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Who is William Rick Singer, the college admissions cheating scandal’s alleged ringleader? – Fox News
Who is William Rick Singer, the college admissions cheating scandal’s alleged ringleader? – Fox News
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Federal officials detail charges in college admissions cheating scandal

William Rick Singer, founder of for-profit college prep business Edge College & Career Network also known as “The Key,” is allegedly the mastermind behind one of the largest college admissions scams to ever hit the U.S. and went to great lengths — which included pricey fees — to ensure his clients’ demands were met.

Singer, 58, has been called the “ringleader” behind the scheme, purportedly collecting roughly $25 million from dozens of individuals including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin over the course of nearly a decade to bribe school coaches and administrators into pretending their children were athletic recruits to ensure their admission into top tier colleges, prosecutors say.

The Newport Beach, Calif., businessman agreed to plead guilty in Boston federal court Tuesday to charges including racketeering conspiracy and obstruction of justice. As a part of his guilty plea, Singer said he would pay at least $3.4 million to the feds, The Boston Globe reports.

3 OF THE MOST BIZARRE DETAILS OF THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CHEATING SCANDAL

On his website for The Key, Singer describes himself as a dedicated father and coach who understands the pressure put on families surrounding college acceptances. The Key calls itself “the nation’s largest private life coaching and college counseling company.”

William Rick Singer, founder of the Edge College and Career Network, pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. 
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“As founder of The Key, I have spent the past 25 years helping students discover their life passion, and guiding them along with their families through the complex college admissions maze. Using The Key method, our coaches help unlock the full potential of your son or daughter, and set them on a course to excel in life,” Singer stated online, providing biographies for seven other “coaches.”

Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, reportedly claimed Singer’s clients paid him “anywhere between $200,000 and $6.5 million” for his unique services.

FELICITY HUFFMAN, LORI LOUGHLIN AMONG 50 SNARED IN ELITE COLLEGE CHEATING SCAM, AUTHORITIES SAY

Parents of prospective students allegedly conspired with a college entrance consultant to beat the system and ensure their students were admitted or had a better chance to be admitted to certain colleges or universities, including Yale, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Wake Forest and others.

“According to the charging documents, Singer facilitated cheating on the SAT and ACT exams for his clients by instructing them to seek extended time for their children on college entrance exams, which included having the children purport to have learning disabilities in order to obtain the required medical documentation,” the U.S. Justice Department explained, in part, in an online statement.

“Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do.”

— Andrew Lelling

However, that was just one of many ways Singer ensured the students got accepted to elite schools.

“Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do,” Lelling said, adding that it “appears that the schools are not involved.”

Prosecutors say the consultant represented to parents that the scheme had worked successfully more than 800 times.

Singer also served as CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF), a non-profit he claimed was a charity. Bribery payments were disguised as donations to KWF in sums up to $75,000 per SAT or ACT exam, the Justice Department said, noting that many students didn’t realize their parents had staged anything.

“This is a case where [the parents] flaunted their wealth, sparing no expense to cheat the system so they could set their children up for success with the best money can buy,” Joseph Bonavolonta from the FBI Boston Field Office said in a Tuesday news conference.

In total, 50 people — including more than 30 parents and nine coaches — were charged Tuesday in the scheme.

Fox News’ Katherine Lam,Travis Fedschun and The Assocaited Press contributed to this report.

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Mike Bloomberg is paying people to send their friends texts about him – Vox.com
Mike Bloomberg is paying people to send their friends texts about him – Vox.com

Bernie Sanders’s internet army is a driving force of his campaign. Mike Bloomberg appears to be trying to replicate it. But while the social media momentum behind Sanders is largely organic, much of Bloomberg’s is paid.

The former New York City mayor’s campaign is hiring hundreds of people in California to spread the pro-Bloomberg word on social media and via text message, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. His campaign is trying to bring on upward of 500 “deputy digital organizers” to promote Bloomberg to everyone in their phones’ contact lists and on their private social media accounts. And the pay isn’t bad: $2,500 a month for 20-30 hours per week of work.

The WSJ report lands just days after sponsored Bloomberg memes started popping up on big influencer accounts all over Instagram. It was part of a paid campaign the New York Times described as an effort to build a “self-aware ironic character” around Bloomberg.

Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is unprecedented in almost every way imaginable, including when it comes to the internet. And thanks to his more than $50 billion fortune, it’s turbocharged by what seems like an unlimited budget, at least when you compare its spending power to that of his Democratic rivals. According to the Washington Post, Bloomberg has already spent $50 million on digital ads, and he’s already spent an estimated $400 million on campaign ads overall. Bloomberg has said he’s prepared to spend up to $1 billion of his own money to defeat President Donald Trump in November, but if his candidacy continues at this rate, he’s on track to spend much more.

This isn’t entirely new, but Bloomberg’s budget makes it different

Anyone who is on a presidential campaign list is probably familiar with campaign text messages. Just last week, for example, someone representing the Sanders campaign sent me a fundraising text message, though it was addressed to “Spencer.” (Not sure how that happened.) And supporters of and volunteers for political campaigns post on social media about their preferred candidates all the time — the Trump campaign tries to influence voters through people they know instead of people they don’t.

As the WSJ notes, it’s common practice for campaigns to use volunteers and paid workers to run phone banks, knock on doors, and get out the word otherwise. Sometimes, groups promoting certain issues pay people to express support. In January, I wrote about a Democratic operative who was charging state parties and potentially others to get progressive celebrities to tweet about certain causes, though it’s unclear the celebrities knew the operative was being paid.

But Bloomberg paying people to leverage their social connections is unique. It’s one thing to pay someone to staff a phone bank and text phone numbers from voter files; it’s another to pay someone to access their personal contact list.

It also raises questions about disclosure rules around social media advertising. The Instagram memes Bloomberg is paying for are labeled as ads, but the rules around what counts as sponcon and what’s organic on this latest push are pretty blurry, per WSJ:

It is not clear if messages like those the Bloomberg campaign is suggesting would need to be labeled as sponsored content under Facebook’s disclosure rules. A Facebook spokeswoman said posts by outside “content creators” would require labels if a campaign paid for them, but that posts by campaign employees wouldn’t need to be labeled as ads. The company didn’t address how it would categorize posts by employees paid to promote content to their personal social networks.

A review of social media posts by some people being paid by the campaign found they aren’t labeled as sponsored content.

Federal regulators have said influencers who fail to disclose they’re being paid for ads might be breaking rules around deceptive marketing. A spokeswoman for Bloomberg told WSJ that the campaign doesn’t think the posts from the deputy field organizers require labels because it counts as political organizing and not paid influencer content. Spokespeople for the campaign did not return a request for comment from Recode.

Bloomberg’s spending makes everything bigger

Beyond paid digital advertising, political campaigns have a lot of ways of trying to get their message out on social media. Elizabeth Warren’s infamous selfie lines, for example, are a way for her to get thousands of pieces of organic content spread by her supporters online. Her practice of personally calling up supporters for a brief chat — which usually prompts these supporters to brag about it on social media — had a similar effect. And Sanders has an enormous organic online base behind him.

