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Jalen’s Mills reconversion to safety appears to be going well for Patriots

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

FOXBORO — In the search for Devin McCourty’s replacement at safety in the Patriots’ starting defense, Jalen Mills made a strong first impression in Thursday night’s preseason opener against the Houston Texans.Mills has some ground to make up if he’s going to be part of the Patriots’ starting unit for the third straight season, however. The good news is that the eight-year veteran made the Patriots’ top defensive play in Thursday’s loss, undercutting rookie wide receiver Tank Dell in a pass from No. 2 overall pick C.J. Stroud for an interception.“I was actually in man-to-man with the tight end,” Mills explained. “He was in the backfield, though. It was a longer down and distance, so I kind of showed a two-high look. I think it was Myles Bryant who was next to me. Once the tight end kind of chipped and released through, I knew that I could take him from depth, but I just kept eyes on the quarterback. He just so happened to look to his right and my left, and I was able to get underneat...

Police shooting prompts investigation in University City

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- One person was shot in University City Friday morning, the San Diego Police Department confirmed to FOX 5.Authorities say a call came in reporting a car break in and then a police shooting took place around 3:12 a.m. on the 3400 block of Lebon Drive. SDPD releases bodycam video of deadly shooting involving K-9 One suspect was taken to the hospital and another suspect is currently at large, SDPD said.It's unknown at this time the extent of the shot suspect's injuries.Police are on the scene investigating. FOX 5 is working to gather more information. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Wholesale inflation in US edged up in July from low levels

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale price increases in the United States picked up slightly in July yet still suggested that inflationary pressures have eased this year since reaching alarming heights in 2022.The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers— rose 0.8% last month from July 2022. The latest figure followed a 0.2% year-over-year increase in June, which had been the smallest annual rise since August 2020. On a month-to-month basis, producer prices rose 0.3% from June to July, up from no change from May to June.The producer price figures the Labor Department issued Friday reflect prices charged by manufacturers, farmers and wholesalers. The figures can provide an early sign of how fast consumer inflation will rise in the coming months. Since peaking at 11.7% in March 2022, wholesale inflation has steadily tumbled in the face of the Federal Reserve’s 11 interest rate hikes.On Thursday, the government repo...

UBS ends billions in taxpayer-funded support that paved way for Credit Suisse takeover

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss taxpayers are off the hook from a government-engineered rescue plan that doled out billions to help UBS, the country’s largest bank, take over its ailing rival Credit Suisse.UBS said Friday that it has shut down state support that had made available up to 200 billion Swiss francs (about $230 billion) to help shepherd through its takeover of Credit Suisse to avert an international banking crisis.The Zurich-based banking giant, which completed the takeover on June 12, said it had moved to “voluntarily terminate” rescue programs that aimed to help mop up billions of losses and provide liquidity to the banks as they moved forward on the complex deal.UBS said it had repaid 50 billion francs in loans from the Swiss National Bank as well as loans granted under an offer of up to 100 billion francs in liquidity support from the government. It also said the government’s 9 billion-franc offer to buffer the bank against losses was no longer needed.In total,...

Severe floods in China’s northern province killed 29 and caused tens of billions of economic losses

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Severe floods in China’s northern province of Hebei brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri this month killed at least 29 people and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, its provincial government said Friday. Official news agency Xinhua reported that rescue crews were still searching for 16 missing people as of Thursday and the province’s reconstruction is expected to take two years to complete. Initial estimates showed the province’s direct economic losses amounted to 95.8 billion yuan ($13.2 billion), state media China News Service said. Last week, Hebei was hit by serious flooding as the remnants of the typhoon battered the region and brought the heaviest rainfall in neighboring Beijing in at least 140 years. Official preliminary estimates announced Friday showed 3.9 million residents, or about 5% of the province’s population, were being affected by the floods and more than 40,000 houses were collapsed, China News Service said. A f...

