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Menendez "Appreciated" Meeting With Egypt Dictator Amid Alleged Bribes for Arms Sales

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

The Chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was indicted Friday over bribes he allegedly took — in one case involving gold bars — in exchange for favorable treatment of the Egyptian government. The indictment says Menendez, through his wife, took cash in exchange for greasing the wheels of major arms sales to the Egyptian dictatorship.“Menendez has been feeding at the Egyptian trough with lavish bribes in exchange for pushing unquestioning military support to the dictatorship.”The Foreign Relations Committee reviews U.S. arms sales abroad and can block the deals. The indictment says, “At various times between 2018 and 2022, MENENDEZ also conveyed to Egyptian officials … that he would approve or remove holds on foreign military financing and sales of military equipment to Egypt in connection with his leadership role on the SFRC” — the Foreign Relations Committee. In exchange, the indictment says, his wife was promised money.While Menendez ...

Three arrests made in boy’s shooting death that sparked New Mexico governor’s aggressive guns ban

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A third arrest was made Friday in connection with a shooting outside an Albuquerque baseball stadium that killed an 11-year-old boy and prompted the New Mexico governor to issue a controversial gun ban.Albuquerque police took Daniel Gomez, 26, into custody a day after two other men were identified as suspects. Police didn’t immediately release further details about Gomez’s arrest. Jose Romero, 22, and Nathen Garley, 21, were being held for the Sept. 6 shooting after an Albuquerque Isotopes game in what appeared to be a case of mistaken identity, Police Chief Harold Medina said at a news conference.Medina said the two men had argued with people during the ballgame and mistakenly opened fire on a truck carrying Froylan Villegas and his family as it was leaving the parking lot because it closely resembled the truck of the intended targets.“These cowards thought they were tough,” Medina said in an earlier social media post. “They killed an innocent c...

Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while expanding the gas network in Peru

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That’s what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre-Inca funeral bales.“We are recovering those leaves of the lost history of Lima that is just hidden under the tracks and streets,” Jesus Bahamonde, an archaeologist at Calidda, the company that distributes natural gas in the city of 10 million people, said Friday.He said the company’s excavation work to expand its system of gas lines over the last 19 years has produced more than 1,900 archaeological finds of various kinds, including mummies, pottery and textiles. Those have mostly been associated with burial sites on flat ground.The city also has more than 400 larger archaeological sites that have turned up scattered through the urban landscape. Known as “huacas” in the Indigenous Quechua language, those adobe constructions are on top of hills considered sa...

Foligno is impressed with Bedard and ready to help lead the Chicago Blackhawks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Nick Foligno texted and called Connor Bedard over the summer, and the veteran had the rookie over to his home.It was a full-circle moment for Foligno ahead of his 17th NHL season.“It brings me back to when I was 19 and I came into the team and I had some really cool older guys to play with,” he said, “like (Daniel) Alfredsson, Mike Fisher and Wade Redden, and the list goes on. I remember going over to Alfie’s house and his four kids, I think I had more in common with them than I did with Alfie at the time.“It was funny to kind of go back to that and remember the feelings that I had and how much those guys helped me.”Through two days of training camp in Chicago, it looks as if Foligno is well on his way to becoming one of the team’s most popular players. He was among several veterans acquired by the Blackhawks in the offseason to add more leadership to the locker room and help with the development of some of their young players, namely Bedard.The chan...

MATCHDAY: Struggling Man United visits Burnley in EPL; Barcelona hosts Celta Vigo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Saturday:ENGLANDErik ten Hag quickly needs to turn Manchester United’s form around. Wednesday’s loss against Bayern Munich in the Champions League was a third straight defeat for his team and its fourth already this season. United is back in Premier League action on Saturday when it travels to Burnley. Former Man City captain and now Burnley manager Vincent Kompany would love to get a statement win against United. Everton is also in need of a morale-boosting result when it travels to Brentford. Sean Dyche’s team only has one point this season and looks like it could be involved in another relegation battle. Defending league champion City is at home to Nottingham Forest and looking to extend its 100% start to the campaign. Crystal Palace hosts Fulham and Luton is at home against Wolverhampton.FRANCEBrest can claim first place in the French league if it beats struggling Lyon at home to move above fellow surprise packag...

