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German police warn of ‘Blue Punisher’ ecstasy pills after 2 teenage girls die

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — German police warned Wednesday of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two teenage girls was linked to the drug.Police in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania said that a 13-year-old girl from the town of Altentreptow died Monday at a hospital after taking one the blue pills featuring a skull logo associated with the Marvel comic book character The Punisher.Two other teens, ages 14 and 15, were also hospitalized after taking the drug, police said. A 37-year-old German has been detained in connection with the girl’s death. Authorities in the neighboring state of Brandenburg are also investigating the death of a 15-year-old girl who died in the town of Rathenow over the weekend after a suspected narcotics overdose. Prosecutors say an autopsy will determine whether she, too, died after consuming the drug“We warn against any consumption of narcotics, but especially the dangerous ‘Blue Punisher’ p...

Oak Flat: a tract in Arizona sacred to some Native Americans but proposed as a giant copper mine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 GMT

OAK FLAT, Ariz. (AP) — Azee Romero climbed barefoot on the wrinkled trunk of the massive Emory oak tree at the center of the Oak Flat Campground.The 5-year-old in his dinosaur t-shirt, with hair tied under a backwards baseball cap, scaled higher and higher until he found the perfect seat. There, cradled by the sturdy trunk, the boy smiled and rested comfortably as if he’d just climbed onto the lap of a grandparent.In fact, that centuries-old oak tree and the ground below it – the sacred, ancestral flats that stretch for miles east of Phoenix — are like kin to Azee’s family.“My little guy, his umbilical cord is buried here,” said Azee’s mother, Lian Bighorse. She said the connection to Oak Flat is physical as well as spiritual. The family is Chiricahua Apache, and Oak Flat, or Chi’chil Bildagoteel, is a consecrated place used for prayer and ritual by them and many other Native American peoples in the region. Elders say the land was blessed by Usen, their Creator, and inhabited ...

UniFirst: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 GMT

WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) — WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) — UniFirst Corp. (UNF) on Wednesday reported profit of $24.3 million in its fiscal third quarter.The Wilmington, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of $1.29 per share.The uniform provider posted revenue of $576.7 million in the period.UniFirst expects full-year earnings to be $5.02 to $5.37 per share, with revenue in the range of $2.22 billion to $2.23 billion._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on UNF at https://www.zacks.com/ap/UNFSource

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

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 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 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 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 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 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 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 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 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 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 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 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 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:58:34 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.