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Daughter of American released from Venezuela says Marco Rubio’s criticism of detainee swap is ‘unpatriotic and unhelpful’
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The relative of two Americans freed this weekend in a prisoner swap with Venezuela tore into GOP Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday over his criticism of the exchange, blasting his comments as “unpatriotic and unhelpful” and questioning his support for the seven wrongfully detained US citizens.
“I find that those comments were extremely unhelpful and misinformed. He is – I’m disappointed that a leader in our country is perpetuating this myth that getting our people home actually puts Americans at risk,” Alexandra Forseth, the daughter of Alirio Zambrano and the niece of Jose Luis Zambrano, two of the seven released Americans, told CNN’s Alex Marquardt on “New Day.”
“And, you know, what I would ask Sen. Rubio is you’ve supported getting them home, you have done absolutely nothing for me or my family or most of these men, and any of the families can tell you that,” she continued. “And he even had a constituent from his state that was released, and I would ask, what did you do for his family? How have you’ve been supporting them?”
“I find his comments unpatriotic and unhelpful,” Forseth said.
On Sunday, Rubio questioned the decision to swap the seven wrongfully detained Americans for two Venezuelans imprisoned in the US for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the country, both nephews of Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores. The Florida senator warned that the trade “puts Americans all over the world in danger.”
“I wanted those people released as much as anybody, but every time you do this, now, others know, ‘I can take Americans, I can hold them until I need something as a bargaining chip,’ ” Rubio, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
“I think seven innocent American hostages in exchange for two convicted drug dealers, who happened to be the nephews of (Venezuelan President Nicolas) Maduro, is a huge win for Maduro and, unfortunately, puts Americans all over the world now in danger,” Rubio said.
The Zambrano brothers, along with Jorge Toledo, Tomeu Vadell and Jose Pereira, are five of the six American oil executives known as the “CITGO 6” arrested in Venezuela more than four years ago. Two Americans who had been detained there, including one of the CITGO 6, were released in March following the visit of two top US government officials to Caracas. The other Americans freed on Saturday are Matthew Heath, a Marine veteran, who was detained in September 2020, and Osman Khan, who had been detained since January 2022. All seven individuals were classified by the US government as wrongfully detained.
In August, Alirio Zambrano issued a handwritten plea to President Joe Biden to act decisively to free him and his fellow wrongful detainees, telling Biden, “I am afraid I won’t see my family ever again.”
“I don’t know how much longer we can wait; but I do know people that have died here, and I fear the same fate could befall any of us at any time,” he wrote in the letter, which is dated August 28.
His daughter said on “New Day” that learning about her relatives’ return was the “biggest relief and feeling of euphoria that I could ever describe.”
“It’s been quite a trial and tribulation, but I’m so thankful that we were able to get them home finally,” Forseth said.
Marco Rubio vows to oppose potential Hurricane Ian aid package if lawmakers ‘load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm’
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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Sunday that he will vote against any potential congressional disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Ian if lawmakers “load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm.”
“Sure. I will fight against it having pork in it. That’s the key,” the senator told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked if he would vote against any potential relief package that also contains money for other things. “We shouldn’t have that in there because it undermines the ability to come back and do this in the future.”
“I think disaster relief is something we shouldn’t play with. We are capable in this country, in the Congress, of voting for disaster relief for key – after key events like this without using it as a vehicle or a mechanism for people to load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm.”
Rubio had previously faced criticism for voting against federal disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy because he said the relief wasn’t narrowly tailored to address only the storm. The senator later voted in favor of a piecemeal aid package for victims of Sandy.
“It had been loaded up with a bunch of things that had nothing to do with disaster relief,” he told Bash on Sunday, referring to a Hurricane Sandy aid package he voted against. “I would never put out there that we should go use a disaster relief package for Florida as a way to pay for all kinds of other things people want around the country.”
On Friday, Rubio and fellow Florida Sen. Rick Scott sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting their “support in developing a disaster supplemental to provide much needed assistance to Florida.”
“A robust and timely federal response, including through supplemental programs and funding, will be required to ensure that sufficient resources are provided to rebuild critical infrastructure and public services capacity, and to assist our fellow Floridians in rebuilding their lives,” the Republican lawmakers wrote.
Hurricane Ian – expected to be ranked the most expensive storm in Florida’s history – made landfall Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 and had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone by Saturday, dropping rain over parts of West Virginia and western Maryland.
At least 67 people have been killed by Ian in Florida as it swallowed homes in its furious rushing waters, obliterated roadways and ripped down powerlines. Four people were also killed in storm-related incidents in North Carolina, officials have said.
