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A banner that reads “Welcome to Hell” was seen at Rio’s Galeao Airport. What’s worse, it appeared to be held by law enforcement officials. MORE: Serena Williams on Olympic dropouts | Rory McIlroy: No embarrassment The rest of the displayed message: “Police and firefighters don’t get paid. Whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe”. According to BBC.com, the image went viral in Brazil and was viewed more than 3 million times in less than a day....

Acevedo will leave his post in Texas to take over the same responsibilities in Miami. The move was revealed late Sunday night through both news outlets and social media. Acevedo, who has guided the Houston department through Hurricane Harvey (2017), social justice marches, a Super Bowl, a World Series victory celebration and recent ice storm, will be formally announced Monday morning in Miami. Previously to his Houston position, Acevedo was the Austin chief of police and a chief for the California Highway Patrol in Los Angeles....

On Monday, the NFOP released a statement on social media in which the organization and its president, Patrick Yoes, called out Psaki for “mocking” and “belittling” Americans who have concerns about “the nation’s skyrocketing crime rates and increased violence.” “I think it’s wrong—very wrong—for Mrs. Psaki to suggest that violent crime in our country is of no concern or to just laugh it off. She may be safe in the White House, one of the most protected buildings in the United States, but not everyone feels safe in their workplace,” said Yoes....

Sadie Earegood, a student at Mason High School in Michigan, claimed the teacher forcibly removed the pin from her shirt during school hours on December 5. “I was just really shocked that a teacher would especially would do that,” she told Fox 47. “He’s talking about the Women for Trump pin and I said, that’s fine, you don’t have to like it, we can have our opinions.” “He grabbed it and I pulled and I tried to push his hand away and he grabbed my shoulder, just kind of put his hand there, and then he started pulling more and more and I just started backing up....

The active university police investigation is in addition to the school’s internal Title IX probe into first-year wide receiver Aidan Howard’s claim in a civil rights suit that he suffered a broken eye socket when he was forced Aug. 12 to fight another first-year player as a form of “initiation” and to prove his “toughness and manliness.” “UVA is conducting a thorough investigation that involves several steps in the fact-finding process,” university deputy spokesman Matt Charles wrote in an email to ESPN....

Australian media is reporting that Terry Kelly, the man accused of kidnapping Smith, raised suspicions after he was seen purchasing diapers despite not having any children. The Carnarvon Police Department has not released any information as to why Kelly became a suspect, according to the Associated Press. Police Minister Paul Papalia attributed the arrest to hard work from the police. “It wasn’t a random tip or a clairvoyant or any of the sort of things that you might hear,” he said in a statement....

Videos showing protesters, passersby and journalists being thrown to the ground by officers or bleeding after being struck by rubber bullets have only fueled further outrage. In some cities across the country a vastly different scene unfolded, with officers showing solidarity with protesters by joining demonstrations calling for justice for Floyd, who was killed after Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. ‘Walk with us’ In Flint, Michigan, Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson gained international attention after he decided to take off his helmet and lay down his baton to march alongside protesters in a show of solidarity....

An investigative group called The Case Breakers announced a breakthrough in the cold case on Wednesday, claiming to have identified the infamous serial killer as Gary Francis Poste, an Air Force veteran and professional house painter who died in 2018. Zodiac was the confirmed killer of five victims in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1968 and 1969, although he claimed to have killed 37 victims. News of the alleged identification was met with enthusiasm as well as surprise due to the intense difficulties detectives had experienced while trying to find the killer during official investigations over the previous 50 years....

In a statement released at 11:10 a.m. local time, the Show Low Police Department confirmed that a black super duty Ford struck multiple cyclists at around 7:25 a.m. this morning during the city’s Bike the Bluff race in downtown Show Low. “Officers attempted to stop the suspect which ultimately led to the suspect being shot in the area of South 3rd Drive and West Oliver. Arizona Department of Public Safety has been requested to conduct the shooting investigation,” the statement read....

Local media reported Monday that at least 17 drones with an estimated wingspan of six feet have been seen hovering 200 to 300 feet over the skies of Yuma and Phillips counties. Local police don’t know the origin of the aircraft, but do not believe they pose a threat. “They do not seem to be malicious. They don’t seem to be doing anything that would indicate criminal activity,” said Phillips County Sheriff Thomas Elliott to The Denver Post....

