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Howie Carr: FBI head Christopher Wray, an innovative master in the art of stonewalling

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

Donald Trump said this weekend that it was “probably” a mistake for him to appoint Christopher Wray as director of the FBI.Probably?Of all the terrible appointments Trump made, Wray has to be at the top of the list.Wray is nothing more than a Deep State operative with a badge, continuing to operate the sinister FBI as the Democrat party’s own Gestapo.But Wray has accomplished one thing — he has taken the art of stonewalling under oath to previously unknown levels.It used to be that when a thug didn’t want to answer an embarrassing question, his only real option was to cite his Fifth Amendment rights. Every gangster carried with him a dog-eared card he could always pull out in a courtroom:“I respectfully declines to answer dat dere question on da grounds dat it might tend to incriminate me…”It was left to Billy Bulger, the Democrat brother of a serial-killing Democrat gangster, to elevate the dummying-up routine to a new level. In 2003, called before Congress to testify under o...

Baseball All-Scholastics and league All-Stars

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

BASEBALL ALL-SCHOLASTICSNicholas Ayres (Duxbury)Cam Beltramini (Whitman-Hanson)Cole Bohane (BC High)DC Brown (Plymouth North)Dawson Bryce (Taunton)Charlie Collins (Natick)Jack Collins (Medfield)Jack Cropper (Norwood)Jake Cullen (Westford Academy)Gian Gamelli (Hamilton-Wenham)Alex Gentile (Lynnfield)Zach Gilmore (Georgetown)Braydon Gray (Chelmsford)Noah Guanci (Beverly)Chris Jaillet (Andover)Nathan Kearney (Central Catholic)Tyler Kropis (Seekonk)Ryan LeClair (Foxboro)Scott Longo (Milton)Jase Lyons (Franklin)Owen McHugh (Milton)Spencer Merrick (Abington)Matthew Morash (Westford Academy)Ian Moser (Bishop Feehan)Alfred Mucciarone (Franklin)Michael Oates (Xaverian)Matt Pappalardo (Methuen)Justin Peguero (English)Lukasz Rondeau (Central Catholic)Brendan Sencaj (King Philip)Matthew Stuart (Chelmsford)Casey Wensley (Bridgewater-Raynham)Sean Zaslaw (Weymouth)HONORABLE MENTIONJaden Arruda (Seekonk)Drew Barrett (Wakefield)Noah Basgaard (St. John’s Shrewsbury)Mavrick Bourdeau (Shawsheen)B...

Russia has ‘sufficient stockpile’ of cluster bombs, says Putin, as Ukraine gets US cluster bombs

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster munitions, and warned that Russia “reserves the right to take reciprocal action” if Ukraine uses the controversial weapons.In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the U.S., Putin said that Russia has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far. “Until now, we have not done this, we have not used it, and we have not had such a need,” he said, although the use of cluster bombs by both Russia and Ukraine has been widely documented, including by The Associated Press and international humanitarian organizations.Rossiya TV reporter Pavel Zarubin published excerpts of the interview to his Telegram channel Sunday ahead of a scheduled broadcast Sunday night.The Pentagon said Thursday that cluster munitions provided by the United States had arrived in Ukraine.The munitions, which are bombs that open in the ai...

Earthquake off the coast of Alaska triggers brief tsunami advisory

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake triggered a brief tsunami advisory for southern Alaska, monitoring bodies reported late Saturday. The earthquake was felt widely throughout the Aleutian Islands, the Alaskan Peninsula and Cook Inlet regions, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. In Kodiak, Alaska, sirens warned of a possible tsunami and sent people driving to shelters late at night, according to video posted to social media.The United States Geological Survey wrote in a social media post that the earthquake occurred 106 kilometers (65.8 miles) south of Sand Point, Alaska, at 10:48 p.m. Saturday.The U.S. National Weather Service sent a tsunami advisory saying the quake occurred at a depth of 13 miles (21 kilometers). About an hour after the initial alert, it was updated to cancel the advisory.The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said there was no threat to the islands.The Associated Press

Five companies that can help elevate your St. Paul-area business — or bring it to fruition

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

Whether your business is turning six-figure profits or just getting started out of your home, there is a lot to learn.If you’re looking for community or financial support, legal advice, marketing tips, or all of the above, someone before you has been there, done that, and made it through. Whether you can spare $1,000 a month, $50 or just need some free advice, there are local resources you can turn to.Here are five organizations recommended by local entrepreneurs that have helped them launch, grow and sustain their businesses:Lunar StartupsBased in St. Paul, Lunar Startups is a six-month cohort accelerator program that helps Black, Indigenous, other people of color, LGBTQ+, women and nonbinary entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level.Once accepted into the program, members of the cohort have access to weekly workshops that cover topics such as how to manage a team and the importance of trademarks and crafting a budget, said Tierra Anderson, program manager.In addition t...

