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Putin Declares a Nuclear Alert, and Biden Seeks De-escalation – The New York Times
Putin Declares a Nuclear Alert, and Biden Seeks De-escalation – The New York Times

The immediate concern is that a heightened alert level, by design, loosens the safeguards on nuclear weapons, making it more possible that they could be used, by accident or design.

In recent years, Russia has adopted a doctrine that lowers the threshold for using nuclear arms, and for making public threats of unleashing their powers in deadly atomic strikes.

“It’s what he does,” Hans M. Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, a global policy think tank in Washington, said in an interview. “It’s verbal saber-rattling. We’ll see where he goes with it. This war is four days old and he’s already made nuclear threats twice.”

Mr. Kristensen noted that in 2014, when Mr. Putin annexed Crimea, the peninsular part of southern Ukraine that juts into the Black Sea, the Russian president also raised the possibility that his forces might turn to atomic weapons. He recalled that when Mr. Putin was asked how he would react to retaliatory sanctions by the West, he “said he was willing to put his nuclear forces on alert.”

Mr. Putin’s announcement on Sunday came hours after Europe and the United States announced new sanctions, including banning some Russian banks from using the SWIFT financial messaging system, which settles international accounts, and crippling the Russian central bank’s ability to stabilize a falling ruble.

Matthew Kroenig, a professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University who specializes in atomic strategy, said history bristled with cases in which nuclear powers had threatened to unleash their arsenals on one another. He pointed to the Berlin crisis of the late 1950s, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, a border war between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, and a war between India and Pakistan in 1999.

He also noted that Mr. Trump had leveled similar threats against Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, after his armed forces conducted a series of long-range missile tests. In his first year in office, 2017, Mr. Trump threatened “fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

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Inside Mississippi’s 4th Covid wave: Younger patients, crying nurses and 7 ICU beds left – NBC News
Inside Mississippi’s 4th Covid wave: Younger patients, crying nurses and 7 ICU beds left – NBC News
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U.S. Announces It Will Withdraw From Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia – NPR
U.S. Announces It Will Withdraw From Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia – NPR

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells reporters Friday that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells reporters Friday that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.

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The Trump administration announced Friday that the United States will formally begin the process of withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Cold War-era arms control accord with Russia.

The declaration by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been expected for months. He said the U.S. will suspend its obligations under the 1987 INF treaty as of Saturday and pull out in six months if Russia isn’t deemed to be in compliance.

“For years, Russia has violated the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty without remorse,” Pompeo said in Washington.

“To this day,” he added, “Russia remains in material breach of its treaty obligations not to produce, possess or flight test a ground-launched intermediate range cruise missile system with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers [about 300 to 3,400 miles].”

President Trump said in a statement Friday that the U.S. “cannot be the only country in the world unilaterally bound by this treaty, or any other. We will move forward with developing our own military response options and will work with NATO and our other allies and partners to deny Russia any military advantage from its unlawful conduct.”

Pompeo said the U.S. has spent the past six years trying to preserve the treaty. “We have raised Russia’s noncompliance with Russian officials, including at the highest levels of government more than 30 times, yet Russia continues to deny that its missile system is noncompliant and violates the treaty.”

Russia has said it will not tolerate ultimatums and that the U.S. decided long ago to exit the treaty.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Washington of being “unwilling to hold any substantial talks” on the treaty with Moscow, according to the Associated Press.

Peskov acknowledged last year that “there are bottlenecks” but said withdrawal from the treaty would result in an escalation that would “make the world more dangerous.”

When asked if he was concerned about an arms race with Russia, Pompeo said: “The very risk that you identify is the one that we are suffering from today. The Russians are in violation of the agreement. … They have begun to move towards what it is, the risk you have just identified.”

A senior U.S. administration official said in a background briefing Friday that if there is an arms race, Russia started it by deploying cruise missiles in breach of the treaty.

Moscow denies that its missiles are in violation and has accused the U.S. of breaking the treaty terms “because it has batteries of missile defense systems in Europe that they say could be used against Russia,” as NPR’s David Welna has reported.

NATO expressed its support for the U.S. announcement on Friday. “Allies regret that Russia, as part of its broader pattern of behaviour, continues to deny its INF Treaty violation, refuses to provide any credible response, and has taken no demonstrable steps toward returning to full and verifiable compliance,” NATO said in a statement.

The organization urged Russia to use the remaining six months before the U.S. withdrawal takes effect. Unless it verifiably destroys all of its 9M729 ground-launched cruise missile systems, “Russia will bear sole responsibility for the end of the Treaty,” NATO said.

When Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sat down with President Ronald Reagan in the White House East Room to sign the 1987 treaty, it was hailed as a harbinger of reconciliation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

In 2014, officials in the Obama administration said Russia had illegally deployed land-based cruise missiles capable of striking targets in Eastern Europe but did not seek to end the treaty.

Trump signaled in October that the accord was on shaky ground, saying that “Russia has not, unfortunately, honored the agreement. So we’re going to terminate the agreement. We’re gonna pull out.”

Then in December, Pompeo said the U.S. would give Russia 60 days to come into compliance before formally withdrawing from the INF in six months.

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Florida judge blocks new law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks – The Washington Post
Florida judge blocks new law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks – The Washington Post

Roe v. Wade and abortion access in America

Roe v. Wade overturned: The Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade, which for nearly 50 years has protected the right to abortion. Read the full decision here.

What happens next?: The legality of abortion will be left to individual states. That likely will mean 52 percent of women of childbearing age would face new abortion limits. Thirteen states with “trigger bans” will ban abortion within 30 days. Several other states where recent antiabortion legislation has been blocked by the courts are expected to act next.

State legislation: As Republican-led states move to restrict abortion, The Post is tracking legislation across the country on 15-week bans, Texas-style bans, trigger laws and abortion pill bans, as well as Democratic-dominated states that are moving to protect abortion rights enshrined in Roe v. Wade.

How our readers feel: In the hours that followed the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Washington Post readers responded in droves to a callout asking how they felt — and why.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/30/florida-abortion-law/

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Disney World’s special status dealt another blow by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – NPR
Disney World’s special status dealt another blow by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – NPR
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Statement from President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – The White House
Statement from President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – The White House
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Search intensifies in Alabama after 2 tornadoes hit back-to-back in one county, killing at least 23 people – CNN
Search intensifies in Alabama after 2 tornadoes hit back-to-back in one county, killing at least 23 people – CNN

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    Both sides claimed victory after the ruling, but the Los Angeles Times reported that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, may have to return a $130,000 payment from Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen.

    Judge S. James Otero ruled in U.S. District Court that the suit was irrelevant after Daniels “received exactly what she wanted” when the president and his former personal lawyer agreed to rescind a nondisclosure agreement Daniels signed in exchange for a $130,000 payment, according to the Times.

    “Combined with the attorneys’ fees and sanctions award in the president’s favor totaling $293,000, the president has achieved total victory,” Trump lawyer Charles Harder said, referring to Daniels’ defamation suit. That amount doesn’t include the $130,000 payment.

    Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ lawyer, also claimed victory after the ruling.

    “How people can claim this is a ‘loss’ after we forced Trump and Cohen to cave and Cohen has been convicted, etc. is a mystery,” he tweeted.

    MICHAEL COHEN SUES TRUMP ORGANIZATION FOR MILLIONS

    Daniels had wanted a court to declare the agreement illegal so she could speak out without fear of financial penalties if she violated the agreement.

    Cohen said he arranged the payment to silence Daniels and help Trump win the presidency. Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign violations.

    Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-dismisses-stormy-daniels-nondisclosure-lawsuit-may-have-to-pay-cohen-back-the-130g-report

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    Las noticias más impactantes de este martes 31 de mayo en Honduras y el mundo – La Prensa de Honduras
    Las noticias más impactantes de este martes 31 de mayo en Honduras y el mundo – La Prensa de Honduras

    El pastor Alberto Solórzano, miembro de la Comisión Depuradora de la Policía Nacional de Honduras, denunció este martes supuestas amenazas de muerte provenientes, según él, de miembros de esa institución armada que se sienten incómodos por el proceso de depuración. Lea la noticia completa.

    Source Article from http://www.laprensa.hn/honduras/965593-410/las-noticias-m%C3%A1s-impactantes-de-este-martes-31-de-mayo-en-honduras

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    Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism adds to the fierce campus debate about Israel and Palestinian rights – The Washington Post
    Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism adds to the fierce campus debate about Israel and Palestinian rights – The Washington Post

    At George Washington University, a student’s video — which included a graphic indicating that it was filmed on the Jewish New Year’s holiday of Rosh Hashanah — convulsed the campus earlier this year. In the video, according to the Hatchet, the student newspaper, a person asks a student, “What are we going to do to Israel?” The student responds, “Bro, we’re going to f—ing bomb Israel, bro. F— out of here, Jewish pieces of s—.”

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/12/11/trumps-executive-order-anti-semitism-plunges-into-fierce-campus-conflicts-about-israel-palestine/

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    Últimas noticias del mundo hoy: Trump se reunió con líderes de la comunidad hispana – lagranepoca
    Últimas noticias del mundo hoy: Trump se reunió con líderes de la comunidad hispana – lagranepoca

    Trump se reunió con líderes de la comunidad hispana

    Durante esta semana el presidente electo de EE. UU. Donald Trump desarrolló una intensa actividad al reunirse con sectores diversos y líderes de la comunidad hispana en ese país.

