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Three Suffolk County police officers who graduated from the Suffolk County Police Academy on Friday helped deliver a baby girl Monday evening.
Officers Joseph Lacey, Brendan Nappi, and Jonathan Verity responded to a 911 call from a woman who was in active labor in her car parked on the shoulder of Sunrise Highway near the William Floyd Parkway, where the officers assisted with the birth..
An ambulance arrived shortly after the birth and transported the mother and daughter to the hospital, both are doing well.
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer
Russell Wilson has agreed on a one-year contract with the New York Giants, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the signing hasn’t been finalized, said Wilson’s deal is worth up to $21 million with $10.5 million guaranteed.
The Giants signed veteran Jameis Winston to a two-year contract last week and have the third pick in next month’s NFL draft.
The 36-year-old Wilson, a 10-time Pro Bowl selection, joins his fourth team in five years. He helped lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to the playoffs last year but the team lost five in a row to end the season after starting 6-1 with Wilson.
Wilson threw for 2,482 yards with 16 touchdown passes, five interceptions and a 96.5 passer rating for the Steelers.
He had 3,070 yards passing, 26 TDs, eight picks and a 98 passer rating for the Broncos in 2023 but was dumped after two disappointing seasons.
Wilson averaged 3,706 yards, 29 TDs and had a 101.8 passer rating in 10 seasons with Seattle, leading the Seahawks to one Super Bowl title and within one yard of another.
Wilson is 121-77-1 in 199 career starts in the regular season and 9-8 in the playoffs. He has 46,135 yards passing, 350 TDs, 111 interceptions and a 99.8 career passer rating. Wilson also has rushed for 5,462 yards and 31 TDs.
NEW YORK (AP) — A top Justice Department official was leaning toward dropping corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams even before summoning the top Manhattan federal prosecutor at the time to Washington to discuss the case, newly unsealed documents show.
Former interim U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon said in a draft memo made public Tuesday that Emil Bove — now the department’s third-in-command — told her of his thinking on Jan. 27, four days before a closed-door meeting at Justice Department headquarters where she and Adams’ lawyers argued for and against keeping the case alive.
Sassoon said she suggested Bove wait on a decision until President Donald Trump’s nominee for Deputy U.S Attorney General, Todd Blanche, was confirmed by the Senate. She said Bove told her that Blanche — his former law partner and co-counsel on Trump’s criminal defense team — was on the “same page” and there was “no need to wait.”
In her draft memo, Sassoon offers details, observations and a heavy dose of frustration that did not make it into the final version sent to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Feb. 12, the day before Sassoon resigned in protest.
The draft memo and other documents — including text messages, emails and comments reflecting internal discussions among prosecutors — were made public as the mayor’s case teeters toward a likely dismissal.
The Justice Department had filed the documents under seal on March 7, the same day a court-appointed legal expert advised the judge, Dale E. Ho, that legally he has no choice but to end the case.
Bove and Blanche, confirmed two days earlier, suggested in an accompanying public court filing that the documents raised questions about the strength of the case against the mayor and whether the mayor was a target of the so-called weaponization of justice.
In seeking dismissal, Bove has argued that the charges were filed too close to Adams’ reelection campaign and that defending himself in court would distract him from assisting in Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Ho, who has yet to rule on the request, ordered that the records be made public by Tuesday after several media outlets sought their disclosure.
Adams was indicted in September on charges alleging he accepted over $100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and travel perks from a Turkish official and others seeking to buy influence while he was Brooklyn borough president. He faces multiple challengers in June’s Democratic primary. He has pleaded not guilty and insisted he is innocent.
Adams and his lawyers have suggested that he was charged as punishment for criticizing then-President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. Prosecutors involved in the case have denied that, writing in a court filing earlier this year that the investigation into Adams began a year before he started speaking out.
At the Jan. 31 meeting in Washington, Sassoon wrote that Bove gave her and her team just 40 minutes to detail the chronology of the investigation, ordered one of them to shred his notes, and he did not give her a chance to address “a number of issues that bear on the decision to seek dismissal of the case.”
Sassoon said Adams’ lawyers were then given 40 minutes to discuss “the impact of the case on his ability to govern” and assist in immigration enforcement.
“That simply does not suffice,” Sassoon wrote.
She called the nature of the discussions about the Adams’ case “alarming” and added that she remains “baffled by the urgent and superficial process by which this decision was reached.”
