Anonymous ID: 6c2e5c May 7, 2025, 9:53 p.m. No.23007020   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7196 >>7351 >>7533 >>7546 >>7559

Salt Lake City adopts 3 new flags to bypass new state flag law

 

Leaders of Utah’s capital city voted to add three new city flags, all incorporating designs not allowed through a new state flag law, to sidestep the measure hours before it goes into law.

 

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall unveiled three new city flag designs to members of the Salt Lake City Council Tuesday evening, as she explained how the city plans to move forward in the wake of HB77 on the eve of the bill becoming law.

 

The new flags would add the sego lily logo from Salt Lake City’s city flag to the Juneteenth, Progress Pride and transgender flags. All three flags were not included in the list of flags approved to be flown outside of government or in schools. The new flags would not replace the city’s primary flag, which was adopted in 2020.

 

“These city flags represent the ideas and principles Salt Lakers know as core tenets — belonging and acceptance, or better stated: Diversity. Equity. Inclusion,” she said, sitting next to all four flags in a Salt Lake City Council work session chamber.

 

“I have given this so much thought, and I do not do this lightly. My sincere intent is not to provoke or cause division; my intent is to represent our city’s values and honor our dear, diverse residents who make up this beautiful city,” she added. “Let the sego lily represent the beauty and resilience of everyone who lives here, no matter their race, ethnicity, gender, faith, income or sexual orientation.”

 

Salt Lake City Council members voted Tuesday night to approve the last-second measure. All seven members shared turns explaining their vote after lining up to take a photo in front of the next flags earlier in the day.

 

“Today is an act of love … for every member of our community,” said Councilwoman Sarah Young before the vote.

 

HB77, which goes into law on Wednesday, lists which flags can be flown at schools and government buildings. U.S., Utah, county, municipal, tribal, military and Olympic flags are among the approved flags, while flags representing the LGBTQ communities and the Juneteenth flag — used to celebrate the holiday where the last slaves were freed after the Civil War — were not included.

 

Rep. Trevor Lee, R-Layton, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure is about maintaining political neutrality in public spaces. Those opposed, including Salt Lake City, argued that it targeted certain minority groups and might violate government free speech. The city has flown Juneteenth, Progress Pride and transgender flags outside of City Hall during specific days or months for years.

 

HB77 became “one of the most divisive bills” from the 2025 legislative session, as Gov. Spencer Cox put it. The governor ultimately declined to sign the bill but also allowed the bill to go into law, explaining in a letter that it passed with a veto-proof majority.

 

“I continue to have serious concerns with this bill. However, because a veto would be overridden, I have decided to allow the bill to go into law without my signature and urge lawmakers to consider common-sense solutions that address the bill’s numerous flaws,” he wrote.

 

Salt Lake City leaders raised a Pride Progress flag and lit the top of the Salt Lake City-County Building in rainbow colors on the final day of the legislative session. The flag was still flying as of Tuesday, ahead of the new law.

 

Behind the scenes, city leaders were reviewing the bill to piece together their next steps. Conversations began days after the session ended, Salt Lake City Council Chairman Chris Wharton said.

 

City officials came up with the idea to place the sego lily — a symbol of the primary city flag — on all three flags it once flew at some point in those discussions, turning them into city flags.

 

“We simply looked at HB77 and discovered there is, indeed, a way for cities to approve additional official flags,” Mendenhall said, noting there’s nothing in statute barring a city from having more than one flag and that the state has four official flags.

 

It’s unclear what will happen next, but Lee caught wind of the city’s move Tuesday evening.

 

“Does Salt Lake City really want to play these games? Good luck!” he posted on X.

 

Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, the bill’s floor sponsor, posted a photo of a flag with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with a sego lily on X, along with the message: “Excited that (the mayor) and (City Council) will also be flying this new SLC flag so that all historic constituents will be ‘seen.’”

 

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Only two people spoke on the measure during the City Council Tuesday night, both speaking in support of the city.

 

Mendenhall said she knows “retribution” is possible, but she said the city wanted to “stand up for our values.” She contends the measure helps the city stay in compliance with the law while still raising the flags it once did.

 

Wharton agrees.