Bloomberg is trying to generate some of this buzz for his own campaign. On top of the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s spending on ads on television, the radio, and online, Bloomberg’s campaign has managed to do some organic social media work. The content has been weird but also kind of fun to watch.

But Bloomberg’s budget gives him the ability to basically do everything bigger and to try out strategies to see how they go without worrying about whether he’ll blow his budget. Is it fair? No. But the American political system, especially when it comes to money, isn’t fair.

It’s not clear whether paying influencers for awkward memes or compensating Californians for texting their friends will be an effective tactic for Bloomberg. But given how 2020 is going so far, it’s unlikely this is the last of Bloomberg’s unconventional campaign methods, on the internet or elsewhere.

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Appeals court grants Trump delay in financial records case – POLITICO
Appeals court grants Trump delay in financial records case – POLITICO

During the court session, Trump’s personal attorney William Consovoy urged the judges to prevent Vance from immediately accessing the documents, which Vance has said he urgently needs to pursue potential criminal activity involving the Trump Organization.

One of the three judges, John Walker Jr., sounded particularly receptive to arguments from Trump’s lawyers that grand jury subpoenas Vance’s office issued are too broad.

“It has the feeling of overbreadth,” said Walker, an appointee — and first cousin — of the late President George H.W. Bush.

Although the Supreme Court issued a ruling in July unanimously rejecting Trump’s claims of absolute immunity from such criminal investigations while in office, Walker stressed that the opinion still endorsed “heightened respect that’s due the president” and called for “necessarily meticulous review.”

Walker also questioned Vance’s need to pursue information from abroad, although Manhattan-based prosecutors have long prized their ability to use New York’s role as a financial nerve center to assert jurisdiction over transactions that span the globe.

“It just seems to me that it’s really very broad. … You’re asking [about] activity in Europe and Dubai and so forth. You’re a prosecutor in New York — in New York County, specifically,” Walker said.

Vance’s general counsel, Carey Dunne, said it is commonplace for the DA’s office to probe alleged wrongdoing in business dealings worldwide.

“There’s nothing unusual about our office asking about entities out of state or foreign transactions. New York City is a center of worldwide commerce,” Dunne said.”There’s a lot of international financial activity we have jurisdiction over.”

The other two judges on the panel — Clinton appointee Robert Katzmann and Obama appointee Raymond Lohier — gave fewer hints about their views of the substance of the Trump legal team’s arguments.

However, there seemed to be at least some openness among the judges to giving Trump’s lawyers time to fully brief the legal issues before the appeals court on an expedited basis, which could take the better part of a month.

At the conclusion of the roughly 30-minute argument session, Katzmann promised the panel would issue a decision on the president’s stay request by the end of the day.

Walker’s views could ultimately be of little significance on anything besides the timing of the case. Although he was on the panel that decided to grant the stay, he may not be one of the three judges assigned to rule on the merits of Trump’s appeal.

If Trump ultimately fails to win relief from the 2nd Circuit, his lawyers have already indicated they plan to take the dispute to the Supreme Court for a second time. That could leave the justices facing a politically sensitive emergency request from the president with just weeks or even days to go before Election Day.

While such a delay seems like an obvious goal for the president’s lawyers, Consovoy insisted Tuesday that his side is not trying to drag out the proceedings.

“Throughout this case, we have always accepted, and not resisted, expedited review,” he said.

Vance issued a subpoena a year ago for documents held by financial institutions connected to Trump, as well as overseas affiliates. Trump’s team initially claimed the president was exempt from such demands for as long as he remains in office, but that argument struck out in the Supreme Court, which turned aside his claim of “absolute immunity.”

However, the justices ruled that Trump may fight the subpoena on other, largely more conventional grounds, which triggered another, faster-paced round of litigation.

Within days, Trump’s team renewed its argument in federal district court, arguing that the subpoena is an overbroad fishing expedition issued for political purposes. The lower court judge, Victor Marrero, said the new claims had no merit and quickly ruled in Vance’s favor, tossing out Trump’s suit. But the appeals court appears poised to slam the brakes again.

Dunne told the three-judge panel that Consovoy’s new claims about the subpoena had no factual basis and the Trump legal team has presented no evidence to support claims of bad faith, he said. And further delays, he argued, hurt the DA’s ability to pursue potential crimes.

Dunne also stressed, as the DA’s office has repeatedly signaled in court filings in recent weeks, that the office’s investigation is not limited to probing the so-called hush money payments made in 2016 to women who appeared to be considering claiming sexual liaisons with Trump.

“We have tried to spell out, consistent with grand jury secrecy, all along, and I can represent to the court now, that each of the category of documents that was sought is directly relevant to a subject matter of our inquiry and, importantly, virtually all of those subject matters have been previously identified in public reports as examples of possible corporate wrongdoing,” the DA’s office lawyer said.

Dunne said Trump hadn’t shown any impropriety on the part of Vance’s office and that “the burden doesn’t shift to the prosecutor” to justify all aspects of the subpoenas just because Trump objected.

Lohier said he was worried that giving Trump the ability to continue to pursue his complaints would lead to grand juries at all levels being “mired in civil litigation.”

However, Consovoy said challenges to state grand jury proceedings in federal court are and will remain a rarity, but that, as president, Trump has the right to take the issue before federal judges. “I do not think this is the ordinary situation,” Trump’s attorney said.

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U.S. Navy Ship Virus Relief Efforts ‘A Joke’ As Hundreds of Beds Lay Empty – Newsweek
U.S. Navy Ship Virus Relief Efforts ‘A Joke’ As Hundreds of Beds Lay Empty – Newsweek

The relief effort of the U.S.N.S. Comfort, a hospital ship deployed to receive patients with conditions other than COVID-19 to create more beds at New York City hospitals for virus patients, has come under criticism following delays in admitting patients.

The ship, equipped with 1,000 hospital beds and 1,200 medical workers, has reportedly only taken 20 patients aboard since it began operations on April 1, with hundreds of beds on the ship remaining unused.

But various military protocols and other red tape, including nearly 49 medical conditions other than the COVID-19 virus that disqualify a patient from being admitted onto the ship (such as those in need of obstetric or pediatric care), have reportedly caused major roadblocks in providing the relief the city’s hospitals need, The New York Times reported.

“The process continues and we are honestly looking forward to seeing a significant increase in patients being transferred to the Comfort,” Capt. Patrick Amersbach, of the U.S.N.S. Comfort, told reporters on Thursday.

The U.S.N.S. Mercy, which docked in Los Angeles with the mission last Friday and is equipped with 800 medical staff, has treated a total of 15 patients, five of whom have been discharged, the ship’s commanding officer Capt. John Rotruck said.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy, Elizabeth Baker, said “We’re bringing [patients] on as fast as we can bring them on.”

Neither ship accepts walk-in patients. All patients must be evaluated at local hospitals first and be tested for the virus before being allowed to board the ships, which adds to the delay in the process of getting patients aboard the ships.

