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Pac-12 basketball power ratings: Arizona on top as USC falls, Utah and WSU rise

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

The Pac-12 power ratings will appear weekly on the Hotline until the conference tournament, although the publication day will change once football season ends.Two weeks into the most important two months of the college basketball season, the Pac-12 owns a 29-6 record in non-conference play. The winning percentage of 82.8 is well above the historical threshold (70 percent) that leads to success on Selection Sunday.But most of the toughest games are ahead. Next week, in fact, the conference has dates lined up with No. 4 Marquette, No. 14 Arkansas, No. 15 Baylor and No. 18 Michigan State.We’ll monitor the situation closely. Results in November (and December) have an enormous impact on what happens in March.To the power ratings …1. Arizona (3-0)Last week: 2Results: beat Duke 78-73, beat Southern 97-59Next up: vs. Belmont (Friday)Comment: Standard policy at Hotline HQ: Beat Duke at Duke and you’re No. 1 in the power ratings, regardless of record, date, weather condition...

Final day of APEC: Here are Biden's plans

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

(KRON) – Friday is the last day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit Cooperation summit.President Joe Biden has collectively met with the other 20 world leaders who make up the APEC summit. Biden plans to meet with Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss migration and fentanyl coming into the United States. Authorities say China has all the ingredients to make the drug, but it is produced in Mexico and then comes into the United States. Poll shows Newsom’s weaknesses on key issues, strength vs. Trump in California President Biden and China's president met Wednesday to work on slowing down the drugs coming into the United States. President Biden wants that same cooperation from Mexico. President Biden plans on leaving San Francisco on Friday afternoon. 

Hillary Clinton Is Lying About the History Between Hamas and Israel

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

Hilary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton at the Great Hall in Swansea University Bay Campus, in Wales on Nov. 16, 2023.Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published an opinion piece in The Atlantic headlined “Hamas Must Go.” Why does she believe this? The subhead explains: “The terror group has proved again and again that it will sabotage any efforts to forge a lasting peace.” The article is the latest chapter of Clinton’s press tour following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, including an appearance on the daytime talk show “The View.” Both in The Atlantic and on “The View,” Clinton explained why a ceasefire in Israel’s current war on Gaza would be a terrible mistake.Everything Clinton has said is part of a peculiar genre of self-defeating “liberal” propaganda on the topic of Israel–Palestine. Clinton is rational and informed and understands, as she writes in The Atlantic, that “the only way to ensur...

House Democrats Press Biden to Block Military Aid to Pakistan Over Human Rights Abuses, Jailing of Imran Khan

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

Eleven Democrats in the House of Representatives are calling on the State Department to conduct a probe into human rights abuses inside Pakistan, with an eye toward restricting aid based on potential violations of the Leahy Act, according to a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.Led by Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Greg Casar of Texas, the letter expresses “deep concern about the ongoing human rights violations in Pakistan,” which has been in a state of political crisis since the military-engineered removal of former Prime Minister Imran Khan last year. Khan was removed from office following a no-confidence vote organized by the military and his civilian opponents. The Leahy Law, as it’s often called, bars military assistance to government entities engaged in abuse.According to a classified Pakistani intelligence document reported in August by The Intercept, the effort to remove Khan also came partly on the back of pressure from the U.S. government, which had been an...

Correction: Law Professor Killing story

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a story published November 14, 2023, about the arrest of Donna Adelson in the murder of her son-in-law Daniel Markel, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Katie Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia were once married. While they sometimes identified as married, they were never officially married. Also, Garcia was not a member of the Latin Kings gang, only his co-conspirator, Luis Rivera was.Source

Defeated Virginia candidate whose explicit videos surfaced says she may not be done with politics

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

HENRICO, Va. (AP) — Susanna Gibson lost her Virginia legislative race this month, but she may not be done with politics.Gibson, a Democrat whose House of Delegates campaign and personal life were rocked by news reports that she had livestreamed sex acts with her husband on a pornographic website, isn’t ruling out another run for office someday, she told The Associated Press in her first interview since the controversy erupted in September.While expressing regret about what unfolded, Gibson is unapologetic about her participation in the online sex acts. She maintains that a crime was committed when members of the news media were alerted to the existence of videos documenting what had been livestreamed. Moving forward, she says she wants to find ways to support and encourage other women running for office, particularly those who might find themselves in situations that bear similarities to hers.Gibson, who has faced harassment and death threats since the disclosure of the videos...

Live updates | Israeli troops find body of hostage during search of Gaza hospital complex

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

Israel’s military said it found the body of another hostage in a building adjacent to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, the focus of clashing narratives over who is to blame for the widespread suffering of Palestinian civilians during the war between Israel and Hamas. The military identified the dead hostage on Friday as Cpl. Noa Marciano. The body of another hostage, Yehudit Weiss, was found Thursday as Israeli troops searched the hospital complex. Israel accuses Hamas of using Palestinians as human shields, while Palestinians and rights groups say Israel has recklessly endangered civilians as it seeks to eradicate the militant group. Aid agencies said they had to call off deliveries of basic necessities in the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel. They warned of possible widespread starvation in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. They said most people in Gaza were without adequate food and clean water.At least 11,470 Palestinians — two-thirds of them women and minor...

Texas woman convicted of killing pro cyclist ‘Mo’ Wilson faces life in prison at sentencing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman convicted of murder in the shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson faces up to life in prison in Texas when sentenced in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search to find her.Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, was convicted Thursday. Jurors will recommend a sentence after deliberations scheduled to resume Friday. Prosecutors said Armstrong gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage in May 2022. Wilson, also known as “Mo,” had briefly dated Armstrong’s boyfriend several months earlier. Wilson went swimming and to a meal with him the day she was killed.After two weeks of testimony, jurors deliberated for about two hours before delivering their verdict.“From the day she was born, she had a force in her,” Wilson’s mother, Karen Wilson, told jurors Thursday at the start of the punishment phase of the trial. “She lived as if every day was her last day. And she lived it so fully. She never wasted any time. ̷...

Ethics chairman launches a new bid to expel George Santos after a withering report on his conduct

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee announced Friday he has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress, one day after the committee issued a withering report detailing substantial evidence that Santos converted campaign donations for his own personal use.Santos easily survived an expulsion vote earlier this month as lawmakers in both parties stressed the need to allow due process, as Santos is also facing nearly two dozen charges in federal court. But the release of the committee’s findings has generated new momentum for ousting the scandal-plagued freshman. Shortly after the report was released, Santos announced he would not seek reelection.“The evidence uncovered in the Ethics Committee’s Investigative Subcommittee investigation is more than sufficient to warrant punishment and the most appropriate punishment, is expulsion,” said Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss.The Ethics Committee referred its fi...

California fugitive sentenced for killing Florida woman in 1984

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:12 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 65-year-old California fugitive who eluded authorities for nearly four decades before his arrest in June has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing a Florida woman.Donald Santini pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors to avoid a first-degree murder charge. Circuit Judge Samantha Ward approved the deal before issuing the sentence in Tampa on Thursday, the Tampa Bay Times reported. The case had been set to go to trial in two weeks.“Good luck,” the judge told Santini, who has been in jail without bond since his arrest in June at his home near San Diego.”Thank you, Your Honor,” Santini, whose hands were cuffed in front of him, replied.Before his arrest, Santini had lived in California under the name of Wellman Simmonds. He was president of a local water board in Campo, a tiny suburb of San Diego, and he regularly appeared at public board meetings.The life he had built in California came to an end thanks to a tip from the Flo...