An off-duty Brazilian military police officer was recorded killing his wife by punching her five times in the face and shooting her at least twice after an argument that started inside their car led to a fight in the street.
According to The New York Post, the video allegedly shows Thiago de Lima, a 36-year-old Brazilian military police officer, firing a gun at his wife, 33-year-old Erika de Lima, at least twice before she collapsed on the ground during the argument that occurred on Sunday. CNN Brasil reported that Thiago and Erika de Lima were married for roughly six months prior to the incident.
Before the military police officer fatally shot his wife, surveillance footage showed Erika de Lima attempting to get her husband out of the vehicle before he left the vehicle and began punching her repeatedly in the face.
According to The New York Post, Thiago de Lima entered the car and began driving away after the shooting incident; however, he eventually returned to the scene of the crime and attempted to get his wife back in the car. Brazilian outlet G1 reported that the military police officer took his wife to the hospital, where she was declared dead.
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According to G1, Thiago de Lima is currently facing charges for femicide, which is the crime designation for a homicide that is linked to domestic violence and discrimination against women.
G1 reported that roughly a month before the fatal shooting, Erika de Lima filed a police report due to a domestic violence threat by her husband; however, she did not pursue charges against the military police officer.
At the time of the previous incident, Erika de Lima claimed that Thiago de Lima had threatened her by pointing a gun at her head after the two attended a nightclub. The military police officer denied any claims that he threatened his wife or pointed a gun at her.
Erika de Lima leaves behind two daughters from a prior relationship, according to The New York Post.
The graphic video of the military police officer fatally shooting his wife can be seen below.
GRAVE: Policial Militar agride esposa com socos no rosto e a mata a tiros após discussão em carro.
Thiago Cezar de Lima deu cinco socos em Erika Satelis Ferreira de Lima e depois atirou três vezes nela, no domingo, em Perus, Zona Norte de São Paulo. O criminoso já está preso. pic.twitter.com/62BANfCAga
Taylor Swift will never, ever, ever get tired of breaking records and making history, it seems.
Time magazine named the “Karma” singer its 2023 Person of the Year on Wednesday, revealing that she is also the first woman to appear twice on its annual honorary cover since the series began in 1927. Swift, 33, made her Person of the Year cover debut in 2017 as part of the “Silence Breakers,” a group of women who helped spark a cultural reckoning around sexual harassment and assault. She appeared alongside California lobbyist Adama Iwu, actor Ashley Judd, a strawberry picker identified as Isabel Pascual and software engineer Susan Fowler.
“This is the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I’ve ever been,” Swift said in Wednesday’s cover story.
In 2023, Swift’s impact was undeniable — and seemingly inescapable. In March, the 12-time Grammy winner launched her highly lucrative Eras tour, which catered to multiple generations of her devoted fans known as Swifties. Concertgoers came braced with friendship bracelets, brought their mothers to experience the singer’s hits and even set off earthquake-like activity in Seattle. The “Cruel Summer” hitmaker brought her Eras tour to Los Angeles, taking over Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium for several nights. The singer will continue the tour in February 2024 with four shows in Tokyo.
Swift continued to expand her empire this year with the release of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” concert movie. In early October, “Eras” earned $96 million in its first four days at the domestic box office, marking the highest opening for a concert film.
In late October, a Bloomberg News analysis reported that the singer had joined the billionaire’s club thanks to her ongoing blockbuster tour. According to the report, Swift reportedly touts a net worth of $1.1 billion and her tour “added $4.3 billion to the country’s gross domestic product.”
Amid touring, Swift also released “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” a rerecording of her Grammy-winning “1989” album. The rerecording is part of the singer’s efforts to take back ownership of the six-album catalog she lost when celebrity music manager Scooter Braun purchased — and subsequently sold — her record label, Big Machine.
“No one else on the planet today can move so many people so well. Achieving this feat is something we often chalk up to the alignments of planets and fates, but giving too much credit to the stars ignores her skill and her power,” Time editor in chief Sam Jacobs explained. Jacobs also wrote that Swift has become the magazine’s first Person of the Year to be recognized for “her success in the arts.”
This year, Swift also found success on the awards circuit. In September, she took home nine awards at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, bringing her overall total to 23 prizes. Beyoncé remains the VMA’s most-decorated artist with 29 wins. Just last month, Swift earned 10 honors at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards and scored six Grammy nominations for her album “Midnights.”
And when there seems to be a lull in Swift music news, her highly publicized relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce fills that void. Their romance got off the ground in late September when the singer watched a Chiefs NFL game against the Chicago Bears. Swift and Kelce (a.k.a. “Trayvis”) have since been spotted getting cozy and kissing, making both Swifties and football fanatics react with grade-school glee.