Michael Dowling, the president and chief executive officer of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system, told the Times, “If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke. Everyone can say, ‘Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.’ But we’re in a crisis here, we’re in a battlefield.”

Various hospitals have been refitted to create more space for virus patients, making use of lobby space and conference rooms, Dowling explained. His facilities are hosting around 2,800 infected patients, up from 100 on March 20. Nearly 25 percent have serious conditions and are in intensive care units.

With New York placed under lockdown, there are less patients suffering from car accidents and gunshot wounds or other accidents requiring emergency care. Therefore, there are fewer non-virus patients to send to the U.S.N.S. Comfort, as the city copes with thousands of people infected with the virus, Dowling said.

“It’s pretty ridiculous,” he said. “If you’re not going to help us with the people we need help with, what’s the purpose?”

The commanding officers of both ships have said they would accept COVD-19 virus patients if they were ordered to do so.

“If that demand signal ramps up, we’ll certainly be ready to accommodate that,” Capt. Rotruck told reporters Thursday.

Both Capt. Rotruck and Capt. Amersbach have said the ships would need to be reconfigured if COVID-19 virus patients were to be admitted.

Various large public venues in New York City have been converted into hospital spaces since the outbreak to help hospitals cope with the growing number of infected patients, including in Central Park where a field hospital was erected.

Other recent builds include a makeshift hospital at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, the home of the U.S. Open, and at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which has nearly 3,000 beds.

Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Navy for further comment on the latest situation.

The virus, which was first reported in Wuhan, China, has affected over a million people across 181 countries and regions, including more than 245,500 in the U.S., the epicenter of the outbreak. While over 212,000 have recovered from infection but more than 53,100 have died globally.

New York is the worst-hit state in the U.S., with over 92,300 confirmed cases, including more than 51,800 patients in New York City, according to figures released Thursday from the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The graphic below, provided by Statista, illustrates the spread of COVID-19 across the U.S.

Data on COVID-19 cases is from Johns Hopkins University unless otherwise stated.

World Health Organization advice for avoiding spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Hygiene advice

  • Clean hands frequently with soap and water, or alcohol-based hand rub.
  • Wash hands after coughing or sneezing; when caring for the sick; before, during and after food preparation; before eating; after using the toilet; when hands are visibly dirty; and after handling animals or waste.
  • Maintain at least 1 meter (3 feet) distance from anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
  • Avoid touching your hands, nose and mouth. Do not spit in public.
  • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or bent elbow when coughing or sneezing. Discard the tissue immediately and clean your hands.

Medical advice

  • Avoid close contact with others if you have any symptoms.
  • Stay at home if you feel unwell, even with mild symptoms such as headache and runny nose, to avoid potential spread of the disease to medical facilities and other people.
  • If you develop serious symptoms (fever, cough, difficulty breathing) seek medical care early and contact local health authorities in advance.
  • Note any recent contact with others and travel details to provide to authorities who can trace and prevent spread of the disease.
  • Stay up to date on COVID-19 developments issued by health authorities and follow their guidance.

Mask and glove usage

  • Healthy individuals only need to wear a mask if taking care of a sick person.
  • Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
  • Masks are effective when used in combination with frequent hand cleaning.
  • Do not touch the mask while wearing it. Clean hands if you touch the mask.
  • Learn how to properly put on, remove and dispose of masks. Clean hands after disposing of the mask.
  • Do not reuse single-use masks.
  • Regularly washing bare hands is more effective against catching COVID-19 than wearing rubber gloves.
  • The COVID-19 virus can still be picked up on rubber gloves and transmitted by touching your face.

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Why Joe Kennedy’s Senate campaign flopped – POLITICO
Why Joe Kennedy’s Senate campaign flopped – POLITICO

“I’ve spent the last weeks and months on the roads across our commonwealth in cities like Lowell, and in Chelsea and in Gloucester. In neighborhoods like East Boston,” Kennedy said. “And not one person in those cities, not one, has asked me why I am running for the Senate. The only thing they ask: What can you do to make this better, and when I need you, will you be there?”

He lost every precinct in East Boston Tuesday.

Kennedy’s failure to lay out a rationale for taking on Markey wasn’t the sole cause of his defeat. Rather, it was symptomatic of a campaign that was too confident, for too long — it didn’t think the usual rules applied, or that the 74-year-old Markey had enough fight in him to fend off one of the Democratic Party’s brightest young stars.

“There was a really strong reason for running. I don’t think they were ever able to articulate it. That’s the problem,” said political consultant Doug Rubin, who supported Kennedy. “I’ve always felt that the best campaigns are the ones with the right candidate at the right moment. I actually thought Joe was the right candidate for this moment, and for whatever reason, they were never able to win that argument and frame the race that way.”

The outcome was a far cry from last summer, when the consensus in Massachusetts political circles was that Kennedy would be so formidable that Markey ought to retire to avoid an embarrassing defeat. Polls showed Kennedy with a double-digit lead, and the running joke was that Markey was more likely to be seen at a Starbucks in suburban Washington than a Dunkin’ Donuts near his home in Malden.

Kennedy built his campaign on the promise that he would show up in Massachusetts, as opposed to his opponent, who spent too much time in Washington. The scion of the state’s iconic political dynasty would win by assembling a coalition of voters of color who didn’t always vote — similar to how Rep. Ayanna Pressley upset a veteran Massachusetts incumbent two years earlier, former Congressman Michael Capuano.

His candidacy was designed around the idea that a vote for Kennedy was an investment in his seemingly limitless political future, while Markey was already on his way out the door.

What Kennedy didn’t envision was the way Markey would reinvent himself as a darling of the progressive left over the course of the year, harnessing the energy of young voters and climate activists.

Sitting on a sizable lead in the polls for much of the race, Kennedy’s campaign was reluctant to go negative on Markey. That gave the low-key incumbent, who lived in the shadow of more prominent Bay State Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and John Kerry, the chance to define himself on his own terms.

His signature look became Nike sneakers and an oversized green jacket straight out of an Urban Outfitters ad campaign. (Markey wore the sneakers with his suit when he declared victory on Tuesday night.)

More important, Markey stepped into the political vacuum created by the departures of Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders from the presidential primary. Progressives were devastated by the collapse of the two campaigns, which came just before the coronavirus pandemic hit Massachusetts, leaving a cohort of newly unemployed presidential campaign staffers and volunteers — and young high school and college activists — stuck at home with time on their hands. They turned their attention to Markey.

“Here is my #1 hot take as a newly-free Warren staffer: THE F—— CO-AUTHOR OF THE GODDAMN GREEN NEW DEAL MIGHT LOSE HIS SEAT IN THE SENATE TO A MODERATE AND YOU’RE ALL JUST SLEEPING ON IT,” tweeted Emma Friend, a staffer on Warren’s presidential campaign. Markey raised $57,000 off the viral post, and he hired Friend to the campaign a month later. Dozens of Markey fan accounts began to pop up on Twitter.

