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North Korea fires missile that may have been new type of weapon

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, KIM TONG-HYUNG and MARI YAMAGUCHISEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile launch in a month, possibly testing a new more mobile, harder-to-detect missile for the first time, its neighbors said, as it extends its provocative run of weapons tests.Japan briefly urged residents on a northern island to take shelter in an indication of its vigilance over North Korea’s evolving missile threats.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the launch and reiterated his calls on North Korea to comply with U.N. resolutions banning such launches, reopen communications channels and resume dialogue toward peace and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, his spokesman said.The missile was launched on a high angle from near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and fell in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan following a 620-mile flight, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staffs said in a statement...

Truck thieves somehow take off with $100,000 worth of dimes

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thieves may not have been counting on finding a mountain of change when they broke into a truck filled with $750,000 in dimes, but they still made off with a chunk of the cargo and left coins scattered around a Philadelphia parking lot, authorities said.Authorities say the thieves apparently fled with at least $100,000. It’s not yet known how they carted off the mounds of dimes.The theft was reported around 6 a.m. Thursday. The tractor-trailer driver had picked up the dimes from the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday, authorities said, and was planning to transport them to Florida on Thursday.It’s not clear how many people may have been involved in the theft or if they knew what the truck contained. Responding police officers found hundreds of dimes scattered all over the parking lot, and authorities were still trying to determine how much money was stolen.No arrests have been made.

Bob Lee knew his accused killer, San Francisco Police Chief says

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Tech mogul Bob Lee was murdered in San Francisco by someone he knew, police and prosecutors said at a news conference Thursday. Lee, 43, was stabbed to death on April 4 by 38-year-old Nima Momeni, Police Chief Bill Scott told reporters. Momeni was arrested at his home in Emeryville early Thursday morning and booked into jail on one count of murder. Momeni is the owner of Expand IT, a Bay Area technology and security company, according to a LinkedIn profile. "We can confirm that Mr. Lee and Mr. Momeni knew each other," Chief Scott said. "Most people who commit homicides know the people who they kill. This has nothing to do with San Francisco. This has to do with human nature. Right now, Mr. Momeni is our focus as the single suspect of this case. I don't want to put out information that is going to come back and haunt us in this case. There is still more work to be done."Bob LeeThe Cash App founder was stabbed in the upscale Rincon Hill neighborhood near the Ba...

SF DA accuses Musk of 'reckless and irresponsible' statements about Lee stabbing

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins accused Twitter owner Elon Musk of making "reckless and irresponsible" statements about the killing of tech mogul Bob Lee following the arrest of another tech exec in connection with the crime."Reckless and irresponsible statements like those tweeted by Mr. Musk assumed incorrect circumstances about Mr. Lee's death," Jenkins said at a news conference about the arrest on Thursday, "served to mislead the world in their perceptions of San Francisco and also negatively impact the pursuit of justice."On Thursday, San Francisco PD confirmed the arrest of tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni and charged him with the murder of Lee.Following the initial incident, Musk was one of several high-profile media figures to leverage Lee's killing as an opportunity to criticize San Francisco and question public safety in the city. What we know about the alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee "Many people I know have been severely a...

In Pentagon Leak, the Problem Is What’s Classified, Not What Got Out

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

Only death and taxes are certain in life, Ben Franklin wrote in 1789, though he could have done us a favor by also noting that we can count on our government to make exaggerated claims about the unauthorized publication of classified documents.Like clockwork, after a set of secret national security documents burst into public view last week, the Washington Post reported a “high level of panic” at the upper echelons of the Department of Defense, with officials “stunned” and “infuriated.” According to Politico, one Pentagon aide even said he was “sick to [his] stomach” over the alleged betrayal. The Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation, while John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson, warned, “This is information that has no business in the public domain. It is not intended for public consumption, and it should not be out there.”The intelligence documents appear to have entered the public domain in an unusual way — someone began sharing them, starting lat...

