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US judge sends Haitian businessman to imprisonment for life for Haiti’s President assassination

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman Friday to life in prison for his role in helping a group of Colombian mercenaries obtain weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.Rodolphe Jaar, who has dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship, had pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States, and to providing material support resulting in death.Federal judge José E. Martínez handed down the sentence, the maximum faced by Jaar, at a hearing in federal court in downtown Miami.The businessman, who was an informant for the U.S. government and had been convicted of drug trafficking a decade ago, is one of 11 people arrested and charged in the United States for the murder of Moïse, and the only one to plead guilty. The other 10 are scheduled for a jury trial in July, though the date could be pushed back.Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, when a group of unknown individuals broke into his privat...

Florida man drops off child at bodyshop after driving away with stolen vehicle

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) – Surveillance cameras captured a suspected car thief who ditched a 2-year-old on the side of the street. Police said the man stole a red Volkswagen Tiguan from the driveway on Thursday when the mother went to grab something from the house while the child was still sleeping in the backseat.One simple decision led Volusia County’s mother into a panic. When she came back outside, her car and 2-year-old son were gone.Half an hour later, a good samaritan; Darrel Everman found the boy sitting outside a body shop by himself and decided to approach him.“You wanna come with me, buddy? come here, come here, it’s okay buddy,” said Everman. He was driving around the neighborhood at that time. “About 5-6 feet away from the road, and I didn’t see any parents around so I thought I better stop and check on him,” said Everman.Everman waited for a few minutes, but when he realized no one was coming for the child, he started ...

Wendy’s and T-Pain will ‘Buy U a Frosty’ to celebrate the comeback of a fan favorite

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

Singer T-Pain teams up with Wendy’s to buy you a frosty.The strawberry frosty flavor is back on the menu this summer after it had a limited run in 2022.The announcement was made with an iconic music video on the Wendy’s YouTube channel that re-tracked the chart-topping hit single ‘Buy U a Drank’.To celebrate customers can get a free small frosty from June 5 to June 21 with any purchase from the app or online.

Rhode Island beagle found safe after getting lost in woods

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

(CNN) — A therapy dog is now back with its owner after spending days lost in the woods.Kobe the beagle, 9, disappeared in a Rhode Island forest for nearly an entire week. Gabrielle Caracciolo said Kobe suffers from epilepsy so the search for the therapy canine was urgent.After days of searching on her own with no luck, Caracciolo sought help from experts.A company called Packleader PetTracker used their dogs to help find Kobe and after they narrowed down their search to one area, the team set up cameras to track Kobe.The search efforts paid off after the crew found Kobe hiding amongst the rocks in the trees.Kobe even got to meet the rescue dogs that helped look for him.

Labour MP registers complaint against Geraint Davies after harassment claims

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

LONDON — A sitting Labour MP has now registered a complaint against Geraint Davies as the party reels from allegations of misconduct against the long-serving backbencher.Two complaints have now been formally made to the U.K. opposition party, while two other women said they are considering coming forward.Davies was suspended from the party whip Thursday following allegations, first reported by POLITICO, that he subjected five younger female colleagues to unwanted sexual attention. The allegations were described by a party spokesperson as “incredibly serious.”The complaints to Labour were submitted by a sixth and seventh woman after POLITICO’s investigation was published. They include a complaint from a serving Labour MP.Davies said in a statement responding to the initial story that he did not “recognize” the allegations, adding: “If I have inadvertently caused offence to anyone, then I am naturally sorry.”Any complaints submitted against Davies will now form part of a Labour ...