As young activists churned out pro-Markey memes and videos, he brought them into the fold as digital fellows. It helped that Markey won endorsements from New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his partner on the Green New Deal, and the Sunrise Movement. The Markey campaign spent almost half a million dollars airing an ad that only featured AOC, and not Markey, in the weeks leading up to the primary.

“Markey and his campaign were very eager to fight that fight with us. We got in early, making it an issues-focused, policy-centered campaign which was mostly centered around Markey’s leadership on the Green New Deal and climate crisis,” said Evan Weber, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement. “We also did a lot of work to rile up young people and the youths and progressives.”

As Markey’s popularity grew, so did frustration within the Kennedy campaign.

In Kennedy’s eyes, Markey’s new image didn’t square with his record, which was more in line with Joe Biden than Sanders or Warren. Kennedy often pointed to Markey’s support of the 1994 crime bill and the Iraq War on the debate stage, but that didn’t matter to Markey’s energetic online base.

“The Markey campaign did a masterful job convincing voters Ed is someone he is not,” one Democratic strategist with Massachusetts ties said after the primary results were tallied.

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Texas van crash probe, Western wildfires, ‘The Suicide Squad’: 5 things to know Thursday – USA TODAY
Texas van crash probe, Western wildfires, ‘The Suicide Squad’: 5 things to know Thursday – USA TODAY

Investigation into deadly Texas van crash expected to continue

At least 10 people were killed and 20 more were injured when an overloaded van crashed Wednesday in Encino, Texas, a town about 100 miles south of Corpus Christi, authorities said. Brooks County Sheriff Urbino Martinez said the van, designed to hold 15 passengers, was top-heavy and tipped over when the driver lost control on a curve. The van held 29 suspected undocumented migrants, he said. Additional details about the crash are expected to come Thursday or in the coming days. The identities of the 30 in the van were being withheld until relatives can be notified, an official with the Texas Department of Public Safety said. No information about the van, including where it was registered or who owned it, was immediately released. A surge in migrants crossing the border illegally has brought about an uptick in the number of crashes involving vehicles jammed with migrants who pay large amounts to be smuggled into the country.

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Red flag warnings prompt more wildfire fears across the West

Firefighters battling dozens of blazes across the West braced for more hot, dry weather as dangerous conditions threatened to spark new wildfires in multiple states. The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for parts of California, Nevada and Oregon until Thursday evening, expecting gusty winds and low humidity that could cause the dry vegetation to burn rapidly. There are 27 active large wildfires in those three states, and across 14 states, 96 large wildfires have burned more than 2,900 square miles, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. In Northern California, the Dixie Fire remains the largest blaze in the state as conditions stoke the flames. The Dixie Fire blazed through Greenville, California, leaving behind only a few structures. The fire primarily burned through most of the downtown area and some surrounding homes in the small mountain community. 

Spirit Airlines bedlam goes on: Hundreds of Thursday flights already canceled

Spirit Airlines, which has canceled more than 1,300 flights and stranded passengers since Sunday as it grapples with a series of issues, said Wednesday cancellations should ease in the days to come as it reboots its operation. However, that day doesn’t appear to be Thursday. The carrier has already canceled 349 of its Thursday flights or 45% of its scheduled flights, as of 6 a.m. EDT, according to flight tracker FlightAware. It will be the fifth consecutive day of frustration for passengers on the budget airline and comes as a busy summer travel weekend looms. The carrier canceled more than 400 flights per day, or a whopping 60% percent of its operation, on both Tuesday and Wednesday alone. The airline apologized to passengers and employees in a statement issued Wednesday and continued to attribute the massive woes to “overlapping operational challenges,” including weather, technology system outages and staffing shortages. 

James Gunn brings ‘The Suicide Squad’ back to the big screen

The body count is high and chaos reigns in writer/director James Gunn’s absurdly delightful and indubitably not-for-kids “The Suicide Squad,”  writes USA TODAY movie critic Brian Truitt. The film, out in theaters and streaming on HBO Max Thursday evening, is a soft reboot of 2016’s “Suicide Squad.” Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn returns and Idris Elba and John Cena will debut new characters. Viola Davis returns as Amanda Waller, who runs survive-or-else missions out of outlaw-filled Belle Reve prison with members of Task Force X. Their newest assignment: venturing to the fictional South American island of Corto Maltese, where the Squad traverses jungles, fights enemy guerrillas, goes disco dancing at a nightclub, and has to infiltrate an old Nazi stronghold from World War II that’s been housing a monstrous experiment. Before tackling this DC project, Gunn was firmly entrenched in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he directed the two “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies. 

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to perform together ‘One Last Time’

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will reunite Thursday at New York’s Radio City Music Hall for the second of two farewell concerts celebrating Bennett’s 95th birthday. The longtime friends and collaborators are playing “One Last Time” shows in the leadup to their second joint album, “Love for Sale,” out Oct. 1. Bennett, who turned 95 on Tuesday, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. But the music legend was as spry and charismatic as ever in a roughly half-hour solo set in Tuesday’s sold-out show. “He’s my friend. He’s my musical companion. He’s the greatest singer in the whole world,” said Lady Gaga during her rendition of “New York, New York.”

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Suspect in Maine shooting rampage is dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot, authorities say – CNN
Suspect in Maine shooting rampage is dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot, authorities say – CNN
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La tragedia de Jordania – Univisión
La tragedia de Jordania – Univisión

El reo caminó con tranquilidad por la puerta, sin embargo, un agente sospechó de él y l…

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The first African-American female mayor in Chicago history will be Lori Lightfoot – CNN
The first African-American female mayor in Chicago history will be Lori Lightfoot – CNN

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    Fakhrizadeh’s coffin at the Imam Reza shrine.

    An opinion piece published by a hardline Iranian newspaper on Sunday suggested that Iran should attack Haifa, a port city in northern Israel. The Kayhan newspaper published an opinion piece by an Iranian analyst, Sadollah Zarei, who suggested a strike that destroys facilities and “also causes heavy human casualties”.

    Such an attack would be an effective deterrent, he said, “because the United States and the Israeli regime and its agents are by no means ready to take part in a war and a military confrontation”.

    Iran has attacked Israeli targets overseas. Its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, has also conducted strikes during previous rounds of heightened hostility.

    Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker, said on Sunday that Iran’s enemies must be made to regret the killing. “The criminal enemy does not regret it except with a strong reaction,” he said in a broadcast on Iranian state radio.

    While Iran claims that its nuclear programme is non-military and focused on energy, Fakhrizadeh was the subject of US sanctions; Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has accused him of leading a secret atomic weapons operation.

    The timing of the attack has led to suggestions that Israel, possibly with Donald Trump’s support, is attempting to stop any future attempt by the incoming president, Joe Biden, to reconcile with Iran. To Israel’s dismay, Biden has said he is willing to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal abandoned by Trump and lift some economic sanctions if Iran comes back into compliance with the agreement.

    Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser when Biden was vice-president to Barack Obama, did not suggest who was to blame for the killing but criticised it as an “outrageous action aimed at undermining diplomacy between an incoming US administration and Iran”.

    All future UN inspections of Iran’s nuclear sites should be ended as a result of the assassination of Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian parliament agreed unanimously on Sunday.

