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Opinion: End Israel’s colonial occupation and apartheid system

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

Last weekend, Palestinian fighters in Gaza broke through the illegal wall that imprisons them into the ancestral lands from which their families were driven. Some Palestinians who have never experienced a single day of freedom were outside a cage for the first time.For more than 75 years, Israel — purporting to act in the name of all Jews, myself included — has been forcing Palestinians from their homes and killing and kidnapping Palestinians of all ages. I’m 44 years old and on Saturday, for the first time in my lifetime, Palestinians used these same tactics at a large scale against Israelis, killing more than 1,200 people and capturing an estimated 150 others.I know what you’re wondering: Am I writing to celebrate the killing of civilians? No. I am haunted when I see a photo of any civilian killed, my throat involuntarily choking up every time. My question is, if you were more shaken by the Israeli lives lost in one day than 75 years of killing and kidnapping of Palest...

Opinion: Attack on Israel was designed to spread fear and inflict pain

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

The terrorist killing and wounding of thousands of Jews in the homeland of the Jewish people — a day after the holiday Sukkot ended — expressed a darker desire.Sukkot celebrates how God protected Jews who wandered the desert for 40 years. Yet, not even under the supposed protection of a modern Jewish state, were these people safe. And that was certainly the point.But it’s a point that has no purpose other than spreading fear and inflicting pain. Mothers and babies were killed, according to witnesses and the Israeli government. In some cases, the babies were killed and then burned.This wasn’t the killing of soldiers on a battlefield, shot from afar. There was no military or political objective. This was wanton and homicidal. The victims saw their killers. Watched them murder loved ones. Locked eyes with their tormentors before dying themselves.While massacres are nothing new in the Middle East, how do we, as supposedly civilized human beings, react to this, how do we handle our desir...

By the numbers: Women’s sports in 2023

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

Victoria Stavish | Baltimore Sun (TNS)Women’s sports have been making headlines throughout 2023. Viewership of women’s games, the pay of female athletes and the diversity of sports that female athletes participate in are all higher than in decades past, but gender gaps still exist and some gains may look impressive until they’re put in perspective.High school girls’ participation in some traditionally male-dominated sports is growing in Maryland.Between 2014 and 2022, overall participation in high school sports in Maryland declined among both girls and boys. More girls are participating, however, in some traditionally male-dominated sports like wrestling, golf, ice hockey and football. Though their numbers are growing, girls playing those four sports represented only 1.7% of all roster sports held by girls during the 2021-22 school year.More than four in 10 NCAA athletes are women.After making up 30% of NCAA athletes in 1982, women have seen their representation increase more than 1...

Two arrested in San Jose daycare drowning deaths

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

(KRON) -- Two people have been arrested in connection to drowning deaths at a San Jose daycare earlier this month, the San Jose Police Department announced Friday. Nina Fathizadeh and Shahin Gheblehshenas were arrested on suspicion of neglect of two children resulting in death and neglect of a child resulting in non-life threatening injuries.The incident occurred on Oct. 2 when SJPD patrol officers responded with the San Jose Fire Department to a welfare check at a residential day care located in the 1000 block of Fleetwood Drive.Officers were notified that several children had fallen into a pool. Medics were summoned and the children were transported to the hospital in critical condition. Two of the children were pronounced deceased at the hospital. The third child's status was upgraded to non-life-threatening.According to protocol for children's deaths, the SJPD Homicide Unit began a joint investigation into the incident with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.Fathi...

11 Santa Rosa thieves fooled by 'bait bike,' police say

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

(KRON) -- In response to a recent spike in bicycle thefts around Santa Rosa, police planted a "bait bike" downtown and arrested anyone who decided to steal it.Eleven alleged thieves took the bait and were arrested by the Santa Rosa Police Department Property Crimes Investigations Team."This 3-day proactive operation involved officers surveilling a bicycle left unattended as 'bait' and contacting anyone deciding to take the bicycle. SRPD PCI specifically focused on city parking lots and garages downtown," SRPD wrote. Because the bicycle was valued at $1,100, suspects who took the "bait bike" were booked into jail on felony grand theft charges. According to police, the following people were arrest and booked into jail:Shane Hulbert, a 29-year-old transient, was booked for felony grand theft and violation of probation.Emily Christopher, a 31-year-old Ukiah woman, was booked for grand theft, possession of narcotics, and possession of a bladed throwing star called a "shuriken."Edwin Sier...

