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NYC jogger Karina Vetrano’s killer boasts about landing ‘front page’ of newspapers following conviction

Convicted killer Chanel Lewis boasted about landing the “front page” of the two major New York City tabloids a day after he was convicted of sexually assaulting and strangling jogger Karina Vetrano in August 2016.

“I’m on the front page — of both papers,” Lewis said in his jailhouse phone interview with the New York Daily News on Tuesday. The "papers" Lewis was referring to are the Daily News and The New York Post.

He also recalled how many times news of the murder has appeared on the front pages of the city's newspapers.

The 22-year-old’s first trial, in November, ended in a hung jury -- but Monday jurors deliberated only five hours before returning the "guilty" verdicts.

Chanel Lewis at the defense table at Supreme Court in the Queens Borough of New York for the retrial of Karina Vetrano's murder.

Chanel Lewis at the defense table at Supreme Court in the Queens Borough of New York for the retrial of Karina Vetrano's murder. (AP)

His conviction was met with emotional cheers from Vetrano’s family and friends in court and also gave the slain woman's parents, Cathie and Phil Vetrano, some closure nearly two years after their daughter’s death.

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Lewis told the Daily News he plans to appeal the verdict.

“We’re going to appeal the process,” he said. “I’m going to let my lawyers handle that.”

But when asked about murdering the 30-year-old Vetrano, he simply responded with, “nothing," instead preferring to talk about how his family is coping.

“They’re trying to hang in there,” he said.

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Lewis previously called the New York Daily News to complain about jail conditions at Riker's Island.

He was arrested in February 2017 and soon confessed to the slaying in a taped interview. He told investigators that, on Aug. 2, 2016, he stormed out of his home because he was upset about a neighbor playing loud music. Lewis told cops he encountered Vetrano and suggested she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“She didn’t do anything,” he told police. “I was just mad at that time. I beat her to let my emotions out. I didn’t really mean to hurt her. It just happened.”

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Lewis' lawyers, however, insisted during the trial that the confession was coerced and the DNA evidence wasn’t gathered properly. They also say potentially exculpatory evidence wasn't turned over to them by the prosecution, touting a late, anonymous letter that said cops were under pressure to find Vetrano's killer and police had initially focused on finding "two jacked up white guys" before settling on Lewis.

Vetrano’s parents told reporters Tuesday they believe Lewis killed their daughter.

“No matter what anyone says, Chanel Lewis is the person who did this to my daughter. No question about it,” Cathie Vetrano said outside the couple’s Howard Beach home.

Phillip and Catherine Vetrano, parents of Karina Vetrano, arrive to court in New York, Wednesday.

Phillip and Catherine Vetrano, parents of Karina Vetrano, arrive to court in New York, Wednesday. (AP)

“I sat for two and a half years listening to the most disgusting details of my daughter, her most horrendous death and last moments of her life at the hands of a savage demon,“ she said.

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Phil Vetrano said hearing the guilty verdict was “just total jubilation.”

“He is definitely going to get what he deserves,” Vetrano said. “Sometime down the road, he’s going to meet up with Karina again, and this time, he’s not going to bushwhack her, and this time, she’s going to have [the angel] Gabriel on one side and [the angel] Michael on the other and on his way down, she’s going to take care of him for good.”

Source: Fox News National

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Warren's Campaigns Collected Thousands from Tech Workers

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has said she wants to break up several of the tech industry's largest players, but over the years, she's accepted thousands of dollars from many of their employees, a new report says.

Facebook Chief Operation Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who donated $2,700 to the Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate, was the most prominent name among the donors, reports Politico.

She also accepted at least $90,000 in donations from Amazon, Google, and Facebook employees between 2011 and 2018, reports Politico, with those donations representing people who had given $200 or more.

Warren says Google, Amazon, and Apple use their platforms to lock out smaller players. She also said she'll seek the deregulation of Facebook, which has acquired smaller companies such as WhatsApp and Instagram.

