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Red Cross helping family displaced after abandoned structure collapses in Miami as cleanup continues

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

Cleanup efforts continued in a Miami neighborhood, days after the collapse of an abandoned building left the family living next door without a place to call home when debris pierced through their roof.Pile by pile, what was left of the crumbled building was scooped up and carried away on Friday.The abandoned structure was no match for heavy rain and wind that caused problems Wednesday night.Surveillance cameras captured the moment it came crumbling down. Some pieces came through the roof of Nicole Ojeda’s family home.“Yeah, I was sleeping, and then a loud noise, and when we go open the backroom, one of the bedrooms, the ceiling was caved in, and my younger brother was in there,” she said.Her brother was OK, but their home now has a huge hole in the roof. A sign now reads “unsafe structure” on the front. Volunteers with the American Red Cross were seen with the family on Friday to assess the damage and try to determine what’s next.Also nearby, longtime Miami-D...

Crews extinguish house fire in Hialeah; no injuries reported

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

Crews have put out a fire that broke out inside a two-story house in a Hialeah neighborhood. 7Skyforce hovered over the scene, located in the area of East Fifth Ave and 23rd Street, at around 5:45 p.m., Friday.Firefighters cut through a fence to gain access to the home and were seen attempting to put out the massive blaze.The power has gone out in several neighboring homes.No injuries have been reported.

Victim and suspect dead after shooting at NH hospital

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

A victim and a suspect are dead after a shooting at a psychiatric hospital in Concord, New Hampshire Friday, officials said. The shooting happened at New Hampshire Hospital and drew a massive emergency response that continued into the night. In an update near 6:30 p.m., New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark Hall said the suspect entered the hospital around 3:38 p.m. and shot one person in a lobby area. Hall said a state police trooper already at the hospital proceeded to shoot and kill the suspect. The entire incident was contained in the hospital lobby, according to Hall. While the shooting victim was given CPR and taken to nearby Concord Hospital, they were later pronounced dead. As crews swarmed the scene earlier Friday afternoon, New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management provided a series of updates. Around 5:30 p.m., the agency said all patients at New Hampshire Hospital were safe. “There is no active threat to the public,” the agency said.&...

Grizzlies’ Marcus Smart to miss first game vs. Celtics due to foot injury

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

The Celtics will have to wait until later in the season to face Marcus Smart for the first time.Smart is expected to miss 3-5 weeks due to a left foot sprain, according to the Grizzlies, meaning the former Celtics guard will miss Sunday’s matchup in Memphis against his old team.The next time the Celtics will face Smart’s Grizzlies is on Feb. 4 at TD Garden, a return that is certain to be emotional after the point guard was traded to Memphis this summer in the Kristaps Porzingis deal, which ended Smart’s nine-year run in Boston.Smart injured his foot and had to be helped off the court in Tuesday’s game against the Lakers after he landed awkwardly on Austin Reaves’ foot. The guard is averaging 12.5 points and five assists per game for the 2-9 Grizzlies in his first season in Memphis.

5 things to watch in the Chicago Bears-Detroit Lions game — plus our Week 11 predictions

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields is set to return Sunday against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field.Fields will make his first start since Oct. 15 after recovering from a dislocated right thumb. His comeback starts with the Bears’ first meeting this season with the NFC North-leading Lions (7-2). It’s the first of three straight division games for the Bears (3-7).As kickoff approaches, here’s our snapshot look at the game.Player in the spotlightJustin FieldsCoach Matt Eberflus said Friday that he could feel the excitement at Halas Hall this week as the Bears welcomed back Fields, who missed four games and is “champing at the bit” to play.The Bears evaluated Fields’ operation playing with the injury all week — the quarterback’s first full week of practice — and Eberflus said he improved every day.“You get that timing with the receivers on the concepts you’re running that particular week,” Eberflus said. “...

Powerful pro-Israel political group targets the liberal ‘Squad’ and Ayanna Pressley

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

A powerful pro-Israel lobbying group is reportedly spending $100 million to remove the “Squad,” the super liberal cohort that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts’ Ayanna Pressley, from Congress next year.The bid by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), reported first by Slate, is the most audacious move yet to target elected officials who strongly oppose Israel’s war against Hamas in response to the terror group’s surprise attack on the country last month.Pressley and the seven-member Squad are firmly ensconced in liberal Democratic territory and getting them knocked out won’t be easy.Several members of the Squad, including Reps. Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee and Ilhan Omar, already face Democratic opposition in next fall’s primary.But there has been no reported interest in another Democrat challenging Pressley, the Boston congresswoman who herself ousted longtime Democratic incumbent Michael Capuano to win her seat.Pressley’s 7th District incl...

IBM and EU pull ads from Elon Musk’s X over concerns about antisemitism

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X, formerly Twitter, over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.IBM said this week that it stopped advertising on X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis — a fresh setback as the platform formerly known as Twitter tries to win back big brands and their ad dollars, X’s main source of revenue.The liberal advocacy group Media Matters said in a report Thursday that ads from Apple, Oracle, NBCUniversal’s Bravo network and Comcast also were placed next to antisemitic material on X.“IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation,” the company said in a statement.Apple, Oracle, NBCUniversal an...

Marijuana master Snoop Dogg announces he’s giving up smoking

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

Karu F. Daniels | New York Daily NewsPot proponent Snoop Dogg is seemingly dropping his obsessive weed habit.The 16-time Grammy-nominated hip-hop star, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, announced on Thursday that he’s giving up smoking.“After much consideration & conversation with my family, I’ve decided to give up smoke. Please respect my privacy at this time,” he posted on Instagram, without offering any more specifics.Snoop, who has his own line of cannabis products, has been a marijuana advocate throughout his 30-year rap career — dating back to his debut on Dr. Dre’s marijuana-themed opus “The Chronic” in 1992.BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MAY 03: Snoop Dogg attends the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference at The Beverly Hilton on May 03, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)The 52-year-old Long Beach, California, native has notoriously smoked weed in public spaces, and revealed to Howard Stern in 2019 that he even hired a personal ...

Wellesley College faces investigation after antisemitism complaint amid Israel-Hamas war: ‘No support for Zionism’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

Wellesley College is facing a federal civil rights investigation in the wake of an antisemitism complaint after dorm RAs wrote that there should be “no support for Zionism” on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war.The Massachusetts college is one of seven schools across the country that the U.S. Department of Education will look into following the rise in reported antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other discrimination on college campuses and in K-12 schools since the Hamas terrorist attacks last month.The federal investigation of Wellesley College comes after residential staff and assistants wrote an explosive email to dorm residents. The RAs wrote, “… there should be no space, no consideration, and no support for Zionism within the Wellesley College community.”Then the U.S. Department of Education was contacted about this email and antisemitism complaint by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.“When advised of the email, Wellesley fai...

Shooter kills 1 before being fatally shot by trooper at New Hampshire psychiatric hospital

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:49:41 GMT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An armed individual fatally shot one person before being shot and killed by a state trooper Friday in the lobby of a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital, officials said.CPR was performed on the victim, who was transported to Concord Hospital before dying, officials said.At a press conference, police said the shooting was contained to the front lobby and that patients are safe as of late Friday. The state trooper who shot the gunman was not wounded in the attack. The motive of the shooter remains unclear.New Hampshire Hospital, which has roughly 185 beds, is the only state-run psychiatric hospital for adults. It is located in the capital city of Concord, near Concord High School, multiple state agencies and a district courthouse. It’s located on a large campus comprising more than a hundred acres (40.5 hectares) of land.Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster called the shooting “horrifying” in a statement and asked the public to stay away from t...