Washington, DC

From Washington, DC!

District of Columbia

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Добрый утро. Это Дона. Давно на Инстаграме, я говорила о Алексе. Он живет на деревне и так странно потому что он из Москви. Почему здесь он живет в деревне?

Good morning. This is Donna. A long time ago, of course. On Instagram. I was talking about Alex. He lives in the countryside. Which is so strange. Because he is supposed to be from the city of Moscow.

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How these football players are kind of unknowns.

Two snaps later, the offense tried a jet sweep to rookie wide receiver Luther Burden. But Ryan Bates still got first-team work in his place.
Kiran Amegadjie (leg) missed his second consecutive practice, leaving Ozzy Trapilo and Braxton Jones to split the action at left tackle. The Bears were down two other offensive linemen as Ricky Stromberg (concussion) and Bill Murray (right ankle) were out. Defensive tackle Shemar Turner (ankle), cornerback Zah Frazier (personal), running back Deion Hankins (concussion), tight end Jordan Murray (groin) and wide receiver Miles Boykin (ankle) were out.

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Federal officials have opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated then-candidate Donald Trump before his reelection, for alleged illegal political activity. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, on Saturday confirmed the investigation after reporting by other news organizations. Smith was named special counsel to investigate Trump by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022. Trump and his Republican allies, including Sen. Tom Cotton, have — without offering evidence of wrongdoing— accused Smith of violating the Hatch Act, a federal law that bans certain public officials from engaging in political activity. Smith prosecuted two federal cases against Republican candidate Trump in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Smith ultimately dropped the cases — neither one had gone to trial — after Trump was reelected, which would have shielded him from prosecution according to longstanding Justice Department practice. Smith then subsequently resigned as special counsel.

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Ну да.
Well yes.

Конечно.
Of course.

В Москве есть Большой театр.
In Moscow there is the Bolshoi theater.

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A Canadian fitness chart lists speed, height, weight.

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Chicago Bears training camp rundown: More ups and downs for Caleb Williams, while rookie pass catchers flash

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Kiran Amegadjie missed practice with a leg issue, clearing the way for rookie Ozzy Trapilo to take all of the first-team reps at left tackle. The competition for the starting left tackle job among Trapilo, Amegadjie and Braxton Jones is ongoing, and it will be interesting to see how the workload is divided Sunday during Family Fest. After missing the first week of camp with a lingering hamstring issue, rookie wide receiver Luther Burden III has stacked together several solid practices, impressing coaches and teammates with his playmaking ability.

A report about Chicago area voting districts.

The Lake County Board of Elections met in special session to take a look at all 350 precincts and determine to consolidate or split them. The meeting, held on Wednesday, lasted for close to four hours as board members voted on precinct information provided by Michelle Fajman, election board director and Jessica Messler, assistant director. Board president Kevin Smith said re-precincting is something that has to be done by each county every four years. “It’s a statutory obligation to review and recommend to the secretary of state,” Smith said. The special meeting was held because the deadline to send information to the secretary of state is (Friday) Aug. 1. The board at the July 15 meeting directed Fajman, a Democrat, and Messler, a Republican, to review and make recommendations to the board.

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How the Chicago police want higher pay.

Two Los Angeles County men accused of running an illegal cannabis extraction business have been charged with murder after five of their workers died in two separate incidents, authorities said Friday. According to the L.A. County district attorney’s office, Ted Chien, 53, and Han Quan Jiao, 55, administered the operation, which included at least nine locations countywide. In October 2023, an explosion occurred at a warehouse in Irwindale that was allegedly being used for honey oil extraction, prosecutors said in a statement. Four workers — Yi Luo, Xin Chen, Guangqi Fu and Quizhuo Liang — were killed in the blast. Another employee, Bordin “Tony” Sikarin, was killed just over a year later in a fire that broke out at a laboratory in South El Monte, according to the district attorney’s office.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law on Friday a measure that will provide some Chicago police officers and firefighters with higher pensions, an adjustment that will eventually cost the city’s taxpayers billions of dollars. The new law aims to bring parity between Chicago and downstate first responders and help bridge a shortfall in benefits for employees hired after 2010. Chicago police officers and firefighters argued they deserved the same benefits as downstate first responders.

Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez will have to gradually repay $157,785 to the county through a deduction from his semimonthly paycheck for the overpayment of benefits he had been receiving since he took office in 2017.

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How sometimes people die in hotels.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling lab equipment to Russian companies in violation of trade sanctions the United States imposed after Russia invaded Ukraine. Federal prosecutors charged Andrew Pogosyan, a 68-year-old Russian-born U.S. citizen who lives in Madison, in June in a four-count information with conspiracy to defraud the United States and smuggling goods out of the country.

