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S3 Podcast

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S3 Podcast Hosted by Toren Ylfa who will be discussing everything from Mental Health , Life and everyday issues that we face - who will bring his unique perspective and his very real personal struggles, experiences in the hopes too raise more awareness, specifically for men that it's ok to talk, it's ok to cry: throughout the episodes there will be highs,Lows and anything in between...there will be episode's on Life whether that is trying to hold down a relationship or hold down a job or anything that, well : life throws at us ; New Episodes Mon ,Wed & Friday

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who put bella in the wych elm #72

July 20, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB

Intro Topics : oli London  Katie Hopkins Check out : Luxeria - YouTube - her video on Oli London: We need to talk about Oli London. @Luxeria - YouTube On 18 April 1943, four local boys (Robert Hart, Thomas Willetts, Bob Farmer and Fred Payne) were poaching or bird-nesting  in Hagley Wood, part of the Hagley  estate belonging to Lord Cobham near Wychbury Hill when they came across a large wych elm.  Thinking the location to be a particularly good place to hunt birds' nests, Farmer attempt...

Chicago Tylenol Murders #71

July 16, 2021 09:57 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB

The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug  tampering in the Chicago metropolitan Area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. A total of seven people died in the original poisonings, with several more deaths in subsequent copycat crimes. No suspect was ever charged or convicted of the poisonings. New York City resident James William Lewis was convicted of extortion for sendi...

Did Maria Orsic obtain Extraterrestrial Technology #70

July 14, 2021 02:00 - 14 minutes - 13.9 MB

Maria Orsitsch, also known as Maria Orsic, was a famous medium who later became the leader of the Vril Society. She was born on 31. October 1895 in Zagreb. Her father was a Croatian and her mother was a German from Vienna. Maria was more beautiful than any Hollywood star at that time. Maria Orsitsch was first mentioned and pictured in 1967 by Bergier and Pauwels in their book: “Aufbruch ins dritte Jahrtausend: von der Zukunft der phantastischen Vernunft.” Maria soon followed the German natio...

Unsolved Death Of Elisa Lam #69

July 12, 2021 02:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB

On February 19, 2013, a body was recovered in a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. It was later identified as that of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi (藍可兒; April 30, 1991 ] – February 2013), a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She had been staying at the hotel when she was reported missing at the beginning of the month. A maintenance worker discovered the body when investigating guest complaints of problems with ...

Pro Golfer GeneSiller and two others found dead #68

July 11, 2021 05:24 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB

Pro golfer Gene Siller was shot and killed at a country club in suburban Atlanta on Saturday, and two other men were found dead inside the bed of a pickup truck on the golf course, the Cobb County Police Department said. Cobb County police responded to a report of a person shot around 2:20 p.m. and discovered Siller on the green of the 10th hole at the Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia, the police department said in a statement Sunday. Siller, an employee of the club, was found unres...

Space: Aliens might be watching us #67

July 07, 2021 16:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MB

On June 25 the Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released their much hyped report on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP. Space alien enthusiasts and skeptics alike awaited it with bated breath. And while the report did not rule out an extraterrestrial origin for much of the documented UAP, it was short on details or bombshells. But we already know our world is easily detectable by extrasolar observers. A paper published on June 23 in Nature shows that in th...

Alan L.Hart: Trailblazing Transgender Doctor #66

July 05, 2021 13:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB

In February 1918 Alan L. Hart was a talented, up-and-coming 27-year-old intern at San Francisco Hospital. Hart, who stood at 5'4" and weighed about 120 pounds, mixed well with his colleagues at work and afterward—smoking, drinking, swearing and playing cards. His round glasses hemmed in his pensive eyes, a high white collar often flanked his dark tie, and his short hair was slicked neatly to the right. Though the young doctor’s alabaster face was smooth, he could deftly go through the motion...

