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Laura Day speaks out on drowning murder of her stepson (ABC News)

In 2013, Laura Lee Day was convicted of capital murder murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the drowning death of her six-year-old ...

Syring said that when he had confronted Day with the information, she had told him that “it was not her.” “When Laura Day stated that Taylor Syring’s body sunk, and then popped up 50 yards to the right, the problem was that was the wrong direction. Ruiz said he was fishing on the beach the day Taylor died and had seen Day. I don’t know if it was just, you know, the trauma of losing my son, I don’t know if it was her being a great manipulator. “To this day, I have a picture of Taylor Syring on a shelf directly across from my desk. But I wanted Taylor to be able to be around Laura. And Laura to be around him.” Especially the way she described the events,” said Syring. Day also told investigators that the beach was busy that day so the two had gone down to a more secluded area to avoid crowds. Only three months after the Syrings' divorce was finalized, David Syring and Day traveled to Las Vegas to get married. They found it suspicious that she had driven 12 miles to a hospital because she said she believed that the paramedics would take too long to arrive. “In my divorce decree, Kelly had wanted it to be put in there that there was to be no overnight guests I wasn’t married to around Taylor,” said Syring. “We felt like we wanted to get married. Serving nearly 10 years of her life sentence, she maintains that the boy's drowning death at a Texas beach was an accident.

Arnold Schwarzenegger to visit Auschwitz in fight to 'terminate hate' (ABC News)

Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp with the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, after receiving an award for ...

"These are future leaders of the United States military." He was born in Austria just two years after the end of World War II and the demise of the Nazi regime. Bergson told ABC News that he's in awe of how, within one generation, those in close proximity to the Nazi party and the Holocaust are banding together against hatred. They were the people next door." "Not all of them were rabid anti-Semites or Nazis. Many just went along step by step down the road. He plans on joining in the organization's effort to "terminate hate."

NRA membership dues and spending continue to shrink, report shows (ABC News)

The National Rifle Association appears to be experiencing diminished membership revenue and cuts to core programs, according to a financial report obtained ...

Then, during the 2020 presidential election cycle, the NRA's total outside federal election spending was just over $29 million -- nearly half of what it had spent in 2016. In 2021, according to its financial records, the organization devoted nearly a quarter of its total expenditures -- $52 million -- to legal fees. A judge blocked the attorney general's bid to dissolve the organization in March, but the lawsuit remains active. Journey, a Kansas judge, has nonetheless waged an aggressive and public campaign to oust Wayne LaPierre, the longtime NRA chief who oversaw the organization's rise over the past three decades. As a result, the group's legal costs continue to mount. Spending on the areas of "safety, education & training" was cut roughly in half over the past three years, the document shows.

Police monitoring live social media arrest man flashing illegal gun (ABC News)

A federal judge in Washington on Friday ordered a man charged with illegal firearm and caught by police through social media to be jailed pending trial.

To this end, Judge Zia Faruqui expressed agreement with the defense that the rap lyrics should not be used to assume Snider is inherently dangerous. In arguing for Snider's pre-trial detention, prosecutors quoted other social media videos they said show Snider's familiarity with the device including him mentioning a firearm "switch" in rap lyrics which they argued referred to the fully automatic modifications. A federal judge in Washington on Friday ordered a man charged with illegal possession of a firearm and caught by police through social media to be jailed pending trial.

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If you're still waiting for herd immunity for COVID-19, it's time to move ... (ABC News)

But in the years that followed, and even after the introduction of highly effective vaccines, vaccine scientists and public health experts interviewed by ABC ...

Every new infection is a chance for the virus to grow and mutate. Antibodies are proteins that bind to virus particles to inactivate them. With plenty of fuel to feed it, the fire keeps burning. Chiefly, immunity wanes relatively quickly, and vaccinated people can still transmit the virus, especially when confronted with rapidly evolving new variants. Leaving reservoirs of unvaccinated people is like leaving flammable material around a forest fire. Herd immunity refers to a situation where a virus can't spread because it keeps encountering people who are resistant to it. On the one hand, tetanus shots can stay durable for over 30 years. Second, that resistant (or vaccinated) people cannot transmit the virus. Antibodies can protect against even mild disease." First, that resistant people stay resistant. Scientists learned over the past two years that these assumptions do not hold for COVID-19. As a result, a small number of people who lack resistance can still be protected by the "herd" of resistant people around them, because the virus is less likely to spread to them.

Turning the tide (ABC News)

Heron Island was once famous for its canned turtle soup. Now the coral cay could be vital in saving the Great Barrier Reef from the impacts of climate change.

Jacob Bulow stands at the helm. Humans, however, are the biggest threat to biosecurity. "The highlight of this visit is seeing the turtles and just being able to swim beside them and they just swim along quite happily." A believer in conservation through education, Catie's job is to help people recognise the significance of the reef and its biodiversity. "As a custodian of the land, I care about it and I want to make sure it's healthy because it is our livelihood out here," Jacob says. It is sad, but we don't interfere.” "If we can start looking for them on the reef and understand their distributions and their abundances on the reef, then we can start to map out their linkages or possible linkages to outbreaks." "It seems that the seagull numbers have increased substantially and they're able to fly from the mainland out here and back in a day." "The life of the noddy is hard," Andres says. "At the peak of noddy season, the Pisonia releases its seeds; they are very sticky and have hooks and stick firmly to the feathers of the noddies," Andres says. "They dynamited this part of the reef to create the channel," Andres says. "Turtle soup was a delicacy in England at the time, and probably other parts of Australia."

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