Child porn trial set for former cop after 6 delays

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- More than three years after law enforcement was tipped off about a child internet sex crime, a retired Cherry Hills Village Police officer has entered a not-guilty plea.Jerry Stinnett appeared at his arraignment via WebEx Friday afternoon on charges of Sexual Exploitation of a Child/Video and Sexual Exploitation of Child Porn Materials. Landry’s Seafood sued for alleged discrimination at Colorado restaurant The 65-year-old was charged back in March of 2022, but his arraignment had been delayed 6 times, and today he asked for yet another continuance.Arapahoe County Judge Joseph Whitfield denied the request and set a trial date for the week of March 25, 2024.The internet service provider Yahoo first tipped the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in July of 2020 that a user had "uploaded and shared images, that they considered to be Child Sex Abuse Materials (CSAM), onto their servers" according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the FOX...

Video: People run for cover during LoDo shooting that hurt 5 people

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- New video obtained by FOX31 shows people downtown scrambling for cover during the moments of a shooting that left five people hurt.It provides new insight into the fear experienced by people in LoDo last weekend near the 1900 block of Market Street. 5 injured in LoDo shooting late Saturday night At one moment, everything seemed normal. Then came the moments of the shooting when people at neighboring bars ran for cover. Some of them can be seen squatting along rails.Bellator Defense employs security guards for bars in the area, and they said they have an active shooter policy in place. The video shows those guards as they pulled people off the street and got them to the rear of the nearest building where they say they locked the doors.Now, police are releasing new information about the suspect, identified as Keanna Rosenburgh, who is a juvenile. Police are not releasing her exact age. Suspect in LoDo shooting identified, still at-large The Denver Police Depa...

Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient is performed for the second time ever

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

(CNN) — For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.The groundbreaking surgery was done on September 20 at UMMC by the same transplant team that preformed the first such experimental surgery in 2022.In a news release, the hospital said the recipient, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette, “is currently breathing on his own, and his heart is functioning well without any assistance from supportive devices.”Faucette had end-stage heart disease. He had pre-existing peripheral vascular disease and complications with internal bleeding making him ineligible for a traditional heart transplant, the hospital said in the release. He was admitted to UMMC on September 14 after experiencing symptoms of heart failure.“My only real hope left is to go with the pig heart, the xenotransplant,” Faucette told the hospital in an internal interview several days before the surgery.T...

Dogs sickened by drug-tainted human waste in Boston

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

Jamaica Plain residents are demanding a fenced-in dog park after three pooches were poisoned by “drug-contaminated human waste” while out for a walk.The Friends of JP Dog Parks, during a hearing Friday, pressed city officials to do whatever they can to get the neighborhood a safe recreational space where pets can roam freely as soon as possible.The group reports three dogs walking along an unofficial dog path at Southwest Corridor Park near Green Street Station last month had a “run-in with drug-contaminated human waste” and were rushed to the Angell Animal Medical Center emergency department.The dogs survived, but the group says the situation could have easily been worse, with the pets and their owners experiencing “extreme physical and emotional stress, not to mention the expenses incurred.”This scare comes as the city is battling an opioid addiction problem that isn’t only contained in the Mass and Cass encampment.“This is unacceptable, avoidable and needs to be addressed,”...

Ex-FBI agent John ‘Zip’ Connolly’s parole in Massachusetts in jeopardy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:41 GMT

Shady ex-FBI agent John “Zip” Connolly’s “conditional medical release” is up before a Florida parole board next week.This means the former handler of murdered mobster James “Whitey” Bulger could be forced back behind bars.The 83-year-old Connolly was allowed to return to Massachusetts on a medical release on Feb. 17, 2021, because he had about a year to live after being called “terminally ill.” That estimated timeline of his demise has not proven correct.The Florida Commission on Offender Review voted 2-1 to grant Connolly’s medical release, allowing him to “finish out his life in sunshine,” as one supporter testified that day.Now, that same commission has Connolly on the agenda for Tuesday. Zip is 11th on the list of convicts set for “Parole and Conditional Medical Releases/Revocations” in a hearing slated to begin at 9 a.m.Connolly was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 for wearing his FBI-issued sidearm when he me...