Phylicia Rashad & "1619 Project" Journalist Nikole Hannah Jones #65

July 03, 2021 12:18 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

When Phylicia Rashad, a Howard University alum and the new dean of its college of fine arts, tweeted her resounding support for former co-star Bill Cosby’s sudden release from prison Wednesday, it caused a ripple among Howard students and alumni. Moments after the news broke that Cosby, convicted in 2018 of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand had his conviction overturned and was released from prison after nearly three years, Rashad tweeted, “FINALLY!!!! A te...

Yoghurt Shop Murders Part Two #64

June 30, 2021 16:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB

On the evening of December 6th, 1991 four teenage girls were murdered inside of a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Two of the girls were 17-year-old employees of the yogurt shop, Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas, while the other two were Jennifer's 15-year-old sister and her 13-year-old best friend, Sarah Harbison and Amy Ayers. The bodies of all four were found after a patrolling police officer found smoke coming from the yogurt shop at around midnight. Within minutes, the location was craw...

Kidnapping of Michaela Garecht #63

June 28, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB

Michaela Joy Garecht (January 24, 1979 — November 19, 1988) was nine years old when she was abducted and murdered in Hayward, California, in broad daylight at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue. Sketches of Garecht's abductor were distributed along with missing person flyers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area within 24 hours of her disappearance, but search efforts proved fruitless. Her case was featured in national media, including profiles on the documentary series Un...

The Austin Yoghurt Shop Murders Part 1 #62

June 26, 2021 07:49 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB

Austin is a large city in central Texas: located about 80 miles northeast of San Antonio and about 200 miles south of Dallas, with a population that currently lingers at around one million. Even though Austin has been a large city for some time now, in the early 1990s, it certainly didn't feel like it. To many, Austin was almost like its own little bubble inside of Texas. A surprisingly liberal city in a traditionally-conservative state, Austin had a reputation for being home to the area's ...

The Unsolved Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden #61

June 23, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MB

Paula Welden was the eldest of four daughters of the well-known industrial engineer, architect and designer William Archibald Welden (1900–1970) and his wife Jean Douglas (born at Mount Kisco, New York, 1901; died at Venice, Florida, 1976), née Wilson, of Brookdale Road, Stamford, Connecticut. Employed by the Revere Copper and Brass Company, W. Archibald Welden was the designer of many familiar household utensils, as well as stylish cocktail shakers and other objects. Paula Welden was a 1945...

Mental Health & Healing Process #60

June 21, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB

I am joined today with my friend Aiden Riley as we talk mental health, our struggles and our healing process . the healing process is whatever it is to you : going at your own pace . if you are struggling then please reach out to samaritans on 116 123  or  Home - Tomorrow Project Home | Mind, the mental health charity - help for mental health problems --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thes3podcast/message

The Chilling Disappearance of Brianna Maitland #59

June 18, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MB

Brianna Alexandra Maitland (born October 8, 1986; disappeared March 19, 2004) is an American teenager who disappeared after leaving her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont. She was 17 years old at the time. Maitland's car was discovered the following day, backed into the side of an abandoned house about a mile (1.6 km) away from her workplace. She has not been seen or heard from since. Due to a confluence of circumstances, several days passed before Maitland's friends and fam...

History Of Chernobyl #58

June 16, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes - 48.9 MB

On 26 April 1986, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after unsanctioned experiments on the reactor by plant operators were done improperly. The resulting loss of control was due to design flaws of the RBMK reactor, which made it unstable when operated at low power, and prone to thermal runaway where increases in temperature increase reactor power output.[24][25] Chernobyl city was evacuated nine days after the disaster. The level of contamination with caesium-...

Daniel Ellsberg #57

June 14, 2021 13:00 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MB

Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American economist, political activist, and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers. On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act...

Pulse Night Club Shooting #56

June 11, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MB

On June 11, 2016, Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was hosting "Latin Night", a weekly Saturday night event drawing a primarily Latino crowd.  About 320 people were still inside the club, which was serving last call drinks at around 2:00 a.m. EDT on June 12.  At around the same time, Omar Mateen arrived at the club via rental van, parking it in the parking lot of a neighboring car shop. He got out and walked toward the building armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a ...