18-year-old arrested for Oakley restaurant bulglary

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

OAKLEY, Calif. (KRON) -- The Oakley Police Department arrested the suspect who allegedly burglarized Uncle Wong Chinese Restaurant.Oakley police were dispatched to Uncle Wong Chinese Restaurant for an alleged burglary on Wednesday at 8:46 a.m. The restaurant was closed upon the officer’s arrival. According to police, officers noticed a broken front glass door, a ransacked cash register area, and a missing cash register. 74-year-old woman charged for Oakley murder The owner of the restaurant reported the cash register, a credit card reader, and an undisclosed amount of cash were stolen. Five hundred dollars worth of damage was done to the store, according to police. According to police, the suspect was caught on the restaurant’s security footage breaking in. Officers circulated the image within the department.The following day, an officer patrolling the west end of town noticed a man who matched the image of the suspect, even wearing the same clothes. The officer made contact with ...

Man who allegedly assaulted group of teens in Petaluma last month arrested

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

(KRON) -- A 21-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a group of teenagers after a high school football game in Petaluma last month has been arrested and charged, according to the Petaluma Police Department. Officers were dispatched shortly after midnight on Saturday, Sept. 23 in response to an assault several hours earlier on Friday, Sept. 22.At the scene, officers spoke to the teenage victims and learned they'd attended a Petaluma High School football game. They were walking down Douglas Street after the game when an unknown man confronted them and threatened to assault them, according to police.The victims, police said, didn't know the suspect and ran away when he threatened them. 9 teens lead Oakland CHP on pursuit in stolen SUV Minutes later, another teen drove up to pick up the group of teen victims. The suspect arrived in his vehicle and blocked the other vehicle. According to police, the suspect got out of his vehicle and approached the driver's door of the victim's vehicle...

Next year’s Giro d’Italia route aims to make early stages more important

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

TRENTO, Italy (AP) — Next year’s Giro d’Italia could see more “fireworks” than usual during the first two weeks after organizers unveiled a route designed to make the early stages more important. The full route of next year’s Giro was revealed in a televised ceremony on Friday after the first three stages were detailed earlier this week, including a tricky climb to Oropa on day two.Race organizer RCS Sport was keen to stress that there will be more opportunities than usual to build time gaps early on in the three-week race.“The riders who want to win it will have to be ready from the start and I expect a lot of spectacle,” Giro director Mauro Vegni said. The winners of the past two editions of the Italian Grand Tour — Primož Roglič and Jai Hindley — were among those on stage during the televised presentation at Trento’s Teatro Sociale.Roglič stormed to victory in this year’s Giro with a dominant ride on the penultimate stage, despite a mechanical problem. And the S...

Twins star Buxton has arthroscopic knee surgery, with mutual goal of returning him to CF

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins star Byron Buxton had arthroscopic surgery Friday on his troublesome right knee with the goal of alleviating the irritation related to patellar tendinitis and returning to center field next season.“That’s his focus. That’s what he wants, and that’s what we all want,” president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said Friday. “So that’ll be our mission through the offseason, to get him there.”The recovery timeline for Buxton is projected to be much shorter than after the cleanup procedure he had on the knee last year, Falvey said in a season-ending interview with reporters. “The hope here is in just a few short weeks he’s getting moving around again and starting to go through physical therapy in the offseason,” Falvey said. “We’re hopeful that this will get him on track. It obviously wasn’t the season Byron wanted from a physical standpoint. We did all we could throughout the course of the year to try to put him in the best position to be succ...

Kiwis return with new wingsail while SailGP celebrates an anniversary for female sailors

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:58 GMT

Peter Burling and Team New Zealand rejoin the rough-and-tumble SailGP fleet in Spain this weekend after an unexpected five-week layoff, eager to reel in their biggest rivals in the Season 4 championship chase in tech baron Larry Ellison’s global league.While the Kiwis return with a new wingsail five weeks after their old one shattered in a stunning sequence, Emirates Great Britain skipper Ben Ainslie looks for his third straight victory and three-time defending champion Tom Slingsby of Team Australia tries for his first win of the season. Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill has tapped Taylor Canfield to fill in for flight controller Hans Henken, who was seriously injured when the American catamaran crashed off its foils three weeks ago.The Spain Sail Grand Prix Cádiz on Saturday and Sunday will also mark the second anniversary of women sailing aboard the F-50 catamarans for the first time, and the environmentally conscious league said it will use 100% clean energy to fuel the supp...