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☆ Angel Reese jokes about cost of rent compared to her rookie salary: ‘The WNBA don’t pay my bills at all’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Despite Angel Reese being one of the major factors in the WNBA’s surge in popularity this season, alongside rival Caitlin Clark, the Chicago Sky star said that her rookie salary doesn’t cover her rent. Speaking on an Instagram live on Wednesday, Reese said her monthly rent is $8,000 – totaling $96,000 for the year – while her WNBA salary was $73,439. “I just hope y’all know the WNBA don’t pay my bills at all. Reese – a rebounding and double-double machine – enjoyed a record-breaking rookie season, which was cut short by a wrist injury at the start of September. Reese told ESPN earlier this year that her WNBA salary is a “bonus” on top of her NIL deals.

Persons: Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, Reese, Hatin ’, ”, “, y’all, Reese –, Sylvia Fowles, A’ja Wilson, Geoff Stellfox, – Reese, Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier Organizations: CNN, Chicago Sky, WNBA, Las Vegas Aces, LSU Tigers, Reebok, Dre, ESPN, Sports Illustrated

Eleven years ago, in 2013, Holder said that Mohammed and his associates would have been “on death row as we speak” had the case gone to federal court as he proposed. But he blamed Congress for blocking a federal trial that would have resulted in swifter justice. They were dealt a bad hand by the political hacks and those who lost faith in our justice system,” Holder said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday. “If my decision to try KSM and his confederates in the tested and effective federal court system had been followed they would be nothing more than a memory today,” Holder said. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said he’s “long advocated that our federal court system is perfectly capable of conducting this kind of trial” and was well-suited to handling serious crimes.

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☆ ‘20th Hijacker’ Is Denied Transfer From Federal Supermax to French Prison
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Carol Rosenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Justice Department has denied a request by Zacarias Moussaoui, the only prisoner ever convicted in the United States of having ties to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to serve the remainder of his life sentence in his native France. Mr. Moussaoui had made the application from the supermax prison in Colorado, using a process that is routinely available to foreign nationals held as U.S. prisoners. Then on Wednesday afternoon, two relatives of people killed in the attacks said they were notified by the Justice Department that the request was denied. “Our office appreciates your concerns and comments regarding Zacarias Moussaoui,” the email said. “I am notifying you that Mr. Moussaoui’s application to transfer to France was denied by the United States on July 26, 2024.”No explanation was offered for the delay in notification.

Persons: Zacarias Moussaoui, Moussaoui, Zacarias, “, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Biden, General Merrick B, Garland Organizations: Justice Department Locations: United States, France, Colorado, Florida

☆ Ecuadorians wanted an action man. President Noboa has fulfilled that role — embassy raid included
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The President of the Republic of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, during the Spain-Ecuador business meeting at the headquarters of the CEOE, on 25 January, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. "President Noboa has given a strong message to the nation," said Carlos Galecio, a political communications consultant and coordinator of the communications program at Ecuador's Casa Grande University. "I am in favor of President Noboa's actions. "The priority is to clean, sanitize, continue with a process as important as President Noboa's to put the house in order." "The United States takes very seriously the obligation of host countries under international law to respect diplomatic missions," said Brian Nichols, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Persons: Daniel Noboa, Daniel Noboa's, Ecuadorians, Noboa, Carlos Galecio, Rafael Correa, Nayib Bukele, Cedatos, Jorge Glas, Glas, Noboa's, Gabriela Sandoval, Roberto Aspiazu, Will Freeman, Freeman, Brian Nichols Organizations: Ecuadorian, Associated Press, Casa Grande University, Statistics, Police, Vienna Convention, America's Pacific Alliance, Foreign Relations, Mexico's, Jalisco New Generation, United, Western Hemisphere Locations: Republic of Ecuador, Spain, Ecuador, Madrid, Belgium, El Salvador, Quito, Vienna, Mexico, The Hague, Noboa, York, Latin America, Colombia, Peru, Mexico's Sinaloa, Jalisco, U.S, United States

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — In Adam Silver’s eyes, the NBA’s new 65-game policy is working. “I can tell you that the number of games that players have participated in is up this season,” Silver said. “I just don’t like it, how it forces players to play if they’re injured to achieve something,” Denver center Nikola Jokic said. And as such, the gap in the system that the NBA felt Team Ignite would fill isn’t really a gap anymore. “We are in the process of reassessing Team Ignite,” Silver said.