    The response suggests the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, already breached by Iran’s breaking of the agreed limits on enriched uranium stockpiles, is going to come under severe pressure in the coming weeks as Iran responds to the attack. The parliament said in a reference to Israel that what it described as “the hand of the murderous Zionist regime” could be clearly seen in the assassination.

    Tehran said those that thought negotiation with the US was the right path had been proved wrong. The parliament said Iran should withdraw from so-called additional protocol – the measure that gives UN weapons inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to Iran’s nuclear sites.

    Such a move would probably be regarded as the effective end of the nuclear deal by its three European signatories: Germany, France and the UK. Iranian hardliners have long argued that Israeli spies operate within the IAEA inspectorate.

    Parliament met in closed session on Saturday to hear an intelligence report on how the assassination happened, and to update on progress with the investigation.

    Sunday’s statement on its own creates no legal duty on either the Iranian government or the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, but members of parliament are finalising a bill on the strategic act to revoke sanctions to create that obligation.

    Numerous Iranian military and political officials have said Iran will not respond militarily to the assassination at this stage since it would play into the hands of those in Israel and the US wanting to foment a war in the Middle East before Trump stands down in January. But Iran is debating whether the assassination has shown diplomatic negotiations with the Biden administration will be pointless.

    The former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tweeted: “The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was reckless, provocative, and illegal. As a new administration takes power, it was clearly intended to undermine US-Iran diplomacy. We must not allow that to happen. Diplomacy, not murder, is the best path forward.”

    Biden has not yet commented, but his allies say he remains committed to the US rejoining the nuclear deal.

    The UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, during an interview on Sky said the UK had seen no evidence regarding who was responsible for the attack, saying: “We are still waiting to see the full facts of what happened in Iran but I would say that we stick to the rules of international military law, which is very clear against targeting civilians.”

    On Saturday the Iranian ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, urged the UK government to unreservedly condemn the assassination of Fakhrizadeh, saying he was a dedicated scientist and that the attack was “a clear violation of the international law as well as human rights’ values and standards”.

    Raab said he was willing to meet Iranian leaders to discuss a way forward. He said: “There is an opportunity to look at the JCPOA [the Iran nuclear deal] again with the Biden administration, but there are a series of choices for them to go further and further down the track with its non-compliance with its obligations under the nuclear deal, and … right up to Christmas, I will be meeting with my colleagues, also with Iran, if they are willing to come into the tent, to make sure we hold them to account but also to try and find a peaceful path through.”

    Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, defended the negotiation of the nuclear deal, predicting some of the unnecessary tensions in US-Iranian relations could be removed under Biden. Trump, he said, had contracted his Middle East policy to Netanyahu, creating the worst era in US-Iran relations in 40 years.

    Agence France-Presse contributed to this report

    Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/29/iranian-nuclear-chief-body-prepared-burial-anger-israel-us

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    Miss Universo: Buenas noticias para Miss Colombia y devastadoras para Miss Filipinas – Univision
    Miss Universo: Buenas noticias para Miss Colombia y devastadoras para Miss Filipinas – Univision

    Al menos cuatro casas de apuestas colocan a
    Miss Colombia, Andrea Tovar, como la ganadora de la corona de Miss Universo, este domingo, durante la edición 65 del certamen.

    Según los sitios de Pinnacle, Betfair, SportsInsights y William Hill, es Tovar de 23 años quien domina sobre las demás aspirantes, seguida por
    Brasil,
    Raissa Santana, a quien los expertos en certámenes de belleza describieron en entrevista con CNN Filipinas como la mejor portavoz que pudiera tener Miss Universo, pues es una comunicadora “natural”. En tercer lugar, se ubica Miss
    Perú,
    Valeria Piazza y le sigue Bélgica, Stéphanie Geldhof.

    Sin embargo, Miss Colombia Andre Tovar, está convencida de que ganará y ya le advirtió al conductor de la competencia,
    Steve Harvey, que no cometa errores este año. Se refería al fiasco ocurrido el año pasado cuando el presentador se equivocó y nombró a Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez, como la ganadora, cuando realmente era
    Pia Wurtzbach, representante de
    Filipinas.

    En entrevista con cadena ‘La W’, Andrea Tovar, de 23 años, hizo gala de su buen humor y aseguró que si Harvey la declara ganadora este domingo, ella saldrá “corriendo” de la arena Mall of Asia, donde se realiza evento, para asegurarse de que nadie le quitará la corona, como pasó con Ariadna Gutiérrez.

    De otra parte, la representante de Filipinas,
    Maxine Medina, quien tiene el reto de retener la corona para su nación, enfrenta un pronóstico adverso, a nivel astrológico.

    En entrevista con la cadena CNN en Filipinas,
    el astrólogo Resty Santiago, advirtió que no habrá triunfo para Medina, pues “
    sus planetas de la suerte no estarán alineados sino hasta dentro de unas semanas”.

    El certamen de Miss Universo se realiza este domingo (lunes en Manila) bajo estrictas medidas de seguridad, con 1,858 oficiales encargados de que el evento fluya libre de inconvenientes.

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    República Dominicana espera que sus rasgos “asiáticos” le ayuden a ganar Miss Universo

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    Estas son las latinas que nos representan en Miss Universo 2017

    Source Article from http://www.univision.com/entretenimiento/miss-universo-buenas-noticias-para-miss-colombia-y-devastadoras-para-miss-filipinas

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    China’s Hubei province reports 91 new deaths from coronavirus on February 9 – Reuters
    China’s Hubei province reports 91 new deaths from coronavirus on February 9 – Reuters

    BEIJING (Reuters) – The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 91 to 871 as of Sunday, the province’s health commission said in a statement on its website on Monday.

    There had been a further 2,618 cases detected in Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak, taking the total in the province to 29,631.

    Most of the new deaths were in Hubei’s provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated.

    Wuhan reported 73 new deaths on Sunday, up from 63 on Saturday. A total of 681 people in Wuhan have now died from the virus.

    New confirmed cases in Wuhan increased by 1,921 on Sunday, up from 1,379 on Saturday.

    Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Daniel Wallis

    Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei-cases/chinas-hubei-province-reports-91-new-deaths-from-coronavirus-on-february-9-idUSKBN2030SY

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    Probe of officer’s KKK item might lead to review of death – ABC News
    Probe of officer’s KKK item might lead to review of death – ABC News

    A prosecutor says an internal investigation of a white police officer whose house had an apparent Ku Klux Klan document on display will help determine whether there will be further review of the officer’s 2009 fatal shooting of a black man.

    The Muskegon Police Department opened an internal investigation of Officer Charles Anderson after a potential homebuyer, who is black, reported seeing a framed KKK application at Anderson’s home.

    Anderson was placed on paid administrative leave.

    MLive.com reports Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson says the investigation’s results will drive reconsideration of the 2009 case.

    Anderson was cleared of fatally shooting Julius Johnson following a traffic stop. Johnson had fought with Anderson, who was beaten. Anderson said he feared for his life.