 

“These are the flags that have flown above City Hall and Washington Square for years and years, and we’re just trying to find a way to make that continue,” he said. “We’re not trying to do anything particularly new or exciting.”

 

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/05/07/salt-lake-city-adopts-3-new-flags-to-bypass-new-state-law/

Anonymous ID: 6c2e5c May 7, 2025, 9:55 p.m. No.23007031   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7196 >>7351 >>7533 >>7546 >>7559

Nvidia shares climb as Trump administration prepares to end chip export restrictions

 

-Nvidia shares rose on a report that the Trump administration plans to revise a set of chip trade restrictions called the “AI diffusion” rule.

-The chip restrictions were scheduled to take effect on May 15.

 

Nvidia shares rose on Wednesday as the Trump administration prepared to rescind what’s known as the “AI diffusion rule,” effectively stopping a set of artificial intelligence chip controls from taking effect later this month.

 

A Department of Commerce spokesperson confirmed the plan to CNBC after Bloomberg reported on it earlier.

 

“The Biden AI rule is overly complex, overly bureaucratic, and would stymie American innovation. We will be replacing it with a much simpler rule that unleashes American innovation and ensures American AI dominance,” a Department of Commerce spokesperson said in a statement.

 

The rule, which was proposed in the last days of the Biden administration, organizes countries into three different tiers, all of which have different restrictions on whether advanced AI chips such as those made by Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices

and Intel

can be shipped to the country without a license.

 

The chip restrictions were scheduled to take effect on May 15.

 

“We welcome the Administration’s leadership and new direction on AI policy,” an Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement. “With the AI Diffusion Rule revoked, America will have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lead the next industrial revolution and create high-paying U.S. jobs, build new U.S.-supplied infrastructure, and alleviate the trade deficit.”

 

Chipmakers including Nvidia and AMD have been against the rule.

 

AMD CEO Lisa Su told CNBC on Wednesday that the U.S. should strike a balance between restricting access to chips for national security and providing access, which will boost the American chip industry.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/07/trump-chips-exports-nvidia.html

Anonymous ID: 6c2e5c May 7, 2025, 9:59 p.m. No.23007045   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7196 >>7351 >>7533 >>7546 >>7559

Smokey Robinson accused of multiple rapes

 

Robinson is being accused of sexual battery, sexual assault, false imprisonment, gender violence, and creating a hostile work environment in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

 

His wife, Frances Robinson, is accused of knowing about the alleged assaults and doing nothing about them, according to court documents obtained by The U.S. Sun.

 

All four of Robinson's alleged victims have chosen to remain unnamed and are referred to as Jane Doe in the complaint.

 

The women all worked as housekeepers for the Robinsons at their mansion in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles.

 

The alleged assaults occurred from 2007 through 2024.

 

Each of the women accuse Robinson of forcefully touching their “entire bodies, including their vaginas, breasts, legs, abdomen, lips, and face."

 

All four claim they didn't consent to Robinson's alleged sexual advances.

 

One of the Jane Does claims Robinson started sexually assaulting her in 2016.

 

The former employee claims that when she was home alone with the singer at his house, Robinson would text her and ask her to meet at places in the house that didn't have home surveillance video.

 

"He would then summon her to either the laundry room or garage, where there were no cameras," court documents allege.

 

The woman claims Robinson would then sexually assault and rape her where no cameras could see.

 

She alleged Robinson would threaten her by saying he would make his wife be "mean" to her if she didn't oblige.

 

The former worker also claimed Robinson's wife had settled previous cases with women who suffered similar alleged assaults.

 

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/14179316/smokey-robinson-rape-lawsuit-sexual-battery-album-wife/

Anonymous ID: 6c2e5c May 7, 2025, 10:01 p.m. No.23007055   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7196 >>7351 >>7533 >>7546 >>7559

Trump begins nominating judges for 46 federal vacancies

 

President Trump has begun the process of staffing judicial vacancies.

 

The big picture: During his first term, Trump flipped the federal judiciary with the help of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), together setting a record on the number of judges confirmed.

 

Trump 2.0 is having a slower start, though there are only 46 judicial vacancies to fill, compared to more than 100 at the start of his first term.

