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‘We meet them where they are’: Homeless Trust, MDPD, work to help homeless people living at MIA find shelters 

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

This time of year, many people fly home for the holidays. But for some people, home is the airport.Tonight, 7 Investigates’ Karen Hensel, takes us along with the team trying to help those with nowhere else to go.Miami-Dade Officer: “We’re here to do the operation tonight.”These Miami-Dade Police officers are based at Miami International Airport.The mission is not about arrests but about compassion.Miami-Dade Officer: “We’re going over to the terminal first.”We can’t show you some of their faces because they also work undercover.On this night, they are teaming up with counselors Laquinta Walker and Rejine Henry from the Homeless Trust.Laquinta Walker: “So they normally hide like in parts like that, they’ll sleep.”The group is trying to help those living inside and outside the airport get into shelters.Laquinta Walker: “Hello, how are you? Do you need any type of assistance tonight? Are you homeless?”The ma...

Man mauled to death by dog, body found in SW Miami-Dade home garage

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

A death investigation is underway in Southwest Miami-Dade, as police reported that a man was fatally mauled by his own dog. Yellow tape surrounded the home along Southwest 104th Terrace and 123rd Court where the man was killed on Monday night, along with members of the Miami-Dade Police Department and animal service vans. “A family friend of the deceased victim had not heard from this person since around Sunday,” said MDPD Det. Andre Martin “That person then came to the residence to check on their friend where they found them deceased in the garage of the home. emergency services were called, officers arrived and they observed the victim deceased in the garage from what appeared to be numerous dog bites.”Calls for emergency services described a bloody incident in the home where loud barking was heard from a block away. “The investigation at this point, is starting to look like that may have been the cause of death of the victim.”Medical examiner ...

Zac Efron competes in the ring in wrestling film ‘The Iron Claw’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

No doubt about it, “The Iron Claw” will get its hooks in you. It’s a deep dive into one of pro wrestling’s most famous families.Deco sat down with two of the film’s stars and emerged unhurt.“The Iron Claw” might have a familiar ring to it, especially if you’re a wrestling fan.The film tells the true story about the professional wrestling family, the Von Erich’s. Zac Efron: “The physical preparation for the movie, needless to say, was intense.”Zac Efron plays Kevin Von Erich and had no idea the training would be so crazy.Zac Efron: “For about seven months, I didn’t realize it at the time, but that became the most informative thing that I had on on Kevin, I felt the way that I imagine he felt, which was sore, tired, and tight and like a warrior man.”Jeremy Allen White says he didn’t need to do much research when it came to the role of Kerry Von Erich.Jeremy Allen White: “These men were so l...

MDFR save 2 after boat sinks off Haulover Inlet

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

Two people were rescued by crews after their boat sank off of the Haulover Inlet. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived at the scene, late Tuesday afternoon.“Air rescue being requested on path two, its’s going to be in reference to a vessel taking on water,” said a dispatcher over Broadcastify police scanner. “88th and Collins Avenue.”The U.S. Coast Guard also joined MDFR during the search for the boaters.7Skyforce hovered over the scene, where the boaters were placed on a fire rescue boat. According to fire rescue, City of Miami Beach Fire Rescue originally received the call of the boaters stranded and referred the incident to MDFR. One of the boaters was on the phone while he was in the water.“They advise that the vessel is completely submerged, there’s two patients in the water. Ask if they have flares with them before they went down, anything that can give us a visual,” the dispatcher said.The boaters were in the water for almost an ho...

New Israeli proposal calls for release of 40 hostages

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

The Israeli government has drawn up a new deal for the release of dozens of hostages from Gaza, according to an official with direct knowledge of the matter.The proposal comes after the latest rounds of talks between U.S., Israeli and Qatari officials. CIA Director Bill Burns, Mossad chief David Barnea and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met in Warsaw on Monday to discuss the potential for a new hostage deal. Israel, which does not negotiate directly with Hamas, presented the agreement via Qatar.The pact calls for a pause in fighting for up to a week and the release of 40 hostages, including many of the women and children Hamas had previously agreed to release, as well as hostages who require medical attention, according to the official. It also would allow for the flow of additional humanitarian aid into Gaza.The official stressed that talks are ongoing, and a deal has yet to be officially reached. Axios was first to report about the Israeli...

Treating green tech like COVID vaccines will only benefit the rich

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

Max Lawson is co-chair of the People’s Vaccine Alliance and head of inequality policy at Oxfam International.This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 — the global climate summit hosted by a petrostate — has ended with a grossly inadequate set of commitments that won’t come close to ending fossil fuel extraction. And, in its wake, there’s already another scandal on the horizon.Government delegations think green technologies will be essential in averting climate breakdown. The problem, however, is that almost 80 percent of corporations patenting climate tech are in rich countries, with the blueprints and know-how hidden behind strict intellectual property protections.This means we’re facing the possibility that green technologies may only benefit the rich.The world has stood at this crossroads before — and not that long ago. As health campaigners know all too well from the COVID-19 pandemic and many health crises before it, corporations that patent life-saving techno...

Reproducing the sun on earth

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

How British libel law lets bad people get away with bad things

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

LONDON — In May last year, my phone buzzed with a message from a contact in the British Parliament whom I know well. We meet every so often for coffee in a cafe far away enough from Westminster to be discreet, where he tells me what’s unfolding in the depths of Parliament’s dingy corridors.That day, his message read: “Has an MP been arrested today? Who can say?”His first question was a news tip for me to follow up on. I began ringing and texting everyone I knew who might be able to tell me about the possible detention of a member of Parliament.Sure enough, the police soon confirmed that a 56-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of rape and other offenses.My contact’s second question — “Who can say?” — was more complicated.In the hours after the arrest, pretty much every British political media organization prominently reported the man’s arrest, together with his age, his position as an MP, and his alleged crimes.But while every reporter in Westminster knew exactly who he...

Hungary’s Orbán courts China and wins a surge of clean car investments

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

Hungary is bucking calls from the European Union to loosen ties with China — and it’s paying off. Hungary is reportedly in the running, along with Germany, for hosting Chinese carmaker BYD’s first European factory; the company is set to make an announcement by the end of the year. Chinese battery-maker CATL last year decided to build a €7.3 billion battery plant in the eastern city of Debrecen. Other Chinese companies in the electric vehicle supply chain — Nio, Eve Energy, Huayou Cobalt, BYD and Ningbo Zhenyu Technology — have all announced new factory projects over the last months. The Hungarian government says China has been the country’s leading foreign investor since 2020, and Budapest wants more — which is why politicians are ensuring that relations with Beijing stay smooth.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was the only EU leader to attend October’s Belt and Road Initiative forum, with Chinese President Xi Jinping calling him Beijing’s ...

Ukraine’s fallen hero

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:50 GMT

Sergei Bubka was Ukraine’s most iconic sportsman. Now his name is mud.The legendary pole vaulter — a towering figure in post-Soviet Ukraine; dominating world championships and smashing records before becoming an elite sports politician — has been linked to business conducted in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied territories, while he lives it up in glitzy Monaco. As Ukraine continues to fight off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion in the freezing, soggy Donbas trenches, there is no greater sin. Bubka, the former athletic hero and native of Ukraine’s east, is now seen by many Ukrainians as a Russian collaborator.For the man who once soared, bringing pride to newly independent Ukraine, how did it all go so wrong?A major investigation by Ukrainian outlet Bihus.Info during the summer revealed Bubka’s company, Mont Blanc, was officially registered in Russia after the Kremlin’s all-out assault in Ukraine began.Mont Blanc sold fuel to Russian occupiers in the Donetsk Peopl...