Sharps containers for disposal of used needles are located in the front and back of the church and in all of the church's bathrooms because church staff, guests and officers expressed concerns about needles being in the area, police said in the report.

Following an officer's contact with church staff at the building in October, officers offered to empty one of the sharps containers for staff. When an officer brought the sharps container back to the police department and tested the needles inside, they came back presumptive positive for methamphetamine, according to the police report.

The Fellowship offers services to a large number of homeless people. Or offered, before they were shut down. Such a helpful officer to volunteer to empty their sharps container!

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This is very misleading. The actual content says that they knew the mount could fail, but didn’t think it was a flight-safety risk…probably because there would still be two other good engines. It took 55 years (1970->2025) for aviation enthusiasts and pilots (presumably also Boeing) to realize that a wing engine failing also had an appreciable chance of taking out the tail engine. And that ISN’T what happened with AA191 in 1979: in that crash, the engine damaged the wing and hydraulics, not the tail engine. So they fixed that problem four decades ago.

I’m all for raking the McDonell-Douglass culture that destroyed Boeing over the coals, but that doesn’t seem to be the situation here.

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    Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank will "bury the idea of a Palestinian state".

    The so-called E1 project between Jerusalem and the Maale Adumim settlement has been frozen for decades amid fierce opposition internationally. Building there would effectively cut off the West Bank from occupied East Jerusalem and significantly obstruct its territorial contiguity.

    Smotrich said it would thwart the idea of a Palestinian state "because there is nothing to recognise and no one to recognise".

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    "This is Zionism at its best - building, settling and strengthening our sovereignty in the Land of Israel."

     

    Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Sunday - among them 28-year-old correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who had reported prominently on the war since its outset.

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    The targeted attack on a tent used by journalists has drawn strong international condemnation including from the UN, Qatar where Al Jazeera is based, and media freedom groups.

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    Israel had previously accused Sharif of being a member of Hamas's military wing - something he and his employer strongly denied. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a media freedom group, said the allegations against him were "baseless" and called on the international community to intervene. "Without strong action from the international community to stop the Israeli army... we're likely to witness more such extrajudicial mur

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    BBC News and three leading news agencies have expressed desperate concern for journalists in Gaza, who they say are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.

    Did…did you read the first sentence in the article, or just the headline? Things are bad enough under Israel’s siege that news agencies are worried about journalists starving too.

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    Israelis are expanding their West Bank land grabs and even terrorizing Christian Palestinian-American villages there.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2mknzn99eo

    Separately, the US embassy in Jerusalem has said it condemns recent violence by Israeli settlers against the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank. Most of the land there is owned by Palestinian-Americans and, according to locals, some 300 residents are US passport holders. Attacks, including by masked men torching cars and attacking homes, have ramped up. On Monday, settlers set fields ablaze close to a fifth-Century church, leading to a call for international action from the town's priests.

    The West Bank shows us that for Gaza, Hamas surrendering would at best change the speed of the Zionist genocide of Palestinians, but not put a stop to it.

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