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San Diego drug prevention advocates weigh in on Snapchat ties to fentanyl locally

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

SAN DIEGO - Relatives of more than 60 people who died of fentanyl overdoses across the nation are suing the parent company of the social media app Snapchat, arguing the app is a gateway to trade illegal drugs. A massive 205-page lawsuit is out against Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc., alleging the algorithm the app uses links children to drug dealers. Jamie Puerta is just one of the 60 defendants nationwide listed; his son Daniel died by fentanyl poisoning in 2020; he says the messaging app played a key role. "He went on Snapchat, bought what he thought was a pharmaceutical grade oxycodone pill but what he really received was a cloned pill made of fentanyl...and it took his life," Puerta said. “It's like ordering pizza that’s basically what it is, instead of ordering a pizza you’re ordering a pill and the problem is these children don't know these pills are fake.” Jaime Puerta, President of Victims of Illicit DrugsThe lawsuit alleges Snapchat is an open-air drug market, invi...

Challenger in Turkey presidential race offers sharp contrast

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The main challenger trying to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this month’s presidential election cuts a starkly different figure than the incumbent who has ruled the country for two decades.Where Erdogan is a mesmerizing orator, the unassuming Kemal Kilicdaroglu is soft spoken. Erdogan is also a master campaigner who uses state resources and events to reach supporters while Kilicdaroglu talks to voters in videos recorded in his kitchen. As the polarizing Erdogan has grown increasingly authoritarian, Kilicdaroglu has built a reputation as a bridge builder and vows to restore democracy.The contrasts are reflected in the two men’s political paths. Erdogan’s staying power has kept him in office first as prime minister then as president since 2003. Kilicdaroglu (pronounced KEH-lich-DAHR-OH-loo) has not won a general election since taking the helm of his secular, center-left Republican People’s Party, or CHP, in 2010.But that could change...

King Charles III makes space for faith at his coronation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Rabbi Nicky Liss won’t be watching King Charles III’s coronation. He’ll be doing something he considers more important: praying for the monarch on the Jewish sabbath.On Saturday, he will join rabbis across Britain in reading a prayer in English and Hebrew that gives thanks for the new king in the name of the “one God who created us all.”Liss, the rabbi of Highgate Synagogue in north London, said British Jews appreciated Charles’ pledge to promote the co-existence of all faiths and his record of supporting a multifaith society during his long apprenticeship as heir to the throne.“When he says he wants to be a defender of faiths, that means the world because our history hasn’t always been so simple and we haven’t always lived freely; we haven’t been able to practice our religion,” Liss told The Associated Press. “But knowing that King Charles acts this way and speaks this way is tremendously comforting.”At a time when religion is fueling tensions around the world — from ...

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s Game 2 daggers save Nuggets: “He’s the only champion in here”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

Jamal Murray looked down at the box score and gawked.“O for 9 from three, bro!” Murray exclaimed as if he wasn’t acutely aware how much he’d struggled from the field in Monday’s Game 2 win over the Suns.Seated to his right was Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, whose three clutch 3-pointers in the fourth quarter helped shake a cold spell that’d plagued every single Nugget not named Nikola Jokic. The reigning two-time MVP dumped in 39 points. Aaron Gordon was Denver’s second-leading scorer with 16.“I didn’t even see that,” Caldwell-Pope responded, perhaps giving cover to his star point guard or perhaps telling the truth about how focused he was in Denver’s resounding 97-87 victory.Had Caldwell-Pope looked around, he would’ve seen Murray’s chilly 3-of-15 night, Michael Porter Jr.’s inconsequential 2-of-7 showing, and Denver’s 3-point shooting percentage hovering around 25%. Without Caldwell-Pope’s four 3-pointers, Denver would’ve shot 3 for 23 from outside.Maybe it’s a good thing he had no ide...

Labour market 'churn' ahead with a quarter of jobs changing by 2028

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

Around a quarter of jobs are set to change in the next five years, according to a survey of employers published on Monday (1 May) by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the organisation known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Some 69 million jobs will be created and 83 million eliminated by 2027, it said, resulting in a net decrease of 2% of current employment, according to the Future of Jobs report.The survey is based on input from some 800 companies employing more than 11 million workers and uses a dataset of 673 million jobs.Technology and digitalisation is both the driver of job creation and of destruction, a summary of the report said."Advancing technology adoption and increasing digitization will cause significant labour market churn," it said.The fastest declining roles will be secretarial and clerical roles such as bank tellers and cashiers which can be automated while demand for AI machine learning specialists and cybersecurity experts is expected to grow significant...

