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In race against clock, expanding fleet of ships searches for sub lost near Titanic wreck

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER (Associated Press)In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday for a submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic.U.S. Coast Guard officials said the search covered 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers) but turned up no sign of the lost sub known as the Titan. Although they planned to continue looking, time was running out because the vessel had less than two days of oxygen left.“This is a very complex search, and the unified team is working around the clock,” Cpt. Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District in Boston told a news conference.Frederick said the crew had about 41 hours of oxygen remaining as of midday Tuesday. He added that an underwater robot had started searching in the vicinity of the Titanic and that there was a push to get salvage equipment to the scene in case the sub ...

Palestinian attackers open fire at West Bank restaurant and gas station, kill at least 4 people

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

By ISABEL DEBRE (Associated Press)JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinian attackers opened fire at a restaurant and gas station near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding several others before being shot, authorities said, as violence roiled the occupied territory the day after a deadly Israeli military raid.A bystander shot and disabled one of the attackers, and Israeli security forces said they shot and killed the other who had fled the shooting scene. The Hamas militant group claimed both assailants as members. Israeli media identified three victims as Israeli residents of West Bank settlements ranging in age from 18 to 64. The fourth victim was not immediately identified.Later Tuesday, carloads of Israeli settlers, outraged by the fatal shootings, drove to the northern Palestinian towns of Hawara, Beit Furik, Burin and surrounding villages, setting dozens of cars on fire, hurling stones and trying to set homes ablaze, said Na...

Son of former lawmaker arrested in crash that killed 5 young women in Minneapolis

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

Officials have released the name of the man they arrested in connection with the death of four young women and one teenage girl Friday night in South Minneapolis.Derrick John Thompson, 27, of Brooklyn Park, was arrested and booked into the Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of murder Monday, according to a Minneapolis police spokesman.He is the son of former state Rep. John Thompson, DFL-St. Paul.Derrick John Thompson (Courtesy of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office)According to court records, Derrick Thompson has a string of convictions in Minnesota including fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, driving after his license was suspended, drug possession, weapons possession without a permit and giving a false name to law enforcement.According to KSTP-TV, court records also show that Thompson has a felony conviction from a 2018 hit-and-run that injured a woman in Montecito, Calif., near Santa Barbara.John Thompson, a first-term lawmaker representing the East Side, was defeated ...

Movie review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ never quite comes together

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

Was Wes Anderson maybe … TRYING to put us to sleep?That is the recurring question in our mind as we absorbed “Asteroid City,” the acclaimed filmmaker’s latest star-packed and quirky affair, a slow, dreamlike comedy set in the 1950s and folding together the American West and Broadway.A scene late into the writer-director’s 11th film suggests Anderson at least knows we may be on the verge of sleep by then, but we’ll say no more about that specifically.On the surface, “Asteroid City” is set in the town of that name, a dot on the map in the American Southwest that’s home to 87 people, a one-pump gas station, a luncheonette, a small motor-court hotel and a telephone booth. Just outside of town resides a large meteor crater and an observatory.We quickly learn, though, that it actually is a setting created for a broadcast of a play from the Tarkington Theatre, “in an area much like New York’s Great White Way,” as the film’s production notes state.Bryan Cranston portrays the host of a broad...

Trump adviser faces possible disbarment over his efforts to overturn 2020 election

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

By STEFANIE DAZIO AND MICHAEL R. BLOOD (Associated Press)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election, faces possible disbarment in disciplinary proceedings that began Tuesday in Los Angeles.Eastman faces 11 disciplinary charges stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at helping Trump overturn the election by disrupting the counting of state electoral votes. The State Bar Court of California will hear testimony, including from Eastman, in a proceeding that could result in him losing his license to practice law in the state. Others who will testify include Greg Jacob, a former attorney for then-Vice President Mike Pence. Jacob had pushed back against Eastman’s plan to have Pence stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Pence didn’t have the power to overturn the election and has said so. In a memo critics have likened ...

