The news conference began at about noon at Dallas City Hall.

A round of applause welcomed them in. It was standing room only for employees and fans like 11-year-old Lilly Boyd.

“It just felt great to see her in person,” Boyd said excitedly.

Wings CEO and Managing Parter Greg Bibb, Executive Vice President and General Manager Curt Miller and Head Coach Chris Koclanes welcomed the five-member rookie class alongside Dallas City Mayor Eric Johnson and Dallas City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert.

Part of the players welcome package included proclamations and cowboy hats.

They also had a chance to share about being a part of the Wings.

“This whole team is full of dogs and I’m ready to be a part of it,” 12th draft pick Aziaha James of North Carolina State said.

“I just can’t stop smiling, just excited for a new chapter,” number 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers said.

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“Just to be a part of that, be a part of that momentum, be a part of that shift, and just continue to try to build off that, and keep building off the momentum,” Bueckers said. “Return on investment in women’s sports right now is at all-time high, and we’re trying to continue to build that, keep pushing the ceiling. So just to be a part of that, it means everything.”

 As a role model Bueckers wants young girls to know one thing.

“Dream big, amazing things can happen if you put the work in,” Bueckers said.

Now she’s putting in the work with the Wings and becoming a part of the city.

“Really embracing it,” Bueckers said. “Talked about the cowboy hats, cowboy boots, country music. I’m excited for the food in the city, and then just obviously excited to be a part of this organization.”

The five players selected last Monday in New York City included No. 1 overall selection Paige Bueckers of UConn, No. 12 Aziaha James of North Carolina State, No. 14 Madison Scott of Ole Miss, No. 27 JJ Quinerly of West Virginia, and No. 31 Aaronette Vonleh of Baylor.

On Wednesday, 온라인카지노사이트 5 caught up with one of his coworkers at the barbershop where he worked. That coworker asked us not to show his face or share his name out of concern about his own immigration status.

He did, however, speak with us about the day he realized his coworker had been picked up by ICE.

He showed us the workstation where Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel cut and styled clients. Another barber works in this spot now, but we’re told Rengel’s tools are tucked away in case he returns. Whether that happens remains to be seen.

He’d worked with Rengel for more than a year. Through a translator, he said they would call each other daily. On March 13, he said he knew something was wrong when Rengel didn’t answer.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to 온라인카지노사이트 News that Adrián had been deported to El Salvador. However, that was weeks after his family said they’d been worrying and wondering where he was.

His coworker told 온라인카지노사이트 5 he’s been in contact with Rengel’s family. He said they are sad, worried and afraid. He added he feels like they’re being chased.

Rengel came to the United States from Venezuela in 2023 by appointment through the CBP One app. The Trump administration ended the CBP One app in January 2025. The administration transitioned in March to a new mobile app called CBP Home.

The Trump administration said it would prioritize deporting alleged members of a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. But Rengel’s brother says he has no affiliation with the organization.

Dallas immigration attorney Tressy Ortiz points to a federal judge’s ruling this week in Colorado, which said Venezuelans there must be given due process before deportations.

Ortiz said migrants everywhere must stay informed.

“It’s important for them to know their rights before something happens. What to do, have a plan B, a plan of action,” said Ortiz. “Do I have any rights? Do I have any relief available to request of the judge or to the officer, the ICE officer?”

온라인카지노사이트 5 made contact with Rengel’s brother in Chicago over the phone. He was told his brother’s tattoo was a point of focus and possibly linked him to the Venezuelan gang. He said he does not know exactly where in El Salvador his brother is being held.

More than a dozen senior lawyers — many with decades of experience working under presidents of both parties — have been reassigned, the current and former officials say. Some have resigned in frustration after they were moved to less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise, according to the sources.

“It’s been a complete bloodbath,” said a senior Justice Department lawyer in the division who is not authorized to speak publicly.

Last week, President Donald Trump’s hand-picked head of the division issued a series of memos outlining priorities that are dramatically at odds with the way both Republican and Democratic administrations have enforced civil rights law — including the first Trump administration.

Rather than focusing on enforcing federal laws against discrimination, the division is now charged with pursuing priorities laid out in a series of Trump’s executive orders, including “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” according to the memos, which were issued by division head Harmeet Dhillon and obtained by 온라인카지노사이트 News. 

Dhillon is a  who represented Trump in challenging the results of the 2020 election and ardently backed his baseless claims of fraud.

The changes have not been publicly announced by the DOJ. some of them Tuesday.

“This is a 180 shift from the division’s traditional mission,” said a former senior official in the division who declined to be named in fear of retaliation.

“These documents appear to have been created in a vacuum completely divorced from reality,” the former official said. “The division can only enforce statutes that have been passed by Congress, and these orders seem to contemplate division attorneys’ executing on work that fundamentally departs from the division’s long-standing mission.”

In a statement, Dhillon portrayed the changes as a normal shift of emphasis in a new administration, as well as a quest for efficiency.

“Each new administration has its own priorities, and allocates resources accordingly,” Dhillon said. “The Trump administration is no different. When I assumed my duties as Assistant Attorney General, I learned that certain sections in Civil Rights had substantial existing caseloads and backlogs, and that formed the basis of temporary details to assist those sections in getting, and staying, caught up.”

She added: “The Civil Rights Division looks forward to continuing to aggressively protecting the civil rights of Americans.”

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온라인카지노사이트 News spoke to 10 current and former employees of the Civil Rights Division for this article, as well as other sources familiar with the Justice Department’s operations. Most declined to be identified, citing fear of retaliation.

The sources say many of the division’s section chiefs have been transferred to roles unrelated to their legal backgrounds, including in the complaint adjudication office and the office that handles public records requests.

The overhaul of the Civil Rights Division is a microcosm of what has been happening across the federal government, as the Trump administration has  and dismantled or  with a speed and an audacity that few thought was possible. Similar changes have been happening to a lesser degree at other Justice Department offices, current and former officials say. But they say the extent of the repurposing of the Civil Rights Division stands out.

Founded in 1957 after the passage of the 20th century’s first major civil rights legislation, the Civil Rights Division has always been subject to the policy preferences of the president, and enforcement priorities tend to differ in Republican and Democratic administrations. But there is no precedent for the changes that have been made over the last three months, which are far more consequential than anything that occurred in Trump’s first term, current and former officials say.

“I was there almost 18 years, and what’s happening now is basically the opposite of what we’ve been doing,” said a veteran lawyer who recently left the department. “In the first Trump administration, they engaged with us as attorneys. The political appointees were normal lawyers. Sometimes we persuaded them and sometimes they disagreed, but there was always a conversation about why and what the law required. That is not happening.”

In the Biden administration, the Civil Rights Division convicted 180 police officers of violating people’s civil rights, according to Justice Department records. It also prosecuted a variety of high-profile hate crimes cases, including one against the Texas man who targeted Mexicans when he killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso and the Pennsylvania man who killed 11 congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Among the many settlements over racial discrimination, the division secured reforms at Hawkins County Schools in Tennessee, where  that incidents of harassment — including a mock “slave auction” to sell Black students to their white counterparts and a “monkey of the month” campaign to ridicule Black students — created a racially hostile environment. On voting rights, the division  an Arizona law requiring people registering to vote to list their birthplaces and provide proof of citizenship.

Current and former employees say many of those enforcement actions are unimaginable under the new regime.

“They are withdrawing everything we’ve done and taking the opposite side on voting rights, for example,” said a recently departed Civil Division lawyer. “This is not ‘Oh, we want to do more religion cases’ or ‘We don’t want to do creative redlining cases.’ This is abandoning everything that we have done in the past. They are actively anti-civil rights. This didn’t happen in Trump 1.”

Dhillon took office April 7, but the changes had already been underway. So far the Civil Rights Division has  of police abuse and launched probes into whether Los Angeles is  and whether American universities are . The division was also involved in the  accusing the state of Maine of violating the law by allowing transgender athletes to participate on women’s sports teams.

At the same time, current and former officials say, the managerial jobs vacated in recent weeks have not been filled, so the traditional work of the division has all but stopped.

“If regular Americans think that this administration is going to protect their rights, they’re just wrong,” a recently departed division lawyer said.

In their , conservative Trump backers wrote that Trump should “reorganize and refocus the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to serve as the vanguard” for what they called a “return to lawfulness.” 

“Entities across the private and public sectors in the United States have been besieged in recent years by an unholy alliance of special interests, radicals in government, and the far Left,” they wrote. “This unholy alliance speaks in platitudes about advancing the interests of certain segments of American society, but that advancement comes at the expense of other Americans and in nearly all cases violates long-standing federal law.”

Dhillon’s memos, issued last week, laid out a sweeping set of new priorities.

The Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, for example, had been tasked with enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by preventing and remedying discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion and shared ancestry in federally funded programs across the country.

Dhillon’s memo says the section now has new priorities, not mentioned in the 1964 law but outlined in Trump’s executive orders, including those on “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism,” “Restoring Merit Based Opportunity” and “Designating English as the Official Language of the United States.”

On Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted a meeting of a new Trump administration task force on “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias.”

“The Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” she said.

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According to the sheriff’s office, a concerned family member called to report they could not reach 44-year-old Tiffany Ann Williams.

The sheriff’s office said Williams lives in the 100 block of Myrtle Lane with her husband, 42-year-old David Dewayne Walker, and a tenant, 55-year-old Robbie Allen Head.

Deputies were dispatched and said the condition of the home and statements from witnesses who last had contact with the residents led investigators to believe the disappearance was suspicious and that all three could be in danger or in need of medical assistance.

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The Parker County Sheriff’s Office said further details are not being released due to the ongoing investigation.

Williams was last seen and heard from late last week, according to reports made to the sheriff’s office.

By phone, relatives of Williams were distraught over her disappearance and desperate to have her home safely.

Tiffany Ann Williams is described as a white woman who is 4 feet 11 inches tall. She weighs about 180 pounds and has light brown, curly, shoulder-length hair and blue eyes. Her husband is a Black man who is 6 feet 2 inches tall. He weighs about 240 pounds and has short black hair and brown eyes. Head is a white man who is about 5 feet 3 inches tall. Head weighs about 140 pounds and has short brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information about the individuals is asked to contact the Parker County Sheriff’s Office at 817-594-8845. Callers may remain anonymous when calling Parker County Crime Stoppers at 817-599-5555. Crime Stoppers will pay up to a $1,000 reward for information leading to the location of the missing persons.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is assisting in the investigation.

Wednesday morning, students at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas Independent School District returned to school for the first time since a 17-year-old shot multiple people inside the school last week. Some students participated in a walkout in protest of what happened.

There was a heavy presence of DISD police officers and deputies from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office on campus and around the school in an effort to make students and parents feel safe.

“I don’t want to have that gut feeling like, ‘Oh my God, is she okay? Is she not okay?'” expressed Janette Garcia, whose daughter is a freshman at Wilmer-Hutchins High School. She said they were both a little nervous about her daughter returning to school.

“I wouldn’t say jumpy, but she’s very uncomfortable. I feel like she doesn’t want to be here, but it’s the simple fact it’s so close to the end of the year. For her to move to another school, even for her grade, I feel like it’s not the right move,” said Garcia.

Dallas ISD Police Chief Albert Martinez said they made it a point to have a major “footprint” on campus.

“We understand the anxiety and frustration our parents are feeling for their students here. We are again at Wilmer-Hutchins, and so do we. We feel that frustration and anxiety,” said Chief Albert Martinez.

Extra staff and police are expected to remain on campus through the end of the year.

“They did what they said they were going to do, in there right now helping our kids feel safe, so I appreciate that,” said Garcia.

Inside the school, DISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins greeted students as they returned to school.

“There’s still work to be done. I understand parents are nervous, I totally understand that, but what I want parents to know is that we’ve added a police from the county,” said Jenkins.

The district is also looking into new technology to sound alarms when the side doors are opened. It’s in response to the shooting after surveillance video showed the accused gunman enter a side door after a student let him inside.

Despite the commitments from officials to increase security measures, there are still many concerns from the community. Some people posted signs along the perimeter of the school demanding that the district tackle the root of youth violence and provide more resources for campuses like Wilmer-Hutchins.

“Our children, our students, shouldn’t have to feel unsafe at a public school,” said one man.

Some students held a walkout to demonstrate their frustration. The district says it provided a safe space on the side of the school to express themselves, even though the family of one student said they wanted to go to the front of the school for more visibility.

Garcia said she did receive a text message from DISD about the student protest, which lasted about 30 minutes before the teens were instructed to go back inside.

Garcia said she and her daughter are taking it day by day.

“For her to not feel safe in the one place that she actually enjoys and likes to come to, it’s kind of hard,” she said.

The accused shooter, 17-year-old Tracy Haynes Jr., is still in jail with a $3.1 million bond. Prosecutors said the attack was premeditated, but his family said he feared for his life due to gang threats.

The figure, from the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report, is a sharp rise from the $12.5 billion reported in 2023, reflecting the increased prevalence of online scams, particularly ones including cryptocurrency and those targeting older Americans.

While the report is a leading look at how the United States is ravaged by cybercrime, its numbers are an undercount, as it only reflects people who take the time to file a report with the agency. The agency received 859,532 total complaints of scams and cybercrime last year.

“It’s hard to have numbers tell the full story of what might be occurring across the cybercriminal ecosystem,” Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser said in a press call previewing the report.

“Since 2020, the virtualization of everything in our lives has increased the attack surface, and we’ve seen criminals move from the physical to the digital world,” she said.

More than a quarter-million people reported actual financial loss from scams and cybercrime, the report said.

Fake toll scams, in which people frequently get text messages telling them to pay a small fee, prompted 58,271 complaints and $129,624 in reported losses. As 온라인카지노사이트 News , at least some of those scams are tied to a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal syndicate that has advertised on Telegram.

The biggest scam victims were by far people 60 and older, who reported more than $4.8 billion lost. Older victims were also the most likely to say that cryptocurrency was involved in a scam that targeted them — complaints referencing cryptocurrency accounted for $2.8 billion among that age group.

People older than 60 lost the most money — $1.8 billion — in investment scams, a category that the FBI uses to include so-called “pig butchering” scams.

Pig butchering scams often start with an , which cybercriminals use as an opening to eventually build a relationship with a victim by pretending to be a friend or romantic partner. They slowly convince them to invest more and more money into a fake cryptocurrency venture and have led to tragic stories where some retirees .

Money reported lost to investment scams has rapidly increased in recent years, jumping from $3.3 billion in 2022 to $4.6 billion in 2023 and $6.6 billion last year, the report said.

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is on the mend.

The has postponed his April 22 concert in San Antonio, Texas, after being hospitalized hours ahead of the show, his representative confirmed to .

“It is with profound disappointment that I have to inform you all that tonight’s show in San Antonio has been postponed,” Michael Vrionis, president of Universal Tone Management and a representative for Santana, told the outlet. “Mr. Santana was at the venue (Majestic Theatre) preparing for tonight’s show when he experienced an event that was determined to be dehydration.”

He added, “Out of an abundance of caution and the health of Mr. Santana, the decision to postpone the show was the most prudent course of action.”

Beyond the status of Santana’s show, Vrionis provided insight on the 77-year-old’s condition following his dehydration.

“He is doing well and is looking forward to coming back to San Antonio soon as well as continuing his US Tour,” the rep continued. “Thank you all very much for your understanding. The show will be rescheduled soon.”

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While the musician is on the road to recovery, it’s not the first time he has postponed his shows due to his health. In fact, three months before his San Antonio show, Santana had to delay his Las Vegas residency due to injuring his finger during a fall that required an operation.

“I am sorry to say that Carlos was out taking a walk at his vacation home in Kauai. He took a hard fall, and he broke his little finger on his left hand,” Vrionis told in January. “He had to have pins inserted in the finger. Unfortunately, he won’t be able to play guitar for approximately six weeks.”