    Anderson has declined comment. His wife has said her husband isn’t a Klan member.

    Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/probe-officers-kkk-item-lead-review-death-64911812

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    Suspect Who Allegedly Stole UPS Truck Dead After Armed San Jose Standoff – CBS San Francisco
    Suspect Who Allegedly Stole UPS Truck Dead After Armed San Jose Standoff – CBS San Francisco

    SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A massive police presence surrounded a UPS truck following a pursuit and standoff in San Jose on Thursday evening, closing down the road and backing up traffic.

    Multiple lines of San Jose Sheriff and SJPD patrol vehicles blocked the truck on the road at North First St. and West Trimble Rd, near VTA light rail tracks. Commuters were trapped as they were trying to get onto I-880 and Highway 101; VTA lines were also affected.

    CHP confirmed that the vehicle was involved in a shooting. The incident started near Highway 87 at Chynoweyh Ave and Pearl Ave in South San Jose.

    CHP said the suspect carjacked the UPS truck and had hostages in the vehicle, including the truck’s driver.

    A driver and a passenger were seen sitting at the front of the truck. A female passenger got out of the truck and approached police with hands up around 5:40 p.m. and was taken into custody. It wasn’t known yet whether the person in custody was a hostage or was involved in the shooting.

    San Jose UPS truck pursuit passenger surrenders to police (CBS)

    Police seemed to be negotiating with individuals still in the truck, indicating that the person was armed and could harm the hostages.

    A side shot on the ground showing the driver of the UPS truck.

    At 6:20 p.m., one hostage was reported safe by the Santa Clara County Sheriff. They said the suspect was still in the vehicle and has shot at deputies during the pursuit.

    At around 6:45 p.m., the driver of the truck got out and walked backward toward police with his hands up. At 7:00 p.m., the suspect attempted to flee the vehicle, but quickly went down. Officers quickly converged on the vehicle and the suspect, who they handcuffed on the ground.

    Gunshots were fired, but it is currently unknown whether the suspect shot himself or if police shot him. He was pronounced dead at around 7:20 p.m.

    Aerial shot of the suspect down on the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

    KPIX 5 reporter Maria Medina said that the suspect was seen making a phone call minutes before he fled.

    The front passenger wheel of the truck appeared to have blown out.

    “UPS is grateful that our driver was released, and we’re thankful to local police who responded to the situation. The safety of our people is our top priority. We are assisting local authorities as we can,” said a UPS spokesperson.

    Commuters traveling eastbound and westbound were most heavily affected by the road closure.

    The incident caused a VTA Light Rail service disruption between Karina and Tasman stations. Alternate bus service is being provided in San Jose for both the Alum Rock/Santa Teresa and the Mountain View/Winchester light rail lines.

    This is a breaking news development. Stay with CBS SF as we update with the latest information. 

    Source Article from https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/02/14/suspect-standoff-san-jose-police-ups-truck/

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    James Rodríguez, el "crack" de Brasil 2014 – BBC Mundo
    James Rodríguez, el "crack" de Brasil 2014 – BBC Mundo

    El volante colombiano se convirtió el sábado en el máximo goleador del Mundial Brasil 2014, superando a estrellas como Messi, Neymar y Thomas Muller. Pero ¿quién es James Rodríguez?

    Desde pequeño lo suyo eran los goles, según había dicho en una entrevista a un medio colombiano en 2012. Nunca fue arquero, nunca fue defensa, siempre estuvo adelante creando y pateando goles.

    Y es con esa misma claridad que el volante colombiano, de 22 años, está haciendo historia hoy en Brasil 2014.

    “Jamás tuve dudas de que éste iba a ser el Mundial de James Rodríguez”, dijo el director técnico de Colombia, Néstor Pékerman, en la rueda de prensa al finalizar el partido contra Uruguay que clasificó a los cafeteros a los cuartos de final, el sábado.

    “Aposté muchísimo con James porque le veía condiciones superlativas”, agregó Pékerman.

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    Cuatro partidos, cinco goles

    Rodríguez aseguró el paso de Colombia a cuartos de final al anotar el segundo gol contra Uruguay al minuto 50.

    En los cuatro partidos que ha jugado la selección colombiana en Brasil, James –se dice así: ja-mes, no yeims- ha conseguido anotar cinco goles -al menos uno en cada partido-, convirtiéndose en el actual goleador de esta edición de la Copa del Mundo.

    James fue instrumental en la victoria por 2-0 de Colombia sobre Uruguay, en la que marcó los dos goles, pero no sólo por la cantidad de anotaciones, sino por la calidad técnica de cada uno y por su capacidad de asociación con el resto del equipo, condiciones que han hecho que algunos analistas deportivos se refieran a él como un “crack” del fútbol.

    Su gol contra Japón en el último partido de Colombia en la primera fase había sido escogido por varios medios internacionales como uno de los cinco mejores de Mundial, por la calidad de la jugada y la precisión en la anotación.

    “James, jugador crack. Además de que hace jugadas individuales, también tiene mucho juego con sus compañeros, además gol por cada partido.“

    Patriciar Breuer, hincha colombiana en Río de Janeiro.

    Y hoy, recibe comentarios similares de seguidores después de anotar los dos tantos contra los charrúas, de los que se destaca el primero, que bajó de pecho y sentenció sin titubeos con su pierna de oro zurda.

    “James, jugador crack. Además de que hace jugadas individuales, también tiene mucho juego con sus compañeros, además gol por cada partido. ¡Vamos James, crack!”, declaro Patricia Breuer, una comunicadora social colombiana, al corresponsal de BBC Mundo en el estadio Maracaná, en Río de Janeiro, a la salida del partido.

    “La está metiendo. Qué Neymar, nada: James”, le dijo entusiasmado al corresponsal el hincha colombiano Pedro Salamanca, quien viajó al mundial en compañía de su hijo.

    No hay duda de que con su rendimiento, el joven jugador está cumpliendo con la responsabilidad que le cayó cuando se confirmó que Radamel Falcao García, su compañero del Mónaco y la gran estrella goleadora de Colombia, no podría jugar el torneo por no haberse recuperado completamente de una lesión.

    James ha respondido con efectividad a la confianza que le entregó Pékerman después de haber perdido a Falcao para el Mundial.

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    Profesional a los 14 años

    El Mónaco pagó más de US$ 60 millones por James Rodríguez en 2013.

    Muy apegado a su madre, quien le regaló su primer balón cuando tenía 4 años, James Rodríguez admiraba de niño las jugadas del francés Zinedine Zidane y del Pibe Valderrama, según dijo en una entrevista a la revista colombiana Bocas.

    Aunque nació en la ciudad de Cúcuta, al oriente de Colombia, creció en la pequeña ciudad del centro del país Ibagué, de donde él mismo dice ser.

    Algunos datos sobre James Rodríguez y la selección de Colombia

    James Rodríguez es el primer jugador en marcar en los primeros cuatro partidos de la Copa del Mundo desde Ronaldo y Rivaldo, de Brasil, en 2002.