    El lunes, a pesar de los choques que Trump tuvo con Univisión durante su campaña electoral, se reunió con Randy Falco, presidente y CEO de Univision Communications, y con Isaac Lee, director de noticias, entretenimiento y contenido digital de la empresa.

    “Tuvimos una maravillosa reunión, muy productiva. El presidente electo Donald Trump está muy interesado en todos los temas que afectan a nuestra comunidad y está comprometido en hablarle a nuestra comunidad”, dijo Falco, según Univisión.

    Artículo completo aquí

    Intensa semana de reuniones de Trump con líderes de la comunidad hispana (cortesía)

    Detienen en México implicado en el asesinato de la dirigente hondureña Berta Cáceres

    El Ministerio Público de Honduras informó este jueves que capturó en México al “séptimo implicado” en el asesinato de la dirigente indígena hondureña Berta Cáceres.

    La detención del presunto implicado, identificado por las autoridades como Henry Daniel Hernández, se produjo en Tamaulipas, México este jueves 13 de enero.

    Berta se destacó principalmente por su activismo medioambiental siendo especialmente mediática su actividad en contra de la privatización de los ríos y los proyectos de presas hidroeléctricas de privatización de los inversores internacionales.

    España extradita al narcotraficante mexicano “Mono” Muñoz

    Este viernes en su reunión semanal el gobierno español decidió conceder a Estados Unidos la extradición del mexicano Juan Manuel Muñoz Luévano, alias el ‘Mono Muñoz’, por su presunta responsabilidad en tráfico de drogas, tenencia ilícita de armas y blanqueo de capitales, según informó el Ejecutivo español.

    El año pasado Muñoz Luévano fue detenido en Madrid por delitos de blanqueo de dinero y narcotráfico. España entregará al preso a Estados Unidos, donde es sospechoso de liderar una organización de tráfico de estupefacientes asociada al cártel mexicano de ‘Los Zetas’, que se dedicaba a la importación de cocaína desde México hasta los Estados Unidos desde finales de los años noventa hasta 2015, indicó la cadena española Televisa

    Venezuela: Falleció el comunicador Ramón Pasquier a los 52 años

    Tras batallar por más de dos años contra un cáncer de pulmón, la noche de este jueves falleció el periodista venezolano, Ramón Pasquier, a los 52 años.

    Pasquier es uno de los referentes de la radio venezolana contemporánea. Su carrera también destacó en la televisión por programas que lograron importante lugares de sintonía, gracias a su calidad y credibilidad.

    El comunicador egresó  de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, mención publicidad y relaciones públicas. Trabajó junto a Albany Lozada en el Circuito Unión Radio y tenían un programa de actualidad en la plataforma Vivo Play.

    Pasquier se caracterizó por ser muy crítico con el chavismo y logró captar muchos seguidores a lo largo de su carrera. El mundo periodístico está acongojado por la pérdida.

    En medio de las amenazas norcoreanas Seúl refuerza alianza con EE.UU.

    El ministro de Defensa surcoreano, Han Min-koo, prometió este viernes fortalecer aún más la alianza con Estados Unidos para garantizar la paz y estabilidad en la península coreana, en medio de las crecientes amenazas norcoreanas, informó Yonhap.

    En una reunión con los expertos en defensa, Han dijo que la situación de seguridad en la península coreana es “grave”, señalando el firme propósito del líder norcoreano Kim Jong-un de seguir adelante e intensificar sus programas de desarrollo nuclear y de misiles, incluso uno intercontinental –con autonomía de más de 13.000 kilómetros) que podría llegar a territorio estadounidense.

    Han dijo que mantener una fuerte alianza con Estados Unidos es clave para garantizar la seguridad irrefutable de Corea del Sur.

    Sus comentarios tuvieron lugar después de que el general retirado James Mattis, quien se convertirá en el próximo secretario de Defensa de la administración estadounidense entrante de Donald Trump, dijera este jueves que el desarrollo nuclear y de misiles de Corea del Norte es una seria amenaza y que hay que hacer algo al respecto.