Nearly three years before, Santana had a during a July 2022 concert in Michigan, prompting the musician to postpone that show. Following the “heat exhaustion” he experienced, he shared an update with fans.

“Thank you for your precious prayers,” Santana shared in a statement to at the time. “Forgot to eat and drink water so i dehydrated and passed out. Blessings and miracles to you all.”

According to the Decatur Police Department, officers responded to a theft in progress at the Wal-Mart, located at 800 South US HWY 81, at approximately 9:40 p.m.

Police said when officers arrived at the scene, they located a 46-year-old male running from the location.

The officers encountered the man just south of the parking lot between Wal-Mart and Tractor Supply, police said.

According to police, during the encounter, officers discharged their weapons, striking the suspect.

Police said officers rendered medical aid to the suspect at the scene, and he was transported to Medical City Decatur, where he later died due to his injuries.

No officers were injured during the incident, police said.

The suspect’s identity has not been released at this time, and the Texas Rangers are leading the investigation into the incident.

According to police, the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave per department policy.

Check back and refresh this page for the latest update. As developments unfold, elements of this story may change.

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“President Trump is excited to return to the great state of Michigan next Tuesday, where he will rally in Macomb County to celebrate the FIRST 100 DAYS!” .

The trip will be Trump’s first major rally since his inauguration in January and his first visit to the battleground state since he narrowly defeated Kamala Harris .

Michigan was among the battleground states Trump visited the most during the 2024 election cycle, notching two dozen visits to the state, at least three of which were in Macomb County.

Macomb County is in the south-eastern part of the state, a stone’s throw from Detroit.

He handedly won the Republican-leaning county, defeating Harris by double digits.

Trump’s visit to Michigan will come weeks after he met with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer following his decision this month to implement tariffs on dozens of nations, 

Whitmer had planned to meet with Trump privately to discuss the tariffs, manufacturing and other Michigan issues.

Instead, the governor was  for a press event, during which Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to investigate officials who served in his first administration and called out his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Photos showed Whitmer standing uncomfortably against a door, and covering her face with a folder as cameras rolled during the event.

“The governor was surprised that she was brought into the Oval Office during President Trump’s press conference without any notice of the subject matter. Her presence is not an endorsement of the actions taken or statements made at that event,” a spokesperson for Whitmer said after the Oval Office event.

It is unclear if Whitmer plans to attend Trump’s rally or meet with him while he’s in Michigan. Her office did not respond to request for comment on Wednesday night.

Trump during the Oval Office event told Whitmer he planned to work with Democrats to ensure Selfridge Air Force Base, which is located in Macomb County, remains “open, strong, and thriving.”

Ahead of her meeting with Trump, Whitmer delivered a speech in Washington calling for a “consistent national strategy” to spur manufacturing, criticizing Trump’s tariff policies, while also finding common ground with the president in regards to the stated goal of the import penalties.

“I understand the motivation behind the tariffs, and I can tell you here’s where President Trump and I do agree. We do need to make more stuff in America — more cars and chips, more steel and ships. We do need fair trade,” she said.

Whitmer in her speech also suggested Trump’s ongoing tariffs on  and plan to implement tariffs on  would disproportionately affect Michigan residents, noting that 20% of the state’s economy is tied to the auto industry.

“We’re already seeing the impacts. Auto companies are stockpiling parts and laying off workers. Suppliers are facing higher costs and delaying expansions. Dealerships will be forced to raise prices by up to $15,000 amid slowing sales. And since every auto job supports three others in the community, the impact will be felt by countless small businesses across Michigan too,” Whitmer said.

Ahead of his visit to Macomb, Trump will travel to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday.

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Dozens of San Lorenzo club members sporting club jerseys and clutching rosaries gathered to bid farewell to Pope Francis at the team chapel in the Argentine capital’s middle-class Almagro district — the same wood-roofed church where another Catholic priest founded the club over a century ago and where Jorge Mario Bergoglio said Mass years before becoming Pope Francis.

Bergoglio attended San Lorenzo matches as a child with his Italian immigrant father and remained an unabashed fan throughout his life, paying monthly club membership fees until his death Monday at the age of 88. Bergoglio grew up in the Flores neighborhood, not far from the San Lorenzo stadium.

“We’re not saying goodbye to a fan or the club’s most important fan. Today, many of us are saying goodbye to a friend,” said Father Juan Pablo Sclippa, who presided over the memorial Mass Wednesday from an altar festooned with portraits of the pope. “Francisco was truly great, the best player on the field, the best player in the world, who never believed in himself.”

The San Lorenzo club — founded by Father Lorenzo Massa in 1908 as part of an effort to get children off the crime-ridden streets — became central to Bergoglio’s image as the “Pope of the people.”

“When I read the story of San Lorenzo, everything came together for me,” said Pablo Avalos, 52, a fan at the Mass who credits Francis with inspiring his love of the club. “San Lorenzo has a lot to do with Francis. It started with Massa’s social action that rescued children from the streets.”

Both as a charismatic cleric in his hometown and the influential leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, Francis was admired for his humility, simplicity and informality.

In Buenos Aires, he commuted by bus, walked barefoot through the city’s sprawling shantytowns and exchanged soccer banter with parishioners. At the Vatican, he shunned fancy velvet for a plain white cassock, caught people off-guard with wisecracks and expressed solidarity with the world’s downtrodden.

Despite his far-flung travels and frantic schedule, Francis remained attached to San Lorenzo — keeping informed of the club’s ups and downs largely through the radio ever since vowing never to watch TV again in 1990.

Those searching for miracles to support Francis’ sainthood point to the team’s meteoric rise through the ranks shortly after Francis became pope in 2013. Months later the club became Argentine champions and, in 2014, won its first Copa Libertadores — South America’s equivalent of the Champions League.

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Twice San Lorenzo players and officials hauled trophies to St. Peter’s Basilica to thank Francis for his support.

“He’s our father,” said Gaciela Iglesias, 69, a decades-long club member. “We will miss him so much.”

But if Francis’ papacy brought the club a streak of good luck, his death coincided with a crisis at San Lorenzo.

On Monday, footage from a hidden camera leaked to the media showing the club’s president, Marcelo Moretti, stuffing his pockets with several thousand dollars that he allegedly received from a player’s mother in exchange for her son signing the team.

Facing charges of fraud, Moretti took leave from his post on Wednesday as the Argentine Football Association opened a disciplinary investigation. While some San Lorenzo fans were saying prayers for Pope Francis, others were protesting the scandal at the club headquarters nearby.

Meanwhile San Lorenzo’s superstitious fans were more interested in another coincidence. Online message boards and social media groups were flooded with speculation about how Francis’ club membership number — 88,235 — included both his age of 88 and the exact time of his death in Buenos Aires, 2:35 a.m., or 7:35 a.m. in Rome.

With signs reading “Still Missing, Still Loved” and T-shirts bearing the faces of those gone too soon, families and advocates took to the streets for the annual “Thaw the Cold Cases Walk.”

The participants all came with different stories:

Janice Webster was there for her sister, Cheryl Springfield, who was murdered early Christmas Day in 1980.
Tracy White walked for her sister, who has been missing for 30 years.
Scotti Choice joined the event in memory of her mother, who was murdered in 2005 in Fort Worth’s Woodhaven area.

Despite the varied stories, the group was united by a common cause.

“We’re just trying to bring awareness to the fact that they have over a thousand cases,” said Sandy Harkcom, whose 9-year-old niece is missing. “They’re real limited on their funding and on their manpower.”

The walk was organized by the Fort Worth Police Department Cold Case Support Group, a nonprofit formed to support families dealing with unresolved losses and to raise funds for the city’s Cold Case Unit.

David Ward, whose mother was killed, said the event brought him both hope and community.

“It’s really changed the game. Not only do I have hope that my mom’s case might be solved, I am now a part of a community of like-minded people and people who understand how I feel,” Ward said.

Participants hope the walk not only honors their loved ones but also helps secure more resources to reopen and investigate long-stalled cases.

“We’re trying to get them more funding, so they can get more people in there to get these cases solved,” Harkcom added.

In a gathering marked by grief, there was also resilience and hope that answers may still come.

“If I can help anybody to get their case solved, then I know my mom would be proud of that,” Ward said. “So that’s why I’m here.”

Anyone with information about a Fort Worth cold case is urged to contact the Fort Worth Police Department’s Cold Case Unit at coldcase@fortworthpd.com.

The service for the repose of the pope’s soul was a final chance to mourn the first Latin American pontiff and for the faith community to lean on each other.

At St. Patrick Cathedral in downtown Fort Worth, the pews were packed with Catholic faithful as usual during a service on Wednesday night.

But a new image graced the front of the sanctuary — a portrait of Pope Francis.

“The news was a shock,” said Father Jonathan Wallis, the vicar general of the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese. “Because even knowing that he had been sick and was ailing, he had such a strong force of will.”

The diocese held Mass to pray for the soul of Pope Francis, two days after he died from a stroke and heart failure.

The news left many Fort Worth Catholics heartbroken.

“I’m trying not to choke up because it’s so important to honor Pope Francis,” said Erica Gonzalez.

“It was definitely very shocking,” said Alara Sawey of the pope’s death. “We were all just kind of, oh wow, the pope died, it was very tragic.”

While Wednesday night’s service was about mourning his loss, it was also an opportunity to celebrate the legacy that Pope Francis leaves for Catholics in Fort Worth and around the world.

High school junior Alara Sawey read the first passage in the service.

“I think he’s given us hope, especially during COVID and during all the economic and struggles of the world, the wars,” said Sawey. “And he’s given us hope that Jesus is always here to help us.”

Throughout the service, diocese leaders emphasized the force for unity that Pope Francis was for Catholics.

“To spread the love and message that he tried to spread during his life,” said Wallis.

Among the solemn faces of the congregation, there was also a spirit of belief that the pope’s impact would live on.

“I just see a lot of our community coming together and really uniting in our faith and our love,” said Gonzalez.

On Thursday, the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese will hold its Spanish-language Mass for Pope Francis at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church at 6 p.m.

In a series of executive actions signed Wednesday, Trump targeted universities that he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda. One order called for harder enforcement of a federal law requiring colleges to disclose their financial ties with foreign sources, while another called for a shakeup of the accrediting bodies that decide whether colleges can accept federal financial aid awarded to students.

Trump also ordered the to root out efforts to ensure equity in discipline in the nation’s K-12 schools. Previous guidance from Democratic administrations directed schools not to  underrepresented minorities such as Black and Native American students. The administration says equity efforts amount to racial discrimination.

Foreign money is at issue in clash with Harvard

Colleges’ financial ties with foreign sources have long been a concern among Republicans, especially ties with China and other countries with adversarial relationships with the U.S. It became a priority during Trump’s first term and reemerged last week as the White House grasped for leverage in its escalating battle with Harvard University.

The White House said it needed to take action because Harvard and other colleges have routinely violated a federal disclosure law, which has been unevenly enforced since it was passed in the 1980s. Known as Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, the law requires colleges to disclose foreign gifts and contracts valued at $250,000 or more.

Last week, the Education Department demanded records from Harvard over foreign financial ties spanning the past decade, accusing the school of filing “incomplete and inaccurate disclosures.” Trump’s administration is sparring with Harvard over the university’s refusal to accept a list of demands over its handling of pro-Palestinian protests as well as its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

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In the executive order, Trump calls on the Education Department and the attorney general to step up enforcement of the law and take action against colleges that violate it, including a cutoff of federal money.

The Trump administration intends to “end the secrecy surrounding foreign funds in American educational institutions” and protect against “foreign exploitation,” the order said.

It was applauded by Republicans, including Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. He accused China of exploiting academic ties to steal research and “indoctrinate students.”

Accreditors ordered to drop DEI

Another order aims at accrediting bodies that set standards colleges must meet to accept federal financial aid from students. Trump campaigned on a promise to overhaul the industry, saying it was “dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics.”

Often overlooked as an obscure branch of college oversight, accreditors play an important role in shaping colleges in many aspects, with standards that apply all the way from colleges’ governing boards to classroom curriculum.

Trump’s executive order is the opening salvo in what could be a lengthy battle to overhaul the accrediting industry. Chief among his priorities is to strip accreditors of DEI requirements imposed on colleges. Some accreditors have already dropped or stopped enforcing such standards amid Trump’s DEI crackdown.

Trump’s order calls on the government to suspend or terminate accreditors that discriminate in the name of DEI. Instead, it calls on accreditors to focus more squarely on the student outcomes of colleges and programs they oversee.

The president wants to make it easier for new accreditors to compete with the 19 that are now authorized to work on behalf of the federal government. As it stands, new accreditors looking to be recognized by the government must undergo an arduous process that traditionally takes years. Trump’s order said it should be “transparent, efficient, and not unduly burdensome.”

“Instead of pushing schools to adopt a divisive DEI ideology, accreditors should be focused on helping schools improve graduation rates and graduates’ performance in the labor market,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

De-emphasizing equity in school discipline

Trump also invoked opposition to equity efforts in his order on school discipline. The edict signed Wednesday seeks a return to “common sense school discipline,” allowing decisions to be based solely on students’ behavior and actions, McMahon said.

Another executive order instructs government agencies and departments to no longer rely on “disparate impact theories.” Under the disparate impact standard, policies and practices that disproportionately impact minorities and other protected groups could be challenged regardless of their intent.

In many schools around the country, Black students have been  that remove them from the classroom, including suspensions, expulsions and being transferred to alternative schools. A decade ago, those differences became the target of a  spurred by the same reckoning that gave rise to . The movement elevated the concept of the “school-to-prison pipeline” — the notion that being kicked out of school, or dropping out, increases the chance of arrest and imprisonment years later.

Federal guidelines to address racial disparities in school discipline first came from President Barack Obama’s administration in 2014. Federal officials urged schools not to suspend, expel or refer students to law enforcement except as a last resort, and encouraged  practices that did not push students out of the classroom. Those rules were rolled back by Trump’s first administration, but civil rights regulations at federal and state levels still mandate the collection of data on discipline.

On Wednesday, Trump directed McMahon to issue new school discipline guidance within 60 days. The order also calls for a review of nonprofit organizations that have promoted discipline policies rooted in equity and ensure they don’t receive federal money.

Another order creates a federal task force focused on giving America’s students training on artificial intelligence as early as kindergarten. It would work to develop new online learning resources.

Trump is also establishing a White House initiative to empower Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Among other efforts, it would seek to promote private-sector partnerships with HBCUs and schools’ workforce preparation in industries like technology and finance.

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Conservative Virginia radio host John Fredericks asked the president if a — on federal land that the of — is contingent upon restoring the team’s former name, which many consider racist. While Trump’s response didn’t pertain to the stadium deal, he did share his preference for the former team name.

“The Indian population is a great part of this country, great heritage,” Trump said.

He brought up other teams with Native American-derived names, like the Kansas City Chiefs, and one other that changed its name — Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians.

“When you go back to Indians, they’ve told us they don’t know why these names are being taken off,” Trump said.

The president also suggested such name changes insult Native Americans.

“I think it’s degrading to the Indian population, and it’s a great population,” Trump said. “And they like when they’re called by various names. Now, Washington, the Redskins, perhaps that’s a little different, a little bit different, but I can tell you I spoke to people of Indian heritage and they love that name and they love that team. And I think it’s a much, I think it’s a superior name to what they have right now. It had heritage behind it; it had something special.”

Critics asked former Commanders owner Dan Snyder to change the name for years, saying it’s offensive to Native Americans. Snyder said he’d never change the name, but after pressure from the public and major team sponsors such as FedEx and Nike, the team announced a “thorough review” into the team’s name and logo in July 2020. Ten days later, the team announced it would retire the name.

