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FedEx Worker Fatally Shot Nonprofit Founder as He Slept Beside Wife, Cops Say

As a FedEx employee headed to his shift at Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, he was stopped by Virginia airport police. It was at that point he learned officers were arresting him over the death of 32-year-old Gret Glyer, a nonprofit CEO and father of two young children who had been found shot in his bed last week.

The package worker, a 33-year-old man from Arlington named Joshua Danehower, reacted calmly and was taken into custody without incident, authorities with the City of Fairfax said Wednesday.

It appears as though Danehower acted alone, Captain Jeff Hunt, the commander of the City of Fairfax Police Department’s criminal investigations division, said at a press conference announcing the arrest. Danehower has been charged with second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime.

Early Friday morning, patrol officers responded to an emergency call reporting that someone had been shot inside Glyer’s Fairfax home. Inside, officers found Glyer, the founder of the fundraising platform DonorSee, dead from multiple gunshot wounds. A preliminary investigation revealed that his wife, Heather, had been asleep beside him at the time of the shooting.

“Gret was my best friend and an incredible husband and father,” Heather, who married Glyer in 2018, said in a statement on Wednesday. “He had an amazing heart for helping the people who need it most, and I know that legacy will live on.”

There has not been a reported homicide in Fairfax, a city of more than 20,000 people, since 2008, according to WTOC.

Danehower was identified by Fairfax authorities as a potential suspect in Glyer’s killing after “someone came forward” with a tip, Hunt said.

Investigators have not yet established a motive in Glyer’s death. It appeared as though Danehower was “an acquaintance of the family,” according to the police captain, who added that authorities were looking into a potential connection the men may have had through their church.

To which church Glyer belonged is unclear, but a friend on Facebook announced that his memorial service would be held at The Falls Church Anglican on Friday.

Glyer founded DonorSee in 2016, according to the company’s website, in order to create a “giving platform” allowing contributions to be handed over “directly to people in need,” with a particular focus on alleviating poverty and famine in Africa. The company, which employs roughly 15 people, also provides donors with video updates showing how their funds are being used.

On a DonorSee page set up to help Glyer’s family, a statement was posted grieving his loss as “a courageous and kind leader, who treated everyone like family… he always had a positive attitude that encouraged you to push a little harder, do a little more, and smile a little bigger.”

The day we end extreme poverty, we will throw the world’s biggest party. It will be one of the greatest days of humankind.

But we need a location. Perhaps Lake Malawi? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/uY3jVEHtBs

— Gret Glyer 🌍 (@gretglyer) June 24, 2022

The interim chief of the platform, Owen O’Doherty, told The Washington Post in a Wednesday interview that he did not not know Danehower.

According to his LinkedIn profile and online obituary, Glyer had moved in 2013 to become a teacher at a Bible school in Malawi, an East African nation, after several years spent working at Enterprise Rent-A-Car. While there, he had founded a nonprofit called Housing for Orphans and Widows in Malawi, which worked to construct homes in rural areas.

“And what a difference he made.”

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https://technical.ly/startups/donorsee-peace-corps-ban/

Not long ago, we wrote about a crowdfunding platform called DonorSee that’s looking to circumvent big international aid organizations by giving money directly to aid workers around the world. It’s sort of like GoFundMe for international aid projects.

After our interview with founder Gret Glyer we learned that the Peace Corps (the around 7,000 volunteers for which are key potential DonorSee users) has banned its volunteers from raising money on the DonorSee platform. DonorSee immediately rallied against the ban, creating a Change.org petition to be delivered to President Donald Trump (it has yet to reach 500 signatures).

From the petition:

So why was DonorSee banned? The only stated reason was ‘federal regulations.’ In other words, the Peace Corps wants to have total control over the aid that’s provided, despite countless examples of their being embarrassingly irresponsible with that ‘aid.’

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Exclusive: Former associate says famous names in Epstein's 'little black book'

Brian Entin - Yesterday 11:20 PM

(NewsNation) - NewsNation's Brian Entin spoke with former Jeffrey Epstein associate Christina Oxenberg about the discussions she had with Epstein's partner Ghislaine Maxwell, including talk of secret recordings involving some famous people.

Oxenberg is Prince Andrew's cousin and a former friend of Maxwell. She believes Maxwell has worked secret deal and will end up in the United Kingdom.

