Capitol attack suspect identified as Louis Farrakhan follower, Noah Green

Sources have identified the suspect in a deadly Capitol attack as Noah Green, a 25-year-old from Indiana with ties to Virginia and the Nation of Islam.

Green allegedly slammed his sedan into two police officers near the Capitol’s North Barricade, the entrance where congress members and their aides come and go.

The attack killed U.S. Capitol Police Officer William "Billy" Evans and injured another officer, who was still hospitalized Friday evening in stable condition. 

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Trump calls for MLB boycott, warns ‘woke’ corporations after All-Star Game pullout

Former President Donald Trump fired a high, hard fastball at Major League Baseball on Friday night, urging fans to boycott the "national pastime" over its decision to pull this year’s All-Star Game from the Atlanta area.

Trump asserted MLB’s leadership was "afraid of the Radical Left Democrats," claiming the party pressured MLB to relocate its mid-summer game because of Georgia’s new election law, recently signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

The former president also took aim at large "woke" corporations that issued statements against the Georgia law.

"Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans," Trump wrote, "and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical Left Democrats who do not want voter I.D., which is desperately needed, to have anything to do with our elections.

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Earp Distilling Co. brings home four World Gin Awards

Having opened their doors a little over a year ago, Newcastle’s family-owned distillery, Earp Distilling Co. is already receiving international recognition.

Shining a spotlight on the quality and flavour of Australian craft gins, Earp Distilling Co. took home a total of four medals at the World Gin Awards for 2021.

The Awards received included;

Just Juniper receiving Gold in the London Dry Gin Category,

8 Dry Gin receiving Silver in the London Dry Gin Category,

Barrel Aged Portside Gin receiving Silver in the Matured Gin Category, and

Portside Gin receiving Bronze in the Navy Strength Gin Category

Founder and Distiller, Michael Earp said this recognition is an honour and a testament to their many years of hard-work and attention to detail.

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Ask Fuzzy: Are electronic cigarettes a gateway to tobacco smoking?

Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, have been growing in popularity in Australia and across the globe. While there has been significant interest in the direct health impacts of e-cigarettes, the potential for e-cigarettes to lead to tobacco smoking has also garnered much attention.

Accounting for more than 10 per cent of deaths worldwide, tobacco smoking is one of the greatest threats to health, known to cause cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease. Due to the seriousness of the harms caused by tobacco smoking, helping smokers quit and preventing the uptake of smoking is a significant priority.

So, do e-cigarettes lead to smoking?

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UK's elite schools face a reckoning on rape culture

London (CNN)Nine years after being assaulted by a boy she alleges was a student at Eton College, Zan Moon can still remember the moment as if it was yesterday.

"I can picture the hallway where it happened, his hands around my neck choking me," she says. "Then he put his hands down my pants... It was painful. I told him to stop."

Moon says the five-hour attack took place outside of school in a secluded cottage on England's South Coast, rented for the weekend by a friend at the elite girls' boarding school she attended: Benenden. She was 15 then.

Boys from the two all-male schools the girls often socialized with -- Eton and Tonbridge -- were also there and saw her fight her aggressor off multiple times. Yet no one intervened, she says.

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Italy makes vaccines compulsory for health workers. But some are unconvinced

Rome (CNN)Italy's government has passed a decree making vaccination mandatory for all healthcare and pharmacy workers with the aim of protecting medical staff, patients and vulnerable people. Healthcare workers who refuse the vaccine will be reassigned where possible to roles where they are not in contact with patients. 

Where that is not an option they now face being suspended without pay. The Italian Federation of Doctors and Dentists argues that the government should have gone further and made the legal procedure to suspend non-vaccinated workers easier and faster. 

However, a minority in the healthcare community remain strongly opposed to compulsory vaccination. It remains unclear whether the decree is constitutional, and many believe that future legal cases on the Covid vaccines are likely.

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Capitol attack shatters sense of calm, raising fresh questions about security

The alert of another violent attack on the US Capitol grounds sent shockwaves through Washington, DC, Friday -- shattering the sense of relative calm at the start of the holiday weekend and reminding everyone that a nation just beginning to crawl out from under the pandemic's long shadow is also still under threat nearly three months after the January 6 insurrection.

In the weeks since former President Donald Trump left office and President Joe Biden took command, the seat of government had begun to take on a tenor of something akin to a humming efficiency. Covid-19 vaccinations are accelerating at an ever-increasing clip.

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Europe is torn over whether to take Putin's help on vaccines

Europe's lackluster vaccination program has presented one of the continent's greatest foes with a golden opportunity to score a serious diplomatic victory.

Earlier this week, the Kremlin released a readout from a video conference between French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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