    El líder norcoreano, Kim Jong Un. Foto: KNS/AFP/Getty Images

    La Gran Época le recomienda el siguiente artículo: 5 acciones que puedes tomar para detener el genocidio del Siglo XXI

    Source Article from http://www.lagranepoca.com/ultimas-noticias/110061-ultimas-noticias-mundo-13-enero.html

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    Trump blames Biden-Harris ‘rhetoric’ for latest assassination attempt, says he will ‘save the country’ – Fox News
    Trump blames Biden-Harris ‘rhetoric’ for latest assassination attempt, says he will ‘save the country’ – Fox News
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    Democrats distract with ‘kids in cages’ because they don’t care to fix the real illegal immigration problem – Washington Examiner
    Democrats distract with ‘kids in cages’ because they don’t care to fix the real illegal immigration problem – Washington Examiner

    House Democrats on Wednesday will hold a hearing titled “Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border.” It will once again be an attempt to divert attention from the real reason why migrants kids are dying at the southern border.

    The root of each and every death at the border is traced to a belief, on the part of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans, that they can and should show up after a dangerous 2,000-mile journey and throw themselves into the care of a stretched-thin U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    It’s not the “cages” that infected these exhausted, worn down people with the flu. It’s not the overcrowded ICE detention facilities that have compromised their health. It’s not a lack of medical attention that has turned southern Texas into an infirmary for all of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

    It’s Congress, and Democrats in particular. It’s the absolute refusal to do anything that would stop these people from risking their lives in the first place.

    Anyone who has been listening to the desperate warnings from the Departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Defense for the past year already knows that our immigration system is collapsing. It’s being crushed under the weight of countless migrants showing up at the border, all of them aware that we can’t cope with the sheer number of them and thus will have to eventually be turned loose in to the country.

    But the national news media play stupid. The Washington Post described the hearing scheduled for Wednesday as an opportunity for Democrats “to question the impact of Trump’s immigration policies.”

    No, “Trump’s immigration policies” aren’t having an impact. They were to build a wall, move to a merit-based immigration system, and halt illegal border crossings. He has accomplished precisely none of those things. The administration has instead been thrown into chaos trying to manage — not reduce or stop, but manage — the new gush of migrants pushing their way into Texas.

    The only “impact” we should be asking about is the impact on the American taxpayer, tasked with providing endless food, clothing, medicine, and legal services to all of these migrants, while Congress does nothing to solve the problem.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion-democrats-distract-with-kids-in-cages-because-they-dont-care-to-fix-the-real-illegal-immigration-problem

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    Supreme Court to Hear Case on State Legislatures’ Power Over Elections – The New York Times
    Supreme Court to Hear Case on State Legislatures’ Power Over Elections – The New York Times

    But a ruling favoring the independent state legislature doctrine has consequences that could extend well beyond congressional maps. Such a decision, legal experts say, could limit a state court’s ability to strike down any new voting laws regarding federal elections, and could restrict their ability to make changes on Election Day, like extending polling hours at a location that opened late because of bad weather or technical difficulties.

    “I just can’t overstate how consequential, how radical and consequential this could be,” said Wendy Weiser, the vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice. “Essentially no one other than Congress would be allowed to rein in some of the abuses of state legislatures.”

    The decision to hear the case comes as Republican-led state legislatures across the country have sought to wrest more authority over the administration of elections from nonpartisan election officials and secretaries of state. In Georgia, for example, a law passed last year stripped the secretary of state of significant power, including as chair of the State Elections Board.

    Such efforts to take more partisan control over election administration have worried some voting rights organizations that state legislatures are moving toward taking more extreme steps in elections that do not go their way, akin to plans hatched by former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team in the waning days of his presidency.

    “The night­mare scen­ario,” the Brennan Center wrote in June, “is that a legis­lature, displeased with how an elec­tion offi­cial on the ground has inter­preted her state’s elec­tion laws, would invoke the theory as a pretext to refuse to certify the results of a pres­id­en­tial elec­tion and instead select its own slate of elect­ors.”

    Legal experts note that there are federal constitutional checks that would prevent a legislature from simply declaring after an election that it will ignore the popular vote and send an alternate slate of electors. But should the legislature pass a law before an election, for example, setting the parameters by which a legislature could take over an election and send its slate of electors, that could be upheld under the independent state legislature doctrine.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/us/politics/state-legislatures-elections-supreme-court.html

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    Reporter stays with Taliban fighters as they enter Kabul airport hangar – Fox News
    Reporter stays with Taliban fighters as they enter Kabul airport hangar – Fox News
    Video

    Veterans organization works nonstop to help evacuate Afghan interpreters

    Tarjoman.org assists interpreters, families navigating around the Taliban

    A reporter stayed with several Taliban fighters who were seen entering a hangar at Kabul airport to examine Chinook helicopters left behind following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a report. 

    Gunfire could apparently be heard as several Taliban fighters wielding U.S. supplied military gear and weapons casually walk around the hangar, which was previously under U.S. control, according to a video posted Monday by Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent Nabih Bulos.

