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Gisele Barreto Fetterman, Wife of Sen. John Fetterman, Spotted Fighting Apartment Fire in East Pittsburgh

Story by Charmaine Patterson • Yesterday 5:28 PM

Gisele Barreto Fetterman, whose husband is freshman Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, stepped in to fight a dangerous blaze in East Pittsburgh.

Gisele was seen with her fellow firefighters at the scene of the three-alarm fire early Tuesday. Wearing her full gear, Gisele walked through the area while on the phone in footage captured by Pittsburgh Action News.

The former second lady of Pennsylvania joined the Rivers Edge 113 crew in December. She announced the move on Facebook in mid-December, sharing a snap of her rocking her gear and standing in front of a fire truck.

"Say hello to Rivers Edge 113 newest member (still lots of work ahead but excited and ready to learn)" she wrote, before thanking "the entire team" for mentoring her. "And please consider supporting your local volunteer fire department."

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Gisele Barreto Fetterman, whose husband is freshman Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, stepped in to fight a dangerous blaze in East Pittsburgh.

Gisele was seen with her fellow firefighters at the scene of the three-alarm fire early Tuesday. Wearing her full gear, Gisele walked through the area while on the phone in footage captured by Pittsburgh Action News.

The former second lady of Pennsylvania joined the Rivers Edge 113 crew in December. She announced the move on Facebook in mid-December, sharing a snap of her rocking her gear and standing in front of a fire truck.

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"Say hello to Rivers Edge 113 newest member (still lots of work ahead but excited and ready to learn)" she wrote, before thanking "the entire team" for mentoring her. "And please consider supporting your local volunteer fire department."

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Gisele's new venture came just before John was sworn in as a U.S. senator on Jan. 3. Prior to that, her husband served as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor.

Gisele celebrated John's big moment with a gallery of photos on Facebook that featured the pair and their three children posing with Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Allow me to introduce you to Pennsylvania's Junior (and very cute) Senator, John Fetterman💙,"she captioned the milestone photos.

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REVEALED: Four Americans in Mexico kidnapping have lengthy rap sheets: Male survivor 'sold crack cocaine outside school,' one of men shot dead was busted for drugs manufacture and woman was indicted after daughter, 8, tested positive for amphetamines'

Four U.S. citizens kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel - Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard - had lengthy rap sheets

They traveled to Mexico to accompany McGee for a cosmetic tummy tuck surgery when they were caught in gang crossfire in Matamoros

Williams and McGee survived - but Brown and Woodard were killed. The group were found in a stash house in El Tecolote six-and-half-miles from Matamoros

Four U.S. citizens who were kidnapped in Mexico by the notorious criminal and drug syndicate Gulf Cartel have lengthy criminal rap sheets.

Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border town Matamoros on Friday when they were caught in crossfire and abducted. Brown and Woodard didn't survive.

DailyMail.com can reveal that Williams was previously busted for 'distributing crack near a school,' while McGee has been slapped with 'unlawful conduct towards a child,' when her daughter tested positive for amphetamines.

Woodard was charged with the 'manufacturing and possession' of drugs and pleaded guilty, while Brown was also charged for 'possession of marijuana or hashish.'

The four were found in a rundown stash house near a place known as La Lagunona in the town of El Tecolote - about six-and-a-half-miles from where they were taken.

Williams was jailed for 18 months in March, 2017, after being busted 12 months earlier for 'distributing' crack cocaine near a school, his arrest affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com reveals.

He was caught in a sting by a confidential informant working for Lake City police department in South Carolina and nailed by video evidence.

Williams was charged with two counts – distribution of cocaine base around March 1, 2016 and distribution of cocaine base within proximity of a school.

Lake City police Major Patrick Miles wrote on the first court arrest report that Williams 'did, while on Carver Street in the city limits of Lake City, willfully and unlawfully violate the South Carolina Drug law.

'The defendant did distribute a quantity of crack cocaine to a confidential informant working with the Lake City Police Department.

'This violation was recorded audio and video and was investigated by the Lake City Police Department Narcotics Division.'

On the second count report, he added: 'This violation did occur within a half mile radius of Ronald E McNair Junior High School… and was in session at the time of this incident.'

Williams was given credit for 60 days time served from his sentence. He pleaded guilty to the two counts, resulting in other indictments against him not being prosecuted.

These included another charge of distributing cocaine on March 1, 2016 to the same informant, with a further charge that this was near the high school.

Another indictment was that on June 3, 2016, Williams possessed crack cocaine with intent to distribute it near a school.

His arrest affidavit for the latter charges read that he was seized for 'outstanding narcotic distribution warrants' and had in his possession 'a prescription pill bottle with 50 Adderall pills… the bottle did not have the defendant's name on it.'

The list continued: 'Several small plastic bags containing a white rock like substance which filed test positive for cocaine base which was recovered from the defendant.'

Williams was also charged with having a loaded .22 caliber handgun in his right rear pocket while he was being frisked in a Lake City street for weapons in September, 2015. The affidavit said: 'The defendant is a convicted felon and is prohibited from possessing any firearm or ammunition by state law.'

