‘A light that lit up every room’: tributes for Victorian kindergarten worker killed while saving kids in truck crash | Victoria newsthirst.

A kindergarten worker who died saving her young students from an out-of-control truck has been remembered as a kind and generous person who lit up every room. Police are investigating after a 68-year-old driver, suspected of suffering a medical episode, veered his water tanker off the road and ploughed into the preschool’s playground, north-west of…

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Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel breaks Case Keenum’s NCAA record for total touchdowns newsthirst.

Dillon Gabriel’s touchdown pass to Gernorris Wilson in the third quarter of Oregon’s game against Maryland on Saturday broke Case Keenum’s NCAA record of 178 total touchdowns. Keenum set the record for touchdowns responsible for (155 passes, 23 rushes) at Houston from 2007-11. Gabriel matched Keenum’s record with a 9-yard pass to Terrance Ferguson at…

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Musk interviews German far-right frontwoman Alice Weidel newsthirst.

Elon Musk took his endorsement of Germany’s far-right party to the next level on Thursday, hosting a live chat with its frontwoman, Alice Weidel. The 74-minute conversation ranged across energy policy, German bureaucracy, Adolf Hitler, Mars and the meaning of life. The world’s richest man unequivocally urged Germans to back Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in…

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Part of Arkansas book ban law is unconstitutional, federal judge rules | Arkansas newsthirst.

A federal judge ruled on Monday that sections of an Arkansas law, which sought to impose criminal penalties on librarians and booksellers for distributing “harmful” material to children, were unconstitutional. The law, known as the Arkansas Act 372, was signed into law last year by Republican governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It was challenged by a…

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California wind forecast worsens as red flag fire weather warning expected on Monday | California wildfires newsthirst.

As firefighters in Los Angeles made progress on Sunday containing wildfires that have destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, forecasters warned that fire weather is likely to return on Monday. Donald Trump told NBC news he plans to travel to California to inspect the damage after his inauguration, “probably, at the end…

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