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Massachusetts Air National Guardsman tied to leaking Pentagon secret documents has been arrested: Reports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

A 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who has been tied to leaking top secret U.S. documents about the Ukraine war has been arrested, according to reports.Jack Teixeira has been identified as the leader of a Discord group, a social media platform, where the highly classified military documents were posted online.Federal agents on Thursday were seen taking him into custody at a Massachusetts home. Police were blocking a road in North Dighton, located in the South Coast of Massachusetts, where Teixeira has local ties.The New York Times first reported the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman’s identity on Thursday.“This was a deliberate criminal act,” Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder said at a press conference on Thursday.Related ArticlesNation | Sources: FBI wants to speak with Massachusetts Guardsman in leaks probe Nation | US Army apologizes after soldiers detain wrong person in Boston hotel room during traini...

California State Capitol building temporarily evacuated due to ‘credible threat’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

(KTXL) -- The California State Capitol building in downtown Sacramento was temporarily evacuated Thursday morning due to a 'credible threat,' according to an internal letter sent to state senators and their staffers. The exact nature of the threat has not been announced, but a little more than an hour after the initial evacuation, legislators and their staffers were able to enter the building once again around 10 a.m.“The California Highway Patrol has notified the Senate of a threat they consider to be credible involving the Capitol,” says a letter that was sent to state senators and senate staff. During the evacuation, legislators and staff were asked to remain home and work remotely. Senators and staffers already at the Capitol were asked to remain in place. What we know about the shooting at Mahany Park in Roseville "CHP and security partners are present in higher numbers in the Capitol area, and are alert of the situation," the letter said. While the Capitol itself was ev...

African, Mideastern migrants amassing along border wall in San Diego

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- About 150 migrants from countries such as Somalia, India, and Pakistan have been gathering on U.S. soil between two border barriers about a mile and a half west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Noor, a migrant from Somalia, said he and fellow migrants had been there for five days, some longer."We have no water, no food, it's cold, but where is the humanitarian help," he said.Migrants from Somalia, India, Pakistan and other countries wait on U.S. the side of the border as agents get the migrants to line up. (Salvador Rivera/Border Report) The Border Patrol says it has run out of room at its stations in the San Diego Sector and can't take in any more migrants for processing. Large group of migrants surrenders at border wall in El Paso That means migrants like Noor are having to wait for days at a time to get picked up.While Border Report was there, agents in vans and ATVs drove by several times but did not stop. When units did show up, the migrants quick...

Stocks gain ground on Wall Street as inflation slows further

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is gaining ground Thursday following the latest sign that inflation continues to cool.The S&P 500 was 1.3% higher in afternoon trading after a report showed inflation at the wholesale level slowed last month by more than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 340 points, or 1%, at 33,986, as of 2:27 p.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 2% higher.Thursday’s report showed that prices paid to producers last month were 2.7% higher than a year earlier, the lowest inflation level there in more than two years. The hope on Wall Street is that easier inflation on the wholesale level will not only support profits for companies but also flow through to cooler inflation for consumers. A day earlier, a separate report said inflation for consumers slowed to 5%. Inflation and how high the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates to tame it have been at the center of Wall Street’s struggles for more than a year. The Fed has hiked rates at such...

Dairy farm explosion injures 1 person kills 18,000 cattle

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

DIMMITT, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that critically injured one person and killed an estimated 18,000 head of cattle was the deadliest barn fire recorded since the Animal Welfare Institute began tracking the fires.Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera has said the Monday fire and explosion at Southfork Dairy Farm near Dimmitt was likely due to overheated equipment and would be investigated by state fire marshals.“This would be the most deadly fire involving cattle in the past decade, since we started tracking that in 2013,” institute spokesperson Marjorie Fishman said Thursday.The institute also tracks barn fires that kill other livestock, including poultry, pigs, goats and sheep.“The deadliest barn fire overall since we began tracking in 2013… was a fire… at Hi-Grade Egg Producers North, Manchester, Indiana, which killed 1 million chickens,” according to Fishman.A 2022 report by the institute noted “several instances in which 100,00...