U.S Abortion: Part Two #55

June 10, 2021 11:52 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB

The risk of death due to legal abortion has fallen considerably since legalization in 1973, due to increased physician skills, improved medical technology, and earlier termination of pregnancy. From 1940 through 1970, deaths of pregnant women during abortion fell from nearly 1,500 to a little over 100.] According to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of women who died in 1972 from illegal abortion was thirty-nine. The Roe effect is a hypothesis which suggests that since supporters ...

U.S Abortion Law: Part One #54

June 07, 2021 16:00 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MB

When the United States first became independent, most states applied English common law to abortion. This meant it was not permitted after quickening, or the start of fetal movements, usually felt 15–20 weeks after conception. Abortion has existed in America since European colonization. The earliest settlers would often encourage abortions before the "quickening" stage in the pregnancy. There were many reasons given for this, including not having resources to bear children. By the late 1800s ...

Chrystul Kizer : Trafficking Victim accused of Killing abuser wins appeal #53

June 04, 2021 21:06 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB

A Milwaukee woman accused of killing a man who allegedly sexually assaulted her and other underage girls is entitled to an appeal using a certain type of defense strategy, a Wisconsin court ruled this week. Chrystul Kizer, who was 17 when prosecutors say she killed Randall Volar III and set fire to his home in 2018, may be able to employ a state law adopted in 2008 and known as "affirmative defense," which means what she is accused of doing was a "direct result" of being a human trafficking ...

Noami Osaka & Rapper Lil loaded #52

June 02, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MB

Naomi Osaka said she was withdrawing from the French Open on Monday, one day after tennis officials threatened to suspend her and fined her $15,000 over her decision not to do media interviews during the tournament to prioritize her mental health. In a statement on Monday, Osaka also said that she "suffered long bouts of depression" since being catapulted into the national spotlight after a controversial victory over Serena Williams in the U.S. Open of 2018. "The best thing for the tourname...

Interview with Olly Pegg #51

May 30, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

Hey Guys welcome back to another episode of S3 Podcast , my name is Billy Byrne, in todays episode i had the pleasure of having Olly Pegg on as a guest ( virtually, of course ) where we discussed his mental health and importantly his Sobriety with which he is currently 18 month's sober in too. we discuss how he came to realise he had n issue - how he reached out for help : he continues his recovery through exercise and has competed in marathons, currently he's training to compete in a weeken...

Anti-protest bills backlash #50

May 28, 2021 16:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB

Republican legislators in several states have introduced at least 80 anti-protest bills restricting everything from “unreasonable noise” to wearing a mask during demonstrations in what some are calling a backlash to last year’s summer of protests. The killing of George Floyd last May 25 sparked demonstrations across the country and amplified national attention to racism in police practices. Media outlets deemed it the “year of protests.” Now, there have been twice as many proposals to quell ...

Mother of Ronald Greene #49

May 26, 2021 16:00 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB

The mother of Ronald Greene, a barber who died after a violent confrontation with Louisiana State Police, said Saturday that the release of body camera video of her son's arrest has left her "hurting so bad." The Associated Press on Wednesday published edited body camera footage from Greene's arrest on May 10, 2019, following a pursuit that may have started with Greene driving erratically, including allegedly running a red light, according to audio from the video. Louisiana State Police Sup...

