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A Virginia man has been charged with making numerous death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Frank Carillo, of Winchester, Virginia, posted a series of violent threats about Harris last month using an alias on the conservative social media site GETTR, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in the Western District of Virginia on Friday. Investigators alleged that Carillo had posted 19 times about Harris, including threats to shoot, stab and burn her alive. Investigators said a search of Carillo's home turned up two guns — a handgun that he purchased last year and an RF-15 rifle that he bought this year. Carillo also made statements about other federal officials, including President Joe Biden and FBI Director Christopher Wray, the complaint alleged.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Frank Carillo, Harris, Carillo, Donald Trump, “, ”, Joe Biden, Christopher Wray Organizations: Democratic, of, Investigators Locations: Winchester , Virginia, Western, of Virginia

☆ Virginia man charged with threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A Virginia man has been charged with making death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris and appeared in federal court on Monday. According to court records, Frank Lucio Carillo made several threats against Harris, President Joe Biden, FBI Director Christopher Wray, several Arizona officials, and others on the right-wing social media platform Gettr. In response to a subpoena, the FBI found 4,359 posts from Carillo “targeting various public officials,” including Harris. In several posts, Carillo allegedly threatened to cut out Harris’ eyes and described various ways he wanted to kill the vice president, court records say. Federal agents retrieved two firearms from his home, including a pistol he bought in 2023 and a rifle purchased this year.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Frank Lucio Carillo, Harris, Joe Biden, Christopher Wray, Carillo, ” Carillo, “, ”, ” Carrillo Organizations: CNN, FBI Locations: Arizona, Carillo’s

☆ Inmate sentenced to more than 4 years in prison killing of Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in a troubled West Virginia federal prison. Massachusetts gangster Paul J. DeCologero was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to an assault charge. Defense attorney Patrick Nash began by conveying an apology from DeCologero to Bulger’s family as well as the inmate’s own relatives. In Bulger’s killing, “Paul was involved,” Nash said. After Bulger was killed, prison officials were criticized for placing him in the general population instead of more protective housing.

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☆ Taiwan is making a TV show about a Chinese invasion. And it’s hitting close to home
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Nectar Gan | Eric Cheung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The 17-minute trailer hit close to home in Taiwan, making headlines in local media and garnering more than a million views on YouTube. But Hsin-mei Cheng, the showrunner of “Zero Day,” worried that her fellow Taiwan citizens have grown “too numb” to the danger of an impending conflict. Hsin-mei Cheng, the showrunner of "Zero Day," says she hopes the show can serve as a wakeup call to the people of Taiwan. Cheng also assembled a team of 10 directors, each responsible for an episode in “Zero Day” that tells an independent story. In “Zero Day,” Chinese infiltration and cognitive warfare takes on many forms – from the lure of money and power to the threat of violence.

Persons: ”, China’s, Xi Jinping, Cheng, “, Mei Cheng, Nancy Pelosi’s, Robert Tsao, Lo Ging, Howard Yu, ” Cheng, Lo, Chapman, Hong Kong’s, –, livestreaming, influencers, Beijing’s, Howard Yu Su Tzu, yun, Lee Yen, China – Organizations: Taipei CNN, China’s People’s Liberation Army, PLA, Communist Party, YouTube, CNN, Presidential, Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, Netflix, Chinese Communist Party, Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research, Kuomintang Locations: Hong Kong, Taipei, Taiwan, dramatize, China, Ukraine, Beijing, Kinmen

☆ Deputy killed and 2 others injured in 'ambush' shooting at Florida home
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A Florida deputy was killed and two others are hospitalized with injuries following an “ambush” shooting overnight at a home in Lake County, authorities said. Deputies with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home around 8 p.m. Friday after receiving calls about a disturbance. The first deputy to enter the home was shot in the shoulder and was trapped inside the home, the sheriff said. During the attack, a second deputy was hit in the armpit and stomach area multiple times, Grinnell told reporters. “Our hearts go out to the family, friends and Lake County Sheriff’s Office after the tragic death of a deputy last night.