Zoom in: Trump made first judicial nomination of his second term last week, naming Whitney Hermandorfer as his pick. The lawyer served under Tennessee's Republican attorney general.

 

The president announced a series of nominations Tuesday for judges to serve on the U.S. District Court in Missouri, including Zachary Bluestone, Joshua Divine and Maria Lanahan.

Bluestone serves as appellate chief in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Missouri, and Lanahan is the state's principal deputy solicitor general.

Divine has clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas and previously served as chief counsel to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).

Between the lines: Trump can again nominate GOP-friendly judges to fill lifetime appointments across the country, especially as he questions the courts and tries to weigh the power of the executive branch against that of the judiciary.

 

He and his allies have long railed against a justice system they view as unfair toward conservatives, with frequent rants against district judges and their ability to block executive actions nationwide, Axios' Stef W. Kight reports.

Trump and his allies have recently pushed to have judges who did not rule in favor of the administration impeached.

Zoom out: Republicans have so far been slower to begin the process of judicial confirmations compared to former President Biden and Trump in 2017.

 

By this point in the first Trump term, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch had already been confirmed and a federal judge was in the pipeline for a May approval, Senate records show.

At this point in Biden's term, the first batch of judges had been sent to the Senate and seven were confirmed in June.

Flashback: 234 federal judges were confirmed under the first Trump administration — including three members of the Supreme Court.

 

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/06/trump-judge-nominations

Anonymous ID: 6c2e5c May 7, 2025, 10:02 p.m. No.23007060   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7196 >>7351 >>7533 >>7546 >>7559

Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources

 

The U.S. Department of Justice has been quietly investigating a Tennessee traffic stop in 2022 involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of a high-profile court battle over his mistaken deportation from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration, ABC News has learned.

 

Federal investigators involved in the inquiry recently spoke with a convicted felon in an Alabama prison and questioned him about potential connections to Abrego Garcia, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

 

The inmate, Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, 38, was the registered owner of a vehicle driven by Abrego Garcia when he was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in late 2022, according to the sources. Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle with eight passengers and told police they'd been working construction in Missouri.

 

Federal agents investigating the Tennessee incident appeared late last month at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama, to question Hernandez-Reyes, who had an attorney present and was granted limited immunity, sources familiar with the interview said.

 

Hernandez-Reyes told investigators that he previously operated a "taxi service" based in Baltimore. He claimed to have met Abrego Garcia around 2015 and claimed to have hired him on multiple occasions to transport undocumented migrants from Texas to various locations in the United States, the sources told ABC News. The frequency and time frame of the alleged trips was not immediately clear.

 

It's unclear whether prosecutors will ultimately gather enough evidence to bring charges against Abrego Garcia. The interview of Hernandez-Reyes, however, appears to be a new and aggressive step in the government's efforts to gather potentially incriminating information about Abrego Garcia's background – even as it resists calls for him to be provided typical protections to respond to such accusations through the American legal system.

 

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice declined to comment.

 

According to body camera footage of the 2022 traffic stop, the Tennessee troopers after questioning Abrego Garcia discussed among themselves their suspicions of human trafficking because nine people were traveling without luggage, but Abrego Garcia was not ticketed or charged. When asked to provide proof of insurance, Abrego Garcia told officers he would have to call his boss because he didn't know where the insurance card was in the car. Audio from the police footage cuts out briefly after an officer asks Abrego Garcia who owned the vehicle.

 

The officers ultimately issued no speeding ticket and allowed Abrego Garcia to drive on with just a warning about an expired driver's license, according to a report about the stop released last month by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Tennessee Highway Patrol, in a statement last month, said troopers had contacted federal authorities before making that decision.

 

"The Tennessee Highway Patrol can confirm a 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was stopped for speeding on I-40," a Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesperson said. "Per standard protocol, the THP contacted federal law enforcement authorities with the Biden-era FBI the agency of jurisdiction who made the decision not to detain him."

 

An attorney for Abrego Garcia, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, said last week that he saw no evidence of a crime in the Tennessee traffic stop.