The last of four Milwaukee hotel workers accused of killing a man by pinning him to the ground has pleaded guilty to being a party to felony murder. Former Hyatt Hotel security guard Todd Erickson entered the plea in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Thursday morning, online court records indicate. Erickson was set to go on trial on Aug. 11. He faces up to 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced Sept. 3. His attorney, Kerri Cleghorn, didn’t immediately return a voicemail left at her office.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Timberlake has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, the former NSYNC star said on Instagram Thursday. Timberlake shared the news in a post commemorating his Forget Tomorrow tour, which wrapped in Turkey on Wednesday, adding that the disease “can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically.” The “SexyBack” singer, who described himself as a private person, wrote he considered ending the tour when diagnosed, but wrote that he “decided the joy that performing brings me far outweighs the fleeting stress my body was feeling. I’m so glad I kept going.”

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I think Jessica Tisch and Gilbert Arenas are the same age.

Former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday and charged alongside five others with conspiracy for allegedly running illegal “high-stakes” poker games in Encino that included hiring women to provide “companionship” for gamblers, court records show. Arenas, 43, rented out an Encino mansion that he owned between September 2021 and July 2022 “for the purposes of hosting high-stakes illegal poker games,” according to a news release issued by the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Players were charged a “rake,” or tax, to play, in addition to whatever they bet into various pots, prosecutors alleged in court records. Arenas wore red basketball shorts and a shirt with the words “just grind” as he pleaded not guilty during a brief court appearance in downtown L.A. on Wednesday afternoon.

Wesley LePatner is the Global Head of Core+ Real Estate and the Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT).

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch was friends with Midtown Manhattan Park Ave. mass shooting victim Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive killed in the gunman’s spray of bullets in the lobby. The two became close through their connections to the UJA-Federation of New York according to police sources.

Tamura fatally shot NYPD Officer Didarul Islam,36, building security guard Aland Etienne, 46, and Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner, 43, in the lobby of the 44-story skyscraper at 6:30 p.m. Monday. He wounded another man, an NFL employee, before heading to the elevators. As the elevator doors opened at the lobby, he confronted a woman exiting the elevator, whom he didn’t harm, Daughtry said.

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Ему нужна больница.
He needs a hospital.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare public outburst on the Senate floor Tuesday, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker took his Democratic colleagues to task, declaring his party “needs a wake-up call!” Angrily screaming at two of his shocked Democratic colleagues, his words all but reverberating off the chamber walls, Booker blocked the passage of several bipartisan bills that would fund police programs, arguing that President Donald Trump’s administration has been withholding law enforcement money from Democratic-leaning states.

After an offseason spent rehabilitating from January shoulder surgery, Loveland is now full go at practice and it’s showing. The first-round pick from Michigan entered the league as an accomplished route runner and pass catcher. Those skills will make him a weapon in Johnson’s offense.

Notice these two trials in Los Angeles have been dismissed.

Investigators are looking into whether a Las Vegas man who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Manhattan on Monday was targeting the National Football League after it emerged that the gunman was a Los Angeles high school football player with a documented mental health history. Law enforcement officials have said that Tamura, who appears to be the son of a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, marched into a 44-story office tower on Park Avenue around 6:25 p.m. Monday carrying an M4 assault rifle in his right hand.

Just hours after the Trump administration moved to extend U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli’s term as Los Angeles’ top federal law enforcement official, prosecutors moved to dismiss charges in a pair of controversial criminal cases, including one involving a donor to the president. In a motion filed late Tuesday, federal prosecutors sought to dismiss an indictment accusing Andrew Wiederhorn, ex-CEO of the company that owns the Fatburger and Johnny Rockets chains, of carrying out a $47 million “sham loan” scheme. Prosecutors also sought to dismiss charges against L.A. County sheriff’s deputy Trevor Kirk, who has already been convicted and sentenced in an excessive force case after he attacked a woman in a supermarket parking lot in 2023.

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Injury reports in the football league.

Tarron Jackson's salary for 2025 is $1,100,000, according to Spotrac.com. This is part of a 1-year contract he signed with the San Francisco 49ers.

Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey Bieber, own multiple properties including a Beverly Hills mansion and a lakefront estate in Ontario, Canada. Their Beverly Hills home, a $25.8 million mansion in Beverly Park, features seven bedrooms, ten bathrooms, and sits on 2.5 acres.

