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Starbucks opens new Reserve store, serves booze and pizza
The coffee chain has launched a new store that features an extensive food menu, new coffee drinks and a mixology bar. (Starbucks)
The ubiquitous coffee chain has opened its first Reserve store on the main floor of the Starbucks' headquarters in Seattle – and it's quite robust.
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According to a press release, the sprawling Reserve store features the classic full beverage menu, as well as new items like the Nitro Draft Latte and Spiced Ginger Cold Brew on tap. The drink staples are joined by a hearty food menu, as part of their partnership with Italian Princi Bakery, that offers filling brioche, cheese pizza and focaccia sandwiches.
The sprawling set-up boasts two fireplaces in its "lounge" areas, as well as seats and booths. (Starbucks)
But the most surprising addition to the coffee shop is its inclusion of a full mixology bar, which will serve "traditional Italian Aperitivo, aromatic Italian cocktails such as Aperol Spritz, Milano Torino and Negroni Sbagliato, for afternoon and evening customers," according to the release.
The new space boasts two indoor fireplaces as part of the "lounge areas," as well as an open kitchen showing bakers making breads and pastries daily.
Baristas will serve individual pour-over coffee, while the mixology bar will serve "traditional Italian Aperitivo, aromatic Italian cocktails such as Aperol Spritz, Milano Torino and Negroni Sbagliato, for afternoon and evening customers. (Starbucks)
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The open-aired market style was designed around giving the customer a variety of unique experiences, Liz Muller, senior vice president, Creative, Global Design & Innovation said in a statement.
The coffee chain teamed up with Italian Princi Bakery for its menu that offers brioche, cheese pizza and focaccia sandwiches. (Starbucks)
"While our Roasteries are designed to be bold, educational environments, our Reserve store takes the best of coffee craft as well as artisan baking and layers in a marketplace-style customer experience creating a space that has both energy and moments of intimacy," said Muller.
The company has announced its plans to open Roasteries in Milan and New York later this year, in addition to Tokyo and Chicago in 2019.
Kristen Wiig reportedly in early talks for 'Wonder Woman 2' villain role
Cast member Kristen Wiig poses at the premiere of the film "Ghostbusters" in Hollywood, California U.S., July 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni - RTSH4A4
Following the success of DC and Warner Bros. hit "Wonder Woman," the sequel is well underway and may have already found its villain in the form of former "SNL" cast member Kristen Wiig.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wiig is in early talks to play the antagonist to Gal Gadot's Diana Prince character. The star will return as the title superhero and Wiig is believed to be gearing up to take on the DC comics villain Cheetah.
In the comics, Cheetah (A.K.A. Dr. Barbara Minerva) is a British archaeologist who is given the powers of an ancient cheetah god when things go awry on an expedition in the African jungle. She crosses paths with Wonder Woman after becoming obsessed with the lasso of truth. However, it's unclear if the film's adaptation of the character will follow this character arc in any way.
(Warner Bros. via AP)
So far, precious little is known about "Wonder Woman 2." As previously reported, Patty Jenkins will return to the director's chair to helm the follow up, set in the 1980s against the backdrop of the Cold War.
"Wonder Woman 2" is currently scheduled to hit theaters on Nov. 1, 2019.
Previous credits for Wiig include the recent remake of "Ghostbusters" as well as "Zoolander 2," "Bridesmaids" and "Her." Sadly, the talks are said to be preliminary, so the film hasn't found its new villain just yet.
Reps for Wiig did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
Multiple bodies found within minutes in Port St. Lucie, Florida; cops say deaths connected
Three dead bodies were found in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Wednesday, each within minutes of each other, police said. (Fox 29)
Three dead bodies were found in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Wednesday — each within minutes of each other — and the sheriff's office believes the incidents are connected.
A landlord who was checking in on a home in the city discovered a dead body inside around 9:50 a.m., according to the St. Lucie Sheriff's Office.
Just minutes later, a neighbor in the Oleander Pines neighborhood of Port St. Lucie reported a suspicious incident in the house next door, where deputies found a second body, Fox 29 reported.
A few minutes after the second body was discovered, a car crash happened nearby. The driver of that car was later pronounced dead.
The St. Lucie Sheriff's Office wrote on Facebook that officials believe the three deaths are related somehow.
"I'm not saying three different homicides we're just saying... three different death investigations all within a very short period of time. Very unusual," Sheriff Ken Mascara said Wednesday, according to Fox 29.
The department isn't identifying the bodies until their families are notified, and officials clarified that "there is no reason to believe the neighborhood is unsafe or residents are in danger."
Chinese diplomat calls for fair, impartial global human rights governance system
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Grad student claims she tipped off police to serial killer a year ago
Bruce McArthur and Sasha Reid (Reuters/Twitter)
A criminal profiler said she tried to warn Toronto cops about a serial killer terrorizing the city's "Gay Village" almost a year before they nabbed a landscaper accused of slaying at least six men and hiding their remains in potted planters.
Sasha Reid, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto — who has studied serial killers for over a decade — was building a missing persons database as a project when she noticed a connection between three cases in the Village, CTV News reported.
Reid used her specialty in sexually motivated, psychopathic serial killers to determine that someone was routinely preying on Toronto's gay men.
"At a certain point, you know that there is a serial killer operating," she said. "Studying serial homicide for over 10 years now, you learn not to ignore patterns."
Using victim data, she created a criminal profile of the potential perp and called the cops in July 2017.
She spoke to a "very receptive" detective for about half an hour telling him about her profile, databases and what she could do to help, but ultimately "that was it," she said.
The profile she created mostly matches Bruce McArthur, the alleged serial killer arrested on Jan. 18 and charged with the murders of six men so far.
She even predicted the perp would be burying the bodies outside or somewhere in their home or close by.
Police found the remains of at least six people on the property of a home where McArthur, 66, stored his work equipment.
Reid's profile said the killer would be a man with a blue-collar job, a history of violence and no college degree, the Toronto Star reported.
McArthur, a landscaper who was convicted of assaulting a man with a metal pipe in 2003, has no education beyond high school.
Reid wrongly predicted that he'd be around 30 years old and a person of color — like the missing people she identified — because serial killers tend to stick to familiar communities.
A Toronto Police spokesperson said they wouldn't confirm the name of anyone who had come forward with information.
'American Chopper' star sued for fraud after allegedly sabotaging a TV project
Paul Teutul Sr and Paul Teutul Jr visit the "Late Show with David Letterman" in NYC. (SplashNews)
"American Chopper" star Paul Teutul Sr. is being sued for allegedly sabotaging a TV project and costing his business partner millions of dollars.