 

"But the point is not the traffic stop it's that Mr. Abrego Garcia deserves his day in court. Bring him back to the United States," Sandoval-Moshenberg said. "I have represented Kilmar Abrego Garcia for more than a month, and this bodycam video is the first time I've heard his voice. He has been denied the most basic protections of due process no phone call to his lawyer, no call to his wife or child, and no opportunity to be heard," he said.

 

Sandoval-Moshenberg, when reached Monday by ABC News, declined further comment.

 

When details of the Tennessee traffic stop were first publicized, Abrego Garcia's wife said her husband sometimes transported groups of fellow construction workers between job sites.

 

"Unfortunately, Kilmar is currently imprisoned without contact with the outside world, which means he cannot respond to the claims," Jennifer Vasquez Sura said in mid-April.

 

The Trump administration in recent weeks has been publicizing Abrego Garcia's interactions with police over the years, despite a lack of corresponding criminal charges. And now the incident in Tennessee nearly three years ago is under renewed scrutiny by the Justice Department, sources tell ABC News, just as the litigation over his erroneous deportation enters a critical stage.

 

The administration faces deadlines this week to answer discovery requests about what steps officials have taken to comply with a district judge's order affirmed by the US Supreme Court to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. Four U.S. officials are also set to be deposed this week by lawyers for Abrego-Garcia.

 

Abrego Garcia's expulsion in March to El Salvador violated a U.S. immigration judge's order in 2019 that shielded him from deportation to his native country, according to immigration court records. The judge had determined that Abrego Garcia would likely face persecution there by local gangs that had terrorized him and his family.

 

Abrego Garcia was initially sent to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison but is now believed to be held in a different facility.

 

Last month, after Abrego Garcia's family filed a lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return to the U.S. The Supreme Court affirmed that ruling on April 10.

 

Hernandez-Reyes, who was not present during the 2022 Tennessee traffic stop, was charged in 2020 in a 7-count federal indictment for unlawful transportation of undocumented immigrants within the U.S. According to a criminal complaint, Hernandez-Reyes had rented a minivan that was pulled over by police in Gautier, Mississippi, and found with a total of nine undocumented occupants. Abrego Garcia was not among them.

 

Hernandez-Reyes allegedly admitted he was in the U.S. illegally and told federal investigators from the Department of Homeland Security that he had previously lived in Maryland but had since moved to Houston. He said he operated a Texas-based business transporting people throughout the U.S. for $350 per person. In June 2020, he pleaded guilty to a single count of unlawful transportation of an alien and was sentenced to 18 months in prison and subsequently deported, according to court records.

 

He was found back in the U.S. in late 2022 when he was charged in Montgomery County, Texas, with illegal discharge of a firearm, according to state court records.

 

After serving time in Texas he was charged federally with illegally reentering the U.S. after previously being convicted of a felony. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/justice-department-investigating-2022-abrego-garcia-traffic-stop/story?id=121492776

Anonymous ID: 6c2e5c May 7, 2025, 10:04 p.m. No.23007067   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7196 >>7351 >>7533 >>7546 >>7559

Foreign Aid Official Who Resisted DOGE Took Secret Payments After Steering Africa Money To Friend

 

A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out: he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by The Daily Wire.

 

Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the board. After a dramatic showdown in March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals, but control of the agency is now the subject of a lawsuit objecting to “swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems” — an objection that reads differently in light of the criminal probe.

 

For years, workers at the small, USAID-adjacent federal agency focused on Africa have told oversight bodies about allegations of self-dealing, procurement violations, and mysterious offshore bank accounts, many of them involving Zahui. But little was done about it, several told The Daily Wire.

 

One action that raised eyebrows was Zahui’s insistence on directing both grants and contracts to a company in Kenya called Ganiam Ltd. According to spending records, it was awarded nearly $800,000 in contracts without competition. For example, a one-year, $350,000 contract for “transport, travel, relocation” services was executed in March 2020, when few people were traveling or holding conferences because of coronavirus.

 

According to a search warrant application uncovered by The Daily Wire, USAID’s inspector general established by August 2024 that the company’s owner had secretly wired money to Zahui’s personal bank account at times that matched up with the federal contracts. To date, the Department of Justice has not charged either man with a crime.

