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Political convenience cannot determine response to extremism: India`s Jaishankar amid Canada row – WION
- Political convenience cannot determine response to extremism: India`s Jaishankar amid Canada row WION
- S Jaishankar UNGA Speech | S Jaishankar Slams On Justin Trudeau At UNGA | India Canada News CNN-News18
- India and Canada steer clear, in UN speeches, of their dispute over Sikh separatist leader’s killing The Associated Press
- At UN, Jaishankar’s Veiled Jibe Against Canada Amid Nijjar Row: ‘Politics Can’t Dictate Terror…’ Hindustan Times
- More than just a few countries should set the agenda, Indian Minister says at UN UN News
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Greenland’s largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine – Phys.org
- Greenland’s largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine Phys.org
- The impact of ‘global boiling’: Shocking before and after photos reveal just how much the Greenland Ice Sheet melted during the ‘hottest month ever recorded on Earth’ Daily Mail
- Before and After Pictures Show Greenland’s Ice After Hottest Month Ever Newsweek
- Greenland ice sheets are weaker to climate change than we thought Space.com
- Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock Phys.org
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Houston taqueria customer shoots robber: Grand jury to determine whether armed man will be charged for Eric Washington’s death
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A grand jury will decide whether an armed taqueria customer, who shot and killed a robber last week in southwest Houston and is now being hailed a hero, will be criminally charged.
Investigators said the 46-year-old customer, who police have not identified because he’s not under arrest, turned himself in and is cooperating with detectives.
ORIGINAL REPORT: Houston robbery shooting: Customer shoots, kills robber armed with plastic pistol, police say
The 46-year-old’s attorney sent Eyewitness News the following statement:
“My client, who wishes to remain anonymous, was dining with a friend at El Ranchito Taqueria and as it has been seen on video, a robbery suspect entered the restaurant, and pointed a weapon at my client and the other customers demanding money. In fear of his life and his friend’s life my client acted to protect everyone in the restaurant.
In Texas, a shooting is justified in self-defense, defense of others and in defense of property. The customer has met with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and Investigators with HPD homicide. He fully intends to continue cooperating with the ongoing investigation.
When the investigation is complete, this case will be presented to a Grand Jury. We are confident that a Grand Jury will conclude that the shooting was justified under Texas Law. This event has been very traumatic, taking a human life is something he does not take lightly and will burden him for the rest of his life. For that reason, he wishes to remain anonymous. Due to the overwhelming coverage, we ask the media and the public to respect his privacy.”
University of Houston Law Center Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson said even if he is indicted, a jury likely would not convict.
“When a person uses force during an armed robbery, they have very heightened protection under the law,” Thompson explained. “I know that there are a lot of questions about the use of a gun because it wasn’t a real firearm, but that really doesn’t make a difference because it was used as a firearm and a person would reasonably believe that they were facing an immediate threat of deadly force.”
The suspect can be seen on video taking control of the taqueria and pointing what looks like a gun at customers.
Suddenly, one customer starts shooting, even moving closer to the suspect as he keeps firing shots.
He puts what looks like the customers’ stolen money back on the table, then appears to realize the suspect’s gun wasn’t real.
The customers, including the shooter, left, leaving the owner and the workers in the shop.
On Monday, the medical examiner identified 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington as the robbery suspect who was killed.
Records show Washington had an extensive criminal history and was out on bond during the would-be robbery.
Records show that in 2015, Washington was convicted on a lesser charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection to the shooting death of 62-year-old Hamid Waraich, a cell phone store owner. Houston police also charged two other men.
According to records, Washington was released on parole in 2021 and charged with assaulting his girlfriend in December 2022.
Waraich had a fiancée and three sons who reacted strongly when contacted by ABC13.
“If the guy who sopped Eric was around 10 years ago, maybe I’d still have my dad,” Aman Waraich, the son of the store clerk that was killed, said.
“Eric was an evil criminal that took joy in harassing and robbing innocent families. The individual at the taqueria is a true hero!” Sean Waraich, the victim’s other son, added. “He did the right thing in stopping the robber and in protecting the community from a dangerous perpetrator.”
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Coin toss could determine location of Bengals-Ravens playoff game
On Friday, the NFL’s owners will resolve various issues related to the unofficially official cancellation of the Bills-Bengals game.
One wrinkle relates to the AFC North championship. The Ravens beat the Bengals earlier this year. If the Ravens complete the sweep on Sunday, the Bengals would still win the division, based on having a higher overall winning percentage.
