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Just days after mass shootings, NRA convention draws top GOP 2024 hopefuls

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

By WILL WEISSERT and TOM DAVIES (Associated Press)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Last year it was Uvalde. Now it’s Nashville and Louisville. For the second year in a row, the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention within days of mass shootings that shook the nation. The three-day gathering kicked off Friday with thousands of the organization’s most active members at Indianapolis’ convention center attracting a bevy of top Republican presidential candidates — enough that it could help shape the early part of next year’s GOP primary race.It illustrates the stark reality that such shootings have become enough of the fabric of American life that the NRA can no longer schedule around them. Nor does it really want to: The convention falls on the second anniversary of the mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that killed nine people.In brief remarks, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre didn’t mention the recent mass shootings.“Gun-ha...

Bob Lee was confronted by accused killer about sister: court documents

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Just hours before tech mogul Bob Lee was brutally stabbed to death in San Francisco, a witness overheard a conversation between the Cash App founder and his accused killer, Nima Momeni, according to court documents obtained Friday by KRON4. Momeni wanted to know if Lee had done anything "inappropriate" with Momeni's younger sister, according to court documents. A possible motive behind Lee's shocking homicide was revealed in court documents filed by prosecutors in court Friday. Lee, 43, is a divorced father of two who made millions working in the Bay Area tech industry. Momeni, 38, is also a Bay Area-based tech executives. Prosecutors believe Momeni stabbed Lee in the chest three times around 2:30 a.m. on April 4, and left him in the street to die.Momeni was arrested at his Emeryville home, charged with murder, and booked into a San Francisco jail Thursday. To make sure Momeni remains behind bars without bail, prosecutors filed court documents Friday contain...

Logan Webb, Giants agree to $90M, 5-year deal for 2024-28

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Right-hander Logan Webb and the San Francisco Giants agreed Friday to a $90 million, five-year contract covering 2024-28.The 26-year-old has a $4.6 million salary this season in his first year of arbitration eligibility and would have been eligible for free agency after the 2025 season. He gets $8 million next year, $12 million in 2025, $23 million each in 2026 and 2027 and $24 million in 2028. In addition, he would receive a $1 million one-time assignment bonus from the receiving team if traded. Wiggins will be available for Game 1 vs. Kings, Steve Kerr says Webb went 15-9 with a 2.90 ERA in 32 starts last year, striking out 163 and walking 49 in 192 1/3 innings. He is 0-3 with a 4.76 ERA this season heading into a scheduled start Sunday at the Detroit Tigers.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-contain...

Marianne Williamson, Fusing Bernie Sanders and (Early) Jordan Peterson, Is Taking Over TikTok

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

The kids may or may not be alright, but one thing is clear: They are super into Marianne Williamson. If engagement on TikTok is any indication, a Democratic presidential primary held today among people under 50 would result in a landslide for the best-selling author now making her second bid for the nomination.Williamson has only posted 65 videos on TikTok, yet has drawn more than 11 million views, according to a TikTok data counter. But there are also endless Marianne stan (Maristanne?) accounts — @marianne2024winner and @marianne4prez among them — that post her speeches and rack up massive numbers. A scroll through the popular account @realdemocrat20 turns up multiple Williamson videos, all generating eye-popping numbers for her treatises on universal health care, corruption, gun rights, or abortion, including nearly a million views for whatever this is.A recent poll found Williamson hovering above 20 percent with voters under 30 — far higher than she reached in the crowded 2020 f...

At Knock Shrine, Biden meets priest who gave Beau last rites

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

KNOCK, Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden was moved to tears on Friday during a stop at a Catholic shrine when he discovered that a chaplain working there had performed last rites on his late son Beau Biden. Knock Shrine is a pilgrimage site where, according to Catholic lore, the saints Mary, Joseph and John the Evangelist appeared near a stone wall in 1879. Biden touched the remaining old wall, and toured the site with priest Father Richard Gibbons.Gibbons said he discovered earlier in the day that the Father Frank O’Grady working at the site was the same one who’d performed last rites, a ceremony in the Catholic faith that spiritually prepares people for death, for Beau. It’s common in the Catholic faith for priests to move around to different posts during their lives in the church. O’Grady is a former U.S. Army chaplain and was formerly assigned to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where Beau died in 2015 from brain cancer at the age...

