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Intercepted gun part shipment from China leads to bust at Thornton home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A Thornton man was arrested after law enforcement searched his home and found more than a dozen firearms, potentially destructive devices and Nazi memorabilia and drawings.According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado, 36-year-old Dean Fabiano was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.The investigation began after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized a package from China that was labeled "TOYS" and came from a company that had been known to send gun parts and counterfeit merchandise into the United States.According to a criminal complaint, the package contained two Glock switches and was addressed to Fabiano. Neither of the switches, which allow a handgun to operate in a fully automatic fashion, had serial numbers.This was at least the sixth shipment addressed to Fabiano since 2018 which, according to the criminal complaint, came from companies known to ship gun parts into the United States illegally.Fabiano ...

'No credible threat' after lockdown at AdventHealth in Castle Rock

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — AdventHealth Castle Rock was on lockdown Tuesday morning afters reports of an armed person wearing body armor in the parking lot.The report was made around 9 a.m. and the hospital as well as several nearby businesses and area schools were placed on lockdown. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Castle Rock police tweeted around 10:30 a.m. that there was no evidence that it was a credible threat.That same tweet said schools were returning to normal operation and other businesses were expected to as well.Castle Rock police officers will remain in the area to follow up on additional leads, the department said on Twitter.

BSO: Teacher cut by student at Deerfield Beach school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

A juvenile student cut a teacher at a school in Deerfield Beach on Tuesday morning, officials said. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue arrived at Bright Horizons School, located at 3901 NE 1st Terrace, around 9 a.m. According to the school district, the male ninth-grade student cut the teacher with a sharp object. The injured teacher received immediate medical care for a laceration to the ear and was transported to Broward Health North with non-life-threatening injuries. A crime scene unit was pulled into the parking lot while deputies made sure there was no other threat to campus.The BSO school resource officer and school staff detained the juvenile male suspect on campus and the school is currently on a Secure status. BSO’s Threat Management Unit will conduct a thorough investigation.According to Broward County Schools, “Bright Horizons Center is a specialized school servicing students with disabilities that require intense support.” The...

Man saves driver trapped inside burning car

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

SEMINOLE, Florida (WFTS) — Returning to the parking lot of Second Time Around Consignment in Seminole, Travis DuPont couldn’t help but get chills.“I’m like right here talking to the guy and then reaching in and pulling him out,” he explained, gesturing to where he was standing just a little more than a day later. “I’m just thankful that I got him out of there just in time. If I was any earlier, I would have missed him. If I was any later, you know, he might have not been here,” he said.Earlier Sunday morning, right before 3:30, as DuPont was driving home from work, he saw a flash and a pop in the distance.“I turned my radio off my car immediately. And I’m just trying to listen and see if there’s like any smoke. I was looking up. And as I was approaching, looking up at the telephone pole. I happen to look down, and I see the man’s car almost in the entire shopping center smashed in. And I just immediately pulled ...

Republican chief gambles on Biden impeachment probe as shutdown looms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy used a 4-minute Tuesday statement to plunge the House GOP toward an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. But he won’t know until Wednesday if he’s won over his toughest audience: his own members.While announcing that he will move Republicans toward a formal impeachment probe, McCarthy also signaled that he’ll sidestep the biggest challenge he had faced — locking down a majority of Republican votes for one. In a U-turn from his previous pledge to require a vote on the floor, McCarthy said Tuesday that he would be “directing” committees to “to open a formal impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.”A McCarthy spokesperson confirmed the GOP leader doesn’t plan to hold a vote to launch the impeachment inquiry: “Speaker announced an inquiry. The inquiry is now open.”What was left unsaid: It’s not clear that he has majority support for the very impeachment inquiry he told his members to open. That’s thanks to multiple GOP members, largely centrists, who are...

