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Russian para-athletes allowed to compete in Paris 2024 Games under neutral flag

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

Russian and Belarusian para-athletes will be able to participate at next year’s Paris 2024 Games “in an individual and neutral capacity” after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) voted against a full suspension of the two countries’ national Paralympic committees.The decision was slammed by Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak. “Permitting participation of Russians in the Paralympic Games … prolongs the war,” Podolyak said in a post on social media. The IPC on Friday “partially suspended” the two countries’ national committees due to “breaches of constitutional membership obligations.”Under the decision, athletes will have to perform under a neutral flag and without a national team or emblems, and the national committees won’t be allowed to organize any sport events, the IPC said.The sanctions come two weeks before the International Olympic Committee convenes in Mumbai to discuss the participant of Russia ...

19-year-old motorcyclist dies after crash in Hingham

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

A 19-year-old man died after a motorcycle crash in Hingham late Thursday night, police said.Ethan Kulin, of Hingham, was transported to the hospital after crashing on Whiting Street at the intersection of Derby Street around 10:37 p.m. Hingham police said no other vehicles were involved.Police said the crash is still under investigation, but the initial investigation indicated the motorcycle was traveling at high rate of speed toward the intersection. When passing a vehicle on the right, the motorcycle struck the median curb, and Kulin was ejected. The motorcycle continued into a nearby yard.Hingham police said roads in the area were closed until around 1 a.m.

Gunnar Henderson named Most Valuable Oriole in sensational rookie season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

For the second straight year, a rookie has been named the best player on the Orioles.Gunnar Henderson, at just 22 years old, was announced as the Most Valuable Oriole on Saturday, as local media recognized the young star who helped propel Baltimore atop the American League.Before 2022, only two rookies had been named MVO in Orioles history dating back to 1954. Now, Baltimore’s rebuild has paid off, as Henderson follows Adley Rutschman, who won the award last year, as rookie MVOs.The two former No. 1 overall prospects winning the award is further proof — if any was needed — that the Orioles’ youth movement has arrived and is thriving. Rutschman and Henderson are the two best position players on the best team in the AL more than four years after Baltimore used its first two draft picks to select the college catcher and the high school infielder.Earlier this season, it appeared the race for MVO would be a tight one, as the balanced Orioles emerged thanks to ...

On the brink of a government shutdown, McCarthy pivots to a 45-day plan relying on Democratic help

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the brink of a federal government shutdown Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced a dramatic pivot Saturday, trying to push a 45-day funding bill through the House with Democratic help — a move that could keep government open but most certainly risks his job.Republican lawmakers met behind closed doors early in the morning with hours to go before the midnight deadline needed to fund government operations or face a disruptive federal closure. The new approach would leave behind aid to Ukraine that a growing number of Republicans oppose.The House was preparing for a quick vote Saturday on the plan. “Our options are slipping away every minute,” said one senior Republican, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, as he left the private session at the Capitol.With no deal in place before Sunday, federal workers will face furloughs, more than 2 million active-duty and reserve military troops will work without pay and programs and services that Americans rely on from coast to coas...

A European body condemns Turkey’s sentencing of an activist for links to 2013 protests

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

ISTANBUL (AP) — A European governmental body that focuses on human rights, democracy and the rule of law on Saturday condemned the decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court to confirm the aggravated life sentence for activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala.Kavala is the founder of a nonprofit organization, Anadolu Kultur, which focuses on cultural and artistic projects promoting peace and dialogue. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year after a court found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government by financing mass protests in 2013, known as the Gezi Park protests.Kavala, 65, has been jailed in Silivri prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul, since he was detained in 2017.“We wish to express our deep consternation at the decision of the Turkish Court of Cassation which confirmed the aggravated life sentence for philanthropist Osman Kavala,” said John Howell and Stefan Schennach, co-researchers for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, or P...

Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds not only over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights initiative on the state’s November ballot but also over their longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict the procedure.The disagreements, roiling the anti-abortion side just six weeks before Election Day, are providing a window into the challenges the wider movement is preparing to navigate next year. Initiatives to protect reproductive rights are expected in multiple states and abortion will be a central issue in candidate races up and down the ballot.Scattershot campaign messaging in Ohio hints at some of the internal conflict among members of the broad anti-abortion coalition aligned against the constitutional amendment that seeks to protect abortion access in Ohio.Early ads played on voters’ fears by warning that the amendment, known as Issue 1, would be a gateway to teenagers getting abortions and gender-transition surgeries wi...

York police respond to five calls for overdoses in Newmarket

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

York police are warning the public about the dangers of opioid use after responding to five calls for overdoses, one fatal, all occurring on Friday in Newmarket.On Friday, at approximately 7:35 a.m., police were called to an address on Queen Street for reports of an unconscious female believed to be overdosing.Officers found a 35-year-old woman without vital signs. She was transported to hospital where she was pronounced deceased.Between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. that day, York police responded to four more calls for suspected overdoses.Three incidents were in the area of Penrose Street and Bayview Avenue, and one other occurred on Septonne Avenue. Three total people were believed to have overdosed, and all three survived.Police say that any street drug is considered dangerous and potentially lethal, and that the potency of some drugs, such as opioids, can greatly increase the risk of an overdose. Street drugs can also contain other life-threatening drugs within them that the user may...

Latest search for remains of the Tulsa Race Massacre victims ends with seven sets of remains exhumed

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest search for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 59 graves found and seven sets of remains exhumed, according to Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.The excavation ended Friday, Stackelbeck said, and 57 of the 59 graves were unmarked and previously unknown. The seven that were exhumed were found in simple, wooden boxes that Stackelbeck has said investigators were searching for because they were described in newspaper articles at the time, death certificates and funeral home records as the type used for burials of massacre victims.“For all of those seven individuals that we’ve exhumed up to this point in time, those individuals have been transported to our onsite forensic laboratory,” where efforts to identify them and determine the causes of their deaths will begin.None of the remains found thus far have been confirmed as victims of the massacre.The seven exhumed remains will be reburied in their o...

'Shocked and saddened': Sarah, Duchess of York, mourns former assistant murdered in Dallas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, says she is "shocked and saddened" by the murder of former personal assistant Jenean Chapman, who was found dead in Dallas earlier this week."Jenean was loyal, hardworking, beautiful and fun and my heart breaks for her family and friends," Ferguson wrote in an Instagram post which also contained a photo of she and Chapman in the back of a car. "I heard from her just a couple of months ago and she seemed so happy."Officers with the Dallas Police Department found Chapman's body in an apartment in downtown Dallas around 1:15 p.m. Monday, according to a DPD news release. The manner of death was determined to be a homicide.Chapman was 46 years old. Las Vegas police provide details on Tupac Shakur murder charge, suspect The day after Chapman's body was discovered, police identified James Patrick, 48, as a suspect. Patrick was arrested in Austin."Patrick will be charged with Murder and is [in] custody in Travis County," DPD officials s...

If marijuana is rescheduled, will it be legalized nationwide?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:31 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — The legalization of marijuana has been a frequent topic of discussion in recent years, with many states opting to legalize it themselves instead of waiting for the federal government to do so. But now, federal health officials have recommended reclassifying marijuana, giving some hope that this could be a crucial step toward national legalization. Unfortunately, that isn’t exactly what it means. Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, meaning the Drug Enforcement Administration considers it without a “currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Marijuana rescheduling falls short of expectations on Biden However, the Department of Health and Human Services has sent its findings on marijuana to the DEA, reportedly recommending that it be reclassified as a Schedule III drug. That classification means the substance has a “moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.”Other Schedule II...