The Warren campaign would not say Monday if she'll continue accepting money from tech employees, but Warren spokeswoman Kristen Orthman told Politico that with her plan to break up tech companies, "clearly, she's not influenced by their money."

On Sunday, Warren would not tell CBS' "Face the Nation" if she's banning tech executives or employees from giving to her campaign.

Her tech critics, though, say her argument for deregulation is flawed, and she will have to show that consumers are being harmed before she can justify her antitrust action.

Meanwhile, one of her main 2020 competitors, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., accepted hundreds of thousands from tech employees during his 2016 presidential race, including $361,000 from employees of Google’s parent company, Alphabet; $170,000 from Microsoft employees; $132,000 from Apple employees; and $106,000 from Amazon employees.

Source: NewsMax Politics

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Man accused of driving car that hit 9-year-old girl arrested

Police have arrested a man they say was driving the car that hit and seriously injured a 9-year-old girl playing in her front yard in suburban Atlanta.

News outlets report that 28-year-old Gabriel Jabri Fordham surrendered to police Tuesday evening. Fordham faces charges including hit and run and serious injury by vehicle, in the crash Friday that left LaDerihanna Holmes with a fractured skull and broken pelvis.

But Fordham's attorney Ryan Williams told WSB-TV his client was trying to fight off a carjacker when the crash happened. Williams said Fordham and his girlfriend, who owns the car, contacted police the day of the crash and had been working to negotiate a surrender.

Dramatic security camera video shows the car careening across the front yard in Lithonia and hitting the girl.

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Pence Meets Senate GOP Before House Vote on Emergency

Vice President Mike Pence and Justice Department officials will huddle with Senate Republicans on Tuesday about President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration ahead of a House vote expected to shoot it down, The Hill reported.

Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said the session will take place at a closed-door caucus lunch; Pence, as the president of the Senate, regularly attends the lunches, The Hill noted.

The meeting comes ahead of a vote in the Democratic-majority House to block Trump's declaration. Its expected passage sends the fight to the Senate, where Democrats need to flip four Republicans.

Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, are believed to oppose the declaration, while Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Monday he is "moving closer" to a decision and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has called it "unnecessary, unwise and inconsistent with the Constitution," The Hill reported.

"We've got somebody from the Justice Department and the Vice President coming up at lunch [Tuesday] to talk about it, so we'll all know maybe more tomorrow than we know today," Sen. Blunt said, The Hill reported.

Blunt did not know if the administration is focusing on any particular funding sources to use as part of the emergency declaration but predicted the topic would come up during the lunch.

Source: NewsMax Politics

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Stephen Miller: Trump Will Veto Any Bill Against Emergency Declaration

Stephen Miller: Trump Will Veto Any Bill Against Emergency Declaration

President Donald Trump “guaranteed” will veto any move by Congress to counter his declaration of a national emergency to fully fund a border wall, senior White House policy adviser Stephen Miller said Sunday.

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Miller was pressed on Trump’s response if Congress were ever to pass a resolution of disapproval of Friday’s controversial declaration. 

“He will protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed,” he said in response to whether Trump would veto the resolution.

In the interview, Miller fiercely defended the emergency declaration as host Chris Wallace challenged him to provide historic precedent, noting that the 59 times the National Emergencies Act was invoked, two were for military construction funds.

"This is hardly comparable to either of those," Wallace said of Trump’s border wall project.

"Can you name one foreign threat in the world today outside this country’s borders that currently kills more Americans than the threats crossing our southern border?" Miller retorted.

"You know, the joy of this is I get to ask you questions," Wallace shot back. "You don’t get to ask me."

Wallace drilled down on whether there's ever been another instance of a president not getting money from Congress and then declaring a national emergency to allow the diversion of federal funding.

“Answer my question,” Wallace insisted after Miller didn't provide a definitive response. “Can you name one case where a president has asked Congress for money, Congress has refused, and the president has then invoked national powers to get the money anyway? …yes or no, sir.”