Two Mens Perspectives: the effects of Depression

May 24, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

Hi everyone welcome back my name is Billy - me and my good friend Aiden Riley both sat down and in this episode we discuss the effects of depression from our perspective : expect a raw, deep conversation as we explain how depression feels and manifest. We hope you enjoy this conversation ❤ follow us on Instagram @s3podcast_ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thes3podcast/message

Missing Teenagers: Alicia Navarro & Aaliyah Ramirez #47

May 22, 2021 12:52 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

For Jessica Nuñez, the last six months have been a nightmare. Her teenage daughter, Alicia Navarro, disappeared from their home in Glendale, Arizona on September 15, 2019. Now, as the coronavirus spreads at a rapid pace across the world, Jessica said she is even more terrified for her daughter’s safety. “We just need to find her. And I need to know that she is safe,” Jessica said tearfully. “My girl is out there alone, without me, and now this virus… it’s horrible. I just need her back home....

forgotten history of the first Trans Clinic #46

May 20, 2021 23:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

The first gender affirmation surgeries took place in 1920s, at a facility which employed transgender technicians and nurses, and which was headed by a gay Jewish man. The forgotten history of the institute, and its fall to Nazis bent on the euthanasia of homosexuals and transgender people, offers us both hope—and a cautionary tale—in the face of oppressive anti-trans legislation in the United States. This story begins late one night in Berlin, on the cusp of the 20th century. Magnus Hirschfe...

Margaretta Hare Morris: The Woman who solved a cicada Mystery #45

May 19, 2021 16:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

This spring, the 17-year cicadas of Brood X will emerge from underground, climb tree trunks and molt, leaving their crunchy shells behind. Soon after, the males will join together in a droning chorus to the delight (or consternation) of their human neighbors.  Those with a keen ear might detect that there are several buzzy songs occurring at once. This is not because the cicadas have a large repertoire. Rather, there are few different cicada species, including the Magicicada septendecim and ...

First Genetically modified mosquitos #44

May 16, 2021 23:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB

This week, mosquito eggs placed in the Florida Keys are expected to hatch tens of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes, a result of the first U.S. release of such insects in the wild. A biotechnology firm called Oxitec delivered the eggs in late April as part of a federally approved experiment to study the use of genetic engineering—rather than insecticides—to control disease-carrying mosquito populations. The move targets an invasive species, called Aedes aegypti, that carries Zika, ...

Ellen DeGeneres, Viral Vaccine Infertility Misinformation & two boys , aged 11 and 17 #43

May 14, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB

Though she's just set an end date for her long-running daytime talk show, comedian Ellen DeGeneres considers it the most important thing she's ever done — but she nearly said goodbye to it years earlier. She first considered doing so after season 16, which began in 2018. "There was a different president, and it was a different time, and there was a lot of just, hatred and anger and stuff, that I was just like, 'This is it,'" DeGeneres said in an exclusive interview with "TODAY" show co-ancho...

Israel, Palestine & UK Ban LGBTQ conversion therapy #42

May 12, 2021 18:14 - 13 minutes - 34.4 MB

TEL AVIV — In the worst flare-up of violence in seven years, Israel launched airstrikes and Palestinian militants launched hundreds of missiles overnight into Wednesday, killing more than 50 people and injuring hundreds more amid rising fears the conflict could spiral into all-out war. What started as a week of tense clashes in Jerusalem has escalated into violent unrest on the streets of Arab Israeli towns, as well as a deadly aerial conflict — more than 1,000 rockets lit up the skies of Is...

Intro Topics & Murder of Junko Furuta #41

May 10, 2021 18:03 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MB

Furuta was born in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. She lived with her parents, her elder brother, and her younger brother.As a teenager, she attended Yashio-Minami High School and worked part-time at a plastic molding factory during after-school hours since October 1988. She did this to save up money for a graduation plan she had arranged. Furuta also accepted a job at an electronics retailer, where she planned on working after graduation. At high school, Furuta was well-liked by her classmates, ...

The Mysterious Disappearance of Jean Spangler & Unsolved Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold #40

May 07, 2021 21:10 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MB

On October 7, 1949, aspiring Hollywood actress Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter goodbye and told her sister-in-law she was going to meet her ex-husband to talk about his late child support payment. In a twist straight from a L.A. noir novel, she walked out the door and was never seen again. The last person to see her alive was a clerk in the local store near her home. She stood outside, he said, like she was waiting for someone to pick her up. When the actress never returned h...

