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Police search for 72-year-old man reported missing in North Miami Beach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a 72-year-old man who went missing in North Miami Beach. According to detectives, Melchor Garcia was last seen leaving the area of Northeast 166th Street and West Dixie Highway, Wednesday night. He was last seen wearing a black hat, black T-shirt, gray pants and socks with sandals.Garcia stands 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs 138 pounds. Officials urge anyone with any information on Garcia’s whereabouts to contact North Miami Beach Detective Aladin at 305-949-5500.

Cannot get plastic surgery refund

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

She paid for plastic surgery but the clinic cancelled the surgery and wouldn’t return her money. When things got even stranger, she called Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser to see how they operate.No one can take care of you. You have to do it yourself.Aretha does.Aretha Wilkerson: “I do like to do myself up nice. I don’t want to get wrinkles and stuff.”But of course, the years are always fighting to age you, and Aretha felt like she was losing that battle.Aretha Wilkerson: “Everybody else has a flat stomach. So I want to get a flat stomach, you know.”Aretha’s husband then paid $4,500 to make it happen.Aretha Wilkerson: “I was getting liposuction and tummy tuck. So I was so excited.”Aretha lives in New York, but decided to have to have the plastic surgery in South Florida at a place two relatives had it done.Aretha Wilkerson: “They have it in New York, but I love Miami, so that’s why I came down here to Miami.”...

At least 4 hospitalized after Corvette, minivan collide in Southwest Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

Rescue crews took at least four people, including a child, to the hospital after they were injured in a crash in Southwest Miami-Dade.Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue units have responded to the scene of the two-vehicle crash in the area of Southwest 99th Avenue and 56th Street, just after 8:45 p.m., Wednesday.7News cameras captured a mangled minivan and a Corvette at the scene, as paramedics treated injured victims on stretchers.Paramedics transported four or five victims to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in unknown conditions. The age of the pediatric patient is unknown.Back at the scene, officers have shut down the westbound lanes of Southwest 56th Street near 99th Avenue.Police have not provided further details about the crash or may have caused it, as they continue to investigate.

King Charles III’s ‘Make Britain Great Again’ village

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Sign up here.POUNDBURY, England — The town of Poundbury may be located three hours south of London, but aesthetically it feels as if it’s centuries removed from the dense, modern British capital.The experimental development’s streets are lined with quaint but elegant brick homes straight out of a BBC adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, Victorian terrace houses and vaguely Gothic cottages. Beyond them, there are Regency-style townhouses, Palladian mansions and a square dominated by what appears to be a miniature version of Buckingham Palace.At first glance, the place seems grand and storied, but as you wander from one architectural pastiche to another, the quaint, historic village feels disconcertingly fake.That’s because it is: Prior to 1993 this rainy, windswept corner of Dorset was just muddy farmland, but for ...

Rishi Sunak faces 13-year itch in first big electoral test

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

LONDON — “It’s like Basra after we bombed it.” That was the stark verdict of one dismayed Stoke-on-Trent resident this week as they rated the city’s roads ahead of crucial local elections.Voters head to the polls to choose councillors in more than 8,000 seats on 230 councils across England Tuesday. Local elections, typically, are more likely to be determined by voters’ takes on tarmac, trash, graffiti and street lighting rather than who should lead the country.Reading across from local polls to glean general elections insight is fraught with danger, as experts and activists try to remind Westminster at this time of year.Yet after 13 years of national Conservative rule, and with Keir Starmer’s Labour continuing to outpace Rishi Sunak’s governing party in the national opinion polls, the line between the local and the national is blurring.Between two wallsLabour and Conservative insiders are managing expectations ahead of the big day.Labour officials insist 400 gains ...