71 units severely damaged in major Vaughan fire: deputy chief

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

Vaughan’s Deputy Fire Chief confirmed on Thursday that 71 units were damaged in the significant fire that rapidly spread in the York Region city yesterday.Firefighters and other emergency crews were called to a scene at Heathcote Road and Kinburn Crescent near Teston Road and Pine Valley Drive just after 1 p.m. on Wednesday.Initial reports at the scene established that over 30 units were destroyed, most under construction and uninhabited. Except for minor burns, no serious injuries were reported in the aftermath.Vaughan Deputy Fire Chief Grant Moffatt told CityNews on Thursday that 71 total units were damaged in the fire.“[They] range from single homes, detached homes to multi-units — residential townhouses, that style of complex,” Moffatt said. “Also, a basement was set with a first floor only.”A City of Vaughan spokesperson tells CityNews that the 71 units included 32 single detached homes, 21 townhomes, and 16 units that were classed as fire br...

4 Penobscot Indians accuse Maine priests of sexual abuse

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Four Native Americans who say they were abused by three Roman Catholic priests on their reservation in Maine are the latest to bring lawsuits since the state fully lifted the statute of limitations for child sex crimes.The Penobscot Nation members contend the abuse started when they were 7 to 16 years old at St. Ann Parish on Indian Island, just north of Bangor. The oldest abuse dates to 1972, while the most recent happened in 1987, according to the lawsuits.Michael Bigos, a lawyer representing the members, filed the lawsuits in Penobscot County Superior Court, despite potential legal roadblocks by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. More than two dozen lawsuits brought by Bigos’ law firm are currently on hold while the diocese challenges the 2021 law that repealed the statute of limitations.“Let us find out what the diocese knew and when they knew it, so they can be held fully accountable, and we can keep our communities safe for survivors,” Bigos told repo...

UN, others cite new displacement from Ethiopia’s Tigray

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region have displaced tens of thousands of ethnic Tigrayans from disputed territory in the north of the country in recent weeks despite a peace deal agreed late last year, according to aid workers and internal agency documents seen by the AP.The Mai Tsebri area in northwestern Tigray is close to the regional border with Amhara. It changed hands several times during the war, which erupted in 2020 and ended with a ceasefire in November. The Amhara people claim the area as their own.Since early March, some 47,000 people uprooted from Mai Tsebri have gone to Endabaguna, a town roughly 55 kilometers (34 miles) further north, according to United Nations figures seen by the AP on Thursday.Another report, prepared by a humanitarian agency, says residents fled Mai Tsebri because of “harassment, ethnic profiling and direct threats” from irregular Amhara forces that also carried out “evictions.”That report adds that there have been no ...

AP source: Dan Snyder agrees to $6B sale of NFL’s Commanders

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

A group led by Josh Harris and Mitchell Rales that includes Magic Johnson has an agreement in principle to buy the NFL’s Washington Commanders from longtime owner Dan Snyder for a North American professional sports team record $6 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday because the deal hasn’t been finalized. Another person told the AP a deal hasn’t been sent to the league for approval yet.A Commanders spokesperson said the team was not in position to comment. The league declined to comment.Once the deal is approved, Harris would own controlling stakes in teams in three of the four major North American pro sports leagues. He and David Blitzer have owned the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers since 2011 and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils since 2013.Harris has owned a piece of the Pittsburgh Steelers, which he needs to sell before getting the Commanders.The news was first...

Biden in Ireland encourages nations to “dream together”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:51 GMT

DUBLIN (AP) — Holding up his own family history as an example, President Joe Biden on Thursday told lawmakers in a packed parliament building that the story of Irish immigrants setting sail for the U.S. is at the very heart of “what binds Ireland and America together.”“Like so many countries around the world, though perhaps more than most, the United States was shaped by Ireland,” Biden said in address to a joint sitting of the Oireachtas in Leinster House. “And the values we share remain to this day the core of the historic partnership between our people and our governments.” In his address, Biden stressed the importance of economic ties, a united front on the war in Ukraine and a shared urgency to manage climate change. Biden addressed the parliament as part of his four-day trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland, where he also met with political leaders and took a whirlwind tour of his ancestral homeland.Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaí l, speaker of the Dail, parliament’s lowe...