On the first day in full pads, there was a heavy emphasis on the ground attack, screen passes and draws, so there wasn’t a large menu of plays to evaluate. Plus, some of the team drills weren’t run at full speed. Williams did make a nice connection with rookie tight end Colston Loveland off play action. Loveland went up to make the catch before landing hard. It’s a good sign the team is confident Loveland’s surgically repaired shoulder will hold up. Being in pads took the evaluation of the three left tackle candidates to the next dimension. Braxton Jones, Ozzy Trapilo and Kiran Amegadjie all got time with the first unit. Because it was intensely humid, players will need a lot of hydrating to be ready for Tuesday morning’s practice, also scheduled to be in full pads. It was the third concussion in three seasons for Brisker and by far the most troublesome. But he doesn’t come across as someone fearing his next concussion. He isn’t wearing a Guardian Cap, which are optional for defensive backs, and is pledging to remain physical.

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The Interior Department maybe is supposed to do this work for the tribe.

As part of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s vision for economic growth and community development,” according to a statement on the casino’s website. US District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton scheduled Cromwell’s sentencing for Nov. 5, 2025. In addition to sentencing for filing a false tax return, Cromwell will also be sentenced for his reinstated extortion convictions. Cromwell was convicted of three counts of extortion and one count of conspiracy to commit extortion on May 5, 2022, for the charges stemming from the Gaming Authority’s contract.

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, also known as the People of the First Light, has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for more than 12,000 years. After an arduous process lasting more than three decades, the Mashpee Wampanoag were re-acknowledged as a federally recognized tribe in 2007. In 2015, the federal government declared 150 acres of land in Mashpee and 170 acres of land in Taunton as the Tribe’s initial reservation, on which the Tribe can exercise its full tribal sovereignty rights. The Mashpee tribe currently has approximately 3,200 enrolled citizens.

A couple brought military explosive devices into a Los Angeles Police Department station Saturday afternoon in an attempt to dispose of them, spurring officials to temporarily evacuate the Pacoima station and nearby homes. On Saturday, according to the LAPD, two people came into the Pacoima station at 2:30 p.m. and said they had been cleaning out the home of a family member who recently died when they found what they believed were explosives. The department’s bomb squad used a robot to take images of the plastic box the couple had brought, which had “several military ordnances inside.” After deeming them safe to transfer, the bomb squad moved them to a storage facility for the U.S. military to collect.

A Delta Airlines pilot set to depart Sweden for John F. Kennedy International Airport was reportedly arrested on suspicion of drunkenness. Police apprehended the suspect at Arlanda Airport around 9:15 a.m. Tuesday while conducting a check of the departing plane, according to Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet. Numerous publications including The Independent identified the pilot as a woman from the U.S. She was arrested after allegedly failing a breathalyzer test.

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Maybe dating apps are too dangerous.

Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they’d encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store this week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online.

A Whittier man was arrested Thursday, accused of using dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Bumble to con people out of more than $2 million, according to authorities. Christopher Earl Lloyd, 39, was charged with 13 counts of wire fraud and one count of engaging in a monetary transaction in property derived from fraud, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Central District of California.

Craig J. Charron, who broke into his estranged girlfriend’s Huntington Beach apartment and fatally stabbed her on the day she changed the locks to keep him out, was sentenced Friday to 26 years to life in prison. Laura Sardinha, 25, had been pursuing an online psychology degree with the hope of counseling women in abusive relationships.

Notice this quote from the Bears coach.

Kiran Amegadjie's parents are Boris and Gislaine. Boris is from Togo, and Gislaine is from Cameroon. They met at Strayer University in Maryland in 1994. Kiran also has a twin sister, Maiwen. The competition for the starting left tackle job includes Jones, Kiran Amegadjie and rookie Ozzy Trapilo. Amegadjie, though, didn’t finish Saturday’s practice after limping off the field during a team period late in the morning. (That injury is expected to be minor.)

Johnson was asked Saturday about the origins of his attacking mindset as an offensive overseer and play-caller. “A light came on for me when I got fired from Miami (in 2018). I was out for however long that was — six or seven months of football. Fortunately, I got an opportunity in Detroit to stay in the NFL. I think at that point it was, ‘You know what? Go big or go home.’ ”

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-> A grenade is missing.
-> No, the other grenade was destroyed in the explosion.

Private defense attorneys who represent indigent clients in federal court are not getting paid for nearly three months — until Oct. 1. The U.S. Courts announced on July 3 that federal funding for the Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys — the private lawyers that pick up public defender cases — ran out of money. The length of time is unprecedented, lawyers said. In the past, funding gaps weren’t usually longer than a few weeks. The culprit? Congress only appropriated the same amount of funding as fiscal year 2024 — leaving it with an estimated $116 million shortfall it couldn’t fill, according to a release.