Page Six obtained the Delaware State Chancery Court documents filed in April, which claim that Teutul used Thomas Derbyshire's investment in an "American Chopper" reboot to fund his personal expenses.
Derbyshire said that he agreed to work with Teutul on the show "Orange County Choppers: American Made" for A&E in 2015, but their business agreement quickly went south after Teutul tried to change their 51/49 percent ownership deal (benefiting Derbyshire) to a 50/50 deal. Derbyshire had agreed to fund the project up to $3 million at that time.
He claimed that Teutul held up production by taking a weeklong "fishing trip to his cabin in upstate New York" and refusing to film with "Sons of Anarchy" star and president of the Southern California chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, Rusty Coones. Scenes with Coones were part of his contract with A&E, according to the lawsuit.
Derbyshire also alleged that Teutul made side deals without consulting him, including "a contract with a dog food manufacturer to show their product on the program in exchange for giving [his] girlfriend a container full of dog food for her dog rescue project" and "a free car lift for [Orange County Choppers] in exchange for filming the car lift on the show [and] promoting the brand, but the car lift was kept for OCC's uses." He also claimed that Teutul used the company's money to pay his son Michael's salary, even though that was not part of their budget.
Derbyshire also claimed that Teutul used the equipment that Derbyshire purchased for a separate revival.
Teutul denied any wrongdoing in his own court filings, and his rep Paris D'Jon, of HYPE Projects Agency, told us, "As we have previously stated as far back as April 10th of 2017, unfortunately, Mr. Derbyshire's interpretation of said events is without merit and with the timing of Orange County Choppers much anticipated return to television tomorrow night the timing is very suspect of once again untrue allegations."
The case is still ongoing.
Page Six previously reported that Teutul's home is in foreclosure.
This article originally appeared in Page Six.
'Hitler socks' produced by Polish company spark outrage
Sock company, Nanushki, is facing backlash for their production of "Hitler socks." (Nanushki)
A Polish sock company has drawn the ire of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum for creating and selling a pair of socks that look like Adolf Hitler.
The group on Feb. 22 shared on Twitter a screengrab of the questionable item from the company Nanushki's website. A rough translation of the caption reads, "'Adolf' socks. It is difficult to even comment."
The organization, which works to preserve the site of the former German Nazi Aushwitz concentration camp, also blasted the company to Central European News for using "one of the biggest criminals in history for marketing purposes," the New York Post reported.
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The socks, according to the Post, were at one point named "Adolf" on the company's website and said they were designed "to bring order in the socks drawer." The product has since been renamed to "Patrick" who, according to a rough translation, is a businessman who likes cars and can be recognized by his attire, the website said.
The controversial footwear appeared on Nanushki's Instagram in October 2016, but it is unclear how long they have been for sale or when the name was changed.
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A comment from the company was not immediately available to Fox News.
In a statement to Mirror UK, Nanushki said the socks were intended to show "the characters in a mocking and comic way."
"Would Hitler wear a pink tie?" they said. "Would Adolf be delighted if his image were trapped on a daily basis?"
"We believe that nowadays one should have a bit of distance to the world around us. We all know the story and think that World War II is something terrible, but this is a story that we will not change or erase, and our sock Adolf will not affect the fate of the world in any way."
KFC runs out of gravy a week after running out of chicken
While 95 percent of the chain's restaurants in the UK are back up and running, some of them are serving a limited menu and the popular side is nowhere to be seen for some. (iStock)
Just when you thought KFC's food shortage was over, some customers are still waiting for gravy to return to the menu.
While 95 percent of the chain's restaurants in the UK are back up and running, some of them are serving a limited menu and the popular side is nowhere to be seen for some.
Last week, the fried chicken chain was forced to close hundreds of its stores in the UK after catastrophic delivery problems left them without any chicken.
Suppliers have been told to bypass the DHL logistics warehouse in Rugby – where the problems stem – and deliver the ingredients straight to branches.
Last week, the fried chicken chain was forced to close hundreds of its stores in the UK after catastrophic delivery problems left them without any chicken. (Reuters)
KFC said that even though they've been able to open almost all 900 stores, they "still have a number of our other usual ingredients missing."
Now, frustrated customers are taking to Twitter after finding out that even though their local branch is open, they're still not selling the staple gravy side.
One user wrote: "Sent me boyfriend to KFC and he comes back with no gravy cus they're sold out… wtf still??"
Another disappointed user was left "fuming" after discovering his local branch was without the saucy side.
"We're working as hard as we can to get this sorted out, we know that our gravy is a big favorite."
Some branches of KFC are selling gravy but it's best to check with the restaurant first before you head out.
A spokesperson for KFC told the Sun Online: "97 percent of our restaurants are now open, however, due to the ongoing distribution challenges DHL is experiencing, some restaurants are continuing to serve a reduced menu, including gravy."
"We're working as hard as we can to get this sorted out, we know that our gravy is a big favorite."
The KFC crisis had fans in a meltdown when it became clear that the fried chicken chain didn't have any chicken to sell.
Distraught customers went into a Twitter frenzy, while other big brands took advantage of the cluck up with deals on chicken.
One savvy customer cashed in on the shortage and made $550 by selling the $14 bargain buckets for $140 each on Facebook.
KFC made a fowl mouthed apology in a full-page advertisement in the Sun, showing an empty bargain bucket with the usual "KFC" logo replaced by "FCK."
California woman pleads guilty in deaths of 2 children
SAN FRANCISCO – A California woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to torture and murder in the deaths of two young children who had been left in her care and disposing of their bodies in a rented storage unit.
Tami Joy Huntsman entered the pleas to two counts each of murder and torture in a Monterey County courtroom under a deal with prosecutors.
In exchange, they will seek a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole instead of the death penalty.
"She will die in prison," prosecutor Berkley Brannon said, noting that the agreement also will spare the sister of the victims from testifying at a trial.
Police in Plumas County found the battered sister, who was 9 at the time, shivering and starving in the backseat of an SUV in December 2015. She had broken bones and told investigators that Huntsman and her boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, had severely neglected and abused the siblings after they moved into the couple's Salinas apartment.
Huntsman had agreed to care for the three children after their mother was killed in a car accident and their father — a relative of Huntsman — was sent to prison.
The older sister said Huntsman and Curiel killed her younger siblings on Thanksgiving after the 9-year-old was caught stealing a bagel, court records show.
On Wednesday, Huntsman acknowledged in court that she and Curiel starved and beat the 6-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl before killing them.