In her State of the Union, von der Leyen should swap pragmatism for principles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

Sam van der Staak is the director for Europe at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.Today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver her fourth — and final — State of the European Union speech before next June’s elections. But instead of courting voters with a laundry list of promises, she should place upholding democratic values at the center of her address.When von der Leyen introduced her team in 2019, she termed it a “geopolitical Commission.” Dreaming of boosting the EU’s role on the world stage, she intended to wheel and deal with the world’s superpowers — be they good or bad — and pursue a policy of realpolitik to help the bloc survive in a world increasingly run by autocrats and populists.However, her Commission simultaneously launched its six priorities focused on promoting fundamental EU values, including defending democracy, protecting rule of law and supporting a rules-based global order. And this split vision has left...

Putin’s 4 hottest takes in Vladivostok speech 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

Vladimir Putin’s been shooting his mouth off again.The belligerent Russian president was back on the warpath Tuesday in Vladivostok, firing off hot takes about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the Olympics and Britain’s help for Ukraine. Speaking at the pauper’s version of the World Economic Forum in Russia’s Far East, Putin pontificated on all sorts of topics, while he waited for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to arrive on his armored train. We took the temperature of Putin’s latest remarks.   On Trump “Everything that is happening with Trump, this is persecution for political reasons of one’s political rival,” Putin blasted. Take that, American judiciary! For Putin, the four criminal cases against former President Donald Trump — who faced scrutiny over his personal ties to Russia during his time in the White House — are nothing but a witch hunt, showing “the rottenness of the American political system.” That’s quite a take for the Russian pr...

Supercharged storm wrecks Greece’s breadbasket for years to come

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

Greece’s agricultural heartland is under water — and recovery will take a long time. Athens is asking Brussels for aid after a violent storm brought record rainfall last week, turning the Thessalian plain — home to a quarter of the country’s agricultural production — into a vast lake. “We’ve had the worst floods in our history. This is probably one of the most powerful storms to ever hit Europe,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said after meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg on Tuesday. After hitting Greece, the storm turned into a powerful “medicane” — a Mediterranean cyclone — and brought devastation to eastern Libya, where dams failed and entire neighborhoods were swept away by floods. Thousands are dead and thousands more are missing, according to the Red Cross. In Greece, where at least 15 people died in the floods, authorities have started to assess the damage. The region of T...

Not just the China spy scandal: 7 flashpoints for Britain’s Tory hawks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

LONDON — Claims a Chinese spy may have been working at the heart of British democracy have the country’s MPs spooked. But it’s not the only China issue riling up Conservative lawmakers.From artificial intelligence to Xinjiang, hawkish MPs on the governing party’s benches want Rishi Sunak’s government to take a much tougher line against Beijing. Much of Sunak’s time in Number 10 has, however, been characterized by careful management of the U.K.’s relationship with China. Let POLITICO walk you through the big China issues that have been getting Tory MPs animated.The spy claimsThis weekend’s bombshell Sunday Times report — claiming that a parliamentary aide to senior Conservative MPs was arrested in a China-linked espionage investigation in March — alarmed lawmakers across the house.It’s prompted a flurry of questions from Tory MPs, who want to know why they weren’t informed about the arrest sooner and just how many people may have been im...

Britain wants to loosen rules and boost its arms exports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:31:28 GMT

LONDON — Call it Global Britain, with a bang.The U.K. government wants to make it easier for arms-makers to export weapons and security systems around the world by easing access to financing and contracts for smaller firms, the country’s minister of state for defense procurement, James Cartlidge, told defense executives on Tuesday.Speaking at the DSEI arms fair in London’s Docklands — a key event in the calendar for military contractors — Cartlidge said too many restrictions were being placed on defense firms, especially smaller operators, even on access to basic banking facilities.“Environmental, social and governance rules. ESG, as we call it, ESG rules aren’t bad, per say, but have been applied wholly, misguidedly in relation to defense,” Cartlidge said. “You only need to look around to appreciate that defense isn’t the enemy.”Instead of “penalizing” contractors, the government wants to make selling munitions and missiles easier with the goal of incre...