Caroline Luard: The Seal Chart Murder #39

May 05, 2021 18:10 - 24 minutes - 23 MB

On the afternoon of August 24, 1908, Caroline Mary Luard and her husband seventy-year-old Charles decided to go for a leisurely stroll with their dog Sergeant in the couple's home village of Ihtsham. Caroline was expecting the company of her friend Mrs Mary Stewart later that afternoon at around 4 pm so a mile from home she parted with her husband and made her return through the woodland. Charles had his own errand to attend to. The couple were due to be taking a holiday in the coming days a...

Mystery of Somerton: The Taman Shud Case #38

May 02, 2021 23:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

On December 1, 1948, in Adelaide, Australia, a young jockey, Neil Day, was riding his horse on Somerton beach. It was around 6:30 a.m. when he and his riding mate discovered the body of a clean-shaven man wearing a brown suit. Although the person was clearly dead, he was laying on his back against a wall and seemed to be staring at the sky. There was no identification on the body. Thus, officials never identified the man or the cause of death. Then four months later they found a clue. It was...

Flannan Isles Lighthouse & The Atlas Vampire #37

April 30, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MB

It was on 15th December 1900 that the last entries were noted by the Keepers at Flannan Isle Lighthouse. Now over 100 years later, what happened on that day remains a mystery. A mystery that has captured the imagination of the public ever since. There have been many books written about the Flannans and in 2018, the film The Vanishing was released to a worldwide audience. Despite the intrigue and dramatised speculation of what may have happened, we have to remember three keepers lost their li...

Katie Sowers: History-Making NFL Coach #36

April 27, 2021 23:00 - 18 minutes - 47.7 MB

With Sowers about to become the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl, there had already been plenty of 'history maker' headlines and interview requests. Now she could see evidence of the scale of the interest, with even star names from her San Francisco 49ers family less in demand from reporters. "I didn't realise how big it was until that media night," says Sowers, reflecting on her time in the spotlight. "I was wondering why everyone was swarming around me and not talking to some of these ...

TikTok star Justine Paradise, James Charles & Racial Reckoning #35

April 26, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MB

A star on the social media platform TikTok said that YouTube-star-turned-boxer Jake Paul forced her into a sex act without consent in the summer of 2019. consent in the summer of 2019. Justine Paradise said in a 20-minute video posted on YouTube last Friday that she didn't say anything about the alleged attack sooner because she signed a nondisclosure agreement and thought that it would have broken the contract. In a statement to ESPN, attorney Daniel E. Gardenswartz, who works for the law...

Two Men's Perspectives: Pandemic,Vaccinations, Politics and the use of N-Word #33

April 26, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MB

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Panic Defense Law, India & Climate Change #34

April 23, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MB

The LGBTQ+ “panic” defense strategy is a legal strategy that asks a jury to find that a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is to blame for a defendant’s violent reaction, including murder. It is not a free-standing defense to criminal liability, but rather a legal tactic used to bolster other defenses. When a perpetrator uses an LGBTQ+ “panic” defense, they are claiming that a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity not only explains—but excuses—a loss of self-co...

Sadie Sutton @shepersistedpodcast: DBT, Therapy & Advice for Teenagers and Parents #32

April 18, 2021 23:00 - 2 hours - 149 MB

Hey Everyone welcome back to Scars Left Behind #32 , In today's episode we will be talking to Sadie Sutton ,18 year old woman who has her own Podcast called She Persisted Podcast where she discusses her own struggles as well as interviewing experts and giving advice to both Teens and Parents whilst also being at university doing a UnderGraduate in Clinical Psychology, For the past two years she has built a podcast platform and website where she is becoming an invaluable asset within the ment...

AddiBiotics Interview #31

April 16, 2021 08:06 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MB

I had the pleasure of sitting down ( Virtually of course) with Addi from AddiBiotics discussing how lockdown has been along with how he has been coping with mental health etc..do please go check him out and subscribe to his youtube channel, thats is you love food reviews, interviews and motivation etc also follow him on Instagram and twitter his website will be linked below  Website: ADDIBIOTICS Instagram: AddiBiotics (@addibiotics) • Instagram photos and videos Twitter: AddiBiotics (@Add...