Persons: —, Adam Silver’s, ” Silver, Joel Embiid won’t, Tyrese Haliburton’s, he’d, Jimmy Butler, “, Nikola Jokic, NBA Players Association —, Silver, Jaylen Brown, “ We’ve, I’m, France’s Victor Wembanyama —, Silver wouldn’t, Victor Wembanyama … it’s, aren’t, it’s Organizations: INDIANAPOLIS, NBA Players Association, NBA, San Antonio Spurs, Spurs Locations: Philadelphia, Indiana, Denver, Boston, …, Paris, France

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo wanted to make sure his contract status didn't distract the Milwaukee Bucks as they made a run at another championship. Antetokounmpo, 28, explained his decision Tuesday, one day after announcing on social media he had agreed to the extension. Antetokounmpo signed the extension and then gave the pen to his mother, who owns the pens from all the contracts he has signed since joining the NBA. Antetokounmpo said he realized he could benefit financially by signing now and then again in 2026 when he's eligible for another extension. Antetokounmpo said he also followed some advice from his older brother, Bucks teammate Thanasis Antetokounmpo.

Persons: — Giannis Antetokounmpo, ” Antetokounmpo, Oh, Giannis, “, Antetokounmpo, Mike Budenholzer, Adrian Griffin, Damian Lillard —, ” Griffin, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Thanasis, — Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, Lopez —, Lopez, Middleton, “ It’s, ” Organizations: MILWAUKEE, Milwaukee Bucks, Bucks, Miami Heat, Milwaukee, NBA, Portland Trail Blazers Locations: Greece, Milwaukee

Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton got questions about the same topic more often than he could remember this summer: The money, the money, the money. There are players with bigger salaries, even players with larger extensions — for example, Boston's Jaylen Brown signed one that could be worth $304 million this summer. But for players like Haliburton, Edwards, Ball and Bane, this is a new chapter. Haliburton, Edwards, Ball and Bane will average about that much in annual salary for the foreseeable future starting in the 2024-25 season. (Edwards will make about $13.5 million this season, Ball about $11 million, Haliburton about $6 million and Bane around $3.9 million.)

Persons: Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton, Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards, Charlotte’s, Memphis ’ Desmond Bane, Edwards, Ball, Bane’s, Boston's Jaylen Brown, Bane, “, ‘ What’s, you’ve, ” Haliburton, Stephen Curry’s, ” Ball, I’ve, Taylor Jenkins, ” Jenkins, He’s, “ they’re, ” Edwards, Tim Connelly, “ I’ve Organizations: Haliburton, Memphis, Pacers, “, USA Basketball, Timberwolves Locations: Haliburton, Memphis, Minnesota

☆ Mexican capo Ovidio Guzman extradited to US in win on fentanyl war
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Dave Graham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Two Mexican officials familiar with the matter also confirmed the extradition of the 33-year-old Guzman. He was captured in January after an intense firefight in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. The removal of Ovidio Guzman was even quicker than that of his father, who was flown to the U.S. barely a year after his final arrest in Sinaloa in early 2016. The State Department has been offering a reward worth millions of dollars for information leading to the arrest or conviction or Ovidio Guzman and three of his brothers. He was extradited to the United States in 2017 after twice escaping from prison in Mexico.

Persons: Ovidio Guzman, Joaquin, El, Guzman, General Merrick Garland, Ovidio, Garland, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Biden, Dave Graham, Drazen Jorgic, Kanishka Singh, Dan Whitcomb, William Mallard Organizations: Government, REUTERS Acquire, Biden, U.S, Department, State Department, Thomson Locations: Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, MEXICO, United States, Mexican, Sinaloa . U.S, The U.S, U.S, Colorado, Mexico City, Washington

☆ Emma Coronel Aispuro: El Chapo's wife is set to be released from a US prison today
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Norma Galeana | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is set to be released from a US prison on Wednesday, officials said. Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison in November 2021 after pleading guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering charges related to her husband’s narcotics empire. Coronel was being held at a Residential Reentry Management facility in Long Beach, California, according to the prison bureau’s inmate locator. During her sentencing, Coronel, a dual US-Mexican citizen, expressed deep remorse for her involvement with Guzman and the Sinaloa Cartel and the harm she may have caused. Guzman, who twice escaped from prison in Mexico, is serving a life sentence at Colorado’s Supermax prison after he was convicted in 2019 of engaging in a criminal enterprise, drug trafficking and firearms charges.