One of the two hand grenades found in a Santa Monica townhome complex ahead of the deadly blast that killed three Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives is currently missing, authorities said Friday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has determined that one of the two grenades detonated July 18, “and one of the grenades is unaccounted for at this time,” Sheriff Robert Luna said. “We conducted a thorough search to locate the second device, but we haven’t found it yet,” he said during a briefing. The ATF, which is investigating the blast, will also assume “full control into investigating the whereabouts of this other device,” he added. Investigators were able to determine the type of military grenade that was used, but were still looking into the origin of the devices. The agency will also investigate the origin of the grenade, as well as its movements, he said. According to law enforcement sources, investigators learned one of the grenades was missing when they could only find one of the “spoons” — suggesting just one grenade had exploded at the scene. The bomb squad retrieved the two hand grenades left behind — apparently by a previous tenant — in an underground parking garage storage unit at the complex in the 800 block of Bay Street on the night of July 17 and took them to the Biscailuz Center Training Academy to be “destroyed and rendered safe,” Luna said. Luna said there was no evidence that the detectives had attempted to cut into a grenade prior to the explosion, a theory that had been put forward in recent days. “I’m being very cautious about what I say,” he said. Officials searched a boat docked in Marina del Rey on Monday and storage lockers Tuesday and Wednesday that law enforcement sources told The Times are tied to a person who previously served in the U.S. military. Investigators are still casting a wide net for potential suspects, Luna said.

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How the police are trained about search warrants.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that California’s policy of background checks for bullet-buyers violates the 2nd Amendment, effectively killing a 2016 ballot measure meant to strengthen the state’s notoriously stringent gun laws.

A man was found fatally shot inside his car on Thursday morning near an elementary school in Whittier, and hours later, the shooter remained on the loose, authorities said. At 11:05 a.m., after being alerted by callers, officers found a man slumped over the dashboard of his gold sedan near Pickering Avenue and Penn Street — less than a quarter-mile from St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Elementary School, according to the Whittier Police Department.

A Suffolk County police officer was shot Thursday morning while investigating a homicide in North Bay Shore, authorities said. The shooting happened during an investigation into the death of a man found near a home on New York Ave. in North Bay Shore late Wednesday afternoon, a police spokesman told the Daily News. The victim, 66-year-old Eugene Allen, was discovered by residents around 4:30 p.m. During the investigation, homicide squad detectives identified Nieves Reyes as a suspect in the man’s death. Reyes, 48, and the victim knew each other, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina said at a press conference outside Stony Brook University Hospital late Thursday morning. Detectives obtained a warrant to search the suspect’s house, and officers began setting up a perimeter,” Catalina said. As they attempted to execute the warrant, Reyes allegedly fired several shots from inside the home. One of the bullets struck a 3rd Precinct officer in the face — “literally a half inch away from his eye,” according to Dr. James Vosswinkel of Stony Brook University Hospital. The officer, a 33-year-old who has been with the force for two years, never lost consciousness and was transported to South Shore University Hospital and later transferred to Stony Brook University, where he underwent surgery to remove the bullet, according to Catalina. He was listed in stable condition as of Thursday afternoon.

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Никто не думает. Он может так работать.
Nobody thinks. He can work like that.

Bears defensive coordinator Dennis Allen watches during the first practice of training camp at Halas Hall on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Lake Forest. Bumpiness is to be expected from the Bears starting quarterback throughout training camp — and even into the regular season. So it’s not a huge deal that Williams’ first pass attempt during 11-on-11 work Wednesday morning was a turnover, an over-the-middle toss that linebacker Tremaine Edmunds undercut to intercept. Those types of mistakes can get corrected.

Dr. Mallika Marshall, an Emmy-award winning medical reporter for WBZ-TV for more than two decades, said she has been laid off by the station and her last day is Friday. Marshall, a specialist in internal medicine and pediatrics, has had a highly visible role since she joined CBS Boston in 2000 as the station’s HealthWatch Reporter.

Bomb squad technicians who responded to a Santa Monica townhome complex where a resident reported finding grenades X-rayed the explosives and told city police they believed the devices were inert, according to a new search warrant in the investigation into the explosion that killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives last week. The bomb squad retrieved two hand grenades left behind — apparently by a previous tenant — in an underground parking garage storage unit at the Bay Street complex on Thursday night and took them to the Biscailuz Center Training Academy. The next day, at least one of the grenades exploded as the technicians were handling them in the parking lot.

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Кто не понимает?
Who doesn't understand?

The police budgets in Los Angeles and Boston.

