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Latest line: A good week for gun control groups, a bad week for Barbara Lee

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

Gun control groupsState Senate votes 27-9 to send a bill to Gavin Newsom that would impose an 11% tax on firearms and ammo sales to generate $160 million annually for violence prevention, school safety and victim-support programs.    Barbara LeeSix months to go until the March primary and a new poll shows the Oakland congresswoman at 7%, badly trailing fellow Democrats Adam Schiff (20%) and Katie Porter (17%) in the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.   Laurene Powell JobsThe billionaire widow of Apple’s Steve Jobs takes heat for investing in a secretive plan to develop rural Solano County, but wins accolades for participating in a group that may buy the bankrupt San Francisco Art Institute. 

FIBA, Manila organizers reflect on Basketball World Cup’s successes

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — None of the teams that medaled in the 2019 Basketball World Cup made the medal round at this year’s World Cup. And only two quarterfinalists from 2019 made the quarterfinals this year.It represents almost unprecedented turnover, and FIBA doesn’t mind.FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis, in his traditional end-of tournament news conference on Sunday, said basketball’s governing body is seeing the impact of recent decisions to increase the size of the field to 32 teams and to have 80 teams be part of the qualification process for those spots.“Parity is good,” Zagklis said. “It’s good because it means competitiveness. It is excellent if it comes together with a higher level of play all the time. What we have achieved is we have reached a greater depth in the roster of countries. Nine of the 32 that came to this World Cup did not play in the previous World Cup.”The quarterfinalists in 2019: The U.S., Serbia, Argentina, France, Spain, Poland, Australia and t...

Prevención del suicidio: cómo ayudar y qué herramientas existen

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

(CNN) — Más de 700.000 personas mueren por suicidio cada año, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud.En otras palabras: cada 40 segundos, alguien en el mundo se quita la vida. Esa es una estadística aleccionadora para reflexionar hoy, en el Día Mundial de Prevención del Suicidio de 2021.La conciencia de las realidades del suicidio puede ayudar a las personas a ver estas muertes con más comprensión y compasión, darse cuenta de la importancia de ayudar a otros a obtener ayuda y abordar sus propios problemas de salud mental si tienen dificultades, dice la Alianza Nacional sobre Enfermedades Mentales.Las tasas de suicidio han ido aumentando durante años en algunas partes del mundo. Solo en Estados Unidos, las tasas de suicidio aumentaron en un 35% entre 1999 y 2018. Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC) llaman al suicidio un “problema de salud pública creciente”.Casi 1 de cada 4 adultos jóvenes de EE.UU. recibió tratamiento por ...

Chile makes rousing Rugby World Cup debut as Japan wins

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Japan won the game. Chile won the occasion.Chile’s debut at the Rugby World Cup went better than anyone expected even though it lost to Japan 42-12 on Sunday.Los Condores were willing and able and gave Japan, a quarterfinalist at the last World Cup, a hard time in an entertaining match. They even had a sizeable amount of support at Stadium de Toulouse judging by all of the red jerseys.Injured captain Kazuki Himeno was a late withdrawal but Japan still started with nine players with World Cup experience and bagged the win and bonus point from six converted tries.But they also conceded two tries and were tattooed by Chilean defenders in baking conditions.The Chileans’ confidence and trust in each other that Japan found so difficult to crack was apparent. Many of them grew up playing together and have honed their combination at Selknam, Chile’s pro club in Super Rugby Americas. Chile knocked out Canada and the United States to qualify for the W...

Motorcyclist dies after fatal accident in Miami

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

Police responded to a deadly motorcycle accident overnight in Miami.The crash happened along Northwest 27th Avenue and Southwest 8th Street around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. The entire intersection was shut down while authorities investigated. It has since reopened.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Kiwanis of Little Havana, Marlins Foundation host school supply distribution for young athletes in Cutler Bay

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

Members of the South Florida community teamed up to give young athletes the tools they need to succeed.The Kiwanis of Little Havana and the Miami Marlins Foundation got some help from local organizations and leaders to collect and distribute school supplies.More than 600 baseball and softball players picked up their supplies at Franjo Park in Cutler Bay, Saturday.Billy the Marlin was on hand to greet the children.

US’s Blinken defends G20 statement on Ukraine amid criticism

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended the United States’ decision to accept the joint statement from G20 leaders on Russia’s war in Ukraine that did not replicate the group’s previous stance condemning Russia for its invasion.“The G20 countries in this statement all stood up for the importance of territorial integrity, sovereignty — and that’s very clear,” Blinken said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”The group’s statement this year did not call out Russia by name, but said that all countries should “refrain from action against the territorial integrity and sovereignty or political independence of any state.”The wording, which Western countries called for to signal a continued condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, could also appease complaints from Moscow that attacks inside Russia have escalated since the beginning of Ukraine’s counteroffensive. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was deeply involved in ...

Polish opposition threatens to go after central bank chief over inflation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

Poland’s leading opposition party said it will look to put the country’s central bank chief, Adam Glapiński, on trial for failing to successfully tame inflation if it wins next month’s election.The party, Civic Platform, vowed to hold Glapiński accountable for “destroying the independence” of the National Bank of Poland and “failing to implement the basic task” of fighting high prices, it said in publishing a package of pledges for its prospective first 100 days in office on Saturday. Glapiński joins a cast of Polish senior officials — including Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, President Andrzej Duda and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro — whom Civic Platform has pledged to hold to account at state tribunals if the party wins the October 15 election.The threat against Glapiński comes after the central bank eased its monetary policy for the first time in three years on Wednesday, with a 0.75 percentage point cut in interest rates. The rate r...

New restaurant in Stow floods, postpones grand opening after severe thunderstorms

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

Melissa Simon has been dreaming of her own restaurant for the better part of two decades. However, her livelihood was put on hold when severe thunderstorms canceled the grand opening ceremony on Friday night.“We don’t have electricity and we don’t know when we’re going to be reopening,” she said.The opening of her new spot Fourth and Field is currently on hold.“I was looking for a café to extend my business to and grow my business because it was growing,” Simon said.Heavy rain and strong winds tore through Stow on Friday, toppling trees and knocking out power.“We finally got to the place that we wanted. At the last minute we were blowing up balloons and that’s when I looked up at the sky,” Simon said. “I noticed that it was getting really really dark and I think something is coming out right now and that’s what it just hit.”“We were so excited but it took the excitement out of it a little bit,” Simon saidThe patio and the front of the restaurant were flooded, and Melissa ...

Escaped murderer in Pennsylvania has changed appearance, is being sought in stolen dairy van

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:30 GMT

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago has apparently slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance and is now being sought in a stolen vehicle.Pennsylvania State Police said in a statement on Sunday that Danelo Souza Cavalcante was seen overnight near Phoenixville in northern Chester County, more than 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of the area that until now has been the focus of the search.Cavalcante is now clean-shaven and wearing a yellow or green hooded sweatshirt, black baseball cap, green prison pants and white shoes, police said. He was driving a 2020 White Ford Transit van that has a refrigeration unit on the top and had been reported stolen by Baily’s Dairy and has Pennsylvania registration ZST8818.Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County Prison while awaiting transfer to state prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life for fa...