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Umar Khalid Challenged Modi’s Anti-Muslim Agenda. India Accused Him of Terrorism and Locked Him Up.

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.It was still dark outside when Umar Khalid sat down to make the farewell video. He had stayed up all night at a close friend’s apartment, where he had just celebrated his 33rd birthday, blowing out candles and cutting a chocolate cake. Now he sat on the couch stiff with tension, dark circles under his eyes, his face tinged a sickly yellow. He had been smoking nonstop for hours and eaten so little that he was feeling unwell. His friend was seated on the ground nearby, his phone ready to record.“If you’re watching this video,” Khalid said, “it means that I’ve been arrested.”It was September 2020, on a hot, stuffy morning in Delhi. Seven months earlier, in late February, a wave of sectarian violence had ripped through the Indian capital. Amid mass demonstrations against a restrictive citizenship law that targeted Muslims, a mob goaded by a local leader clashed with Muslims in the area. Over the next four days, violence swept through ...

The District’s oldest documents get a new home

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

After decades of storing the District’s most historic documents in a building that’s just as old as some of the records inside, the D.C. Archives is headed to a new home.The agency has an impressive collection of documents that go as far back as 1792.“We have Frederick Douglass’s will, we have Alexander Graham Bell’s will,” Lopez Matthews, Jr., the state archivist and public records administrator at the agency, told WTOP. “Duke Ellington’s birth certificate is also here.”But those documents are stored in a retrofitted farmhouse that was built in the late 1800s, and space is limited. Some historic records are still housed at the National Archives, Matthews said.“We have maybe three spaces for research,” he said. “Documents need to be stored at a lower temperature, 65 degrees or lower. They need dark, cool areas. That is something that our new building will do better than this building.”The city is moving ahead on a new $104 million arch...

Muestran nuevas fotos de Kim Jong Un recorriendo fábricas de armas y disparando

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

(CNN) — El líder norcoreano, Kim Jong Un, recorre fábricas de armas, inspecciona plantas de artillería e incluso dispara un arma en fotografías recientemente publicadas que parecen ofrecer una visión excepcional de las instalaciones de armas del estado secreto.La agencia de noticias estatal norcoreana KCNA, que publicó las fotos este sábado, dijo que las imágenes mostraban a Kim recorriendo una planta de producción de un “complejo de artillería de gran calibre” y brindando “orientación en el lugar” a los trabajadores en una instalación de “misiles de crucero estratégicos y aviones de ataque no tripulados”.También dijo que Kim dio “instrucciones importantes” con respecto al “desarrollo de capacidades para la producción en serie de nuevas municiones”.Las visitas tuvieron lugar el jueves, viernes y sábado, dijo la agencia de noticias.Kim Jong Un pide a Corea del Norte ampliar formas “prácticas y ofensivas” de disuasión bélicaEl líder norcoreano...

Heat Advisory Issued For All of South Florida Sunday

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

After the relentless streak of Heat Advisories across South Florida back in July, they have become less frequent over the past week or two. This Sunday, however, it has returned to Miami-Dade, Broward and the Florida Keys from 10AM through 7PM today for feels-like temperatures up to 110F across the mainland and up to 112F in the Keys.Our forecast will feature more sunshine and fewer storms today with mostly dry and sunny conditions forecast for the morning, then scattered storms will develop this afternoon with the best chance for seeing rain being across our inland and northern locations and after 3PM.High temperatures this Sunday will be slightly warmer into the mid 90s for most spots, and these above average temperatures will remain right in this range all week long courtesy of a high pressure in control providing a warm and humid, southeasterly breeze.Given this onshore wind flow returning starting tomorrow and generally lasting all of this week, rain chances will shift toward t...

Leak detected in Druzhba oil pipeline, Polish operator says

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

Poland late Saturday halted shipping oil through part of the Druzhba pipeline, which carries oil from Russia to Europe, after a leak was detected, Polish pipeline operator PERN said.The incident comes amid heightened concerns about the security of Europe’s energy infrastructure after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year and following attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines that run from Russia to Europe.The leak was detected in the municipality of Chodecz in central Poland on “one of the two lines of the western section through which oil reaches Germany,” PERN said in a statement. The damaged line was “immediately shut down,” it said. The second line is operating without any changes and the incident does not pose a threat to the health of local residents, according to the statement. Supply to Polish refineries is not impacted, PERN said, adding on social media that it is in contact with German partners who receive oil through the pipeline. Germany st...