The investigation into an explosion that killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad technicians at a training facility expanded to a second location Tuesday in Marina del Rey. Investigators, seeking to track the origins of grenades believed to have caused last week’s deadly blast, conducted a search in the 4200 block of Via Marina. Footage from news helicopters showed a law enforcement robot being used to search a group of storage units in an alley behind the Shores apartment complex, as ABC7 reported. The action followed a search Monday of a boat at the marina. Witnesses said more than a dozen police cars swarmed the 13900 block of Marquesas Way on Monday morning, with officers interviewing boat owners and evacuating people from the dock. It was not immediately clear by the afternoon whether authorities had found anything on the boat. The grenades were found last week inside a Santa Monica apartment complex storage area and transported to East L.A., where the explosion occurred Friday morning. The bomb squad at the time believed that at least some of the grenades were inert and that the technicians had taken an X-ray or scan of some of the ordnance and cut into at least one before it detonated. It’s unclear how those explosives ended up inside the garage storage unit in the first place, who left them there and what caused one to detonate as the technicians moved it. Those are just a few of the questions officials are trying to answer as they try to piece together what led to the deadly blast.

Defendant after defendant on Tuesday heard the same message from Boston Municipal Court Chief Justice Tracy-Lee Lyons: “This case shall be dismissed without prejudice today.” All told, 102 people who had been charged with a wide range of crimes, from the petty to the violent, saw their cases dropped because the government had been unable to provide them a lawyer. Tuesday’s hearing marked a remarkable step underscoring the ongoing crisis created by a work stoppage by the private court-appointed attorneys known as bar advocates, who represent most of the state’s indigent defendants who otherwise can’t afford lawyers.

A city Department of Education teacher’s assistant was caught flying into Kennedy Airport with child pornography, federal prosecutors allege. Alejandro Santos, 47, who works with children with mental disabilities, some of them nonverbal, was stopped at the airport on July 15 after taking a flight to New York from the Dominican Republic, prosecutors allege. The Bronx resident was flagged as someone who might be carrying child sexual abuse material, and when Customs agents searched his phone they found about 50 child porn videos and images, according to a criminal complaint. Court filings don’t specify what led law enforcement officials to set up a “lookout” alert for Santos when he went through customs.

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In Chicago they build gang databases and they investigate cold cases. In Los Angeles they do large searches but then the evidence can't be used at trial.

The investigation into a deadly explosion that killed three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad technicians at a training facility continued to expand Monday, with authorities executing a search warrant on a boat docked at Marina del Rey. Witnesses said more than a dozen police cars swarmed the 13900 block of Marquesas Way on Monday morning with officers interviewing boat owners and evacuating people from the dock. It was not immediately clear by the afternoon whether authorities had found anything on the boat, but investigators said the search was a result of them following leads on the possible origin of grenades found inside a Santa Monica apartment complex storage area last week and transported to East L.A., where the explosion occurred Friday morning. The explosives, described by law enforcement sources as military-grade hand grenades and fuses, were taken from the complex in the 800 block of Bay Street on Thursday night and moved to the Biscailuz Center Training Academy, photographed and stored. The bomb squad at the time believed at least some of the grenades were inert and that the technicians had taken an X-ray or scan of some of the ordnance and cut into at least one before it detonated. It’s unclear how those explosives ended up inside the garage storage unit in the first place, who left them there and what caused one to detonate as the technicians moved it.

A second undocumented immigrant wanted in the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer during a botched robbery in upper Manhattan has been arrested, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Monday. The second suspect, Cristian Aybar Berroa, 22 — who like his alleged accomplice, Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, is a native of the Dominican Republic — sneaked into the United States and never showed up for his immigration hearings after his initial release, Noem said.

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New York, NY – The G.A.N.G.S. Coalition, alongside advocates, legal experts, elected officials, community organizers, and impacted individuals gathered on February 24 on the steps of City Hall to demand the passage of Intro 798, a bill that would abolish the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) discriminatory Criminal Group Database (the “Gang Database”).

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch took several shots at efforts in the City Council to abolish the police’s controversial “Criminal Group Database” Tuesday.

Today, multiple organizations and advocates convened a press conference and rally on the steps of City Hall ahead of a New York City Council oversight hearing on the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) use of stop-and-frisk policing. Advocates called on the City Council to pass Intro 798, legislation that would abolish the NYPD’s Criminal Group Database, otherwise known as the “gang” database.

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In New York City the Stormy Daniels testimony was so weird.