Adams’ advocacy, Sassoon said, “should be called out for what it is: an improper effort to withhold immigration assistance for a dismissal of his case.”
Among the issues Sassoon said she wanted to address at the Jan. 31 meeting was Bove’s contention that recent actions by former U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who brought the Adams case, tarnished the case with the appearance of impropriety.
Sassoon noted in the draft memo that while she was “personally disappointed” by Williams “self-serving actions” after he stepped down late last year — which included his penning a column on public corruption and launching a campaign-style website — they didn’t warrant dismissing the case.
“There are myriad ways to address any arising prejudice or weaponization well short of a dismissal — steps routinely taken in other cases with pretrial publicity — but I never had a chance to raise them,” Sassoon wrote.
Other documents unsealed Tuesday offered a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how federal prosecutors in Manhattan built and then tried to salvage the Adams case.
They include discussions over text messages about case strategy and suggested edits to a draft of a court filing in January after Adams’ lawyers alleged that Williams’ column and website had tainted the case with “ethical misconduct.”
In comment bubbles down the right margin of a Microsoft Word document, prosecutor Hagan Scotten cautioned colleagues on the political implications and public perceptions of certain phrasing, parsing which words and facts to include or delete.
Scotten, who also resigned last month in protest, suggesting nixing a line about Adams’ indictment having been approved at the highest levels, writing: “There’s no world in which saying the Biden Justice Dept approved this helps us.”
He also suggested deleting a line that, in his assessment, appeared to pass the buck to the grand jury for indicting Adams.
“We want the judge and everyone else to believe us when we say DW didn’t cause this prosecution,” Scotten wrote, referring to Williams. “Hiding behind the grand jury will sound disingenuous to knowledgeable readers, since GJs will come pretty close to indicting ham sandwiches.”
LONDON (AP) — As wake-up calls go, the alarms don’t get much louder.
Allies of the United States see the group chat between top U.S. officials about a planned attack in Yemen that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach which casts doubt on intelligence-sharing with Washington and the security of joint military operations.
“Scary” and “reckless” was the verdict of one European diplomat about the discussion on the Signal messaging app about strikes on Houthi rebels. Neil Melvin, a security expert at defense think tank the Royal United Services Institute, called it “pretty shocking.”
“It’s some of the most high-ranking U.S. officials seeming to display a complete disregard for the normal security protocols,” he said.
Beyond the security concerns raised by the leaked chat, U.S. officials addressed the country’s trans-Atlantic allies with disdain as Vice President JD Vance complained about “bailing out” Europe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed “pathetic” European “freeloading.”
The criticism is another blow to a long-standing relationship already strained by President Donald Trump’s blunt “America First” approach and disregard for friendly nations.
Melvin said that for America’s allies, “the alarm clock’s been ringing for a long time.”
In public, however, European officials insisted all was well in the trans-Atlantic relationship.
“We have a very close relationship with the U.S. on matters of security, defense and intelligence,” said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesman, Dave Pares. “They are our closest ally when it comes to these matters, have been for many years and will be for many years to come.”
France’s Foreign Ministry said “the United States is our ally, and France intends to continue its cooperation with Washington, as well as with all its allies and European partners, in order to address current challenges — particularly in the area of European security.”
A growing divide
Since taking office, the Trump administration has halted government funding for programs that support democratic principles around the world and presented a less welcoming face to visitors.
U.S. embassies in at least 17 countries have posted warnings for would-be travelers that engaging in behavior deemed harmful by the government could get them deported. Several European countries have issued warnings about visiting the United States after international tourists were caught up in Trump’s border crackdown.
Trump has appalled allies with his repeatedly stated aim of taking over Greenland — an autonomous Danish territory that Vance and second lady Usha Vance are due to visit this week — and his desire to make Canada the 51st state.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country has to “take greater ownership” of its own defense in the face of threats: “We have to look out for ourselves.”
Nathalie Loiseau, a member of the European parliament, told the BBC that she was “flabbergasted” by the breach.
“If I was (Russian President) Vladimir Putin, I would feel jobless. Russia has nothing more to do. … You don’t even need to spy on the U.S. administration. They leak by themselves,” she said.
US reliability questioned
The European diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, suggested the security breach could make allies question the reliability of the U.S. as a partner.
The diplomat expressed hope that the Signal lapse was due to a lack of experience in government rather than a deliberate disregard for security.