Wave of missiles and drones pounds Ukraine, damages blood-transfusion center

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

KYIV ­— Russia hit Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones overnight, including a strike on a medical center that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy labeled a war crime.The attack started Saturday evening and continued until the early hours of Sunday, Ukraine’s Air Force said in a statement Sunday morning. Ukrainian air defense managed to shoot down 30 missiles and 27 drones, the Air Force said. But Ukrainian officials did not disclose any information about at least five missiles fired against Ukraine last night, including three Kinzhal cruise missiles.“Kinzhals and Kalibr cruise missiles hit Motor Sich [in the Zaporizhzhia region] and hit our Khmelnytskiy region. Our defense forces shot down part of the missiles,” Zelenskyy said in a video statement.In a separate late-night statement, Zelenskyy said Moscow also targeted a blood-transfusion center in Kupiansk, a town in the Kharkiv region, with a guided aerial bomb. “Dead and wounded are reported,” he...

US Democrats brace for a 2024 Biden-Trump rematch

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

When Barack Obama sat down with Joe Biden this summer and conveyed his concerns about the strength of Donald Trump going into 2024, the warning was not the first to come from within the president’s own party.Nor would it be the last.The message from one of the Democratic Party’s top voices came with a promise to do everything he can to help Biden stay in the White House. Obama’s concerns may carry more weight as a former president and trusted Biden confidant, but his fears about the formidability of another face-off with Trump reflect a growing sentiment among Democrats.“Donald Trump can win, number one. … Number two, I think that the third parties can take away enough votes to make Donald Trump win. Number three, we cannot underestimate the dissatisfied mood of the public and his ability to mobilize voters,” said Celinda Lake, a 2020 Biden pollster. “I think there’s going to be a very close race. He seems impervious no matter how many indictments. You can run for president from jai...

Orioles first-round pick Enrique Bradfield Jr.’s baseball savvy has impressed people since he was 5: ‘He just loves the game’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

Everybody has their own Enrique Bradfield Jr. origin story — the moment they realized he was “different” than normal ballplayers.His college coach remembers Bradfield’s speed and competitiveness during his first fall at Vanderbilt. An Orioles scout recalls the outfielder’s ability to change a game during his sophomore year at American Heritage School in Florida. His high school coach will never forget seeing an 11-year-old Bradfield patrolling center field during a travel ball tryout.But perhaps no one knew Bradfield, the Orioles’ first-round pick in the 2023 MLB draft, was “different” before a random server at Carrabba’s Italian Grill in Southeast Florida did about 16 years ago.At the restaurant, a young Bradfield, about 5 years old, was glued to the television screen showing, of course, a baseball game. The broadcast showed a clip of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson’s iconic three-home run playoff game, and Bradfield, born 14...

NFL notes: Is Bill Belichick now practicing load management at Patriots training camp?

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

Sprints to start certain practices.Star players coasting through others.Live goal-line periods cracking with colliding helmets and shoulder pads for the first time in two summers.Through 10 practices, Patriots training camp has been an exercise in the familiar — welcome back, Bill O’Brien — and in firsts. Most changes, particularly O’Brien’s return, have been welcome and productive, as the team’s offense springs to life again. But certain scenes have stupefied, even rankled, some ex-players; namely, how Bill Belichick could be content with his best players sitting out a combined dozen practices before the team’s first preseason game.“It’s so weird that Bill would let that happen,” said ex-Pats linebacker Rob Ninkovich of Matthew Judon’s contract “hold-in.”Under Belichick, the rule used to be if you can practice, you practice. No excuses.Now, it depends.New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick walks out onto the field ...

What we’ve learned about Patriots’ rookies so far in training camp

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:48:41 GMT

The Patriots have the makings of a special rookie class based on early returns this summer.Internally, the team is optimistic about their 2023 NFL Draft picks while acknowledging it’s still very early in the summer. But the qualities they liked on college tape have been showing up so far in training camp.Here’s what we’ve seen this summer from each member of the Patriots’ 12-man draft class and the team’s three remaining undrafted rookies.CB Christian GonzalezIt would be a shock if the 2023 first-round pick wasn’t a Day 1 starter for the Patriots. Gonzalez has been running with the first team and tested by covering the team’s best wide receivers. Has it been perfect? No, but that’s not to be expected out of rookie. Gonzalez has been beaten. But he’s also made impressive pass breakups over the Patriots’ big, physical wide receivers. And the Patriots’ defensive sideline blew up Thursday when Gonzalez laid the lumber on wide receiver Raleigh Webb for a tackle for loss. In the same prac...