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GOP debate live updates: Rivals go head-to-head as Trump woos autoworkers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

Republican presidential hopefuls will strive to set themselves apart from one another and capture voters' attention when they meet Wednesday night in Simi Valley, Calif., for the second primary debate.Seven candidates, all polling well behind former President Trump, met the Republican National Committee (RNC) criteria to participate. Asa Hutchinson, former Arkansas governor, did not make the cut a month after being on stage in Milwaukee.Trump, meanwhile, is again not joining the debate. Instead, he will be at an event near Detroit meeting with current and former union workers amid their ongoing strike against three major automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.The debate starts at 9 p.m. EDT on Fox Business Network. Find out how to watch it here.And follow along here through the night for live updates.

Landlord who killed two tenants, shot by police, said he wouldn’t make it out alive

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

A Hamilton landlord who killed two tenants and then barricaded himself inside a home said he wouldn’t make it out alive before he was killed in a gunfight with police, according to a new report from Ontario’s police watchdog.In the report, which sheds more light on the hours-long May 27 standoff, the Special Investigations Unit says an officer used legally justified force when he shot and killed the 57-year-old landlord.The SIU says negotiators repeatedly tried, with limited success, to reach the man holed up inside the house after he killed the two tenants, an engaged couple living in the unit below him. Family members and Hamilton police have previously identified the victims as Carissa MacDonald, 27, and Aaron Stone, 28. Based on interviews conducted as part of its investigation and evidence collected from the scene, the SIU offered a detailed account of the events leading up to the standoff and the landlord’s death. After the landlord fatally shot the tenants o...

Colorado supermarket shooting suspect suggested to psychologist that he wanted police to kill him

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 told a mental health evaluator he bought firearms to carry out a mass shooting and suggested that he wanted police to kill him, according to Wednesday court testimony.Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa made the statements at a state mental hospital during an August evaluation that determined he was mentally competent to stand trial, said Loandra Torres, the forensic psychologist who evaluated the 24-year-old suspect.Alissa, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, also “recognized that there are guns that have his fingerprints on them and that can be used as some evidence against him,” Torres said.Alissa is charged with murder and multiple attempted murder counts after the shooting rampage on March 22, 2021, in a crowded King Soopers store in Boulder, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Denver. He has not yet been asked to enter a plea.Judge Ingrid Bakke is holding a two-day hearing on Al...

‘Every parent’s nightmare’: 15-year-old girl stabbed to death near London; teenage male arrested

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death while on her way to school just south of London on Wednesday morning, and a 17-year-old male suspect was arrested in connection with her death, police said.The Metropolitan Police said that officers were at the scene at around 8:30 a.m., around two minutes after receiving reports that the girl was stabbed in Croydon, a busy residential and business district just south of London.Chief Superintendent Andy Brittain said that police vehicles, paramedics and an air ambulance were dispatched, but the girl was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after. Around 75 minutes later, Brittain said that a 17-year-old male suspect who may have known the victim was arrested near Croydon.Brittain said the suspect, who wasn’t identified, was in custody and added that police weren’t searching for anyone else in connection with the killing based on the information they had.“This is every parent’s worst nightmare, and I know the officers ...

Tech CEO killed in Baltimore remembered as dedicated, compassionate entrepreneur

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Loved ones are remembering a slain Baltimore tech entrepreneur as a young woman who built a successful startup that earned her national recognition and local political clout while remaining focused on what motivated her from the beginning: forging connections, building community and using entrepreneurship to create meaningful social change.A vigil was planned for Wednesday evening to honor Pava LaPere, who launched EcoMap Technologies from her dorm room at Johns Hopkins University.The 26-year-old was found dead Monday after being reported missing. She had died from from blunt force trauma following what police believe was a random attack at her apartment complex.Now, her friends and family members are left trying to reconcile how she lived with how she died.“She was so the antithesis of what happened to her,” her close friend Karina Mandell told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday morning. “That polarity, that’s what makes it so shocking.”Police announced...