An off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer was shot and wounded in the face by an immigrant who entered the country illegally during a botched robbery in an upper Manhattan park late Saturday, cops said. “This shooting is a clear example of everything that’s broken in our criminal justice system,” Mayor Adams said at a Sunday press conference. “One, the perpetrator or the person of interest that we have in custody has been known to have repeated violent interactions,” he said. “The second is the proliferation of guns. Thirdly, the violent immigrating asylum-seekers who are bringing violence and really tarnish the reputation of those who come to this country legally to pursue the American Dream.” The officer was sitting in Fort Washington Park by W. 178th St. when two robbers pulled up on a moped Saturday night around 11:50 p.m., cops said.

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Просто. Десять минут назад.
Simply. Ten minutes ago.

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The Santa Monica Police Department.

Authorities investigating the deadly blast at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility are looking into connections to some explosives collected in Santa Monica. Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A. while handling explosive materials. No cause for the blast has been determined. But the probe brought investigators Friday to an apartment complex in the 800 block of Bay Street in Santa Monica in connection with the explosion, according to department spokesperson Nicole Nishida. The three deputies killed in the blast responded to a call to assist the Santa Monica Police Department at the complex on Thursday. A grenade was recovered at the Santa Monica apartment complex Thursday, a city police officer told The Times. Sources who were not authorized to speak publicly told The Times that investigators are trying to determine if the explosives were the ones that caused the blast. Michael Kellman, who lives in the building, told The Times that a fellow tenant called the police Thursday after discovering a bag of grenades tucked away in her storage unit. She has been living in the building for several years and believes the bag was left behind by the former occupant, he said. Authorities returned to her unit Friday to scour the apartment for any remaining explosives. The Santa Monica Police Department evacuated residents from the Bay Street apartment building Friday afternoon, while authorities continue to search the location for any additional explosive material, Nishida said. The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad are assisting with the investigation. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is expected to lead a federal probe into the cause of the explosion. Nancy, who lives on Bay Street and chose not to provide a last name for privacy reasons, said officers knocked on her door late Friday afternoon and informed her that there was an “active investigation” and she must evacuate. Nancy asked an officer whether her nanny would be able to move their car, which was in front of her home. “No one is allowed,” the officer told her. Friday morning, employees told The Times they heard a massive boom around 7:30 a.m. coming from the parking lot where the sheriff’s bomb squad keeps its vehicles. They heard glass shattering and screaming.

Healthcare reports from New Jersey.

A New Jersey doctor has been charged with writing tens of thousands of opioid prescriptions in exchange for sexual favors, as well as defrauding Medicaid by billing for visits that never actually took place, according to federal prosecutors. Ritesh Kalra, 51, of Secaucus, is accused of operating a pill mill out of his medical office in Fair Lawn, where he allegedly prescribed high-dose opioids to patients struggling with addiction but without a legitimate medical purpose. The prescriptions included promethazine with codeine and oxycodone, a powerful opioid painkiller with a high risk of addiction and abuse, court documents show. According to investigators, the internist wrote more than 31,000 oxycodone prescriptions between January 2019 and February 2025 — including days when he wrote more than 50 of them. Kalra is also accused of billing Medicaid for in-person visits and counseling sessions that never actually happened. As part of the fraud scheme, his electronic medical records allegedly included false progress notes listing fabricated dates of service, as well as exam notes that were “generally identical from visit to visit and did not record vital signs,” prosecutors claim.

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What kind of?
Какой?

That building, they themselves are experts in explosives.
But then what exploded and how did it get in the police building?

A grenade was recovered at the Santa Monica apartment complex Thursday, a city police officer told The Times. Michael Kellman, who lives in the building, told The Times that a fellow tenant called the police Thursday after discovering a bag of grenades tucked away in her storage unit. She has been living in the building for several years and believes the bag was left behind by the former occupant, he said. Authorities returned to her unit Friday to scour the apartment for any remaining explosives. The bomb squad picks up potential explosives across the region on a daily basis, but it’s a situation that’s always fraught with danger because it’s hard to assess the stability of materials and their age, law enforcement sources told The Times. After the explosion, the LAPD’s bomb squad responded to the scene to help render any other potential explosive materials safe. It took authorities several hours to complete the process, Luna said.

I disagree with the AG because people shouldn't always get back their security deposit.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said Friday his office sued a management company that runs at least three properties in Hammond and East Chicago, saying they put deceptive or illegal fine print in renters’ leases. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Lake Superior Court, accuses IBIN Management, LLC of breaking Indiana’s consumer protection laws. The company runs three properties on the 4300 block of Baring Avenue in East Chicago, 200 block of Waltham Street in Hammond, and 900 block of 174th Street in Hammond. Various leases tried to stretch how long it would take to give back security deposits past the 45 days required by state law, had renters pay fees for repairs that landlords should cover, let landlords go into the units without notification, or tried to block renters from seeking damages allowed by state law, among other issues, Rokita said in a release. The lawsuit cites three people who rented in Hammond or East Chicago. Rokita said he is encouraging anyone affected to call his office.