The team played the 2020 and 2021 seasons as the Washington Football Team. Then in February 2022, the team revealed its new name and logo.

Current owner Josh Harris inherited the Commanders branding when the ownership group he leads .

Neither Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office nor the team have commented on Trump’s remarks.

Harris previously has said .

When Terri Baker walked into an emergency room for blood in her urine, doctors diagnosed her with kidney stones, and something she didn’t expect.

“They said, and you also have peritoneal carcinomatosis,” Baker said. “I looked at them and said, ‘You’re speaking Spanish to me. I don’t know what that is!'”

It was ovarian cancer, stage 4. Just 6 months prior, Baker had a clean bill of health from her regular gynecologist exam.

“I had no idea that they’re not checking for ovarian cancer unless you have a history, which I don’t,” Baker said. “I thought, I’ve gotta figure out how to do something. I’m not just gonna sit back and just do nothing.”

Ovarian cancer often isn’t detected until late stage because the symptoms are subtle and there’s no regular screening for it. According to the American Cancer Society, ovarian cancer is among the leading causes of cancer deaths among women.

“It’s so easy to come into the ER for one thing, find out you have widespread cancer and just want to throw up the white flag and give up,” Baylor Scott & White Gynecologic Oncologist Dr. Erik Colin Koon said. “She’s a fighter!”

Koon said ovarian cancer tumors are marked by something called CA-125.

“Of all the patients that I’ve had, she holds the record for having the highest CA-125 that I have ever seen in my career,” Koon said. “That number was 44,641…so you don’t forget your record!”

Baker became Koon’s patient after a nurse navigator with Baylor Scott & White called to help her find the right oncologist and set up appointments at the . The 2 women got to talking about growing up near Baylor.

“And I said, ‘Do you happen to know a girl named Stacy?'” Baker recalled. “She got quiet for a second and she said, ‘That’s me!’ And I said, ‘Stacy, this is Terri, your cousin!'”

The cousin Baker had not seen in 25 years was at her side during chemotherapy treatments. On Wednesday, Baker got the results of her most recent CT scan

“And it shows absolutely no evidence of disease, which is awesome,” Koon said, adding that he was cautiously optimistic. “Hers is probably one of the better results that we’ve seen, so it’s just truly remarkable.”

Koon said Baker’s attitude played a big part in her cancer battle.

“She didn’t slow down at all; she just would take whatever we would throw at her, and didn’t let the small things really wear her down,” Koon said. “She kept the big picture in mind, which I think is really critical in the treatment of cancer.”

“I’m not ready yet,” Baker said. “I’m 54, I’m not done!”

Chris Murzin was killed while driving along I-20 in Southern Dallas on Feb. 11, 2001.

Members of the House Transportation Committee will then decide the fate of a bill aimed at solving crimes committed on state highways, where traffic cameras do not record live video feeds.

Murzin, 53, was driving westbound on I-20 just before the South Polk Street exit when another vehicle pulled up to his driver’s side and opened fire, killing the husband and father of three.

His murder remains unsolved.

If passed, would direct the Texas Department of Transportation to record and temporarily save traffic camera feeds for at least 30 days.

The introduced bill text states:

A recording made under this section is confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code, except that the department may provide access to a recording to a law enforcement agency for use related to a criminal investigation.

“I’m going to tell them a little bit about our story,” said Christina Murzin. “The biggest obstacle in solving Chris’ case was that it happened on a Texas highway. I was completely surprised that TxDOT cameras don’t record, and I think a lot of people are surprised.”

While TxDOT provides live video feeds, traffic cameras are not actively recorded.

In Murzin’s murder, the only reason detectives have a glimpse of the suspect’s silver or light-colored SUV, possibly a GMC, is thanks to a nearby business with surveillance video.

Chris Murzin was on a work trip, driving his 2002 black Yukon Denali.

The deadly encounter happened at about 1 p.m. on Feb. 11, 2001.

An unrelated tragedy struck North Texas that same day: a 130-car pileup in Fort Worth claimed the lives of six people.

Murzin had previously been named University Park’s Citizen of the Year for his dedication to helping others, including revamping a park for children of all abilities.

His dedication was also inspired by his own son with special needs.

Dallas Rep. Morgan Meyer authored the bill and provided the following statement to 온라인카지노사이트 5:

“It has been an honor to work alongside Christina Murzin as she carries forward the legacy of her late husband, Chris Murzin, by championing efforts to support law enforcement in solving murder cases. Chris was a devoted public servant and a deeply respected member of our community—his tragic death will never be forgotten.

House Bill 2621 takes an important step toward strengthening public safety and accountability by ensuring that video footage from Texas highways is preserved and made available to law enforcement. This critical evidence can play a key role in solving crimes, identifying suspects, and providing closure for victims’ families. By improving access to this kind of information, the bill also enhances the ability of emergency responders and public safety officials to act swiftly and effectively.”

Murzin is hopeful this would help secure arrests and convictions, if not in her case, then for others.

“While our case is a road rage, the video from the TxDOT cameras could help hit and runs, drug trafficking, drug smuggling, border safety. There are so many crimes that happen on our highways that I really am hopeful the TxDOT cam video could give law enforcement that edge to help them solve these crimes.”

A TxDOT spokesperson told 온라인카지노사이트 5 they do not comment on pending legislation.

The Dallas District alone has 746 cameras, according to TxDOT.

What, if any, cost would be incurred is not clear.

Murzin says whatever the cost is would be a “drop in the bucket” of the state’s overall budget.

She has been on a relentless mission to bring her husband’s elusive killer to justice.

The family has posted billboards, offered hefty rewards, and enlisted technology experts over the past four years.

Murzin says while the latest effort doesn’t make their loss easier, it does bring them hope—hope that other families will be spared their pain and anguish.

Murzin will testify at about 9 a.m. in Austin, her loving husband on her mind.

“Tomorrow is our anniversary,” she said, becoming emotional. “It would have been our 32nd wedding anniversary, so he’ll be very near. Very near and I just hope that we continue to make the world a better place in his honor and help other people not go through what we’re going through.”

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Sales have plunged for Tesla amid protests and boycotts over Musk’s embrace of far right-wing views. Profits have been sliced by two-thirds so far this year, and rivals from China, Europe and the U.S. are pouncing.

On Tuesday came some relief as Musk announced in an earnings call with investors that he would be scaling back his government cost-cutting job in Washington to a “day or two per week” to focus more on his old job as Tesla’s boss.

Investors pushed up Tesla’s stock 5% Wednesday, though there are plenty of challenges ahead.

Who wants a Tesla?

Musk seemed to downplay the role that brand damage played in the drop in first-quarter sales on the investor call. Instead, he emphasized something more fleeting — an upgrade to Tesla’s best-selling Model Y that forced a shutdown of factories and pinched both supply and demand.

While financial analysts following the company have noted that potential buyers probably held back while waiting for the upgrade, hurting results, even the most bullish among them say the brand damage is real, and more worrisome.

“This is a full blown crisis,” said Wedbush Securities’ normally upbeat Dan Ives earlier this month. In a note to its clients, JP Morgan warned of “unprecedented brand damage.”

Musk’s take on the protests

Musk dismissed the protests against Tesla on the call as the work of people angry at his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency because “those who are receiving the waste and fraud wish it to continue.”

But the protests in Europe, thousands of miles from Washington, came after Musk supported far-right politicians there. Angry Europeans hung Musk in effigy in Milan, projected an image of him doing a straight-arm salute on a Tesla factory in Berlin and put up posters in London urging people not to buy “Swasticars” from him.

Sales in Europe have gone into a free fall in the first three months of this year — down 39%. In Germany, sales plunged 62%.

Another worrying sign: On Tuesday, Tesla backed off its earlier promise that sales would recover this year after dropping in 2024 for the first time a dozen years. Tesla said the global trade situation was too uncertain and declined to repeat the forecast.

Here come the rivals

Meanwhile, Tesla’s competition is stealing its customers.

Among its fiercest rivals now is Chinese giant BYD. Earlier this year, the EV maker announced it had developed an electric battery that can charge within minutes. And Tesla’s European rivals have begun offering new models with advanced technology that is making them real Tesla alternatives just as popular opinion has turned against Musk.

Tesla’s share of the EV market in the U.S. has dropped from two-thirds to less than half, according to Cox Automotive.

Pinning hopes on cybercabs

Another rival, Google parent Alphabet, is already ahead of Tesla in an area that Musk has promised will help remake his company: Cybercabs.

One of the highlights of Tesla’s call Tuesday was Musk sticking with his previous prediction that it will l aunch driverless cabs without steering wheels and pedals in Austin, Texas, in June, and in other cities soon after.

But Google’s service, called Waymo, already has logged millions of driverless cybercab trips in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin as part of a partnership with ride-hailing leader Uber.

A driverless future for Tesla owners?

Musk also told analysts that this driverless capability will be available on the Tesla vehicles already on the road through software updates over the air, and put a timeline on it: “There will be millions of Teslas operating autonomously in the second half of the year.”

But he has made similar promises before, only to miss his deadlines, such as in April 2019 when he vowed full automation by the end of the next year. He repeated the prediction, moving up the date, several more times, in following years.

A big problem is federal investigators have not given the all-clear that Tesla vehicles can drive completely on their own safely. Among other probes, safety regulators are looking into Tesla’s so-called Full Self-Driving, which is only partial self-driving, for its tie to accidents in low-visibility conditions like when there is sun glare.

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On the positive side

In competition with rivals in the U.S., Tesla currently has one clear advantage: It will get hurt by less by tariffs because most of its vehicles are built in the countries where they are sold, including those in its biggest market, the U.S.

“Tariffs are still tough on a company where margins are still low, but we do have localized supply chains,” Musk said Tuesday. “That puts us in a strong position.”

The company also reconfirmed that a cheaper version of its best-selling vehicle, the Model Y sport utility vehicle, will be ready for customers in the first half of this year. That could help boost sales.

Another plus: The company had a blow out first quarter in its energy storage business. And Musk has promised to be producing 5,000 Optimus robots, another Tesla business, by the end of the year.

Pricey stock

Even after falling nearly 50% from its December highs, Tesla’s stock is still very richly valued based on the one yardstick that really matters in the long run: its earnings.

At 110 times its expected per share earnings this year, the stock is valued more than 25 times higher than General Motors. The average stock on in the S&P 500 index trades at less than 20 times earnings.

That leaves Tesla little margin for error if something goes wrong.

Citing the need to continue providing opportunities for affordable housing in northern Dallas, the Dallas City Council approved a plan to add upwards of

The project from High Street Residential Inc. will be owned by the , which will oversee the acquisition and renovation of the now vacant office high-rise just south of 635 between Noel and Montfort Drive.

The entire mixed-income multifamily development will contain 399 units.

The DPFC was created in 2020 to allow the city to meet its housing goals established under its adopted by the city council.

The agreement allows the developer to forego approximately $2.2 million in property taxes annually for 75 years.

District 6 council member Omar Narvaez says the project addresses a need to provide housing for employees in an area of this city that is closer to jobs.

“The more housing that we get built, the better because that will help these values that have gone up too fast,” Narvaez said. “We want affordable housing, they (developer) have a little bit of a gap and this is how we get to do it, and we find a way to make this happen.”

That was last year — before 67 people died in January when an American Airlines jet collided with a helicopter over Washington, D.C., in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in almost a quarter century.

Now, Campbell is even more hesitant to book a flight.

“It’s definitely spiked my concern about getting on a plane and it’s making the whole situation a little more stressful than it used to be,” said Campbell, 30, who manages a coffee shop in San Diego.

Being at least a little nervous about flying is understandable. As Mel Brooks once said: “If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.” But for some people it causes deep anxiety that could require professional help.

Here’s a look at air travel anxiety and ways to cope with it.

More people seem to be nervous about flying

The evidence is anecdotal, but psychologists and flight attendants say they’ve seen and heard increased worries — and not only in people who already had anxieties about flying.

“Even people who didn’t have a fear of flying are talking about it, given recent events,” said Jennifer Dragonette, a California-based psychologist who treats people with air travel anxieties.

U.S. air travel was down in March and early April compared with last year, according to TSA statistics. Airlines have attributed the decline to economic uncertainty, a decline in government and corporate travel and — yes — concern about recent aviation incidents.

FAA officials recently acknowledged they weren’t doing enough to ensure air safety. Recent polling by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that fewer Americans report feeling safe about flying this year.

Flight attendants who work planes out of the Washington, D.C., airport were particularly rattled by the January collision, said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants union. Some asked for time off to process their emotions, and at least one flight attendant left the job, she said.

What is fear of flying?

Fear of flying — sometimes called aerophobia — goes beyond just being nervous about a flight. It is an intense form of anxiety that centers on certain aspects of air travel. Many aerophobes get most rattled during take-off and landing, or when they think about being locked in a plane.

Some research has suggested it affects about 25 million U.S. adults. Psychologists say it often surfaces in adulthood, developing in people who didn’t mind flying as kids but grew more rattled as they aged.

In many cases, it starts when people are in their 20s or 30s, at a time they are experiencing big life changes and new responsibilities — like getting married or becoming a parent — and they start to think that “everything counts,” said David Carbonell, a Chicago-based psychologist who authored a workbook to help people cope with flying fears.

A bad flight with heavy turbulence or some other problem may trigger an anxiety that persists, he said.

Campbell, who has other forms of anxiety, developed a fear of flying a few years ago. She is transgender, and said travel can be stressful because of concerns about how she’ll be treated by airport security or in other interactions.

Aerophobia can be complicated, Carbonell said. For many people, it’s not so much a fear of crashing as it is claustrophobic feelings of being in an enclosed cabin and not having control.

Campbell said that’s what she experiences: “feeling trapped and unable to breathe.”

Nelson said flight attendants regularly deal with suffering passengers: “We’ve had people have panic attacks, and we’ve had to give them oxygen. It can be quite intense.”

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How to cope with flying anxiety

Statistics have long shown that airliners are probably the safest way to travel. According to the National Safety Council, the odds of dying in an airplane crash are too low to be calculated, based on 2023 statistics — making them far, far lower than of being killed in a motor vehicle crash or, for that matter, walking on a sidewalk or crossing a street.

But experts say you can’t really reason your way out of an anxiety disorder.

Carbonell spends little time on statistics, telling patients: “I know you already looked at them all, and they’re not helping you.”

For people with milder levels of aerophobia, deep breathing often works. Longer exhales help the body relax, said Dragonette, who counseled Campbell for aerophobia and other anxiety disorders at a Newport Healthcare residential facility in Temecula, California.

People suffering more extreme cases can be helped with exposure therapy. It can start by simply getting patients to become comfortable looking at photos of planes, watching videos of planes flying safely, or putting on a virtual reality headset that shows recordings of being inside a plane, Dragonette said.

It’s a matter of getting patients to learn to live with their feelings and better handle them.

Carbonell recommends patients take practice flights that do not involve work trips or any other responsibilities. When they have symptoms, he recommends they keep a written inventory.

“They’re keeping a simple count,” he said. “We’re using counting as a proxy for acceptance.”

It’s OK to ask for help

Nelson, who was a longtime United Airlines flight attendant, says: “I’ve had situations where I’d sort of sit in the aisle and hold someone’s hand.”

On a Frontier Airlines flight last year from Detroit to San Diego, Campbell tried breathing and other coping skills, but they didn’t halt her panic attack. The passenger next to her noticed she was increasingly anxious, and summoned a flight attendant.

The flight attendant took deep breaths with Campbell and helped her get through it, and also took down Campbell’s phone number and checked on her a day later.

“I was really impressed,” she said.

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Hiring will be one of the chief’s first big challenges with the city under a voter-imposed mandate to radically increase staffing, with the city aiming to hire 300 officers just this year.

