Climate change protests took over big cities across the country on Friday, with hundreds of thousands skipping school in Boston, Washington DC, Omaha, Indianapolis and Greenborough to join millions around the globe in the lead-up to teenage activist Greta Thunberg's appearance in New York for a summit at the UN. In New York itself, the city's Department of Education said all its 1.1 million schoolchildren were free to skip class to participate in the strike if they had parental consent - without any fear of punishment as Thunberg, who has been nominated for a Nobel prize for her climate activism, spearheaded a rally at the United Nations headquarters. It appears that many took heed of the relaxed school attendance laws, as the streets of Manhattan overflowed with thousands of young protesters on Friday afternoon. 🌎
Veteran NYC Chief of Detectives who took the confession from infamous Son of Sam serial killer during notoriously hot summer of 1977 dies aged 99. Keenan was just three months away from his 100th birthday. He was also responsible for putting the first women in the homicide squad. Keenan was chief of detectives from March 1977 to January 1978. 👮🏻♂️🗿 #RIP #NY #NYPD
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We come in peace: Just 75 alien enthusiasts make it to the gates of military base despite thousands descending on tiny Nevada desert towns for 'Storm #Area51' event - as police make two arrests.
A pair of silk knickers and a nightie worn by Adolf Hitler's mistress Eva Braun for the Nazi dictator today sold for over $8000. The two personal items had been expected to sell for $1200 each but got bidders hot under the collar at auction. The knickers and nightie were snapped up the same British buyer who was desperate to get their hands on them.
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Shocking footage has emerged of a truck rear-ending a car before speeding off and smashing into a cyclist in Indiana. In the dashcam footage, two passengers are heard having a relaxed conversation before they yell out as their car violently jolts forward in Evansville.
Facebook has suspended 'tens of thousands' of apps on its platform that were found to be 'inappropriately' sharing data. The company did not describe the nature of the data collected and a request for comment by @police_frequency in the Telegram has not been responded before time of publication. According to a blog post from the company on Friday, the suspension of those accounts was part of a broader privacy push from the company in the wake of scandals involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, which harvested the private data of 87 million users. That data included information on attorneys, external investigators, data scientists, engineers, policy specialists and others, which was extracted in an effort to help the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. #delete_facebook
A man has shared a horrific picture of a couple unconscious and slumped over each other in their car, amid fears Australia is faced with a growing opioid crisis. The man said he came across the two people in Mount Hawthorn, Perth, Australia, around school pick-up time on Thursday afternoon. With the car engine still running and the pair unresponsive, the witness was immediately worried they'd overdosed on drugs. He told Seven News that it took several attempts to wake the man in the driver's seat. There was no evidence in or around the car to suggest the couple were taking drugs. The witness said they drove off to a nearby alley after being awoken. He claimed they fell asleep again. He decided to take the driver's keys and call police, amid fears they'd cause danger on the roads.
A man in his forties has become the eighth person in the US to die from smoking e-cigarettes as the number sickened by vaping rises to 500. The man, from Missouri, had normal lung function until he started using the devices in May, health officials said. He began experiencing trouble breathing which gradually got worse before he was taken to hospital in St Louis on August 22, where he died on Thursday. 🌬☠️