Ukraine says it still holds parts of Bakhmut, Russia reports progress

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

Ukraine said on Sunday (30 April) its troops were holding onto parts of the eastern city of Bakhmut, focus of a prolonged Russian assault, while the head of a major pro-Moscow force said his men were making progress.Russian forces, which have struggled for months to capture Bakhmut, are slowly taking over more and more of the city."Fierce fighting continues in the city of Bakhmut. The enemy is unable to take control over the city, despite throwing all its forces into the battle and having some success," said Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar."The defence of Bakhmut is coping with its military tasks," she said in a Telegram post. The Ukrainian military does not reveal exactly how much of the city is in Russian hands.Separately, Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for Ukrainian troops in the east, told the ICTV channel it was still possible to supply the Bakhmut defenders with food, ammunition and medicine and evacuate the wounded.Russia's defence ministry earlier said its ...

Protestas en Asunción ante Tribunal Superior de Justicia por supuesto fraude electoral

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

(CNN Español) — La Policía Nacional de Paraguay informó este martes a través de su cuenta oficial en Twitter que arrestaron a cinco personas en las protestas realizadas en los alrededores del Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral, en las que alegaban un supuesto fraude electoral en los comicios del domingo, en los que resultó ganador Santiago Peña como presidente electo del país.La policía añadió que se registró la quema de una patrulla del Grupo Especial de Operaciones y dos policías resultaron heridos con arma contundente. Las autoridades policiales agregaron que se estiman hay por lo menos 2.000 personas enfrentando al personal policial en la zona.Las protestas se producen luego de que el excandidato presidencial Paraguayo Antonio Cubas Colomés, conocido como Payo Cubas, denunciara este lunes un presunto fraude por medio de su perfil de Facebook.Santiago Peña gana las elecciones presidenciales en Paraguay, informa el Tribunal Superior de Justicia ElectoralCubas, quien que...

After fleeing Annapolis stabbing, suspect killed walking into traffic in Prince George’s Co.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

A man wanted for an Annapolis stabbing is now dead after he was hit by a tractor-trailer in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Monday afternoon.Maurice Logan Mitchell, 42, of Annapolis, died after walking on the highway where he was hit around 4:15 p.m., Maryland State Police said in a statement.State troopers said Mitchell walked into traffic on the John Hanson Highway near Enterprise Road. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.Just two hours before this deadly collision, the victim allegedly stabbed a woman during a domestic dispute in Annapolis.Authorities confirmed to WTOP that the stabbing suspect and the crash victim are the same person.Annapolis police said the woman is in stable condition.The deadly Prince George’s County crash blocked the right eastbound lanes of Route 50 east of the Lottsford Vista Road overpass for nearly four hours.State police said the crash remains subject to investigation.Source

Man shot intervening in attempted DC scooter robbery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

A man is in the hospital after being shot near the busy intersection of 14th and S street in Northwest D.C.D.C. police said it happened around 7:30 p.m.Witness saw three teenagers try to take another person’s scooter. When the witness tried to intervene one of the teens shot the man before running away on foot, according to police.Authorities said the man was conscious and breathing when he was taken to the hospital.Police said they have not found the suspects.Below is where police said the shooting happened. Source

UK locks horns with WhatsApp over threat to break encryption

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:50:51 GMT

LONDON — Britain’s tough new plan to police the internet has left politicians in a stand-off with WhatsApp and other popular encrypted messaging services. Deescalating that row will be easier said than done.The Online Safety Bill, the United Kingdom’s landmark effort to regulate social media giants, gives regulator Ofcom the power to require tech companies to identify child sex abuse material in private messages.But the proposals have prompted Will Cathcart, boss of the Meta-owned messaging app, whose encrypted service is widely-used in Westminster’s own corridors of power, to claim it would rather be blocked in the U.K. than compromise on privacy.“The core of what we do is a private messaging service for billions of people around the world,” Cathcart told POLITICO in March when he jetted in to London to lobby ministers over the upcoming bill. “When the U.K., a liberal democracy, says, ‘Oh, it is okay to scan everyone’s private communication for illegal content,’ that emboldens coun...