So far in 2025, the department has hired about 150 new officers but about 75 others have left the force.

Meaning that for every two officers recruited, one officer leaves the department.

“I think it starts with morale, and it starts with the culture, right? So, it’s going to start from the top. I’m going to lead in a way where I hope when an officer comes here, they’re gonna stay,” Comeaux said in an interview with 온라인카지노사이트 5 Investigates.

Comeaux will be asked to lead a massive expansion of the ranks at a time when police departments across the country are struggling to recruit.

“Look, we’re gonna think outside the box. We’re looking at everything. We’re looking at the qualifications, we’re looking at the requirements. We’re also looking at lateral transfers from other states,” said Comeaux.

The chief began the day on Wednesday, greeting the city council, dressed in a Dallas police uniform and badge after his Texas peace officer’s license was reactivated earlier this week.

Comeaux served as a Houston police officer more than 25 years ago, before joining the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), eventually leading the DEA’s Houston office.

When asked why he wanted to come back to local policing, he said he always wanted to return to where he started his career, and that he remembers the impact he could have as an officer, helping people solve neighborhood problems.

In Dallas, violent crime is currently down, with murders down more than 40% compared to this time last year.

Under the leadership of Chief Eddie Garcia, the department used a grid strategy, breaking the city into tiny boxes and then focusing officers on grids where the most violent crime was occurring.

Comeaux indicated he plans to stick with that approach.

“Look, it’s been successful so we’re going to continue doing what’s already been done and what we’re going to try to do is just add a little bit more to it”, Comeaux said.

Comeaux declined to answer some questions Wednesday about his approach to collaborating with federal immigration authorities. He told 온라인카지노사이트 5’s sister station, Telemundo 39, that the department will take care of everyone in the community equally and that he will address more specific questions once he has had a chance to get settled on the job.

Before his law enforcement career, Comeaux played college baseball and given that he is moving to Dallas from Houston, there was one more important question 온라인카지노사이트 5 asked in Wednesday’s interview: “Astros or Rangers?”

“Texas. Let’s go. As long as Texas wins, I’m happy,” said Comeaux.

The planned encampments come just over a year after students first erected about 50 tents on a university lawn to protest the war and drew the world’s attention.

Those demonstrations, in part, fueled the Trump administration’s effort to extract concessions from Columbia, saying the university failed to quell antisemitism on its campus.

Planning for the encampments has been shrouded in secrecy.

The coordinating meeting took place at a community center on Tuesday night in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, approximately 12 miles from campus, according to screenshots of Signal messages from organizers and a person who was at the meeting.

Invitations for the meeting were largely distributed in person or verbally over the phone, according to the person who attended the meeting and asked not to be named due to fears of discipline from the school.

More than 100 people were present at the gathering and all wore masks to conceal their identities, according to the person. It is unclear if all of the participants were Columbia students, the person said.

The student organizers did not introduce speakers by name and instead used Signal usernames and code names — including the beloved Pokémon “Squirtle” and words such as “butterfly” — to distinguish one another, according to the recording.

Organizers have also refrained from referring to the upcoming encampments as “encampments,” according to screenshots of Signal messages from the organizers and conversations with two people familiar with the planning for the protests. In writing, and verbally, participants have designated the encampments with a code name, the “circus.”

Organizers asked demonstrators not to arrive on campus wearing masks on the days of the protests, which they said could alert campus security officers, according to the recording.

“This year feels so much more organized and careful,” the person who was at the meeting said.

Columbia did not confirm or deny whether it knew about the upcoming protests.

“Our focus is on protecting the safety of our community and ensuring that the University is able to proceed normally with all academic activities,” a university spokesperson said in a statement. “We are closely monitoring, as always, for any disruptions, and campus activities are currently proceeding as usual.”

The spokesperson added that encampments are against the university’s policies and participation could result in disciplinary action.

Students are planning to erect an encampment on Thursday at the university’s main campus in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood and a second encampment on Friday at the university’s nearby Manhattanville campus, according to the recording.

“When we take over the lawn, our goal is to unify the space and make it our own,” one of the organizers said, according to the recording.

Thursday’s encampment was planned to start at 1 p.m. on the West Butler Lawn of the university’s main campus, where encampments were set up last year, according to the recording, and disperse before nightfall or before police enter the campus.

There will be a second encampment that is expected to be more robust and begin the next day. It is unclear when the Friday encampment will begin, but according to the recording, students plan to stay indefinitely and expect arrests to be made.

Organizers chose to stage Friday’s encampment at the Manhattanville campus — the site of the university’s business school — because it is not gated off to outsiders, unlike the main campus, according to a person who attended the meeting.

A speaker at the meeting also said that the site of the second encampment was aimed at protesting the university’s gentrification of Harlem, according to the recording.

“Any action that we do will bring police, will bring repression and we thought about that deeply and we’re aware of that,” a speaker at the meeting said to applause. “And we’re stuck in this situation where inaction is also violence.”

Organizers of the upcoming protests have distributed several guidelines, obtained by 온라인카지노사이트 News, to student protesters. These guidelines cover legal risks associated with protesting, best practices for encounters with law enforcement and strategies for securing their digital presence.

The document on digital security advises that students communicate only through encrypted messaging services such as Signal, over the phone, or in person. It also suggests that students turn off Wi-Fi on their phones while protesting to avoid being traced by the university.

Another form shared by the organizers and obtained by 온라인카지노사이트 News asks students to provide “all the information necessary to support your legal defense” for their emergency contacts in the event of arrest.

It asks for student protesters to list any medical conditions, insurance information, prescriptions, if they have dependents, where their government IDs are, their address and how emergency contacts can access their apartments or homes.

“Given the Trump Administration’s commitment to pursuing federal action against pro-Palestine protestors and the abduction of our comrade  we are now asking students to prepare not only for potential arrest and jail for several hours or overnight, but for the possibility of prolonged jail time,” the form reads. “Give serious thought to the question of how you would prepare for weeks or months in jail.”

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The upcoming encampments precede a monthslong campaign of protests at the university last year, which inspired similar demonstrations at college campuses across the country and around the world. Dozens of students who participated in the encampments were arrested by local authorities or expelled from the university.

The protests were prompted by the Israeli military’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks, in which more than 1,200 people were killed and about 250 were taken hostage, according to Israel. More than 51,000 people have been killed in Gaza and millions have been displaced in the war that followed, according to health officials in Gaza.

Student activists staged the demonstrations last year in an attempt to get their universities to divest from companies linked to the Israeli government.

The encampments also come amid the Trump administration’s push to intervene in Columbia’s affairs and some of the nation’s oldest higher education institutions. The federal government  on March 7, part of what the Trump administration says is a broader effort to “root out” antisemitism on college campuses.

In an effort to restore the grants, which fund dozens of universities’ top-tier research expeditions, Columbia agreed to a list of the administration’s demands on March 21.

The demands included instituting a mask ban at protests in most cases; hiring an outsider to oversee its department of Middle East, South Asian and African studies; committing to “greater institutional neutrality”; and enlisting three dozen new security officers with newly installed powers to arrest students.

Faced with its own deal by the Trump administration, Harvard University rejected the administration’s demands and  several days later, aiming to restore billions in funding.

The protests also come several weeks after federal immigration officials  who participated in the student-led protests, including 30-year-old .

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“He was very warm, hospitable, very authentic and most genuine,” Burns said. “While he had a global mind and served as the universal shepherd, he knew what was happening in communities.”

Burns said he saw that firsthand during a visit of Texas Bishops to the Vatican a few years ago.

“He called an attendant over and whispered something to him and then continued to engage us in conversation. The attendant came back with a white bag and sat it down right next to him [Pope Francis]. When all of a sudden, Pope Francis picks up the bag and gets up. He starts walking straight towards one of our Bishops from El Paso. The Holy Father knew about the shooting of the 23 people at the Walmart there and in that bag were 23 rosaries. He told the Bishop to give them to the families of the victims.”

In February, Pope Francis penned a letter to the Bishops across the country regarding his thoughts on immigration. Burns said the Pontiff made his stance very clear.

“It was important for him that we, the shepherds in the church, know that we accompany people on their journey and in sending the message. It’s important that we acknowledge every country has a right to protect its borders and every family has a right to a better life. Therein lies Pope Francis’ need to challenge countries,” Burns said.

That was also evident with other marginalized communities. People who often times feel on the fringe of society. Burns said one of those was the LGBTQ+ community.

“Pope Francis was emphatic about proclaiming that no one is excluded from God’s love. He often times went off script. He would just speak from the heart. He would shoot from the hip and he was sincere,” Burns said.

Following the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, the Church dictates that the Papal Conclave must begin within two weeks. It’s a secretive assembly of Cardinals at the Vatican to choose the next Pope. Burns explained why the ritual, which is centuries old, is shrouded in secrecy.

“The way they pick who the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church will be is important to happen in solitude. It is important that they pray as the cardinals gather. They just don’t take out little voting pads. They enter into prayer.”

The man who has overseen many of the rites after Pope Francis’ passing and the Conclave will be Cardinal Kevin Farrell. Farrell was named a Cardinal in 2016 and then was nominated as camerlengo in 2019. Before being appointed to Cardinal, he was the Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas before Burns.

“I cherish the fact that he is a churchman. He is basically the executor of the Vatican in between Popes. I texted him on Monday and just told him that he has the prayers of the Diocese of Dallas. Of course, I didn’t expect a text back, he is a little busy,” Burns said.

Pope Francis once said, “When there’s division, there’s death.” Burns said that sentence is a bold depiction of how he lived his life and papacy, in hopes of bridging the gap where differences of opinion lived.

“We are called to be one and in the oneness of the human family. In the oneness of humanity that when there is chaos, when there is division. We have to stay one, he was very prophetic in his words,” Burns said.

Burns will celebrate a memorial mass in honor of Pope Francis on Monday, April 28, at the National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Downtown Dallas at 7:00 p.m.

“There’s an awful lot of questions,” Johnson, the chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in an interview on conservative activist Benny Johnson’s podcast on Monday.

“What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” Johnson said of the. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”

Asked if he planned on holding hearings, Johnson said, “I think so.”

“There are a host of questions I will be asking,” the senator said.

Asked for further details about Johnson’s plans, a spokeswoman told 온라인카지노사이트 News Wednesday that a “potential hearing will depend on what information/documentation is obtained by our office.”

Johnson’s comments focused on a  claim about a building in the World Trade Center complex that collapsed hours after the Twin Towers were brought down by airliners.

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The Wisconsin senator, who has a , said in the interview that the investigation into the building that came down, , was “corrupt” and suggested its collapse was the result of a “controlled demolition.”

Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, sharply criticized Johnson’s comments and urged the Wisconsin senator to “stop peddling conspiracy theories.”

“Respectfully, Senator Johnson should stop peddling conspiracy theories about the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history and one that forever altered the lives of so many of my fellow New Yorkers,” Lawler wrote in a . “Crap like this dishonors and disrespects the innocent lives lost, our brave first responders, and all families and survivors who still carry the pain of 9/11 each and every day.”

John Feal, a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero in New York and longtime advocate for first responders, called Johnson’s remarks “silly and pathetic.”

“If Ron Johnson really wants to know what happened on 9/11, I can meet with him,” Feal told CNN in an interview Wednesday. “I’ll let him know that innocent lives were lost on 9/11. Heroes died racing towards those innocent lives, and subsequently, 137,000 people are now sick because of the aftermath of 9/11.”

Feal said he’ll be in D.C. on Tuesday to advocate against the  to the World Trade Center Health Program, and said that’s what Johnson should be questioning.

“Ron Johnson’s priorities are backwards and he’s a silly man,” Feal said.

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Outdoor warning sirens are strategically placed throughout the entire area, alerting Texans that a dangerous storm is moving in. There’s a chance, though, if you’re inside your home, you may not hear them at all. 

“It’s for people that are outdoors to go inside and seek additional information about why those sirens are being sounded,” said Travis Houston, the City of Dallas Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency Management and Crisis Response.

If you hear the sirens going off, that means you need to take immediate action. Get to a safe place – an interior room, away from windows on the lowest level of your home or a nearby building.

When some people hear the sirens, they automatically think they are in the immediate path of a tornado, and that’s not always the case.

“The City of Dallas activates the outdoor warning system whenever we receive a warning from the National Weather Service that contains winds of 70 mph or greater, hail of one and a half inches or greater, or a tornado warning anywhere in the City of Dallas,” Houston said.

April and May are North Texas’s most active tornado months, with the severe weather season stretching into early June.

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In a , Trump described Zelenskyy’s rejection of Russia’s takeover of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, as “very harmful” to achieving peace. 

“It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War,” Trump wrote.

Zelenskyy has consistently rejected the suggestion that his country give up its claim to the Crimean Peninsula. 

“There’s nothing to talk about here,” he said at a media conference Tuesday. “This is against our constitution.”

Trump’s post comes after months of discord between the two leaders, including a heated exchange . The two men had a near-shouting match when Zelenskyy noted that Russia has broken previous agreements with Ukraine during a disagreement that included Vice President JD Vance.

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The situation escalated when Trump raised his voice and pointed his finger at Zelenskyy, accusing him of “gambling with World War III” and being “disrespectful” to the U.S.

Trump  including providing Ukraine with intelligence, following the Oval Office clash.

Zelenskyy  earlier this month after Russia launched two ballistic missiles at Sumy, killing 34 people and injuring 119. He suggested that a visit to the destruction would help U.S. leadership “understand what Putin did.”

 aimed at bringing  disintegrated earlier after  and special envoy Steve Witkoff pulled out, dealing a blow to Kyiv’s hopes for a short-term peace agreement.

While ministerial talks that had been planned in London fell apart, Trump’s, still planned to meet with Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak, who arrived in London early Wednesday with the Ukrainian defense and foreign ministers.

The parties in London agreed to “continue the dialogue,” Yermak said in a Telegram post following the meeting.

“We conveyed our position and emphasized that an immediate, complete, and unconditional ceasefire must be the first step toward launching negotiations aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace,” Yermak said. “We expressed hope that this aligns with the vision of President Donald Trump.”

In an post on X,  today’s meeting though “emotions have run high.”

“It’s important that each side was not just a participant but contributed meaningfully. The American side shared its vision. Ukraine and other Europeans presented their inputs,” Zelenskyy wrote. “And we hope that it is exactly such joint work that will lead to lasting peace.”

The latest setback comes during a week in which the Trump administration has doubled down on efforts to push Kyiv and Moscow toward a truce. Next week marks 100 days of Trump’s second presidential term, and he on his first day back in office. Rubio suggested last week that from ceasefire efforts, failing any further progress.

Vance said earlier in the day that he was “optimistic” about the talks, but also doubled down on the threat to walk away from negotiations.

“I think that we put together a very fair proposal,” Vance told reporters on his trip in India. “We’re going to see if the Europeans, the Russians and the Ukrainians are ultimately able to get this thing over the finish line.”

Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the U.S. has not set a deadline for a ceasefire and that “Russia does not consider it appropriate to set deadlines either,” Russian news agency Tass reported.

“The downgrading is significant,” said Bence Németh, a senior lecturer in the defense studies department at King’s College London, citing Zelenskyy’s rejection that Russia maintain control of Crimea as part of any deal.

Rubio and Witkoff’s absence “suggests that Washington is increasingly disinterested in drawn-out, multilateral negotiations,” Németh added. “This is not just about diplomacy fatigue. It also signals a hard pivot: The U.S. is not positioning itself as a neutral mediator.”

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed Tuesday that Rubio would skip the meeting hours after saying the opposite. “That is not a statement regarding the meetings. It’s a statement about logistical issues in his schedule,” he said.

Despite initial plans to attend the scheduled talks, neither Rubio nor Witkoff were in London on Wednesday, a European diplomat told 온라인카지노사이트 News.