Persons: Emma Coronel Aispuro, Joaquin “ El Chapo ” Guzman, Coronel, ”, Guzman, Biden Organizations: CNN, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Sinaloa Cartel, Prosecutors Locations: Long Beach , California, Mexican, Sinaloa, Mexico

☆ Celtics and Brown agree to richest deal in NBA history, reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 25 (Reuters) - Jaylen Brown has agreed to a five-year $304 million supermax contract extension with the Boston Celtics that will make the forward the highest paid player in the NBA, according to multiple media reports on Tuesday. The third overall pick in the 2016 draft Brown averaged a career-high 26.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists a game last season helping Boston reach the Eastern Conference finals. A twice NBA All-Star Brown will earn $28.5 million next season before his extension begins in 2024 averaging $60.8 million a year. Brown's supermax deal tops two-time Most Valuable Player and reigning Finals MVP Nikola Jokic for the richest contract in NBA history. The distinction of being the NBA's highest paid player may not last long with Brown's Celtics team mate Jayson Tatum poised to assume the title next year when he becomes eligible for a supermax contract.

Persons: Jaylen Brown, Brown, Brown's, Nikola Jokic, Jayson Tatum, Steve Keating, Toby Davis Organizations: Boston Celtics, NBA, Boston, Eastern Conference, Brown's Celtics, Thomson Locations: Toronto

☆ Chris Printup, Founder of Streetwear Brand Born X Raised, Dies at 42
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eventually, he wound up in a supermax prison, he said, where he decided to start Born X Raised. Shortly after starting the brand, Mr. Printup received a cancer diagnosis. He underwent chemotherapy and lost 100 pounds and his hair, he wrote in a post on the brand’s Instagram in December. He worked all the way through the treatment. you’re going to be fine things will get better,” Mr. Printup said in the post, adding that he had gone into remission.

Persons: Butch Mudbone, Cheryl Printup, Printup, —, “, ”, Mr Organizations: Seneca Nation Locations: Los Angeles, Venice, Seneca, Europe

☆ The Unabomber died by suicide, AP reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ted Kaczynski carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others. Kaczynski was suffering from late-stage cancer and was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday. He died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. They were not authorized to discuss Kaczynski's death publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. Bernie Madoff, the infamous mastermind of the largest-ever Ponzi scheme, died at the facility of natural causes the same year.

Persons: Ted Kaczynski, Kaczynski, —, Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff, David, Linda Patrik, He's, Daryl Johnson Organizations: Associated Press, Service, Federal Medical Center, AP, Prisons, Harvard, Yale University, The New York Times, Washington Post, FBI, American Airlines, New Lines Institute Locations: Butner , North Carolina, Florence , Colorado, North Carolina, Montana, California, Lincoln , Montana, Chicago

☆ Convicted 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski dead at 81
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Alistair Bell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/2] Theodore Kaczynski is led out of federal court where he was charged with a single federal weapons violation April 4,1997. June 10 (Reuters) - Ted Kaczynski, former math professor and "twisted genius" who came to be known as the Unabomber when he carried out a 17-year spree of mysterious bombings that killed three people and baffled the FBI, died on Saturday at the age of 81. Kaczynski's younger brother, David, tipped off police that the author's ideas sounded like those of Ted. In 1980, Kaczynski sent a package bomb that exploded and injured United Airlines President Percy Wood at his Illinois home. Kaczynski detailed how modernization has destabilized society, subjected humans to indignities and "inflicted severe damage on the natural world."

Persons: Theodore Kaczynski, Ted Kaczynski, Kaczynski, Kaczynski's, David, Ted, Theodore John Kaczynski, Dale Eickelman, Eickelman, Percy Wood, Hugh Scrutton, Thomas Mosser, Gilbert Brent Murray, Janet Reno, Dan Whitcomb, Phil Stewart, Lucia Mutikani, Daniel Wallis, Diane Craft, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Federal Medical Center, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reuters, The Harvard University, University and Airline, Society, FBI, Harvard University, Daily, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of California, Chicago's Northwestern University, American Airlines, Dulles International, United Airlines, Illinois, New, Exxon, U.S, Washington Post, Thomson Locations: Montana, Butner , North Carolina, California, Florence, Florence , Colorado, North Carolina, Chicago, Berkeley, Lincoln, Washington, Sacramento , California, New Jersey, Los Angeles