“By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date,” Swift said in Wednesday’s cover story, breaking her silence about the relationship. “When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care.”
The singer, who also earned spots on Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women and People’s 2023 Most Intriguing People of the Year lists, celebrated the Time honor on Instagram. She shared different cover photos including one that featured her cat, Benjamin Button, draped around her neck.
“Time Magazine: We’d like to name you Person of the Yea-,” she wrote. ” Me: Can I bring my cat.”
Norman Lear, the multiple Emmy Award-winning writer-producer and liberal political activist who revolutionized prime-time television in the 1970s with groundbreaking, socially relevant situation comedies such as “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The Jeffersons,” has died. He was 101.
One of the most successful and influential producers in television history, Lear died at his home in Los Angeles, said his publicist Lara Bergthold.
President Bill Clinton, right, along with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, award playwright Norman Lear, left, with the 1999 National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award Sept. 29, 1999, at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. (Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
In the mid-1970s, it was estimated that some 120 million Americans — more than half the nation’s population at the time—watched the various sitcoms produced by Lear and Bud Yorkin, his longtime partner in Tandem Productions. Indeed, Lear and Yorkin had five of the top 10 programs in the Nielsen ratings for the 1974-75 TV season.
Lear’s success as a television producer and show developer was such that after he accepted an Emmy for “All in the Family” as outstanding comedy series in 1972 — one of seven Emmys the landmark show won that year — Johnny Carson quipped: “I understand Norman has just sold his acceptance speech as a new series.”
Along with his reputation as a prolific television producer, Lear earned praise and condemnation as a TV trailblazer whose sitcoms toppled taboos in their treatment of then controversial topics such as LGTBQ rights, abortion and infidelity.
“Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it,” President Clinton said when Lear received the National Medal of Arts in 1999.
Norman Lear, television producer and owner of a copy of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence, speaks at the 2001 Liberty Medal ceremonies July 4, 2001, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. (William Thomas Cain/Getty Images/TNS)
Lear, whose resume included three years writing for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on “The Colgate Comedy Hour” in the early 1950s, teamed with director and producer Yorkin in late 1958 and formed Tandem Productions.
Over the next decade, they executive-produced “The Andy Williams Show” and produced TV specials that were written by Lear and directed by Yorkin, including ones starring Bobby Darin, Danny Kaye and Henry Fonda.
They also made half a dozen movies, including the Yorkin-directed “Divorce American Style” (which earned Lear an Oscar nomination for his screenplay) and “Cold Turkey” (which Lear wrote, produced and directed.)
Then came “All in the Family,” a situation comedy unlike any that had preceded it on American TV.
Yorkin said in interviews that he saw a hit British sitcom called “Till Death Us Do Part” and was so blown away that he sent Lear a copy of the controversial show, whose reactionary and bigoted working-class main character constantly argued with his young, left-wing son-in-law.
Norman Lear in 2007, at the Hollywood Celebrates 18 Declare Yourself event. Lear died at 101. (Marianna Day Massey/Zuma Press/TNS)
The British show’s two verbally sparring male characters struck a chord with Lear, who recalled having similar battles with his own father.
Lear’s father, Herman, also was known to punctuate noisy arguments with Lear’s mother by yelling at her, “Jeanette, stifle! Will you stifle yourself?”
“I was flooded with ideas,” Lear wrote in his book, “and knew I had to do an American version of this show.”
Tandem Productions obtained the rights to the British series, and Lear wrote a script for a pilot commissioned by ABC that introduced the soon-to-be-famous working-class family living in the New York City borough of Queens, with Carroll O’Connor cast as the bigoted, opinionated and relentlessly argumentative Archie Bunker and Jean Stapleton as his loving, sweet-natured wife, Edith.
The taping of the 1968 pilot generated big laughs from the live studio audience, but ABC passed on it, as well as a second pilot made for the network in 1969, deciding that the show’s potentially offensive language and content would be inappropriate in a country already in turmoil over the increasingly unpopular Vietnam War, racism, Watergate and the emerging feminist movement.
CBS seized the moment. And, despite the network’s own concerns and a commitment for only 13 episodes, “All in the Family” debuted as a midseason replacement on Jan. 12, 1971 — a Tuesday.
By then, a third set of young actors had been brought in to play the Bunkers’ daughter, Gloria, and Gloria’s ultra-liberal college-student husband, Mike Stivic (“Meathead” to Archie): Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner.
The chemistry between the four, Lear later said, “was made in heaven.”