But representatives from the U.K., Germany and France still met with Yermak and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov in what the British Foreign Ministry described as “productive and successful” discussions.

“All parties reiterated their strong support for President Tump’s commitment to stopping the killing and achieving a just and lasting peace,” the ministry said. “The talks today were productive and successful, and significant progress was made on reaching a common position on next step.”

Expectations that Kyiv and Moscow would make a deal to end their  this week remained low after the U.S. presented Ukraine and its European allies with peace proposals last week in Paris that both sides saw as unacceptable, according to 온라인카지노사이트 News’ international partner, Sky News.

Under a “terms sheet” offered by Rubio and Witkoff, a land-for-peace deal would recognize Russia’s currently illegal annexation of Crimea and work toward lifting European Union sanctions on Russia. Both parties have since rejected the terms.

Yulia Svyrydenko, the country’s deputy prime minister, wrote in a post on X that Ukraine was ready to negotiate, “but not to surrender.”

“Our people will not accept a frozen conflict disguised as peace,” Svyrydenko wrote.

After months of upbeat statements on indirect U.S.-led talks, but limited practical engagement, Russian  on Tuesday suggested for the first time that he would be open to bilateral ceasefire talks with .

The issue of Crimea may well be one of the most difficult points of difference to overcome, said Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank.

“I think it will be extraordinarily difficult, bordering on political suicide, for him [Zelenskyy] to commit to paper on things like giving up Crimea,” Savill said. That said, “Ukraine is not going to recapture Crimea anytime soon. Ukraine is unlikely to be a NATO member anytime soon.”

“There might be some formulation [of a deal] that effectively kicks those into the long grass,” Savill added, with the caveat that “the terms of any deal at the moment are not going to be particularly favorable to Ukraine.”

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Moises Sandoval Mendoza was condemned for the March 2004 killing of 20-year-old Rachelle O’Neil Tolleson. Prosecutors say Mendoza took Tolleson from her home in Farmersville, leaving her 6-month-old daughter alone. The infant was found cold and wet but safe the next day by Tolleson’s mother. Tolleson’s body was found six days later near a creek.

Mendoza, 41, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

Evidence in Mendoza’s case showed he also burned Tolleson’s body to hide his fingerprints. Dental records were used to identify her, according to investigators.

Mendoza’s lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the scheduled execution after lower courts previously rejected his petitions for a stay. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday denied Mendoza’s request to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty.

In their petition before the Supreme Court, Mendoza’s attorneys said he was prevented by lower courts from arguing that he had been denied effective assistance of counsel earlier in the appeals process.

Mendoza’s lawyers allege that a previous appeals attorney, as well as his trial lawyer, had failed to challenge critical testimony by a detention officer, Robert Hinton. That testimony was used by prosecutors to persuade jurors that Mendoza would be a future danger to society — a legal finding needed to secure a death sentence in Texas.

Mendoza’s lawyers allege the officer, who worked in the county jail where the inmate was being held after his arrest, gave false testimony that Mendoza had started a fight with another inmate. Mendoza’s lawyers say the other inmate now claims in an affidavit that he believed detention officers wanted him to start the fight, and he was later rewarded for it.

“There is no doubt the jury was listening. During its deliberations, the jury specifically asked about Mendoza’s ‘criminal acts while in jail,’ including the ‘assault on other inmate,’” Mendoza’s lawyers said in their petition to the Supreme Court. “As evidenced by the jury’s notes, there is a reasonable probability that trial counsel’s error in failing to investigate Hinton’s testimony affected the result.”

But the Texas Attorney General’s Office told the Supreme Court that Mendoza’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel has already been found by a lower federal court to be “meritless and insubstantial.”

Even if the detention officer’s testimony were eliminated, the jury heard substantial evidence regarding Mendoza’s future dangerousness and his long history of violence, especially against women, including physically attacking his mother and sister and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, according to the attorney general’s office.

“Finally, given the extreme delay in this two-decade-old case, the public interest weighs heavily against a stay. The State and crime victims have a ’powerful and legitimate interest in punishing the guilty,’” the attorney general’s office said in its petition.

Authorities said that in the days before the killing, Mendoza had attended a party at Tolleson’s home in Farmersville, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Dallas. On the day her body was found, Mendoza told a friend about the killing. The friend called police and Mendoza was arrested.

Mendoza confessed to police but couldn’t give detectives a reason for his actions, authorities said. He told investigators he repeatedly choked Tolleson, sexually assaulted her and dragged her body to a field, where he choked her again and then stabbed her in the throat. He later moved her body to a more remote location and burned it.

If the execution is carried out, Mendoza would be the third inmate put to death this year in Texas, historically the nation’s busiest capital punishment state, and the 13th in the U.S.

A Dartmouth College research team came up with the estimated pollution caused by 111 companies, with more than half of the total dollar figure coming from 10 fossil fuel providers: Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, National Iranian Oil Co., Pemex, Coal India and the British Coal Corporation.

For comparison, $28 trillion is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last year.

At the top of the list, Saudi Aramco and Gazprom have each caused a bit more than $2 trillion in heat damage over the decades, the team calculated in a study published in Wednesday’s journal Nature. The researchers figured that every 1% of greenhouse gas put into the atmosphere since 1990 has caused $502 billion in damage from heat alone, which doesn’t include the costs incurred by other extreme weather such as hurricanes, droughts and floods.

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The study is an attempt to determine “the causal linkages that underlie many of these theories of accountability,” said its lead author, Christopher Callahan, who did the work at Dartmouth but is now an Earth systems scientist at Stanford University. The research firm Zero Carbon Analytics counts 68 lawsuits filed globally about climate change damage, with more than half of them in the United States.

“Everybody’s asking the same question: What can we actually claim about who has caused this?” said Dartmouth climate scientist Justin Mankin, co-author of the study. “And that really comes down to a thermodynamic question of can we trace climate hazards and/or their damages back to particular emitters?”

The answer is yes, Callahan and Mankin said.

The researchers started with known final emissions of the products — such as gasoline or electricity from coal-fired power plants — produced by the 111 biggest carbon-oriented companies going as far back as 137 years, because that’s as far back as any of the companies’ emissions data go and carbon dioxide stays in the air for much longer than that. They used 1,000 different computer simulations to translate those emissions into changes for Earth’s global average surface temperature by comparing it to a world without that company’s emissions.

Using this approach, they determined that pollution from Chevron, for example, has raised the Earth’s temperature by .045 degrees Fahrenheit (.025 degrees Celsius).

The researchers also calculated how much each company’s pollution contributed to the five hottest days of the year using 80 more computer simulations and then applying a formula that connects extreme heat intensity to changes in economic output.

This system is modeled on the established techniques scientists have been using for more than a decade to attribute extreme weather events, such as the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave, to climate change.

Mankin said that in the past, there was an argument of, “Who’s to say that it’s my molecule of CO2 that’s contributed to these damages versus any other one?” He said his study “really laid clear how the veil of plausible deniability doesn’t exist anymore scientifically. We can actually trace harms back to major emitters.”

Shell declined to comment. Aramco, Gazprom, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and BP did not respond to requests for comment.

“All methods they use are quite robust,” said Imperial College London climate scientist Friederike Otto, who heads World Weather Attribution, a collection of scientists who try rapid attribution studies to see if specific extreme weather events are worsened by climate change and, if so, by how much. She didn’t take part in the study.

“It would be good in my view if this approach would be taken up more by different groups. As with event attribution, the more groups do it, the better the science gets and the better we know what makes a difference and what does not,” Otto said. So far, no climate liability lawsuit against a major carbon emitter has been successful, but maybe showing “how overwhelmingly strong the scientific evidence” is can change that, she said.

In the past, damage caused by individual companies were lost in the noise of data, so it couldn’t be calculated, Callahan said.

“We have now reached a point in the climate crisis where the total damages are so immense that the contributions of a single company’s product can amount to tens of billions of dollars a year,” said Chris Field, a Stanford University climate scientist who didn’t take part in the research.

This is a good exercise and proof of concept, but there are so many other climate variables that the numbers that Callahan and Mankin came up with are probably a vast underestimate of the damage the companies have really caused, said Michael Mann, a University of Pennsylvania climate scientist who wasn’t involved in the study.

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In an exclusive interview with 온라인카지노사이트 News’ Lester Holt, Harvard President Alan Garber said the school had “no choice” but to fight back against what it believes is federal overreach and an illegal attempt by the government to withhold funding as leverage to control academic decision-making. 

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“We are defending what I believe is one of the most important lynchpins of the American economy and way of life — our universities,” Garber said.

In a letter on April 11, the Trump administration outlined a  it wanted Harvard to make to keep $2.2 billion in grants. The reforms included allowing the government to audit who the school hires and admits for at least the next three years.

When Harvard rejected the demands, the administration said it would freeze the funding, citing the school’s unwillingness to seriously address antisemitism and the harassment of Jewish students. 

Harvard then on Monday to halt the funding freeze.

Speaking about the issue for the first time on Wednesday, Garber said  was necessary to protect the school’s independence and constitutional rights, as well as the future of higher education in the United States. 

“We will not compromise on certain issues,” said Garber, the head of Harvard since 2024. “We’ve made that very clear.”

Garber, who is Jewish, admitted that the Massachusetts campus has a “real problem” with antisemitism amid a war between Israel and Hamas that began after the terrorist group attacked Israel in October 2023.

In its lawsuit, Harvard outlined steps it has taken to curb incidents of antisemitism, including imposing “meaningful discipline” for policy violators, beefing up security, enhancing programs meant to address bias and hiring staff to support those programs.

Garber said the antisemitism issue has nothing to do with the research that the federal grants fund.

The research that is now at risk includes efforts to improve the prospects of children who survive cancer, to understand at the molecular level how cancer spreads throughout the body, to predict the spread of infectious disease outbreaks, and to ease the pain of soldiers wounded on the battlefield, he said.

“Putting that research at jeopardy because of claims of antisemitism seems to us to be misguided,” Garber said. “The effort to address antisemitism will not be advanced by shutting off funding.”

He added that nearly all federal funding is directed toward the research the government has deemed high-priority. 

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Even if there is a short pause in funding, Garber said there are long-lasting consequences to the research. In some cases, he said it would be impossible to pick the projects back up. 

“There is so much at stake,” he said. “People leave their jobs. We have patients whose treatment in clinical trials might be interrupted. Animals that are used in research sometimes cannot continue to be maintained when the funding stops.”

Garber said he is “very concerned about Harvard’s future” and the partnership between the federal government and research universities that he said has improved lives and has made the U.S. a “technological powerhouse.”

“That partnership has been responsible over the decades for dramatic innovation in science and technology,” he said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a  on April 14, the government said Harvard was reinforcing the “troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges — that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws.”

“The disruption of learning that has plagued campuses in recent years is unacceptable. The harassment of Jewish students is intolerable,” the statement added. “It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to meaningful change if they wish to continue receiving taxpayer support.”

In a  a day later, President Donald Trump took it a step further and suggested Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status.

Harvard’s defiance has been . 

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has paused billions of dollars in federal grants to other prestigious universities, including  and . More than 150 university and college presidents Tuesday condemning the Trump administration’s efforts to get the institutions to change their admissions processes and penalize student protesters.

Garber said Harvard was prepared for a long battle with the Trump administration. 

When asked whether it was a fight he could win, Garber said he did not know the answer. 

But, he said, “the stakes are so high that we have no choice.”

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An Allianz Center for the Future of Retirement study found that 64% of Americans worry more about running out of money than about dying. The fear is rooted in real economic concerns as 54% of people said high inflation contributed to their concern.

Insufficient Social Security benefits and high taxes worry 43% of Americans, according to the survey.

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“Americans worry about running out of money across generations,” released Tuesday. “But this fear is more prominent among Gen Xers (70%), who are in their 40s and 50s and fast approaching retirement, and millennials (66%) than boomers (61%) who are over 60 and many have already retired.”

Despite the widespread fear, just 23% of Americans said they addressed their retirement worries with a financial professional — a 5% decrease from 2024.

“The most common factor keeping Americans from saving for retirement is expenses for day-to-day necessities taking priority (63%). This was followed by credit card debt (40%) and housing debt from a mortgage or rent (35%),” Allianz Life said.

Allianz Life’s 2025 Annual Retirement Study online survey was conducted in January and February with 1,000 people aged 25 and older in the contiguous United States. The respondents had an annual household income of $50,000 for single people or $75,000 for partnered or married couples, or investable assets of $150,000 and more.

A separate study released recently by Northwestern Mutual found that the “magic number” for Americans to retire comfortably decreased by $200,000 from 2024 to an average of $1.26 million in 2025, C온라인카지노사이트 reports.

However, even as the “magic number” decreased, only 51% of Americans surveyed expect to outlive their savings.

In 2025, about 4.18 million Americans are expected to reach age 65, more than any previous year.

If you’re nearing retirement, include protecting your “nest egg” by rebalancing your portfolio based on your risk tolerance and timeline; keeping two years of income in cash within a couple of years of your planned retirement date; and building a  to provide portfolio income.

But then, most job selections don’t end with a new pope.

Catholic cardinals from around the world are converging on Vatican City in advance of that will elect the successor to . , and once the conclave begins it likely won’t be long before a new pope is announced, as data shows that conclaves don’t take as long as they used to. 

Conclaves were first used to elect a pope , with early elections lasting months, even years. 

It’s been nearly 200 years since a conclave took longer than a week, with modern conclaves typically taking two to three days.

The longest conclave of the past 200 years happened in 1831, when it took 51 days to elect Pope Gregory XVI.

The longest took place in the 13th century, before conclaves were formalized, when the process that eventually elected Pope Gregory X started in 1268 and ended in 1271. In all, it took two years and nine months, .

Most popes choose their papal name upon election, a practice that’s been common for the past thousand years. For instance, Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio chose the name Francis upon being elected  — the first pope to use the name Francis.  By comparison, there have been more than 20 popes with the most common name: John.

At the time of his death, Francis was the second-oldest pope in the last 400-some years.

Since 1600, more than 30 popes have served. Nine of those, including Francis, were 70 years of age or older when elected. And more than half worked into their eighties — something that’s happening more and more as the average age of popes climbs.

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That’s the title of one of the most consequential videos of all time. The video to start all videos. The “Big Bang” of the video-sharing world.

It was the , 20 years ago. That zoo? The one in San Diego’s backyard.

On April 23, 2005, YouTube founder Jawed Karim shared the unedited 18-second clip of himself in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo. It was shot by his co-founder Yakov Lapitsky.

“Alright, so here we are in front of the elephants,” Karim casually shares with the camera. “The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks. And that’s, that’s cool.”

“And, that’s pretty much all there is to say.”

And that’s pretty much the start of the largest video-sharing platform in the world. “Me at the Zoo” now has more than 355 million video views and more than 10 million comments.

A month after the first video clip was uploaded — while the platform was in beta mode — YouTube was already garnering about 300,000 video views a day. By the end of the year, the platform was getting two million views a day.

And that’s pretty much all there is to say.

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Businesses dealing with the early stages of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are looking for ways to pass increasing costs onto consumers, according to a Federal Reserve report Wednesday.

As Trump ordered against-the-board levies on U.S. imports and higher duties on Chinese products, indicated how they plan to proceed. Companies reported getting notices from suppliers about rising costs, and they looked to find ways not to absorb the increases while noting uncertainty over the ability to pass them along to customers.

“Most Districts noted that firms expected elevated input cost growth resulting from tariffs,” the report said. “Many firms have already received notices from suppliers that costs would be increasing.”

Broadly speaking, the report, which comes out about every seven weeks, characterized economic growth as “little changed” from the March 5 report, though it noted that “uncertainty around international trade policy was pervasive across” the Fed’s 12 districts.

