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☆ Pilot Dies After Medical Emergency on Flight From Miami to Chile
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A pilot for Latam, the Chilean airline, died on Monday after suffering a health emergency on a flight from Miami to Santiago, Chile, that forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Panama, the airline said. The pilot was part of a three-member crew aboard the flight from Miami International Airport to Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Latam said in a statement on Wednesday. The airline, which is based in Santiago, did not disclose the pilot’s name or the nature of the health problem, but said it was “thankful for his 25 years of service” to the airline. “Latam Group is deeply saddened by this event and takes this opportunity to express our most sincere condolences to the family of our employee,” the company said, adding that the pilot was “distinguished by his dedication, professionalism and enthusiasm.”According to FlightAware, a flight-data tracker, the Latam flight, which typically takes roughly eight hours, took off from Miami at 9:41 p.m. Three hours later, the plane, a Boeing 787, made a quick descent, dropping nearly 30,000 feet in 10 minutes before landing at Tocumen International Airport in Panama City.

Persons: Arturo Merino, Latam, FlightAware Organizations: Miami International Airport, “, Boeing, Tocumen Locations: Chilean, Miami, Santiago, Chile, Panama, Panama City

☆ After 3 Years at Large, Man Accused of Selling Fake Covid-19 Cure Is Arrested
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“There is no drug that man has made that can do the same,” Mr. Pedersen said about the product on a podcast interview in March 2020, according to court documents. “If you have the silver in you, when the virus arrives, the silver can isolate and eliminate the virus,” he added. In an interview with federal agents in April 2020, he maintained that his silver product could destroy Covid-19 but admitted that his credentials were exaggerated, prosecutors said. Mr. Pedersen profited immensely: From January through April of 2020, the company Mr. Pedersen co-owned, My Doctor Suggests, generated roughly $2 million in sales, according to court documents. The agent followed the car to a gas station, where he was recorded by a surveillance camera, prosecutors said.

Persons: Pedersen, ”, Mr, Julia Currey Organizations: District of, Justice Department, Food and Drug Administration Locations: U.S, District of Utah

☆ 6 Ex-Officers Plead Guilty to State Charges in Torture of Two Black Men
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Six white former law enforcement officers pleaded guilty in Mississippi on Monday to state charges tied to a home raid they conducted in which prosecutors said they beat and tortured two Black men. The guilty pleas came less than two weeks after the former officers pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 to federal civil rights offenses stemming from the raid on Jan. 24, in which prosecutors said one of the men was shot in the mouth, and the other had a sex toy forced into his mouth. After the assault, the officers tried to cover up the attack and plant evidence, prosecutors said.

Locations: Mississippi

☆ Company Recalls Ice Cream Products Over Listeria Contamination Concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An ice cream company based in Brooklyn has issued a recall of all flavors of its soft serve ice cream and sorbet brand after two people who ate its vanilla chocolate flavor fell sick and were sent to the hospital, according to the company and health officials. The company, Real Kosher Ice Cream, said in a statement on Wednesday that it would immediately recall all six flavors of its Soft Serve on the Go Cups, packaged retail versions of soft serve ice cream and sorbet. Real Kosher notified all retailers that stock the brand, asking them to remove the products from shelves and freezers and dispose of them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert on Thursday about a listeria outbreak that might be linked to Soft Serve on the Go Cups. Soft Serve on the Go Cups are also distributed in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Britain.

Organizations: Real, Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, District of Columbia Locations: Brooklyn, New York , New Jersey , Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Britain

☆ Woman Lied to Buy Firearms for Son Who Later Threatened Politicians, U.S. Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Michigan woman has been charged with lying to buy firearms that were found in March with her 30-year-old son, who was arrested that month after making death threats online against President Biden and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, federal agents and prosecutors said. In an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, the woman, Michelle Berka, 56, was charged with five counts of knowingly making false statements to firearm dealers in 2022. Specifically, prosecutors said, Ms. Berka said that the weapons she was buying were for her when, in fact, they were meant for someone else. Among the firearms that Ms. Berka bought were a semiautomatic pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and two rifles, including a semiautomatic rifle similar to an AK-47, prosecutors in her case said.

Persons: Biden, Gretchen Whitmer, Michelle Berka, Berka, Randall Berka Organizations: U.S, Eastern, Eastern District of, AK Locations: Michigan, Eastern District, Eastern District of Michigan

☆ A Woman Was Attacked by a Snake That Fell From the Sky. Then a Hawk Dove In.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The hawk quickly joined the fracas, swooping down to wrench its serpentine dinner from Ms. Jones’ arm. The hawk snatched, scratched and jabbed at her arm “three to four times,” to reclaim its meal, Ms. Jones recalled. The “horrific” ordeal, Ms. Jones said, lasted about 15 to 20 seconds, and left her arm scratched, bruised and punctured. “I looked down at my arm and it was totally covered in blood,” Ms. Jones said. On the way there, he recalled, Ms. Jones was tongue-tied.