Clint Eastwood set to direct ‘Juror No. 2’ for Warner Bros.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Clint Eastwood is getting back in the director’s chair. The “Unforgiven” and “Gran Torino” filmmaker is set to direct the legal drama “Juror No. 2″ for his longtime studio, Warner Bros., a person close to the production who requested anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to comment publicly confirmed Friday. The film will be Eastwood’s first since 2021’s neo-Western “Cry Macho,” which also marked his return to the screen as an actor. With production on “Juror No. 2” to begin in June, Eastwood will be 93 when he steps on set. Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette are in early talks to potentially star in the film, written by Jonathan Abrams, about a murder trial wherein a juror discovers he may have played a role in the victim’s death. In an interview in 2014 with The Associated Press, Eastwood, said the reason for his career longevity was that “I never let the old man in.” “There are so many different stories to tell out there,” said ...

Jessica Chastain returns to theater with ‘A Doll’s House’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

New York (AP) — Jessica Chastain counts her performance as Nora in the current Broadway revival of “A Doll’s House” to be one of the “hardest things” she has ever done.Coming from the actor who has played televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker and country singer Tammy Wynette, that’s saying a lot.The two-hour play was so emotionally draining to perform, she said, that she wanted to skip the final bow.“I’ve come out for the curtain call, not ready for the curtain call, and that’s been difficult,” Chastain said.But after speaking with director Jamie Lloyd, she rallied and decided it was important for the audience.“There are times I go out there and I’m like, trying to hold it together. And I’m still feeling like the play course through my veins,” she said.The Oscar-winning actor is currently appearing in a limited run of the groundbreaking 1879 Henrik Ibsen play that challenged the sacredness of marriage, gender roles, and women’s rights. It was so controversial for its time that...

Residents in Fort Lauderdale assess damage caused by historic floods

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

First responders are still on alert as they answer calls as parts of Fort Lauderdale remain waterlogged, though Friday was finally a day with no rain.“My car has literally floated away,” said a person on a video recording the scene on a cell phone, recorded Wednesday night.An Edgewood neighborhood is still under water Friday afternoon. John Foreman told 7News that he and his friends rescued 20 people from flooded homes in this community.“There was about 4 feet of water in the houses,” Foreman said. “It was above the couches and the beds. There was no place that wasn’t wet, and people were freezing.”With so much water remaining, so does the trauma from that torrential downpour.“Terrible. It’s a nightmare,” said a woman. “We have a flooded house over here, and over here we have no electricity. This whole street is no electricity. I am shaking now.”Those just now coming back to survey the damage are stunned.“This is insa...

South Florida floods: FLL reopens as residents clean up mess

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Fort Lauderdale’s airport reopened Friday morning, two days after an unprecedented deluge left planes and travelers stranded, as residents in the city’s hardest hit neighborhoods began the slow process of cleaning up the mess left behind.Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shut down Wednesday evening as a storm dumped more than 2 feet (60 centimeters) of rain. Airport officials completed final inspections after sunrise Friday and resumed operations at 9 a.m. By the afternoon, airport operations were slowly returning to normal, but the almost two-day closure was still affecting some passengers.One of them was Michael Clement, a Baptist minister from Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Clement’s congregation, which he has served for 40 years, paid for him and his wife, Ariel, to visit their son, a missionary, who lives with his wife and three children in Sao Gabriel, Brazil, a small town in that nation’s deep south.They set out Thursday, f...

Private bill signings likely show DeSantis’ media strategy

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:13:31 GMT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a restrictive abortion bill at an evangelical church before enthusiastic supporters in one of Florida’s largest media markets.But that was last year, when DeSantis banned abortions after 15 weeks.This year DeSantis signed an even more restrictive bill, banning abortion after six weeks, in the privacy of his office on Thursday just before midnight. There was no throng of supporters to celebrate, no packs of reporters throwing out scores of questions and documenting the moment and no television cameras — and Tallahassee is one of the state’s smallest media markets.It’s at least the third major piece of conservative legislation the prospective presidential candidate has signed in private this year with no advance media notice, following bills to allow legal gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit and to expand Florida’s school voucher program.Doing so might reflect more his attitude towa...