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Erdoğan, at last, sends Sweden’s NATO bid to Turkish parliament

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

BRUSSELS — The Turkish government on Monday submitted Sweden’s NATO accession bid to the country’s parliament for ratification, ending a months-long guessing game over whether Ankara intended to postpone its approval process further.“The Protocol on Sweden’s NATO Accession was signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on October 23, 2023 and referred to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey,” the presidency posted on social media platform X.Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson hailed the move. “Welcome that President Erdoğan signed Sweden’s ratification protocol to NATO and submitted it to the Grand National Assembly of [Turkey]. Parliamentary procedures will now commence. We are looking forward to becoming a member of NATO,” his office posted on the same platform.Turkey has long blocked Sweden’s bid, criticizing Stockholm for harboring members of Turkish opposition groups that Erdoğan’s government considers to be “terrori...

Leave or comply with EU law: EU digital chief warns X chief Elon Musk

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

X owner Elon Musk will have to comply with European Union law and clamp down illegal content on the social network if it wants to keep on doing “good business” in the region, the EU’s digital chief Věra Jourová said today.“With Mr. Musk, the dialog doesn’t go well, very simply,” Jourová told reporters in the wake of an EU probe into how the platform shows graphic illegal content and disinformation linked to Hamas’ attack on Israel. The tech mogul denied a report last week that he was considering pulling X out of Europe to avoid new requirements for digital platforms. X is used by over 101 million Europeans in the bloc. Under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the company must swiftly take down content and ensure the network limits disinformation and cyberviolence. Musk does “good business in [the] European Union, but it will be his decision and if he decides to stay in as well, he will have to comply with the EU law,” Jourová s...

‘Be on alert’: Authorities identify woman found dead at Gardner home as search for her potentially armed husband continues

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

Authorities are warning the public to be on alert as they search for an “armed and dangerous” man in connection with the death of a woman in Gardner, who was found in a home Sunday after their young children sought help from a neighbor, officials said.Massachusetts State Police said Aaron Pennington, 33, of Gardner, was being sought in connection with the homicide death of his wife, Breanne Pennington, 30.According to an arrest warrant, Breanne was found Sunday morning after police were called to the couple’s Cherry Street home. The warrant described how a neighbor had called 911 after the couple’s children ran to their house, stating that their father was missing and that their mother had been crying inside of a bedroom.Arriving officers later found Breanne in the room she shared with her husband, suffering from a gunshot wound to the face.The four children, ages 2, 5, 7, and 9 were inside the home at the time of the incident and are now in the custody of th...

Jury finds Logan Clegg guilty on multiple murder charges for 2022 deaths of Concord, NH couple

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

A man accused of killing a retired couple in Concord, NH, a year ago was found guilty of all the charges he faced after jurors spent less than two days deliberating.Logan Clegg had been charged in connection with the deaths of Djeswende and Stephen Reid, who authorities say were shot to death while out on a hiking trail in Concord, NH, in April 2022.The retired couple was initially reported missing after they left their home in Concord for a walk on April 18. Their bodies were found days later, both with multiple gunshot wounds, setting off an investigation that ended when police arrested Clegg in Vermont in October that year.It took investigators six months before Clegg was taken into custody in a library in South Burlington.He was later arraigned on charges that included four counts of second degree murder, four counts falsifying evidence, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Monday, Oct. 23, a jury returned a guilty verdict on all nine...

QB Tyson Bagent was precise — and the Chicago Bears finally won at home: Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on Week 7

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

10 thoughts after the Chicago Bears beat up the Las Vegas Raiders at the line of scrimmage and got a precise outing from undrafted rookie free agent Tyson Bagent on their way to a commanding 30-12 victory Sunday.The win at Soldier Field snapped a 10-game home losing streak.1. An early play that provided a glimpse into how the afternoon would go for Tyson Bagent came on the second series of the game.It was the second time Bagent, the Division II kid from Martinsburg, W.Va., was asked to throw on third down.The first third down, at the end of the opening possession, was a screen pass that D’Onta Foreman mishandled, maybe the only miscue of the day for the hard-chugging running back. On the next series, the Bears faced third-and-5 at their own 49-yard line. Starting in place of Justin Fields, who was knocked out of last week’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings with a dislocated right thumb, Bagent was in a big spot early in the game. A clear throwing situation for an offense th...