Persons: Peyton Grinnell, “, Grinnell, ”, Mark Glass Organizations: SWAT, Florida Department of Law Locations: Florida, Lake County

Simone Biles' Olympic medal collection has officially reached the double digits. It's her 10th Olympic medal and seventh gold. To win an individual apparatus medal in vault, gymnasts must perform two vaults that have different entries onto the vaulting table. In 2016, Biles became the the first American woman to win Olympic gold in vault. Saturday's vault final the third time Biles has performed her eponymous "Biles II" vault in Paris.

Persons: Simone Biles, Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, It's, Andrade, Jade Carey, Biles, Cheng, Shannon Miller, Larisa Latynina, Věra, Czechoslovakia –, ” Biles, “ I’m, I’ve, ” Organizations: Paris, Tokyo, Olympic Games Locations: American, Tokyo, Paris, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia

And each finalist offers the newly minted Democratic Party leader a particular way to balance the ticket. Here’s how each could uniquely help the Democratic ticket — plus the potential drawbacks already getting attention. Andy BeshearNo current Democratic governor has won a redder state than Kentucky, where Beshear has won statewide three times. That appeal could help boost the Democratic ticket with working-class, independent and even some Republican voters in battleground states across the U.S. Tim WalzWalz has won Democratic plaudits for a string of progressive policy wins in his state.

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“I think folks think it’s Trump reverting to his Id,” a longtime Republican communications adviser said. “The momentum is with Vice President Harris, and we just need to work our hearts out until Election Day,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said. “We have multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes,” Dan Kanninen, battleground states director for the Harris campaign, said of the threshold for winning the electoral college. Project 2025, which had been attacked by Democrats, announced that it would stop working on policy after taking criticism from the Trump campaign. “Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not Black,” Trump wrote on social media.

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☆ Meet a Federal Air Marshal. She May Have Been Sitting Next to You on a Flight.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Christine Chung | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Little is released to the public about how, why and where federal air marshals operate. But air marshals are working undercover, with concealed guns and the power to make arrests. In recent decades, the responsibilities of air marshals have expanded to include securing the country’s entire transportation system. I learned more about the profession in a conversation with Esther Fausett, 43, an assistant supervisory air marshal in charge. What drew you to becoming a federal air marshal?

Persons: napping, Esther Fausett Organizations: Federal Air Marshal Service, Indy, United Nations General Assembly, Washington , D.C Locations: United States, U.S, Mexico, Washington ,

☆ When ICE Agents Use Deadly Force, the Shootings Go Unprosecuted.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Lila Hassan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +46 min

AdvertisementYet when and how ICE agents use deadly force has long been shrouded in secrecy. ICE agents shot people in public places, such as traffic intersections and strip-mall parking lots. Yet in over half of the shootings we identified, ICE agents never made an arrest. But Ramos still became one of dozens of people on the receiving end of an ICE agent's deadly force. A significant number of the shootings documented in the logs happened while ICE agents were off-duty or in plain clothes.

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How Simone Biles Won the Olympic Women’s Gymnastics All-Around Gold1 USA Simone Biles 59.131 2 BRA Rebeca Andrade -1.199 points behind points behind 3 USA Sunisa Lee -2.666Simone Biles earned her sixth Olympic gold medal, and her ninth Olympic medal overall, in Paris on Thursday, clinching a win in the women’s gymnastics all-around final by more than a full point. The competition began with a commanding lead for Biles, who scored 15.766 for her namesake Yurchenko double pike, the hardest vault in the world. And Sunisa Lee, the defending Olympic all-around champion, trailed after the first three rotations but came back to win the bronze with a solid performance on floor. With Andrade at her heels, Biles took to the floor to perform the last routine of the competition. Since the first Olympic all-around competition in women’s gymnastics in 1952, only nine gymnasts had ever managed to win two medals of any color.

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☆ A deadly Houthi attack on Tel Aviv is forcing Israel to rethink its drone defenses
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Paul Iddon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Read previewThe Houthis' unprecedented July 19 drone attack against Tel Aviv from Yemen caught Israelis by surprise, piercing the country's battle-tested defenses and exposing vulnerabilities that the Yemen-based rebels were ready and willing to exploit. "This confirms that technology alone, even for one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world, is not enough to provide effective protection," Borsari said. "Firstly, the advanced Houthi drone was launched for the first time, following an atypical flight path that likely caught the Israelis off guard," Khoueiry told BI. Houthi Media Center via Getty Images'A more cunning approach'Following the deadly attack, the Israeli military promptly increased air patrols to protect Israeli airspace. "This means integrating low-tier air defense capabilities at scale, combining different types of effectors with an eye on cost-effectiveness," Borsari said.

