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A fugitive reportedly known as a “master of disguise” was taken into custody in Newport, California late last month and is expected to be extradited to Hawaii next week.
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said in a press release that federal authorities arrested 51-year-old Tyler Adams on Nov. 30, 2023 on a state warrant issued in Hawaii after he failed to return to the Laumaka Furlough Center in May 2019.
At the time, Adams was serving time at the Oahu Community Correctional Center for two felony theft convictions.
The New York Post reported that the convictions were from when Adams stole $130,000 from Hawaiian banks as well as a $5,000 ring from Costco. He had previously served another 7-year sentence in San Diego after using the identities of his parents to run up over $3 million in debt, according to a local CBS station in San Diego, California.
Photo shows Tyler Adams, who is wanted for questioning by the FBI (FBI San Diego )
In June 2022, the FBI issued a press release saying the bureau was looking to question Adams in connection with the disappearance and presumed death of his girlfriend, Raquel Sabean, in Mexico after he used an alias to enter the U.S.
Adams had been detained and questioned in Mexico earlier that month, but he left Mexico and entered the U.S. through the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, California on June 16, the FBI said. He allegedly used a fake name – “Aaron Bain” – and has a history of using aliases, including fake and stolen identities, the FBI said at the time.
Earlier that year, human remains were discovered inside a vehicle that Sabean was known to drive. The body, officials have said, is believed to be that of Sabean, who had a 7-month-old child with Adams.
FBI agent in a jacket brandishing the bureau’s insignia. (iStock)
Sabean and Adams were living in Tijuana, Mexico, but were American citizens when the woman vanished. Adams, authorities said, is believed to be the father of the child, a baby girl.
Investigators first detained Adams in connection with an Amber Alert related to the toddler’s disappearance. The girl was reported missing on June 10 but was later found safe in Mexico.
But Adams was uncooperative when questioned about Sabean, the FBI said.
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Hawaii Governor Josh Green said Tyler Adams was in custody and will be extradited to Hawaii. (Photo by Mengshin Lin for The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Photo by Mengshin Lin for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Several reports describe how Adams is a “master of disguise” who has a criminal history dating back decades.
A local NBC station in Honolulu, Hawaii reported that Adams created numerous fake businesses and opened accounts at the Bank of Hawaii and American Savings Bank in 2009.
He reportedly used fraudulent checks to deposit large sums of money into the accounts and convinced the bankers to make the money available to him immediately.
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Adams had several aliases in Hawaii, the station added, such as Kevin Kennedy, Lance Irwin and Michael Whittman – all three names were allegedly those of students at the University of Hawaii law school.
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Here is a look at the January 2015 terror attacks in Paris. From January 7 to January 9, a total of 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a kosher grocery store and the Paris suburb of Montrouge. Three suspects in the attacks were killed by police in separate standoffs. On December 16, 2020, a French court found guilty 14 accomplices of the French Islamist militants behind the attacks.
The Charlie Hebdo magazine began publishing in 1970 with the goal of satirizing religion, politics, and other topics. Most employees came from the publication Hara-Kiri, which was banned after it mocked the death of former President Charles de Gaulle.
The Charlie in the title references Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, meaning weekly, in French.
The magazine ceased publication in the 1980s due to lack of funds. It resumed publishing in 1992.
In 2006, Charlie Hebdo reprinted controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that originally appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. French President Jacques Chirac criticized the decision and called it “overt provocation.”
In 2011, the magazine’s offices were destroyed by a gasoline bomb after it published a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.
Cherif Kouachi:
– Born in France, of Algerian descent.
– During his standoff with police, Cherif Kouachi told CNN affiliate BFMTV that he’d trained in Yemen with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
– He also told BFMTV that during that time he met with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Muslim who was the face of AQAP until he was killed in 2011 in a US drone strike.
Said Kouachi:
– Born in France, of Algerian descent.
– Starting in 2009, Kouachi traveled to Yemen frequently, spending months at a time there.
– US officials said that in 2011 Kouachi received weapons training and worked with AQAP.
Amedy Coulibaly:
– Born in France, of Senegalese descent.
