13-year-old student logged into another student’s Pinellas County Schools portal FOCUS account to send threatening messages to multiple teachers using profanities and stating, “I will shoot this school up I got 5 glocks and ak-47.”

Detectives contacted the student, who admitted to sending the messages but stated he did so jokingly. Hr was arrested and charged with one count of Written Threats to Kill or Conduct a Mass Shooting and one count of Aggravated Stalking of a Minor Child.

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BC serial killer Robert Pickton has been hospitalized after being attacked in an assault at a Quebec prison on Sunday.

Correctional Services Canada (CSC) confirmed to Daily Hive that Pickton was involved in a “major” assault on May 19 at the Port-Cartier Institution, a maximum-security federal prison.

CSC added that the attack did not involve any of its staff.

“We are not able to disclose any additional details, including medical information. The safety and security of institutions is paramount and an investigation into what occurred is currently underway,” added CSC in its statement.

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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — New evidence has been uncovered in the decades-old murder of a white Virginia police officer. The two Black men behind bars for it are now asking a Virginia court to reverse their convictions.

The two men, Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson are currently locked up in a federal prison in Petersburg conspiracy to sell crack cocaine and for the murder of Waverly police officer Allen Gibson. 8News first began digging into this case and raising questions about it four years ago.