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Matt Gaetz Wants to Make the Pentagon Answer for Training Coup Leaders

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

In response to a spate of coups by U.S.-trained military personnel in West Africa and the greater Sahel, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has authored an amendment to the 2024 defense spending bill to collect information on trainees who overthrow their governments. It would require the Pentagon for the first time to inform Congress about U.S.-mentored mutineers, Gaetz told The Intercept in an exclusive interview.“The Department of Defense, up until this point, has not kept data regarding the people they train who participate in coups to overthrow democratically elected — or any — governments,” said Gaetz. “And that’s why in this National Defense Authorization Act … I have legislation that demands a collection of that data and a report to Congress about those outcomes.” Congress is set to take up the 2024 NDAA when it returns from recess in September. Most Read ...

Conn’s: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) — THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) — Conn’s Inc. (CONN) on Wednesday reported a loss of $33.5 million in its fiscal second quarter.On a per-share basis, the The Woodlands, Texas-based company said it had a loss of $1.39.The retailer posted revenue of $306.9 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on CONN at https://www.zacks.com/ap/CONNSource

Player of the Week: Friendship Collegiate’s Michael Brown

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

(new Image()).src = "https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384&cid=c2ffed0c-3624-46c0-b10f-97c976d290a3";cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: "c294dac3-a493-44ef-805c-012bae7412aa"}).render("fd24d7ac5c084187bfe38f87ad806e85"); });During the past two high school football seasons, Michael Brown made play after play for Dunbar High. Now a senior having transferred to Friendship Collegiate, Brown used the most of his opportunities to show his former teammates and coaches that he remains one of the area’s biggest gamebreakers.A wide receiver and running back, Brown made big plays on both sides of the ball in this past Friday’s season opener, leading Friendship to a 19-6 victory over Dunbar. For his efforts, Brown was named the Military Bowl DC Touchdown Club High School Football Player of the Week.Michael Brown lead Friendship to a 19-6 victory over Dunbar in their season opener and was named t...

Coup leaders in Gabon’s military say President Ali Bongo Ondimba is under house arrest, others in government arrested

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Coup leaders in Gabon’s military say President Ali Bongo Ondimba is under house arrest, others in government arrested.Source

Por qué las comunidades costeras deberían temer las marejadas ciclónicas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

(CNN) — Casi la mitad de todas las muertes por ciclones tropicales se deben a marejadas ciclónicas.Si bien muchas personas se centran en la velocidad del viento de las tormentas, el mayor peligro a menudo proviene del agua que fluye desde el océano.“Una marejada ciclónica es un aumento en el nivel del agua causado por el fuerte viento de una tormenta que empuja el agua hacia la costa”, dijo el meteorólogo de CNN Brandon Miller. “El viento literalmente acumula el agua del océano y la empuja hacia la tierra”.Y las marejadas ciclónicas representan casi la mitad de todas las muertes relacionadas con huracanes, según la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica.Durante el huracán Katrina en 2005, la marejada ciclónica alcanzó entre 7,6 y 8,5 metros por encima de los niveles normales de la marea. En el huracán Ian de 2022, alcanzó una altura de hasta 5,4 metros en el suroeste de Florida.Video en vivo: así se ve el paso del huracán Idalia desde la FloridaEl huracán I...

El huracán Idalia amenaza Florida como un huracán categoría 4 y podría ocasionar daños potencialmente catastróficos

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

(CNN) — Idalia se fortaleció a un huracán de categoría 4, según la actualización de las 5 a.m. del Centro Nacional de Huracanes (CNH). El huracán Idalia ahora tiene vientos de 209 km/h con ráfagas más altas.La tormenta también se está acelerando, ahora se mueve a 28 km/h. El centro de la tormenta está ahora a unos 96 km al oeste de Cedar Key, Florida.Se espera que Idalia  se fortalezca aún más, según el NHC, antes de una colisión matinal potencialmente catastrófica en la costa oeste de Florida, donde a numerosos residentes se les ha pedido que huyan, las escuelas están cerradas y la Guardia Nacional se está preparando para los rescates.dañoEl huracán Idalia sufrió una impresionante y rápida intensificación en las últimas 24 horas, con vientos máximos aumentando 88 km/h, pasando de ser un huracán de Categoría 1, con vientos de 120 km/h a un huracán de Categoría 4, con vientos de 209 km/h en 24 horas.Se espera que Idalia toque tierra este miércoles por la mañana como “una tormen...

History of Ireland’s failure to get past Rugby World Cup quarterfinals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

Generations of Ireland’s best players have never known what it’s like to win a Rugby World Cup knockout match.It is 36 years and counting that they have choked on the biggest stage.In the nine World Cups, Ireland has reached the quarterfinals seven times and gone no further. No other team has suffered so many times. Even Scotland made the semifinals once.The next adventure starts in Bordeaux on Sept. 9 against Romania.Many predict the Irish to go all the way, such has been the magnitude of their success since the last World Cup in Japan. But, first, they have to get out of a pool including South Africa and Scotland then endure a week of questions about their historic inability to take another step.Success is conditional, as one of Ireland’s greatest, Paul O’Connell, explained in his biography about their goals for his fourth and last World Cup in 2015: “Success for us would be playing to our potential. I’d like to make the semifinal, and see what happen...

Ireland as ready as it ever has been to crack Rugby World Cup hoodoo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

Let’s get the numbers out of the way for an exceptional Ireland rugby team.0 — yellow or red cards conceded in the last 11 games, none this year. Only 2 yellows in the last 24 games.1 — world ranking for the last 13 months, the longest unbroken run by a northern hemisphere side.7 — defeats in 38 tests in this Rugby World Cup cycle. Those were to France (3), England (2), Wales and New Zealand.13 — current winning streak, eclipsing Ireland’s previous best of 12 across 2017-18.82 — winning percentage of coach Andy Farrell, the best by a permanent Ireland coach in the professional era.If an Ireland side was ever ready to go the whole way and win the World Cup, then this is the one.The Irish have been a settled side for a long time. Virtually the same team which took the historic series decider against the All Blacks in New Zealand in July last year also won the Six Nations Grand Slam decider against England in Dublin in March. That team came together only once in the World C...

DC teen accused of selling carjacked cars to undercover officers is indicted

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

A teenager from D.C. has been indicted by a grand jury in connection with six carjackings in the District and Maryland, including one instance where a driver was shot multiple times. He is also accused of trying to sell the stolen vehicles to undercover police officers.According to the indictment, Cedae Hardy, 18, stole several cars at gunpoint between April 5 and May 17 of this year. Hardy would then drive the vehicles to a Northeast D.C. garage where another man helped him sell the cars.The first carjacking, according to prosecutors, happened in Northwest D.C., when Hardy pointed a gun at a person’s chest and demanded their cellphone and keys. He then allegedly drove off in the victim’s 2017 BMW 7 sedan.He drove the car to the garage where his partner let him in, then sold the car unknowingly for $1,500 to two undercover D.C. police officers.Using the same approach, Hardy is accused of carjacking a Mercedes-Benz SL550 on April 8 and a Dodge Challenger the next day in Hyattsv...

Hurricane Idalia strengthens into a powerful Category 4 storm as it nears Florida’s Big Bend region

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:53 GMT

CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Idalia strengthens into a powerful Category 4 storm as it nearsFlorida’s Big Bend region.Source