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New York City mayor heads to Latin America with message for asylum seekers: ‘We are at capacity’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said he will travel to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants that have overwhelmed its shelter system and strained financial resources. The Democratic mayor is set to visit Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia during a four-day trip this week. The city has absorbed almost 120,000 migrants over the past year, with hundreds still arriving daily in need of housing and employment. “We want to give an honest assessment of what we are experiencing here in this city,” said Adams. “We are at capacity.”“We’re going to tell them that coming to New York doesn’t mean you’re going to stay in a five-star hotel. It doesn’t mean that, the mere fact that you come here, you automatically are going to be allowed to work,” he said. Adams has made a series of urgent pleas for a shift in federal immigration policy and for funding to help t...

Early results show Englewood voters reject recall efforts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (KDVR) — Englewood city leadership could remain intact if early results hold in a Tuesday recall vote to replace three council members, including the mayor.The timing is strange, as the election came just a month before the general election when neighbors were set to vote on some of the council members anyway. US announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers Ahead of the recall, lawns across the city of Englewood were covered with signs, some urging voters to say yes and others calling for no votes."That's why we initiated the recall, because they weren't doing what's best for the citizens," said Nancy Foster, a lifelong Englewood resident who helped push for the recall to happen."Why a recall? In a sense as well, is what went through my head because obviously, we are trying to deal with the big issues," said Mayor Othoniel Sierra, who's also the city council member for District 1.Multifamily housing zoning at issue in Englewood recallS...

Multiple people have been shot on campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore, police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Multiple people were shot at Morgan State University in Baltimore on Tuesday, police said.The Baltimore Police Department said officers were on the scene for an “active shooter situation” on the campus of the historically Black university. The address given for the shooting appeared to match a residential building.“We’re asking everyone to shelter in place and avoid the area,” police said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.Police spokesman Vernon Davis told the Baltimore Banner that at least four people were shot. Their conditions weren't immediately known.Police spokesperson Amanda Krotki also said “multiple victims” were shot.City Council member Odette Ramos said on X that students and staff were ordered to shelter in place. The university reported an enrollment of more than 9,000 students as of late 2022 and said it is growing.

Miami Central High School lockdown lifted after 2 armed juveniles reported by mother; 1 in custody, 1 at large

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

A lockdown at a South Florida school was lifted after two armed juveniles were reported by their mother. One of those juveniles was taken into custody. Miami-Dade Police and Miami-Dade Schools Police arrived at the scene at Miami Central High School, located at 1781 NW 95th St., Tuesday afternoon. “Attention all units. At Central High School, all units are advised to use caution per the complaint, subjects are armed and still possibly inside the school,” said a dispatcher on Broadcastify police scanner. “We’re going to start lockdown procedures.”7Skyforce hovered over the school where around 20 officers were seen with long guns as they searched for the juveniles. “The complaint is his mom, advising her two sons have multiple warrants and pick up orders… subjects fled from her,” said a dispatcher over Broadcastify police scanner. The mother of the teens told 7News she called police and told officers her two sons were armed and on the loose. ...

Police take into custody suspect accused of stealing, crashing vehicle into business in Miami

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

Police took into custody a suspect who stole a vehicle and crashed into South Florida business. Now, that business is cleaning is cleaning up the damage. City of Miami Police and Miami Fire Rescue arrived at the scene of the crash at Northwest Third Avenue and 54th Street, Tuesday evening around 7 p.m. “We’re basically trying to close what’s on the wall, so in the night, nothing is going to happen,” said Tomas Garci, who heard the crash. 7News cameras captured a car the was flipped over. According to Miami Police, one of their units was behind the reportedly stolen vehicle. When they attempted to stop the vehicle, the suspect fled and crashed into another car.A woman in the other vehicle was trapped inside. She was safely taken out of her vehicle and was transported to the Jackson Memorial Hospital as a trauma alert.“They said exactly what I said, you know they were chasing a guy who stole a car…,” said Diego De Vera, who also heard the crash. But...