Police found the bodies stuffed in a plastic bin in a Redding storage unit about 300 miles (483 kilometers) north of Salinas.
Curiel was 17 at the time and is not eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors have charged him as an adult with two murder counts and two torture charges.
Curiel, now 20, has pleaded not guilty. His trial is scheduled for April 2.
Jetstar flight forced to turn around after airline crew forgets clipboard in plane engine
A ground worker forgot to remove his clipboard from a plane's engine before take off, causing debris to shoot from the aircraft and forcing the flight to turn around. (Australia Transport Safety Bureau)
A flight traveling from Auckland, New Zealand, to Sydney, Australia, was forced to turn around because a crew member forgot to remove his clipboard from the plane's right engine.
A ground worker was conducting a pre-flight check on the Jetstar Airbus A380 when he placed his clipboard in the plane's engine cowling covering to protect his papers from the rain and wind – and then forgot to retrieve them.
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A new report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau that investigated the October incident explains the worker was preparing the aircraft for service and loading containers when he placed his clipboard in the engine.
A dispatcher conducting a walk-through of the aircraft before takeoff saw the clipboard, but assumed the worker would come back for it, so she did not retrieve it, according to the report. The worker responsible for the clipboard assumed the dispatcher would have grabbed it. Neither, however, removed the item from the engine before the place took off.
The clipboard clip posed a significant threat to aircraft safety, officials said in a report. However, the foreign object left minor damage to the plane's fan blade and attrition liner. (Reuters)
The plane was taxiing down the runway when ground crew members noticed scraps of paper littering the ground and alerted the flight crew about the metal clipboard clip stuck in the plane engine. The captain made the decision to turn the flight around for the safety of the passengers.
"The presence of foreign object debris poses a significant threat to aircraft safety," officials said in the report. "It has the potential to cause aircraft damage during critical phases of flight, costing airlines and airports millions of dollars each year," they added.
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The clipboard only left minor damage to the engine's fan blade and attrition liner, used to soften noise, after it was "ingested" by the aircraft's engine.
Jetstar has since updated dispatch procedure guidelines and provided more detailed rules for aircraft checks and ground crew and flight crew communications.
Keith Richards apologizes to Mick Jagger for suggesting rock legend get a vasectomy
Keith Richards (left) apologized Wednesday for comments he made about bandmate Mick Jagger (right) in an article from The Wall Street Journal. (Reuters)
The Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards apologized Wednesday for the "completely out of line" comments he made in an interview with The Wall Street Journal about longtime bandmate Mick Jagger.
In the piece, Richards called the band's frontman "a randy old bastard" and insinuated that he should get a vasectomy.
"I deeply regret the comments I made about Mick in the WSJ which were completely out of line," Richards said in a tweet. "I have of course apologised to him in person."
Richards' choice of words came after The Journal asked his thoughts on the birth of Jagger's most recent child.
"Mick's a randy old bastard," the guitarist responded in Wednesday's article. "It's time for the snip – you can't be a father at that age. Those poor kids!"
Baby Deveraux, the eighth addition to Jagger's growing brood, was born on Dec. 8, 2016. The baby's mother is Melanie Hamrick, who is dating the 73-year-old rocker. The child is the couple's first together, according to Rolling Stone.
Mick Jagger (left) and Keith Richards (right) of The Rolling Stones are seen in this file 2016 photo performing during Desert Trip music festival at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. (Reuters)
The comments are just the latest in a longtime back-and-forth between the men. The outlet also probed Richards about earlier comments he made about Jagger in his memoir "Life," in which he called Jagger "unbearable."
"Mick and I would have spats anyway, no matter what I said in the book, and I left a lot out," he said. "Mick and I live off of this fire between us."
Chris McDaniel announces candidacy challenging incumbent Roger Wicker
Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel, right, has announced his bid to replace U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss. (File)
Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel announced his bid to replace U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., on Wednesday in what could be a contentious primary campaign.
Before a crowd of enthusiastic supporters in his hometown of Ellisville, McDaniel said Mississippi needs a conservative to help move President Donald Trump's agenda forward as Republicans work to maintain a slim majority.
"I'm tired of the way things are being done in Washington. Donald Trump told us he wanted to drain the swamp," McDaniel said during his announcement. "I'm going to go there to help him drain the swamp."
McDaniel, a favorite among Tea Party conservatives, previously ran against Senator Thad Cochran in the 2014 Mississippi Republican primary. McDaniel's campaign challenged the results of the runoff in court, and the candidate claims Cochran won because Democrats crossed over and voted for his opponent.
State Senator Chris McDaniel talks with a supporter after giving remarks at a rally in his hometown of Ellisville, Miss. This is the second time McDaniel has run for the U.S. Senate after losing a 2014 GOP primary runoff race by over 7,000 votes. (Fox News)
During his speech, McDaniel challenged Wicker to a debate and claimed that the junior senator from the Magnolia State is not a true conservative. He also said he wasn't fazed by Trump's support of Wicker, but urged voters to rally behind him to further support the president.
"We're not mad about it, we understand it. That's the Washington way, you have to cut deals. … We're going to give Donald Trump the actual help he needs to have a conservative senate," McDaniel said.
Senator Wicker declined to give a response on camera, but his campaign did provide Fox News with a statement.
"Gayle and I are looking forward to this campaign and sharing my record of successfully fighting to reduce job-killing regulations, confirm conservative judges, enact historic tax cuts, rebuild our military, and honor our veterans," Wicker said in a statement. "We will work hard to once again earn the votes and support of all Mississippians."
Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel (right) announced his bid to replace U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., (left). The 2018 Mississippi GOP Primary will be held on June 5.
Trump chimed into the race releasing a statement in support of incumbent Wicker in a statement released from his campaign on Wednesday.
"Since 2007, Roger Wicker has served the great state of Mississippi to effectively promote economic growth and manufacturing initiatives for his constituents," Trump's campaign said in a statement. "We are pleased to announce our support for Senator Wicker to win his reelection and serve the state of Mississippi for another six years."
A December 2017 Mason Dixon Mississippi poll has Wicker with 49 percent support among Republicans while McDaniel has 33 percent support with 18 percent undecided.
The 2018 Mississippi GOP Primary will be held on June 5.
Prosecutors: Brazilian couple flight risk in kidnapping case
HOUSTON – Prosecutors are asking that a Brazilian couple accused of helping their daughter kidnap their Texas grandson and keep him in Brazil for the last five years be held without bond, alleging they would use their vast wealth to flee the U.S.
However, attorneys for Carlos and Jemima Guimaraes told a magistrate judge in Houston on Wednesday that they're not a flight risk.
