The Daily Populous

Tuesday April 29th, 2025 evening edition

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Moments before Sgt. Shane Iversen fatally shot Timothy Michael Randall in Rusk County, Texas, in 2022.

As Randall was stepping out of the car, he put his wallet in his back pocket and adjusted his waistband.

Randall began to turn to run away from Iversen, who had already pulled out his gun and was pointing it at Randall.

After another deputy arrived minutes later, Iversen, then 57, returned to his patrol car and phoned a colleague.

In the following days and weeks, Randall’s mother searched for answers in vain, calling the Texas Rangers and the Rusk County district attorney’s office.

“No one was telling us anything,” said Tippitt, who was born and raised in Rusk County and now cleans houses for a living.

Two days after the killing, Iversen sat for an interview with the Texas Rangers, the agency that investigates police shootings. »

John Waters Says Trump Will ‘Never Get Rid of Drag’

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Waters’ career in cinema was largely made with the support of this community, with one of his frequent collaborators being the famous drag queen Divine.

“He’ll never get rid of drag,” Waters said.

To some degree, Waters is downplaying his own involvement in putting drag front and center within our culture. »

Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse

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At the end of 2024, Poilievre was tipped to be Canada’s next leader up 25 points over unpopular then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

He is the first major party leader to be unseated at an election since 1993, when then-Prime Minister Kim Campbell of the Progressive Conservatives lost her seat in an electoral bloodbath.

During Carney’s victory speech, when a supporter yelled out “Bruce,” the prime minister replied that he was “looking forward to working with Bruce Fanjoy. »

Passenger Allegedly Defecates in Her Seat on a Flight to Chicago

Authored by verdaily.com

CHICAGO — Police were called to a Southwest Airlines flight landing in Chicago after reports that a passenger removed her clothes and defecated in her seat, a source told NBC News.

According to a statement from Southwest Airlines, Flight 418, en route from Philadelphia to Chicago Midway Airport, was met by law enforcement officers and medical personnel responding to “a situation involving a female passenger.”.

Similarly, a Lufthansa flight was forced to land in Boston after an iPad became lodged in a passenger’s seat. »