CNN —Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-trained math professor who unleashed a deadly bombing campaign from a shack in rural Montana and became known as the “Unabomber,” has died, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In 2021, Kaczynski was moved to the federal medical center in North Carolina, according to the bureau. Elaine Thompson/APPortrayed by prosecutors as a vengeful loner, Kaczynski published 30,000-word treatise that became known as the Unabomber Manifesto. “Justice has been done, and Theodore Kaczynski will never threaten anyone again,” Attorney General Janet Reno said in a statement at the time. Its similarity to letters he sent to his family alerted his brother, who made the decision to turn Kaczynski in.

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☆ Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Michael Belsamo | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The infamous Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has died at age 81. "I'm confident that I'm sane," Kaczynski told Time magazine in 1999. David Kaczynski wanted his role kept confidential, but his identity quickly leaked out and Ted Kaczynski vowed never to forgive his younger sibling. Ted Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago, the son of second-generation Polish Catholics — a sausage-maker and a homemaker. His brother fired him and Ted Kaczynski soon returned to the wilderness to continue plotting his vengeful killing spree.

Persons: Ted Kaczynski, David, —, — Theodore, Ted, Kaczynski, Kristie, David's, Linda Patrik, Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey, Henry David Thoreau, Sally Johnson, Hugh Scrutton, Thomas Mosser, Gilbert Murray, Charles Epstein, David Gelernter, Mosser, Susan, Timothy McVeigh, Patrik, Ted Kaczynski's, Susan Swanson, Chicago . Swanson, Clint Van Zandt, David Kaczynski, Swanson, Anthony Bisceglie, Ann Arbor, ___ Balsamo, Derek Rose Organizations: FBI, Service, WASHINGTON, Harvard, of Prisons, Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times, Industrial Society, Its, American Airlines, Yale University, Oklahoma City, Bennington College, University of Michigan, University of California Locations: Montana, Butner , North Carolina, Florence , Colorado, West Coast, nation's, Lincoln , Montana, California, North Caldwell , New Jersey, Los Angeles, Chicago, America, Ann, Berkeley, Lincoln, Miami

☆ Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for the Russians, dies in Supermax prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Corky Siemaszko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

FBI Agent Robert Philip Hanssen is shown in this undated file photo, released by the FBI February 20, 2001. FBI Agent-turned-traitor Robert Hanssen, who spied for the old Soviet Union and later the Russians, died Monday in the cell where he was serving 15 consecutive life sentences for betraying his country, federal prison officials said. Hanssen, 79, was "found unresponsive" around 6:55 a.m. at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. Hanssen began spying for the Soviets in 1979, three years after he joined the FBI. "He ultimately became the most damaging spy in Bureau history," the agency said.

Persons: Robert Philip Hanssen, Robert Hanssen, Hanssen Organizations: FBI, Soviet Union, of Prisons Locations: Florence , Colorado, Supermax

[1/2] Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released November 1, 2017. Saipov used a Home Depot rental truck to mow down people on a path along the Hudson River on Manhattan's West Side, according to prosecutors. He had hoped to the attack would help him gain membership in Islamic State, or ISIS, they said. Most of the people scheduled to speak at the hearing are traveling from Argentina and Belgium. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York and Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Will DunhamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ How El Chapo’s sons built a fentanyl empire poisoning America
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +23 min

Headed by Iván, El Chapo’s oldest son, the siblings have emerged as key figures in the Sinaloa Cartel, U.S. and Mexican anti-narcotics officials said. But he was killed in 2008 in Culiacán in a hail of bullets amid infighting between warring factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. The agency in April placed Iván on the list of its 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, joining Jesús Alfredo and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a Sinaloa Cartel legend and El Chapo’s alleged former business partner. They also kidnapped eight soldiers and surrounded military housing where wives and children of Mexican soldiers lived, Mexican officials said. Despite that blow to the Sinaloa Cartel, fentanyl keeps flowing north.

