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Francesco Basentini, head of Italy’s prison administration, confirmed three inmates died inside a jail in the province Modena and, three other inmates died after they were transferred from the prison, according to Reuters. Two guards were taken hostage in Pavia, a town in northern Italy, and some prisons, including one in Salerno, were set on fire and sustained significant damage. “A real war scenario,” OSAPP, a prison guard union, said in a statement on Sunday....

Location, speed, driver ability, entertainment choices, voice requests and other data points emanate from your car every time you drive. More often than not, that data is sold to third parties, like insurance companies, trying to tailor services to the average driver. In certain jurisdictions, law enforcement can obtain a wiretap warrant to listen to your conversations in your car. If law enforcement deems it necessary to apply for a warrant, and a judge signs off on that warrant, they can get access to a car’s location history....

Prince, the brother of former President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has charged $6,500 in order to transport passengers safely to the Kabul International Airport and onto his planes. Prince reportedly said it would cost extra to transport passengers who have been trapped inside of their homes by Taliban forces, the Wall Street Journal reported. It’s unclear how successful Prince’s venture has been. Newsweek contacted the Frontier Resource Group, Prince’s newly established company, for comment....

The rumor that Michigan would be the next target in this campaign turned out to be correct. I believed strongly that we had no choice but to mount the best legal defense ever for diversity in higher education and take special efforts to explain this complex issue, in simple and direct language, to the American public. There are many misperceptions about how race and ethnicity are considered in college admissions....

This season, the NFL’s last hurrah will go on a one-year hiatus from Hawaii, and instead be played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The NFL is sticking with their celebrity coaching format for the game, however, and this year’s coaches will be Hall of Fame wide receivers Cris Carter and Michael Irvin. With the new system instituted in 2014, both coaches will be able to select their rosters for the game....

Bengals defensive tackle Geno Atkins and Falcons running back Devonta Freeman served as captains to help Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin select his team, while Jerry Rice’s squad was picked by Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. MORE: How to watch the 2016 Pro Bowl | Mike McCarthy to miss Pro Bowl Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was the first pick, for Team Irvin; Giants quarterback Eli Manning was the next selection, for Team Rice....

They offer exciting end-to-end action inside smaller yet packed stadiums but there’s also a looming injury waiting to happen due to the unbridled manner in which such tournaments are played. The Sevens football games are mostly played on local grounds and not on green turfs. Also, it must be noted that these local Sevens tournaments aren’t usually on the books of either the All India Football Federation (AIFF) or the Kerala Football Association (KFA)....

According to court records obtained by NBC News, the woman and her daughter were parked in front of a store while they waited for the woman’s mother. The records went stated that the woman heard someone heard “honking and yelling” and saw a man behind her. Court records indicated that the woman heard a man, later identified as Alberto Friedmann, use a racial slur and said, “Move your f****** car....

Manchin and moderate Republicans have argued that the direct stimulus payments to be included in a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill—dubbed the American Rescue Plan—should be more targeted by reducing the income threshold, and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki indicated in an interview with Fox News Sunday that Biden is open to the proposal. But Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has spearheaded an open letter signed by nine other senators calling on the president to put forward recurring payments in his upcoming Build Back Better initiative....

Los Angeles’ operation still revolves around LeBron James and Anthony Davis, but there are a few new supporting pieces. During the offseason, the Lakers acquired role players such as Patrick Beverley, Dennis Schroder, Thomas Bryant and Damian Jones. As part of that process, they bid farewell to multiple veterans from the 33-49 squad that failed to reach the NBA Playoffs. They also hired a new head coach in Darvin Ham, who will fill Frank Vogel’s old seat after most recently serving as an assistant coach for the Bucks....

This week, YouTuber Joseph Morris reportedly posted a video in which he claimed that he had received new audio from the scene where four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed. On November 13, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were found fatally stabbed. However, the video has since disappeared from Morris’ YouTube channel and on Monday, another YouTuber, iCkEdMeL, posted a video accusing him of fabricating the audio he shared....

PSG’s 5-1 rout over Metz on Friday was the side’s fifth win in as many Ligue 1 matches, a new best for the club, and the first time they rolled up five goals against that opponent since 1992. Monaco 7/1 to win Ligue 1 It was also a banner day for Edinson Cavani, who has found the net in all five matches for PSG so far this term, with Sylvain Wiltord the last player to accomplish that mark while playing with Bordeaux during the 1998-99 season....

Studies have shown that propofol does appear to be safe in the majority of people who are allergic to eggs. However, there have been isolated case reports of severe allergic reactions that have occurred following use of the drug in people with potentially anaphylactic allergies. Propofol Uses in Anesthesia Propofol is a powerful anesthetic makes you relax and sleep by slowing the activity of your brain and nervous system. It’s given through a needle in your vein, and once you receive it, you probably won’t remember anything—you’ll fall asleep very quickly....

Last week, detainees at a for-profit prison in Jena, Louisiana, said staff had pepper-sprayed them after they started protesting when workers gave them “evasive” answers to their concerns around the COVID-19 outbreak.“We are very scared,” María, a 23-year-old Cuban asylum seeker, told CBS News in Spanish. “We know we can die inside here. The situation does not bode well for us. We don’t have a way to protect ourselves.”...

Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the far-right organization, posted the set of toy Trump-supporters occupying the Capitol building on the social media site Parler. The doctored set includes characters based off of the actual rioters who stormed the building, including Jake Angeli, also known as the QAnon Shaman. He was widely photographed during the raid wearing a fur hat and horns with red, white and blue face paint. A spokesperson for LEGO told Newsweek on Saturday that “the product in question, is in no way affiliated with the LEGO Group and the set is not a LEGO® product....

According to IFLScience, the appalling diet trend encourages people to let raw meat rot for several months or even a year before eating it. Once adequately rancid, the decomposed raw meat (aka “high meat”) is consumed, and a supposedly euphoric, “high” feeling soon overtakes the person eating. While some reportedly eat high meat for its alleged mind-altering effects, others actually say they prefer the taste of the rotten flesh, which IFLScience says “is often described as cheesy and more acidic than your average steak....

The viral Reddit post recounting the incidents, titled, “What the craziest thing an ex-friend or lover has done to you,” has been upvoted 18,200 times since it was shared on March 14 by u/into_the_void22 to the subreddit “Ask Reddit.” A survey of British people commissioned by TransferWire and conducted by YouGov found that 23 percent of respondents have continued a relationship even though they were being lied to, according to The Daily Mail....

Every Tuesday Netflix will update the site “Top10 Netflix” with the top 10 movies and series currently on the streaming service. According to the streaming service’s new metric website, “Red Notice,” a film by Rawson Marshall Thurber starring Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson has been watched for 148.7 million hours since it was released on the streaming service November 12. In the last week, the most popular series played was season three of “Narcos: Mexico,” with 50....

City ran riot against the Cherries, winning 4-0 to make it two wins from two to start the season. Haaland, though, was not among the scorers, and saw little of the ball as Bournemouth sat deep at the Etihad Stadium. He did, however, provide the assist for Ilkay Gundogan’s opening goal, and Guardiola leapt to his summer signing’s defence post-match. “The most difficult job in the world is when you are in a striker and defenders defend in areas like Bournemouth; they have three central defenders and two players in front and everyone in the middle....

Five-time Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldo capped a memorable year with the winning goal as Madrid overcame Gremio 1-0 to lift the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. After the match, Zidane described Ronaldo remaining with the club until retirement as “fundamental”, while the player himself expressed his desire to do exactly that. “But it does not depend on me,” he added. “Because I’m not the boss of the club....