Di Fara Pizza Legend Domenico ‘Dom’ De Marco Has Died
For more than 50 years, De Marco made every pie at Di Fara in Midwood.
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Domenico “Dom” De Marco, who in 1965 opened a pizzeria called Di Fara in Midwood, Brooklyn, that attracted legions of fans, has died. The news was shared by his daughter, Maggie De Marco Mieles, on the pizzeria’s Instagram account, who did not provide a cause of death. He was 85 years old.
“The best phrase that describes my father is, he was a man who loved America but missed his country of origin very much and spent all his time in America trying to create that culture of food from Campania,” says De Marco’s son, Dominick Jr. “He brought the hills of Italy to Avenue J.” The younger De Marco adds, “There’s going to be some great pizza in heaven, so let’s all do our best to get there someday.”
In 1959, De Marco emigrated to New York from Provincia di Caserta. After working for a few months on a Long Island farm, according to the New York Times in 2004, De Marco opened a pizzeria with his brother in Sunset Park called Piccola Venezia. After a few years, he and a business partner named Farina opened Di Fara. “I do this as an art,” he said at the time. “I don’t look to make big money. If somebody comes over here and offers me a price for the store, there’s no price.”
Called “the holy grail of classic New York–style pizza” by New York’s Underground Gourmet, Di Fara was, for much of its run, a one-man show, so much so that the shop would close if De Marco was unable to work. Until recently, he produced every pizza himself, a fact that was woven deeply into the shop’s mythology. It gave the pizzeria an aura of craftsmanship just as the food world’s attention was shifting to artisans and producers.
For decades, Di Fara was mostly known as a neighborhood slice shop, but eventually it was turned up by people like Jim Leff, the founder of Chowhound, and Adam Kuban, who started the pizza blog Slice. Over time, a cult of fans developed around the pizzeria and even more so De Marco himself, turning the small store into a destination that food-obsessed New Yorkers were practically required to visit.
The popularity allowed prices to rise with time. In 2009, the Times covered the hoopla around the pizzeria’s $5 price tag for a single slice, quoting then-Mayor Bloomberg as saying, “If you’ve ever had a really great slice of pizza, you know there are worse deals.” A manager at Astoria’s Rizzo’s, another pizza-world favorite, bristled, “I couldn’t possibly think of any slice that could cost that much.” (In the same article, the paper called De Marco “a bespectacled maverick of the New York pizza world.”)
Over the years, De Marco’s monklike commitment and his insistence on finishing his pies with fresh basil became a signature, and he helped to inspire a new generation of pizza-makers. There has never been a better time to eat a slice of pizza in New York, and Di Fara is arguably the most influential slice shop in the city’s history. In a tribute to De Marco, Lucali owner Marc Iacono — a pizza-making legend in his own right — wrote, “You single-handedly turned the pizza world upside down. You set the standard, and trails of success for so many of us.”
As Kuban puts it, “It’s hard — maybe impossible — to think of another pizza-maker of his stature, stamina, and significance.”
Joe Manchin and Marco Rubio teamed up on a bill to block government funds from being used to give out crack pipes
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Manchin and Rubio announced the PIPES Act, a bipartisan bill, in a press release on Friday.
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It comes after the announcement of a federal grant for harm reduction services related to drug use.
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Earlier this week, the White House and HHS denied the funding would go towards crack pipes.
Sens. Joe Manchin and Marco Rubio introduced a bipartisan bill on Friday that would block federal funds from being used to buy and distribute tools used to take drugs, like crack pipes and syringes.
The Preventing Illicit Paraphernalia for Exchange Systems Act, or PIPES Act, was announced by Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, and Rubio, a Republican from Florida, in a press release.
“Every American and West Virginian has been impacted by the drug epidemic that has killed over 101,000 Americans from April 2020 to April 2021,” Manchin said. “While this is a heartbreaking issue that must be fully addressed by the federal government, using taxpayer funds to buy paraphernalia for those struggling with substance use disorder is not the solution.”
“Everyone knows someone who has struggled with addiction, and unfortunately, many have lost a loved one from the disease,” Rubio said, adding: “We need to do more, but sending drug paraphernalia to addicts is not the answer.”
The PIPES Act would ban federal funds from being used to buy needles or syringes for the injection of an illegal substance, the press release said. It also said there would be an exception in the case of “a significant risk of hepatitis infection or HIV outbreak due to injection drug use.”
The bill also maintains federal funds can’t be used to buy or distribute pipes used for smoking illegal drugs.