Prosecutors allege the couple helped their daughter, Marcelle Guimaraes, keep her son in Brazil after she took him there in 2013 and failed to return to the United States, violating a custody order. Marcelle Guimaraes, who's also indicted in the case, and her son both remain in Brazil.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Dena Palermo delayed a bond decision until at least Friday and wants more information on the couple's finances.
Brooklyn man targeted NYPD cops with exploding package, feds say
Authorities respond to the site of the deadly explosion on July 28 of last year. (Fox 5 NY)
Authorities on Wednesday charged a Brooklyn man in connection with a deadly package explosion that was meant for a cop but instead killed a landlord in Queens in 2017.
A joint FBI, ATF, and NYPD investigation has been underway since the summer 2017 explosion outside of a rental house in Springfield Gardens.
In the course of the probe, agents and officers searched a home in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn.
Federal prosecutors charged Victor Kingsley, 37, with using a weapon of mass destruction as part of a plot to get revenge against cops that arrested him in January 2014, according to the United States Attorney's Office. But no officers lived at the home.
"Kingsley's cowardly act was meant to target a New York City police officer for doing his job and resulted in the tragic death of an unintended victim," Police Commissioner James O'Neill said in a statement. "This was a case where the NYPD Detective Bureau, Intelligence Bureau, and FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force combined their expertise and unique talents to find a needle in a haystack—the clues that would lead to the identification of a bomber who went to great lengths to remain hidden."
Queens resident George Wray was renting the Springfield Gardens house to two families. On July 28, 2017, he picked up a package that had been sitting on the porch for about a week, police said. The package exploded, burning Wray's head, legs, and torso, police said. He died a few days later, the NYPD said.
Red Sox ask Boston to change Yawkey Way's name back to Jersey Street, in nod to racial inclusion
The city of Boston renamed a stretch of Yawkey Way David Ortiz Drive last summer in honor of the retired Red Sox designated hitter. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
The Boston Red Sox announced Wednesday that they have asked city officials to change the name of the street that runs in front of the ballpark from Yawkey Way back to its original name, Jersey Street.
"Restoring the Jersey Street name is intended to reinforce that Fenway Park is inclusive and welcoming to all," the team said in a statement.
The Boston Herald reported that the city's Public Improvement Commission would consider the team's request when it meets on March 15.
The street is currently named for Tom Yawkey, who owned the Bosox from 1933 to 1976. During his tenure, the Sox became the last franchise in Major League Baseball to field a black player. Pumpsie Green made his Boston debut in 1959, 12 years after Jackie Robinson broke through the color line with the Dodgers.
Red Sox principal owner John Henry told the Herald this past August that he was "haunted" by Yawkey's legacy on race.
"For me, personally, the street name has always been a consistent reminder that it is our job to ensure the Red Sox are not just multi-cultural, but stand for as many of the right things in our community as we can," Henry said, "particularly in our African-American community and in the Dominican community that has embraced us so fully."
The Yawkey Foundation, the philanthropic group established by Yawkey in his will, called the team's move "deeply disappointing" and "an action based on a false narrative about Tom Yawkey and his record as the team's owner."
"Former Red Sox ballplayers and club officials who knew Tom Yawkey have stated many times that he treated every player the same, regardless of their race," the foundation said in a statement. It further said that "he fielded diverse teams during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when many of Boston's institutions had yet to make meaningful progress in hiring minorities. The full picture of Tom Yawkey's life is exactly the opposite of the one that Henry has tried to paint."
Women are marrying trees to help save them
Women in Mexico are getting hitched to trees as a way to call attention to illegal logging that is devastating their state of Oaxaca. (PATRICIA CASTELLANOS/AFP/Getty Images)
Women in Mexico are going out on a limb to help save the forest.
A group of female activists in Oaxaca, Mexico, held a mass marriage ceremony where they each wed their own splintery groom to draw attention to illegal logging – a serious and devastating problem in the country.
Around a third of Mexico's land is covered by forest. Oaxaca is one of five states hit hardest by deforestation, mostly caused by criminal groups, Metro reports.
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The women are trying to take a stand against the practice and are hoping the mass marriage will get people more involved with saving the woodlands.
"Marrying a tree is a way of protesting, to say that we need to stop exterminating Mother Earth every day, every minute, every second," Dolores Leycigi said, Yahoo Lifestyle reports.
The ceremonies -- which are not legally binding -- were started as a way to give thanks to Mother Earth. (Reuters)
Though the ceremonies conducted during the "Marry a Tree" event are not legally binding, as trees cannot consent to marriage, the union is still a serious commitment to some.
"I thought it was very interesting that we have a commitment, not only with this tree, but with all of nature," Leycigi said. "I thought about how much we've already damaged nature, so I decided to come and get married."
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The tree marrying ritual began by an organization, Bedani, as a way to give thanks to Mother Earth for what is provided. The ceremony then turned into a symbolic wedding influenced by Incan customs.
Who is Hope Hicks? 3 things to know about Trump’s communications director
A former model and public relations consultant, Hope Hicks quickly rose up the ranks during President Trump's 2016 campaign to become one of his most loyal staff members. So it came as a surprise Wednesday when Hicks announced she would be leaving her role as White House communications director.
"There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump," Hicks announced. "I wish the president and his administration the very best as he continues to lead our country."
At 29, she was the youngest communications director in the history of the White House – and Trump's longest serving aide.
The president described her as "smart" and "thoughtful," adding that she is "truly a great person."
"Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years," Trump said in a statement provided by the White House. "I will miss having her by my side but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure we will work together again in the future."
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly echoed Trump's sentiment, adding that Hope is "poised and wise beyond her years."
The announcement came a day after Hicks met with lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee for nine hours as part of the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. During the meeting, Hicks acknowledged that she has occasionally told "white lies" for Trump, but said she has not lied about anything relevant to the Russia investigation.
Here's are 3 things you should know about Hicks as she prepares to depart the White House in the next few weeks.
Growing up
The daughter of Caye Cavender and Paul B. Hicks III, Hicks grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Her parents were involved in politics. In fact, that's how they met.
Her mother was a legislative aide for Rep. Ed Jones, D-Tenn., in Washington, D.C., according to a 1982 wedding announcement in The New York Times. While her father served as chief of staff for former Rep. Stewart McKinney, R-Conn.
"[They] met by chance when they were both working in Washington, and both were guests in 1981 at a speech by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of Congress," the Hartford Courant reported.
Unlike her parents, Hicks shied away from the political arena. Instead, she followed in the footsteps of her sister, Mary Grace, and began modeling, most notably working for Ralph Lauren.