High-capacity magazine supplier sued in FedEx mass shooting

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

The son of a man killed in a 2021 mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility filed a federal lawsuit Thursday with two of the survivors against the distributor of the 60-round magazine used by the gunman, alleging the use of reckless marketing tactics targeting young men at risk for violent behavior. The lawsuit — filed almost exactly two years after the shooting that killed eight people — alleges that American Tactical, Inc. failed to take steps to help prevent dangerous people from obtaining the high-capacity magazine, which allow shooters to fire dozens of rounds without having to reload. Instead, the lawsuit says the company specifically targeted its products to a “consumer base filled with impulsive young men who feel they need to harm others in order to prove their strength and who have militaristic delusions of fighting in a war or a video game.” It points to action-movie-style marketing videos that were posted on American Tactical’s YouTube page featur...

MATCHDAY: Lazio at Spezia, Lyon visits Toulouse

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Friday:ITALYLazio hopes to solidify its second-place spot in Serie A when it visits Spezia. Napoli is likely out of reach at the top of the table but Lazio wants to hold off third-place Roma and is on a seven-game unbeaten run in the league. Spezia enters the match one spot and four points above the relegation zone. Cremonese hosts Empoli in the other game. The hosts are in the drop zone, just one point above last-place Sampdoria.SPAINOsasuna visits Rayo Vallecano with both teams needing a win to boost their slim chances of finishing the season with a European competition berth. Osasuna is in eighth place with Rayo one point behind in ninth. In Spain this season, the top four finishers go to the Champions League, the fifth-place team to the Europa League, and the sixth-place team to the Europa Conference League. Osasuna is seven points behind Betis, which is currently in sixth. But Osasuna can win a direct pass to the Europa League if...

Romney faces first potential challenge in Utah Senate race

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — A potential primary challenger to Republican first-term Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah took a major step Thursday toward jumping into next year’s race, expected to be one of the GOP’s hardest-fought contests in 2024.With memories of Romney’s two votes to impeach former President Donald Trump stillfresh, Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson announced he was forming an exploratory committee for the primary race, which all but formalizes his entry and allows him to raise money and campaign statewide. In an interview at his real estate office in northern Utah, Wilson said Utah needs a “conservative fighter” who represents its values and blamed “professional career politicians” in Washington for inflation and higher gas prices.“I don’t have any illusions that as speaker of the house, I’m a household name. But that’s really not what this is about,” Wilson told The Associated Press. “What this is about is me going out and understanding what people care about.” Romne...

Threats to dictionary publisher land man a year in prison

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

A California man who made violent anti-LGBTQ-related threats against dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster Inc. over its updated gender definitions was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison.The sentence imposed on Jeremy Hanson, 35, by a federal court in Massachusetts also included 30 days of home confinement, three years of probation and mental health treatment.Hanson pleaded guilty last year to interstate transmission of threatening communications in connection with threats made to the Springfield, Massachusetts-based dictionary publisher and to the president of the University of North Texas.In court documents, prosecutors said the Rossmoor, California, man has a history of making “threatening communications, nearly all of which were motivated by … biases based upon race, gender, gender identity, and/or sexual orientation.”Those other communications were directed at the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Land O’ Lakes Inc., Hasbro, a nonbinary rabbi and o...

Supreme Court won’t block $6B student debt relief settlement

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:18:16 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a roughly $6 billion legal settlement to go forward that will cancel student loans for hundreds of thousands of borrowers who say they were misled by their schools.The justices did not comment in rejecting an emergency plea from Everglades College, Lincoln Educational Services Corp. and American National University. The schools had argued that they were unfairly included on a list of more than 150 institutions, most of them for-profit, linked with alleged misconduct. Lincoln and American are for-profit institutions; Everglades is a not-for-profit.The justices’ action comes as the high court is weighing what to do with the Biden administration’s plan to wipe away $400 billion in student debt held by more than 40 million people. A decision on that plan is expected by late June.The legal challenges have some similarities but the administration is relying on different laws in the two programs.The class-action settlement...