The debut episode featured Archie in all his glory as he used racial epithets never before heard on network TV. The loud and malapropism-prone Archie also touched on subjects such as atheism, the virtues of premarital celibacy, the breakdown of law and order, long hair on boys and short skirts on girls.
At one point, Archie launched into a heated argument with his son-in-law Mike over whether Black people had been denied their share of the American dream.
Mike: Now I suppose you’re going to tell me that the Black man has had the same opportunity in this country as you.
Archie: More — he’s had more! I didn’t have no million people out there marching and protesting to get me my job.
Edith: No, his uncle got it for him.
Some viewers denounced “All in the Family” as vulgar and trashy, while others panned the program as humorless and potentially contributing to the bigotry it was spoofing.
But the vast majority of those who tuned in welcomed a situation comedy that dealt with real time issues in an honest way — and did it with superior comedy writing and a stellar cast.
By May 1971, “All in the Family” was, in Lear’s words, “red hot” and rising in the ratings. That same month, it won three Emmy Awards, including those for outstanding new series and outstanding comedy series.
For five consecutive seasons — from October 1971 to April 1976 — “All in the Family” was the No. 1-rated program. In all, the show would earn four Emmys for outstanding comedy series, and Lear would win a 1977 Peabody Award “for giving us comedy with a social conscience.”
Years later in a 2022 New York Times opinion piece on his 100th birthday, Lear reflected on how his signature character would have reacted to post-President Trump America.
“If Archie had been around 50 years later, he probably would have watched Fox News. He probably would have been a Trump voter,” Lear wrote. “But I think that the sight of the American flag being used to attack Capitol Police would have sickened him. I hope that the resolve shown by Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and their commitment to exposing the truth, would have won his respect.”
“All in the Family” led to successful spinoff series that also tackled socially relevant and sometimes controversial subjects: “Maude,” starring Bea Arthur as the ultraliberal title character and Bill Macy as her husband; and “The Jeffersons,” starring Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford as a successful Black couple living in a high-rise apartment on Manhattan’s East Side.
“Maude,” in turn, spawned “Good Times,” starring Esther Rolle and John Amos as a financially struggling Black couple and their three children living in Chicago’s South Side.
There were other series, including “Sanford and Son,” “One Day at a Time” and “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” a groundbreaking satirical soap opera starring Louise Lasser that ran in late-night syndication after all three networks turned it down.
But none had the impact of “All in the Family.”
Musing on the series’ legacy in a 2002 interview with The Times, Lear said: “People always say, ‘Did it change anything?’ I can’t say. But when people turned the shows off, conversation ensued.”
The grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Lear was born July 27, 1922, in New Haven, Connecticut.
His father, an extroverted and affectionate man with a penchant for get-rich-quick schemes, caused an unexpected trauma to the family in the summer of 1931 when he was arrested for receiving and attempting to sell fake bonds to a Boston brokerage house. Convicted, he was sentenced to three years in prison.
After subsequently living in Brooklyn, New York, nearly four years, the family returned to Hartford, where Lear wrote a humor column and served as features editor on his high school newspaper. He also wrote a class play.
Lear was attending Emerson College in Boston, with the intention of majoring in journalism, when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942. He flew 52 missions as a radio operator and gunner on a B-17 over Europe.
After the war, Lear landed a job with a Broadway publicity firm. But he quit after less than a year to work with his father in a short-lived business manufacturing electric hot plates and tea kettles.
In 1949, Lear and his first wife, Charlotte, and their young daughter, Ellen, moved to Los Angeles. While trying to find a publicity job, he sold home furnishings door-to-door with his cousin’s husband, Ed Simmons, who had come West to become a comedy writer.
One night, Lear helped Simmons finish writing a song parody, which they sold the same night to a nightclub entertainer for $40. Thus motivated, they continued spending their evenings together writing jokes, comedy routines and musical parodies.
In 1950, Lear and Simmons were hired to write for “Ford Star Revue,” a new NBC musical-comedy show broadcast from New York. Their sketch-writing quickly caught the attention of Jerry Lewis, and they soon were hired to write for Lewis and Martin on “The Colgate Comedy Hour.”
Lear and Simmons next wrote for “The Martha Raye Show,” on which Lear became a producer and a director. After he and Simmons went their separate ways, Lear wrote for Tennessee Ernie Ford’s musical-variety show and then was hired to write and produce George Gobel’s comedy-variety show.
With the great success of “All in the Family” and Tandem Productions’ other sitcoms in the ’70s, Lear became as widely known as the stars of his shows. The energetic producer was profiled on “60 Minutes” and invited to host “Saturday Night Live.” He also was named on President Richard Nixon’s infamous “Enemies List.”