Day 20 with no House speaker as Republicans struggle and lower-level names reach for the gavel

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

By LISA MASCARO (AP Congressional Correspondent)WASHINGTON (AP) — Day 20 without a House speaker, and Republicans found themselves starting over on Monday — bumbling ahead with few ideas about who will lead, what they are fighting over and when they will get Congress working again.Nine lower-level Republican lawmakers are now running to be speaker, leader of the House and second in second in line to the presidency. — none with any clear shot for the gavel. Senior-most is Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the former campaign chief who is now the GOP whip. But the gruff hockey coach is disliked by Donald Trump, potentially dooming his candidacy.Late Monday evening, House Republicans are retreating behind closed doors, as they have most days since the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, to hear from the candidates ahead of internal party voting.McCarthy himself calls the whole spectacle “embarrassing” for the House Republicans whose majority is being wasted away and for ...

Man, 21, slashed on trolley near La Jolla

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A 21-year-old man was slashed on the trolley Sunday evening while he was sleeping, according to San Diego police.Around 5:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to the the Nobel Trolley Station in La Jolla after receiving a call reporting the stabbing.The victim, who had got onto the Trolley at 12th and Imperial transit station near the Convention Center, had fallen asleep on the northbound ride. According to SDPD, he reportedly woke up to the attack.Officers found the victim with a wound to his chest and was transported to a nearby hospital. His current condition is unknown.The suspect, described as a 5'9" adult man wearing all black, had fled the scene when officers arrived. No person of interest has been identified.As of Monday morning, police said they were reviewing surveillance video to assist with the search for the suspect.The incident did not prompt any delays to service on Sunday or Monday morning, according to MTS. The transit agency said it is fully cooperating w...

OPP officer seriously injured while investigating ‘suspicious vehicle’ in Caledon

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer suffered serious injuries while investigating reports of a “suspicious vehicle” in Caledon on Monday morning.The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says just after 7 a.m. police were called about a suspicious Jeep Wrangler on Tundra Road near Hurontario Street and Mayfield Road.The driver allegedly took off and struck an OPP officer. The officer was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.The SIU says another officer fired his gun at least twice, hitting the Jeep and another civilian vehicle.Police located the Jeep in Brampton but the occupants have not been found.It is not yet clear if the people in either of the two vehicles hit by police gunfire were injured.

Poilievre says Trudeau soured India relations, cites Sikh ‘aggression’ toward envoys

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fora diplomatic chill with India, saying Ottawa needs a “professional relationship” with the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Trudeau announced in the House of Commons last month that Canadian intelligence services are investigating “credible” information about “a potential link” between India’s government and the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia.Speaking on a Nepalese diaspora radio station in Toronto this weekend, Poilievre blames Trudeau for the “aggression shown to Indian diplomats at public events.”Earlier this year, before Trudeau’s revelation regarding the Nijjar case, India lamented rowdy protests by Sikh separatist groups outside diplomatic missions in Canada, and posters offering cash rewards for the home addresses of India’s diplomats.New Delhi formally called on Canada to b...

Pilots on a regional passenger jet say a 3rd person in the cockpit tried to shut down the engines

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:34 GMT

A pilot riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a Horizon Air passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots.Authorities in Portland identified the man as Joseph David Emerson, 44. He was being held Monday on dozens of counts of attempted murder and reckless endangerment, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon. The San Francisco-bound flight on Sunday diverted to Portland, Oregon, where it was met by law enforcement officers.Alaska Airlines, which owns Horizon, said Monday that the crew reported “a credible security threat related to an authorized occupant in the flight deck jump seat.” The airline said in a statement that no weapons were involved.The incident happened on a Horizon Air flight that left Everett, Washington, at 5:23 p.m. local time and landed in Portland an hour later.One of the pilots told air traffic controllers that the man who posed the threat had been removed from the cockpit.“We’ve got t...