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US says Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine and is seeking Iranian missiles

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI (Associated Press)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia has acquired ballistic missiles from North Korea and is seeking close-range ballistic missiles from Iran as Moscow struggles to replenish supplies for its war with Ukraine, the White House said Thursday.Recently declassified intelligence found that North Korea has provided Russia with ballistic missile launchers and several ballistic missiles, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. Russian forces fired at least one of those ballistic missiles into Ukraine on Dec. 30 and it landed in an open field in the Zaporizhzhia region, he said.Russia launched multiple North Korean ballistic missiles on Tuesday as part of an overnight attack, the impact of which the U.S. was assessing, he said.Kirby said a Russia-Iran deal had not been completed, but that the U.S. “is concerned that Russia’s negotiations to acquire close range ballistic mis...

Patriots legend Matthew Slater still undecided on football future

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

FOXBORO — Patriots special teams captain and team legend Matthew Slater walked to the podium wearing one of Bill Belichick’s favorite articles and clothing and sporting one of the head coach’s favorite sayings.Slater, sporting a green hoodie donning the phrase “day by day” in a news conference Thursday morning, is taking things at that as he prepares for the Patriots’ season finale, which also could be his last NFL game.After fielding questions dancing around the topic for over six minutes, Slater was finally asked if he’s decided that Sunday will be the last game of his illustrious 16-year career which has seen him win three Super Bowls, play in two more and pick up eight All-Pro honors, 10 Pro Bowl selections, a place on the Patriots’ All-2010s and All-Dynasty Teams and the Bart Starr Award and Art Rooney Award.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots get good news at Thursday practice before Jets game New Engl...

Longtime WBZ NewsRadio reporter Doug Cope dies from cancer: ‘You can still hear his voice’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

Longtime WBZ NewsRadio reporter Doug Cope has died from cancer, according to those at the local radio station who are remembering “one of the good guys” who had legendary pipes. He was 69.Cope, who retired in 2019, was a staple at WBZ NewsRadio for 17 years. Listeners heard him report from courtrooms across the region, and all along the Boston Marathon route on the third Monday in April.“When Doug was assigned a story, you knew it was never going to be mailed in,” WBZ NewsRadio reporter Drew Moholland said during the “Morning Report” on Thursday.“He was as solid as solid gets,” Moholland said, later adding, “We won’t soon forget Doug Cope.”He leaves behind two children.“You can still hear his voice when you think about your conversations with him, and his presence is still here,” said Jeff Brown, morning news anchor on WBZ NewsRadio.Local sports announcer Mike “Sarge” Riley called Cope “o...

St. Petersburg seeks profile boost as new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark negotiations continue

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Officials in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, want to make it clear that their city is the current and future home of the Tampa Bay Rays as negotiations continue on details surrounding a proposed new $1.3 billion ballpark that would be ready for the 2028 season opener.The Rays adamantly oppose changing the team name to the St. Petersburg Rays, as some on the city council and in the business community have suggested as a way of raising the national profile of the tourism-dependent city and its nearby Gulf Coast beaches. The council heard Thursday from city officials about other marketing and branding options, including at least one home game a year in which alternate team uniforms would sport the St. Petersburg name, said Doyle Walsh, chief of staff to Mayor Ken Welch. The talks include allowing the city to have input in naming the ballpark, placing prominent St. Petersburg signs inside the park and a marketing plan that would “promote the team, the st...

Nikki Haley’s Republican rivals are ramping up their attacks on her as Iowa’s caucuses near

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikki Haley’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination are ratcheting up their attacks on her as Iowa’s first-in-the-nation voting draws closer.The barbed news releases, attack ads and amped up back-and-forth come as the former South Carolina governor and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis battle for a distant second place to former President Donald Trump with less than two weeks until Iowa’s leadoff caucuses. For months, Trump has trained his focus on DeSantis, who has long argued that he’s the party’s best chance at unseating Trump from atop the field. But in recent weeks, Trump’s campaign has increasingly shifted its target to Haley, calling her a “sellout” and criticizing her stances on taxes and the U.S.-Mexico border.Her campaign on Thursday said Trump’s attention to Haley, who served as his United Nations ambassador, reflects his concern that she is gaining on him.DeSantis, who is preparing to face off against Haley next week in their...