    “We’re here right now with the Taliban as they enter … what was only minutes ago … an American-controlled portion of the military airport,” Bulos said as he walked with the fighters in the video. “Now, they’ve taken over.”

    VETERANS ORGANIZATION WORKS TO EVACUATE AFGHAN INTERPRETERS DESPERATE TO FIND SAFETY AS US TROOPS WITHDRAW

    Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit, wielding American supplied weapons, equipment and uniforms, storm into the Kabul International Airport to secure the airport and inspect the equipment that was left behind after the U.S. Military have completed their withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

    Bulos didn’t immediately respond to a late-night request for comment from Fox News. 

    Earlier on Monday, the Pentagon announced that all U.S. troops have departed Afghanistan. The final C-17 carrying service members lifted off from the airport at 3:29 pm U.S. Eastern Time. 

    The removal of U.S. troops met the Aug. 31 deadline the Biden administration agreed to with the Taliban — officially ending America’s longest war.

    Bulos later posted another video of Taliban fighters celebrating the U.S. withdrawal by firing tracer rounds into Kabul’s night sky. 

    “There’s a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure,” CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said of the closing down of evacuation operations. “We did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out.”

    The general added that the ISIS threat to the operation was “very real” until the end, with “overwhelming” U.S. airpower circling overhead in an attempt to prevent further attacks. 

    He said a number of American citizens, likely numbering in “the very low hundreds,” were left behind, though he believes they will still be able to leave the country.

    In addition to the people left behind in Kabul, McKenzie said the U.S. also left behind equipment such as the C-RAM (counter-artillery, artillery, and mortar) system that was used to shoot down rockets, as well as dozens of armored Humvees and some aircraft. The general noted the equipment had been disabled and none of it was mission capable.

    ARMY UNIT POSTS PHOTO OF LAST US SOLDIER TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN

    The U.S. provided an estimated $83 billion worth of training and equipment – including aircraft, armored vehicles, rifles, and tactical gear – to the Afghan military and security forces.

    After the U.S. troop withdrawal, retired 2-Star Army General Vincent Boles told Fox News that the Taliban shouldn’t get too comfortable. 

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    “Be careful what you ask for,” Boles said. “Now they have to show they can govern a nation and people that are very different than when they left power. Will the Taliban go forward to the future or pull Afghanistan back to the past? The answer will be in their behavior… behavior is believable.”

    Fox News’ Tyler O’Neil and Michael Lee contributed to this report

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-fighters-kabul-airport-hangar-examine-helicopters-us-troops-depart-afghanistan

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    Marcus Eriz, Wynne Lee Arrested In 55 Freeway Shooting Death Of 6-Year-Old Aiden Leos – CBS Los Angeles
    Marcus Eriz, Wynne Lee Arrested In 55 Freeway Shooting Death Of 6-Year-Old Aiden Leos – CBS Los Angeles

    COSTA MESA (CBSLA) — A couple in their 20s were arrested outside their home in Costa Mesa Sunday night in connection to the 55 Freeway road rage shooting that took the life of 6-year-old Aiden Leos on May 21.

    A makeshift memorial on the Walnut Avenue overpass of the 55 Freeway in Orange on May 27, 2021 for Aiden Leos. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

    Sources tell CBSLA that 24-year-old Marcus Anthony Eriz and 23-year-old Wynne Lee are boyfriend and girlfriend. Eriz is suspected of being the shooter, while Lee is believed to have been the driver.

    CBSLA learned that California Highway Patrol investigators had been watching the couple and followed them from a restaurant before arresting them outside their Costa Mesa home.

    Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer told CBSLA that murder charges may be on the table, but that a decision on the exact charges will come in the next 48 hours, after prosecutors have been fully briefed on evidence gathered by CHP investigators.

    Law enforcement officials also reported that they know where the suspects’ vehicle is located, as well as the gun used in the shooting and that they are working to secure the firearm.

    Family members and pallbearers walk with the casket of Aiden Leos as they leave the Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda following a memorial service on June 5, 2021, in Yorba Linda. (Mark Rightmire/Orange County Register/Getty Images)

    “We’ll be and we are as we speak executing search warrants to get additional evidence that we’re going to and want to collect,” Spitzer told reporters Sunday night. “And we’re putting this case together. I feel very, very good about the case.”

    A memorial service for Leos was held Saturday.

    On the morning of May 21, Leos was in a booster seat in the back of his mother’s Chevrolet Sonic, on his way to kindergarten in Yorba Linda, when the shooting incident occurred on the northbound 55 Freeway in the city of Orange.