“The premise of the question is also false,” Miller finally replied.

During his defense of the president, Miller also took a hard jab at former President George W. Bush for choosing “to ignore this crisis” at the border.

Let's start with …border crossings in the year 2000.,” Miller argued. “As you know, George Bush came into office, illegal immigration doubled from 6 million to 12 million by the time he left office. That represented an astonishing betrayal of the American people.”

Source: NewsMax Politics

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Dershowitz: Mueller 'hedged,' should have said 'unequivocally' no obstruction

Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Monday on “Fox & Friends” that while Robert Mueller got most things right in his report on possible collusion between the president and Russia, he ultimately “hedged” and left the report open for political debate.

“Two cheers for Mueller… He was right about collusion or conspiracy and he was right in the end about obstruction, not bringing any charges. But he was wrong not to say unequivocally ‘look we looked at the evidence and there is no case for obstruction,’” Dershowitz said.

“There is no case for obstruction. You can’t obstruct justice if you engage in your constitutionally authorized acts.  Firing, pardoning, helping the Justice Department make decisions. That should have been the end of the inquiry."

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Attorney General William Barr released "principal conclusions" of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's completed Russia probe in a four-page letter sent Sunday to Capitol Hill lawmakers.

The letter stated that Mueller did not establish evidence that President Trump's team or any associates of the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to sway the 2016 election -- "despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."

Dershowitz added that Mueller's conclusive report ultimately mirrored former FBI director James Comey’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying he would not indict her but condemning her actions.

“Now what we have is a Comey situation, like with Hillary Clinton.  Comey said ‘on the one hand I’m not going to indict Clinton, on the other hand what she did was terrible.’ So, Democrats got something out of it. Republicans got something out of it,” Dershowitz said.

“Same thing is true here, the Republicans are saying vindication, the Democrats are saying this is an invitation to more investigations.”

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Dershowitz added, “That’s not what prosecutors are supposed to do, they’re supposed to decide up and down, indict or not indict and then shut up. That’s it. Move on.”

The attorney also spoke out against critics who have maligned him over his analysis of the Trump investigation. Dershowitz, who describes himself as a liberal Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton, defended himself saying “I call them as I see them.”

“What they want is to distort the facts and the law to come out against Trump,” Dershowitz said.

Source: Fox News Politics

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North Macedonia president in standoff with parliament

North Macedonia's lawmakers have passed for a second time a package of bills which the country's president has refused to sign into law in protest at a landmark agreement this year with neighbor Greece.

On Wednesday, Parliament passed pieces of draft legislation — including changes to telecommunications regulations — under the country's new name, North Macedonia, which President Gjorge Ivanov has so far refused to approve, arguing that they violate the constitution and the national interest.

The president is legally obliged to sign bills approved a second time.

Ivanov's second and final five-year term ends May 12.

He was a fierce opponent of a name-change deal signed with Greece that ended Athens' objections to North Macedonia joining NATO.

Source: Fox News World

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A Florida measure that would ban sanctuary cities is set for a vote Friday in the state’s Senate after clearing its first hurdle earlier this week.

The bill would effectively make it against the law for Florida’s police departments to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

“The Governor may initiate judicial proceedings in the name of the state against such officers to enforce compliance,” a draft version of the Senate bill reads.

A House version of the bill, which passed by a 69-47 vote Wednesday, adds that non-complying officials could be suspended or removed from office and face fines of up to $5,000 per day. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign off on the measure, although it’s not clear which version.

FLORIDA MAY SEND A BIG MESSAGE TO SANCTUARY CITIES

Florida Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D-Orlando), during a press conference at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, speaks out against bills in the House and Senate that would ban sanctuary cities in the state.

Florida Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D-Orlando), during a press conference at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, speaks out against bills in the House and Senate that would ban sanctuary cities in the state. (AP)

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Florida is home to 775,000 illegal immigrants out of 10.7 million present in the United States, ranking the state third among all states.