Persons: Jones, Ms, Wendell Jones, Mr, ” Mr

☆ Divers Hoping to Solve Cold Cases Find 30 Cars in Florida Lake
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Volunteer divers looking over the weekend for underwater vehicles in South Florida in an effort to solve missing persons cases found something unexpected: roughly 30 cars submerged under a single lake, according to the police. They were likely dumped there decades ago by people hoping to rid themselves of a car because of its connection to a crime, the search teams said. “That’s the highest we’ve ever found in a lake,” said Ken Fleming, the founder of Recon Dive Recovery, one of the groups involved in the search. Recon Dive employs divers and special equipment such as sonar to find missing people and cars underwater. The Doral Police Department said in a statement on Monday that it was investigating the submerged vehicles, and that dive teams from multiple agencies had been dispatched to extract them.

Persons: “, ”, Ken Fleming Organizations: Miami International Airport, Doral Police Department Locations: South Florida, Miami, Doral

☆ His Recycling Symbol Is Everywhere. The E.P.A. Says It Shouldn’t Be.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

said in December that it was seeking public comment on changes to its environmental advertising and labeling regulations, known as the Green Guides. Last revised in 2012, the guides are meant to protect consumers from companies that make false claims about their efforts to protect the environment. Since then, the problem of how to handle plastic waste has intensified. said, was a 2018 policy shift in China, which used to take millions of tons of American plastic waste. They look at the stuff that they bought from the store, they see recycling symbols on it and they put it in the recycling bin.”

Persons: John Hocevar, “ I’ve, Mr, Hocevar, ” Organizations: Greenpeace, Green Guides, Greenpeace U.S.A Locations: United States, China

☆ He Raised Millions for Bibles but Spent It on Gambling and Gold, U.S. Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To Amish and Mennonite communities in Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Jason Gerald Shenk was a devout missionary spreading the word of God overseas. With their financial help, he would send Bibles and other Christian literature to China, where Christianity has long been curtailed by the Chinese Communist Party. A federal investigation into Mr. Shenk’s whereabouts is underway in conjunction with authorities in other countries, said Barry L. Paschal, a spokesman for the Southern District of Georgia. Prosecutors said Mr. Shenk renounced his citizenship in 2016 to avoid reporting his finances, and he is believed to be residing outside of the United States. It is not clear if Mr. Shenk has a lawyer.

Persons: Jason Gerald Shenk, Shenk, Barry L, Paschal, Prosecutors Organizations: Chinese Communist Party, Federal, United States Attorney’s Office, Southern, Southern District of, Southern District of Georgia Locations: Ohio , North Carolina, Pennsylvania, China, Santiago , Chile, United, Southern District, Southern District of Georgia, Georgia, United States

Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they usually prefer four. But a zoo in Hangzhou, China, decided that the best way to clear up a conspiracy theory about one of its bears was to release a statement in the bear’s voice. The confusion appeared to begin in late July, when a video surfaced on the Chinese social media site Weibo of a sun bear named Angela standing on a rock in its zoo enclosure, with ramrod posture on its hind legs. Some Weibo users began to cast doubt on the ursine truth of the bear. Some accused the zoo of using a dog impostor — sun bears can grow to the proportions of a large dog, about four and a half feet long and up to 145 pounds.

Persons: Angela Organizations: Weibo Locations: Hangzhou, China

☆ ‘Swift Quake’: Taylor Swift Fans Shake Ground During Seattle Concert
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I shake it off, I shake it off,” Taylor Swift sang. A Taylor Swift concert in downtown Seattle last weekend shook the ground so hard, it registered signals on a nearby seismometer roughly equivalent to a magnitude 2.3 earthquake, seismologists said. “It’s certainly the biggest concert we’ve had in a while,” said Mouse Reusch, a seismologist at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, which monitors earthquake activity in the Pacific Northwest. “We’re talking about 70,000 people and all the music and paraphernalia associated with the concert.”The so-called “Swift Quake” recorded a maximum ground acceleration of roughly 0.011 meters per second squared, said Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist at Western Washington University. Seismologists use acceleration to measure ground vibrations, which are then converted to the more conventional Richter scale, the common measurement for earthquakes.

Persons: ” Taylor Swift, Taylor, seismologists, “ It’s, we’ve, ”, “, Jackie Caplan, Auerbach Organizations: Northwest Seismic Network, Western Washington University Locations: Seattle, Pacific Northwest

☆ Flagpole-Wielding Man Convicted in Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Kentucky man who used a flagpole to batter a door near the House chamber during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was found guilty in federal court in Washington on Wednesday on nine counts, including civil disorder and disruption of an official proceeding, prosecutors said. During the encounter, which was captured on video from multiple angles, rioters came close enough to lock eyes with lawmakers, separated only by a few officers and antique wood-and-glass doors. Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court in Washington found Mr. Jones guilty after a bench trial on two felony and seven misdemeanor charges, including the destruction of government property. The judge denied the government’s request to treat the flagpole that Mr. Jones was carrying as a dangerous weapon, reducing four of the six felony counts that he had initially faced to misdemeanors. “We were disappointed in the verdict, but we understand and respect the judge’s decision,” William Brennan, a lawyer for Mr. Jones, said in an interview.

