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Suspected US intelligence leaker arrested in Massachusetts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

Jack Teixeira, an airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested Thursday in Massachusetts in connection with the leak of classified documents shared in a group he managed on a website popular with gamers.Teixeira oversaw Thug Shaker Central, a group on Discord where more than 100 classified documents on topics ranging from Ukraine to intelligence gleaned from spying on allies first appeared.Teixeira’s arrest comes after The New York Times reported last week that documents dealing with intelligence on Ukraine’s battle with Russia from as far back as February had been percolating on the site before spreading to other social media platforms.Teixeira, 21, enlisted in the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard and in July was promoted to Airman First Class.Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed the arrest in a brief public statement, indicating Teixeira could face charges under the Espionage Act.“Today the Justice Department arrested Jack ...

ALDI to open first El Cajon location

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

EL CAJON, Calif. — Popular grocery store chain ALDI will soon be opening their newest location in San Diego County.The new store will be located at 123 Fletcher Parkway and will be the first ALDI to open in El Cajon.ALDI's El Cajon location will open to customers on April 27 at 8 a.m., according to a news release. The store will operate daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.To celebrate the opening of the new East County store, the first 100 customers will receive a gift card as part of the ALDI Golden Ticket program, the news release said. NOAA issues El Niño watch: Here’s where and when we will feel the impact ALDI has over a dozen locations in San Diego County, including the upcoming El Cajon store. You can find the nearest ALDI store to you here.“Our stores are designed to make grocery shopping smarter, faster and easier, and we’ve been voted the price leader for six years running,” said a quote attributed to Tom Cindel, Moreno Valley regional vice president for ALDI. “We’re excited...

Actor Drake Bell found safe after being declared missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jared “Drake” Bell, an actor best known as a star of the Nickelodeon television show “Drake & Josh,” was found safe on Thursday, hours after authorities in Florida said he was “missing and endangered.”Bell was in touch with police officers and wasn’t in danger, Daytona Beach Police Department spokesperson Carrie McCallister said in an email, without providing further details.“At this time we can confirm law enforcement officials are in contact and Mr. Bell is safe,” McCallister said.McCallister referred requests for further details to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando, which didn’t respond to an emailed message.Hours earlier, the police department put out a statement declaring Bell “missing and endangered” and asked the public for help in locating him.Before being found mid-day Thursday, Bell was last seen Wednesday night near a Daytona Beach high school.Representatives for the 36-year-old actor did not immediately r...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau falls short of committing to keep RCMP depot in Regina

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

REGINA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the RCMP Depot in Regina a “Canadian institution” Thursday but fell short of committing to keeping the Mountie training facility open.“I think we all recognize there have to be changes in how we move forward to ensure communities are safe, to make sure that police have the tools and abilities to do the work everyone expects of them,” Trudeau said during a stop in Saskatchewan’s capital.The Mass Casualty Commission’s final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting rampage that left 22 people dead recommended the RCMP phase out the Depot model of training. The recommendation has been criticized by politicians in Saskatchewan, as the training facility is part of the province’s history and serves as an economic driver for the city. Trudeau said his government will continue to look closely at the recommendations and take things “one step at a time.”The prime minister did not meet with Saskatchewan Pre...

Brittney Griner makes appearance at Rev. Al Sharpton event

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner made a surprise appearance Thursday at a women’s empowerment luncheon held during the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network event in New York City.Griner, who this week announced that she would write a book about her nearly 10-month detainment in Russia, thanked those gathered at the luncheon for the advocacy that contributed to her release in last December.“Everyone in this room that came together, that sent up every prayer, it reached me while I was there,” Griner, 32, told a packed hotel banquet hall in midtown Manhattan.“I want to continue to fight to bring home every American detained overseas,” she said.For months during her detainment, Sharpton, Black clergy and racial justice activists across the U.S. pushed U. S. officials to secure the basketball star’s release. She was freed in December in exchange for the notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.Sharpton presented Griner with an award, saluting the strength she exhibite...