She played various sports in high school, including lacrosse and swimming, before she graduated in 2006. She then attended college at Southern Methodist University, where she graduated in 2010.
Hicks' history with the Trumps
Hope Hicks started out her career in public relations, working under Ivanka Trump, before joining the Trump team in 2015. (REUTERS)
Hicks has known the Trump family for years.
Her first job out of college was at a small New York PR firm founded by Matthew Hiltzik, "a hard-core Democrat who worked in 2000 on Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for U.S. Senate," the Courant reported. It was there Hicks met President Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka.
She joined the Trump Organization in 2012, working under Ivanka. Hicks was tasked with expanding the Ivanka Trump Collection, working in public relations and occasionally modeling new clothing and accessories from the Ivanka Trump Collection.
"As Hicks ingratiated herself to Ivanka, she won over The Donald as well—helped by the eager-to-please disposition she'd displayed since childhood," GQ wrote in a June 2016 profile of Hicks.
Hicks' role: From the campaign to the White House
Hope Hicks, 29, had no political background when she joined Trump's 2016 campaign team. (REUTERS)
Hicks had no political background when Trump asked her to serve on his campaign as press secretary. The New York Times said she was "arguably the least credentialed press secretary in the modern history of presidential politics."
Throughout the 2016 campaign, Hicks famously avoided publicity. She never went on camera, and was famously known for her "no comment" responses.
She joined the White House after the campaign, and was promoted in the summer to director of communications — a title that only partly captured her more expansive role as the president's gatekeeper to the press.
Hicks, who occupied the desk closest to the Oval Office in the West Wing, has since been a central participant in or witness to nearly every milestone and controversy of the Trump administration.
"She became a trusted adviser and counselor and did a tremendous job overseeing the communications for the President's agenda including the passage of historic tax reform," Kelly said. "To say that she will be missed, is an understatement."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Brooklyn NRA members tell Democrats: Hands off our guns and our meatballs
FILE -- A cap and shirt are displayed at the booth for the National Rifle Association (NRA) at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 23, 2018. (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
It may be hard to believe -- but there really are National Rifle Association members who reside in New York City. I happen to be one of them.
And that's a mighty big problem for Democrats like Andrew Gounardes, a state senate candidate and an attorney representing the Brooklyn Borough president.
"This is unacceptable! We need to say loud & clear that the NRA is not welcome in Brooklyn," Gounardes wrote on Twitter.
Gounardes was among a number of Democrat lawmakers who declared war on Gargiluo's, a 100-year-old Italian restaurant in Coney Island that is hosting an upcoming NRA event.
The Brooklyn Friends of the NRA are raising money by holding an auction and raffle -- and the big prizes are rifles and handguns.
The gun raffle triggered microaggressions among many Democrat lawmakers including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
"There is no room in Coney Island or our city for events like this," he wrote in a letter to the restaurant's owner. "We urge Gargiulo's to expeditiously cancel this event."
Public Advocate Letita James and Comptroller Scott Stringer were among those signing the congressman's letter.
"Bringing an event like this to Coney Island is an affront to all of the hard work that our community has done to address gun violence in our neighborhood," they wrote. "We know that Gargiulo's has always had the best interests of the Coney Island community at heart, which is why it is so disappointing that they are hosting the NRA, an organization that actively lobbies for concealed carry reciprocity, something that NYPD Commissioner O'Neill has rightfully called 'insanity.' There is no room in Coney Island or our city for events like this."
Other New York City Democrats are urging the anti-gun crowd to call the restaurant and bully the owners until they cancel the NRA's reservation.
"There is no room in Coney Island or our city for events like this," City Councilman Matt Treyger wrote on Twitter -- calling for the restaurant to "expeditiously cancel" the gathering.
Someone should tell those New York City Democrats that it's really none of their business what a law-abiding business owner does inside his establishment. Nor is it their concern who that business owner associates with.
But what really gets me is the idea that law-abiding gun owners like NRA members are not welcome to live in or spend their hard-earned money in Brooklyn.
Well, I've got news for all those gun-hating Democrats -- this gun-toting, Bible-clinging NRA member is not going anywhere. NRA members do not abide bullies – especially ones that want to take away our God-given rights.
And I hope the good and decent owner of that Italian restaurant politely tells those triggered Democrats where to stuff their meatballs.
Mennonite investigator who won't testify goes back to jail
CENTENNIAL, Colo. – A defense investigator in a death penalty case has been jailed indefinitely for refusing to testify for prosecutors, saying that helping their effort to execute a defendant would violate her religious beliefs.
Greta Lindecrantz, a Mennonite who opposes capital punishment, refused for a third day Wednesday to answer questions in court about her work as part of a death penalty appeal.
"I feel like I'm having to choose between you and God," Lindecrantz, wearing a blue jail uniform with her arms shackled to waist, told Judge Michelle Amico in a courtroom crowded with supporters in suburban Denver. They sang hymns outside the courthouse before filing in for the hearing.
Lindecrantz told Amico that her faith will not change before she was led away by deputies back to jail.
Lindecrantz was jailed Monday after she repeatedly refused to answer questions about her work on the defense team of Robert Ray, one of three men on Colorado's death row.
Ray's current defense team is challenging his death sentence partly by arguing that he did not have an effective legal team when he was convicted in 2009. Prosecutors subpoenaed Lindecrantz to testify to back up their case that he did have good representation from his publicly-funded defense team and previously questioned Ray's original lawyers as part of the appeal proceedings.
Lindecrantz's attorney, Mari Newman, said Lindecrantz worked for those lawyers and noted that prosecutors already have access to Lindecrantz's report and other documents on her work. She said Lindecrantz would testify if not for the possibility that her testimony could be used to put Ray to death. She said Lindecrantz compared her predicament to being asked to shoot a gun at Ray, not knowing if it was loaded.
Amico ruled Feb. 16 that Lindecrantz must testify because her effectiveness in Ray's defense has been questioned and there is no substitute for her testimony. She found Lindecrantz in contempt of court Monday after she was called to testify. Newman filed an emergency appeal of that ruling to the state appeals court on Wednesday but it's not known how soon the court will consider it.
Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center group that compiles death penalty statistics and issues an annual death penalty report, said he had never heard of a trial team member asserting a religious objection to testifying in a death penalty appeal before.
Amico said the appeal means that Lindecrantz's fate now rests with "someone higher than me." She did not set a date for Lindecrantz to return to court again but said she could always let her know if she has changes her mind.