Prices generally rose during the period, which included Trump’s April 2 “liberation day” announcement of the blanket tariffs. Employment was “little changed” amid falling headcounts in government jobs.

“Firms reported adding tariff surcharges or shortening pricing horizons to account for uncertain trade policy,” the report stated. “Most businesses expected to pass through additional costs to customers. However, there were reports about margin compression amid increased costs, as demand remained tepid in some sectors, especially for consumer-facing firms.”

In the New York area, firms reported rising prices particularly in food and insurance along with construction materials. Manufacturers and distributors said they already are adding surcharges due to shipments.

There also were signs of problems in the trade dispute with Canada. Tourists are booking fewer hotel rooms in New York City and at least one tech firm reported losing business contacts in Canada.

“The outlook for service sector firms worsened noticeably, with contacts anticipating a sharp decline in activity in the coming months. Service sector firms reported a major pullback in planned investment,” the report said.

The report also noted the impact that the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has had on employment in the Washington, D.C. region. DOGE has sought to pare back the federal workforce, laying off thousands and offering buyouts to others.

While the employment picture overall was “unchanged” for the period, “many federal government workers were laid off or put on administrative leave in recent weeks.”

“These cuts to the federal workforce have impacted businesses throughout the entire district. In addition, federal contractors have laid off workers in response to spending cuts. For example, a research organization headquartered outside the DC-region laid off workers due to contracts being cancelled. Similarly, a Northern Virginia consultancy reduced headcount by 25 percent due to losing half their contracts,” the report added.

Elsewhere in the report, service organizations dependent on government support noted difficulties since the White House began culling through agencies that get federal aid. The report specifically cited food banks in New York as seeing cuts in programs and personnel.

“Contacts at non-profits and other community-based organizations expressed significant concern about the future of federal funding and services support, creating challenges in staffing, strategy, and planning,” the report said.

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CCHCS said anyone at the school on April 7 could have been exposed.

It’s unclear where the student may have contracted the virus. Officials said the patient’s identity will not be released due to confidentiality laws.

Willow Springs Middle School in Lucas is part of Lovejoy ISD, which reported 6.26% of students with a conscientious exemption, according to the 2023-2024 Texas Annual Report of Immunization Status for K-12.

Lovejoy ISD has not publicly commented on the confirmed case.

Collin County representatives said they are working to notify potentially exposed individuals and implement precautions.

The notice advised anyone who develops measles symptoms to contact their healthcare provider immediately and to stay home unless instructed by their physician.

What is measles?

Measles is a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to nine out of 10 people who are susceptible will get the virus if exposed.

Most kids will recover from measles if they get it, but infection can lead to dangerous complications like pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling, and death.

Is the vaccine safe?

Yes, the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is safe and highly effective in preventing measles infection and severe cases of the disease.

The first shot is recommended for children between 12 and 15 months old, and the second for children between 4 and 6 years old. The vaccine series is required for kids before kindergarten in public schools nationwide.

Before the vaccine was introduced in 1963, the U.S. saw some 3 million to 4 million cases per year. Now, there are usually fewer than 200 in a normal year.

There is no link between the vaccine and autism, despite a now-discredited study and health disinformation.

Why do vaccination rates matter?

In communities with high vaccination rates — above 95% — diseases like measles have a harder time spreading through communities. This is called “herd immunity.”

But childhood vaccination rates have declined nationwide since the pandemic and more parents are claiming religious or personal conscience waivers to exempt their kids from required shots.

The U.S. saw a rise in measles cases in 2024, including an outbreak in Chicago that sickened more than 60. Five years earlier, measles cases were the worst in almost three decades in 2019.

Gaines County has one of the highest rates in Texas of school-aged children who opt out of at least one required vaccine, with nearly 14% of K-12 children in the 2023-24 school year. Health officials said that number is likely higher because it doesn’t include many children who are homeschooled and whose data would not be reported.

What are public health officials doing to stop the spread?

Health workers are hosting regular vaccination clinics and screening efforts in Texas, as well as working with schools to educate people about the importance of vaccination and offering shots.

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Hours after his death, political leaders in Washington, D.C., expressed their condolences for the passing of the supreme pontiff.

Vice President JD Vance, who briefly exchanged greetings with the pope on Easter Sunday, shared the significance of that final encounter for him .

“I was happy to see him yesterday (Sunday), though he was obviously very ill,” Vance said. “But I’ll always remember him for in the very early days of COVID. It was really quite beautiful. May God rest his soul,” he said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson also shared a social media post saying that his “prayers go out to those who mourn the passing of Pope Francis. As leader of the Catholic Church, he influenced the lives of countless people around the world.”

The Pope emphasized his ‘admiration’ for those fighting for the American Dream

In his speech from Congress on September 24, 2015, Pope Francis recognized the immigrants who come to the United States in pursuit of the American Dream.

“In recent centuries, millions of people have come to this land pursuing the dream of being able to build their own future in freedom,” he said. “I speak to you as a son of immigrants, like many of you who are descendants of immigrants. Tragically, the rights of those who lived here long before us were not always respected.”

The pontiff emphasized that the best tool to combat cultural differences in the United States is education.

“We must choose the possibility of living now in the most noble and just world possible, while we educate the new generations, with an education that can never turn its back on our neighbors, on everything that surrounds us,” he asserted.

In fact, the Bishop of Rome lashed out at the current immigration policies of President Donald Trump’s administration just months before his death.

in February 2025, he urged all the faithful of the Catholic Church “not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering among our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.”

The letter arose after previous tensions with JD Vance, after the vice president appeared to justify mass deportations by invoking the the idea that there is a hierarchy to who receives charity.

Vance stated that the concept is “common sense” because moral duties toward one’s children outweigh duties toward a stranger living thousands of miles away.

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The protection of religious freedom

In the face of religiously motivated persecution and violence, the pontiff emphasized the importance of protecting freedom of worship, citing Abraham Lincoln, whom he called a “defender of liberty.”

“We are aware that no religion is immune to various forms of individual aberration or ideological extremism. This urges us to be vigilant against any type of fundamentalism, religious or otherwise,” he said.

“Combating violence perpetrated under the name of a religion, an ideology, or an economic system and, at the same time, protecting the freedom of religions, ideas, and individuals requires a delicate balance that we must work toward,” he added.

The Pope also included in his speech that the mission of legislators is to “satisfy the common good” and protect those in disadvantaged positions.

“You are the face of your people, their representatives. And you are called to defend and safeguard the dignity of your fellow citizens in the constant and demanding pursuit of the common good, for this is the primary concern of politics,” he reiterated.

“Political society endures if it establishes, as its vocation, the satisfaction of common needs, fostering the growth of all its members, especially those who are most vulnerable or at risk. Legislative activity is always based on caring for the people. To this end, you have been invited, called, summoned by the ballot box,” he insisted.

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During his papacy, Pope Francis led multiple attempts at church reform and often advocated for migrant rights and the environment. In before his , he urged listeners, “I would like us to renew our hope that peace is possible.”

See some of the key moments from Pope Francis’ life in the timeline below.

In a conversation with acclaimed actor Taraji P. Henson, the former first lady shared on the April 23 episode of  why she  when Trump was sworn in for his second term.

“My decision to skip the inauguration, what people don’t realize, or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me were met with such ridicule and criticism,” she said. “People couldn’t believe that I was saying no for any other reason, that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart, you know?”

Obama said her decision was all about making the choice that was right for her, which grew out of a simple practical issue of what to wear to the inauguration.

“I’m here really trying to own my life and intentionally practice making the choice that was right for me,” she said. “And it took everything in my power to not do the thing that was perceived as right, but do the things that was right for me — that was a hard thing for me to do.

“I had to basically trick myself out of it,” she continued. “And it started with not having anything to wear. I’m always prepared for any funeral, anything. I walk around with the right dress, I travel with clothes just in case something pops off. So I was like, if I’m not going to do this thing, I got to tell my team. I don’t even want to have a dress ready, right? Because it’s so easy to just say, ‘Let me do the right thing.'”

Obama, 61, had  involving her husband that she said grew out of her not attending Trump’s inauguration. She spoke on the April 9 episode of the “ about how simply making choices for herself in her post-White House life led to whispers of her marriage crumbling.

“That’s the thing that we as women, I think we struggle with disappointing people,” she told Bush. “So much so that this year people were — they couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.”

Obama spoke further on her podcast with her brother about how she’s trying to teach her daughters, , to learn how to say no and not be exhausted by trying to please everyone.

“I want them to start practicing now the art of saying no, because I see it in them — pleasing, excelling, not wanting to take anything for granted, always showing gratitude,” Obama said. “Feeling like they’re enough right now. It’s a practice. It’s a muscle that you have to build. Because if you don’t constantly build it, you don’t develop it.”

“I am just now starting to build it,” she continued. “I want my girls to start practicing different strategies for saying no. Because if I’m showing up at this stage in my life, and they are seeing me still wonder whether I deserve to say no, what does that teach them if after all that I’ve done in this world, if I am still showing them that I have to show people that I love my country, that I’m doing the right thing, that I am always setting, going high all the time.”

Henson, 54, has dealt with similar issues with her Hollywood career.

“I tell you this, ‘no’ is my favorite word,” Henson said. “And I found out how powerful no is, especially in this town. This is the town of yes. Yes men, ‘yes I’ll do it, yes whatever you need, just make me a star.’

“‘No’ is so powerful because that is you taking up for yourself,” she continued. “‘No, I don’t feel like coming to dinner. No, I don’t want to do that role. That doesn’t serve a purpose for me. I know the check is great.’ Maybe that’s someone else’s blessing. And the relief that I get from saying no, because I know I’m protecting my peace. I know I’m doing a good thing because for a while I was the yes girl, the people-pleaser. And I just couldn’t do it anymore because it wasn’t servicing me, and I wasn’t feeling fulfilled.”

The former first lady also opened up about how her approach to life has changed now that she and her husband are empty nesters, and how their schedule has much more flexibility.

“I’m at this stage in life where I have to define my life on my terms for the first time,” she said. “So what are those terms? And going to therapy, just to work all that out, like, what happened that eight years that we were in the White House? What did that do to me internally? My soul.

“We made it through. We got out alive,” she continued. “I hope we made the country proud. My girls, thank God, are whole. But what happened to me? And going through therapy is getting me to look at the fact that maybe finally I’m good enough.”

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It’s the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, non-governmental organizations and others. And it’s not clear when the current crisis, which began in 2023 and is blamed on warming oceans, will end.

“We may never see the heat stress that causes bleaching dropping below the threshold that triggers a global event,” said Mark Eakin, executive secretary for the International Coral Reef Society and retired coral monitoring chief for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“We’re looking at something that’s completely changing the face of our planet and the ability of our oceans to sustain lives and livelihoods,” Eakin said.

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Last year was Earth’s hottest year on record, and much of that is going into oceans. The average annual sea surface temperature of oceans away from the poles was a record 20.87 degrees Celsius (69.57 degrees Fahrenheit).

That’s deadly to corals, which are key to seafood production, tourism and protecting coastlines from erosion and storms. Coral reefs are sometimes dubbed “rainforests of the sea” because they support high levels of biodiversity — approximately 25% of all marine species can be found in, on and around coral reefs.

Coral get their bright colors from the colorful algae that live inside them and are a food source for the corals. Prolonged warmth causes the algae to release toxic compounds, and the coral eject them. A stark white skeleton is left behind, and the weakened coral is at heightened risk of dying.

The bleaching event has been so severe that NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch program has had to add levels to its bleaching alert scale to account for the growing risk of coral death.

Efforts are underway to conserve and restore coral. One Dutch lab has worked with coral fragments, including some taken from off the coast of the Seychelles, to propagate them in a zoo so that they might be used someday to repopulate wild coral reefs if needed. Other projects, including one off Florida, have worked to rescue corals endangered by high heat and nurse them back to health before returning them to the ocean.

But scientists say it’s essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that warm the planet, such as carbon dioxide and methane.

“The best way to protect coral reefs is to address the root cause of climate change. And that means reducing the human emissions that are mostly from burning of fossil fuels … everything else is looking more like a Band-Aid rather than a solution,” Eakin said.

“I think people really need to recognize what they’re doing … inaction is the kiss of death for coral reefs,” said Melanie McField, co-chair of the Caribbean Steering Committee for the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, a network of scientists that monitors reefs throughout the world.

The group’s update comes as President Donald Trump has moved aggressively in his second term to boost fossil fuels and roll back clean energy programs, which he says is necessary for economic growth.

“We’ve got a government right now that is working very hard to destroy all of these ecosystems … removing these protections is going to have devastating consequences,” Eakin said.

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City council members . The terms of the agreement are undisclosed.

“Nothing can ever make up the losses and harms these families endured on May 24, 2022,” Mayor Hector Luevano said at the City Council meeting, “but today’s agreement marks an important step forward in advancing community healing, ensuring our city forever honors the lives we tragically lost, and supporting all surviving victims in the 2022 Robb Elementary shooting.”

Luevano said the city will also work with committee representatives of the families for a permanent memorial.

Several lawsuits were filed . Nineteen fourth-graders and two teachers were killed when a 18-year-old gunman stormed into the school.

An attorney for the families could not immediately be reached on Wednesday.

Luevano said the settlement “affirms the city’s commitment to supporting the Uvalde Police Department’s Guardian initiative, including enhanced emergency training and evaluation for officers, as well as mental health support, while working to instill trust and confidence in the men and women we take care on the critical responsibilities of protecting all Uvalde residents.”

“We look forward to our continued work and collaboration with the Robb families to ensure the Uvalde community can move forward on the path of collective healing and reconciliation,” he said.

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The judge, in a surprising turn in an El Paso courtroom, allowed her to do just that.

Their brief embrace — while the gunman was still shackled — was among many emotionally charged moments during two days of impact statements given by victims’ family members and survivors.

Some described their pain and devastation while others assured him the community had met his hatred with love and unity. Later, Adriana Zandri, widow of Ivan Manzano, also hugged the man who pleaded guilty in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S.

The gunman, a white community college dropout, had posted online a screed about a Hispanic invasion of Texas before opening fire with an AK-style rifle at the store near the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 3, 2019. He didn’t address the families and survivors at his plea hearing Monday. He will serve multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to capital murder and 22 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

“We would have opened our doors to you to share a meal, breakfast lunch or dinner, Mexican-style, so then your ugly thoughts of us that have been instilled in you would have turned around,” Tinajero told him.

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‘Hug you very tight’

Tinajero said her brother, 60-year-old Arturo Benavides, was a “kind, sweet-hearted person,” whose wife of over 30 years is brokenhearted over her loss.

“Now she lives alone in their home full of memories that she can’t forget,” she said.

“I feel in my heart, to hug you very tight so you could feel my forgiveness, especially my loss, but I know it’s not allowed,” Tinajero said. “I want you to see and feel all of us who have been impacted by your actions.”

Later, the judge asked her: “Ma’am, would it truly bring you peace and comfort if you could hug him?”

’Yes,” she replied.

Her daughter, Melissa Tinajero, told reporters: “I don’t know how she was able to do it. I could not do that. But she showed him something he could not show his victims.”

‘A survivor, not a victim’

Stephanie Melendez told the gunman that she did not want to address him but rather read a letter to her father, 63-year-old David Johnson, who was killed when he shielded his wife and 9-year-old granddaughter from the gunfire.

Melendez thanked her father for making her study, giving her a curfew and telling her when she was 16 that she needed to get a job.

“You made me into the strong woman I am today,” she said.

Her daughter, Kaitlyn Melendez, now 14, told him: “I am a survivor, not a victim.”

“I’m going to walk out these doors and move forward with my life and not let you haunt me anymore.”