More than four decades later, in 2019, the 97-year-old Lear became the oldest person to ever win an Emmy Award, as one of the executive producers of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons,’ ” a live ABC special that re-created two episodes of the old shows with new casts.
But the fact that the title referred to “Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ ” resurrected criticism from Yorkin’s family and others, who maintain that Lear, as a 2019 article in The Times put it, had long failed to credit his former partner’s role in the success of Tandem Productions in interviews, his book and an “American Masters” documentary on Lear.
After reading The Times story, Lear told Variety he now made sure to mention Yorkin in interviews. “Bud’s was the horse we rode in on,” he said.
In 1978, Lear stepped down as production supervisor of his various shows, saying he wanted to “flex other creative muscles.”
Concerned by “the mixture of politics and religion, and the conviction that God is on your side in social and political matters,” he created a series of TV spots to counter what he believed was an effort to diminish Americans’ fundamental freedoms.
Lear himself had incurred the wrath of the religious right, which characterized him as a corrupter of American decency for injecting LGTBQ rights, abortion and other controversial topics into his comedy shows. The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the late leader of the Moral Majority, called Lear “the No. 1 enemy of the American family.”
In 1981, Lear and others founded People for the American Way, a nonprofit organization formed, according to Lear’s website, “to speak out for Bill of Rights guarantees and to monitor violations of constitutional freedoms.”
In 1982, Lear, Yorkin and their business partner A. Jerrold “Jerry” Perenchio purchased AVCO Embassy Pictures Corp. and made feature films and television series. Lear and Perenchio later sold it for a reported $485 million.
In 1984, the same year Lear was among the first seven inductees into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, he returned to television with the first all-Latino mainstream series: the short-lived sit-com about a Mexican American family, “a.k.a. Pablo,” starring stand-up comic Paul Rodriguez.
After Lear’s long marriage to his second wife, Frances — they had two daughters, Kate and Maggie — ended in divorce, he married Lyn Davis in 1987. They had three children: Benjamin and twins Madeline and Brianna. Lear is survived by his wife, five children and numerous grandchildren.
Lear is survived by his wife Lyn; daughters Ellen, Kate, Maggie Beth, Madeline and Brianna; son Benjamin and numerous grandchildren.
After the Embassy sale, Lear financed a new company, Act III Communications, which built a chain of movie theaters, a chain of independent TV stations and a string of trade publications. It also financed movies, including “Stand By Me” and “The Princess Bride,” which were directed by Rob Reiner. Act III later acquired Concord Records and other labels to form the Concord Music Group, which soon merged with Village Roadshow Pictures to form the Village Roadshow Entertainment Group.
Lear returned to television again in the early `90s. But all three of his sitcoms — “Sunday Dinner,” “The Powers That Be” and “704 Hauser,” about a Black family living in the Bunkers’ old house — were short-lived.
In 2000, a $5 million gift from Lear launched the Norman Lear Center at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. The multidisciplinary research and public policy center studies “the convergence of entertainment, commerce and society.”
After Lear and his wife paid $8.1 million for a rare original copy of the Declaration of Independence in 2000, Lear launched what he called the “biggest production of my life”: a nationwide tour of the historical document, from 2001 until the presidential election of 2004.
Well into his 90s, Lear continued to stay active and receive awards for his life’s work, including a second Peabody Award in 2016.
Lear, whom a writer for the Christian Science Monitor once described as having “an expression halfway between a professor and a leprechaun,” said in his autobiography that of all the characters he had created and cast, the one who most resembled him was the outspoken Maude Findlay.
“That’s the character who shares my passion, my social concerns, and my politics—not as articulately as the ‘professor’ in me would wish — still, pleading to be heard and understood.”
Viral gastroenteritis is an intestinal infection marked by watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea or vomiting, headache, muscle aches and sometimes fever. It’s often called a stomach bug or the stomach flu, but it’s not actually the flu or influenza, which is a respiratory illness. This infection often develops though contact with an infected person or by ingesting contaminated food or water.
An upset stomach is a common symptom of a stomach bug, which can make eating sound unappealing, even though you may be hungry. Knowing what to eat is difficult because you don’t know what will agree with your stomach.
Follow these tips for fueling your body when you have viral gastroenteritis:
•Let your stomach settle. Avoid eating solid foods for a few hours. Instead, drink liquids like broths, teas, sodas or noncaffeinated sports drinks.
•Hydrate. Focus on drinking in small amounts of liquid frequently to stay hydrated.
