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A North Carolina couple had a terrifying encounter with wildlife outside their home in Pender County on April 9. Home surveillance video showed Kristi and Happy Wade walking out to their vehicle at their home in Burgaw as they were getting ready to take their elderly cat, Caroline Faith, to see the veterinarian, WECT reported . In the clip, Happy said , “good morning” to a neighbor jogging past before setting his cup on the car’s hood and commenting that he needed to wash the vehicle. However, in the upper left-hand side of the frame, a bobcat was seen running across the street toward the Wade’s home. Moments later, Kristi appeared and heard a low growling and screeching before the bobcat attacked her from behind: “Oh my god!” Kristi screamed as Happy ran to her aid. His wife suffered several puncture wounds and scratches and was bitten numerous times. Once her husband grabbed the bobcat and held it up in the air away from his face, he moved onto their lawn and … [Read more...] about WATCH: North Carolina Man Tosses, Shoots Rabid Bobcat After It Attacks His Wife

NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA) – More than a dozen people were rescued after a boat sank off Newport Harbor Sunday afternoon. A boat sinks outside Newport Harbor off Newport Beach, Calif., on April 18, 2021. (Courtesy video) The incident was reported at about 2:45 p.m. when the 41-foot boat began to take on water about a half-mile to a mile outside the entrance Newport Harbor, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. OCSD Harbor Patrol responded and rescued 14 adults from the sinking boat. No one was hurt. The sheriff’s department said the boat, a 1999 Carver Yacht, sunk in 108 feet of water. There is no word on a cause. It’s unclear if the boat was carrying too many people for its size. … [Read more...] about 14 Rescued After Boat Sinks Off Newport Harbor

Before the pandemic hit, few people had ever used the video conferencing platform Zoom. Fast forward to 2021 and it’s a household name for anyone who has tried to work, learn, or host a virtual event. The company saw its net income jump from roughly $25 million to $672 million in the last year, but one thing remains unchanged on the company’s latest financial report : current federal tax expense held steady at $0. Cue the angry tweets from politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders GOP believes Democrats handing them winning 2022 campaign Senators in the dark on parliamentarian's decision World passes 3 million coronavirus deaths MORE (I-Vt.), complaining that this is yet another indication of a “rigged tax code” that “benefits the wealthy & powerful.” While Sanders is correct that many aspects of the U.S. tax system do favor the wealthy, this is not one of them. Companies like Zoom and Amazon are the wrong targets for a very simple reason … [Read more...] about Don’t attack Zoom for its $0 federal tax bill

Members of the Sikh community gathered with Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett (D) Saturday and called for more gun control in the wake of the FedEx attack. The Associated Press reports Sikh Coalition’s Aasees Kaur said, ““We must support one another, not just in grief, but in calling our policymakers and elected officials to make meaningful change. The time to act is not later, but now. We are far too many tragedies, too late, in doing so.” Kiran Deol said, “We need more reform. We need gun laws to be harder, stronger, so that responsible people are the ones that have guns. That’s what we want to bring awareness to.” Members of the Sikh community gather and listen during a vigil at Monument Circle in Indianapolis, Indiana. The vigil is held for the victims of the mass shooting at a FedEx facility on April 15th. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Deol pushed for changing laws so that all gun sales require background checks. On Saturday, the same day that the Sikh … [Read more...] about Sikh Community Pushes Gun Control After FedEx Attack

Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. We're looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. (CNN) Tom Stoppard's play, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," begins with the two minor characters from "Hamlet" betting on the toss of a coin. It comes up heads ... and heads ... and heads -- 92 times in a row -- and Guildenstern has to keep handing over his money. "I'm afraid it isn't your day," says Rosencrantz. "Life is a gamble, at terrible odds," says another character near the end of the 1966 play , "if it was a bet you wouldn't take it." This week President Joe Biden continued taking some hard bets, hoping the coins will land his way. He set the pattern in January, days before he took office, by outlining a huge Covid relief package amounting to $1.9 trillion and then topped it last month with a proposal for a $2 trillion infrastructure bill. On Wednesday he made another … [Read more...] about Joe Biden’s audacious gambles