Lawyers proceeded with partial closing arguments in the case Wednesday but would return to court again for more proceedings if Lindecrantz testifies.
Newman believes that shows that her testimony is not essential in the case and the jailing is more about punishment than anything. She said Lindecrantz is sick and has not been getting adequate care in jail.
Ray and co-defendant Sir Mario Owens were sentenced to death for the 2005 killings of Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancee Vivian Wolfe. Marshall-Fields had witnessed an earlier shooting that Owens was convicted of.
Vikki Migoya, a spokeswoman for District Attorney George Brauchler, said the office would not comment on Lindecrantz because it usually does not talk outside court about proceedings, especially when many of the filings have been sealed.
Ray's defense criticized Lindecrantz's work as a specialist in mitigation — finding reasons to persuade jurors not to sentence a defendant to death — in closing arguments. However, one of his defense lawyers, Michael Heher, declined to comment on whether Lindecrantz should have to testify.
Marshall-Fields' mother, who became politically active after his murder and is now a state lawmaker, said Lindecrantz should not have worked on a death penalty case if she was not prepared to take the stand.
"If she's not going to testify, she should return her compensation," said state Sen. Rhonda Fields, a Democrat.
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This story has been changed to correct the reference to Newman's gender in the seventh paragraph.
Man accused of luring 14-year-old girl for sex sentenced
CINCINNATI – An Ohio man accused of using the Internet to lure a 14-year-old girl into a sexual relationship and controlling her for months while he was electronically monitored from an earlier abduction case has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison.
Twenty-two-year-old Cody Lee Jackson was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Cincinnati. He pleaded guilty last year to coercion and enticement of a minor.
Charges of production of child pornography and transfer of obscene matter to minors were dismissed.
Court documents say Jackson contacted the teenager through Facebook in 2015. The documents say he had the teen dropped off by taxi and had sex with her for months. Authorities say he began controlling her and abused her for not obeying.
Messages were left for Jackson's attorneys.
Senator Joe Manchin talks Trump's bipartisan meeting on gun control
This is a rush transcript from "Your World," February 28, 2018. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
NEIL CAVUTO, "YOUR WORLD" HOST: I want to get the read from all this with Democrat Joe Manchin, of course, of West Virginia, and working to Pat Toomey to come up with a bipartisan arms measure.
And I do know you have a vote to look forward to, Senator. So, I thank you for taking the time.
SEN. JOE MANCHIN, D-WEST VIRGINIA: Sure, Neil.
CAVUTO: How did it go in the White House there today, and do you think you made some common ground? I mean, if you had even approaching the support you had last time, you're very close to 60 votes.
MANCHIN: Right, with the president's support.
And here's thing. It comes down to this. I have always and will always support the Second Amendment rights. So does the president. And he knows we need to do some commonsense changes as far as in background checks.
When people go to gun shows, they need to have a background check, it's a commercial transaction, on the Internet. He supports that. And I'm tickled to death. And with his support, and both of us protecting the Second Amendment rights, we can move forward. And that's what we intend to do.
CAVUTO: Do you think, when you say intend to do it, that this could be done in short order? The president said keep it simple, don't do a lot of add-ons. There was talk about, even from Steve Scalise.
MANCHIN: Yes.
CAVUTO: Adding special measures for concealed weapons.
(CROSSTALK)
CAVUTO: What do you think of that?
MANCHIN: Yes.
He knew the controversial things that really have a heavy lift, if you will.
CAVUTO: Right.
MANCHIN: But when you're talking about the background checks, the Manchin- Toomey bill that we had in 2013, it was a good piece of legislation then, and it's a good piece of legislation now.
That's the base bill he's talking about. It had the Fix NICS in there, so we have better reporting. He wants to put in the mental illness part. We can address that. School safety, we had that in there. There's some things that we can tweak and put in there. He said he's getting rid of bump stocks on his own. That doesn't need to be in there.
He wants the age of 21. We will see if there's support for the age of 21.
It seems to me like it's a no-brainer, because if it takes 21 years of age to buy a handgun, then he's talking about AR-15s. If he just -- if they basically narrow that down to what firearm he's talking about to raising the age, because there's an awful lot of 18-year-olds who hunt and use for target practicing, sport shooting and all that, and very responsible.
So, we will work through that.
(CROSSTALK)
CAVUTO: But are you against raising the age? He noticed that difference between 21 for a gun, 18 for some of these...
MANCHIN: No, I think -- I think that's a no-brainer for me. I don't have a problem there.
CAVUTO: OK.
MANCHIN: But, also, there might be a caveat where we can carve out, which is what you do when you compromise, that if a person at 18 years of age wishes to have an AR-15 and it's legally sold, then that person would have to go certain types of steps and tests and competency, showing that they're adequately trained and responsible to use this type of a weapon.
So that could be done. But we have heard talk of that. We're willing to talk to anybody about whatever they want to, to come up with an all- inclusive piece of legislation. So, the Manchin-Toomey bill we had will be the base we will work off on.
John Cornyn and Chris Murphy and everybody that wants to work with us, hopefully, we can make one good piece of legislation that can get through.
CAVUTO: As you might have heard, Senator, Hope Hicks, the communications director of the White House, is resigning.
MANCHIN: Yes, I did.
CAVUTO: Obviously, it occurs at a very unique and critical moment here, to communicate the message on getting all this out that you want to get out.
What do you think of what is going on at the White House right now?
MANCHIN: I really -- I was just there. And I met afterwards, Pat and I and John Cornyn, and went into the room with the president. And Mr. Kelly, General Kelly was there, and talking about how we move forward and we will work together and we want to make sure the president is on board.
And I said, if the president is on board, knowing that he's going to protect the Second Amendment, the same as I am going to protect it, and Pat Toomey and everybody else, we can get something rational reasonably done.
CAVUTO: Was Hope Hicks there when you were there by any chance?
(CROSSTALK)
MANCHIN: No, she wasn't.
(CROSSTALK)
CAVUTO: Because she would have communicated that.
MANCHIN: I didn't see her there. No, I did not.
So, I just heard about this walking in. This is the first time I have heard about it.
CAVUTO: Yes.
All on the same day, as you know, Senator, the president and his attorney general are at loggerheads again. What do you think of that?
MANCHIN: Well, there's a lot going on. It's a lot to digest, I understand.
But it seems like they -- this is the modus operandi. This is how they operate. And he's able to function through that. So, everyone has their own style and their own comfort level.
CAVUTO: You sound surprised.
MANCHIN: A little bit unusual.
CAVUTO: Yes.