•Ease back into eating. After you can tolerate drinking clear fluids, start eating smaller meals of bland, low-residual foods, such as mashed potatoes, plain noodles, crackers, toast, gelatin, bananas, rice and chicken.
•Be cautious with medications. It’s best to use over-the-counter medications like ibuprofen sparingly as they can cause an upset stomach. Discuss your medications with your health care team to avoid any potential side effects. If your symptoms are severe, you may need to use an over-the-counter medication to help decrease diarrhea symptoms or an anti-nausea medicine to help you keep food and fluids down with vomiting.
The main complication of a stomach bug is dehydration, which is a severe loss of water and essential salts and minerals. You can lower the risk of dehydration by drinking enough fluids to replace those lost from vomiting or diarrhea.
Depending on the cause, viral gastroenteritis symptoms generally appear about one to three days after exposure. Symptoms can be mild or, at times, severe and last for a few days to a week.
When to see a health care professional
Although viral gastroenteritis is extremely common, it can usually be managed at home. Red flags or worrisome symptoms that would prompt a visit to your healthcare team are severe dehydration, not being able to keep fluids down, bloody stools, severe abdominal pain or when symptoms last longer than one week. Young children, older adults and people with compromised immune systems are more likely to have complications related to viral gastroenteritis.
Prevention
Good hand hygiene and proper food handling are essential to prevent you from getting sick and to limit the spread of viral gastroenteritis within a household, school, workplace and the community. Ensure you wash your hands with soap and water, especially after using the bathroom, before preparing food and eating. Stomach bugs most commonly are seen in the winter and spring, so it’s important to be diligent, especially this time of year.
Chicago-based credit reporting company TransUnion is laying off 339 employees beginning in February as part of a broader cost-savings initiative and a move to ship jobs overseas.
Last month TransUnion announced plans to cut up to $140 million in annual operating expenses by 2026, with half of the savings to be realized next year. The company, which has more than 13,000 employees in 30 countries, said about 10% of its workforce would be affected by the cost-reduction program through either relocation or layoffs.
The company, which has grown its international operations to more than 4,000 employees in India, South Africa and Costa Rica since 2018, plans to transition more roles to those locations over the next two years to drive cost savings, according to the November news release.
TransUnion, one of three major credit bureaus along with Equifax and Experian, collects personal financial data and provides reports for businesses and consumers. The company reported a net loss of $400 million in the third quarter amid flat revenues as higher interest rates and inflation weaken demand for mortgages and other loans.
The company, which is headquartered at 555 W. Adams St. in Chicago, notified the state last week of the 339 permanent layoffs associated with its Illinois operations. The layoffs are set to begin Feb. 2, the company reported.
A TransUnion spokesperson declined to comment on the layoffs Wednesday.
The Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires businesses with 75 or more employees to provide the state with 60 days’ advance notice of pending plant closures or mass layoffs.
A Miami-Dade woman was booked into jail Wednesday after one of her sons used an unsecured gun to shoot and kill his 4-year-old sister last month. The mother’s boyfriend, who is accused of leaving the gun unattended, was arrested shortly after the shooting.
Krystal Banegas, 24, was charged with child neglect causing great bodily harm, and three counts of child negligence for each of her surviving sons who witnessed the shooting. Her boyfriend, Quavanta Demettris Ennels, 25, has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, three counts of child negligence, and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
They remained behind bars at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Wednesday afternoon. Banegas’ attorney information wasn’t available early Wednesday afternoon. The public defender’s office, which represents Ennels, didn’t immediately respond Wednesday to the Miami Herald’s emailed request for comment.
At 3:41 p.m. Nov. 5, police rushed to the 8180 block of Northwest 21st Avenue in response to a report of a shot child. There they found the 4-year-old girl, later identified as Josalyn Taylor-Rolle, with a gunshot wound to the head, Miami-Dade police said.
Josalyn was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where she was declared brain-dead shortly after arriving. She was then taken for further testing to Holtz Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, where she was disconnected from life support Nov. 13.
An autopsy revealed Josalyn died due to a shot to the head, and the manner of death was deemed a homicide.
What happened that day?
According to court documents, Josalyn was in a bedroom with her three brothers — ages 2, 3 and 6 — when one of them grabbed Ennels’ gun. The bedroom’s door was closed while Banegas, Ennels and “other adults” were in the living room watching football.
The child then took the gun out of the bag and shot his sister in the head. When Ennels and Banegas heard the gunshot, they ran into the bedroom and found Josalyn bleeding.
