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Bulletproof vests arriving for Denver-area twins fighting in Israel

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Protective gear is arriving for two Denver-area brothers fighting in an Israeli paratrooper unit that lacked bulletproof vests.In mid-October, FOX31 reported about the twins, who had gone to fight Israel's war against Hamas. Ethan and Jacob Grinberg, 23, are members of two separate paratrooper units, but their family said they did not have bulletproof vests. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Loved ones put together a fundraiser to buy 220 bulletproof vests for the units for $144,000. As of Monday, the fundraiser had surpassed the goal, with nearly $147,300 raised.On Monday, FOX31 received a video provided by the father of the twins but was asked not to publish the video for security reasons.The person in the video identified himself as a member of the paratrooper unit and expressed deep gratitude for the donations to the fundraiser to help buy the bulletproof vests. The twins' father, Alex Grinberg, said the unit has received the pl...

Not too scary

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

We have some weather changes on the way, for Halloween and beyond. These won’t be anything “too frightful” but rather keep our weather interesting for the rest of the week. The Halloween holiday will be a hot one across south Florida. We’ll remain on the sultry side of an approaching front with temperature highs getting close to 90-degrees on Tuesday afternoon. It’s worth noting that Miami had a high of 89º on Monday (so we’ve been seeing temperatures build higher). It will also feel muggy ahead of the boundary, but that won’t stick around too much longer. By Wednesday morning, a weakening cold front will push south and provide some relief. A big cooling event for us? No, not by a long shot. Temperatures are forecast to fall about 5 to 7-degrees both for daytime and nighttime readings. What you’ll notice more than anything, though, will be the wind surge following the boundary. Winds will increase Wednesday with gusty condit...

Traveler arrested after airport attack on Spirit Airlines gate attendant at FLL

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

A traveler was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after an altercation with a Spirit Airlines gate attendant on Friday, resulting in charges of assault.The incident unfolded when the would-be traveler, identified as William Patterson, was seen in a confrontation with a Spirit Airlines gate attendant. An employee at the airport recorded the fight said that Patterson had arrived late at the gate and was subsequently denied boarding onto the plane.Patterson’s actions during the altercation led to his arrest, and he is now facing charges of assault. He has since posted bail and been released.

Trump lashes out at judge, potential witness after gag order

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

A D.C. based federal judge has reinstated a gag order against former President Donald Trump which the 45th president was quick to blast as blatantly unconstitutional.U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, late Sunday, ordered Trump not to attack federal prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses involved in the legal proceedings over his alleged efforts to interfere with the 2020 election.It’s fair to say the real-estate mogul was not pleased by the order.“The Obama appointed Federal Judge in D.C, a TRUE TRUMP HATER, is incapable of giving me a fair trial. Her Hatred of President DONALD J. TRUMP is so great that she has been diagnosed with a major, and incurable, case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” the former president said Monday via his Truth Social platform.Trump was indicted by a grand jury on four charges after an investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team allegedly showed he was at the center of efforts to subvert the will of the voters following his defeat by...

‘Slap in the face:’ Boston veterans still fuming at City Council over budget cut

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

Two city councilors are trying to repair the damage caused by their colleagues’ vote to cut nearly $1 million from the veterans’ services budget, a move that was vetoed by the mayor but still has Boston veterans fuming months later.Council President Ed Flynn and Councilor-at-Large Erin Murphy filed a resolution ahead of the body’s Wednesday meeting, to commemorate Veterans Day. The measure “honoring all those who served our country” is aimed at helping to mend a relationship that remains strained by last June’s budget vote.Flynn said residents, veterans and military families across the city and country were “shocked and extremely disappointed” at the “disrespect” shown by many members of the City Council, who voted to cut $900,000 from a budget that broadly supports low-income veterans and their families.“The sacred oath that we have made to veterans has been negatively impacted by the vote of the City Council to cut $1 million,” Flynn, a U.S. Navy veteran, told the Herald. “But I a...

