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Countdown to 250th anniversary begins in the US, an effort planners hope can unify a divided country

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

FILE - The U.S. Flag flies at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2023. The United States is about to start the countdown to its 250th anniversary. The buildup begins this July 4 at a Major League Baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs at American Family Field in Milwaukee, where the organization created by Congress to oversee the party will kick off the planning process. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)(AP/Mariam Zuhaib) FILE - The U.S. Flag flies at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2023. The United States is about to start the countdown to its 250th anniversary. The buildup begins this July 4 at a Major League Baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs at American Family Field in Milwaukee, where the organization cr...

Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

REPRESA, California (AP) — The graduates lined up, brushing off their gowns and adjusting classmates’ tassels and stoles. As the graduation march played, the 85 men appeared to hoots and cheers from their families. They marched to the stage – one surrounded by barbed wire fence and constructed by fellow prisoners. For these were no ordinary graduates. Their black commencement garb almost hid their aqua and navy-blue prison uniforms as they received college degrees, high school diplomas and vocational certificates earned while they served time. Thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind bars, most of them paid for by the federal Pell Grant program, which offers the neediest undergraduates tuition aid that they don’t have to repay.That program is about to expand exponentially next month, giving about 30,000 more students behind bars some $130 million in financial aid per year.The new rules, which overturn a 1994 ban on Pell Grants for prisoner...

Threats of impeachment and censure used to be rare. In this Congress, they’re becoming routine

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have held it over Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for months. Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing it too. And President Joe Biden seemingly isn’t far behind.Driven by the demands of hard-right members, Republicans in the House are threatening impeachment against Biden and his top Cabinet officials, creating a backbeat of chatter about “high crimes and misdemeanors” that is driving legislative action, spurring committee investigations, raking in fundraising money and complicating the plans of Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team.Long viewed as an option of last resort, to be triggered only for the most severe wrongdoing, the constitutionally authorized power of impeachment is rapidly moving from the extraordinary to the humdrum, driven in large part by Republicans and their grievances about how Democrats twice impeached President Donald Trump.Republicans remain so opposed to Trump’s impeachments, in fact, that they a...

ANÁLISIS | La grabación que resume perfectamente por qué Trump no es apto para el Despacho Oval y por qué puede no importar

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

(CNN) — Los críticos aprovecharon este martes la revelación más reciente de una grabación de Trump sobre los documentos clasificados como un ejemplo perfecto de por qué el expresidente sometido dos veces a juicio político y acusado dos veces no es apto para regresar a la Casa Blanca.Pero la grabación también explica el llamado directo del ex comandante en jefe a los votantes de base del Partido Republicano para quienes romper las reglas que horrorizan a las élites de Washington es una justificación importante para otorgarle un segundo mandato.En el audio, obtenido exclusivamente por CNN, Trump habla sobre tener un documento secreto. La conversación de una reunión de julio de 2021 en su club de golf de Bedminster, Nueva Jersey, es uno de los dos episodios a los que se hace referencia en la acusación en la que los fiscales alegan que Trump mostró información clasificada a otras personas que no tenían autorización de seguridad.Dadas las circunstancias extraordinarias en las que u...

East Coast storms blamed for United Airlines delays and cancellations in Colorado

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Dozens of United Airlines fights have been canceled or delayed at Denver International Airport this week, and the company says storms on the East Coast are to blame.These storms, compounded by an FAA computer failure outside of Washington, D.C., have caused more than 10,000 flights to be delayed across the country and 1,400 cancellations this week. Denver weather: Another warm day before storm chances Since Monday morning, more than 150 flights out of Denver have been canceled and more than 500 have been delayed.Travel has picked up steadily every year since bottoming out during the pandemic and on Tuesday, the number of people flying neared 2.4 million, up 11% from last year on the same day, according to the Transportation Security Administration. Thursday is expected to be the peak for airline travel as people start vacations for July Fourth.FOX31's Lisa D'Souza spoke to one passenger at DIA Wednesday morning who said he had been there since Monday morning tryin...

More in new poll say pandemic is over, but fewer than half say lives are back to normal

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

(The Hill) -- More Americans in a new Gallup poll say they believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, though fewer than half of those surveyed said their lives are back to normal. The survey, published on Wednesday, found that 64 percent of respondents said that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, while 36 percent think otherwise. In February, 49 percent of respondents said that they believed the once-global pandemic was over. Along political party lines, 84 percent of Republican respondents in the new poll said that they believe the pandemic is over, as did 65 percent of independents and 51 percent of Democrats. When asked if their lives will ever get completely back to the “normal” that existed before the pandemic, 43 percent of all respondents said that their normal lives have resumed, while 41 percent said they do not expect their lives to ever go back to pre-pandemic normalcy.  East Coast storms blamed for United Airlines delays and cancellations in Colorado F...

Margate Police searching for missing endangered man

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

The Margate Police Department needs the public’s help in searching for a missing endangered person. Adrian Williams, 50, was last seen leaving his residence, located in the Celebration Pointe Apartments near State Road 7, around 11:24 a.m. on Tuesday. The 50-year-old was driving a green 2010 Land Rover with Florida tag AL89FL. According to police, his vehicle was registered in the area of West Davie Boulevard and Southwest 32nd Avenue. Authorities said he meets the criteria for a missing endangered person. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of this man is asked to contact the Margate Police Department at (954) 972-7111.

Florida man attempts to cancel Norwegian Cruise trip after cancer relapse, denied refund due to travel insurance exclusions

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) – A Florida man was denied a refund after canceling a long-awaited Caribbean cruise due to a cancer relapse. Jack Montelbano had planned a 10-day adventure with his wife Evelyn Montelbano but had to cancel it after his cancer made an unwelcome return, forcing him to prioritize immediate treatment. The couple had purchased standard travel insurance, assuming it would provide coverage for medical complications. However, they soon discovered that their assumption was gravely mistaken.“I have been through so much stress with these people,” said Evelyn.Norwegian Cruise Line, the operator of the cruise, delivered the news to the Montelbanos in the form of a letter, which read, “This claim is not eligible for payment.” The reason cited for the denial was Jack’s cancer being deemed a pre-existing condition.The couple, residents of Ormond Beach, had relied on the travel insurance to alleviate their financial burden in the face of...

Police seek help IDing individuals linked to assault in Dorchester

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

Boston police asked for the public’s help Tuesday in efforts to identify a group of people in connection with an aggravated assault earlier this month. Police said the incident happened on June 3 around 8 p.m. on Kingsdale Street in Dorchester. Police said a woman was walking to her car when she was attacked following “a brief verbal exchange” with unknown suspects. Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at (617) 343-4712.Those wishing to reach out anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).

Closing arguments set to begin in trial of man accused of killing Weymouth police officer, bystander

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:19 GMT

Closing arguments are set to begin soon in the trial of a man accused of killing a Weymouth police officer and an innocent bystander in 2018. Prosecutors have said Emanuel Lopes, then 20, had been wanted in connection with a crash in Weymouth on the morning of July 15, 2018. When police Sergeant Michael Chesna confronted him, prosecutors said Lopes hit Chesnea with a rock and then murdered him with his own service firearm. Other officers started chasing Lopes when he fired three more rounds – one of which fatally struck Adams while she was sitting on her sun porch, according to the prosecution.The defense rested on Monday, arguing Lopes was suffering from a mental health crisis at the time of the murders.Lopes faces two life sentences if found guilty.