Nine states — Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas — already have enacted state laws requiring law enforcement to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Florida doesn’t have sanctuary cities like the ones in California and other states. But Republican lawmakers say a handful of their municipalities — including Orlando and West Palm Beach – are acting as “pseudo-sanctuary” cities, because they prevent law enforcement officials from asking about immigration status when they make arrests.

“There are still people here in the state of Florida, police chiefs that are just refusing to contact ICE, refusing to detain somebody that they know is here illegally,” Florida Republican Rep. Blaise Ingoglia said earlier this month. “So while the actual county municipality doesn’t have an actual adopted policy, they still have people in power within their sheriff’s department or police department that refuse to do it anyway.”

Florida’s Democratic Party has blasted the anti-Sanctuary measures, while the Miami-Dade Police Department says it should be up to federal authorities to handle immigration-related matters.

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“House Republicans today sold out their communities to Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis by passing this xenophobic and discriminatory bill,” the state’s Democratic Party said Wednesday after the House passed their version of the bill. “It’s abhorrent that Republican members who represent immigrant communities are now turning their backs on their constituents and jeopardizing their safety.

“Florida has long stood as a beacon for immigrant communities — and today Republicans did the best they could to destroy that reputation,” they added.

Fox News’ Elina Shirazi contributed to this report.

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FILE PHOTO: Supporters of the Spain's far-right party VOX wave Spanish flags as they attend an electoral rally ahead of general elections in the Andalusian capital of Seville
FILE PHOTO: Supporters of the Spain’s far-right party VOX wave Spanish flags as they attend an electoral rally ahead of general elections in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo/File Photo

April 26, 2019

By John Stonestreet and Belén Carreño

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Vox party, aligned to a broader far-right movement emerging across Europe, has become the focus of speculation about last minute shifts in voting intentions since official polling for Sunday’s national election ended four days ago.

No single party is anywhere near securing a majority, and chances of a deadlocked parliament and a second election are high.

Leaders of the five parties vying for a role in government get final chances to pitch for power at rallies on Friday evening, before a campaign characterized by appeals to voters’ hearts rather than wallets ends at midnight.

By tradition, the final day before a Spanish election is politics-free.

Two main prizes are still up for grabs in the home straight. One concerns which of the two rival left and right multi-party blocs gets more votes.

The other is whether Vox could challenge the mainstream conservative PP for leadership of the latter bloc, which media outlets with access to unofficial soundings taken since Monday suggest could be starting to happen.

The right’s loose three-party alliance is led by the PP, the traditional conservative party that has alternated in office with outgoing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists since Spain’s return to democracy in the 1970s.

The PP stands at around 20 percent, with center-right Ciudadanos near 14 percent and Vox around 11 percent, according to a final poll of polls in daily El Pais published on Monday.

Since then, however, interest in Vox – which will become the first far-right party to sit in parliament since 1982 – has snowballed.

It was founded in 2013, part of a broader anti-establishment, far-right movement that has also spread across – among others – Italy, France and Germany.

While it is careful to distance itself from the ideology of late dictator Francisco Franco, Vox’s signature policies include repealing laws banning Franco-era symbols and on gender-based violence, and shifting power away from Spain’s regional governments.

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According to a Google trends graphic, Vox has generated more than three times more search inquiries than any other Spanish political party in the past week.

Reasons could include a groundswell of vocal activist support at Vox rallies in Madrid and Valencia, and its exclusion from two televised debates between the main party leaders, on the grounds of it having no deputies yet in parliament.

Conservative daily La Vanguardia called its enforced absence from Monday’s and Tuesday’s debates “a gift from heaven”, while left-wing Eldiario.es suggested the PP was haemorrhaging votes to Vox in rural areas.

Ignacio Jurado, politics lecturer at the University of York, agreed the main source of additional Vox votes would be disaffected PP supporters, and called the debate ban – whose impact he said was unclear – wrong.