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In Chicago the lawyers cited a case that doesn't exist because they copied and pasted an internet search result.

Lawyers hired by the Chicago Housing Authority recently cited Illinois Supreme Court case Mack v. Anderson in an effort to persuade a judge to reconsider a jury’s $24 million verdict against the agency in a case involving the alleged poisoning of two children by lead paint in CHA-owned property. The problem? The case doesn’t exist. In the latest headache for CHA, law firm Goldberg Segalla used artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, in a post-trial motion and neglected to check its work, court records show.

In an explosive new filing, Steward Health Care accused its founder and other former top officials of plundering the hospital chain of hundreds of millions of dollars in a scheme that directly led to the collapse of the once-high flying, Boston-born company. The filing this week in Steward’s bankruptcy case alleges that former chief executive Ralph de la Torre and three other current or former executives and board members defrauded the company of some $262 million.

The charges relate to the formation and participation in an organized criminal group allegedly engaged in corruption, abuse of office, and money laundering. According to prosecutors, in August 2024, Kotsev and the two municipal councilors demanded a 15% kickback - excluding VAT - on a BGN 1.52 million public procurement contract for the daily delivery of ready meals, including specialized dietary food, to social services in Varna. The amount, approximately BGN 228,000, was allegedly solicited in exchange for influence over a public official's decision-making. The complaint was initially lodged by businesswoman Plamenka Dimitrova, and the subsequent operation was carried out by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

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In the Chicago area a judge declared a mistrial but isn't it the judge's fault the jury was improper? James Comey's daughter made a living doing weird trials in New York City.

A Lake County, Indiana, judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after it emerged that an Illinois police officer had been allowed to stay on a homicide jury. Jaylan Mendoza, 23, is charged with murder in the Aug. 20, 2023, death of his father Delwin McCloud, 42. His new trial date is Sept. 29. He has pleaded not guilty and said it was self-defense. He was granted bail in October. “This is a murder case and the stakes couldn’t be higher,” defense lawyer Lakeisha Murdaugh said via text Tuesday. “When the parties discovered a sworn police officer had been seated on the jury, we had no choice but to act.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey and a federal prosecutor in Manhattan who worked on the cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, three people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Wednesday. There was no specific reason given for her firing, according to one of the people. They spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. Maurene Comey was a veteran lawyer in the Southern District of New York, long considered the most elite of the Justice Department’s prosecution offices. Her cases included the sex trafficking prosecution of Epstein, who killed himself behind bars in 2019 as he was awaiting trial, and the recent case against Combs, which ended this month with a mixed verdict. The Justice Department recently appeared to acknowledge the existence of an investigation into James Comey, though the basis for that inquiry is unclear. Most recently, she was the lead prosecutor among six female prosecutors in the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Combs. The failure to convict the hip-hop mogul of the main charges, while gaining a conviction on prostitution-related charges that will probably result in a prison sentence of just a few years, was viewed by some fellow lawyers as a rare defeat by prosecutors.

MEXICO CITY — A bitter public dispute between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the New York lawyer representing a son of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has raised speculation here that the deal-seeking scion of the onetime Sinaloa cartel leader may expose corrupt Mexican officials.

The settlement perhaps brings to a close what Wilson called a 43-year nightmare that began with his brother Andrew fatally shooting Chicago police officers Richard O’Brien and William Fahey. The case led to revelations of systemic police torture led by disgraced former police Cmdr. Jon Burge, three separate trials, alleged prosecutorial misconduct and a tossed murder conviction against Wilson.

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Cal-Berkeley, the Congress, and Chicago.

Lyons, a longtime Berkeley faculty member and administrator before his promotion to chancellor a year ago, faced repeated questions over an endowed program and chair in Palestinian and Arab studies launched in September. Led by history professor Ussama Makdisi, it was funded by $3.25 million in anonymous donations.