4 dead after battery causes fire at New York City e-bike shop that spreads to apartments

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium ion batteries.The fire, reported shortly after midnight, happened at a shop that was cited last summer for safety violations related to the storage and charging of batteries, officials said. Investigators determined that it was an accident caused by a lithium ion battery, which can overheat while being charged and explode in an intensely hot flare of flame, fire officials said.A pile of burned bikes, scooters and other debris lay on the sidewalk outside the shop, HQ E-Bike Repair, which was on the ground floor of a six-story building in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood.So far this year, there have been more than 100 fires and 13 deaths linked to battery explosions in the city, said Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh.“There was a very large number of both batteries and e-bikes,̶...

Wind-driven brush fire burns 30 acres in rural East County

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

SAN DIEO -- Crews are working to extinguish a brush fire in rural East County.The wind-driven fire was reported shortly after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday on the Campo Indian Reservation, near Black Wood and Old Mine roads, according to Cal Fire San Diego. Body of missing hiker found at Three Sisters Falls The blaze, dubbed the Blackwood Fire, is 30 acres in size and is burning at a moderate rate of spread, fire officials said. About five structures are threatened.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Idaho man charged with 4 counts of murder in shooting deaths of his neighbors, including one minor

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary after prosecutors said he broke into his neighbors’ home and shot and killed the people there, including a minor.Majorjon Kaylor, 31, of Kellogg, was arrested Sunday night shortly after the shooting in the small mining community.A magistrate judge identified the victims as Kenneth Guardipee, Kenna Gaurdipee, Devin Smith and an unnamed juvenile during Kaylor’s first court appearance on Tuesday. The family lived in the same multi-home building as Kaylor. If convicted, Kaylor could face the death penalty. He is being held without bond and has not yet entered a plea.Few details have been released about the shooting, and authorities have not said what they believe Kaylor’s motive may have been. But prosecuting attorney Benjamin Allen said the crime was “relatively horrific” and noted that one of the victims was a child. He also said Kaylor admitted the killings whe...

Women pushed into ravine at German castle were recent Illinois college graduates

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A U.S. hiker who fell to her death during a savage attack in Germany and a friend who tried to protect her had just graduated together from the University of Illinois with computer degrees.Authorities haven’t released the names of anyone involved in the June 14 incident due to German privacy rules. But the Rev. Mark Zhang of Living Water Evangelical Church in Naperville, Illinois, said Tuesday that 21-year-old Eva Liu and her parents attended the church and Liu’s parents told him that she had been killed.“It’s a very tough situation,” Zhang said. “Our words are powerless. We just mourn together with them and pray for them. When one family suffers, our whole church suffers.”Weihan Chang of Normal, Illinois, said that his daughter, 22-year-old Kelsey Chang, survived the attack. She was released from a hospital on Sunday and was on a plane bound for home Tuesday. He said he hadn’t had a chance to talk with her very much.“She’s pretty d...

Scent like marijuana enough to warrant police search, Wisconsin Supreme Court rules

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:07 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A car smelling like marijuana is enough for police in Wisconsin to justify searching a person in the vehicle, even though substances legal in the state can smell the same, the state Supreme Court said on Tuesday.The court’s conservative majority ruled 4-3 that Marshfield police had grounds to search the driver of a vehicle that smelled like marijuana, overturning lower court rulings that said officers couldn’t be sure that what they smelled was not CBD, a legal, marijuana-derived substance. The scents of CBD and marijuana are indistinguishable.Two officers searched Quaheem Moore in 2019, who was alone in a vehicle that smelled like marijuana when he was pulled over for speeding. Moore told police that a vaping device he had contained CBD and that the car was a rental belonging to his brother. Police did not smell marijuana on Moore.Moore argued in court that police had no reason to believe he was responsible for the smell.To justify searching someone, poli...