The bill comes after the Department of Health and Human Services announced in December a $30 million grant for harm reduction services that focuses on preventing overdose deaths and reducing health risks associated with drug use. Such services include providing sterile syringes, safe-smoking kits, and overdose-prevention kits.
Fox News seized on the grant this week, with hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity pushing the claim that taxpayer dollars were being used to buy crack pipes.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded on Wednesday, telling reporters crack pipes were “never a part” of the safe smoking kits. She said such kits may include “alcohol swabs, lip balm, other materials to promote hygiene and reduce the transmission of diseases like HIV and hepatitis.”
HHS also issued a statement Wednesday that said: “No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits.”
Prior to introducing the PIPES Act, Manchin and other senators also sent a letter to HHS on Thursday asking about the grant program. The letter states that some harm reduction groups include pipes in their safe smoking kits, citing two Canada-based groups, Toward the Heart and Interior Health. It also said the HHS grant does not explicitly prohibit the funds from being used on pipes.
HHS did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
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Smash Player Scores Mad Disrespectful Steve Minecraft Kill
Last night, a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competitor styled on his opponent so hard that the entire venue lost their minds.
Mega Smash Mondays is a weekly Super Smash Bros. event held in La Mirada, California that, after moving online due to the covid-19 pandemic, recently returned to in-person competition. Whether that’s a smart move remains to be seen, what with rising infection numbers and concerns over new variants, although I guess you’re never going to get a moment like this over netplay.
But I digress. A few rounds into the 256-player tournament, local competitors RockMan and Marvelous Marco found themselves tied up heading into the third and final round of their set.
RockMan, using Steve Minecraft rather than his namesake, took a commanding lead thanks to his smart building strategies. Marvelous Marco was on the ropes as the match came to a close, giving RockMan just enough time to not just eliminate his opponent for good with a well-timed Smash attack, but construct a giant “F” on the battlefield beforehand.
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Naturally, everyone went nuts.
Using the letter “F” to denote someone’s failure or humiliation has been popular in gaming culture since the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in 2014. While a critical and financial success, the first-person shooter was also widely lambasted for its unintentionally hilarious “Press F to Pay Respects” prompt, which boiled down a poignant scene to a simple quick-time event.
Since then, the meme has expanded to dropping an “F” in the comments of a video or live stream chat when something embarrassing happens, sometimes at the request of the uploader or streamer themselves as a show of solidarity. Leave it to the internet to turn a single letter into a meme with layers and layers of meaning.
Shortly after this amazing display of disrespectful block-building prowess, RockMan himself would be eliminated from Mega Smash Mondays, tying for a respectable 17th in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate bracket. That said, he should definitely win some sort of consolation prize for providing one of the craziest moments of the night.
How to Tell If Your Chicken Is Part of the 9 Million Lb. Recall
Fully cooked, ready-to-eat chicken may be a convenient way to add some protein to a meal, but if you have any in your fridge right now, you’re going to want to check the label.
That’s because almost 9 million pounds (8,955,296 pounds, to be exact) of Tyson chicken products are part of a massive recall over concerns that the foods may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Here’s what to know about the recall.
Which Tyson chicken products are part of the recall?
There are quite a few products included in the recall, and the full list can be found on the USDA’s website. The potentially contaminated items have a few other things in common. They all:
- Are frozen, fully cooked chicken products
- Were produced between December 26, 2020 and April 13, 2021
- Have establishment number “EST. P-7089” on the product bag or inside the USDA mark of inspection
The Tyson branded products were sold in retailers throughout the country, including Walmart, Target, Kroger, Publix H-E-B, and Wegmans, USA Today reports. Additionally, the recalled chicken is also sold at restaurants like Jet’s Pizza, Casey’s General Store, Marco’s Pizza, and Little Caesars.
According to the USDA, other than retailers and restaurants, the Tyson chicken products were also shipped to institutions nationwide, including hospitals, nursing facilities, schools, and Department of Defense locations.
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As anyone gotten sick from the recalled chicken?
As of July 9, 2021, the CDC has received reports of three people who fell ill with listeriosis after eating the Tyson chicken, and one death. Listeriosis is a serious infection that primarily affects people with weakened immune systems (because age, illness, or pregnancy) and can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms, according to the USDA.
What to do if you’ve purchased the recalled products
First of all, don’t eat them. Either throw them away, ore return them to the retailer where you purchased them for a refund.
Consumers with food safety questions can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) or live chat via Ask USDA from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Consumers can also browse food safety messages at Ask USDA or send a question via email to MPHotline@usda.gov.
For consumers that need to report a problem with a meat, poultry, or egg product, the online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at https://foodcomplaint.fsis.usda.gov/eCCF/.