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DC students get ready for summer as Thursday marks last school day

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

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Swastikas found scrawled on walls and poles outside Flanigan’s in Hallandale Beach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

Police are searching for a vandal who left swastikas scrawled for everyone to see outside the Flanigan’s in Hallandale Beach.A swastika and a jumbled scribble were painted on the wall outside the restaurant, Wednesday. Some of the customers didn’t know about this until 7 News asked them and a lot of them were in shock.“I think it’s terrible and think they need to go home and do whatever they wanna do, outside of Miami,” said a customer.Another customer felt it was defaming an Irish bar with swastika marks. “Some people are so disgusting they had to defame an Irish bar with a swastika,” said another customer. Ignacio Escandon, the assistant manager at the Flanigan’s, spoke with 7News about the signs of hate. He said someone had contacted police.“Next thing you know, I already had cops coming in here asking me if anyone of us has called, but it appeared that somebody else had called already,” he said. Hallandale Police office...

Police report details ‘altercation’ at Haulover Marina amid allegations Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill slapped fishing fleet employee

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

A newly released police report provides new details about an incident at the Haulover Marina allegedly involving Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill.While the motivation at the Haulover Marina is to catch big fish, the buzz this week was about the Dolphins’ star player, nicknamed the Cheetah.Hill, 29, is famously seen on the water with his superagent, 7Sports Dolphins insider Drew Rosenhaus.But a video showing Hill tussling with a shark in the ocean isn’t the rough stuff people are talking about.That would be the “misdemeanor battery” that Miami-Dade Police is investigating, after allegations that the All-Pro receiver slapped a Kelley Fishing Fleet worker, Sunday afternoon.Employees with Kelley Fishing Fleet declined to discuss the incident, but in a police report released Wednesday, investigators wrote, “A verbal altercation occurred.”However, the police report doesn’t name anyone.A manager told 7News that Hill hit a 57-year-old marina...

BSO search for 17-year-old reported missing from Tamarac

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

Authorities seek the public’s help in their search for a 17-year-old girl who was reported missing from Tamarac.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Jenee Richardson was last seen near the 8500 block of Hampton Hills Boulevard, at around 7:30 p.m., June 13. Richardson stands 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs around 145 pounds, and has red hair and brown eyes.Officials urge anyone with information on her whereabouts to contact BSO Detective Leonard Charla at 954-321-4274 or the BSO non-emergency number 954-764- HELP (4357).

12 Miami-Dade teachers go on shark research expedition to enhance classroom learning

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

It was a “fin-tastic” experience for some South Florida teachers.Twelve Miami-Dade educators on Wednesday took part in a hands-on shark research expedition.They headed out from Miami Beach into the open seas to fish for, study and tag different kinds of sharks.The program allowed them to work side-by-side with Florida International University scientists with the goal of helping bolster Earth and environmental science teaching back in the classroom.

Inside Ukraine’s first day as an EU member

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

If Kyiv is to join the club, the bloc will first have to change.By BARBARA MOENS in Brussels, sometime in the futureIllustrations by Ricardo Tomás for POLITICOThis is the moment Ukrainians have been fighting — and dying — for. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is walking up a red carpet in Brussels’ Europa building toward his first meeting of the European Council, the forum where the European Union’s leaders hammer out the bloc’s most perplexing problems.He has been here before, of course, wearing his olive green sweatshirt in solidarity with the Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the trenches — his eyes exhausted from leading his country through an excruciating war. But today, Zelenskyy is wearing a precisely tailored black suit, a spotless white shirt and a black tie. He’s clean-shaved, clearly well-slept and has a twinkle in his eyes. The former Ukrainian actor has time to look in the mirror again.Zelenskyy is walking the red carpet of the lantern-shaped atrium not as a war-wor...

Economic dependence curbs Poland’s rise

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

Jan Bogusławski is a political economist and researcher at Sciences Po Paris and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.As the war in Ukraine continues, in a noted shift, all eyes are on Eastern Europe, amid claims that “Europe’s center of gravity is moving east ” and praise for Poland’s recent economic prowess.This spotlight moment fuels Warsaw’s well-vocalized ambition of finally shedding its “periphery” label and joining the European Union’s heavyweight division. But Poland’s reliance on foreign capital — a legacy of its post-Communist economic transformation — casts a long shadow.As Europe’s core and south have seen GDP levels stagnate or increase sluggishly, post-2004 EU member countries have been playing catch-up. And today, Poland already has a higher GDP per capita than Greece and Portugal, and is on track to surpass Spain.Poland and its booming economy also play an undeniable role in the EU’s response to the war in Ukraine. Its robust economic ...

Russia’s wary neighbor weighs militarizing Baltic islands

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

MARIEHAMN, Finland — Outside the Russian consulate on the Åland Islands, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, emotions were running high. Twenty villagers had gathered with placards, flags and an assortment of small dogs to sing protest songs against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and also, they said, to stiffen their own resolve in the face of a rapidly chilling local security situation. “We are here to show our empathy for the Ukrainians, our disgust at the war — and maybe also because we are a little bit scared,” said Mosse Wallen, a retired journalist who led the singing.Locals know that their islands sit along strategically important Baltic sea lanes, which have attracted the attention of nearby military powers throughout history. They worry that Russia’s government, 16 months into an attack on neighboring Ukraine, could train its sights on Åland, a territory where international treaties currently say no militarization may take place.For Finland’s new government, likely t...

Mind the skills gap: preparing Europe for a safe digital future

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

When it comes to equipping the European Union for a digital future, there’s a two-part question that policymakers rightly often ask themselves: do our countries and citizens have the skills to seize the opportunities presented by digitalization — and can we protect ourselves from malicious cyber threats?While Europe faces a multifaceted challenge, it’s clear that emerging technologies will present exciting growth opportunities in parallel with increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. No organization can afford to be complacent.Preparing for an ever-more digital future while ensuring citizens and the workforce have the right skills to embrace this new era of connectivity isn’t just a ‘nice-to-have’, it is essential to both competitiveness and resilience.Ensuring citizens and the workforce have the right skills to embrace this new era of connectivity isn’t just a ‘nice-to-have’, it is essential to both competitiveness and resilience.Margrethe Vestager, executive vice president of the...

Investigation underway after police say man shot at couple with pellet gun in Groveland

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:13:24 GMT

A police investigation got underway in Groveland over the weekend after two people walking near Main Street and Elm Park were shot at with pellets fired from a pellet gun in a passing car, police said. Groveland police said the couple was walking Saturday night when a red Honda Civic with four passengers drove by. A man wearing a mask and leaning out the window of the moving vehicle shot the husband and wife with pellets, police said.“It’s a very, very unusual event to take place in Groveland,” said Groveland Police Chief Jeffrey Gillen.Gillen said the pellets hit the man’s jacket and hit the woman’s umbrella. While no one was injured, police were still looking for the people in the car as of Wednesday. “That’s kind of scary,” said Dawn Martinez, who works in the area near where this incident took place. “Usually, it’s really quiet.”Martinez was working at the time of the incident. She said she saw “a lot of police presence going back and forth.”Martinez, who wal...