    Es el primer jugador en anotar en cada uno de sus primeros cuatro partidos de la Copa Mundial desde Christian Vieri, de Italia, en 1998.

    Colombia ha llegado a los cuartos de final de un Mundial por primera vez en su historia.

    Colombia ya ha ganado tantos partidos en la Copa del Mundo de 2014 (tres), como en sus 13 partidos anteriores en la competición.

    El jugador colombiano Juan Cuadrado ha hecho cuatro asistencias en la Copa del Mundo de 2014, más que cualquier otro jugador.

    Cuadrado es el primer jugador en alcanzar cuatro asistencias en una Copa Mundial desde el italiano Francesco Totti y el argentino Juan Riquelme (también cuatro) en 2006.

    Debutó a los 14 años en el fútbol profesional colombiano con el Envigado FC, que por ese entonces estaba en la segunda división.

    En 2009, cuando tenía 17 años, viajó a Argentina para unirse a las filas del Club Atlético Banfield, donde marcó su primer gol a los 20 días de jugar su primer partido. Ese año Banfield fue líder del torneo Apertura por primera vez más de 100 años.

    Un año más tarde, viajó a Europa para jugar con Porto F.C., en Portugal, donde armó una gran complicidad futbolística con los también jugadores de la selección colombiana Falcao y Fredy Guarín.

    De la mano de los tres colombianos, el Porto vivió un momento dorado, consiguiendo entre otros éxitos, ganar la Liga Europa de la UEFA en la temporada 2010–2011. Rodríguez anotó 32 goles en los tres años que estuvo con el equipo.

    En mayo de 2013, su pase fue vendido por US$61 millones al Mónaco, equipo con el que ya suma diez anotaciones.

    En Portugal obtuvo varios reconocimientos, como el Balón de Oro de Portugal en 2012 o el Mejor nuevo jugador en 2011-2012. Y en el poco tiempo que lleva jugando en el Mónaco, que pertenece a la Liga profesional francesa, ya fue escogido como el Jugador del año 2013-2014.

    Haciendo historia con Colombia

    Los bailes con los que los futbolistas colombianos han celebrado los goles en Brasil 2014 han dado la vuelta al mundo.

    El partido ganado por Colombia el sábado con los dos goles de James Rodríguez significa para el país su mayor logro en un mundial.

    De los cinco mundiales en los que Colombia ha participado (1962, 1990, 1994, 1998 y 2014), la única vez que superó la fase de grupos fue hace 24 años, en 1990, pero quedó eliminada cuando Camerún la venció 2-1.

    El equipo no sólo ha tenido 100% de efectividad, habiendo completado la primera fase con victoria en los tres partidos y el triunfo de la clasificación a cuartos de final, sino que además sólo ha visto entrar en su arco dos goles en lo que va corrido del mundial, frente a los 11 goles que ya ha anotado.

    Arco que no sólo defiende el gran arquero David Ospina, sino el también cuñado de James, ya que el volante colombiano está casado con su hermana, con la que tiene una hija de un año.

    Con sus cinco goles en Brasil, James Rodríguez se convirtió el sábado además en el máximo goleador de la historia de Colombia en los mundiales, al superar los dos goles que habían anotado Jackson Martínez (Brasil 2014), Bernardo Redín (Italia 1990) y Adolfo “El Tren” Valencia (EE.UU. 1994).

    “Lo más sorprendente es que a su edad no tiene ningún inconveniente en ser responsable, hacer cosas que a muchos futbolistas les lleva años. Tiene todas las cosas de jugador de primer nivel mundial”, concluyó Pékerman sobre el volante en la conferencia de prensa en Río de Janeiro.

    Source Article from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/06/140628_wc2014_brasil2014_colombia_james_rodriguez_ng.shtml

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    Logan Square marijuana dispensary burglarized, Chicago police say – Chicago Tribune
    Logan Square marijuana dispensary burglarized, Chicago police say – Chicago Tribune

    Just after 8 a.m., Chicago police responded to a report of a burglary that had taken place in the 2800 block of West Fullerton Avenue, which is where MOCA Modern Cannabis is located, while the business was closed. The break-in started in the side door, possibly with a person using a key card, and the person then took off with cash from the shop, according to police.

    Source Article from https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-moca-cannabis-logan-square-burglary-20200106-ldcahbeb7fhgxmrquvoltsd4ay-story.html

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    Hurricane Ida damage has left Grand Isle ‘uninhabitable,’ Louisiana parish leader says – Fox News
    Hurricane Ida damage has left Grand Isle ‘uninhabitable,’ Louisiana parish leader says – Fox News
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    The fury of Hurricane Ida has left the barrier island community of Grand Isle “uninhabitable,” a Louisiana parish leader said Tuesday.

    A search-and-rescue caravan traveling to the Jefferson Parish community was able to arrive by road but 10 to 12 levee breaks on the Gulf of Mexico side of the island left 100% of homes and other structures damaged, with nearly 40% of them totally destroyed or nearly destroyed, parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng told reporters at a news conference.

    In addition, the island – located about 111 miles south of New Orleans — was covered with about three feet of sand, Sheng said.

    Grand Isle police Chief Scooter Resweber said he and other officers waited out the hurricane inside the town’s police station, according to The Associated Press.

    “I had all the police officers move into the building for safety – and then all hell broke loose,” Resweber told the AP.

    IDA AFTERMATH: MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAY COLLAPSES, 2 KILLED, AT LEAST 10 INJURED

    “Roofs started to come apart. We could see buildings flying into pieces across the street from us. It’s something that you just don’t want to ever see again.”

    “Roofs started to come apart. We could see buildings flying into pieces across the street from us. It’s something that you just don’t want to ever see again.”

    — Chief Scooter Resweber, Grand Isle, Louisiana, police

    Even the police station was threatened, he said.

    “When the roof started to come apart and the building trembled, we all got scared,” he said. “We’re grown men but you do have fear in you, no matter what job you’re in, and we felt it.”

    The chief called it the most severe hurricane he had ever experienced.

    “I’ve ridden out other hurricanes – Hurricane Isaac, Katrina, Gustav, Ike – and this is no comparison whatsoever,” he said. “This is the worst. … It’s just amazing that no one (here) was killed or even seriously injured.”

    RESCUE EFFORTS CONTINUE IN LOUISIANA AFTER IDA WEAKENS TO TROPICAL DEPRESSION

    Elsewhere in Jefferson Parish, which lies along the Gulf coast in the New Orleans area, the town of Lafitte had numerous homes flooded with water, but crews were able to rescue 15 people, Sheng said, according to WWL-TV of New Orleans.

    Sheng advised anyone who had left the area to not yet return, given the extensive damage.

    “These are not conditions to be living in,” Sheng said, according to WWL.

    She said drinking water and ice distribution sites were being set up for those residents who stayed in their homes.

    Trash pickup would not resume until Monday, largely because of road and traffic-signal conditions, she told reporters.

    Widespread destruction

    Also Tuesday, Rob Krieger of FOX 8 New Orleans toured Grand Isle and posted video on Facebook that shows the widespread destruction.