    Joanna Cloonan, Aiden’s mother was involved in a road rage incident with the occupants of a white Volkswagen station wagon over a perceived unsafe lane change, according to CHP. Detectives believe a woman was driving and a man, who was in the front passenger seat, committed the shooting itself.

    Per sources close to the case, both suspects are being held at the Orange County Jail on $1 million bond each. The reward for information leading to the arrest of the  suspects has surpassed $500,000. So far there’s been no word on whether anyone will receive that.

    CHP officials said they plan to hold a press conference on Monday.

    Cheryl Gish, an O.C. resident, heard news of the arrest and came with her husband to the memorial site for Aiden on the Walnut Avenue overpass above the 55 Freeway.

    “I’m thankful that they have somebody in custody,” Gish told CBSLA Sunday. “It doesn’t bring the little boy back, little Aiden’s gone, but I’m so thankful some justice will be served.”

    “Every time I pass the freeway, I want to cry,” added Jessie Palomo, who brought her children, who are near the same age as Aiden, to the memorial. They lit candles and paid their respects.

    “This is now a place that everyone knows about, sadly, in a sad, tragic way,” Palomo said. “But as a community, we’ve always got to stand together.”

    Source Article from https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/06/07/marcus-eriz-wynne-lee-arrested-made-in-connection-to-55-freeway-shooting-death-of-6-year-old-aiden-leos-costa-mesa-boyfriend-and-girlfriend-in-custody/

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    Newsom’s new mask order won’t sit well with the resistance. – Los Angeles Times
    Newsom’s new mask order won’t sit well with the resistance. – Los Angeles Times

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Thursday order for everyone in the state to wear a face covering while in public or high-risk settings is going to be cheered and jeered, guaranteed.

    I know this because that’s what happened to me after my Wednesday column about why some people resist wearing masks, even as COVID-19 infections and deaths continue to rise.

    A reader named Paul had this to say:

    “I think you should have used some stronger language than you did: call these folks selfish.”

    But a reader named Robert was definitely a jeerer.

    “Take a look in the mirror. In your case a mask is a good thing.”

    That’s not nice. And Robert, who was just getting warmed up, went on to say:

    “My wife and I both visited our physicians in the past week. Both advised to avoid wearing masks as much as possible. These are real doctors, not the ones you visit in the park down the alley behind the liquor store. Choke on your own mask dumbass!”

    My doctor’s office is not in an alley, but I do need a drink. Maybe it will help get me through my inbox in this crazy time when so many people have worked themselves into a lather of defiance over a simple precautionary procedure that can save lives.

    This is their brave and noble crusade? They’re anti-mask?

    The good news — for me, at least — is that most of the people who responded to my column were not rooting for me to choke on a mask. Readers by and large shared my disdain for the resistance movement, and offered their own explanation for what’s going on.

    “I am convinced the problem stems from a true lack of leadership on a national level,” wrote Howard. “When the president … refuses to wear a mask or social distance, it leaves the door open for millions of Americans to take off their masks and follow his lead…. People see stories of ‘reopening’ and … think the virus is adhering to man-made declarations.”

    I think Howard is on to something there.

    This is not the age of enlightenment, folks.

    We’ve got a president who ignores the advice of his own public health experts and thinks we should look into injecting Lysol to beat back the coronavirus. And yet the loyal masses are expected to swarm a Trump rally Saturday in Tulsa despite pleas of local health officials to cancel.

    Yes, we do need to get people back to work, but in much of the country, we could not be much dumber about how we’re reopening. You see mob scenes everywhere, with unmasked revelers shoulder to shoulder.

    Several readers noted that massive demonstrations against police brutality may have added to the spread of the coronavirus. That’s surely possible, but I saw lots of masks out there at the protests. And there’s no disputing that COVID-19 cases are soaring in some states that trampled sensible protocols for reopening gradually and intelligently.

    California is no gold medal winner in this regard, which is one reason Newsom went from nice guy to tough guy on Thursday.

    “Simply put, we are seeing too many people with faces uncovered — putting at risk the real progress we have made in fighting the disease,” the governor said.

    A lot of my readers feel the same way.

    “I live in Orange County and have been asking myself why so many people are not wearing masks,” said Shannon. “Personally, I care enough to wear a mask to protect others and get angry at the stupidity of those who don’t. I … have a child that works at Starbucks and she worries all the time that the people who don’t bother to wear a mask may be giving her COVID and in turn infect our family.”

    Speaking of Orange County, a reader named Diane had something to say about the item in my column on the public health director who resigned after she received a death threat and was compared to Hitler for requiring face coverings.

