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UPenn president resigns after answers to Congress about antisemitism on campus draw sharp criticism

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The University of Pennsylvania’s president has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.The departure of Liz Magill, in her second year as president of the Ivy League school, was announced by the school late Saturday afternoon. The statement said Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at the university’s Carey Law School.Calls for her resignation exploded after Tuesday’s testimony in a U.S. House committee on antisemitism on college campuses, where she appeared with the presidents of Harvard University and MIT.Blowback focused on a line of questioning from Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who repeatedly asked whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate Penn’s code of conduct.“If the speech turns into conduct it can be harassment, yes,” Pressed further, Magill ...

Pastrnak scores twice as Bruins beat Coyotes 5-3

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak had two goals and an assist, Trent Frederic added two assists and the Boston Bruins held off the Arizona Coyotes 5-3 on Saturday.Charlie Coyle also scored for Boston and Kevin Shattenkirk got his 99th career goal as the Bruins won for the fourth time in five games and improved to 10-2-1 at home.Trailing 3-0, Arizona got back-to-back goals from Clayton Keller and Michael Carcone 32 seconds apart early in the second period. They never got closer as Linus Ullmark finished with 31 saves.“They’re a good team offensively and they can make you pay. I thought we regrouped really well,” Shattenkirk said. “We stuck with it, got back to our gameplan and got that fourth and fifth goal at the right time.”Ullmark came up with a pair of stops just outside the goal line late in an Arizona power play and Pastrnak sealed it with his second goal of the game, beating Connor Ingram with a wrist shot with 5:31 left in the third.“Our execution was a little bit below aver...

Investigation underway after body of infant found wrapped in blanket in New Bedford

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

Authorities are investigating after the body of an infant was found wrapped in a blanket at Fort Taber in New Bedford on Saturday afternoon, officials said.Officers were called around 12:40 p.m. after a person walking on the path near the water saw a blanket and smelled an odor of decay, according to the Bristol District Attorney’s Office. An investigation determined the body of a decomposing infant was found in the blanket.The body was taken to the Massachusetts Medical Examiner’s Office. No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Bruins Notebook: Opportunity knocks for Morgan Geekie

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

What exactly Morgan Geekie’s full identity will become for the Bruins remains to be seen. But when the B’s — already down Charlie McAvoy and Derek Forbort — then lost Pavel Zacha after the first period on Saturday, Geekie showed he’s a player who can help them win games.With Zacha out with an upper body injury, Geekie played 17:31, his second-highest total of the season, and he notched a hard-working assist on David Pastrnak’s second goal of the game that helped seal the 5-3 win over the Arizona Coyotes.“Obviously whenever a player of (Zacha’s) caliber goes down, it’s obviously a hit to us,” said Geekie. “But we’ve got a good group. Everyone’s going to step up, everyone’s going to play more minutes. I’m just trying to go out there and do my job and fit in anywhere I can. We have guys playing all over the place tonight and that’s just how it’s going to be some days. You’ve got to figure out ways to win in t...

Massachusetts attorney general backs federal proposal to curb illegal gun trafficking

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is backing a proposed regulation that would ensure more gun sales are subject to background checks to reduce illegal trafficking of firearms across the country.Stuart Cahill/Boston HeraldMassachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell speaks at a press conference on the regulation and banning of ghost guns in July. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)Campbell, along with New York Attorney General Letitia James, is co-leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general in supporting the rule put forth by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.The ATF proposal looks to clarify what it means for a person to be “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms and therefore required to obtain a license and run background checks when selling guns, according to a Friday release from Campbell’s office.Attorneys general in support say the proposed regulation would also close loopholes that allowed the unlicensed sale of firearms, including onli...

Every phone call is a goodbye, says Vancouver resident with family in Gaza

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

Omar Mansour says every phone call with his family in the Gaza Strip might be the last. So during those few minutes when he is able to talk to his parents, brother and sisters, the Vancouver resident makes sure he tells them he loves them.“I ask them how they are. But it’s mostly goodbyes, you know? Mostly goodbyes, and I love you,” he said. “And I thank them for what they’ve done for me. Because it might be the last call, the last time I hear their voice.”Five of his cousins were killed by Israeli snipers over the past week when they went to look for food and water, he said. “That’s only the family I got to know about. I lost touch with most of my 60 cousins after the war began.”Israel pounded areas of the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and artillery on Saturday, a day after the United States vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the first time invoked...

14-year-old arrested in vicious assault against woman at Brampton mall

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

A 14-year-old is under arrest in connection with the violent assault of a woman inside a Brampton mall back in October.Peel Regional Police said at around 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 23 a woman was at Bramalea City Centre shopping mall in the area of Queen Street and Central Park Drive when she was approached by an unknown suspect who accused her of filming him.The woman attempted to walk away when the suspect slapped the phone out of her hand and punched her several times before leaving the store.While the woman was shaken up, she did not require medical attention.Employees of the Urban Planet store where the attack took place told CityNews that the woman came to them saying she was being followed and harassed and to call security.Police told CityNews the woman was not recording the individual and that she was on a FaceTime call with one of her friends.On Friday, police arrested a 14-year-old from Brampton and charged him with assault.Under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the n...

A British Palestinian surgeon gave testimony to a UK war crimes unit after returning from Gaza

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — A British Palestinian surgeon who spent weeks in the Gaza Strip during the current Israel-Hamas war as part of a Doctors Without Borders medical team said he has given testimony to a British war crimes investigation unit.Ghassan Abu Sitta, a plastic surgeon specializing in conflict medicine, has volunteered with medical teams in multiple conflicts in Gaza, beginning as a medical student in the late 1980s during the the first Palestinian uprising. He has also worked in other conflict zones, including in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.Abu Sitta crossed from Egypt into Gaza on Oct. 9, two days after the war began and remained in the besieged enclave for 43 days, working mainly in the al-Ahli and Shifa hospitals in northern Gaza.The war was triggered by a deadly Hamas-led incursion on Oct. 7 into southern Israel in which militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Since then, Israel has launched a punishing air and ground campaign that has killed more than 17,700 people i...

Liz Magill, University of Pennsylvania president, resigns as antisemitism testimony draws backlash

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The University of Pennsylvania’s president has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.The departure of Liz Magill, in her second year as president of the Ivy League school, was announced by the school late Saturday afternoon. The statement said Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at the university’s Carey Law School. She has agreed to keep serving as Penn’s leader until the university names an interim president.Calls for Magill’s resignation exploded after Tuesday’s testimony in a U.S. House committee on antisemitism on college campuses, where she appeared with the presidents of Harvard University and MIT.Universities across the U.S. have been accused of failing to protect Jewish students amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout from Israel...

RCMP in Surrey, B.C., ends Amber Alert for two-month-old girl

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:21 GMT

SURREY, B.C. — Mounties in Surrey, B.C., have cancelled an Amber Alert for a two-month-old girl.The alert was first issued around 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Police had said the girl’s father was believed to have abducted the infant from Surrey.Mounties said the pair were believed to have been travelling in a 2002 Chevy Suburban four-dour SUV. They had asked for the public’s help in finding the baby.The update came about an hour and a half after the Amber Alert was first issued.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 9, 2023.The Canadian Press