The Daily Populous

Sunday April 21st, 2024 evening edition

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on Friday introduced legislation that would strip Secret Service protection from convicted felons sentenced to prison, a bill clearly aimed at former President Donald Trump.

“Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentences of a protectee – even a former President,” Thompson, the former chairman of the House Jan. 6 select committee, said in a statement.

“It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality,” he added.

Thompson called the thought of a Secret Service protectee being sentenced to prison a “previously unthought-of scenario.”

“This measure would apply to former President Trump” if he is convicted of a felony, the document released by Thompson states.

The bill would prevent Trump from having Secret Service protection while in prison, if he’s convicted of a felony and sentenced to serve time behind bars.

He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and faces hundreds of years in prison if convicted on all charges in all four cases. »

How new mosquito nets averted 13 million malaria cases

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Ahead of World Malaria Day (WMD) 2024, April 25, the Global Funds to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, has said compared to standard nets, the introduction of 56 million state-of-the-art mosquito nets in Nigeria, 16 other countries across sub-Saharan Africa averted an estimated 13 million malaria cases and 24,600 deaths.

According to a statement by Global Fund, between 2019 and 2022, the New Nets Project supported the deployment of 38.4 million nets across sub-Saharan Africa.

As a result, a total of 56 million mosquito nets were introduced in Nigeria and 16 other countries across sub-Saharan Africa. »

Teen McDonald’s Employee Was Beaten by Adult Customer in Parking Lot

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Video of the incident posted on social media allegedly shows Johnny Ricks pulling Aryiah Lynch by her hair in the parking lot and assaulting her multiple times near the drive-thru of the restaurant.

click to enlarge ST. LOUIS COUNTY JAIL Johnny Ricks, now 25, faces a charge of felony assault for the beating.

Lynch is currently out of the hospital and on bed rest, though she hopes to return to work. »

NBC will display the heart rates of parents watching their kids during the Olympics

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NBC is adding a wholly unnecessary, yet somewhat interesting, tweak to some of their Summer Olympics coverage.

In a lengthy feature about this summer’s games from Paris, Variety reveals that NBC is outfitting the parents of athletes competing with heart rate monitors and will display the results on-screen.

Compared to all of those significant changes, adding heart rate monitors on parents isn’t an earth-shattering move. »

Entire IRGC command wing in Syria was eliminated in strike, Bloomberg reveals

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The Bloomberg television network revealed overnight into Saturday that in the attack attributed to Israel at the Iranian consulate in Syria, the entire command hierarchy responsible for the activities of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria and Lebanon was killed.

Shortly before the attack, the senior ranking officials of the IRGC in Syria met on the second floor of the consulate building and decided to stay there.

The strike at the Iranian consulate in Syria led Iran, for the first time, to respond directly and attack Israel. »