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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest Austria’s new COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Austria, with about 68 percent of its population vaccinated, is the first European nation to implement such a measure; those who have not yet been vaccinated are subject to home confinement orders. As reported by Al Jazeera, about 44,000 demonstrators turned out to argue the vaccination mandate is a threat to democracy, with signs reading, among other things, “no to vaccine fascism.” The policy will go into effect in February and essentially requires all Austrian citizens who are at least…

A blustery morning turned to tragedy for six skiers in Washington state on Saturday. According to The Seattle Times, an avalanche on Crystal Mountain trapped the skiers around 10:50 a.m., and was first reported to ski patrol by witnesses. Though five skiers survived the snow, one could not be resuscitated and was confirmed dead. The Pierce County sheriff reported that despite the tragedy, ski operations across the resort would remain open since the avalanche had occurred in a backcountry region of the mountain known as Silver Basin. Read it at The Seattle Times

A CNN staffer from Connecticut was arrested by the FBI Friday after he allegedly had mothers and their underage daughters engage in wild and expensive trips to his home so he could “train them“ sexually. An indictment alleges that John Griffin, 44, used a sexual fetish website to lure “submissive” moms in, then he used messaging apps Kik and Google Hangouts to communicate with them and their daughters. In one alleged instance last year, he paid a woman $3,000 for her and her 9-year-old daughter to travel from Nevada to his Vermont home for “training.” He then allegedly forced the…

An Alabama FedEx driver who allegedly threw around 400 packages in a ravine told police officers he was grieving a family death, among “other issues.” The suspect, 22-year-old Deandre Rayshaun Charleston, told officers the death made him uninterested in delivering the packages, which had a total value of $40,000. A passerby later came across the packages while on a walking trail. “It appeared that he was very sorrowful for what he’d done and just admitted he was having some hard times in his life and just made poor choices,” Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon said Friday. Charleston was charged with…

A retired U.S. army colonel routinely briefed then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on a plot to overturn the 2020 election results, he told the Washington Post. Philip Waldron claimed he was part of a team that briefed Trump’s inner circle on a PowerPoint offering ways to contest the election results, a presentation that made its way to Meadows (though Waldron said he did not send it). Waldron also said he spoke to Meadows “maybe eight to 10 times” the night before the insurrection. The disclosure was made after the House committee investigating the insurrection revealed this week that…

COVID-19 affects everyone differently, but it provided prolonged torture to one New Jersey woman—one that took 233 days to end. Joanne Masciocchi, 65, spent almost all of 2021 between four hospitals as she grappled with COVID, with 70 of those days spent in a medically induced coma. The ordeal prompted her family to call in a priest to perform her last rites six times, fearing any off moment could be her last. “Several times they called us—five or six times—and told us this might be it,” Danielle Masciocchi, Joanne’s eldest daughter, told NJ.com. “There are no words to describe it…

Former Republican senator and current Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue has joined a lawsuit seeking to reexamine ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election, pushing Donald Trump’s lie that widespread fraud plagued the election in the state after it went to Joe Biden. Perdue, who announced his campaign earlier this week, claims “serious violations” occurred in Fulton County, where ballots have already been examined and re-tabulated by local and state election officials. They found no evidence of fraud. The former senator said, “I want to use my position and legal standing to shine light on what I know were serious…

Navigate the fast-moving cannabis sector with 420 Investor, a premium service that sends real-time alerts and explanations of the news below and much more. Summary  Illinois adult-use sales increased 61% from a year ago in November. The SAFE Banking Act was removed from the National Defense Authorization Act. 420 Investor model portfolios have returned -15.3% to 26.0% year-to-date, while the Global Cannabis Stock Index has lost 20.7%. Review Illinois adult-use sales increased 2% sequentially and 61% from a year ago to $120.8 million in November. Combined with medical, total cannabis sales grew 44% to 152.3 million. The National Defense Authorization Act didn’t…