‘A disgrace to humanity’

Dean Reckard, whose 63-year-old mother Margie Reckard was among those killed, expressed anger and forgiveness as he addressed the gunman.

“You’re a disgrace to humanity and to your family,” Reckard said, adding that he hopes he wakes up each morning wishing he were dead.

But Reckard also said he forgave the gunman who will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

“In order to be forgiving, you have to forgive others,” he said. “That’s the only reason I forgive you. May God have mercy on your soul.”

Thousands of people attended Margie Reckard’s funeral after her partner of 22 years, Antonio Basco, invited the public to the service, saying he felt alone after her death.

‘Left me sad, bitter’

Liliana Munoz of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, said in court Monday that she was shopping for snacks when the gunman opened fire, forever changing her life physically, economically and emotionally.

In her statement, she said she used to be a “happy, dancing person,” but now is afraid every morning when she awakes. Since she was shot, she has had to use a cane to walk and wears a leg brace to keep her left foot from dragging.

“It left me sad, bitter,” said the 41-year-old mother.

She also granted him forgiveness.

‘You brought us together’

Javier Rodriguez was 15 and starting his sophomore year in high school when he was shot and killed at a bank in Walmart.

On Tuesday his father Francisco Rodriguez shouted at the gunman: “Look at me, I’m talking to you.”

He told gunman Patrick Crusius that he and his family have to go to the cemetery to commemorate his son’s birthday.

“I wish I could just get five minutes with you — me and you — and get all of this, get it over with,” he said.

But Rodriguez also referred to comments made about his impact on El Paso during his sentencing.

“Like the judge said yesterday, you came down to El Paso with the intention of tearing us apart, but all you did, you brought us together,” he said.

Durbin, set to turn 82 just after the 2026 election, said in a social media post that now is the time to pass the torch and to allow for a new generation of leadership to emerge in the Senate.

“I truly love the job of being a United States Senator,” he said. “But in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch.”

Durbin said that the country is facing “unprecedented challenges,” and pledged to continue fighting for Illinois residents during his remaining time in the Senate.

“Right now, the challenges facing our country are historic and unprecedented,” he said in a statement. “The threats to our democracy and way of life are very real, and I can assure you that I will do everything in my power to fight for Illinois and the future of our country every day of my remaining time in the Senate.”

Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth expressed her admiration for Durbin in a statement following the announcement, describing how he had visited her in the hospital after her helicopter was shot down in Iraq.

“But when Dick looked at me, he saw past the wounds, saw past the wheelchair,” she said. “He saw a Soldier in search of her next mission. And he recognized well before I did that just because I would no longer be flying Black Hawks for the Army didn’t mean that I couldn’t find a new way to serve my nation.”

She thanked Durbin for his “empathy, patience and mentorship,” and called it the “honor of a lifetime” to serve with him in the Senate.

“Thank you, my friend. For everything,” she said.

Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, succeeding Paul Simon in that role. He had previously served in the U.S. House since 1982, representing the state’s 20th district out of Springfield.

Since then he has ascended to key roles in Senate leadership, chairing the Senate’s Judiciary Committee from 2021 to 2025 and serving as the Democratic Party whip, the second-highest leadership position within the party.

He was also a key ally of former President Barack Obama, working with him in the Senate for four years before Obama won election to the White House in 2008.

In terms of other potential contenders, including Reps. Robin Kelly, Raja Krishnamoorthi and Lauren Underwood, among others.

Krishnamoorthi and Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton both met with the Cook County Democratic Committee last week as the body considered its slating options for the 2026 election.

“Sen. Durbin has earned more than enough grace from the people of Illinois for him to be able to make a decision on his own timetable about whatever he decides to do,” said Krishnamoorthi, who is from Schaumburg.

According to reporting from 온라인카지노사이트 Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern, Krishnamoorthi has a substantial war chest for a potential Senate bid, racking up $19 million in contributions.

“I always am going to start by saying how much I respect Sen. Durbin, and so he will decide what he wants to do,” Stratton said.

This is a developing story. We will update this story with additional details as they become available.

has opened up its Threads microblogging service to all advertisers.

The social networking giant said Wednesday in a blog post that all “eligible advertisers globally” will be able to run ads on Threads, marking an expansion from the with a few U.S. and Japanese companies, which began in January.

Businesses running Threads ads can also access Meta’s so-called inventory filter that determines whether their promotions appear near offensive content, Meta said in the blog post.

“These ads will be delivered in select markets at launch and will roll out to additional markets as we continue to test and learn,” Meta said in the post.

Meta’s testing of Threads ads represents the company’s initial foray into generating revenue for its Twitter-like service that in July 2023.

In January, Meta chief financial officer Susan Li said during a with analysts that the company’s “introduction of ads on Threads will be gradual” and executives “don’t anticipate it being a meaningful driver of overall impression or revenue growth in 2025.”

Analysts have previously noted that Threads could potentially be a major source of revenue for Meta, akin to X, formerly known as Twitter, before Tesla chief Elon Musk bought the social messaging platform in 2022. Twitter’s annual sales were $5 billion in 2021.

Threads has over 320 million monthly active users “and has been adding more than 1 million sign-ups per day,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told analysts in January.

“I expect Threads to continue on its trajectory to become the leading discussion platform and eventually reach 1 billion people over the next several years,” Zuckerberg said at the time.

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Dozens of students and parents at a Brevard Public Schools board meeting Tuesday night, demanding that her contract as an English teacher at Satellite High School be renewed. The 17-year-old student chose the preferred name to reflect the student’s gender identity and the teacher only was acting out of compassion, according to the supporters.

Calhoun knowingly defied the law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023 which to use an alternative to a student’s legal name, according to Janet Murnaghan, a spokeswoman for the Brevard Public Schools.

Schools superintendent Mark Rendell told television station that parental input can’t be ignored.

“The parent is our partner in this education endeavor that we have with our children,” Rendell said. “This law was actually put in place to make sure that partnership was maintained.”

Many people have already lost millions to these text job scams — and the fraud, the FTC says, is on the rise. Consumers reported losing $14.8 million in 2023 — a figure that jumped to $61.2 million in 2024.

“And the worrying thing is that we know these high numbers are just the tip of the iceberg, ” said Kati Daffan, an assistant director of the FTC’s Division of Marketing Practices, “because, of course, not everyone reports to us when they experience this fraud.”

In September 2024, Sunita Dhougoda, a 37-year-old freelance software engineer from North Carolina, also received a text offering a job. Without much thought, the mother of two clicked a Microsoft Teams link and had what turned out to be a written — not video — interview that lasted over an hour.

“The interview went well, and they told me they would get back to me in a few days,” said Dhougoda.

Three days later, an offer letter arrived — but the email it came from, careers@assurecarecareers.us, instead of the legitimate @assurecare.com, raised red flags. “It was a scam, so I never responded,” she said. AssureCare did not respond to C온라인카지노사이트’s request for comment.

Dhougoda was lucky not to fall victim to the job scam. However, over the past four years, job scams via text have seen a sharp rise in both reports and financial losses. According to the FTC, in 2020, there were 4,872 reports of text-based job scams, resulting in $2 million in losses. By 2024, those reports had surged to 20,673, with losses escalating to $61.2 million.

“Anything that is immediate, you’re hardwired to respond to it. So, a text has a certain amount of immediacy to it. So you see that (and think) I need to either click on that link or I need to call that phone number, whatever it is that it’s asking you to do,” said James  E. Lee, president of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. “We’re just sort of natural instinct is to do that, which is why it’s important we resist that natural instinct.”

Some experts say people are more vulnerable to job scams during uncertain times like these, when and make the economy feel increasingly unstable.

“Now that the labor market is more competitive, people may be willing to take jobs that they weren’t necessarily willing to take before,” said Kory Kantenga, LinkedIn’s head of economics for the Americas. “As a result, there may be some advertisements that they receive that they would have previously ignored, that they’re willing to click on. Folks who are looking to commit scams know this, and they may be taking advantage of that as a result.”

Watch the above to learn how the job market and economic uncertainty fuel the rise of text job scams — and how to protect yourself.

Children’s Health and the are partners in a magical night for young patients who can’t be at their school’s prom. The two did it last year, and it was such a hit, the Children’s Health Patient Prom returns this coming Friday evening with a cosmic cowboy theme.

Seventy-five teenagers getting care in the hospital and outpatient clinics are invited to the prom.
Local retailers Neiman Marcus and JCPenney provide the dresses and suits with professional hairstyling by Drybar, manicures from Lisa Ogle, and makeup done by Brite Beauty.

Organizers say it’s all about celebrating and uplifting teenage patients, giving them the chance to experience the magic of prom – and putting some joy, confidence, and a sense of normalcy in their lives.

The Dallas Cattle Baron’s Ball is the largest single-night fundraiser for the American Cancer Society and has raised over $105 million for cancer research since 1974. The majority of the research is conducted right here in DFW. It’s legendary Live Auction raises more than $1 million every year.

Country music’s biggest names have entertained at the ball throughout its 50-year history, including Tammy Wynette, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Waylon Jennings, Brooks & Dunn, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Big & Rich, Toby Keith, Sugarland, Brad Paisley, and Dierks Bentley, Shania Twain, and Carrie Underwood.

The 2025 Ball, sponsored in part by 온라인카지노사이트5 and Telemundo 39, is , at Southfork Ranch.

 Co-Chairs Courtney Derderian and Nina Sachse chose ALL CYLINDERS as this year’s theme. It represents “the momentum we have as an organization after a record-breaking year,” the co-chairs said, continuing, “ALL CYLINDERS symbolizes what we accomplish when our 100-woman committee puts their drive and passion into this cause.”

The entertainment for the 2025 Ball will be announced on Wednesday, May 14.

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More than 150 people were hospitalized with injuries sustained while trying to jump from buildings, said the governor’s office in Istanbul, where residents are on tenterhooks because the city is considered at high risk for a major quake.

The earthquake had a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (about 6 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey, with its epicenter about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Istanbul, in the Sea of Marmara.

It was felt in the neighboring provinces of Tekirdag, Yalova, Bursa and Balikesir and in the city of Izmir, some 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Istanbul. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the earthquake lasted 13 seconds and was followed by more than 50 aftershocks — the strongest measuring 5.9.

The quake started at 12:49 p.m. during a public holiday when many children were out of school and celebrating in the streets of Istanbul. Panicked residents rushed from their homes and buildings into the streets. The disaster and emergency management agency urged people to stay away from buildings.

More than 150 injured

“Due to panic, 151 of our citizens were injured from jumping from heights,” the Istanbul governor’s office said in a statement. “Their treatments are ongoing in hospitals, and they are not in life-threatening condition.”

Many residents flocked to parks, school yards and other open areas to avoid being near buildings in case of collapse or subsequent earthquakes. Some people pitched tents in parks.

“Thank God, there does not seem to be any problems for now,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at an event marking the National Sovereignty and Children’s Day holiday. “May God protect our country and our people from all kinds of calamities, disasters, accidents and troubles.”

Leyla Ucar, a personal trainer, said she was exercising with her student on the 20th floor of a building when they felt intense shaking.

“We shook incredibly. It threw us around, we couldn’t understand what was happening, we didn’t think of an earthquake at first because of the shock of the event,” she said. “It was very scary.”

Senol Sari, 51, told The Associated Press he was with his children in the living room of their third floor apartment when he heard a loud noise and the building started shaking. They fled to a nearby park. “We immediately protected ourselves from the earthquake and waited for it to pass,” Sari said. “Of course, we were scared.”

They later were able to return home calmly, Sari said, but they remain worried that a bigger quake will someday strike the city. It’s “an expected earthquake, our concerns continue,” he said.

‘My children were a little scared’

Cihan Boztepe, 40, was one of many who hurriedly fled to the streets with his family in order to avoid a potential collapse. Boztepe, standing next to his sobbing child, told AP that in 2023 he was living in Batman province, an area close to the southern part of Turkey where major quakes struck at the time, and that Wednesday’s tremor felt weaker and that he wasn’t as scared.

“At first we were shaken, then it stopped, then we were shaken again. My children were a little scared, but I wasn’t. We quickly gathered our things and went down to a safe place. If it were up to me, we would have already returned home.”

Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said authorities had not received reports of collapsed buildings. He told HaberTurk television that there had been reports of damage to buildings.

The NTV broadcaster reported that a derelict and abandoned former residential building had collapsed in the historic Fatih district, which houses the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque.

Education Minister Yusuf Tekin announced that schools would be closed on Thursday and Friday in Istanbul.

“In line with the need for a safe space, our school gardens are open to the use of all our citizens,” Tekin said.

Urban reconstruction projects

Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines, and earthquakes are frequent.

, and a second powerful tremor hours later, destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings in 11 southern and southeastern provinces, leaving more than 53,000 people dead. Another 6,000 people were killed in the northern parts of neighboring Syria.

Istanbul was not impacted by that earthquake, but the devastation heightened fears of a similar quake, with experts citing the city’s proximity to fault lines.

In a bid to prevent damage from any future quake, the national government and local administrations started urban reconstruction projects to fortify buildings at risk and launched campaigns to demolish buildings at risk of collapse.

Jailed mayor expresses sadness

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul who was jailed last month on corruption charges, released a statement through his lawyers, expressing his sadness at not being able to be with the city’s residents.

“As managers and urban planners who have dedicated their lives to disaster-focused planning in Istanbul and who have struggled for this purpose, my greatest sadness is that we can’t be with you,” the mayor said.

Many view the arrest of the politician, considered a key rival to Erdogan, as being politically motivated. The government insists the courts operate independently.

On Wednesday, long queues formed at gas stations as residents, planning to leave Istanbul, rushed to fill up their vehicles. Among them was Emre Senkay who said he might leave in the event of a more severe earthquake later in the day.

“My plan is to leave Istanbul if there is a more serious earthquake,” he said.

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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Robert Badendieck contributed from Canakkale, Turkey.

Donald Trump spoke Biden’s name more than a dozen times on Jan. 20, day one of his second presidency, and from that point forward he has basically never stopped. 

As he nears the 100th day of his term, Trump has invoked his predecessor with a persistence that suggests the two are in the final throes of a bitter campaign. They aren’t and won’t ever be again: Biden pulled his name off the 2024 ballot and left elective office for good. But for Trump there is a certain political upside in making Biden a perpetual bogeyman. 

Mentioning Biden reminds voters that not so long ago, they were unhappy enough with high prices and illegal border crossings that they repudiated him and his hand-picked successor, Kamala Harris. Biden may also be a useful diversion from the , shifting attention to the aged ex-president who struggled through speeches and looked unsteady on his feet.   

As children pushed their pink and yellow eggs at the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday, Trump mingled with the crowd and mocked Biden over an incident that many may have forgotten, if they were ever aware of it at all. Three years ago, Biden hosted the Easter Egg Roll and was redirected at one point by an aide dressed in a bunny costume. 

“Do you remember the bunny with Joe Biden?” Trump said. “Do you remember when the bunny took Joe Biden out? He’s not taking Trump out.” At that, a costume bunny standing alongside shook its head in agreement.  

Amplifying the point, the White House’s official account on X posted  with the caption “The White House is no longer a nursing home.”  

In a statement for this article, White House spokesperson Liz Huston also invoked Biden and the work Trump has done moving on from his predecessor’s administration.

“President Trump has spent the first three months of his presidency cleaning up the disasters created by Joe Biden and Making America Great Again,” Huston said. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the border is secure, inflation is cooling, jobs are up, and common sense is restored.”

Trump’s running commentary on Biden brims with grievances large and small. To this day, he says he legitimately won the 2020 election. He has blamed Biden and other Democrats for the criminal investigations he faced in the aftermath.

“The 2020 election was totally rigged,” he told reporters last month aboard Air Force One. He described Biden as a kind of presidential impostor who usurped Trump’s rightful place and then did “such a bad job.” 

