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Biden places flowers outside bar where a gunman opened fire in Maine as he mourns with community

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden added a bouquet of white flowers Friday to a makeshift memorial outside Schemengees Bar and Grille, one of the scenes of the state’s deadliest mass shooting.They stood for a moment of silence before bending over to hug bar owner Kathy Lebel. Eight people died there in the Oct. 25 massacre, along with seven at the nearby Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley. Three others died at hospitals.Biden came to Lewiston to do what presidents do in these moments of horror and grief; lend comfort to the families of the victims and to show support for a reeling community. But it’s a type of trip that has become all too familiar, despite a bipartisan gun safety law passed last year after another mass shooting, and despite a series of executive orders by the president meant to stop gun violence.—WATCH: President Biden and others deliver remarks in Lewiston, Maine as community continues to heal from ma...

State’s first-ever Topgolf facility opens in Canton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

Golfers are teeing off at Massachusetts’ first-ever Topgolf facility after the golfing complex opened its doors in Canton this week.The outdoor venue, located at 777 Dedham Street, is the 84th of its kind in the US and gives visitors a chance to swing for some long drives during the winter season.“One thing as an avid golfer – it’s very sad in the wintertime, not being able to golf,” visitor Brooke Cote told 7NEWS. “There’s a lot of awesome indoor simulators, but this is as real as it’s going to get over the winter, so we are excited it’s here.”The brand new facility boasts a 200-yard long fairway, as well as a sports bar and restaurant inside.“You know, you get together with friends, having some food, having some maybe beverages, and enjoying the game of golf,” said Susan Cronin, another visitor.The director of operations told reporters the facility has been six years in the making.“We are ready, they are...

Quiet and nice weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

After a cold start, temperatures rebounded to seasonable highs today. It was breezy with winds gusting out of the southwest 20-25 mph. It’ll stay breezy this evening, but the wind should fade by sunrise tomorrow. Tomorrow, will be mild with sun and clouds. Sunday will bring a few more clouds and temperatures near average. More importantly it stays dry.Overnight, some cloud cover and a slight breeze will keep our low temperatures near 40° to the low 40s for MetroWest and in the mid/upper 40s on the coast. We’ll see sun and clouds tomorrow and keep the southwest wind. Temperatures will warm to the upper 50s/near 60°.Sunday stays quiet. Temperatures start off near 40° and then reach the upper 50s with a bit more cloud cover and a light northwest wind.The big change of the weekend – Daylight Saving Time comes to an end. We get an extra hour of sleep Saturday night and sunrise will be an hour earlier. The adjustment will be the earlier sunset time around 4:30 pm.The wor...

Supreme Court to consider challenge to federal bump stock ban

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

(CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed to take up a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that essentially allow shooters to fire semiautomatic rifles more rapidly, discharging potentially hundreds of bullets per minute.Federal appeals courts have split on the legality of the ban.The decision to hear the case comes as the country is still reeling from the latest mass shooting and just days before the justices are poised to revisit a landmark Second Amendment opinion from 2022 that expanded gun rights nationwide.Under then-President Donald Trump, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banned bump stock devices in 2019 and ordered people who possessed the devices to destroy them or turn them into an ATF office. Trump had ordered a review of the devices after a mass shooting in 2017 in Las Vegas, in which a shooter armed with semiautomatic weapons and bump stock devices opened fire from his hotel suite onto outdoor concertgoers, killing 58 people and woun...

Israel and Hamas war crimes killed dozens of journalists, press freedom group says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

Dozens of journalists are the victims of war crimes committed by the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas, according to a complaint filed with the International Criminal Court by a media freedom group.Since the war sparked by an incursion of Hamas backed terrorists into Israel began in early October, 34 journalists have died, according to the group Reporters Sans Frontières, or Reporters Without Borders. Their deaths violate ICC rules on indiscriminate attacks and targeting of people protected under the Geneva Conventions, the group told the Hague prosecutor’s office.“The scale, seriousness and recurring nature of international crimes targeting journalists, particularly in Gaza, calls for a priority investigation by the ICC prosecutor. We have been calling for this since 2018. The current tragic events demonstrate the extreme urgency of the need for ICC action,” RSF Secretary-General Christophe Deloire said along with the announcement of the war crimes complaint.The complaint outlines t...