‘Antisemitism has no place at Harvard’: College creates advisory board to tackle antisemitism in wake of anti-Israel letter

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

Harvard’s president has vowed that she’s committed to tackling antisemitism on campus, telling Jewish students that she created an advisory board to combat hate following the student groups’ anti-Israel letter and anti-Jewish incidents on campus.Harvard President Claudine Gay has assembled a group of advisors to help eradicate antisemitism from the campus community, she recently told hundreds of Jewish students, parents, staff, alumni and faculty at Harvard Hillel.This step from Gay comes in the wake of the bombshell student group letter that blamed Israel for Hamas’ terrorist attacks earlier this month. Gay had told the campus community that she wouldn’t discipline students for their views on Israel.The divided campus has been embroiled in controversy for weeks, while Jewish students have reported being threatened and targeted.“I want to acknowledge the profound toll this has taken, especially on our Jewish students, faculty, and staff,” Ga...

Zach Pelzar, Weston repeat as Div. 3 state golf champions

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

STERLING – One stroke is all that prevented Weston senior Zach Pelzar from repeating as individual winner in the rain-soaked Div. 3 golf state championships at Sterling National Country Club on Monday, but it’s also the difference his Wildcats used to repeat as team champions.Pelzar gutted out a four-over 75 through brutal weather conditions on an already target golf course, leading Weston to a 322 score that barely edged runner-up St. John Paul II (323) for a second straight state title. That included breaking out of a spiral a few holes into the back nine, rattling off as good of a performance as almost any in the tournament over the final six holes.The only player he couldn’t recover past was the Lions’ Jack Carstensen, whose three-over 74 won the individual state title. But Pelzar was ecstatic about what the team got instead.“The individual title I honestly couldn’t care less about right now, I’m just super happy for the guys,” he said. “Super pumped for everybody … that’s put i...

Robbins: Academia is OK with mass slaughter of Jews

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

As of this past weekend, Israel’s Institute of Forensic Medicine reported that, of the 1,400 Israelis slaughtered on Oct. 7 by Hamas gunmen shouting “God is great!,” 400 bodies still could not be identified. That is because all that is left of them are fragments, if that, once part of the bodies of 400 different human beings. And that, in turn, is because the 2,500 Hamas “militants” wielding automatic rifles built to shred flesh, methodically blew as many of those 1,400 souls to pieces as they could, tying families together and then burning them alive, decapitating and dismembering people and then continuing the process after their victims stopped breathing. Recordings recovered after the massacre showed them rejoicing, one calling his parents to brag about how many Jews he had killed. His father blessed him, saying “God protect you.”So, what the Israelis continue to find are body parts, the humans with which those parts were once associated blown up or burned beyond recognition, su...

After Harvard professor reportedly discriminated against Israeli students, school celebrates prof for civil rights work

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

A Harvard professor who reportedly discriminated against Israeli students, subjecting them to “anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias,” has not been publicly reprimanded while he was recently celebrated for his civil rights work.The Brandeis Center on Monday called out Harvard University for failing to address antisemitism on campus, “demanding” that the school publicly denounce what took place in Professor Marshall Ganz’s class and take other steps.This is the latest in a series of Israel-related controversies at Harvard following Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Oct. 7. An explosive student group letter blamed Israel entirely for the attacks, setting off a firestorm on campus.This discrimination complaint involving Ganz goes back to the spring when the Harvard Kennedy School professor faced bias allegations against three Jewish Israeli graduate students. After a third-party investigator found that Ganz subjected the students to anti-Israel and antisemitic...

Biden White House, Healey admin hatch plan to get some migrants out of shelters

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:46:37 GMT

Amid a migrant crisis and while the state’s shelters are near to overrun, the Healey Administration and Biden White House have announced a plan to help some new arrivals secure employment.During the week of Nov. 13, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Bay State will host a “work authorization clinic” for migrant families currently living in state-provided housing. The state will arrange appointments and transportation to the clinic, to be held in an as-yet-unnamed location in Middlesex County, while DHS staff help eligible families with paperwork.“We are glad that the Biden-Harris Administration is hosting this clinic with us, which will help process work authorizations as efficiently as possible. Many shelter residents want to work but face significant barriers to getting their work authorizations,” Gov. Maura Healey said in a Monday morning statement.According to the Healey Administration, as of Monday there are 7,319 families temporarily housed in the...