Germany’s far-right ‘firewall’ cracks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

BERLIN — The political maneuver shaking Germany’s postwar democratic order involves a piece of legislation that is about as mundane as it gets.Center-right legislators in the eastern German state of Thuringia wanted to cut a local property tax by a small amount — and did so with the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD.The move broke with years of tradition in which mainstream parties have vowed to maintain a Brandmauer, or firewall, between themselves and the AfD, a party many in a country alert to the legacy of Nazism see as a dire threat to democracy. Even accepting the party’s support, the thinking goes, would legitimize far-right forces or make them salonfähig — socially acceptable.And so, when parliamentarians from the conservative Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, passed the tax reduction on a late afternoon in September with AfD votes, it sent tremors across the country’s political landscape that still are reverberating.“For me, a taboo has been broken,...

EU, US and Russia held secret talks days before Nagorno-Karabakh crisis

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

Top officials from the United States and the EU met with their Russian counterparts for undisclosed emergency talks in Turkey designed to resolve the standoff over Nagorno-Karabakh, just days before Azerbaijan launched a military offensive last month to seize the breakaway territory from ethnic Armenian control.The off-diary meeting marks a rare — if ultimately unsuccessful — contact between Moscow and the West on a major security concern, after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 upended regular diplomacy. A senior diplomat with knowledge of the discussions told POLITICO the meeting took place on September 17 in Istanbul as part of efforts to pressure Azerbaijan to end its nine-month blockade of the enclave and allow in humanitarian aid convoys from Armenia. According to the envoy, the meeting focused on “how to get the bloody trucks moving” and ensure supplies of food and fuel could reach its estimated 100,000 residents.The U.S...

Trump is no ghost of the past — he’s haunting Ukraine’s present

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.Europe and Ukraine got a nasty foretaste last week of what a second Donald Trump presidency in the United States would look like.As the former president’s polling numbers among likely Republican voters remain high — despite his mounting legal woes and criminal indictments — the number of GOP lawmakers opposed to continuing to aid Ukraine help defend itself has only grown.And thanks to these lawmakers, the U.S. House and Senate had little choice but to strip out $6 billion of military aid to Ukraine from a stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown — fearing the wrath of their constituents.Such political shocks and jolts will only increase as the U.S. presidential election gets underway in earnest — that is, of course, if congressional Republicans have the legislative power to deliver them. And like moths drawn to a flame, more and more of them will want to hover near Trump’s light, hoping to bask in it for their own electoral be...

Police investigating after mail carrier robbed at gunpoint in Lowell

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

An investigation got underway over the weekend after a US Postal Service mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint in Lowell, police said. Lowell police said officers responded to Grove Street around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday where they spoke with a postal service mail carrier who said an unknown masked person robbed him “while brandishing what he believed to be a firearm.”Police said the suspect fled the area before police arrived. The mail carrier was not injured, according to police. Security video shared with 7NEWS showed the moment a person ran up to the mail carrier’s truck. The person is seen reaching through the window and wrestling with the worker inside for a few seconds. The person is then seen sprinting back down the street before getting into a car and driving away.Salvatore Balestrieri said the incident happened in front of his house as the postal worker was completing the last delivery of his shift. “He looked a little shaken up,” Balestrieri said.Balestrieri sai...

Baltimore police confirm multiple victims in active shooter situation at Morgan State University

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:36:23 GMT

(CNN) — Baltimore police are responding to an active shooter situation involving multiple victims at Morgan State University Tuesday night, the department confirmed to CNN.Both police and the university – a small HBCU in northeast Baltimore – have urged those on campus to shelter in place and avoid the area.“Please stay clear of the area surrounding Thurgood Marshall Hall and the Murphy Fine Arts Center and shelter in place,” the university said in a notice on its website. Police said they were responding to the 1700 block of Argonne Drive.ATF Baltimore said its agents are assisting police in responding to the shooting.Morgan State is a historically Black university and had about 9,000 students enrolled in Fall 2022.This is a developing story and will be updated.