Ennels was arrested shortly after because state law says that convicted felons like him can’t have guns. In 2016, he was sentenced to four years for armed robbery in Duval County, Florida Department of Corrections records show. He was released in 2018.
Ennels described the boy he says shot Josalyn as a mischievous child, “always doing things he was not supposed to do, police said.
On Nov. 21, Banegas told investigators she didn’t know the gun was in the bedroom.
“On more than one occasion she appeared more concerned about whether she would be arrested than providing investigators clear information,” a detective wrote on Banegas’ arrest warrant affidavit.
After a judge signed an arrest warrant for Banegas, she was arrested Tuesday night.
Children interviewed
Two of Banega’s three sons were interviewed, and her youngest, 2, was not because of his age, court records reveal.
While none of them admitted to shooting their sister, both said Ennels had left the gun on a dresser in the bedroom, contradicting his earlier statement when he told detectives he had left it in a book bag, according to police.
Investigators found a gun holster on the floor and near the dresser, a bullet “within the south wall of the bedroom,” an empty black Taurus 9mm semiautomatic gun without a magazine on the kitchen floor, and an extended magazine loaded with 10 bullets inside a garbage bin.
Florida’s Department of Children and Families didn’t immediately say whether the surviving children were under state custody.
Ennels and Banegas “failed” to provide them with care, supervision and services necessary to maintain the physical and mental health” of the victims, the detective wrote.
“The evidence shows that the Subject (Banegas) left the victims in a room, unattended, with a loaded firearm that was subsequently retrieved by one of the victims and used to kill the deceased victim,” the detective wrote.
Former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2024, recently predicted that President Joe Biden would not be the Democrat Party’s nominee for president next year and warned Biden is surrounded by “evil” people.
During an appearance on Fox News in Iowa, host Sean Hannity commented that Biden is “struggling cognitively” and pressed Trump on who he believes the Democrat nominee will be.
“I can’t think of, in the last couple of months, any appearance that he’s had where he wasn’t either mumbling or bumbling or stumbling, or having no clue where to go, where to exit. Now, my question is, do you think in eleven months, he will be their candidate?” Hannity asked.
President Trump doesn’t think Joe Biden will make it to the Election as the Democrat nominee:
“I personally don’t think he makes it, OK? I haven’t said that. I’m saving it for this big town hall. I personally don’t think he makes it,” Trump said. “I think he’s in bad shape physically.”
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“Do you remember when he said, ‘I’d like to take him behind the barn’? If he took me behind the barn and I went like this,” Trump said while pretending to lightly blow on Biden. “He would fall. I believe he’d fall.”
The crowd erupted in laughter as Trump continued to mock Biden, saying, “I believe he’d fall over, but who knows? Who knows?”
“I personally don’t think he makes it physically,” Trump added. “I watched him at the beach. He wasn’t able to lift a beach chair, which is meant for children to lift. And mentally, I would say he’s possibly equally as bad, and maybe even worse.”
Trump noted that Biden has “vicious” and “evil” people surrounding him in the White House.
“There are people in that Oval Office that are evil people. Bad people. Smart people. Young, vicious, they’re communist,” Trump said.
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission.
Fighting between the junta and three allied resistance groups in Myanmar’s north has trapped over 500 civilians, a rescue team told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.
A trade zone in Shan state’s Muse township is now at the epicenter of an escalating humanitarian crisis, where charity workers attempting rescues are being shot at, the group added. Violence has only escalated from Nov. 29 until Tuesday, a Muse-based social assistance worker told RFA.
“A woman was injured when a heavy weapon dropped near her house at 105-mile [trade zone] yesterday. She died because she could not be rescued in time,” he said, asking to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
“There were some calls for help from those who were injured and trapped. We could not go. If a [rescue] van goes there, it gets shot at. So we can not do anything to help. There are people who died and their bodies could not be picked up either.”
Workers and injured civilians are trapped on the road in the direction of Kyin San Kyawt border gate, he added, and some families were trapped in a village near 105-mile trade zone.
There are three bodies and other injured people near Ton Kan village on Kyin San Kyawt road between 105-mile trade zone and Muse city, according to rescue workers.
More than 10 civilians, including three children, were killed in fighting that lasted over a week. The actual number of the casualties could be higher, they added, and at least 2,000 people have fled Muse and are displaced due to fighting.
However, rescue workers said they could not confirm the exact number of casualties and trapped people because internet access and phone lines were disconnected in the area.
If the fighting lasts longer, people remaining in 105-mile trade zone would face food shortages, since food can no longer be sent, said a Muse resident who wished to remain anonymous to protect their identity. Junta troops are stationed at the exit of Muse city because there is a military camp at 105-mile Hill, residents said, adding the three northern alliances currently occupy Kyin San Kyawt Road.