Your colleagues and what they make of all of this,. How willing are they to help out on a gun measure, particularly Democrats who might think that Republicans are not giving up enough on gun control, per se? You would tell them what?
MANCHIN: I would say this. And I have said this before. I know they wanted to go much further than what my bill and Toomey's bill went in 2013.
But we have to bring people together to get 60 votes. It's the art of the compromise working in the Senate. And we have a piece of legislation. And I have said this very candidly. If President Trump would have been president in 2013, when this piece of legislation was first introduced, we wouldn't be having this conversation. We would have passed it.
Because of President Obama, people are a little bit concerned, and they were believing that he wouldn't protect their Second Amendment rights or wasn't as supportive of the Second Amendment rights as hard as they wanted it to be.
They were scared, well, if you pass this one, Joe, even though it makes sense, we're gun owners, we like it, it's OK, we think it makes sense. But if we do that, then they will do more. He will take more.
They don't believe that with President Trump. And that's why it's important to have his support.
CAVUTO: Senator Manchin, thank you very, very much.
MANCHIN: Thank you, Neil. Appreciate it.
CAVUTO: Know it's been a busy day for you. Thank you.
MANCHIN: Sure thing. Bye-bye.
CAVUTO: All right.
END
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Man caught with red sauce on his face charged with meatball theft
A Pennsylvania man was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and theft by unlawful taking for allegedly swiping a pot of meatballs from another man's garage on Monday. (iStock)
Police say a damning clue led to the arrest of a Pennsylvania man charged with stealing a pot of meatballs — red sauce smeared on his face and clothes.
THIEVES STEAL 48.5 TONS OF CHOCOLATE FROM GERMAN INDUSTRIAL PARK
Authorities in Luzerne County have charged 48-year-old Leahman Glenn Robert Potter with burglary, criminal trespass and theft by unlawful taking for allegedly swiping a pot of meatballs from a man's garage on Monday.
Police say the victim reported his meatballs missing and told officers at around 2:30 p.m. Monday that he saw Potter standing in front of his house with red sauce on his face and clothes. The pot was found on the street.
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It's unclear if Potter washed the sauce off before he was arrested a short time later.
Potter's attorney did not immediately respond to a voicemail seeking comment.
Former Attorney General Mukasey: Trump's criticism of Sessions is wrong
This is a rush transcript from "Your World," February 28, 2018. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
NEIL CAVUTO, "YOUR WORLD" HOST: All right, the president making it very clear he's still not too pleased with his attorney general.
The question I have is why the attorney general still stays on. Apparently, we're getting reports that he had offered his resignation a couple of times. The president has either declined it or they thought better of it. Whatever the case, it's an awkward relationship.
What is it about that job, the pressures or the conundrum right now it has put Jeff Sessions in?
Let's ask a fellow who held that job, the former attorney general for President George W. Bush, Mike Mukasey.
General, very good to have you.
MICHAEL MUKASEY, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Good to with you.
CAVUTO: What was it like working for President Bush? Did he ever have differences with you? Did he ever publicly say anything bad about you?
MUKASEY: We had a couple of differences. He never publicly said anything bad about me.
We -- whatever differences we had were resolved internally. He was, after all, the president. I lost a couple. I won a couple.
CAVUTO: Did they get heated? Did you ever offer to resign?
MUKASEY: No. No, not nearly.
CAVUTO: OK.
MUKASEY: Not nearly.
CAVUTO: What do you think of this relationship? What is going on here?
MUKASEY: Look, I'm not -- I'm not an expert on relationships. I'm a lawyer, not a psychologist.
CAVUTO: All right. But when the president is constantly second-guessing you -- and it might be his right -- it might just still be burnt and angry about the attorney general recusing himself.
But it has never, never calmed. And this latest opinion of the president about the way Sessions handled this whole FISA thing, what did you think of that?
MUKASEY: I think it's wrong.
CAVUTO: Who is wrong?
MUKASEY: The president is wrong. And he doesn't know his own interests.
CAVUTO: Explain.
MUKASEY: The fact is that the I.G. is the person who should investigate this.
CAVUTO: The inspector general.
MUKASEY: Yes, the inspector general is the person who should investigate this.
CAVUTO: Even though the president says, oh, that's an Obama guy.
MUKASEY: Obama guy, my foot.
He was there in the George W. Bush administration. He was an Obama appointee, but he's straight as the edge of that table. He's a serious person who investigates things on the merits. And he's investigated other things on the merits that he will conclude when he concludes.
Mike Horowitz is a suburb I.G. And I think pretty much every responsible person understands that.
CAVUTO: We don't want to get into machinations of...
MUKASEY: I mean, there's no...
CAVUTO: Go ahead.
MUKASEY: You don't -- you conduct an investigation of the sort that the president was talking when there's evidence of a crime. There isn't.
So, there's no crime to investigate. The I.G. is the person to investigate whether rules and procedures were followed. If he unearths something that smacks of criminality, there will be plenty of time to investigate it.
CAVUTO: OK.
Now, let's say he were to leave. That is, Jeff Sessions were to leave, for whatever reason, I can't deal with it, or he's forced out.
MUKASEY: He has job -- if there's anybody in this world who has job security, he is a person who has job security, because the person who would succeed obviously is Rod Rosenstein.
CAVUTO: Right.
MUKASEY: Right.
(CROSSTALK)
CAVUTO: And finding a successor, a permanent one, would take a long, long time.
MUKASEY: I will say.
CAVUTO: Yes.
So, the legal fallout from this back and forth, it's generally never advisable to have a public dispute. But do you know at the Justice Department how this is all falling out? Is it a big deal? Are they used to it? What?
MUKASEY: I don't know for a fact, because I'm not there.
I can't imagine that it helps morale to hear about squabbles going on at the department where you work. But I think that the attorney general and the people who work at the department who are serious-minded people do on a daily basis what they should do, which is to keep their heads down, do their jobs, and try to call things the way they see them.
And as far as I know, that's what's doing on at the department now. Certainly, that's what Jeff Sessions is doing.
CAVUTO: You know, General, I think it's probably one of the toughest Cabinet positions, the attorney general, because, though you're appointed by the president, you serve the people, as do all Cabinet secretaries.
But the legal issues come to the fore when the president doesn't think that you're necessarily serving his interests and you're -- you're acting against those interests. How did you handle that? What did you -- just about your day-to-day handling of the job?
MUKASEY: I handled it by responding and making my case. And, as I said, I won a couple, I a lost a couple.
If the president tells you to do something, and it's within the limits of the law, even if you think it's bad policy, you do it, because the president sets policy.