The records showed that police officers responded to the North Port, Florida, home two separate times on September 10 for “public service” calls. Both reports were marked by officers as “problem settled,” according to the news site. Police were also called to the home three more times on September 11, the day the late Petito was reported missing by her parents. The first two calls made on September 11 were recorded as follow-ups....

When Kerrey hired a new team of media consultants last week, it didn’t seem to matter that only two of the five partners in the firm had met him before. To seal the deal, the principals of Doak, Shrum, Harris, Sherman, Donilon flew to New Hampshire to introduce themselves to the man whose campaign they had been hired to save. “It’s a great score for us,” said Kerrey’s new campaign manager, Tad Devine....

Although one in ten (10 percent) of Americans identify themselves as having “no religion,” only six percent said they don’t believe in a God at all. Just 3 percent of the public self-identifies as atheist, suggesting that the term may carry some stigma. Still, the poll suggests that the public’s tolerance of this small minority has increased in recent years. Nearly half (47 percent) of the respondents felt the country is more accepting of atheists today that it used to be and slightly more (49 percent) reported personally knowing an atheist....

PH specifically describes a condition in which several relatively small genetic defects combine to produce elevated cholesterol levels, as opposed to just one single dominant genetic defect, as in a monogenic condition such as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). PH tends to be less severe than FH, but still needs to be monitored and treated, as elevated LDL cholesterol levels can increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. This article will review the symptoms, risk factors, and treatment options for polygenic hypercholesterolemia....

Shiesty—legal name Lontrell Williams—shared the new music news via Instagram on Thursday to thank his supporters during “these hard times.” The post has over 89,000 likes and 2,000 comments. The music artist also has 3.4 million followers on Instagram. “I WISH I COULD BE COMINGG HOME TO YALL TODAY BUT THIS COULD HAVE BEEN WAYYYY WORSE,” written in a screenshot of an email, “I WILL BE BACK SOONER THAN YALL THINK !...

The Westpfahl Spilker Wastl law firm was commissioned to report on abuse and church officials’ handling of allegations between 1945 and 2019, according to The Associated Press. Lawyer Martin Pusch of Westpfahl Spilker Wastl said at a Thursday press conference that Benedict could be accused of misconduct in four sexual abuse cases. “Two of these cases concern abuses committed during his tenure and sanctioned by the state,” Pusch said. “In both cases, the perpetrators remained active in pastoral care....

Iraq is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. Following years of conflict, however, that community has fallen from approximately 1.5 million prior to 2003 to 300,000 today. Since the Iraq War began in 2003, Christians have suffered persecution, violence and destruction. These horrors were made worse by ISIS militants, resulting in many Christians fleeing to escape the brutality. It is nothing short of miraculous that Pope Francis was able to embark upon his visit to Iraq at all....

Speaking during a radio interview broadcast earlier this week, the pope called support for euthanasia “one of the tragedies of today’s European culture.” “What is (deemed) useless is discarded. Old people are disposable material; they are a nuisance. Not all of them, but of course, in the collective subconscious of the throwaway culture, the old, the terminally ill, and unwanted children, too; they are returned to the sender before they are born,” the pope told COPE, a radio station owned by the Spanish bishops’ conference, according to Catholic Review....

A delegation of five NBA players and other officials from the National Basketball Players Association were in Vatican City for a private audience with the Pope to discuss the league’s work on social justice issues. The five players in attendance, per ESPN, were Kyle Korver, Sterling Brown, Jonathan Isaac, Anthony Tolliver and Marco Belinelli. The executive director of the players’ union, Michele Roberts, also was at the meeting. According to ESPN, an assistant to Pope Francis reached out to the NBPA last week saying that the Pope wanted to learn more about the NBA players’ social justice efforts and initiatives, along with what they had planned going forward....

Speaking in an address in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday, the Pope called for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to be made welcome in all nations. “The global crisis of migration cannot be ignored,” he said, in a speech published on the Vatican’s website. Describing “the movements of migration” as “one of the defining signs of our time,” the Pope said that the “phenomenon…represents one of the principal moral issues facing our generation....