Highway 95 in Stillwater closed until September beginning Monday

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

Starting Monday, Highway 95 in Stillwater will be closed until late September.Highway 95, also known as Main Street, will be closed between Myrtle Street and Olive Street, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Traffic will detour to Highway 36, Manning Avenue, and Highway 96.Businesses and local access will continue throughout the duration of the project, and the Stillwater Lift Bridge will remain open.The closures are part of a project to build a pedestrian/bicycle plaza.Related ArticlesLocal News | More closures on Fairview Avenue in Roseville this weekend Local News | I-94 West open again after MN crash near border with Hudson, Wis. Local News | Minnesota 36 overnight lane closures planned for next week Local News | Expect I-94 closures this weekend due to Gold Line construction Local News | I-94 lane closures from Oakdale to St. Croix continue through fall

Ask Amy: I worked hard for my degree, and my mother-in-law turned it into a joke

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

Dear Amy: I recently graduated with my master’s.My mother and mother-in-law flew separately to my graduation from the other side of the country.I am grateful they both came, but while my MIL was here she made repeated comments that I felt put down my degree.She said that my graduation ceremony was really for my husband because he supported me through school. While he did work full time to support us, I also worked while attending school full time.She gave him a graduation gift, as well as a shirt that said, “I survived my wife’s graduate degree.”I was shocked and hurt by this, and she kept encouraging him to wear it on my actual graduation day.I found the shirt offensive because it trivialized my accomplishment into something that was apparently extremely difficult for him.After the fact, I told my husband (through tears) how I felt. He told me that while he could see my point, it was just a joke.For the remainder of the visit, she continued to ask him to wear the ...

Today’s Class War Is the 1 Percent Versus the People Just Below Them

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

Elon Musk, billionaire and chief executive officer of Tesla, at the Viva Tech fair in Paris on June 16, 2023.Photo: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhat does EloN Musk firing 6,500 people at Twitter have to do with the Writers Guild of America and actors in SAG-AFTRA going on strike? How is Meta axing 21,000 employees connected to more and more doctors wondering if they have to unionize? And how is this all related to Donald Trump taking a government map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path in 2020 and scrawling on it with a Sharpie?The answer is that America’s owners have opened a new front in their battle against everyone else, declaring war on the class of technocrats who once were their greatest allies.In Adam Smith’s famed 1776 disquisition on economics, “The Wealth of Nations,” he ponders the behavior of the “great proprietors” of feudalism. They owned the most valuable property available — i.e., land — and with their income from this property suppo...

Implantan un monitor de ritmo cardíaco a Benjamin Netanyahu, según fuentes del hospital

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

(CNN) — Al primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, le fue implantado un tipo de monitor cardíaco llamado Holter “para permitir que el equipo profesional médico cercano del primer ministro continúe con el monitoreo regular”, informó este domingo Amit Segev, el director de la unidad de cardiología del Centro Médico Sheba.Segev dijo que las pruebas habían demostrado que el corazón de Netanayhu era normal y que no se habían encontrado arritmias cardíacas o latidos cardíacos irregulares.Netanyahu fue hospitalizado este sábado, según informó el Centro Médico Sheba, el más grande de Israel.“El primer ministro Netanyahu completó una serie de pruebas y está en excelentes condiciones”, dijo Segev, quien también es presidente de la Asociación de Cardiología de Israel. “Nuestro diagnóstico, al final de todas las pruebas realizadas, incluidas las pruebas de laboratorio, es que el motivo de la hospitalización fue la deshidratación”.El primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, fu...

Early morning storms bring rain, flood watches to DC region

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:32:18 GMT

Listen live for latest weather updates on the 8s on WTOP. Another day of wet weather, heat and humidity brings flood and thunderstorm warnings to portions of the D.C. region. Here’s what you need to know.The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the area until 8 p.m. Sunday in anticipation of a large storm system. That same bout of severe weather brought some jurisdictions under severe weather warnings through the early morning hours.Thunderstorm warnings for portions of southwestern Prince George’s and Charles counties in Maryland ended just before 9 p.m. Saturday. By 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning, flood warnings in Fairfax County and the city of Fairfax, Virginia, were canceled as well by the NWS.7News meteorologist Mark Peña said storms and showers making their way west could add an additional 1 to 3 inches of rainfall to Friday’s already substantial totals.“Most of the area is under another marginal risk for severe storms [on Sunday], with the ...