Persons: Chad Barrett Jones, Ashli Babbitt, Richard J, Leon, Jones, ” William Brennan Organizations: Air Force, Capitol Police, Federal, Court Locations: Kentucky, Washington, Mount Washington, Ky

☆ Jury Awards $800,000 to a Girl Burned by a Chicken McNugget
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Florida jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a 7-year-old girl on Wednesday for the suffering and mental anguish caused when a Chicken McNugget fell on her thigh, causing a second-degree burn. The jury in Broward County awarded the girl, Olivia Caraballo, the damages for pain, suffering and other forms of mental anguish — $400,000 for the pain she endured and an additional $400,000 for any future suffering resulting from the injury, according to court documents. Lawyers for the family had asked for $15 million. The suit was brought in state court by Olivia’s parents, Philana Holmes and Humberto Caraballo Estevez, against McDonald’s and Upchurch Foods, the franchise operator in Tamarac, Fla. In May, a separate jury determined that the two companies were liable for failing to provide reasonable instructions or warnings — on the packaging, for example — about the risks of injuries that could result from a Chicken McNuggets meal, which comes with pieces of white chicken meat.

Persons: Olivia Caraballo, Philana Holmes, Humberto Caraballo Estevez Organizations: Broward, McDonald’s, Upchurch Foods Locations: Florida, Broward County, Tamarac, Fla

☆ More Than 50 Whales Die After Being Stranded in Scotland
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than 50 pilot whales died on Sunday after they were stranded along a beach on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland. By the time responders arrived on the beach to administer first aid to the surviving whales, a majority were already dead, the charity added. The other whale restranded itself and subsequently died, British Divers Marine Life Rescue said. It can take a frantic effort to save a whale’s life after it is stranded. Pilot whales — which come from the same family as dolphins and porpoises — can grow to 24 feet in length and weigh up to 6,600 pounds.

Organizations: British, Rescue, Western Isles Council Locations: Lewis, Scotland, Britain

When asked to recount the events of June 4, 1989, the chatbot rebooted itself. On Taiwan, Ernie did not pull any punches:The People’s Liberation Army is ready for battle, will take all necessary measures and is determined to thwart external interference and “Taiwan independence” separatist attempts. According to historical records, Louis XV often uttered this phrase when he ruled France at the end of the 18th century. OpenAI released a plug-in this year that enabled its chatbot to surf the web through Microsoft’s Bing. researchers have used to gauge a chatbot’s human-level intuitions:“Here we have a book, nine eggs, a laptop, a bottle and a nail.

Persons: Ernie, chatbot, Vladimir V, Putin, “, ChatGPT, crackdowns, ”, Louis XV, Jean, Jacques Rousseau, Marie Antoinette, Linda Yaccarino, Jack Dorsey, OpenAI, Microsoft’s Bing Organizations: People’s, Army, Baidu, Twitter Locations: United States, Taiwan, Ukraine, Russian, Russia, France, French

☆ Logan Paul’s Prime Energy Drink Under Scrutiny Over High Caffeine Content
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The release of Prime, a drink brand founded by the YouTube personality and boxer Logan Paul, had British teenagers lining up for hours outside grocery stores on its release date in December. Now, Prime is facing a backlash from physicians and lawmakers who say that the high levels of caffeine in one of its drinks can be harmful to children. Prime offers two kinds of beverages: Prime Hydration, a sports drink that does not contain caffeine, and Prime Energy, a highly caffeinated drink. A 12-ounce Prime Energy contains 200 milligrams of caffeine, compared with the 114 milligrams of caffeine in a 12-ounce can of Red Bull or the 100 milligrams found in a cup of coffee. Senator Schumer said Prime Energy had “so much caffeine in it, that it puts Red Bull to shame.” He added that Prime differed from other highly caffeinated energy drinks in that its advertising campaign appeared to target those under 18.

Persons: Logan Paul, Chuck Schumer, Red Bull, Schumer Organizations: YouTube, Food and Drug Administration, Prime, Prime Energy, Energy Locations: New York

☆ Football Superfan Caught in California and Charged in $70,000 Bank Theft
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Given the hefty price of football tickets, it was a high-flying lifestyle, which Mr. Babudar attributed to successful warehouses he managed across the Midwest. Mr. Babudar is accused of committing a string of bank robberies across at least six states over the last year, including in Iowa, where he is accused of stealing $70,000. That robbery is one of seven Mr. Babudar was accused of committing or attempting between April 2022 and December 2022, according to court documents unsealed on Monday. Prosectors said Mr. Babudar had purchased and redeemed more than $1 million worth of chips from casinos across the Midwest that appeared to be connected to the stolen money. A grand jury will determine whether Mr. Babudar will be indicted on the additional charges, the statement added.

Persons: Xavier Babudar, Babudar, Babudar’s, Prosectors Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, United States Attorney’s Office, of Locations: Iowa, Sacramento, Calif, United, Western, of Missouri, Oklahoma, Midwest

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