☆ Short on Staff, Prisons Enlist Teachers and Case Managers as Guards
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

From the outside, the prison complex in Florence, Colo., is a forbidding citadel of steel, concrete and coiled barbed wire, housing some of the most notorious inmates in federal custody. To hundreds of its employees, it is a stressful, isolated, short-staffed workplace. Like many other federal prisons, Florence is undergoing a staffing crisis, with head counts on some guard shifts so low that teachers, case managers, counselors, facilities workers and even secretaries at the complex have been enlisted to serve as corrections officers, despite having only basic security training. “It creates a safety issue: If you aren’t savvy with the housing unit, or the position you’re working, you are not going to spot a problem before it starts. Nowhere has that been more of a problem than at the chronically troubled Bureau of Prisons, with about 160,000 inmates at 122 prisons and camps — employing a work force of about 34,000 people who often earn less than state and county corrections workers.

☆ Ally of Mexico's 'El Chapo' extradited to US over drug charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - A top member of the powerful Mexican drug cartel formerly led by notorious kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is facing international drug trafficking and firearms charges after being extradited to the U.S., the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Gastelum remained detained in Mexico until his extradition to the U.S. on April 1, the department said. Gastelum, 42, made an initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday, facing drug and fire arms charges, the department said. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison for the drug conspiracy charge and a mandatory consecutive sentence of 30 years for the firearms offense, it added. He has been serving a life sentence at Colorado's Supermax, the most secure U.S. federal prison.

☆ New York bike path attacker spared death penalty after jury deadlocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Jane RosenbergNEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - Sayfullo Saipov, the man convicted of killing eight people in an attack on a Manhattan bike path in 2017, was spared the death penalty on Monday after a federal jury deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Saipov's case is the first federal death penalty trial since President Joe Biden, a Democrat, took office in 2021 after pledging during his campaign to abolish capital punishment. Jurors agreed that other aggravating factors weighed in favor of the death penalty, including that Saipov planned his attack in advance and carried it out to support Islamic State. Patton said in his closing argument that the death penalty was "not necessary to do justice." Prosecutors sought the death penalty despite U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's July 2021 moratorium on federal executions so the Department of Justice could review its use of the punishment.

The jury found Garcia Luna guilty on all five counts he faced, which included continuing criminal enterprise and conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Garcia Luna is one of the highest-ranking Mexican officials ever accused of ties to drug trafficking. Garcia Luna, who moved to the United States after leaving office and was arrested in 2019, had pleaded not guilty. Cesar de Castro, a defense lawyer, portrayed Garcia Luna as a hardworking family man and said his accusers had "incredible motives to lie." Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 following his conviction in Brooklyn on drug trafficking and murder conspiracy charges.

☆ Ex-Mexico drug czar helped Sinaloa cartel's 'cocaine empire,' U.S. prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Jane RosenbergNEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of the country's battle against drug trafficking helped the Sinaloa cartel build a "global cocaine empire" in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes, a U.S. prosecutor said on Wednesday. "These leaders paid the defendant bribes for protection - and they got what they paid for," Komatireddy said, referring to Guzman and two other top-ranking Sinaloa cartel figures. Garcia Luna, she said, "used his official government position to make millions of dollars for himself from the people he was supposed to prosecute." Garcia Luna, one of the highest-ranking Mexican officials ever accused of helping drug cartels, led Mexico's Federal Investigation Agency from 2001 to 2005 and was public security minister from 2006 to 2012. Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 following his conviction in Brooklyn on drug trafficking and murder conspiracy charges.

☆ Former WNBA MVP Stewart headed to Liberty
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Twice WNBA champion and four-times All-Star Breanna Stewart is signing with the New York Liberty, the former first overall pick said on social media on Wednesday, in one of the most highly anticipated free agency moves. The announcement marks the end of an astonishingly prolific tenure with the Seattle Storm, where the lethal forward led the league in scoring last year and was twice named the WNBA Finals MVP. The Liberty are on the hunt for their first Women's National Basketball Association championship title after bouncing out of the playoffs in the first round the last two years. Last month they secured 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones in a trade with the Connecticut Sun. Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York Editing by Toby DavisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say Garcia Luna gave the Sinaloa Cartel sensitive information about its rivals as well as safe passage for drug shipments. Garcia Luna has previously accused drug traffickers of leveling false allegations against him as revenge for the actions he took against cartels. Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 following his conviction in Brooklyn on drug trafficking and murder conspiracy charges. Mexico's government in 2020 issued an arrest warrant of its own for Garcia Luna on charges of illegal enrichment. Mexico also sued Garcia Luna in Florida, where he had been living before his 2019 arrest, in an effort to recover what it called illegally obtained assets.

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