Gaza under Israeli siege: Bread lines, yellow water and nonstop explosions

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 20, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, News, World News.

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN (Associated Press) KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — There are explosions audible in the cramped, humid room where Azmi Keshawi shelters with his family in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. The bombardments keep coming closer, he says, and they’re wreaking death and destruction. Keshawi, his wife, two sons, two daughters and tiny grandchildren are trying to survive inside. The Israeli military has relentlessly attacked Gaza in retaliation for a devastating Hamas rampage in southern Israel almost two weeks ago and the Keshawi family’s sense of desperation is growing....

Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 14, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, Obituaries.

By HILLEL ITALIE (AP National Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80. Glück’s death was confirmed Friday by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Additional details were not immediately available. Over more than 60 years of published work, Glück forged a narrative of trauma, disillusion, stasis and longing, spelled by moments — but only moments...

Former child welfare worker guilty of endangerment in death of Illinois 5-year-old

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 14, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

Robert McCoppin | Chicago Tribune In what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind in Illinois, a former child welfare worker was found guilty Friday of child endangerment in the beating death of 5-year-old AJ Freund in Crystal Lake, but his supervisor was found not guilty. Carlos Acosta, who was the case investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, was found guilty in McHenry County court of endangering the life or health of a child. He was found not guilty of reckless conduct. Lake County Judge George Strickland said he could not find Acosta’s...

Jurors convict Colorado police officer in death of Elijah McClain, acquits a second

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 13, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, News.

Elijah McClain is pictured in this undated photograph. (Photo provided by family of Elijah McClain) BRIGHTON — Jurors on Thursday delivered a split decision in the trial of two Aurora police officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain, convicting one officer but acquitting the other after nearly three weeks of testimony. The jury found Aurora police officer Randy Roedema, 41, guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault — the two lesser charges he faced. Jurors acquitted former officer Jason Rosenblatt, 34, on all charges. He put his head in his hands on the defense table...

Second biggest US lottery prize is up for grabs in Powerball drawing

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 12, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By JIM SALTER (Associated Press) ST. LOUIS (AP) — After 35 straight drawings without a big winner, Powerball players on Wednesday are lining up for a shot at a near-record jackpot worth an estimated $1.73 billion. If winning numbers are drawn, it would be the second largest U.S. lottery prize, topped only by the $2.04 billion Powerball won by a player in California last November. The previous No. 2 was a $1.586 billion Powerball with three winners in California, Florida and Tennessee on Jan. 13, 2016. Powerball’s terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with...

Dick Butkus, legendary Chicago Bears linebacker and Hall of Famer, dies at 80

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 6, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, NFL, Obituaries, Sports.

Fred Mitchell | Chicago Tribune Dick Butkus, the player who perhaps best epitomized the tough and determined identity of the Chicago Bears, has died, the Tribune confirmed Thursday. He was 80. The Butkus family said Thursday he died “peacefully in his sleep overnight at home” in Malibu, California. A product of Chicago’s working-class South Side and the University of Illinois, Butkus became a fierce Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker before embarking on a modest but enduring television and acting career in Hollywood. “After football, it was difficult for me to find what I liked second best,”...

Multiple people shot in ongoing ‘active shooter situation’ at Morgan State University, Baltimore Police say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 4, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun Baltimore Police are encouraging people to avoid the area of Morgan State University and those nearby to shelter in place Tuesday night after multiple people were shot on campus. The department said that multiple people were shot on the campus. Police tweeted that officers are on the scene of the situation, which the school said was related to a report of shots being fired, on the 1700 block of Argonne Drive, near the Thurgood Marshall Apartments and close to the Northeast District Police Station. Special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...

Tom Hanks warns fans about ‘AI version of me’ promoting dental plan online

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 3, 2023. Posted in Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, Things To Do.

David Matthews | New York Daily News Tom Hanks is warning his fans that an “AI version” of him is hawking dental plans on social media. In an Instagram post over the weekend, Hanks posted a screengrab of a promotional video where his younger, computer-generated likeness pitches teeth cleaning services. “BEWARE!! There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it,” Hanks wrote. The Academy Award-winning actor’s warning comes in the midst of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike which, in part, concerns how studios will — or won’t — use artificial...

Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 17, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Health, LGBTQ, National News, Network, News.

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM (Associated Press/Report for America) RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the Democratic governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom. GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate enacted — over Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto — a bill barring medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs and surgical gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, with...

Anti-corruption presidential candidate slain at campaign event in Ecuador’s capital

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 10, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, News, Politics, World News.

By Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — An Ecuadorian presidential candidate known for speaking up against corruption was shot and killed Wednesday at a political rally in the capital, an attack that comes amid a wave of startling violence in the South American country. President Guillermo Lasso confirmed the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio and suggested organized crime was behind his slaying. Villavicencio was one of eight candidates in the Aug. 20 presidential vote, though not the frontrunner. “I assure you that this crime will not go unpunished,” Lasso said in a statement. “Organized...

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