In his Oval Office meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in February, the topic turned to the war between Russia and Ukraine. After he lay blame on Biden, Trump said it pained him to say as much.  

“I hate to say that about somebody that sat here just before me, but he did a terrible, terrible job,” Trump said.   

Unpleasant as it may be, Trump seldom tires of it.   

He has called Biden “pathetic,” “sad,” “a disaster,” “incompetent” and the worst president in history. Biden had “no clue.” He “.”

Trump’s beef extends from matters of high foreign policy to White House decor. In February, he said he had approached the Biden administration with an offer to  for the White House — something “beautiful” at a cost of about $100 million — but never heard back. 

“This question takes me back to 2017 and everyone asking why he mentions Hillary so much,” said Michael Dubke, a White House communications director in Trump’s first term. “‘She lost; you won. Let’s move on, Mr. President.’ The foil is key to his central premise that those that came before broke it and I will fix it. Even now that the campaign is over, the foil still has value.”  

There may be another dynamic at work. Always mindful of his popularity, Trump may see Biden as competition for a place in the history books. In the zero-sum game of , if Biden falls in history’s estimation, Trump could rise. 

“In MAGA land, Biden was a false president. And Trump is trying to keep banging that drum so he can drive that narrative into the history books,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian. 

The numbers tell the story — of a president who, as much as he may want to make America great again, would be happy to see Americans abhor Biden for all time.   

So far, Trump has spoken about Biden, his family or his administration at least 580 times either in public remarks or on his social media site, an 온라인카지노사이트 News analysis shows. That’s an average of six times every day of his presidency.   

After he won the 2020 election, by contrast, Biden mentioned Trump 29 times in the first 100 days of his presidency. That’s an average of once every 3½ days. Even then, he did so with a certain reluctance.  

“I’m tired of talking about Donald Trump,” Biden said at a town hall-style event. 

Last month Trump used a televised event showcasing Elon Musk’s  to take multiple digs at Biden. Holding notes showing prices of Tesla cars, Trump said: “They gave me notes. I said, ‘I’m not Biden, I don’t need notes.’” 

He then climbed into a red Model S sitting on the White House’s South Lawn.

“You think Biden could get into that car?” he told the assembled reporters.   

Trump has given no sign that his preoccupation with Biden is waning. He’s using the ample communication tools at a president’s disposal to keep his predecessor front and center, with aides and subordinates stepping forward to sustain the drumbeat.  

Trump’s White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has mentioned Biden 78 times in the 16 briefings she has given thus far, including 37 times unprompted in her opening remarks.  

Cabinet members have gotten into the act, as well. When he was called upon during a  on April 10, Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, opened with “Mr. President, the Biden EPA was strangulating the economy.”  

Later in the meeting, when it was his turn to speak, Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, told Trump: “You came into an emergency situation where President Biden left us with a $1.2 trillion trade deficit. It’s the largest of any country in human history.” ( argue that running a trade deficit isn’t necessarily harmful. The United States gets valuable goods in return.)

Trump jumped in.    

“You said the largest in history, right?” Trump said. “There’s never been anything like what he left us. He left us a mess. His whole administration was a mess.” 

Four other officials at the table in the Cabinet Room that day — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Kelly Loeffler, head of the Small Business Administration — also used their public remarks to take swipes at the Biden administration.   

At times, Trump-friendly conservative news outlets have teed up fresh opportunities for him to skewer Biden. At a joint news conference at the White House with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a reporter for The Gateway Pundit asked Modi whether he was more confident of a successful relationship with the United States under Trump “versus with Biden’s  over the last four years.” 

Before Modi could answer, Trump laughed. 

“I agree with you,” he said. “Yeah, gross incompetence.”  

Since he took office, Trump aides have exercised tighter control over which news outlets are allowed onto Air Force One and into smaller spaces that can accommodate only a certain number of journalists.  

In February, the White House stripped The Associated Press of its traditional spot in the small group of journalists allowed to cover the president in such settings, citing its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” the name Trump has given it.  

No AP reporters were on board during an Air Force One flight April 13 when Trump stopped by the press cabin to take questions. A reporter from Real America’s Voice was on the plane, however, and at one point : “How do you do it, Mr. President? I haven’t stayed up to 2 a.m. in the morning since I was 25. And now we’re 2:16 in the morning having a press conference. How do you do it?” 

“Biden was sleeping for 10 hours already,” Trump said.  

Asked about Trump’s fixation with Biden, a White House aide to the former president said: “It’s bizarre.” 

“I think it’s his attempt to distract from what he’s doing to the economy. I also don’t think he is over the fact that Biden beat him in 2020,” the person added, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk freely.   

Denouncing Biden is easy enough; proving the point is tougher.   

Trump has faulted Biden for giving Ukraine aid in the form of a grant,, who he said will be getting their money back. Both Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron  on that point in separate Oval Office meetings.  

He has accused Biden of  and said he ended the practice. Trump’s detractors say he has used his power to retaliate against perceived political foes, including Chris Krebs, who was a Homeland Security official in the first term. Trump signed an  this month yanking Krebs’ security clearance. Among the sins spelled out in the memo was Krebs’ denial that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen.” 

An argument Trump makes is that Russian President Vladimir Putin so disrespected Biden that he felt free to wage war with Ukraine. Now that Biden is gone and Trump is back in the n White House, “President Putin wants to have peace,” .  

Putin, he said, “didn’t want to have peace with Biden. And you tell me why that is, OK?” 

Though Trump promised during the campaign to end the war on his first day as president, administration officials have lately sounded resigned to its continuation. Indeed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this month that the United States may be ready to “” from its attempts to broker a peace agreement.  

As the 100-day milestone approaches, Trump is nearing the point where it’s becoming harder to blame Biden for what goes wrong. 

Trump’s start-and-stop approach to worldwide tariffs has rattled the financial markets, jeopardizing the 401(k) plans that millions of people rely on for retirement. Consumer confidence .

People may now be less interested in what Biden did than in how Trump will dig out of a hole rooted in his seesawing trade policies. 

“It always gets more challenging to blame current conditions on your predecessor the farther you get from your predecessor’s time in office,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “That’s especially true with the economy, which has reacted rather strongly to Trump’s tariffs and trade war.” 

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Alejandro never heard back from him. Federal agents detained Adrián on his way to his job at a Dallas barbershop. 

For the next five weeks, Alejandro has searched for Adrián, trying to learn where he was: deported to another country? Held in an immigration facility in the United States?  

He and Adrián’s live-in girlfriend called Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas, getting shifted from office to office with different responses. 

Sometimes they were told Adrián was still in detention. Another time they were told that he had been deported back to “his country of origin,” El Salvador, even though Adrián is Venezuelan. (Alejandro provided 온라인카지노사이트 News with audio recordings of the calls.) 

Their mother went to a detention center in Caracas, Venezuela, where deportees are held when they arrive from the United States, Alejandro said, but she was told no one by her son’s name was there.  

They enlisted the help of advocacy groups. Cristosal, a nonprofit organization in El Salvador working with families of presumed deportees to get answers from the U.S. and Salvadoran governments, had no answers. Same with the League of United Latin American Citizens, known as LULAC.  

Alejandro’s 6-year-old niece asked him almost every day: When will her dad call her? 

“For 40 days, his family has been waiting to hear his fate,” LULAC CEO Juan Proaño said. 

Finally, on Tuesday, an answer. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to 온라인카지노사이트 News that Adrián had, in fact, been deported — to El Salvador.  

The news “saddens me a lot” and “shattered me,” Alejandro said after he heard about his brother’s whereabouts from 온라인카지노사이트 News.  

DHS didn’t respond when it was asked whether Adrián was sent to CECOT, the mega-prison in El Salvador. But Alejandro fears that’s the case, given the many Venezuelans who were sent to CECOT from Texas a few days after he was detained.

“There, [El Salvador President Nayib] Bukele says demons enter their hell,” Alejandro , speaking on the phone from the restaurant where he works. “And my brother is not a criminal. At this moment, I don’t feel very good. The news has hit me like a bucket of cold water.” 

The Rengel family’s experience echoes the experiences of others who have encountered the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts — sometimes their family members  after having been taken by immigration authorities. 

The administration has prioritized deporting men alleged to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which it has designated as a foreign terrorist organization under the 1700s-era wartime Alien Enemies Act. 

“Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel, entered our country illegally in 2023 from Venezuela and is an associate of Tren De Aragua,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told 온라인카지노사이트 News by email. “Tren de Aragua is vicious gang that rapes, maims, and murders for sport. President Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem will not allow foreign terrorist enemies to operate in our country and endanger Americans. They will always put the safety of the American people first.” 

Asked for details and documents supporting DHS’ allegations of criminality, McLaughlin responded: “We aren’t going to share intelligence reports and undermine national security every time a gang member denies he is one. That would be insane.” 

Adrian’s family denies he is a member of the gang. 

“For me, it’s a forced disappearance, because he’s not communicating with anyone, they’re not permitting him a right to anything, and they’re not giving him a right to a defense — from what I understand, here we’re all innocent until it’s proved contrary,” Alejandro said.  

“Then the only offense we have here is to be a migrant and be Venezuelan, and now the government has turned against this nationality,” he said, adding the government believes “we all belong to Tren de Aragua.” 

Adrián, 27, came to the United States in 2023 by appointment through the CBP One app. Alejandro provided 온라인카지노사이트 News a photo of a printout confirming his brother’s June 12, 2023, appointment.  

Adrián had also applied for temporary protected status, according to a Dec. 1, 2024, document from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a part of DHS that handles immigration benefits. 

In November, Adrián’s car wasn’t working, so he got a ride with a co-worker, Alejandro said. Police in Irving, Texas, stopped the co-worker, who had outstanding traffic violations, and detained them both after they found a marijuana trimmer in the co-worker’s vehicle, Alejandro said.  

Police charged Adrián with a Class C misdemeanor of possession of drug paraphernalia, punishable by up to a $500 fine.  

“I don’t know why that charge was leveled against him, because first, it wasn’t his car,” said Alejandro, 32. “Second, the belongings in the car were not his.” 

Documents provided by Alejandro show Adrián pleaded guilty/no contest — the document doesn’t specify which he pleaded — and was fined $492. Alejandro said his brother was paying the fine in monthly installments.  

Adrián had a crown tattoo with the initial “Y,” the first letter of his ex-wife’s name, on his hand, Alejandro said. When he was arrested in November, officers told him they were linking him to Tren de Aragua “because of that tattoo,” Alejandro said. 

That’s why he later covered it with a tiger tattoo, Alejandro said. ICE , including those of a crown, as indicators of membership in Tren de Aragua. Adrián also has a tattoo of his mother’s name on one of his biceps.  

“We are not criminal people. We are people who studied professions in Venezuela. We had careers; we’re not people who are linked with any of that,” said Alejandro, who had jobs in banking and insurance in Venezuela and other Latin American countries but now works at a restaurant.  

Adrián graduated from high school in Venezuela with a focus on science, Alejandro said, later taking a barber course amid the country’s dismal economy.  

Adrián emigrated to Colombia with his then-wife and daughter and worked there for a several years. When the area became unsafe, he moved his wife and daughter back to Venezuela and then went to Mexico and applied for a CBP One appointment to enter the United States.  

Adrián came to the United States “because we all know the political, social and economic situation in Venezuela” and he wanted to make enough money to buy his daughter a house back home, Alejandro said.  

Before he got confirmation that his brother was in El Salvador, Alejandro said, he would sometimes get on his knees and pray. “I’ve had moments where I think ‘at any moment he’s going to call’ and then moments when I’m shattered and I don’t know what to do.” 

“I never, ever thought I would go through a situation like this,” he said, adding that the only thing he thought would happen when he came to the United States himself as a migrant was that “they either give you asylum or they deport you. Not a forced disappearance.”

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After news of  broke Monday, the film “Conclave” had a viewership boost across streaming platforms it was available to watch on, according to Luminate, an entertainment data analytics company.  

Edward Berger’s drama, , goes behind the scenes of the Vatican for the secretive process of electing a pope. The process is complicated further by power-hungry cardinals, played by Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow. (The film’s distributor is Focus Features, a unit of 온라인카지노사이트 News’ parent corporation, Comcast.) 

Since its release in October, the movie has spawned a fervent fan base online, with many social media users circulating a slew of viral memes and passionate fan edits comparing it to pop culture staples like “The Real Housewives” and “Mean Girls.”  

Existing fans and a new wave of viewers sought it out this week as .

From Sunday to Monday, viewership spiked 283%, according to Luminate, which measures viewership data across major platforms in the United States, including Peacock, Netflix, Paramount+, Max and Disney+. The movie was watched an average of 1.8 million minutes Sunday. The number surged to 6.9 million minutes watched Monday, Luminate said.  

A spokesperson for Focus Features did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the streaming data.  

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On social media, , including .

Some “Conclave” fans did not appear surprised by the film’s resurgence in the zeitgeist.  

“I think there’s a lot of grief and pain attached to current events, and being able to use Conclave memes as a common/shared language of community offers some brevity and humor to a clandestine process and historical event that will significantly alter the trajectory of many peoples’ lives,” said the administrator behind Pope Crave, a fan account on X that is dedicated to all things “Conclave.”

Pope Crave, , asked 온라인카지노사이트 News by email to use only their username, citing a need for “separation” between their professional work and “fandom extracurriculars.” 

“I cannot speak for the religious breakdown of ‘Conclave’ fans, but it doesn’t shock me that Catholic fans of the film would be engaged in the actual papal conclave outcomes,” Pope Crave said. “And for the non-Catholic ‘Conclave’ fans, I would hypothesize there’s something to be said about the abrupt relevance and sudden application of their film knowledge and fandom enthusiasm to a seismically important current global event that holds importance to over 1.25 billion practitioners (and even more non-believers).”

Michael Moreland, a professor of law and religion at Villanova University, said the mass appeal of “Conclave” captured how, even in a secular modern age, there is still pervasive intrigue around “the ancient rituals of the Catholic Church.” 

The  involves a gathering of Catholic Church cardinals, who are senior advisers to the pope (based in the Vatican or around the world), under age 80. Bound by an oath of secrecy, the cardinals vote in the Sistine Chapel via paper ballots until a pope is elected by a two-thirds majority. 

“All the charisma and the mystery around Catholicism and the ways in which these men in the College of Cardinals go about assembling and deliberating and voting in the secret process that no one except one of them has seen,” Moreland said, “all of that is very fascinating.” 

“Conclave” paints a relatively accurate picture of the way candidates rise and fall throughout the intense balloting process, which can last for however many days it takes to reach the required two-thirds vote, Moreland said. He was disappointed, however, in the film’s outsize focus on “crude right-left divides.” 

“The significance of the theological and spiritual aspects of Catholicism and this process of electing a pope was kind of reduced into partisan politics,” he said.  

On Tuesday, “Conclave” was made available to stream on Amazon Prime. The timing was coincidental, according to Amazon, as the movie was already scheduled to release on the streaming platform this month. 

As of Tuesday afternoon, many stars of “Conclave” had not yet issued any statements about Francis’ death.

However, in February, , the cast addressed the timeliness of the film at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.   

“The film has ended up extremely timely … and it’s about the social organism electing a leader,” Lithgow, who played Cardinal Tremblay, one of the film’s antagonists who is among the front-runners to become the next pope, .  

“You cannot help seeing ‘Conclave’ and not thinking what happens when different tribes quarrel with each other trying to decide on who is their leader,” he added. “That’s one big reason why people are paying attention to ‘Conclave,’ beyond the fact that it’s simply a beautiful film that you just don’t see storytelling on film like that much anymore.” 

The funeral for Francis will be at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) Saturday in St. Peter’s Square in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, . The conclave will follow the funeral.

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