Ontario’s massive greenbelt scandal, explained in full

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

In today’s Big Story podcast, the Greenbelt is one of Ontario’s biggest environmental success stories — millions of acres of protected land that capture carbon, protect at-risk species and play a huge role in feeding the province. Unless of course the land is carved up and sold to developers to create housing.Ontario’s auditor general released a report this week that found the Doug Ford’s government, in choosing portions of land to be developed, was influenced by developers who now stand to make billions, their “information gathering and decision protocols were sidelined and abandoned” and did not consider environmental, agricultural or financial impacts of the move.Fatima Syed is an Ontario reporter for The Narwhal (Read Fatima’s and her colleague Emma McIntosh’s full coverage of the Greenbelt scandal here.) She said the stuff in the report is the sort of stuff you expect to see on TV and movies.“The sheer extent of oblivion on the pa...

Family of US publishing exec killed in Italy boat collision urges full investigation, accountability

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

ROME (AP) — The family of a U.S. publishing executive killed in a boating collision in southern Italy is urging Italian authorities to fully investigate the death and hold accountable anyone responsible.“We are cooperating with the Italian authorities in their investigations, and will continue to do so until they conclude,” said the statement late Thursday to The Associated Press by Mike White, husband of Adrienne Vaughan, on behalf of their family.Vaughan, the 45-year-old president of Bloomsbury Publishing’s U.S. branch, was killed Aug. 3 when the rented motorboat her family had hired slammed into a chartered sailboat off the Amalfi Coast.The motorboat’s skipper is under investigation for suspected manslaughter and causing a shipwreck, prosecutors have said. No charges have yet been announced.Salerno Prosecutor Giuseppe Borrelli said Aug. 5 that Vaughan was sunning herself on the boat’s bow and bounced into the water at the moment of impact. Two doctors who were among the pas...

South Korea throws huge K-Pop concert for Scouts after storm Khanun disrupted their Jamboree

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A day after a powerful tropical storm flooded dozens of homes and turned streets into muddy rivers, South Korea threw a huge K-Pop concert in Seoul for 40,000 Scouts whose global Jamboree was disrupted by the weather. Friday’s concert at a wet soccer stadium featured various performers, including girl groups NewJeans and Ive. The show was quickly put together by government officials as the closing event of the World Scout Jamboree. It came as the country began to clean up and make repairs in the aftermath of the storm, Khanun, which pounded the country’s southern and eastern regions with intense rains and winds that forced thousands to evacuate and left at least one person dead after making landfall early Thursday. Khanun had weakened by the time it arrived in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area Thursday night, and it blew into North Korea early Friday as a tropical depression.The Jamboree was held at a coastal campsite before Khanun forced ...

Highway 400 reopens following repairs to 11-foot-deep sinkhole near Bradford

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

Some good news for drivers on Highway 400 after an 11-foot-deep sinkhole led to road closures and traffic delays near Bradford West Gwillimbury since Monday.In an update on Thursday, Ontario Provincial Police said repairs to the sinkhole have been completed, and all affected southbound and northbound lanes of the highway at Line 5 have reopened to motorists.The left southbound lane was shut down in the area since Monday, when the sinkhole opened up along the median strip. OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the sinkhole was located in the left southbound lane approaching Line 5.The closure was then expanded on Tuesday to include the left northbound lane of the highway.On Wednesday, Sgt. Schmidt shared a new video on social media showing crews tending to the sinkhole, noting that repairs are ongoing.“The hole itself is relatively small, but underneath that hole, there is a significant cavity,” Sgt. Schmidt said.“[Crews] are going to try and get asphalt pulled away so they can get a better lo...

Summer camp in California gives Jewish children of color a haven to be different together

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:11 GMT

PETALUMA, California (AP) — One camper, from Oakland, California, has a white Jewish mother and a father who is Black and Muslim. Another was adopted in Uganda by a white Jewish woman; they now live in Montana. Like many of the young people who shared challenges and adventures with them this summer, they grew up often feeling like outliers — and then found a near-magical comfort zone at Camp Be’chol Lashon in the rolling hills of California’s Marin County. Its founders say it’s the only sleepaway summer camp specifically serving Jewish children of color, creating a safe space for candid conversations on race and identity. Isaac Harrison, the 10-year-old from Oakland, went to a traditional Jewish summer camp last year and said he was bullied by some campers for being Black. “There were no kids of color there,” he said, “Some kids kept saying that you can’t be both Black and Jewish. They said that you can’t be two things. They were just being really mean, but here no one’s mean like t...