Persons: —, Federico Borsari, Israel, Samad, Borsari, Freddy Khoueiry, RANE, Khoueiry, Yemen's, Sebastien Roblin, Roblin, harry IDF, CEPA's Borsari, Dome's Tamir, Tamir, RANE's Khoueiry Organizations: Service, Tel, Center for, Business, Eritrean, Technology, Houthi Media, Getty, Hodeidah, Red Sea, BI, Jordanian, US Navy, Navy Locations: Tel Aviv, Yemen, Red, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, East, North Africa, Eilat, Iran, Gulf of Aden, Gaza, Eritrea, Sudan, Saudi

“We were never asked what we’d seen or where we were from Secret Service. “Before this incident, I would have thought Secret Service is, like bulletproof. The Beaver County officials were part of a multi-jurisdictional team assisting the Secret Service for Trump’s July 13 rally. The Secret Service has not responded to questions for comment from CNN. A federal law enforcement official familiar with the matter said the Secret Service was and has been in touch with the lead for the Butler Emergency Services Unit, which oversaw the Beaver County local law enforcement officers and others that day.

Persons: Robert Rowe, Donald Trump’s, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Nate, Patrick Young, Rowe, ” Young, “, we’d, Crooks, you’re, Young, Trump, Butler, ” Rowe, they’d, ”, Greg Nicol, Bible, Nicol Organizations: CNN, Emergency Services Unit, Service, Secret, Secret Service, Trump’s, Trump, Butler Emergency Services Unit, Beaver Locations: Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Beaver, Butler , Pennsylvania, Butler

☆ With a NATO war and Ukraine's knack for shooting down planes in mind, Russia is holding back its airpower and most advanced jets
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Read previewRussia has kept much of its airpower and some of its most advanced aircraft out of the war in Ukraine. But Baum and other air warfare experts have warned Russia's air force should not be underestimated and cautioned that NATO should be ready. AdvertisementRussia's air force is weaker than NATO's airpower, but Russia's war in Ukraine shows it can still cause a lot of damage. Russia's air force has suffered high attrition rates from Ukraine's ground-based air defenses when operating in the country. Related storiesHe said that Russia "has a lot of trouble replacing lost advanced aircraft," only making a few a year.

Persons: —, John Baum, Su, Andrew Curtis, Curtis, Michael Clarke, Christopher Cavoli, it's, Clarke, Evelyn Hockstein, Baum, Peter Layton, Layton, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jens Büttner, Russian Sukhoi Su, Nicola Marfisi, Russia's, There's, Sukhoi Su, Aleksey Nikolskyi, REUTERS George Barros, Jake Epstein, Gustav Gressel, Tim Robinson, Russia's Su, Robinson, Mads Claus Rasmussen, Ritzau Scanpix Organizations: Service, NATO, Mitchell Institute, US Air Force, Business, UK Ministry of Defense, Russian Air Force, Royal Air Force, REUTERS, Ukraine, Griffith Asia Institute, Royal Australian Air Force, Russian, Getty Images Air, Getty Images, it's, Sukhoi, Sputnik, European Council, Foreign Relations, UK's Royal Aeronautical Society, Getty Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Washington, NATO, Russian Sukhoi, Ukrainian, Moscow, Kremlin, AFP

☆ Trump will meet FBI for victim interview in shooting investigation, agency says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Donald Trump has agreed to sit for a victim interview with the FBI, which is investigating this month’s attempted assassination, an agency official said Monday. “The interview of the former president will be consistent with any other victim interview that we do,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, told reporters on a conference call Monday. The FBI wants to “get his perspective on what he observed, just like any other witness to the crime.”“It is a standard victim interview, like we would do for any other victim of crime under any other circumstances,” Rojek said. Crooks was “highly intelligent” and had a growing interest in shooting, Rojek said. But since they accessed the accounts, investigators found that the shooter was using the emails primarily to make online purchases.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kevin Rojek, “, ” Rojek, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, Rojek, Oswald, Kennedy ”, ”, Bobby Wells, ” Wells Organizations: CNN, FBI, Pittsburgh Field Office, Slovakian, Counterterrorism Division Locations: Washington ,

☆ I take my wife and 5 kids with me to war zones as a crisis volunteer. People think I'm crazy, but we work as a family.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I sent them an email about the possibility of work, and we left within a week and a half. Most of these people still had family members that were just captured by ISIS, and who were very traumatized. Home life in warMy wife is very connected to the work and its mission. And we'd come back to a big house where we take showers, there's a functioning family and hot food. The kids do miss out on having a steady community, but their community is always there when they get back.