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An explosive Polish documentary claims that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, who later became the revered Pope John Paul II and a Catholic saint, knew about cases of paedophilia among the Polish clergy and was active in covering them up.

The documentary Franciszkanska 3 – from the late pope’s office address in Krakow – is perhaps the most damning account yet of Wojtyla’s role in allegedly covering up sexual crimes as a hierarch in Poland and then in the Vatican.

Polish journalist Marcin Gutowski spoke with people abused by priests under Cardinal Wojtyla's authority in the Krakow diocese during the 1960s and 1970s. Gutowski also uncovered documents that confirm Wojtyla’s knowledge about sexual crimes committed by clergy.

Gutowski works for the US-owned media group TVN, which is highly critical of the incumbent conservative government of Law and Justice (PiS), which has close ties to Poland’s Catholic church. The documentary aired on March 6.

The documentary sheds light on previously unknown aspects of the late pope's life and raises questions about his response to allegations of abuse within the Catholic Church.

In one example uncovered by Gutowski, Wojtyla sent a longtime offender to work in Vienna with Cardinal Franz Konig. In a letter to Konig, the Polish cardinal did not mention any allegations against the priest, who until his death had maintained friendly ties with Wojtyla.

Another priest, who the communist authorities jailed for abusing underage girls, was okayed by Wojtyla to work with children after completing his sentence.

The documentary has divided public opinion in Poland, not always along the usually expected fault lines.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the evidence presented by Gutowski is “dubious”. “I am defending our pope because I know that we owe John Paul II a lot as a nation. Perhaps we owe everything,” Morawiecki said in a video published on social media.

The Ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party said it is going to vote on a parliamentary resolution in defence of the late pope, possibly on March 9.

Some of Poland’s opposition sided with Morawiecki and other figures from the normally rejected ruling camp. A resolution to commemorate John Paul II has been proposed by the agrarian party PSL.

Some independent media op-eds critical of Gutowski’s work were broadly in line with opinions in government outlets.

The main point of criticism appears to be that Gutowski relied too much on documents he had found in the archives of the communist secret police, which, the critics say, could have been doctored or otherwise manipulated by the agents themselves.

There also were critical notes arguing that exposing the late pope as an active protector of paedophiles is giving PiS ammunition to lash out at the opposition in an election year.

“In a democracy, one should not attack someone without at least a basic verification of the grounds for such an attack. And certainly, this principle should be respected when it comes to individuals who cannot defend themselves,” Miroslaw Czech, a journalist, wrote in Gazeta Wyborcza on March 7.

“When we forget these foundations, Poland will not deserve anything good. At best, it will become subject to the rule of enemies of democracy and Europe,” Czech added.

The legacy and the myth of John Paul II are set to go through more hard times soon. A book by Dutch reporter Ekke Overbeek, Maxima Culpa. John Paul II knew,about the pope's role in covering up sex crimes among the Catholic clergy was published on March 8.

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NASA Surprised When School Children Discover That EpiPens Become Toxic in Space

Story by Victor Tangermann • Yesterday 3:40 PM

Agroup of gifted elementary school students has discovered that EpiPens, life-saving devices that inject epinephrine in the case of a severe allergic reaction, can turn poisonous after being launched into space — more evidence of the harrowing effects space radiation can have on the health of astronauts.

The students helped researchers at the University of Ottawa in Canada investigate whether the devices could be safely used in space by astronauts.

But there's some bad news: just relatively small amounts of space radiation caused the epinephrine to break down, turning it into a health hazard instead of a lifesaver — something that was previously unknown to NASA, Live Science reports.

The students from St. Brother André Elementary School’s Program for Gifted Learners (PGL) had samples of epinephrine, both by themselves and inside of EpiPens, launched into space as part of NASA's Cubes in Space program.

The University of Ottawa's Faculty of Science then analyzed the returned samples and found that the epinephrine was only 87 percent pure due to cosmic radiation, according to a statement.

The remaining 13 percent turned into benzoic acid derivatives, which are extremely poisonous.

"As part of the Cubes in Space, two cubes were put together by the students, with one going on a rocket and the other on a high-altitude balloon," said University of Ottawa chemistry professor Paul Mayer in the statement. "The ‘after’ samples showed signs that the epinephrine reacted and decomposed."

“In fact, no epinephrine was found in the ‘after’ EpiPen solution samples," he added. "This result raises questions about the efficacy of an EpiPen for outer space applications and these questions are now starting to be addressed by the kids in the PGL program."

The experiment could have lasting effects on how we treat allergic reactions in space.

"This result raises questions about the efficacy of an EpiPen for outer space applications and these questions are now starting to be addressed by the kids in the [Program for Gifted Learners] program," Mayer said.

Fortunately, not all is lost. There may be a way to package EpiPen solutions in a way that doesn't expose them to cosmic radiation — an invention that could save an astronaut's life in the future.