    “As the daughter of Holocaust survivors who suffered under the real Hitler, I am doubly appalled by the idiots who have the gall to compare the former head of the Orange County health agency, who was simply following the best medical knowledge, to the person who caused the death of millions,” said Diane. “Unbelievable.”

    A reader named Jackie said she and her husband are in their 70s and keeping indoors for the most part.

    “I can’t believe how much ageism is on full display regarding COVID-19. Younger folks, especially, are seen all over the U.S., without masks, drinking, partying, or going about their daily activities as if nothing is wrong,” said Jackie, who thinks that’s going to delay a full recovery.

    “I see our self-isolation extending way into the future, with no end in sight,” she said.

    From across the divide, a reader named Jim seems to think that if not for Trump’s leadership we would have seen 2 million deaths by now, and guess what:

    I did just choke on my mask.

    Bob said it’s time to open everything without restrictions. The impact won’t be that bad, in his opinion.

    “Those under 40 might get a slight cough,” said Bob, who must go to the same doctor as Robert, who wants me to choke on my mask. “The 40-65 group might need a few days off. Those older than 65 will have to make a risk assessment if they have an underlying condition.”

    Just a reminder: We are approaching 120,000 deaths in the U.S.

    Jon called me one of the “pro muzzlers,” said he was going on a 35-mile bike ride without a mask, and suggested there’d be more compliance if I wasn’t such a fascist.

    Actually, Jon, I wouldn’t wear a mask on a bike ride or taking a walk in the woods, if I could stay far away from other people. But in settings where you can’t social distance, is it that much of a sacrifice to protect someone near you in the event you might be positive but asymptomatic?

    Louise called herself an elder who wears a mask and gloves when she goes outside, but thinks that the threat of the disease is overstated and that the spread of the virus among young people will lead to immunity for all.

    “I feel that in the big scheme of life the pandemic is really a panic-demic,” she said.

    It’s a nice idea, and similar to the approach in Sweden, but the latest statistics from that country are not terribly encouraging.

    “Nobody has a clue about the true infection/exposure rate,” argued Tim. “The most frequent statistic I have read is that 80% of COVID-19 exposures are either mild or asymptomatic. The death rate is therefore quite low.”

    But if we know that distancing, hand washing and face covering can prevent spread and save lives, why do we have to be such hardheads?

    A study from Germany found that the use of masks after wearing them became compulsory reduced the spread of COVID there. And another new study estimates that in New York City, the use of masks prevented 66,000 additional cases of COVID-19.

    The virus attacks the lungs of those who contract it. But its very presence among us also seems to be destroying common sense and consideration of others.

    “I have a cousin who won’t wear a mask because he says it’s unconstitutional. It takes away his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” said a reader named Rick, who added one last word.

    “WOW.”

    steve.lopez@latimes.com

    Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-18/column-newsoms-new-mask-order-wont-sit-well-with-the-resistance-i-know-theyre-packing-my-inbox

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    Trump admin gave green light to nuclear permits for Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi killing – NBC News
    Trump admin gave green light to nuclear permits for Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi killing – NBC News

    WASHINGTON — The Trump administration approved the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia twice after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, according to information shared with members of Congress.

    Citing records provided by the Department of Energy, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said Tuesday that the Trump administration had given the green light to U.S. energy firms to export technology and know-how to Saudi Arabia on Oct. 18, 2018 — only 16 days after Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The administration then approved another transfer on Feb. 18.

    Congressional staffers from both parties told NBC News that Kaine’s account was accurate. An Energy Department official confirmed the timing of the two approvals.

    Kaine is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which had requested details on seven transfers of nuclear expertise to Saudi Arabia, including the timing of the approvals in each case.

    “It has taken the Trump Administration more than two months to answer a simple question — when did you approve transfers of nuclear expertise from American companies to Saudi Arabia? And the answer is shocking,” Kaine said in a statement.

    Khashoggi was a U.S. legal resident living in Virginia, which Kaine represents, and the columnist’s killing sparked outrage around the world and prompted demands in Congress for the administration to punish Riyadh over the case.

    Kaine said the approvals represented a “disturbing pattern of behavior” by the Trump administration that he said included bypassing Congress to push through an arms sale to Saudi Arabia, keeping up its support of the Saudi-led war in Yemen, overlooking the detention of women’s rights activists and failing to comply with a law that requires the administration to reach a determination about the Saudi government’s role in the killing of Khashoggi.

    “President Trump’s eagerness to give the Saudis anything they want, over bipartisan Congressional objection, harms American national security interests and is one of many steps the administration is taking that is fueling a dangerous escalation of tension in the region,” Kaine said.

    Henry Sokolski, the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and a former senior U.S. official who oversaw arms control issues, said the Trump administration has clearly been in violation of the Atomic Energy Act, which requires the president to keep lawmakers informed about nuclear cooperation negotiations.