Persons: —, Daniel Beiler, Rodi Said, Jessica Melanson, we've, We've, — we've, it's, There's, we're, I'd, I've, I'm, STRINGER, Beiler, Ted Shaffrey, They've Organizations: Service, Business, Islamic, ISIS, Emergency Service, Reuters Locations: Pennsylvania, Iraq, Dnipro, Ukraine, Bolivia, Syria, Ukrainian, Dnipropetrovsk, Baghdad, Mosul, STRINGER Iraq, Lancaster County , Pennsylvania, Idaho

☆ Southwest Airlines’ soda cans are exploding on planes. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A routine part of the job for Southwest Airlines flight attendants is turning into a dangerous mess as a searing summer heat and the airline’s beverage management practices have made soda cans volatile mid-flight. There were more than 100 reports of soda cans exploding on flights in June, Southwest flight attendant union president Bill Bernal told CNN, some of which have injured flight attendants. Southwest Airlines wouldn’t comment on the number of incidents and injuries or their nature, but confirmed to CNN the issue is occurring. “Both the short term and long term fixes are actual engineered fixes that should eventually all but eradicate the exploding can issue at Southwest Airlines,” Bernal said. Soda cans are engineered and designed to handle reaching a pressure level between three to six times the can’s normal pressure, according to Biberdorf.

Persons: Bill Bernal, Bernal, Kate Biberdorf, “, ” Biberdorf, ” Bernal, It’s, Biberdorf, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Southwest Airlines, Southwest, CBS News, University of Texas Locations: Las Vegas, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Southwest, Las Vegas .

☆ How Doug Emhoff is amplifying his wife’s historic presidential bid
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Confronted with a barrage of negative social media posts from former President Donald Trump aimed at his wife, second gentleman Doug Emhoff eschewed machismo or defensiveness. “That’s all he got?” he said Tuesday of the attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, the new and historic presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. And Monday, he leaned into a cheerleader role as he introduced the vice president at her Wilmington, Delaware, campaign headquarters. So I think that gives you a fairly good indication of if he now would move into a precedent-setting first gentleman role,” McBride said. “This first gentleman role is being a supportive spouse and understanding better than anyone the administration’s goals and how to go about best achieving that,” she said.

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☆ Ukraine's US-provided Bradley armored fighting vehicles are turning heads in tough battles against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewIn a snowy landscape near Stepove in eastern Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian armored vehicles went head-to-head in what appeared to be a mismatched fight. The Russian tank's turret starts spinning, and then the tank veers off course and crashes into a tree. Advertisement"So armored vehicles dash in, fulfill their combat mission, and then withdraw as fast as they can," said Gressel. Only weeks later, a Bradley took out two BTR-82 Russian armored troop carriers in the same region. AdvertisementParakilas, the RAND analyst, said that the Pentagon is modifying the Bradley vehicles to better defend them against the drone and air attacks that proved devastating against the western-supplied armored vehicles in summer 2023.

Persons: —, Vladimir Putin, Bradley, IFV, Gustav Gressel, Jacob Parakilas, Gressel, Scott Peterson, they've, Abrams Organizations: Service, 47th Mechanized Brigade Bradley, Business, Bradley, Ukraine, Russia, European Council, Foreign Relations, RAND Corporation, CNN, Washington Post, American, LB, Getty, RAND Locations: Stepove, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Russian, Russia, Zaporizhzhia, Baghdad, Adviikva

☆ On Eve of Olympics, a Curious Mix of Security and Silence
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Helicopters whirling overhead. And an army brigade, marching by in formation, machine guns hoisted to their chests. This is what it has been like getting to the front door of my apartment building for the past few evenings. It’s a weird moment in Paris, on the eve of the Olympic Games and its unusual opening ceremony. The Seine’s banks and bridges, normally teeming with humanity, are suddenly empty.

