Internal Pentagon efforts to track military extremism are hamstrung by a lack of unified policies, even as the threat continues. More than a year and a half after it was due, the Department of Defense finally released its report examining extremism within the ranks of the armed forces. And although there is “no evidence” that violent extremism is “disproportionate” in the military compared to the wider American populace, it remains an issue with active-duty troops and veterans. However even after extensive study, there is still confusion and unclear policies throughout the military when it comes to finding and dealing with extremism. The report, commissioned by the Pentagon and conducted by the think tank the Institute for Defense Analysis, found that the military needs to have a comprehensive change in its culture to both better identify current extremists and to prevent troops and DoD civilian employees from becoming radicalized. The IDA’s review found no evidence “that the number of violent extremists in the military is disproportionate to the number of violent extremists in the United States as a whole, although there is some indication that the rate of participation by former service members is slightly higher and may be growing. IDA also found no evidence of violent extremist behavior by DOD civilians.” Titled ”Prohibited Extremist Activities In the U.S. Department of Defense,” the report noted that despite there not being a disproportionate amount of extremism within the military, there is a potentially growing rate of veterans participating in extremism groups or activities. Those include participation in what it outlined as the four main types of extremist views: left- and right-wing extremism, single-issue extremism and politico-religious extremism. The Institute for Defense Analysis was supposed to finish its report by June 2022 but still had not completed it by summer 2023, according to reports by CNN. The 262-page report was only released this week, in the time between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.

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TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Donald Wildmon, the founder of the American Family Association, a conservative Christian advocacy group, has died, the organization announced Thursday. The 85-year-old Mississippi native died on Thursday from complications related to Lewy body dementia, an obituary published by WTVA-TV said. Wildmon died in Tupelo, Mississippi, the city where the American Family Association is based. The obituary referred to Wildmon as “one of the legendary leaders of American conservatism.” “His impressive legacy of Christian ministry will live on for many years to come,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Wildmon founded the AFA, first known as the National Federation for Decency, in 1977 after working as a pastor for the United Methodist Church. Since its inception, the conservative advocacy group has launched campaigns and boycotts to pressure corporations to avoid supporting causes the group opposed, such as LGBT anti-discrimination measures. In 1991, Wildmon launched American Family Radio, which set up radio stations across the U.S. to spread the AFA’s message. Wildmon led the AFA for 33 years, the obituary said. He stepped down in 2010, and his son, Tim Wildmon, now leads the organization.

The driver of the SUV involved in the deadly crash outside the Kodak Center on New Year's Day has died. Rochester police clarified Tuesday morning that the suspect, Michael Avery, 35, of Syracuse, had rented the SUV from the Rochester airport Friday afternoon. ABC News previously reported he had rented the SUV from the Syracuse airport. Police said Avery is believed to have traveled to the Rochester area Wednesday, checking into the WoodSpring Suites in Greece. He reportedly drove his own vehicle to the airport two days later before renting the SUV. Police said Avery "made at least a half dozen purchases of gasoline and gas containers" Saturday at stores in Monroe and Ontario counties. They located at least a dozen gasoline canisters in and around the SUV following the crash, which happened around 12:50 a.m. Monday after a concert at the Kodak Center. Avery was driving the SUV on West Ridge Road as the concert was letting out, according to police, when he sped up, crossed into oncoming traffic and appeared to be intentionally driving toward a pedestrian crossing. The SUV struck an Uber vehicle that was pulling out of a parking lot, killing two rear-seat passengers. Several pedestrians were also injured. Police said the total number of injuries is now up to nine.

Video on social media appeared to show a man lunge at Lee and hit him with something in the neck as Lee was speaking to a crowd of reporters.

“Our study shows that markers of brain injury are present in the blood months after COVID-19, and particularly in those who have had a COVID-19-induced brain complication (e.g. inflammation, or stroke), despite resolution of the inflammatory response in the blood," Professor Benedict Michael, principal investigator and director of the University of Liverpool’s Infection Neuroscience Laboratory and co-author of the study, said in a statement. "This suggests the possibility of ongoing inflammation and injury inside the brain itself which may not be detected by blood tests for inflammation."

The driver, identified by San Pablo police as Dene Blakely, 39, allegedly exchanged heated words with the victim before intentionally striking the pedestrian with her vehicle. Blakely believed the woman was “someone who had previously stolen a package from her residence, and confronted the victim as she walked in the 1100 block of Broadway Avenue,” police said. According to a LinkedIn profile that matches Blakely’s name and photo, she previously worked as a processing clerk for the U.S. Postal Service and was briefly an office assistant for the Oakland Police Department. Her LinkedIn lists her as “unemployed” for the last five years.

“It’s not often in my career when scientists have really been gobsmacked by what they’re seeing, but people have really been alarmed. It caught them on the hop,” he says. “We knew that substantial change was coming down the pipeline, but we have seen processes that we thought might play out in the middle of the century playing out much sooner.”

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Former GOP lawmaker Adam Kinzinger has revealed new details about Donald Trump’s alleged bad odour, claiming that he reeks of a combination of several unsavoury scents including “armpits, ketchup, a butt”.

Body camera reveals Los Angeles deputy fired at woman who sought help for domestic violence as nine-year-old daughter watched. The Los Angeles sheriff’s department (LASD) released body-camera footage on Friday of an officer fatally shooting Niani Finlayson, 27, who had called 911 for help during a domestic violence incident. The footage from the 4 December encounter showed that deputy Ty Shelton shot Finlayson four times within roughly three seconds of entering her home. The killing in Lancaster, a city in north Los Angeles county, sparked national outrage last week, with civil rights activists questioning why deputies failed to de-escalate the conflict and instead used fatal force against a woman who had sought their assistance and was a victim of abuse.

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"Let's get an abortion cake for my friend," TikToker @kelliamirah wrote. Since receiving so much backlash, she turned her social media profiles to… A fucking dork claiming to speak for feminism dunks on an incredibly good cake.

Manuel Rocha, a former career American diplomat, was charged Monday with serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades.

A Texas man has been arrested after he allegedly slammed his car into a pedestrian, then drove 38 miles with the victim's body in the passenger seat, police said. Nester Flores, 31, was arrested in the parking lot of a Jack in the Box fast-food franchise after police received a call from a patron who reported a man slumped over the steering wheel inside a car that was extensively damaged, authorities said.

As per Akshay Bajpai, an independent cybersecurity expert in Bhopal, currently, more than 700 loan apps are operating in the country, some of which are Indian but the majority of which are Chinese-owned and hire Indians to run them. While some of them are outright frauds and use the promise of quick money to get fees from desperate loan seekers before disappearing in the night, others are in a grey area not just because of the malicious methods they employ to extort money from innocent people but also because they don’t follow the central bank rules on online lending including on the annual interest rate, various charges. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also clearly said that no lending institution can store customer details except some minimal data such as the name, address and contact details of the customer. However, illegal apps access contact lists and pictures, edit them and use manipulated images to blackmail borrowers to recover money.

According to local ranger Ajo, no one should have been trekking on Mount Marapi, one of Indonesia’s most famous volcanoes located in West Sumatra, on December 3, 2023. For almost a year, the 25-year-old guide, who had led tours on the mountain from 2020 to 2022, had been warning authorities about the increased volcanic activity at the peak, and his fears that climbers would die if the active volcano erupted. Unfortunately, his prediction about the volatility of Mount Marapi proved to be correct. About 75 hikers were on the mountain when it erupted earlier this month, sending a 2,000-foot-high (600-metre) ash plume into the sky. At least 24 people were killed, the majority of them succumbing to serious burns.