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Arraignment set for Mar-a-Lago property manager in Trump’s classified documents case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is set for an arraignment Tuesday in Florida in a case accusing the former president of illegally hoarding classified documents. The hearing was postponed last week because the property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, had not secured a Florida-based attorney.Trump waived his right to appear alongside De Oliveira, and valet Walt Nauta, last Thursday, and the judge accepted a not guilty plea the former president made in court papers. Nauta also pleaded not guilty.De Oliveira’s failure to finalize local counsel marked the latest delay in the case, which is scheduled to go to trial in May. Trump’s lawyers have made clear they want to push the trial date back. A Florida-based attorney appeared with De Oliveira in court on Thursday but had not been retained on the case.Attorneys for Trump, De Oliveira and Nauta left the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce last Thursday without commenting to reporters ...

Biden heads to battleground Wisconsin to talk about the economy a week before GOP debate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a show of preemptive counterprogramming, President Joe Biden on Tuesday travels to Wisconsin to highlight his economic policies in a state critical to his reelection fortunes, just a week before Republicans descend on Milwaukee for the party’s first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign.His trip comes on the eve of the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, major economic legislation that he signed into law with great ceremony — although polls show most people know little about it or what it does. Wisconsin is among the handful of critical states where Biden needs to convince voters that his policies are having a positive impact on their lives, and he is expected to visit frequently to make his case.Biden plans to tour a clean energy manufacturing firm in Milwaukee to talk up provisions of the law that spends hundreds of millions of dollars to boost domestic manufacturing and clean energy, lower health care costs and crack down on wealthy tax cheats. Adm...

South Korea’s Yoon calls for strong security cooperation with US, Japan ahead of Camp David summit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president called for deeper security cooperation with the U.S. and Japan to address North Korean nuclear threats, saying Tuesday that his upcoming summit with the U.S. and Japanese leaders at Camp David will “set a new milestone in trilateral cooperation.”It will be the first time for the leaders of the three countries to gather entirely for a trilateral summit, rather than on the sidelines of international meetings. This suggests they are serious about boosting their ties in the face of North Korea’s advancing nuclear arsenal and China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy.In their summit Friday at the U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland, President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are expected to announce plans for expanded military cooperation on ballistic missile defenses and technology development, according to two senior Biden administration officials.“The ROK (Republic of Korea...

Monday downpours give way to gusty, Lake Michigan churning “NNE” winds Tuesday blowing the length of Lake Michigan. Temps rebound to the 80s Wednesday and evidence of late season heat and humidity beginning this weekend grows

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

WARM SEASON RAINS ARE NOTORIOUSLY UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTEDMonday’s rains followed that pattern. While downpours produced flooding and rain totals topping 3” in portions of the Chicago area, as little as 0.08” fell in Herscher and 0.09” at Lowell, IN.There were new and training downpours flaring late Monday night up and down the western Lake Michigan shoreline including a swath of Lake and Cook County.Monday afternoon satellite imagery was quite dramatic in its presentation of the late summer storm. The huge comma-shaped curl in the clouds are more commonly seen with well developing storms at cooler times of the year. The copious supply of moisture which was available to Monday’s system was behind the local downpours which drenched parts of the area.“Full fetch” NNE winds—the term full fetch refers to winds which blow the length of Lake Michigan on their way into the Chicago area. These are uniquely able to transfer wind energy to the lake surface building waves in the process. Lake Mich...

SoCal woman sues after she was struck by garbage truck

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

A San Diego woman is suing a national trash and recycling waste management company after she was hit by one of the company truck’s metal tines. Surveillance video from the incident that took place in February 2021 shows the woman, Deanna Beck, walking through the parking garage of an apartment complex, when the driver of a Waste Management Services truck backed up and hit Beck with the truck’s metal tines, resulting in her falling to the ground. Beck was rushed to a nearby hospital to be treated for major neck injuries and trauma to the brain. She was later diagnosed with dysautonomia, which causes issues with the autonomic nervous system, as a result of the incident.According to Beck’s attorneys, John Gomez and Corey Garrard, the driver of the truck was on his phone when he reversed and hit Beck and had been penalized several times before for being on his phone while operating a vehicle. “The defendant of the waste management vehicle being driven in this case was on ...