Both military junta spokesman Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun and Li Kyarwen, a spokesperson from the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, one of the three allied forces, said the battle was intense at Muse’s 105-mile trade zone. However, neither disclosed exact details regarding casualties or injuries.
A new report issued Monday by the House Weaponization Subcommittee claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) “abused its counterterrorism tools” in order to target Catholics and pro-life supporters “as potential domestic terrorists.”
According to The Daily Caller, the FBI retracted a Richmond field office internal memorandum in February that described Catholics as “radical” and alleged that Catholics promote “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.” In response to the widespread backlash to the FBI memorandum, the House Weaponization Subcommittee launched an investigation into the incident.
“The documents received pursuant to the Committee’s subpoena show that the FBI singled out Americans who are pro-life, pro-family, and support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction as potential domestic terrorists,” the committee’s new report states. “The memorandum recognized ‘the run-up to the next general election cycle’ as a key time frame and cited the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade as a flash point.”
The report claims that the FBI met with a Catholic bishop and a choir director in November or December of 2022 while the memorandum was still being developed. Additionally, the report claims the FBI “directly communicated with Catholic clergy and staff about parishioners practicing their faith.”
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In its report, the House Weaponization Subcommittee claimed that the FBI memorandum would likely remain in effect and would continue to violate “the religious liberties of millions of Catholic Americans” if a whistleblower had not come forward with information regarding the targeting of Catholics and pro-life supporters.
According to The Daily Caller, the FBI has not provided an estimate regarding how many of its field offices obtained the memorandum despite the House committee requesting the information. The report claims that the FBI did not have a “legitimate basis” for developing the memorandum except for a “single investigation” of an individual who was “self-described” as a “radical-traditionalist Catholic.”
In addition to repeatedly criticizing the FBI for failing to present the House Weaponization Subcommittee with requested documents regarding the development and distribution of the controversial FBI memorandum, the committee’s report claimed that the FBI’s own review of the incident discovered “errors at every step of the drafting, review, and approval of Richmond’s Catholic ‘intelligence product.’”
Despite the report published by the House Weaponization Subcommittee, an FBI spokesperson told The Daily Caller that “any characterization that the FBI is targeting Catholics is false.”
“We have stated repeatedly that the intelligence product prepared by one FBI field office did not meet the exacting standards of the FBI and was quickly removed from FBI systems,” the FBI spokesperson stated. “An internal review conducted by the FBI found no malicious intent to target Catholics or members of any other religious faith, and did not identify any investigative steps taken as a result of the product.”
A mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has ended with at least three people killed, another in critical condition and the shooter dead, Las Vegas police said Wednesday.
The shooting was reported around noon at the Frank and Estella Beam Hall, home to the Lee Business School, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
UNLV Vice President of Public Safety Services Adam Garcia said officers “engaged” the shooter, who was then found “deceased.”
Police are seen at the scene of a shooting on the UNLV campus on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
Authorities also investigated reports of shots fired near the student union.
Several major thoroughfares near the campus remained closed, with police in and around the University District. Several other schools in the area also were locked down, with many campuses closed for the day after the shooting.
The shooter died around 12:30 p.m. after a massive tactical response by Las Vegas Metro police and its SWAT vehicles along with federal law enforcement, sources told the Los Angeles Times. Within a few minutes of the first shot being fired, Las Vegas Metro police officers fired on the shooter, law enforcement sources said. After moving in, they found the suspect was dead.
Police patrol on Maryland Parkway after a shooting on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
“There’s no further threat,” Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a news conference. “Of course, we have no idea on the motive.”
Around 3:40 p.m., Las Vegas police said that three victims had died and one more was being treated at a hospital after being critically wounded.
Carlos Eduardo Espina, a UNLV student with more than 7 million followers on TikTok, went live on the platform while still on lockdown.
In Spanish, he wondered aloud whether he was safe and addressed unverified rumors of a second shooter. He said he was in the middle of a test when the first alert came in. Sitting in a classroom, he tracked coverage of the event and reacted on camera.
Parents gathered outside of the University of Nevada, where police confirmed multiple shooting victims and a suspected shooter is dead at the campus. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
Espina, who studies law at UNLV, said students were confused by the messaging about the shooter’s location, leading them to believe there was a second shooter on campus.
“The messages that they sent us, it made it seem that way,” Espina, 24, said. “Where they say ‘First, he’s here,’ so we’re like ‘OK.’ Unless he somehow got from one place to the other without getting detected. It just didn’t make much sense.”