“This is a party polling over 10 percent and there are people interested in what it says. So we lose more than we win in not having them (in the debates),” he said

For Jose Fernandez-Albertos, political scientist at Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Vox is enjoying the novelty effect that propelled then new, left-wing arrival Podemos to 20 percent of the vote in 2015.

“While it’s unclear how to interpret the (Google) data, what we do know is that it’s better to be popular and to be a newcomer, and that Vox will benefit in some form,” he said.

For now, the chances of Vox taking a major role in government remain slim, however.

The El Pais survey put the Socialists on around 30 percent, making them the frontrunners and likely to form a leftist bloc with Podemos, back down at around 14 percent.

The unofficial soundings suggest little change in the two parties’ combined vote, or the total vote of the rightist bloc.

That makes it unlikely that either bloc will win a majority on Sunday, triggering horse-trading with smaller parties favoring Catalan independence – the single most polarizing issues during campaigning – that could easily collapse into fresh elections.

(Election graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/2ENugtw)

(Reporting by John Stonestreet and Belen Carreno, Editing by William Maclean)

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The Amish population in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County is continuing to grow each year, despite the encroachment of urban sprawl on their communities.

The U.S. Census Bureau says the county added about 2,500 people in 2018. LNP reports that about 1,000 of them were Amish.

Elizabethtown College researchers say Lancaster County’s Amish population reached 33,143 in 2018, up 3.2% from the previous year.

The Amish accounted for about 41% of the county’s overall population growth last year.

Some experts are concerned that a planned 75-acre (30-hectare) housing and commercial project will make it more difficult for the county to accommodate the Amish.

Donald Kraybill, an authority on Amish culture, told Manheim Township commissioners this week that some in the community are worried about the development and the increased traffic it would bring.

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Information from: LNP, http://lancasteronline.com

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Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera has warned that if Democratic 2020 presidential candidates don’t take the crisis at the border seriously, they’ll do so at their own risk.

Speaking with “Fox & Friends” hosts on Friday morning, Rivera discussed the influx of candidates entering the race, including former Vice President Joe Biden, and gave an update on the newest developments at the border.

“If [Democrats] don’t take it seriously they ignore it at their peril,” Rivera said.

He went on to discuss the fact that Mexico is experiencing the same problems dealing with volumes of people at the border as the United States is. Processing facilities, as many have argued, are understaffed and underresourced, resulting in conditions that have been controversial.

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“It is very, very difficult when hundreds and hundreds become thousands and thousands ultimately become tens of it is very difficult to have an orderly system,” he said.

Rivera asserted his opinion that the United States could lessen the influx of migrants coming into the country by investing in the development of Central American countries, where many are fleeing from violence and economic instability.

“I believe, as I have said before on this program, that we have to stop the source of the migrant explosion, by a comprehensive system of political and economic reform in Central America where people have the incentive to stay home,” Rivera said.

“I think we have help Mexico with its infrastructure. Mexico has a moral burden, as the president made very clear, not to let unchecked herds of desperate people flow through 2,000 miles of Mexican territory to get our southern border.”

Rivera also brought up President Trump’s controversial comments about Mexican immigrants during his campaign in 2016.

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The Fox News correspondent said that having been so excited about Trump’s campaign, the comments made him feel “deflated” as a Hispanic American.

However, as the crisis at the border has accelerated over the last few years, Rivera argued that ultimately, the president’s comments weren’t incorrect.

“He is now in a position where he can justly say I was right, that the that the anarchy at the border doesn’t serve anybody,” Rivera said. “Maybe he said it in a language I felt was a little rough and insensitive, but there is no doubt.”

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FILE PHOTO: The logo of the OPEC is seen at OPEC's headquarters in Vienna
FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at OPEC’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

April 26, 2019

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and told the cartel to lower oil prices.

“Gasoline prices are coming down. I called up OPEC, I said you’ve got to bring them down. You’ve got to bring them down,” Trump told reporters.

(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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