The Last Voyage of the Demeter Sinks Dracula into Silliness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

The most seductive thing, or the only seductive thing, about the new Dracula riff The Last Voyage of the Demeter is its rather inspired B-movie concept — one that’s apparently been in development hell, with scores of personnel changes, for over 20 years. We all know the plot beats of Dracula well enough, including the elliptical passage of the title schooner from Bulgaria to the south of England, where it shows up with a crew of corpses and crates of Carpathian sand. It’s only a five-page chunk of Chapter 7, in which the local Whitby newspaper quotes the captain’s log, and what happened on the voyage is something filmmakers have usually skipped over as well — only Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) and Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) paused to make a stark memorable meal of the situation.In fact, focusing on the unnamed marginal characters in the famous larger story has a postmodern pedigree — the Demeter’s tribulations could be a monster-culture Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. ...

SF Giants surrender 18 hits in blowout loss to Rays as offensive woes continue

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — If Oselvis Basabe’s at-bat in the fourth inning Monday night looked foreign, it’s because the Rays’ rookie shortstop did something few, if any, Giants have done this season. With two on and two outs, Basabe put on a masterclass of situational hitting.The Giants’ shifted infield opened a wide hole between first and second base, and Basabe adjusted his swing to poke a ball through with surgical precision.When an out of any kind would have kept the game knotted at zero, Basabe’s single drove in the Rays’ first two runs and was only the beginning of a barrage of hits as they sent San Francisco (63-56) to its eighth loss in its past 10 games, 10-2.Barreling up just about everything out of the hands of the Giants’ opener, Ryan Walker, and the pitcher who relieved him, Tristan Beck, the Rays (72-49) had amassed a dozen hits and a 5-0 lead by the time they were done batting in the fifth inning. They padded their lead with five runs o...

Baseball equipment stolen from Rodeo little league

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

RODEO, Calif. (KRON) – A Bay Area little league team is stunned and saddened after they found most of their baseball equipment stolen.Someone broke into the Rodeo Baseball League sheds, causing a lot of damage, and ran off with thousands of dollars of equipment. The loss is a lot for the small league to shoulder.Little League baseball is supreme in the tiny East Bay town. With the season on the line, the kids are crushed someone would steal from them.“They are upset and asking questions… Why would anybody take from Rodeo baseball?” said league mom and board member Heather Farmer. The little league players are used to stealing bases, but the 14-and-under youth league is not at all okay with someone stealing most of their equipment. Pittsburg man arraigned for violent carjackings involving hammer “They spent some time trying to cut that lock. The lock is this far from being cut open,” Farmer said. The thief also destroyed the walls of the two storage sheds. Now missing are a lot of ...

Rockies rally for 6-4 win to snap 5-game skid, send Diamondbacks to 10th loss in 12 games

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Nolan Jones singled in the go-ahead run in a four-run eighth inning and the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 on Monday night to snap a five-game losing streak.Charlie Blackmon, Ezequiel Tovar and Ryan McMahon opened the eighth inning with singles to load the bases against Joe Mantiply (1-1), the third Arizona pitcher. Scott McGough entered and retired Elias Diaz on a liner to shortstop Geraldo Perdomo before Brandon Rodgers’ two-run single tied the score and sent McMahon to third.Jones followed with his go-ahead single to center for a 5-4 lead, and pinch-hitter Alan Trejo greeted Kyle Nelson with a single to drive in Rodgers. The Rockies had six singles in the inning.“I think hitting kind of breeds hitting,” Blackmon said. “Seeing good events happen kind of puts you in the mindset of ‘I’m going to have a good at-bat because my teammate did.'”Matt Koch (2-0) struck out two in a 1-2-3 eighth and Justin Lawrence struck out the side in the ninth for...

Nearly a week after Maui wildfire, islanders survey the aftermath and look ahead to long recovery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:55:22 GMT

The wildfire that swept across Maui nearly a week ago turned one of the nation’s most celebrated island vistas into an ashen moonscape and killed at least 99 people, a number that officials warn could rise by scores as the search continues.The deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in more than a century devoured homes and businesses, blackened cars and left only ruins where thriving neighborhoods once stood. In some places, the flames advanced as fast as a car at highway speed — a mile a minute.The most serious blaze swept into Lahaina on Tuesday and destroyed nearly every building in the town of 13,000. When the flames were out and the smoke cleared, all that remained was a grid of gray rubble wedged between the blue ocean and lush green slopes.Now begins a long recovery as survivors mourn the dead, search teams look for more victims in the charred debris and families try to begin anew.The cause of the wildfire is under investigation. Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing...