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Two US citizens recently died in the Donbas region, CNN reported on Saturday, citing a US state department spokesperson. The spokesperson, not named in the report, did not provide any details about the individuals or the circumstances of their deaths but said the US administration was in touch with the families and providing “all possible consular assistance,” according to CNN.
Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/24/russia-ukraine-war-what-we-know-on-day-151-of-the-invasion
CHICAGO — A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near “The Bean” sculpture in downtown Chicago’s Millennium Park, authorities said.
Police said the teen was shot in the chest at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday near the popular tourist attraction. Police have not yet identified the boy.
He was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
At least two suspects were taken in for questioning and at least two weapons were recovered, authorities said.
An investigation is ongoing. Police did not provide any additional information.
Hundreds of people were at the park earlier on Saturday as part of demonstrations across the U.S. protesting a recently leaked draft opinion that suggests the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. It is unclear if the teen who was shot had taken part in the demonstration, which began around 1 p.m. Participants had largely dispersed by late afternoon.
Police cleared and closed the park following the shooting. It is unclear when it will reopen.
The shooting comes amid a surge in deadly violence in the city in recent years. This year, Chicago has recorded 779 shooting incidents and 194 homicides, compared to 898 shootings and 207 homicides during the same period in 2021, according to figures last updated by the Chicago Police Department on May 8.
Chicago and some other U.S. cities reported dramatic spikes in homicide totals last year. Chicago’s 797 homicides in 2021 — its highest toll for any year in a quarter century — eclipsed the totals in the two bigger U.S. cities, surpassing Los Angeles’ tally by 400 and New York’s by nearly 300.
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- On Friday night, former President Donald Trump hinted at legal action concerning the Mar-a-Lago raid.
- He said a “major motion” related to the Fourth Amendment would soon be filed.
- According to the Daily Beast, lawyers are already tearing apart the Fourth Amendment defense.
Former President Donald Trump hinted at legal action concerning the Mar-a-Lago raid, but lawyers say his Fourth Amendment defense will likely fail.
In a post on Truth Social, on Friday night, Trump said that a “major motion” related to the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, will soon be filed.
Earlier this month, the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. Legal experts determined that significant evidence must have backed up the warrant authorizing the search.
Unsealed court documents showed that the search was part of an investigation into whether Trump had violated three laws, including a significant facet of the Espionage Act, relating to the treatment of government documents.
Trump and his allies have denounced the FBI search, characterizing it as a political attack, despite it being signed off by a federal judge and approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Nonetheless, Trump continued his attacks on the Justice Department in his Friday night Truth Social post, describing the raid as an “illegal break-in” of his home.
The former president argued that his rights, and the rights of all Americans, were “violated at a level rarely seen before in our country.”
The Fourth Amendment
According to the Library of Congress, the Fourth Amendment is, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Though the “major motion” is yet to be filed, lawyers are already saying his Fourth Amendment defense would likely fail.
The Daily Beast reported that legal experts used Twitter to cast doubt on the motion.
“Trump promises a ‘major motion pertaining to the 4th Am’ re MAL search,” wrote former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman. “Presumably, he means a motion to suppress evidence, which people file once charged (but not before), & he’ll surely lose.”
And University of Texas Law professor Steve Vladeck wrote: “Wait until he finds out that SCOTUS has made it virtually impossible to sue federal law enforcement officers for even egregious violations of the Fourth Amendment.”
Trump’s post-presidency office did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-raid-trump-hints-legal-action-lawyers-defense-2022-8
Without a January child tax credit payment, Jen Cousins will have to wait a few extra months to replace the brakes on her minivan, the only car her family of six owns.
Cousins, 44, a stay-at-home mom in Orlando, Florida, has been receiving the full credit for each of her four children ages six, eight, twelve and thirteen for the past six months. She’s put most of the extra money toward medical expenses – the entire family wears glasses, one child needs special prescription eye drops and speech therapy and soon, her oldest kids will need braces.
Her husband, Matt, 43, works as a software architect and has insurance through work, but it only covers him, so the family pays almost $1,000 each month to insure Jen and the kids, she said. Plus, additional out-of-pocket expenses always come up.
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“When you have four kids, weird things come up all the time,” she said. “Somebody breaks something, and you’ve got a $400 ER visit you’ve got to pay.”
Without the credit, her family budget will tighten significantly, she said. Some 35 million families with 65 million children face the new year without a generous tax cut.
“We can already feel the pinch,” she said of missing just one monthly check. “It’s figuring out where are we going to trim stuff, because it has been a really good support system for us to have for the last six months.”
The enhanced child tax credit
In March 2020, the passage of the American Rescue Plan enhanced the existing child tax credit, increasing the benefit to $3,000 from $2,00 and adding $600 for children under the age of 6 for the 2021 tax year.
The first half of the credit was delivered to families via monthly checks that started in July and went through December. The second half will come when people file their 2021 tax returns this year.
If the benefit had been extended, as Democrats proposed in the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better plan, another check would’ve likely been sent in the second week of January.
“After just six months of payments, the evidence is clear. The expanded and improved monthly Child Tax Credit, a policy I have been working on since 2003, works,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Ct. “It was a lifeline for the middle class — the biggest middle class tax cut we have seen in generations — and lifted 50 percent of children out of poverty.”
Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/23/families-arent-getting-child-tax-credit-checks-for-first-time-in-6-months.html