Asked if he had concerns about sharing intelligence with the U.S. after the Signal incident, Carney said “it’s a serious, serious issue and all lessons must be taken.” He said it would be important to see “how people react to those mistakes and how they tighten them up.”
Britain could be particularly exposed by U.S. security breaches. Its intelligence network is entwined with the U.S. in the Five Eyes alliance, and the countries’ militaries work more closely than those of almost any other nations.
Britain’s Royal Air Force provided air-to-air refueling for U.S. planes during the strike on the Houthis, but U.K. Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard insisted British personnel had not been put at risk by the breach.
“We’ve got high confidence that the measures that we have got with our allies, including the United States, remain intact,” he told lawmakers.
Ed Davey, the leader of Britain’s opposition Liberal Democrats, said the lapse showed the Trump administration can’t be trusted to protect its own intelligence and “it could only be a matter of time until our own intelligence shared with them is also leaked.”
“This could put British lives at risk,” he said.
Alex Clarkson, a lecturer in European and international studies at King’s College London, said “the professionals and old hands” who “contained the damage” during Trump’s first term are largely gone.
“So what we’re having now is … a manifestation of tendencies that were held in check that we already saw in the first round,” he said.
American frustration
The U.S. has underpinned European security since World War II, and Trump is not the first president to bristle at the burden.
“From the Obama administration (onward), there’s been quite some frustrations in the U.S. security apparatus about the failure of the Europeans … to step up,” Melvin said.
Trump has gone much further than his predecessors in upending the decades-old security arrangements. He has long contended the U.S. needs to completely rethink its relationship with the rest of the world, saying other countries have been “taking advantage” of the nation’s military might by not paying enough for their own defense.
Trump has praised autocrats including Putin and sent chills through NATO during last year’s election campaign with his comment that Russia should “do whatever the hell it wants” to members that don’t meet military spending targets.
“There’s a real sense of divorce, that America is not just disinterested in the trans-Atlantic alliance but views Europe fundamentally as an adversary,” said Max Bergmann, a former State Department official who now works at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“It’s very clear at this point, abundantly clear, that it will be next to impossible to count on the United States for the cause of defending democracy in the world,” said Kevin Casas-Zamora, secretary-general of the pro-democracy group International IDEA.
NATO leaders point out that Trump’s criticism and the war in Ukraine have led to a majority of member states meeting the target of spending at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense.
Trump’s reelection and rapprochement with Putin has hastened European military plans, with nations scrambling to ramp up weapons production and create their own security structures – including a U.K.- and France-led “coalition of the willing” to help guarantee a future ceasefire in Ukraine.
Clarkson said Europe has more strength than many give it credit for, and severing the trans-Atlantic bond would hurt the U.S., too.
“One shouldn’t underestimate European military industrial capacity,” he said. “There are all kinds of things that can go wrong … but there is an element here also that the Americans are awakening a sleeping giant.”
Even though there’s been some backlash over the new live action Snow White film it’s the #1 movie in the box office around the world. The new version stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as The Evil Queen. And don’t worry the 7 Dwarfs are in the film as well… Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy & Sneezy! Have you seen this new take on the 1937 classic Disney film yet?
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Anna, Raven, Producer Julie, and Producer Justin share what they put on their gravestone! Raven’s is very extravagant!
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Anna and Raven talk about their Alexas but anna speaks to hers with a level of respect! You will be shocked by why she is enforcing using “please” and “thank you” when speaking to Alexa.
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Monica and Jonathan have a daughter turning 14. All she wants for her birthday is tickets to see Olivia Rodrigo with a friend. She saw the tickets were over $600 resale, but Monica thinks it’s worth it for the daughter. Two tickets, for $1200. Jonathan thinks she is crazy. It is so much money, and they are so young; an adult should be going with them to supervise. He doesn’t think Monica is being smart here. What do you think?
Riley and Natalie have a chance to win $900! All they has to do is answer more pop culture questions than Raven in Can’t Beat Raven!
Anna, Raven, Producer Julie, and Producer Justin share what they put on their gravestone! Raven’s is very extravagant!
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The Nassau County Legislature failed to pass a proposed $426 million capital plan.
In a heated exchange Democrats stated they were in favor of the plan, but withheld their vote demanding that County Executive Bruce Blakeman sign a document guaranteeing funding for several fire departments in their districts.