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Alleged military secret leaker Jack Teixeira ordered detained ahead of trial

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

The Massachusetts Air National Guard serviceman charged with leaking highly sensitive military secrets to an online forum dedicated largely to the gaming community has been ordered detained ahead of trial.Jack Teixeira, 21, of North Dighton, was charged by criminal complaint on April 14 with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.He finally appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David H. Hennessy in federal court in Worcester Friday for the detention hearing that had been rescheduled many times.“I am going to grant the government’s request for detention,” Hennessy said before explaining his reasoning.Teixeira was escorted into court at precisely 3:30 p.m. with a buzzed head and orange Plymouth County Correctional Facility scrubs. He offered a brief smile to family seated in the front row before taking a seat at the defense table.Attorneys for each side issued compet...

South Bay restaurant's liquor license suspended after 20-year-old killed in crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- A restaurant in Chula Vista was handed a 30-day suspension of their liquor license after a 20-year-old patron was killed in a crash last year.The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) announced Friday that an investigation determined Las Tres Catrinas served alcohol to an underaged guest on Jan. 6, 2022. After leaving the restaurant, ABC said the patron was killed in a single-vehicle car crash. 2 killed, several hurt in Mission Bay crash Promptly after the the fatal incident, ABC opened a Target Responsibility for Alcohol Connected Emergencies (TRACE) investigation to determine the source of the illegal alcohol sale. According to ABC, Las Tres Catrinas servers, who were overseen by a manager, repeatedly served alcohol to 20-year-old Jonathan Ortiz Zaragoza without ever checking his ID. Once they determined the source, ABC filed disciplinary action against the South Bay restaurant's alcoholic beverage license for "furnishing alcoholic beverages ...

Jim Brown, legendary NFL running back and social activist, dead at 87

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87.A spokeswoman for Brown’s family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night with his wife, Monique, by his side.One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65. Hobby Lobby doesn’t use barcodes: Here’s their explanation Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.”An unstoppable runner with power, speed and endurance, Brown’s arrival sparked the game’s burgeoning popularity on television. When he fin...

San Diego metro area among the most expensive in US to raise a child

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The joys of raising a child comes with a hefty price tag for those living in some of the nation's most expensive U.S. metros, including San Diego.That's according to a new study by financial technology company SmartAsset, which set out to calculate these costs by analyzing how much food, housing, childcare, healthcare, transportation and other necessities are costing two-parent households. San Diego among cities with the most ‘house poor’ homeowners: study SmartAsset says the average cost to raise a child in the U.S. is $20,813 annually with some parts of the country, like California, dishing out more than $30,000 a year per child. While conducting their study, SmartAsset used data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Living Wage Calculator to compare the living costs of a household with two adults and one child to that of a childless household with two adults. This data reflects spending in 2022.The survey's findings show the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsb...

All-time NFL great running back, social activist Jim Brown dead at 87

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87.A spokeswoman for Brown’s family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night with his wife, Monique, by his side.One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65.Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.”Jim Brown Forever ????????Legend. Leader. Activist. Visionary.It’s impossible to describe the profound love and gratitude we feel for having the o...

Guardsman Jack Teixeira, Pentagon leak suspect, back in court as judge weighs detention

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

A judge is poised to decide Friday whether a Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents will remain behind bars while he awaits trial. Jack Teixeira returned to federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, where a magistrate judge is expected to hear arguments on prosecutors’ request to keep the 21-year-old locked up before issuing his ruling. Teixeira, wearing orange jail clothes, smiled at his father in the front row as he was led into the courtroom ahead of the afternoon hearing.Teixeira, who faces charges under the Espionage Act, is accused of sharing secret military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other top national security issues in a chat room on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers.Prosecutors said in court papers filed this week that Teixeira was caught by superiors months before his April arrest taking notes on classified information or viewing intelligence not related to...

Stock market today: Wall Street drifts lower, still headed for best week since March

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting lower Friday, but it’s still heading for its best week since March. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in late trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 82 points, or 0.2%, at 33,454, as of 3 p.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.Despite its weak Friday, the S&P 500 is still on track to break out of a long, listless stretch where it failed to move by 1%, up or down, for six straight weeks. It’s up 1.6% so far this week. Much of the strength has been due to rising hopes that Washington can avoid a potentially disastrous default on its debt.Democrats and Republicans are facing down a June 1 deadline, which is when the U.S. government could run out of cash to pay its bills, unless Congress allows it to borrow more. A default on its debt would likely mean a recession for the economy, and economists and investors both widely expect a deal to be made.But some of the hope ebbed Friday after a top negotiator for H...

Soleiman Faqiri’s family hopes November inquest into his death will offer answers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

The family of a mentally ill man who died in an Ontario jail cell in 2016 expressed hope on Friday that a provincial inquest set to start later this year will provide answers about his death. Soleiman Faqiri died on Dec. 15, 2016, after being beaten, pepper sprayed and restrained face-down in a segregation cell at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., where the 30-year-old was held awaiting a medical evaluation at a psychiatric facility. Faqiri’s elder brother Yusuf said Ontario’s chief coroner’s office notified the family that an inquest will begin on Nov. 20 to examine the circumstances surrounding Soleiman’s death.He said his family will finally get to learn details of what happened during the 11 days that his brother spent in jail before his death. “Why was he there for 11 days? What was happening to him in those 11 days? Why weren’t we able to see him?… My family went to Lindsay four times. We were not able to see him,&...

UN envoy reportedly meeting Russian official accused of war crimes for deporting Ukrainian children

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy charged with trying to protect children caught in conflicts is in Moscow, where she is reported to be meeting Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, who is charged with war crimes for deporting children from Ukraine. Human Rights Watch strongly criticized Virginia Gamba’s reported meeting with Maria Lvova-Belova, saying the Russian commissioner should be behind bars and not meeting with senior U.N. representatives.“It’s hard to imagine any circumstance that would justify Gamba meeting with a suspected war criminal, when there are clearly other officials she could meet with instead,” Balkees Jarrah, associate director of the group’s International Justice Program, said. U.N. associate spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay did not confirm that Gamba was meeting with Lvova-Belova while in Moscow. Pressed on whether there was anyone else Gamba could meet with, Tremblay replied: “Her role is really to do everything she can to improve the protection of chil...

Prominent NYC-based pastor and best-selling author Timothy Keller dies at 72

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:38:38 GMT

Timothy Keller, a pastor and best-selling author who founded the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, died this morning at home after three-year bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 72.His family announced that he had been in hospice care, and that he died with his wife of 48 years, Kathy, by his side.Keller and his family launched Redeemer in 1989, and the congregation went on to welcome more than 5,000 attendees across its multiple locations each week.A new evangelical church in Manhattan filled with young adults was unique in a city known more for its secularism and the Gothic spires of its older sanctuaries. But Keller was passionate about evangelizing to people in cities, and his ministry would go on to help start 1,000 churches in 150 other cities around the world.Keller became an evangelical Christian in college, and he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America in 1975. Active in the so-called New Calvinist movement, Keller brought a gentleness t...