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Alexandria, Va.—A federal jury has convicted an Afghan refugee housed at Quantico Marine Corps Base after he fled the country with a sexual assault. The jury in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Friday found Mohammed Tariq, 24, guilty of abusive sexual contact.
Tariq was arrested in September at Camp Upshur in Quantico after Marines observed him fondling the girl, who was not related to him, above her clothes on her private parts. According to court papers, Tariq tried to explain through interpreters that his conduct was acceptable in his culture. Efforts to have his statements suppressed were rejected by the judge. Tariq, who was brought to Virginia
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The U.S. faces a race to beat China in recovering an F-35 stealth fighter that plunged into the South China Sea on Monday after what the Navy termed a 'landing mishap' aboard the USS Carl Vinson.
The pilot was forced to eject and seven military personnel in total were injured. The $100m warplane, customised for naval operations, plunged overboard, the US 7th Fleet said - making it the second time in three months that an F-35 has been lost overboard. 'An F-35C Lightning II assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, embarked aboard USS (CVN 70) had a landing mishap and impacted the flight deck and subsequently fell
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Seven US sailors were injured Monday when a fighter jet had a “landing mishap” on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea, officials said. The pilot of the F-35 Lighting II warplane was recovered by a helicopter after ejecting and is in stable condition. The incident occurred during “routine flight operations,” the Navy said. Three of the injured sailors were taken to a medical facility in Manila, while the other four were treated aboard the ship. Three of the four have since been released.
The status of the Lockheed Martin-made F-35, estimated to cost around $94 million, is unclear.
New York Daily News,
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A 6-month-old baby was fatally shot in Atlanta, marking the second infant to be killed in the city this month amid a surge in gun violence. The shooting occurred on Monday outside a Food Mart convenience store around 3 p.m. The mourning mother told multiple news outlets she was driving along Anderson Ave. when a bullet pierced her vehicle and then struck her baby, who was seated in the backseat at the time.(Snip)In the minutes leading up to the deadly violence, two people nearby became involved in an altercation that culminated in the shooting. The mother and her child were simply caught in the crossfire, he said.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who helped block sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project, received campaign donations from corporate PACs affiliated with two of the European companies that helped fund the pipeline, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon. The corporate political action committees of ENGIE North America and BASF Corporation, two affiliates of European companies that are associated with the funding for Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, gave $2,500 campaign contributions to Schumer’s campaign in September, according to records with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the report stated. Reportedly, the parent company for ENGIE North America and a subsidiary for BASF are part of
Washington Times,
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Homeland Security recorded more than 2 million encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border last year, shattering previous records, as the Biden administration relaxed the country’s immigration policies. The department released final December numbers on Monday and announced a snap visit by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the border later this week to try to take stock of the situation.
He’ll likely hear the grim details from agents themselves: The numbers have never looked worse for border illegal activity.
Seizures of dangerous drugs like fentanyl are soaring, and migrants are surging in even during what used to be quiet months, and they’re coming from much further afield than ever before.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Omicron could have jumped into humans from mice, scientists say.
The mysterious origin of the heavily-mutated Covid variant that triggered global panic only a month ago continues to puzzle experts.
But Chinese scientists now say they may have unearthed evidence linking the mutant strain to mice—in its DNA. Analysis showed the variant carries mutations that make it better at infecting the animal group—which previous research has shown can catch Covid from humans.(Snip)But most scientists agree that Omicron likely emerged after a prolonged infection in an immunocompromised person, such as an HIV patient. In the study, researchers compared the DNA of Omicron to the original Wuhan virus
Daily Mail (UK),
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A Missouri university is hosting an online forum that will explore whether the term 'professionalism' is racist—and according to the event's synopsis, it is. The February 1 presentation at Washington University's St. Louis campus centers around a term defined by Merriam-Webster as 'the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person.'
An explainer for the upcoming virtual event reads: 'The term “professionalism” has at times been used to silence and marginalize people of color, when attributes of appearance, language or interactions that have nothing to do with job knowledge or constructive collegial relationships are labeled as “unprofessional”. 'In this context, so-called professionalism
New York Post,
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The Black Lives Matter chapter of Washington, DC, has called for the public not to automatically hail cops shot on the job as “heroes” before all facets of a situation are considered. In a series of tweets late Sunday, Black Lives Matter DC said the public should not “jump to conclusions” after a Metropolitan Police officer was wounded by a barricaded suspect late Sunday in the city’s Petworth section. “Let’s wait till we have all the information (isn’t that what y’all tell us),” the chapter tweeted late Sunday.(Snip) “No one asks what the cop did wrong.” The group said “reaction” and news coverage of the shooting was tilted toward
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A man in traditional Jewish garb was randomly slugged in Brooklyn over the weekend, authorities said. The 21-year-old victim—who was wearing Hasidic garments—was walking at Troy Avenue and Carroll Street in Crown Heights around 1:20 a.m. Saturday when the suspect approached him from across the street and socked him in the nose, cops said. The assailant didn’t say a word during the assault, police said.(Snip)The suspect—shown on video walking on the sidewalk past a yellow school bus for Beis Chaya Mushka, a girls’ high school located at that intersection—fled, police said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is investigating the assault.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Major cities across the US have observed carjackings spike by up to 510 per cent in a 'disturbing' trend some are attributing to lax punishment and a shift in driving habits. In line with an overall rise in violent crime across the nation, cities such as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans are experiencing a jump in violent vehicle takeovers as critics slam criminal reform systems.
Others say changes that have come about during the pandemic—including curbside pickup and an increased demand for delivery service—are contributing to the jump. In Chicago, 1,849 carjackings were reported last year—a 510 per cent increase from the 303 vehicular hijackings
Associated Press,
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San Juan, Puerto Rico—Unknown people toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in the pre-dawn hours of Monday ahead of a visit of King Felipe VI to the U.S. Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico. Col. José Juan García, police commissioner for San Juan, told The Associated Press that officers patrolling the cobblestone streets of the capital’s historic district heard a loud bang at 4:30 a.m. and found the broken statue.(Snip)The statue was made of melted steel from British cannons and featured the Spanish explorer facing south with his left hand on his hip and right finger pointed toward the first settlement he founded.
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