Veteran officer , Texas High Schoolers & Skilled Predator #30

April 14, 2021 14:25 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB

How could a veteran Minnesota police officer have mistaken her pistol for a Taser and fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright? That, at least, is the local police chief's theory for what happened in the incident. The answer to that question may have as much to do with what was going on in Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter’s mind as with which weapon she was holding in her hand, experts told NBC News on Tuesday. The Glock pistol that Potter was wielding when she fired the fatal shot a...

DMX Dies , Medical Examiner & Horror's of shooting episode #29

April 11, 2021 23:00 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MB

DMX, the gravel-voiced rapper and actor who topped the charts with tracks including "Party Up" and "X Gon’ Give It to Ya," has died at age 50, his family said Friday in a statement. The rapper, whose real name was Earl Simmons, had a heart attack on April 2, according to his lawyer, Murray Richman. He was immediately hospitalized in grave condition. "Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end," his family said in the statement. "He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish ...

Prince Philip has Died & President Biden Climate Plan #28

April 09, 2021 12:53 - 14 minutes - 13 MB

Buckingham Palace said: "It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. "His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle." Boris Johnson said he "inspired the lives of countless young people". Speaking at Downing Street, the prime minister added: "He helped to steer the Royal Family and the monarchy so that it remains an institution indisputably vital to the ...

Derek Chauvin , Arkansas Veto Ban & Utah Father's #27

April 07, 2021 21:15 - 20 minutes - 19 MB

Three Minneapolis police department officers took the stand Tuesday on the seventh day of testimony in Derek Chauvin's murder trial in the death of George Floyd. In addition to the officers, who are experts in use of force, crisis intervention training and emergency medical response, was Sgt. Jody Stiger of the Los Angeles Police Department. He testified as an outside expert on police training and use of force. Stiger will return to the witness stand Wednesday morning. The seventh day of wit...

Virginia becomes 12th state , Latina Volunteer & Revolutionary

April 05, 2021 20:51 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MB

Virginia has become the 12th state to ban the use of the “gay/trans panic” defense. Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill Wednesday against the defense, which has allowed those accused of homicide to receive lesser sentences by saying they panicked after finding out the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill passed the state House and the Senate in February. The bill’s author, Democratic Delegate Danica Roem said she first became aware of the defense after Matthew Shepard, a g...

Breaking News , James Charles, Britney Spears & Harvey Weinstein

April 02, 2021 17:13 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can travel freely in the U.S., as long as they remain masked on planes, buses and trains, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. It is unclear how much impact the new guidance will have. People are already traveling and making decisions on their own. American Airlines reported Monday that the company's bookings have jumped to 90 percent of what they were before the pandemic. It is expected that the U.S. will surpass ...

Ex deputies indicted on Manslaughter, Bobby Brown Jr & Armie Hammer

March 31, 2021 20:49 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MB

Two former Texas sheriff's deputies are facing manslaughter charges in the death of a Black man following a car chase where authorities were accompanied by a reality television camera crew. Javier Ambler was followed by Williamson County deputies for over 20 minutes on March 28, 2019, ending in the city of Austin, where Ambler was restrained and tased at least three times, body camera footage previously released by Austin police and seen by NBC News showed. Deputies began chasing Ambler beca...

Biggest Barriers, Cause of Trans-ness, Cough Airflow

March 29, 2021 17:47 - 23 minutes - 22.1 MB

A Latina essential worker who lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, drove an hour and a half south to the nearest pharmacy where she could get her COVID vaccination. When she arrived, staff asked for identification, and she showed them her El Salvador passport. They then asked for a U.S. ID and social security number. She did not have either of them because she is undocumented, and she panicked (even though proof of legal residency was not required for getting a vaccine). The woman sought hel...

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