Below is a full transcript of the interview, edited for grammar and clarify.

Brian Entin: Do you think we'll ever find out the names? Do you have any idea who they are?

Christina Oxenberg: I think we know the names. They are former presidents, a very mouthy lawyer who lives in Boston. They are on the flight logs in the little black book. However, are they more responsible than Ghislaine? I am not a victim, so I'm going to see things differently.

Brian Entin: Even if they're not more responsible, if they were still a participant, at times, with some of these girls, shouldn't their names be made public?

Christina Oxenberg: Well, the answer of course is yes. Everything should be public, and all bad people should be punished. I'm all for it. You know, sex rings have gone on forever. This is not new. This has nothing to do with privilege and money. This particular group was to satisfy Jeffrey's proclivity for underaged girls. That's the problem with the whole thing. If Jeffrey had just wanted beautiful young ladies, there's no problem. But he liked children.

Since 1993, I knew that she (Maxwell) and Jeffrey used a private plane because that was another instance where I spent three months with them. They were on the plane every weekend. And in '97, in this crazy meeting, she said (Maxwell told Oxenberg) the plane is hooked up with audio and video. (Maxwell told Oxenberg) "We have everyone on tape." Why is she eliciting things that in the years to come would be massively incriminating? I didn't think to ask, who do you mean by everyone? I figured she meant anyone who wouldn't want to be on tape.

Brian Entin: Where do you think all those tapes are now?

Christina Oxenberg: I think there's certainly more than one copy of anything. They must have also been updated. There would obviously be more than one copy.

What will happen to Jeffrey Epstein's $27.5M New Mexico ranch?

Brian Entin: Now that she's been sentenced, and she's on her way to federal prison for 20 years, do you think she's going to start naming names? Do you think she's going to tell people where those tapes are?

Christina Oxenberg: I think all the deals have already been made. I don't know anything; this is just my hunch. I think the deals have been made already, and that's why she's alive. Because Jeffrey died on August 10th, in the morning. But on August 9th, which was a Friday, his lawyer came out on the steps of the courthouse and said Jeffrey's gonna start naming names. And he was dead in the morning.

Brian Entin: Do you think she's at risk right now?

Christina Oxenberg: No I don't. I mean, she may want to self-harm. That I cannot speak for. I think the deals have already been made.

And she is being rewarded, already of the 20 years that you mentioned for her sentence, already two have been taken off because of time served. She's going to be transferred to the U.K., 100%. I do believe that will happen, and once she's there, she'll sail out the back door.

Brian Entin: Is there just that many powerful people behind the scenes doing secret things? What is going on?

Christina Oxenberg: Well, when you say "why doesn't she out the list?" Why would she? They're all on the same team. They're helping her.

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Man, 53, arrested for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago

Yesterday 6:26 PM

The Palm Beach Police Department responded at 11:20 a.m. to 1100 South Ocean Boulevard and arrested Donald Cleveland.

After his arrest, police began towing his vehicle when a suspicious package was noticed. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was notified and the package was determined to not be hazardous.

Former President Donald Trump is not at Mar-a-Lago and is in New Jersey, according to ABC.

Southern Bridge was closed, but has since reopened.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-lose-grip-on-senate-while-leahy-recovers-from-fall/ar-AAZ1YCw?ocid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vermont U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, 81, will undergo emergency hip surgery after falling Wednesday night, depriving his fellow Democrats of any majority in the chamber until he returns.

Leahy, who is third in line to the U.S. presidency given his role as Senate president pro tempore, broke his hip at his house in the northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington, his office said on Thursday, adding that he is expected to make a full recovery.

"Having been born blind in one eye, the Senator has had a lifelong struggle with reduced depth perception. He has taken some remarkable dingers over the years but this one finally caught up with him," his office said in a statement.

While Leahy has said he will not seek re-election in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, his vote is critical in the 50-50 split Senate where Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tie-breaking vote.

Leahy also chairs the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which oversees federal spending, at a time when President Joe Biden is still pressing his Build Back Better economic plan.

Democrats are seeking to maintain their hold on the chamber in November, and the seat Leahy has held since 1974 is still seen as leaning Democratic.

Despite his eyesight, the Vermont Democrat has also staked out territory in Hollywood, appearing in five "Batman" movies.