If you think it's outside the limits of the law, and the president tells you do it, you say no. And either the president fires you, or you leave. But I don't think that we're at that point with Attorney General Sessions.
I think what is going on, of course, is this public criticism, which I don't think is good for anybody.
CAVUTO: Why does it continue, though? Would you put up with that, if it were you? Just -- I know it's different with President Bush.
MUKASEY: I can't...
CAVUTO: Would you put up with that?
MUKASEY: I can't put myself in Jeff Sessions' place in this administration.
This is very different from what it was like when I was there. If the president had said something about me in public of the sort that this president has said about Jeff Sessions, it would indicate deep dissatisfaction.
CAVUTO: And you would offer your resignation?
MUKASEY: Yes, of course. I would have taken it to heart.
But it would have been preceded by a great deal that I don't think preceded this.
CAVUTO: A lot have said that this president, he is new to the job, doesn't know even about maybe the role of an attorney general, that he was trying to be -- you know, do anything illegal or anything else, but he had read into this loyalty, this is all about loyalty to the president.
How do you juggle that as attorney general of the United States, appointed by the president of the United States, serving for the president of the United States, serving the United States?
MUKASEY: Look, the A.G. is a member of the administration. So, he's got to follow the policy of the administration.
But his job is to advise the president on what the limits are of the law, what the law allows at both ends. And then the president makes the choices between those limits. I think President Bush well understood that.
And the notion that somehow the A.G. is the president's lawyer is wrong. The president has lawyers. He's got White House counsel.
CAVUTO: But on this issue, where -- on this issue, where Sessions decided, I'm going to have an I.G. look into -- handle this whole thing, and the president was ticked off about it, you're saying that Sessions was within his rights, this is the right route to take?
MUKASEY: It's the right route to take. It's also the correct route to take. It makes a lot...
CAVUTO: As it was back in the very beginning, when he recused himself.
MUKASEY: Right.
CAVUTO: That he was in the legal right there, two actions that the president deems unacceptable.
MUKASEY: Right. The answer to that is, tough.
CAVUTO: OK.
Attorney General, very good seeing again.
END
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Man questioned in connection with 2017 exploding package
NEW YORK – Authorities say a New York City man has been arrested on charges he built an explosive to attack a police officer and instead killed an innocent bystander.
Federal prosecutors charged Victor Kingsley on Wednesday with using a weapon of mass destruction and illegally transporting an explosive.
A criminal complaint says Kingsley wanted to use homemade bombs to retaliate against police officers who arrested him in a case that was later dropped.
It says last year, Kingsley had one device planted on the porch of a Queens home where he mistakenly believed one of the officers lived. The unwitting owner of the house, George Wray, died when he accidentally set it off.
The 37-year-old Kingsley was awaiting an initial court appearance. The name of his attorney wasn't immediately available.
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This story has been corrected to say that Wray was the owner of the house where the device was left, not a resident there. Police say he did not live there.
Senior House member, Alaska's Don Young, suggests more guns might have saved lives in Holocaust
Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, speaks to a reporter after an October 2016 debate in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
The most senior member of the House of Representatives argued against tougher gun laws in a speech last week, rhetorically wondering how many victims of the Holocaust might have survived had they been armed.
"How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed?" Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, said at a meeting of the Alaska Municipal League, a lobbying group for local communities. "Fifty million in Russia because their citizens weren't armed. How many Jews were put into the ovens because they were unarmed?"
The 84-year-old Young was responding to a question about what the federal government and cities could do to stop school shootings.
Young spokeswoman Murphy McCollough told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday that Young's remarks were "taken entirely out of context."
"He was referencing the fact that when Hitler confiscated firearms from Jewish Germans, those communities were less able to defend themselves," she said. "He was not implying that an armed Jewish population would have been able to prevent the horrors of the Holocaust, but his intended message is that disarming citizens can have detrimental consequences."
Messages seeking comment from the Anti-Defamation League and a Jewish group in Alaska weren't immediately returned Wednesday.
The executive director of the Alaska Democratic Party said the comments show it's time for residents to vote Young out of office.
"Don Young continues to show he is completely divorced from reality," Jay Parmley said.
Young wasn't the first House Republican to face criticism for comments made after 17 students were killed at a high school in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month.
U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney of New York said on a radio program last week that many people who commit mass murder turn out to be Democrats, without offering evidence.
Young's comments emerged when Dimitri Shein, a Democrat, posted video of the lawmaker's response to his question on YouTube.
Young intimated that the violent nature of video games might play a role in gun violence. A former schoolteacher, he said that children brought guns to schools 40 years ago "and they didn't shoot anybody."
"Something's happened, it's easy to blame an object," Young said. "Why don't we look at the mental concept and the family structure," he added as as he noted that he supports a proposal advanced by President Donald Trump to arm teachers.
Young, who was first elected in 1973. Over the years, he has faced blowback for other remarks.
A few years ago, for instance, he had to apologize for using a racial epithet when referring to Hispanic migrant workers. And he backtracked when he said a female colleague "doesn't know a damn thing what she's talking about."
His staff had to apologize in 2014 after he spoke at an Alaska high school a day after a student's suicide. When asked what his office was doing to combat the state's high suicide rate, he stunned the audience by saying that such self-harm showed a lack of support from family and friends.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This artist turned his sour grapes into a wine boyfriend
After his previous relationship went south, this artist built himself a companion that would always be loyal. (iStock)
This Portland artist transformed wine from a social life accessory into his very own arm candy, when he made a boyfriend out of boxed wines.
Michael James Schneider tweeted on Monday, "i do not have a boyfriend so i made one out of boxes of wine," in a post that has received 91,000 likes and 21,000 retweets.
Schneider shared images of the happy couple grocery shopping, making spaghetti, enjoying the outdoors, and relaxing with breakfast in bed. The artist used a metal armature (a sculpture framework) as his wine boyfriend's skeleton, and let empty wine boxes dress the human-like structure that stands just a few inches shorter than Schneider does.
Made of brands including House Wine, Black Box, and Franzio, the cardboard boyfriend bears the fitting name Franz, complete with his namesake plastered across his chest.
The artist's idea for this inanimate significant other came to him after a breakup. But instead of remaining in the doldrums when things went south, he decided to build a partner who would always be loyal.
"When I'm single and lonely and drinking… well why not create a companion out of that loneliness," Schneider explained to Metro.co.uk.
It's hard to say what's next for the couple. Twitter followers have requested wedding invitations and Christmas cards. For others, Schneider's artistic-turned-romantic endeavor has inspired a novel way of viewing their own love lives, and have resolved to make significant others out of their favorite comfort food containers.
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