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Titled “EXCITING NEW DOG OPERATIONS INITIATIVE,” the video, which has been viewed more than 24,400 times on YouTube alone as of Thursday morning, was so convincing that the department has since released a statement clarifying that dachshunds will not actually be joining the force. The video begins with a montage of German shepherds and Labrador retrievers making their rounds. In a voiceover, Sergeant Simon Rosenhahn of the Dog Operations Unit suggests the big dogs have limitations....

“This vile idiot needs a round,” officer Charlie Rispoli wrote in a Facebook post referring to Ocasio-Cortez last week, according to a screenshot first reported by New Orleans news site NOLA.com on Saturday. “And I don’t mean the kind she used to serve,” he continued. Before becoming a member of Congress, Ocasio-Cortez worked in a New York City bar as a bartender. Rispoli, according to NOLA, has been on the Gretna police force since 2005....

An investigation was launched into officer Kevin P. Wilcox, of the East Hampton police department in Connecticut, after the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law group expressed concerns about his online activity to the force. The civil rights group accused Wilcox of making monthly transactions to the hate group which helped them raise money to commit “violent or otherwise illegal” activities, reports the Associated Press. Proud Boys, listed as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism” by the FBI, are known to take part in political rallies that frequently erupt into violence while being met with counter-protests....

The High Court’s Justice Neil Stephen Garnham ruled Monday that Met Police and the Lambeth city breached the human rights of 34 Black representatives from the U.K. Nation of Islam ahead of an August 2017 event called the 4th Africa International Day of Action. Organizers had scheduled Farrakhan to deliver a remote speech about reparations to Kennington Park event attendees. His planned remarks cited hundreds of years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as justification for seeking modern reparation benefits....

Danya Glenny, 42, from Longwood, and Joycelyn Bryant, 31, of Joycelyn’s Southern Kitchen, from Orlando, were charged with tampering, negligence and delivery of marijuana. On the evening of Saturday, February 19, deputies from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office were called out to The Springs Clubhouse in Longwood, Florida, when several guests at Glenny’s wedding reception contacted the emergency services after falling ill. According to a report from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation was sparked by a male guest who called 911 to request an ambulance as he “was feeling weird....

Montgomery’s father and stepmother, 31-year-olds Adam and Kayla Montgomery, were arrested last week on charges relating to the child’s safety and welfare fraud, respectively. The then-5-year-old was last seen in late 2019 when Kayla Montgomery says the girl’s father was taking her to Massachusetts to stay with her mother, Crystal Sorey, who was the one to report her missing in November 2021. Sorey reportedly told police at first she hadn’t seen her daughter in at least six months and eventually said the last time she saw her was around Easter 2019, when she spoke to Adam and Harmony Montgomery via video chat....

During a 50-second video, Catanzara said that the city’s policy has to change. He then raised a sign that read: “John Catanzara for Mayor 2023.” The police union chief released the clip shortly after a judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday banning Catanzara from discussing the COVID vaccine mandate. Newsweek contacted Lightfoot’s office and the FOP for comments, and asked the police union if whether Catanzara officially plans to run for mayor....

The virus was detected in sewage samples collected in east and north London, during routine surveillance, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said in a press release. A national incident has now been declared in the country, as the agency warns citizens to ensure they are up to date with vaccinations. The U.K. was declared free from polio in 2003 after routine vaccination was introduced in 1956. The last case time a case of “wild polio” was contracted was 1984....

A survey released Tuesday from the Democratic pollster Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group puts former Vice President Joe Biden ahead by 2 points. Of the 800 likely voters polled, 48 percent said they’d back Biden, while 46 percent said they would support Trump for a second term. The results represent a major shift from 2016, when Trump overwhelmingly won the state’s 10 electoral votes. Trump took more than 56 percent of the vote in Missouri, compared with Hillary Clinton’s 37....

No other sitting secretary of state has ever delivered such a speech at a political party’s convention from inside the United States, let alone while on a diplomatic mission outside the country. And for good reason. Democratic principles and U.S. law prohibit using federal agencies as partisan political tools designed to help the reigning administration remain in power. Pompeo’s speech was one of several events at the convention that blurred the line between official administration acts and the Trump campaign, including the president delivering his acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House and the first lady presiding from the White House Rose Garden....

Poochon Breed Have you never heard of a poochon? The breed is mix between the popular poodle and the bichon frisé. The dogs are known for their cuddly natures, wanting your attention 24/7 and their need for regular grooming. To Leave or Not to Leave Although most dog owners would love to stay at home with their pet all day, including the 23 million American households who, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, adopted a pet during the pandemic....

What would you do differently? Imagine. You’re a political consultant, drafted this week by Clinton’s campaign to help pilot her comeback. Your candidate has lost the last 11 primaries by sizable margins. And the demographic groups who once flocked to your side—women, voters with incomes below $50,000, Latinos—have begun straying into your rival’s camp. The veterans in your candidates inner circle are at odds—some feel salvation lies in going negative, while others fear that a scorched-earth strategy would divide the party and do lasting damage to her legacy....

Speaking to the Associated Press, he called criminal restrictions on homosexuality “unjust,” continuing that “it’s not a crime.” “Yes, but it’s a sin,” he said. “Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime.” The leader of the Catholic Church, speaking from Vatican City, said it is “also a sin to lack charity with one another.” “We are all children of God, and God loves us as we are and for the strength that each of us fights for our dignity,” he said, adding religious leaders in the church “must” work to end laws discriminating against homosexuals....

The demonstrators’ defense tactics were recorded in a video shared on Twitter early Thursday morning. It shows a group gathered outside of Portland’s barricaded federal courthouse. When authorities toss tear gas canisters over a recently constructed fence surrounding the building, one protester uses the lacrosse stick to launch them back over the barrier. The video shows additional protesters approaching the fence with masks and leaf blowers to disperse tear gas already released from the canisters....

Nightly protests against police brutality and racism have taken place in the city for more than 100 days since the death of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis police custody in May. They resumed at the weekend after a break prompted by smoke from the wildfires ravaging the West Coast. Portland’s NAACP president Rev. E.D. Mondainé told KATU that he was not surprised to see the return of the protests....

It was the start of a not-so-beautiful friendship between Stalin and a long line of “amoral, unbounded psychopaths” who would carry out his every twisted wish, Montefiore points out. The British author’s earlier masterful biography of the Soviet tyrant, “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar,” focused on his years in power. “Young Stalin” is much more than an expansion of the first chapters in that biography: it’s a full portrait of the young man....

Back England at 10/3 to win Euro 2017 Having already beaten Scotland and Spain, the Lionesses currently lead Group D on six points, while Portugal have just three points after following their opening defeat against Spain with a hard-earned win over Scotland. The Portuguese need to win by at least three goals if they are to have a chance of qualifying for the next phase, but England will progress as long as they avoid a three-goal defeat, with either France or Austria waiting in the knock-out stage....

The goal is to get at least 10,000 commitments to secure a franchise by Sept. 30. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said the push will help the league “have a better sense of the market.” MORE: Nolan suggests Sabres play their way out | NHL’s MVP? | Okposo out with detached retina Bill Foley, the Fidelity National Financial chairman, said a sales staff has been hired and that fans will receive instructions on how to put down a deposit within the next few days....

MORE: Strangest moments in NFL Draft history As Breer alludes to, certain teams see the injury as a non-issue and would be happy to have him. We don’t see him falling out of the first round or even the top 10. MORE: NFL Draft 2016: Times, location, how to watch The 20-year-old left college after three seasons despite his Sept. 22 injury, which caused his meniscus to be completely torn from the bone; it had to be re-sewn to his tibia....