Espina said that asides from texts telling students to shelter in place, UNLV did not give updates to students on the shooting, including that the shooter was dead.
Parents gathered outside of the University of Nevada, where police confirmed multiple shooting victims and a suspected shooter is dead at the campus. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
“We found out because of the news, but no, they didn’t tell us like ‘Hey, they got the shooter’ or anything like that,” he said. “It was just like, how to stay safe and not to leave and all that kind of stuff.”
Espina said that he, along with “a couple thousand” students, were evacuated to the Thomas & Mack Center.
“It’s one of those things that can always happen, but you want to think it’s not gonna happen,” Espina said of the shooting. “That’s what a lot of us were saying. It happened right here, really close to us. It’s scary.”
UNLV’s law school told its students through email that finals are canceled at least through Saturday, Espina said.
Police evacuate students on Harmon Avenue near Maryland Parkway after a shooing on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
Jason Whipple Kelly, a second-year law student at UNLV, was walking onto campus to take a final exam when he received a text message from the university at 11:51 a.m.
“University Police responding to report of shots fire in BEH evacuate to safe area, RUN-HIDE-FIGHT,” the text read. BEH refers to Beam Hall.
As soon as he read the message, sirens began blaring and he saw police running onto campus.
“I was walking to the law school, got the text and turned around and ran back to the car,” the 27-year-old said.
Amanda Perez is comforted by fellow student Alejandro Barron near Maryland Parkway following a shooting on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
The William S. Boyd School of Law building is near Beam Hall, where the shooting occurred, and the student union, where shots also were reported.
Cesar Marquez, the chair of the Nevada Forward Party, an organization that aims to expand political options, was on campus during the shooting.
He wrote in a post on X that a “SWAT team came and evacuated us from the student union.”
In videos posted to the site, dozens of students wearing backpacks can be seen walking through a parking lot past police. Some have their hands raised. A helicopter circles overhead as the students are led beyond a police line.
Police at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center after an active shooter event at UNLV, in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
UNLV, less than two miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, has a student enrollment of about 25,000 undergraduates and 8,000 postgraduates and doctoral candidates. According to the university’s academic calendar, this is the last week of regular instruction, with final exams scheduled next week.
Coco Zhang, a volunteer with Students Demand Action in Las Vegas, an anti-gun-violence group, said in a statement that the UNLV community has been “wrecked by this tragedy.”
“It’s wild to even have to say this, but our schools shouldn’t be plagued by gun violence,” Zhang said. “We should feel safe going to class, not worrying about whether we might get shot. To our lawmakers, how many more of us have to die before we put an end to this crisis?”
Las Vegas police pass stopped traffic on Flamingo Road near the Strip in Las Vegas Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
Brandon Sanchez, 20, was sitting in front of Beam Hall where a free food event for “study week” was happening. Around 200 people were in the plaza, he said, when he heard about six loud bangs directly behind him.
“We shrugged it off and assumed it was construction because there’s always construction going on,” he said.
But then a couple of more bangs sounded. Then one more.
“We started walking slowly away, and then when we saw a police car pull up, then we started running,” he said.
Sanchez raced across the street to a store where students began gathering inside, calling friends and family. Police flooded onto the campus, and Sanchez said at least four cruisers were on the scene within seconds of the last gunshot.
People make phone calls and film during police presence during a shooting on the UNLV campus on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
Sanchez, a junior majoring in broadcast journalism, said all his classes had been canceled but noted that some professors had notified students about plans to resume classes and exams after authorities deemed campus safe.
Classes were canceled for the rest of Wednesday, the college said on social media. It was not immediately clear whether the campus would reopen Thursday.
“I’m not going back at least until more security measures are being taken,” Sanchez said.
The Los Angeles Lakers are scheduled to play in Las Vegas on Thursday night in the semifinals of the NBA’s first-ever In-Season Tournament. The venue for the game, T-Mobile Arena, is three miles from UNLV.
In a post on X, the NBA said Nelly and TLC were scheduled to perform outside the arena Thursday.
Police at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center after an active shooter event at UNLV, in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS)
The shooting comes more than six years after a gunman opened fire on the Route 91 music festival from his hotel room at Mandalay Bay, killing 59 people and injuring more than 400 before turning the gun on himself.
It also follows the arrest this week of two students at Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California. Officials say the students brought loaded firearms onto the campus in two separate incidents.
There have been at least 630 mass shootings in the U.S. as of Wednesday, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident with four or more people shot, injured or killed — not including the shooter.
The Gun Violence Archive is an independent research group that collects data from law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources.