Slaves’ descendants seek a referendum to veto zoning changes they say threaten their Georgia island

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Two weeks after local officials weakened restrictions that for decades protected a tiny Georgia island community populated by slaves’ descendants, its Black residents hope to force a referendum that would give them the chance to override the zoning changes.Hogg Hummock, a group of modest homes along dirt roads on largely unspoiled Sapelo Island, is one of the South’s few surviving Gullah-Geechee communities. Residents vowed to fight after McIntosh County commissioners Sept. 12 doubled the size of homes allowed in the community, stoking fears that wealthy buyers would build large houses that would cause taxes to rise and force Black landowners to sell.Hogg Hummock residents and their supporters launched a petition drive Tuesday aimed at forcing a referendum on the zoning changes. They need to collect an estimated 2,200 signatures from registered voters in the county to put the issue on a future ballot.“We’re trying to get this done quickly as possible...

Donald Trump’s lawyers ask judge to clarify fraud ruling’s impact on ex-president’s business

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Does a judge’s fraud finding spell the end of Donald Trump ’s real estate empire? The former president seems to think so. He decried Tuesday’s ruling, which shifts control of some of his companies to a court-appointed receiver, as the “KILL TRUMP” decision.But the judge himself isn’t so sure, telling Trump’s lawyers at a hearing Wednesday that he isn’t ready to discuss what the ruling — which strips Trump’s entities of their New York-issued business licenses — will mean for his company and the marquee properties bearing his name.Judge Arthur Engoron, who will preside over a non-jury trial next week on issues remaining in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit against Trump, acknowledged that the “contours of the case (have) changed significantly,” but declined to elaborate on the real-world impacts of his fraud finding.Engoron, in a blistering 35-page opinion Tuesday, found that Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, ro...

Stock market today: Wall Street swings as the oil and bond markets crank up the pressure

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is holding firmer Wednesday, but only after swinging through the day as pressure from the oil and bond markets cranked even higher. The S&P 500 was up 0.1% in late trading following several U-turns from the morning into the afternoon. It’s coming off a 1.5% tumble from the day before that dragged it to its lowest level since June. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 58 points, or 0.2%, as of 3 p.m. after earlier bouncing between a gain of 112 points and a loss of 312. The Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher.September is on track to be the S&P 500 ‘s worst month of the year as the stock market tries to absorb a recent leap by Treasury yields to heights unseen in more than a decade. High yields mean bonds are paying more in interest, which makes investors less willing to pay high prices for stocks and other riskier investments.The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose further Wednesday, to 4.63% from 4.55%. That’s up from about 3.5...

Man who was rescued after falling overboard from tanker has died

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — A man who was rescued by the crew of a commercial fishing boat after he fell overboard from a tanker has died, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said Wednesday.The crew of America pulled the man from the water Tuesday morning, and Boston Fire Department and Coast Guard personnel came aboard to assist as the boat headed to shore where an ambulance was waiting, officials said. The man’s condition was not known.The District Attorney’s office had no further comment about the case.The mayday from the tanker MTM Dublin went out shortly after 4:30 a.m., reporting a crew member had fallen overboard, the Coast Guard said.The Coast Guard said the man was swept overboard while a ladder was being lowered in anticipation of a Boston Harbor pilot coming aboard.The search took place in pitch-dark conditions and rough seas near Boston Harbor, and the America found the crew member after being the first vessel on the scene, said Petty Officer Lyric Jackson, a Coast Gua...

Police issue restroom alert after body piercing operation discovered in Northwest Indiana school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:18 GMT

LAPORTE COUNTY, Ind. — The LaPorte County Sheriff's Office took to Facebook Wednesday morning to warn parents about school restrooms after a body piercing operation was discovered in a high school.The incident, which took place last week at an unnamed high school, was highlighted as the agency lamented restrooms being "the common denominator" in school "disruptions.""Over time, SRO’s have investigated fights, countless vaping incidents, and viral social media challenges that have all occurred in restrooms. Even though these disruptions are being caused by a very small percentage of the student population, they have a ripple effect throughout the school," LaPorte County police wrote.In the post, authorities said privacy reasons make it "incredibly difficult" for school resource officers and administrators to police restrooms. Revamped 3 Floyds taproom coming back to Munster The post stated, along with pictures of equipment, that an investigation revealed a student was performing bo...