 

Ganiam Ltd. is owned by Maina Gakure, whom Zahui has known for decades. Both worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs in San Diego and later moved to Fairfax, Virginia. Gakure had been in charge of awarding contracts at the VA, then created his own company designed to get government construction contracts by taking advantage of a minority preference program. It was called Ganiam LLC and was based out of a house in Virginia. Gakure similarly created a company based in Kenya called Gakure Ltd. The African Development Foundation is permitted by law to give grants only to African entities.

 

In January 2024, inspector general agents interviewed Zahui about the Ganiam contracts, and he acknowledged having known Gakure personally since 1999, and having been to his apartment. He “could not explain why the contract with Ganiam was sole-sourced instead of being competitively bid,” the agents wrote.

 

Zahui — who was named chief financial officer of the federal agency after he declared bankruptcy and had his house foreclosed on — acknowledged to investigators that the travel contract was executed after COVID had already shut down travel. He told them the contract was actually used for IT services, but since Ganiam had no expertise in IT, it subcontracted it to a different company. A Department of the Treasury contracting official told the agents that was not allowed.

 

Zahui continued to give more contracts to Ganiam without competition, which he justified by saying he was “lazy” and didn’t want to find a new vendor. “Zahui stated that he did not receive any direct or indirect benefits from Gakure,” agents wrote.

 

But in February 2024, the agents seized Zahui’s work phone and examined a subset of the data.

 

“Agents found text messages showing at least eight instances of wire transfers or electronic payments from Gakure to Zahui’s Bank of America account, totaling over $10,000. These payments coincide with USADF’s awarding of sole-source contracts to Ganiam,” they wrote.

 

“After identifying these payments, the agents stopped their review. Based on the aforementioned evidence, there is probable cause to believe that there are additional relevant communications and instances of payments on the TARGET DEVICE in the applications that have not been reviewed,” they told a judge on October 29, 2024, eight months after seizing the device. They asked for a warrant to examine the rest.

 

On November 4, 2024, the day before the presidential election, they executed the search warrant.

 

This February, President Trump fired the African Development Foundation’s board members, and its CEO, Travis Adkins, resigned. A three-person committee, including Zahui, took over the duties of CEO.

 

On February 21, DOGE “demanded immediate access to USADF systems including financial records and payment and human resources systems,” but Zahui stalled them. On February 28, the White House emailed Zahui that Pete Marocco, the Trump operative tasked with dismantling USAID, had become acting chairman of the African Development Foundation. Zahui told the White House that agency staff would not honor the appointment because Marocco had not been confirmed by the Senate.

 

When DOGE returned, staff locked the doors and refused to let them in, creating a dramatic showdown, according to a lawsuit filed against DOGE by the now-fired board. DOGE eventually gained access to the building using U.S. Marshals, and put the staff on leave.

 

In an interview with The Daily Wire at his home, Zahui said DOGE changed the locks, but that they didn’t know about a back door, and he had gained access since the takeover.

 

He acknowledged that he selected Gakure’s firm because of their personal relationship, and said Gakure moved to Kenya before COVID.

 

During the same time period that Ganiam Ltd. was paid as an African company, Ganiam LLC received roughly $90,000 in U.S. coronavirus assistance designed to prevent the loss of American jobs. Gakure did not return a request for comment.

 

Zahui told The Daily Wire that Ganiam performed IT services during COVID instead of the travel services advertised on contracting documents. Contracting records show that the agency, with only 30 employees, was separately paying astronomical sums for IT, including $865,000 to another minority-owned contractor called Etranservices Corp. between 2020 and 2022, with the option to bill up to $4 million.

 

A former agency employee told The Daily Wire that on top of the $800,000 in contracts to Ganiam, the African Development Foundation also awarded it grants. Zahui initially denied that to The Daily Wire, then conceded it was true. He said it gave grants to Ganiam, which it was required to use to buy airline tickets for the agency’s African partners to attend events on the continent and to take a trip to the United States, where they visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The amount of “grants” to the company is unknown.

 

In November 2023, Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho), then the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, asked the USAID inspector general, which has oversight of the African Development Foundation, to open an “immediate investigation” into what he said was a slew of whistleblower complaints about financial irregularities at the agency. Those included “misuse of official funds; fraudulent and corrupt spending practices; conflicts of interest [and] gross mismanagement.”