    “There are zero services on the island right now,” he wrote, “power, water, and cell service are down.”

    Krieger also posted video from Slidell, St. Tammany Parish, located on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain, about 32 miles northeast of New Orleans.

    The video included a young man ferrying neighbors around with his boat.

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    “Really great guy doing exactly what you’d expect out of a true Louisianan,” Krieger wrote in his post.

    Hurricane Ida struck land Sunday, with winds reaching higher than 170 miles per hour, the AP reported. The total destruction to affected areas was still being assessed Tuesday.

    Before the hurricane hit, Sheng had advised Jefferson Parish residents to “leave immediately,” warning that the hurricane was “unsurvivable.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this story.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/hurricane-ida-damage-grand-isle-uninhabitable-louisiana-parish

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    El terremoto en Nepal deja más de 200 desaparecidos en el Everest – Univisión
    El terremoto en Nepal deja más de 200 desaparecidos en el Everest – Univisión

    Source Article from http://noticias.univision.com/article/2314717/2015-04-26/mundo/noticias/terremoto-nepal-llevo-tragedia-a-campo-base-everest

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    Miami-area building’s concrete deterioration was ‘accelerating,’ April condo board letter reads – Fox News
    Miami-area building’s concrete deterioration was ‘accelerating,’ April condo board letter reads – Fox News
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    Families of missing Floridians visit site of condo collapse

    Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan joins ‘Your World’ with the details

    The president of the Champlain South Towers condo association, in an April letter, wrote that damage to the garage had gotten significantly worse since a 2018 inspection and that the concrete deterioration of the building was “accelerating,” according to reports Monday. 

    At least 11 people have died and more than 150 are still missing after the Miami condo partially collapsed early Thursday in Surfside, Florida. Rescue workers continue to search for survivors in the rubble. 

    In the April 9 letter, the Surfside condo board president, Jean Wodnicki, wrote how the building was in desperate need of repairs, and she urged residents to pay millions of dollars in assessments needed to fix structural problems.

    MIAMI CONDO COLLAPSE LEAVES MAN ASSUMING HE’LL NEVER SEE HIS MOM, GRANDMA AGAIN

    Workers search the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, Monday, June 28, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Many people were still unaccounted for after Thursday’s fatal collapse. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

    “A lot of this work could have been done or planned for in years gone by. But this is where we are now,” Wodnicki said, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

    She noted that in fall 2018, engineering firm Morabito Consultants was hired to inspect the building, reports said. The engineering report pointed out flaws of the building ahead of work that would be needed for the building to meet 40-year recertification in 2021, documents showed.

    The report found that the pool deck’s waterproofing had failed and was not sloped to drain water. It also pointed to “abundant cracking” in concrete columns and beams.

    “Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially,” the report stated.

    About a month after the report, former Surfside building official Rosendo “Ross” Prieto told the association, in a meeting, that the building was in “very good shape.”

    “The response was very positive from everyone in the room,” Prieto wrote in the email, which local officials provided to reporters. “All the main concerns over their forty-year recertification process were addressed.”

    But in April, Wodnicki told Champlain South Tower residents that the initial inspection was not enough to determine the full scale of structural issues to the building.

    MIAMI-AREA CONDO COLLAPSE: OFFICIAL SAID BUILDING WAS IN ‘GOOD SHAPE’ DESPITE WARNING

    “It is impossible to know the extent of the damage to the underlying rebar until the concrete is opened up. Oftentimes the damage is more extensive than can be determined by inspection of the surface,” Wodnicki wrote.

    “When you can visually see the concrete spalling (cracking), that means that the rebar holding it together is rusting and deteriorating beneath the surface,” she continued. “The concrete deterioration is accelerating. The roof situation got much worse, so extensive roof repairs had to be incorporated.”

    The firm’s 2018 report noted that some repairs were needed “in the near future,” according to Brett Marcy, the representative for Morabito Consultants.

    Donna DiMaggio Berger, an attorney for the condo association, told the WSJ Sunday that the 2018 engineer’s report didn’t raise any alarms.

    “Concrete spalling, rebar deterioration –these are not unusual events when you have buildings exposed to corrosive conditions,” Berger said.

    The letter’s purpose was to explain the worthiness of construction projects for the building ahead of a meeting on a proposed special assessment of $15 million to be paid by residents, according to the paper. 

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    The cause of the 12-story Miami building’s collapse remains unknown. 

    Fox News’ James Leggate contributed to this report

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    Dog the Bounty Hunter Joins Search for Brian Laundrie to ‘Bring Justice’ for Gabby Petito – Newsweek
    Dog the Bounty Hunter Joins Search for Brian Laundrie to ‘Bring Justice’ for Gabby Petito – Newsweek

    Television personality Dog the Bounty Hunter is joining the search for Brian Laundrie, more than 10 days since he was last seen by his family. Laundrie has been named a person of interest in the disappearance and death of his fiancée Gabby Petito.

    Dog the Bounty Hunter—whose real name is Duane Chapman—specializes in locating and arresting people who have broken the terms of their bail agreements for his TV show.

    Chapman’s team wrote in a statement to Newsweek, “Dog and Francie have experienced extreme loss themselves. Their hearts go out to Gabby’s family for what they’re going through and want to help bring justice for her death.”

    Chapman wants anyone with information on Laundrie’s whereabouts to call him at 833-TELLDOG, and all information will be kept confidential, the statement said.

    Investigators have been searching for Brian Laundrie in the Carlton Reserve near North Point, Florida, for more than a week. He was reported missing on September 17, and police believe he could survive in the swampland for months, if he’s there.

    The FBI issued a federal arrest warrant for Laundrie on Wednesday, urging anyone who knows where he may be to come forward. The warrant was issued following a grand jury indictment for alleged “Use of Unauthorized Access Devices” in late August and early September.

    Petito was reported missing on September 11. Her body was found last Sunday in the Spread Creek area of Wyoming. On Tuesday, the Teton County Coroner announced the manner of death to be a homicide.

    Last week, Chapman shared his thoughts on the case with Newsweek, saying that “a lot of circumstances point towards him being the defendant.”

    “To look at the case, so far, I haven’t got any info yet inside info. But it seemed like she was very verbal when they got into arguments, because there was people that heard her screaming at him,” Chapman told Newsweek.

    He said that to find Laundrie, he would need to learn more about his background.

    “He went straight home to tell his parents what happened. And then he took off. So we got to look at his background, look at his record, know, his friends, his family. He’s not an experienced runner or criminal. Suicide is a very likely possibility—and it seems like he’s kind of an outdoors kid,” he said.

    He said when he searches for people, they often end up close to home.

    As the search that has captivated millions of people continues, new details have emerged surrounding his disappearance. One woman claimed that she picked up Laundrie while he was hiking in Wyoming—becoming the second person to say they had given him a lift.

    His family was concerned that he might hurt himself after he left home without some key items, including a wallet or cell phone.

    Dog the Bounty Hunter is joining the search for Brian Laundrie. Here, FBI agents are seen searching Laundrie’s North Point, Florida, home on September 20.
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