But there’s a wrinkle aimed at addressing the reality that the Ravens would have swept the Bengals, and that — if Cincinnati had lost to the Bills — the Ravens would have won the division.
The proposal goes like this: “If Baltimore defeats Cincinnati in Week 18 it will have defeated Cincinnati, a divisional opponent, twice but will not be able to host a playoff game because Cincinnati will have a higher winning percentage for a 16-game schedule than Baltimore will for a 17-game schedule. If Baltimore defeats Cincinnati and if those two clubs are schedule to play a Wild Card game against one another, the site for that game would be determined by a coin toss. If Cincinnati wins the Week 18 game or if Baltimore and Cincinnati are not scheduled to play one another in the Wild Card round, the game sites would be determined by the regular scheduling procedures.”
So, basically, the Ravens can secure home-field in a wild-card game against the Bengals by: (1) winning on Sunday; and (2) winning the coin flip. This would apply even though the winning percentage approach would otherwise make the Bengals the division champions.
‘Tripledemic’: Philadelphia School District looking at COVID, RSV, flu data to determine if masks will return after holidays
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The ongoing “tripledemic” of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza (flu) and coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the U.S. and in the Philadelphia region.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, multiple regions of the country are “nearing seasonal peak levels” for RSV. Meanwhile, the CDC also notes that flu activity is “high across the country” with “at least 13 million illnesses” this season so far, and COVID cases have risen in the month of December, bringing total cases to over 99 million as of last Friday.
The latest CDC data shows COVID hospitalizations rose in the last week across Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.
Last week, Pennsylvania averaged 177 COVID hospital admissions per day; 183 in New Jersey; and 15 in Delaware.
Action News spoke with Kendra McDow, the medical officer for the School District of Philadelphia, on Monday about the ‘tripledemic’ in the region, what the district is seeing in its schools and how it plans to combat potential outbreaks.
McDow said as the national trends show an increase in RSV, flu and COVID cases, she has not seen any high number of absentees across the district.
She said a couple of months ago, when RSV was trending up in Philadelphia, there was an increase in absenteeism at the individual school level but not across the district.
McDow said it looks now like RSV levels are peaking nationally and in the city, amid flu and COVID cases.
As the ‘tripledemic’ weighs on the minds of parents, students, and staff, the School District of Philadelphia’s “General COVID-19 Protocol for the 2022-2023 School Year” remains in place.
The policy, which called for masking in schools for the first 10 days of the school year back in August and September, may lead to masks returning after the holidays.
The policy states masking may be required “upon return from extended breaks and holidays when increased social gathering may heighten the risk of exposure to COVID-19.”
“One of the features of the COVID policy, because of the increased risk of COVID spread in the school after returning from winter holidays, the seasonality we’re starting to see around COVID, one of those measures is that we may consider requiring masking for a time period after returning from extended breaks,” McDow said.
She said the district is still looking at the data to make that decision. She did note that they have seen increases in self-reported COVID-19 cases in students and staff, which is following national trends.
“We will make sure we are proactive to protect our students and staff,” McDow said. “Most importantly to make sure that we are reducing the spread of COVID-19 in the schools and we are able to keep kids in the classrooms so they can receive that very important in-person learning.”
She said the district is continuing to keep its mitigation measures in place which include:
As for COVID testing, in-school testing is available for students who have consent on file.
Testing is also available at these school-based locations Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Starting on Monday (Dec. 12), students, staff and their families can pick up free over-the-counter at-home test kits at the above locations.
“We’re keeping in our testing measures, masking as needed, of course our cleaning and disinfection measures, and the promotion of vaccination,” McDow said. “Internally, we are really focused on making sure parents are aware of resources so they can keep their families safe and themselves safe.”
There will be a townhall this week for parents and guardians surrounding these respiratory illnesses and the school policies. Clinicians with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will be part of the meeting.
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ABC News contributed to this report
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Moore County: FBI joins investigation into North Carolina power outage caused by ‘intentional’ attacks on substations as officials work to determine a motive and suspect
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With no suspects or motive announced, the FBI is joining the investigation into power outages in a North Carolina county believed to have been caused by “intentional” and “targeted” attacks on substations that left around 40,000 customers in the dark Saturday night, prompting a curfew and emergency declaration.
The mass outage in Moore County turned into a criminal investigation when responding utility crews found signs of potential vandalism of equipment at different sites – including two substations that had been damaged by gunfire, according to the Moore County Sheriff’s Office.