 

Among the irregularities cited was “an alleged $2 million deposit by [Zahui] into a bank account in Ghana in February 2023 — that typically would require signature by at least two presently responsible fiduciary agents of the agency,” Risch wrote. “This may also explain why a senior USADF official was unable to account for major financial discrepancies included in the agency’s FY2024 budget request.”

 

In an internal videotaped interview obtained by The Daily Wire, regional portfolio manager Jeff Gileo, who was tasked with supervising projects in Africa, said, “a lot of those projects, we never actually saw them. They were managed by [the CFO’s office] directly.” For example, he said he asked for information about a grant in the country of Mauritius and was “told no, because there might be some other information in there that people don’t need to know about, being run by finance.”

 

Zahui strongly denied to The Daily Wire that there was a $2 million deposit. He said it was true that there are accounts throughout Africa with money sitting in them, some in countries where the agency hadn’t been active in years. He also said that he had traveled to open and close such bank accounts, but that the money was all accounted for.

 

“We’ve not operated in Guinea for a long time, it’s been more than eight years now, but the bank account is there. There’s money there. When we attempted to transfer the fund to the U.S. Treasury, it didn’t work. We tried three times,” he said. “I went to Botswana, I close it, I take the money out. I went to Swaziland….I close it, and the funds are accounted for today. I couldn’t bring it here because I couldn’t cross the — so we put it where we transfer them in an account, what we call ADF — I forget the name, but we have an account in Kenya.”

 

“We call it funds ‘outside of treasury,’” he said, adding that he planned to help Congress locate the money, but that he hasn’t pointed it out to DOGE because no one has made contact with him. According to its 2022-2023 financial statement, the agency had $9.7 million “held outside treasury.”

 

Mateo Dunne, the agency’s former general counsel, told The Daily Wire that he provided the USAID inspector general with extensive documentation of violations of procurement, personnel, and ethics regulations by African Development Foundation officials beginning in 2021, but that even clear-cut violations didn’t appear to be acted upon.

 

Sen. Risch warned USAID’s inspector general in the 2023 letter that if it didn’t urgently reform the African Development Foundation, Americans might lose trust in USAID and foreign funding as a whole.

 

“Development assistance plays an important role in U.S. foreign policy. Turning a blind eye to alleged fraud, corruption, and mismanagement in any single development agency or program would undermine the credibility of U.S. development assistance across the board,” he wrote.

 

Now, just over 3 months into the Trump administration, USAID and the African Development Foundation are gone.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-aid-official-who-resisted-doge-took-secret-payments-after-steering-africa-money-to-friend

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Russian Illegal steals 68 foot yacht in Florida, leads police on boat chase

 

JUPITER, Fla. (WFLA) — The suspect accused of stealing a luxury yacht attempted to evade law enforcement in a Florida waterway on Monday before eventually getting arrested.

 

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office began its pursuit of the 66-foot stolen luxury yacht as the man was traveling along the Intracoastal Waterway, fleeing from authorities.

 

The dockmaster reported the boat stolen from the Blowing Rocks Marina in Jupiter, prompting deputies to take their patrol vessel and surround the yacht.

 

“Martin County ground units, marine units, SWAT team members, and criminal investigations detectives are all in position and preparing to board the vessel,” the sheriff’s office initially posted on Facebook.

 

Three hours later, officials announced that the suspect, Nikolai Vilkov, a Russian national, had been captured. NBC affiliate WPTV said the pursuit lasted about an hour and a half.

 

Vilkov claimed he did not speak English, so a Russian interpreter from the Department of Homeland Security arrived on the scene to translate and assist with the investigation.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-man-accused-stealing-luxury-154530399.html

Anonymous ID: 6c2e5c May 7, 2025, 10:06 p.m. No.23007078   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7196 >>7336 >>7338 >>7351 >>7533 >>7546 >>7559

95 percent of Tesla Model 3 parts are made in China

 

Over 95% of the parts for each Tesla's Model 3 and refreshed Model Y are made in China, the US EV giant said on Weibo today. The carmaker's Shanghai Gigafactory delivered more than 916,000 units last year, accounting for half the company's total.

 

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/flashdetail/86556334632645