Bomb threats prompt evacuations of government buildings in several states, but no explosives found

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Government buildings in several states were evacuated Thursday following bomb threats, briefly disrupting government affairs for the second day in a row in some places.The Mississippi Capitol and courthouses in Arkansas and Montana were evacuated, but no explosives were immediately found, and the buildings were reopened to the public. The latest round of evacuations comes after an emailed threat to officials in several states prompted lockdowns at multiple state capitols Wednesday. The threats also follow a spate of false reports of shootings at the homes of public officials in recent days.In Jackson, Mississippi, officials said the state Supreme Court, which is across the street from the state Capitol building, received a bomb threat. Bomb-sniffing dogs circled the building before officials cleared the area. The FBI said it was aware of “numerous hoax incidents” Thursday. “The FBI takes hoax threats very seriously because it puts innocent people at risk,” Marsh...

Quebec Amber Alert: Father faces abduction charge after one-year-old found safe

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

MONTREAL — Quebec authorities say the father of a one-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert earlier this week was charged today with abduction.The child’s mother appeared in court on Wednesday on charges of abduction and breaking and entering.Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office says the father will remain detained and his case has been adjourned to Friday.The child was reported missing Tuesday morning from the Montreal home of her grandparents, who had custody of her. The mother and the baby were found in an unspecified location in northwestern Montreal just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, the day after police triggered an Amber Alert.A publication ban prevents the release of any information identifying the child.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 4, 2024.The Canadian Press

Toronto man wanted by Peterborough police for violating probation arrested at Pearson

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

A Toronto man wanted in Peterborough for breaching his probation, among other charges, has been arrested at Pearson International Airport, police say.According to the Peterborough Police Service, officers with the Canadian Border Services Agency at Pearson arrested the 30-year-old man on Wednesday.He is charged with two counts of failing to comply with probation, fraud over $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime.Peterborough police brought the accused back to their jurisdiction, where he is being held in custody.

A judge in Oregon refuses to dismiss a 2015 climate lawsuit filed by youth

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A judge in Oregon has rejected a U.S. Department of Justice request to dismiss a 2015 lawsuit brought by young people that alleges the federal government knew the dangers posed by carbon pollution but that it has continued through policies and subsidies to support the fossil fuel industry.U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken said the parties “do not disagree that the climate crisis threatens our ability to survive on planet Earth. This catastrophe is the great emergency of our time and compels urgent action.”“While facts remain to be proved, lawsuits like this highlight young people’s despair with the drawn-out pace of the unhurried, inchmeal, bureaucratic response to our most dire emergency,” she wrote in her decision late last week.In a statement, Julia Olson, an attorney with the group Our Children’s Trust representing the plaintiffs, said she expects a trial in the case later this year.In a similar lawsuit in Montana, a judge last year ruled the Montana Enviro...

Unsealed documents show again how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged his powerful connections

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:51:18 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Newly released court documents describing Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls provide a reminder of how the financier leveraged connections to the rich, powerful and famous to recruit his victims and cover up his crimes.The more than 40 documents released late Wednesday — the latest of thousands that have been made public — were sprinkled with the names of celebrities and politicians who socialized with Epstein or worked with him in the years before he was publicly accused nearly two decades ago of paying underage girls for sex.Most of those names were familiar to anyone who has followed the scandal closely, including the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein’s former girlfriend, household manager and chief recruiter of young, vulnerable females.It was during Maxwell’s criminal trial two years ago that Epstein’s victims, some of whom aspired to be models or artists, described how he dropped the names of his famous and infl...