“The person, or persons, who did this knew exactly what they were doing,” Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said during a Sunday news conference. “We don’t have a clue why Moore County.”
Fields said multiple rounds were fired at the two substations. “It was targeted, it wasn’t random,” he said.
The sheriff would not say whether the criminal activity was domestic terrorism but noted “no group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept they’re the ones who [did] it.”
Authorities announced a mandatory curfew from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m., starting Sunday night, with Fields saying the decision was made to protect residents and businesses.
In addition to the FBI, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has joined the investigation, officials said.
More than 33,000 customers were still in the dark across the county Sunday evening, the Duke Energy outage map showed. For some, the outage may stretch into Thursday, officials said, upending life for tens of thousands.
All schools in the county will be closed Monday and authorities have opened a shelter running on a generator.
Traffic lights are also out, and while a few stores with generators were able to open their doors, several businesses and churches in Moore County were closed Sunday, CNN affiliate WRAL reported.
“We were just getting over Covid. And now this,” the sheriff said, adding, “It’s gonna hurt all of our restaurants and businesses.”
Inside people’s homes, it’s become difficult to keep the cold out.
“We have a six-month-old baby in the house. We’re out of heat. We are trying to get heat for her,” Carthage resident Chris Thompson told WRAL.
Chilly temperatures, with lows in the 30s, were expected in the area overnight Sunday with highs in the 50s and a chance of rain expected Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Moore County is in central North Carolina, about 50 miles northwest of Fayetteville.
The estimated cost of the substation damage is in the millions, the sheriff said Sunday.
The damage has been significant and rerouting power isn’t an option, said Jeff Brooks, principal communications manager for Duke Energy.
“Equipment will have to be replaced,” Brooks said. “We’re pursuing multiple paths of restoration so that we can restore as many customers as quickly as possible. Recognizing that, we are looking at pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment.”
In addition to the gunfire damage at the substations, a gate at one of the locations appears to have been taken off its hinges, Asst. Chief Mike Cameron of the Southern Pines Fire and Rescue Department told CNN.
While it’s unclear what motivated the alleged vandalism, the sheriff on Sunday addressed rumors circulating on social media that the attack was an attempt to thwart a local drag show.
Fields said investigators “have not been able to tie anything back to the drag show,” which was scheduled in the town of Southern Pines at 7 p.m. Saturday, around the time the power went out.
The county declared a state of emergency to protect residents and property and maintain public services, authorities said. The countywide curfew is expected to stay in effect nightly while the emergency declaration is in effect.
“It is going to be very, very dark and it’s going to be chilly tonight, and we don’t need to have anyone out on the streets and that is the reason for our curfew,” North Carolina state Senator Tom McInnis said during the news conference. “Please stay home tonight … the roads are dangerous.”
The emergency order also encourages residents to conserve fuel.
With streets in the dark, the area has seen increased emergency calls and vehicle accidents are being reported because traffic lights are out, Cameron told CNN.
People who rely on oxygen have also placed emergency calls, he added.
A shelter was opened at the Moore County Sports Complex, and trailers with bathroom and shower facilities are being brought in, Moore County Manager Wayne Vest said.
As for schools, it’s unclear how long campuses will stay closed. Moore County Superintendent Tim Locklair said decisions regarding school openings for the remainder of the week will be made on a day-by-day basis.
Puzzling debate over Roman coin authenticity could determine legacy of ‘fake’ emperor
Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have proven the authenticity of several Roman coins previously dismissed as forgeries — providing evidence that an emperor disregarded as fake might in fact have been real.
A coin featuring a portrait and the name of the Roman emperor Sponsian was among a hoard of coins allegedly unearthed in Transylvania in present-day Romania in 1713, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday.
However, there were no other historical records to support that a Roman emperor named Sponsian ever existed, according to a press release. And, at the time, “Sponsian” was not a name known to have existed in ancient Rome.
Their manufacture and style, including puzzling inscriptions, differed from the general style of authentic mid-3rd century Roman coins, according to the study. As a result, they were dismissed as poorly-crafted fakes.
The authenticity of the coin has been debated since it was unearthed in 1713. Credit: University of Glasgow
Now, researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Glasgow in the UK say they have discovered features indicative of authenticity.
They used powerful microscopes in visible and ultraviolet light, plus scanning electron microscopy and spectroscopy — studying how light at different wavelengths is absorbed or reflected — to examine the coins.
In total they analyzed four coins from the hoard found in 1713, one of which features Sponsian. All four are on display in The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow.