Police: After shootings, man threatened California Capitol

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The suspect who made “credible threats” against California’s Capitol on Thursday shot a gun from his vehicle while driving through two Sacramento suburbs on Wednesday night, lodging bullets in the wall of a hospital but injuring no one, authorities said.The suspect remains on the loose, the California Highway Patrol said just before noon.The threat forced California’s Assembly to cancel its Thursday session. Senators evacuated to work in a new location. The Capitol is open to the public.The two prior shootings were in Roseville and Citrus Heights, two cities northeast of Sacramento. The Roseville Police Department said in a statement it received a call late Wednesday about someone shooting a gun from a vehicle while driving through Citrus Heights and, later, a suspect shooting toward a hospital in Roseville from the parking lot. Two bullets were lodged in the exterior of the building, the department said.“At this time, we believe this suspect ma...

Suspect in leak probe talked about God, guns and war secrets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspect was relatively easy to find.In a social media world that produces traceable digital fingerprints, it didn’t take long for federal authorities and open-source investigators adept at sifting through data to land on the name of Jack Teixeira.Teixeira, 21, who served in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested Thursday in connection with the far-reaching leak of classified documents that have shaken capitals from Washington to Kyiv to Seoul with revelations of U.S. spying on allies and foes alike and the disclosure of sensitive military intelligence about the war in Ukraine.Attorney General Merrick Garland said Teixeira would be charged with the unauthorized removal of classified national defense information.There were clues in messages posted in a chatroom on Discord, a social media platform where Teixeira is believed to have posted for years about guns, games and his favorite memes — and, according to some others chatting with him, closely...

Poilievre’s pitch to defund CBC, keep French services would require change in law

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

OTTAWA — If Pierre Poilievre wants to “defund the CBC” while maintaining its French-language programming, he’ll have to overhaul the country’s broadcasting law in order to do it. That’s according to the corporation, which has found itself in a back-and-forth with the Opposition leader over his pledge to cut the roughly $1-billion in taxpayer dollars it receives annually.Past Conservative leaders have also taken aim at the Crown corporation, which receives its share of public money through Parliament when MPs vote on its federal budget. Poilievre’s pitch to strip the CBC of its public funding is widely popular among Conservatives and earned loud cheers from the crowds who packed rooms to see him during last year’s leadership campaign. But he has also suggested he supports Radio-Canada’s French services, and when asked for comment on how he reconciles that, his office pointed to a media interviewfrom March 22 in which he suggested mainta...

Northwestern criticizes its own response to deadly shooting steps from campus

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern University criticized their own response to a deadly triple shooting steps away from campus Wednesday night.Just before 8:30 p.m., shots were fired at Clark Street Beach, located near the 1800 block of Sheridan. Evanston police found an 18-year-old man, later identified as Jacquis Irby, and two 15-year-old boys suffering from gunshot wounds.Irby died of his injuries and one of the boys was transported in critical condition. The other suffered minor injuries.Several students took to social media to express dismay on having to wait around a half hour for the university to acknowledge the shooting.On Thursday afternoon, Northwestern said "we agree" that the alert should have went out earlier. 1 killed, 3 injured in an off-campus shooting near Northwestern University: police "We have received messages from community members expressing frustration with the length of time it took for the University to inform the community of the shooting and to shelter in p...

Pregnant woman shot by Walgreens employee who alleged she was shoplifting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:59 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A self-defense claim is under investigation in Nashville after a pregnant woman was shot in a Walgreens parking lot on the city's east side, forcing doctors to perform an emergency cesarean section and deliver her premature baby.The shooting took place around 8 p.m. Wednesday on the city's east side.Police said an employee at the Walgreens location was notified by another employee that two women were stealing items from the store. The employee told police he saw the women putting items into a store cart and a large over-the-shoulder bag. He said he then began recording the women with his cellphone and followed them as they left the store without paying for the items. ‘Do you have Apple Pay?’: Shooting suspect tries to bribe officer He followed the women to their car, where they were putting the items in the trunk investigators said. That's when he said one of the women pulled a can of mace and began spraying him.The employee then pulled his semi-automatic...