Ukraine’s rule of law battlefield

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

Mykhailo Zhernakov is a lawyer and co-founder of the DEJURE Foundation where he is chair of the board. Stepan Berko is a lawyer and the advocacy director for the DEJURE Foundation. Halyna Chyzhyk is an advocacy officer and judiciary reform expert at the Anticorruption Action Center.Ukraine has struggled with rule of law for a very long time.Courts are among the least trusted public institutions in the country, and out of several attempts at judicial reform, most have been unsuccessful. Nevertheless, one particular piece of the reform remains a distinct exception — the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC).In 2022, judicial reform in Ukraine received new momentum when the European Union granted the country membership candidate status, conditioned on a number of institutional reforms — first and foremost, judicial. And the reformed process of the HACC’s formation, composition and first practice have been a great success, all due to the fact that the integrity check of its judges was made ...

A poisoned chalice awaits Turkey’s election winner: the economy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

Don’t envy whoever wins Turkey’s election this month. The victor could immediately be blown off course by strong economic headwinds. In the first decade of his 20-year rule, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rode an economic boom — driven in part by manufacturers and exporters from conservative Anatolian heartlands that supported his ruling AK Party — turning Turkey into one of the buzzing emerging markets to watch. Robust growth — averaging more than 7 percent between 2002 and 2007 — was once Erdoğan’s proudest boast.Over the second decade of his rule, the story was exactly the opposite, as the president took absolute control over monetary policy and insisted on his unorthodox theory that high interest rates cause inflation. Prices raged out of control and debates over the cost of staples, from onions to cucumbers, have figured prominently in the run-up to the May 14 election.The data paint a grim picture of turbulence. According to the Turkish Statistical ...

Tory donor blasts UK minister’s opposition to £1B energy proposal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

LONDON — A high-profile Conservative Party donor launched a stinging attack on Cabinet Minister Penny Mordaunt in an interview with POLITICO, saying her opposition to his £1.2 billion energy project is due to “baseless emotions.”Ukrainian-British businessman Alexander Temerko — who donated more than £1 million to the Tories and was formerly a junior minister in the Russian government — said Mordaunt will be “responsible for high prices of electricity in this country” if his U.K.-France electricity inter connector is blocked by the government in the coming weeks.Mordaunt, a MP for Portsmouth North and leader of the House of Commons under Rishi Sunak, has previously called on MPs and the Conservative Party headquarters to stop taking money from the Ukrainian tycoon, after he threatened to sue the senior Tory before backing down. Mordaunt shot back at Temerko, calling him “desperate” and his project a “threat to national security.”Mordaun...

Brown scores 25, Celtics spoil Embiid’s return in 121-87 win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 25 points and the Boston Celtics rolled past the Philadelphia 76ers 121-87 on Wednesday night, spoiling the return of reigning league MVP Joel Embiid.The Celtics tied the series at one game apiece as the Eastern Conference semifinals series shifts to Philadelphia for Game 3 on Friday.Malcolm Brogdon added 23 points, connecting on six of Boston’s 20 3-pointers. Derrick White and Marcus Smart added 15 points apiece. Jayson Tatum played most of the game in foul trouble and was held to seven points.Boston ratcheted up its defense and limited a 76ers team that hit 17 3-pointers in its Game 1 win to just 6 of 30 from beyond the arc on Wednesday. The Celtics led by as many as 36 points in the fourth quarter.Tobias Harris led the 76ers with 16 points. Embiid finished with 15 points, three rebounds and five blocks in his first game back from a sprained right knee that caused him to miss the final game of the 76ers’ first-round sweep of Brooklyn. He also sat ...

AI pioneer quits Google to warn about the technology’s ‘dangers’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:25 GMT

(CNN) — Geoffrey Hinton, who has been called the ‘Godfather of AI,’ confirmed Monday that he left his role at Google last week to speak out about the “dangers” of the technology he helped to develop.Hinton’s pioneering work on neural networks shaped artificial intelligence systems powering many of today’s products. He worked part-time at Google for a decade on the tech giant’s AI development efforts, but he has since come to have concerns about the technology and his role in advancing it.“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” Hinton told the New York Times, which was first to report his decision.In a tweet Monday, Hinton said he left Google so he could speak freely about the risks of AI, rather than because of a desire to criticize Google specifically.“I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google,” Hi...