A pattern of wear and tear was identified on the Sponsian coin, suggesting it had been in active circulation. Researchers also found earthen deposits, meaning it was likely buried in soil for a long time before being dug up and exposed to air.
“Scientific analysis of these ultra-rare coins rescues the emperor Sponsian from obscurity,” said lead study author Paul N. Pearson, a professorial research associate at UCL’s Earth Sciences department, in the press release.
“Our evidence suggests he ruled Roman Dacia, an isolated gold mining outpost, at a time when the empire was beset by civil wars and the borderlands were overrun by plundering invaders,” he added.
Leader of Dacia
The province of Dacia, which was cut off from the rest of the Roman empire in around 260 AD, was a region prized for its gold mines and mineral resources, according to UCL.
Sponsian never controlled an official mint or ruled Rome, said the researchers, but possibly became a local commander-in-chief who took charge during a period of chaos and civil war to protect the population of Dacia.
The Sponsian coinage series was used to pay senior soldiers and officials, who kept them as a store of wealth, proposed the researchers.
Powerful microscopes in visible and ultraviolet light, plus scanning electron microscopy and spectroscopy, were used to asses the coin’s authenticity. Credit: The Hunterian/University of Glasgow
From the findings, it “would appear to be that Sponsian should be rehabilitated as a historical personage,” the study concluded.
The researchers added that while “nothing can be known about him for certain,” the coins analyzed “provide clues as to his possible place in history.”
‘Unscientific and unfounded’
Not everyone is convinced, however.
Despite the study’s findings, some experts, including in the field of numismatics — the study or collection of currency — still believe the coin to be fake.
“Like everyone in the numismatic world, I strongly believe this coin to be a modern forgery,” Jerome Mairat, curator of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, told CNN.
“This whole theory — that the coin is genuine — is both unscientific and unfounded,” he added.
Dame Mary Beard, the acclaimed scholar of Ancient Rome and professor of classics at Cambridge University, wrote in a blog post published by the Times Literary Supplement that “there is still very powerful evidence that they are fakes,” going on to list a number of issues surrounding their crafting and design.
The coin was used to pay senior soldiers and officials in the cut off Roman province of Dacia, suggest the researchers. Credit: University of Glasgow
Pearson, however, insisted the researchers had reached “a clear-cut conclusion” about the authenticity of the coins, telling CNN in an email: “For the grand history of Rome, Sponsian is little more than a historical footnote – but a footnote that should nevertheless be reinstated!”
He said that the researchers wanted to start a conversation with Roman historians and archaeologists to try and test their hypothesis about Sponsian.
“For understanding the dying days of Roman power in the Province of Dacia, and the history of Romania, he is potentially more significant, but our results have just been published and the academic debate is just beginning.”
Mar-a-Lago documents: Appeals court hearing to determine future of special master for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents
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As former President Donald Trump faces the new reality of a special counsel leading Justice Department investigations on his conduct, a federal appeals court on Tuesday will hear arguments about whether it should remove what has been a notable hurdle in one of the probes.
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals will scrutinize a lower court’s requirement that a special master review the materials FBI seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort in August.
The move by a Florida-based judge to appoint a third party to help decide what of the roughly 22,000 pages of materials obtained in the search belongs in the hands of investigators – threw a significant wrench in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into whether records from Trump’s White House were mishandled.
Prosecutors are examining whether there was obstruction of justice, criminal handling of government records, and violations of the Espionage Act, which prohibits unauthorized storage of national defense information.
The Justice Department has already won a carveout from the 11th Circuit allowing it to continue its investigation into the documents marked as classified.
Now, the Justice Department is asking to throw out the entirety of the special master review, which is being led by Raymond Dearie.
An appeals court decision that got rid of the special master review of the Mar-a-Lago documents would supercharge the pace of government documents investigation, which is in some ways the simplest of the various probes encircling the former president and 2024 candidate.
Special counsel Jack Smith is now overseeing the Mar-a-Lago investigation and the probe into Trump’s efforts after the 2020 election to reverse his electoral defeat. Smith is not expected to attend Tuesday’s hearing.
The decision by US District Judge Aileen Cannon – who sits on the federal court in Ft. Pierce, Florida – to appoint a special master attracted criticism from a broad spectrum of legal experts.
When the 11th Circuit in September excluded the documents marked as classified from the review, the three-judge panel implied that the entire appointment of a special master was based on a legally flawed premise. However, it will be a new panel – picked at random – that hears DOJ’s appeal on Tuesday, creating the possibility that the former president will draw judges who are sympathetic to his claims.