Organizations: Police, Olympic Games Locations: Paris

☆ Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court’s code of conduct needs an enforcement plan. Takeaways from her wide-ranging comments.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Sacramento, California CNN —Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective. “I think that the rules that we put out are good ones,” Kagan said at a judicial conference in Sacramento. “I think that the thing that can be criticized is, you know, rules usually have enforcement mechanisms attached to them. Justice Scalia and Justice Ginsburg pose on an elephant in Rajistan during their tour of India in 1994. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesBut asked on Thursday whether she thought collegiality is important for the court, Kagan made clear that while she saw it as important, it shouldn’t ultimately matter to the public.

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☆ Las Vegas transit system is nation's first to plan full deployment of AI surveillance system for weapons
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Kevin Williams | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesOn your next visit to Vegas, an extra set of eyes will be watching you if you decide to hop onto the local transit system. Violent crime on transit systems, specifically, remains an issue in major metro areas, with a report released in late 2023 by the Department of Transportation detailing concerns from transit agency officials around the U.S. about rising violence on their transit systems. Atteberry stressed that the ZeroEyes system is not designed to detect lawful, legal firearms that might be in a holster or packed in a purse. "AI technology comes from the data; if we do not capture the data, there is no successful AI," Dei said. ZeroEyesThe Las Vegas transit system is not the only in the nation to use ZeroEyes, but is the first to plan full deployment.

Persons: Tom Atteberry, Brian Miller, Miller, Stephen Paddock, Sam Alaimo, Alaimo, ZeroEyes, Wei Dai, Dei, Paul Gratton Jr, Gratton, Michael Hasse, Hasse, there's, Atteberry Organizations: Regional Transportation, Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Tribune, Service, Regional Transportation Commission, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Purdue University Northwest, Zero, Purdue Northwest's Department of Computer Science, Seattle, Purdue Northwest, SEPTA, NYPD, TSA, Systems Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, Southern Nevada, Hammond , Indiana, Nevada, Lafayette , Louisiana, Clark County , Nevada

☆ A Military Leader to His People: ‘Fight or You Disappear’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Elian Peltier | Guerchom Ndebo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Young men posed in front of posters of the country’s military leader. Over dinner in restaurants, families watched television monitors showing footage of drone strikes. The event was billed as a national cultural festival in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. But it often resembled a mobilization campaign in the all-out war against the Islamist terrorists who have gradually occupied the country in recent years. “The motherland or death,” Alaila Ilboudo, a spoken word artist, shouted onstage to the cheers of crowds at the festival, held in May in Bobo-Dioulasso, the country’s second largest city.

Persons: ” Alaila, Dioulasso Locations: West African, Burkina Faso, Bobo

☆ A TikToker went viral for calling Europe 'Disneyland for Americans.' To be honest, he might have a point.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA TikToker has racked up nearly a million views in a recent video that explained how Europe is becoming a hotbed for American tourists. And he's not wrong that some European cities are being treated solely as tourist attractions rather than as people's homes. Other European cities are facing similar problems. AdvertisementHowever, the TikToker wasn't particularly sympathetic to the plight of tourist-ridden European cities. "It's ok you had a good run, time to accept your fate Europe," the TikToker captioned the video.

Persons: —, Dan Rosen, Luca Bruno, Rosen Organizations: Service, Disney, Business, AP, Reuters, European Travel Commission Locations: Europe, Barcelona, Venice, Lake Como, Italy, Switzerland

☆ An Olympian’s Awkward Packing List: Toothbrush? Check. Rifle? Check.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Andrew Keh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Before the members of the United States shooting team got a chance to fire their rifles, pistols and shotguns this month in the Paris Games, they had to get them there first. And while international air travel is already among the most universally exasperating experiences on earth, imagine doing it with a bunch of guns and ammunition in your luggage. “I’ve learned the hard way about saying, ‘Oh, this is going pretty smooth,’” said Sagen Maddalena, 30, an American rifle shooter who will be competing at her second Olympics this summer. “You can get there six hours before the flight leaves, and it feels like you’re running to the plane every time.”

Persons: “ I’ve, ”, Sagen Maddalena Organizations: United, Paris Games Locations: United States, American

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