Lucas: These nobodies are somebodies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

Don’t get your nobodies mixed up.They are Rep. Mike Johnson and Rep. Dean Phillips.Johnson, 51, is the right-wing, Christian traditionalist Republican from Louisianna who was just elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.Phillips, 54, is the liberal Jewish Democrat from Minnesota who just announced that he is running for president against Joe Biden.Just two weeks ago nobody knew who they were. Maybe people still don’t.But now both formerly unknowns are in positions to make national news and affect national policy — Johnson by promoting a halt on federal spending and other conservative policies, and Phillips by embarrassing Joe Biden in the New Hampshire presidential primary and perhaps elsewhere.Johnson, a four-term member of the House, was elected Speaker last week, a job he never sought or hoped to get, after 22 days of wrangling among House Republicans following the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California.Phillips, in his third term in the House, launched...

Could anyone wear his fame more comfortably than Henry Winkler?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

Christopher Borrelli | Chicago TribuneCHICAGO — Henry Winkler’s smile is the smile of an old friend seeing you for the first time in years, or a smile of sincere affection for an unexpected new friend, or a smile that nudges into a laugh. It’s a smile so warm and real that you hate yourself for wondering how any human can generate such feeling, a dozen times a day, for 50 years of public life.And yet, there was that smile again, at 8 in the morning, in suburban Rosemont.You see it in a hotel Starbucks, where Winkler commands a small crowd despite the hour; they stare in awe of him, as if a 12-point buck just wandered in. You see it over breakfast in a hotel restaurant, which, for Winkler, means a sip of coffee, a taste of food, then a stranger approaching cautiously to ask for a picture, telling him he was their entire childhood, again and again. You see it waiting for a table at the hostess counter.A long slender man in jogging clothes turned offhandedly and noticed Winkler and tur...

Deadly police shooting investigation underway in Escondido

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

Editors note: The correct address for the shooting investigation is in the 2550 block of East Valley Parkway.ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- A police shooting investigation is underway in Escondido, the San Diego Police Department confirmed to FOX 5.Authorities were called to the 2500 block of East Valley Parkway around 7 a.m. Friday morning regarding an incident where an officer reportedly shot at a suspect. Around 11:45 a.m., SDPD confirmed homicide detectives were called to the scene to investigate the incident.No suspect information is available at this time. However, SDPD told FOX 5 at the scene that a body was taken away.No officers were reported to be injured in this incident.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Migrant encampments surge in Jacumba Hot Springs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Migrant encampments have been developing along remote sections of the border wall, including in the unincorporated area of Jacumba Hot Springs.Federal agents scramble to detain those looking to surrender themselves for asylum processing. Dozens of men from India, China, Pakistan, and Turkey say they have paid cartel members to catch a lift to the outer sections of the border wall. Pack your bags: Southwest Airlines is offering new nonstop flights from San Diego Finding the last link, migrants simply walk around the edge into the U.S. and then surrender themselves to the first Border agents they find. “We don’t have human rights,” said Yoseff, a Kurdish man fleeing from political persecution in Turkey.There are portable bathrooms and a light system set up, but the government has not systemically provided food or water. From lowriders to hot rods, this weekends’ Bomb Fest will have it all Volunteers say they are baffled with the lack of support from the federal gove...

San Diego's guide to the Nov. 7 special elections

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:31:32 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The deadline to vote in the three ongoing special elections is less than a week away for voters across San Diego County.Registered voters in Chula Vista, the Fourth Supervisorial District, and two North County water districts will have the opportunity to cast ballots in the following elections until Nov. 7:Special runoff to fill the seat on the Board of Supervisors vacated by Nathan Fletcher for the remainder of the current term ending in January 2027.Special election to vote in a new Chula Vista city attorney for the remainder of the current term ending in December 2026.Special election with a ballot measure to approve the proposed separation of the Fallbrook Public Utilities and Rainbow Municipal Water Districts from the San Diego County Water Authority.More information on each election, including what to know about the candidates vying for the two positions and what the ballot measure would to do can be found below: Meet the candidates in the runoff for District 4 ...