Trump asked for the special master because he said that there was a risk that documents by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege were swept up in the search. In his arguments with the appeals court, however, he is focused on a theory that he had the ability to designate as personal the bulk of the documents from the White House. Therefore, Trump argues, the Justice Department has no right to carry on a criminal probe into how the materials have been handled.
“President Trump has an obvious interest in his own personal (and even Presidential) records and the District Court acted within its discretion in recognizing a neutral party was needed to facilitate adjudication of the legal status of the documents,” his lawyer said in a brief with the appeals court.
The Justice Department told the 11th Circuit that Trump’s new theory was “meritless,” “entirely irrelevant” and an argument that the appeals court should not even consider. Prosecutors argue that there was no justification for requiring the review and that the special master process, by holding up the ability of investigators to use the documents in their probe, is causing undue harm to the public’s interest in the speedy administration of criminal law.
Cannon appointed Dearie, a senior judge who sits on Brooklyn’s federal court, to manage the third-party review. Dearie has indicated he’d like to move quickly and has shown little patience for delay tactics from Trump’s team. However, Cannon has intervened at times to tweak his plans, including postponing the end date of the review until at least mid-December. At that point, Dearie will submit a report to Cannon with his recommendations for whom should prevail in the disputes between Trump and the prosecutors over whether certain documents can be used in the investigation, but Cannon will have the final call.
The Justice Department has already returned to Trump a selection of documents that were either legal in nature or were non-govermment records with sensitive personal information, like medical records. At stake now is the more than 2,800 documents obtained in the search that Trump is fighting to keep out of the investigators’ hands.
Kanye West skips divorce deposition with Kim Kardashian as they determine how to divide their assets
Kanye West missed a ‘recently scheduled deposition’ with his ex Kim Kardashian and her legal team last week, according to new legal documents.
It is unclear why the rapper, 45, was a no-show for his meeting with the 42-year-old reality star and their respective attorneys for a question-and-answer session under oath, outside of a courtroom.
Both parties have agreed to another deposition on November 29 at 9:30 a.m. ahead of a two-day trial on December 14, set to finalize their divorce.
Oh no: Kanye West missed a ‘recently scheduled deposition’ with his ex Kim Kardashian and her legal team last week, according to new legal documents
If he does not show up to the rescheduled appointment, TMZ pointed out ‘it could be a serious issue for him’ as the move would not ‘sit well’ with a judge.
The former couple are currently hashing out how to divide their more than $2billion in combined assets after seven years of marriage.
Last month, The Blast reported that West’s lawyer has filed a ‘declaration of disclosure’, a sign that their case is on the verge of coming to a close.
According to the documents, Kanye has turned over all of his financial information to his estranged wife’s legal team, and has also reached an agreement with her on how to divide their finances and property.
Split: If he does not show up to the rescheduled appointment, TMZ pointed out ‘it could be a serious issue for him’ as the move would not ‘sit well’ with a judge (seen in March 2022)
The new developments comes amid Kanye’s latest worrying behavior which has reportedly led Kim to distance herself from him, with the pair only communicating via assistants.
In terms of their divorce, the outlet writes that: ‘Typically, in cases of this kind, the disclosure is filed within days or weeks of the final judgment and settlement being filed.’
However, as noted by the outlet, separating couples are capable of settling everything regarding their divorce except for custody of their children, which Kanye may continue fighting over.
Better times: Kim married Kanye in Florence, Italy in 2014, and welcomed four children with him: daughters North, nine, Chicago, four, and sons Saint, six, and Psalm, three. She ultimately filed to end the marriage in February 2021
Kim married Kanye in Florence, Italy in 2014, and welcomed four children with him: daughters North, nine, Chicago, four, and sons Saint, six, and Psalm, three. She ultimately filed to end the marriage in February 2021.
During their highly-publicized legal battle, Kanye attempted to oppose Kim’s efforts to be declared legally single – however a judge granted her request in March 2022.
Kanye also went through numerous lawyers during the separation, and recently hired his sixth attorney – the same lawyer who represented Melinda Gates in her $130 billion divorce from ex-husband Bill Gates, Robert Stephan Cohen.
As Cohen is in New York and Kanye’s legal separation being waged in Los Angeles, the rapper has also retained Beverly Hills based attorney Nicholas A Salick of Salick Family Law Group, APLC as counsel in California, TMZ reported.
Parting ways: During their highly-publicized legal battle, Kanye attempted to oppose Kim’s efforts to be declared legally single – however a judge granted her request in March 2022