President Trump on Tuesday accused Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) of committing mortgage fraud by intentionally misleading lenders about his primary residence being in the suburbs of Washington, rather than California, in order to “get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America.” Schiff, who led a House impeachment of Trump during the president’s first term and has remained one of his most vocal and forceful political adversaries since joining the Senate, dismissed the president’s claims as a “baseless attempt at political retribution.” A spokesperson for Schiff said he has always been transparent about owning two homes, in part to be able to raise his children near him in Washington, and has always followed the law — and advice from House counsel — in arranging his mortgages. In making his claims, Trump cited an investigation by the Fannie Mae “Financial Crimes Division” as his source. A memorandum reviewed by The Times from Fannie Mae investigators to William J. Pulte, the Trump-appointed director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, does not accuse Schiff of mortgage fraud. It noted that investigators had been asked by the FHFA inspector general’s office for loan files and “any related investigative or quality control documentation” for Schiff’s homes. Investigators said they found that Schiff at various points identified both his home in Potomac, Md., and a Burbank unit he also owns as his primary residence. As a result, they concluded that Schiff and his wife, Eve, “engaged in a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation” on their home loans between 2009 and 2020. The investigators did not say they had concluded that a crime had been committed, nor did they mention the word “fraud” in the memo.

Owners of a local grocery story are expressing their condolences for the death of one of their employees by hosting online and in-store fundraisers for her and the woman’s surviving family members. Bogdana Mygal, 33, of Des Plaines, was pronounced dead July 5 at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville after being transported there following a multi-vehicle collision in a Lake County suburb. A man is facing driving under the influence charges in connection with the fatal incident that also saw Mygal’s husband and 4-year-old daughter sustain injuries. “She came from the Ukraine with her husband and no other family. They came here to have a better life. She wanted the best for her and her family. Her daughter was her world. It just breaks my heart,” Joanna Antonik, co-owner of Deli 4 You Market, told Pioneer Press by phone. Deli 4 You Market, a full-line Polish and European grocery store chain, has five Chicagoland locations, including in Norridge and Niles – the latter is where Mygal worked for three years before her death. Antonik owns the stores with her mother, Margaret.

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A report about the Education Department.

Interior Minister Daniel Mitov and British Ambassador to Bulgaria Nathaniel Copsey agreed on scheduling a working meeting, focused on countering money laundering and an action plan for cooperation, the Ministry of the Interior reported on Monday. The Minister highlighted new areas for cooperation, including countering money laundering and hybrid threats, in which British expertise would be extremely valuable for the Bulgarian side, particularly in the context of setting up thematic working groups.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue unwinding the Education Department, allowing it to move ahead with mass layoffs and a plan to outsource the department’s operations to other agencies. The justices paused a lower court order that had halted nearly 1,400 layoffs and had called into question the legality of President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the department. Now, Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon, are free to execute the layoffs and break up the department’s work among other federal agencies. Trump had campaigned on closing the department, and McMahon has said the department has one “final mission” to turn over its power to the states.

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Идите сюда!
Come here!

Актер из Казахстана.
The actor is from Kazakhstan.

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1) He went to law school in a different state than where he works
2) He gets paid per Chapitos motion
3) If he's a law professor how does he have time to be an attorney?
4) Which is he most expert in, white collar crimes, fraud, laundering, drug trafficking, cybercrime, and more?

This information was disclosed in the plea agreement between U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew S. Boutros, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Adam Gordon, the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, defendant Ovidio Guzman, and his attorney Jeffrey Lichtman. Earlier this month, Ovidio Guzman pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago, Illinois, as part of a plea agreement. In his confession, Guzman Lopez revealed details about the Sinaloa Cartel’s transnational operations that directly involved Costa Rica. According to the court document, the cartel coordinated the importation of large shipments of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, marijuana, and precursor chemicals from Central and South American countries to Mexico.

Reports about New York City.

A man out for a late-night swim with friends at Rockaway Beach in Queens went missing after disappearing under water, cops said Sunday. The 37-year-old swimmer went into the water with one of his pals near Beach 97th St. about 11:20 p.m. on Saturday and didn’t resurface, cops said. The friend made it back to shore and reported the man missing, cops said. NYPD divers were in the water within an hour to look for the man but haven’t found him, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

A 41-year-old man was found dead inside Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices on Staten Island — an iconic flagship store of summer-time treats, police said. Cops responded to a 911 call around 9:50 a.m. Saturday and found the man unconscious and unresponsive inside the Port Richmond shop, authorities said. EMS pronounced the man dead at the scene. The shop remained closed for the rest of Saturday before reopening at noon Sunday, according to a social media post by the shop. The man’s body was found in a storage room, a police source said. His identity has not been released as family waits to be notified.

“The details on how it happened was bizarre,” Gadsby said. “It was unbelievable. We came into work at 8 and around 8:30 people started to call real quick. News traveled quick, they were calling. We were shocked. … Reality started to kick in. It’s sad.” Medics rushed Belfield to Jamaica Hospital, where he died a short time later. The victim was from Guyana and made a living doing body work on cars.

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