    “We’ve had people in the administration who have negotiated with the Saudis without informing Congress,” he said. Kaine’s statement indicates that “Congress is finally getting woke on this subject. “

    The Trump administration’s reluctance to pressure Saudi Arabia or publicly criticize the kingdom over a range of issues — including the Khashoggi case — has prompted pushback from lawmakers from both parties. But the administration has defended its dealings with Riyadh, saying the country remains a vital ally in the Middle East against Iran.

    Saudi Arabia plans to build nuclear power plants with help from U.S. companies, but so far it has refused to agree to safeguards to ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons, including a prohibition on uranium enrichment and reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.

    Republican Sens. Todd Young of Indiana and Marco Rubio of Florida and Democrats Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Kaine have introduced a bill demanding the government allow Congress to review all transfers of nuclear technology and expertise in advance.

    Separately, the Government Accountability Office is reviewing the Trump administration’s negotiations with Saudi Arabia, as well as any negotiation by the executive branch since December 2009, regarding a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. Rubio and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., requested the review in March.

    Kaine had demanded details about the timing of the transfers for months. But after the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. James E. Risch, R-Idaho, vowed to personally intervene on the issue at an open hearing last month, the Energy Department provided the information.

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    Young Black voters say they aren’t enthusiastic about a Joe Biden presidency – USA TODAY
    Young Black voters say they aren’t enthusiastic about a Joe Biden presidency – USA TODAY

    Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/07/08/joe-biden-young-black-voters-say-not-excited-candidate/5344135002/

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    Seven bikers killed after truck plows through riders in the US – TVNZ
    Seven bikers killed after truck plows through riders in the US – TVNZ

    The pickup truck was towing a flatbed trailer of the kind used to haul cars when it collided with the bikers on Friday (yesterday, NZT) on US 2, a two-lane highway in Randolph, police said.

    Source Article from https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/seven-bikers-killed-after-truck-plows-through-riders-in-us

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    Denver Schools Closed; Police Look For Woman With Columbine ‘Infatuation’ – NPR
    Denver Schools Closed; Police Look For Woman With Columbine ‘Infatuation’ – NPR

    A student leaves Columbine High School late Tuesday in Littleton, Colo. Authorities say they are looking for a woman they say presented a credible threat.

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    A student leaves Columbine High School late Tuesday in Littleton, Colo. Authorities say they are looking for a woman they say presented a credible threat.

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    More than a dozen school districts in Colorado are closed Wednesday after the FBI and local law enforcement warned of an 18-year-old white woman who is “armed and dangerous” in the Denver metropolitan area.

    Sol Pais flew from Miami to Denver on Monday and “immediately” bought a pump action shotgun and ammunition, FBI Denver Special Agent In Charge Dean Phillips told reporters Tuesday evening.

    Pais had “made some concerning comments in the past” and had an “infatuation” with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and its perpetrators, Phillips said at the press conference. She was last seen in the foothills of Jefferson County, in the metro Denver area.

    Phillips said law enforcement had no specific information about a threat to any one particular school, but they thought it was a “credible threat certainly to the community and potentially to schools.”

    “This has become a massive manhunt,” with multiple law enforcement agencies searching for Pais, Phillips said.

    The 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting is Saturday.

    Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock said Denver Public Schools will be closed Wednesday. Jefferson County (JeffCo) Public Schools, of which Columbine is a part, are closed as well. Fourteen other school districts in the area are closed as well, according to Colorado Public Radio.

    Pais had not been charged with a crime as of Tuesday evening, Phillips told reporters. Phillips said the FBI was working with federal prosecutors and local authorities were working with local prosecutors to bring charges against Pais.

    As of now, if Pais were found immediately, “we will certainly hold her for as long as we can legally,” Phillips said.

    Pais has no specific known connections to Colorado, Phillips said.

    Columbine High School and several others in Jefferson County were placed on “lockout” Tuesday, which means entry and exit are restricted while classes continue as usual.

    “We take these threats seriously,” Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader told reporters. It’s “not the first threat” to involve or reference Columbine, he said, and “I know that this opens a wound especially on an anniversary week.”

    Two students at Columbine High School killed 13 people and injured 24 more and then killed themselves on April 20, 1999. The incident has inspired other school shootings, researchers and journalists say.

    In the time since, Jefferson County Public Schools has built what The Washington Post described as “likely the most sophisticated school security system in the country,” with remote-control locks, cameras, a 24-hour dispatch center, monitoring of certain students and their social media accounts and more.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714205353/denver-area-schools-closed-as-authorities-search-for-armed-and-dangerous-woman

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