Belarus’ Lukashenko: ‘The only mistake we made’ was not finishing off Ukraine with Russia in 2014

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

“The only mistake” Russia and Belarus made was “that we didn’t resolve this issue in 2014-2015, when Ukraine had no army and wasn’t prepared,” Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said.In 2014, Russia illegally invaded Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine, and Kremlin-backed fighters seized territory in eastern Ukraine.Lukashenko’s comments, which according to Minsk were delivered Thursday during a meeting with the heads of security agencies of the Commonwealth of Independent States, made up of former Soviet countries, indicate that Lukashenko has fully embraced his transformation into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s puppet.Lukashenko has had a love-hate relationship with Putin over his nearly three decades in power. But after the Kremlin helped him see off massive street protests following a fraudulent presidential election in 2020, the Belarusian dictator went all-in on Putin, helping Moscow launch its full-scale invas...

Days before apartments crumbled, repair work started on a building wall that later collapsed. Now officials ask for help with 3 missing men

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

(CNN) — Just days before part of an Iowa apartment building came crashing down, inspectors noticed a brick façade had separated from the interior wall and appeared “ready to fall imminently,” according to a letter from an engineer.The engineer said the “brick façade is unlikely to be preserved in place, but it can be brought down in a safe, controlled manner,” the May 24 letter said. The engineer also said the interior wall of the downtown Davenport building appeared to be losing stability and is “causing deformation.”A repair permit was issued the same day, according to Davenport city records. And a May 25 site visit confirmed repair work had started.Just three days later, the same part of the wall that was under repair collapsed, according to a CNN review of photos of the property released by the city.The disaster crushed apartments in the six-story building and turned residents’ homes into heaps of rubble.While no deaths have been confirmed, three residents who lived in...

Robert De Niro reacts to Al Pacino becoming a father again at 83

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

(CNN) — Robert De Niro sounds excited for his friend and former co-star Al Pacino to be joining him in the senior dad’s club.De Niro, who is 79, welcomed a daughter named Gia in April with girlfriend Tiffany Chen.During a press junket Wednesday for his Tribeca Film Festival, De Niro was asked about the news that Pacino, 83, is set to become a father again with Noor Alfallah, who is 29.“What a guy,” People reported De Niro as saying. “Go Al, God bless him.”But it appears De Niro may have misunderstood the question as the next day during an appearance on “Today,” the actor seemed to have believed Baby Pacino had already arrived.“Listen, Al Pacino just had a baby, I was told yesterday morning,” De Niro said. “He’s a few years older than me. God bless him. Very happy for him,”There is no indication that the baby has been born.De Niro and Pacino have starred in several projects together over the years, including “The Godfather II,” “Heat” and “The Irishman.”

Kremlin foe Navalny’s demands in prison: moonshine, a balalaika and a pet kangaroo — all denied

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released excerpts of his correspondence with prison administrators Friday, detailing his sarcastic demands for things like a bottle of moonshine, a balalaika and even a kangaroo. His requests were denied.Responses from prison officials, posted on his social media account apparently by his team, came after he has spent almost 180 days in solitary confinement since last summer at Penal Colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region east of Moscow.Navalny, 46, is serving a nine-year sentence after being convicted of fraud and contempt of court — charges he says were trumped up for his efforts to expose official corruption and organizing anti-Kremlin protests. He was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.“When you are sitting in a punishment isolation cell and have little entertainment, you can have fun with correspon...

The Heat, like everybody else, had no answer for Nikola Jokic

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:49 GMT

Appreciate his precision or yawn at his pedestrian pace, you’ve never seen a basketball player like Nikola Jokic. One of one in the history of the NBA.There are shades of previous players, to be sure. Tim Duncan. Dirk Nowitzki. Larry Bird. Hakeem Olajuwon. Arvydas Sabonis.But there has never been such a massive man who dominates a league with his eyes. That vision and hand-eye coordination pushes the basketball to places that shouldn’t be possible when the player is both the slowest and least explosive on the court.It’s amazing and nowadays expected from Jokic, a two-time MVP who is three wins from securing an upper echelon legacy. In Thursday night’s 104-93 Game 1 victory over the Heat, it wasn’t just that Jokic finished with 27 points with 14 assists and ten rebounds — joining Jason Kidd as the only players to record triple-doubles in their NBA Finals debuts — it was that he dominated the opening quarter while taking just one shot.He defla...