– Arrested in 2010 for attempting to free an Algerian serving time for a 1995 subway bombing and spent some time in prison. Cherif Kouachi was under investigation for the same plot, but there was not enough evidence to indict him.
– Before he was killed by police, Coulibaly purportedly told CNN affiliate BFMTV by phone that he belonged to ISIS.
Hayat Boumeddiene:
– Born in France, of Algerian descent.
– Girlfriend of Coulibaly.
– Initially it was believed she took part in the shooting of a police woman in Montrouge and the subsequent kosher grocery store attack.
– However, a Turkish Prime Ministry source has told CNN that Boumeddiene entered Turkey on January 2, arriving at the Istanbul airport on a flight from Madrid with a man. She had a return ticket to Madrid for January 9, but she failed to take her return flight from Istanbul that day.
– Also, a French source close to the nation’s security services said it’s believed that Boumeddiene is no longer in France and she is thought to have left for Turkey, “of course to reach Syria.”
– Paris prosecutor Francois Molins has indicated Boumedienne and Cherif Kouachi’s wife also were well acquainted, saying they exchanged 500 phone calls in 2014.
– In 2020, Boumeddiene is tried in absentia and found guilty of financing terrorism and belonging to a criminal terrorist network.
January 7, 2015 –
– At approximately 11:30 a.m., gunmen force their way into the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. The attackers allegedly say they are avenging the Prophet Mohammed and shout “Allahu akbar,” which translates to “God is great,” according to Molins.
– Twelve people are killed: Eight employees, a guest at the magazine, a maintenance worker and a police officer are killed.
– After fleeing the building, the gunmen encounter another police officer on the street and shoot him at point-blank range.
– Later in the day, the phrase “Je Suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”), begins trending on social media. Thousands of Parisians take to the streets to hold a vigil for the victims.
January 8, 2015 –
– Police name the prime suspects, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi. Police search for them in an area northeast of Paris, near Villers-Cotterêts.
– One killed: A gunman dressed similarly to those in the Charlie Hebdo attack, all in black and wearing a bulletproof vest, shoots and kills a female police officer in the Paris suburb of Montrouge.
– The Kouachi brothers steal food and gas from a gas station near Villers-Cotterets, according to a gas station attendant.
– A US law enforcement official tells CNN both Kouachi brothers were in a US database of known or suspected international terrorists known as TIDE and also were on the no-fly list and had been for years.
– In the evening, the Eiffel Tower briefly goes dark in remembrance of the victims.
January 9, 2015 –
– Four people are killed: In the morning, police and French special forces troops surround a building in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where the Kouachi brothers are hiding inside with one hostage.
– In the afternoon, a gunman enters a kosher grocery store in the Paris suburb of Porte de Vincennes, taking people hostage. The gunman is identified as Coulibaly. Police also link him to the attack in Montrouge. Also identified is his suspected accomplice, Boumeddiene. Officials say Coulibaly killed four hostages in the grocery store.
– Shortly afterward, police launch an operation against Coulibaly at the kosher grocery store. Four hostages are killed, and fifteen are rescued. Coulibaly is also killed.
January 11, 2015 –
– Across France, approximately 3.7 million people march in anti-terrorism rallies. In Paris, 40 world leaders, including French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and British Prime Minister David Cameron march with a crowd of 1.5 million people.
January 13, 2015 –
– Funeral services are held in Israel for the four hostages killed in the kosher market. Netanyahu attends.
– Hollande awards The Order of Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest honor, posthumously to the three slain police officers in the attacks, during a memorial ceremony at the Prefecture de Police in Paris.
– Bulgaria arrests Frenchman Fritz-Joly Joachin on a European arrest warrant, citing alleged ties to terrorists and a possible connection to the Kouachi brothers.
January 14, 2015 –
– Charlie Hebdo releases a new edition of its magazine, featuring a cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammed on the cover, holding a sign that says “Je suis Charlie.”
– AQAP claims responsibility for the operation carried out on Charlie Hebdo.
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Law professor Catherine Sharkey explains how artificial intelligence is being used to tackle the arduous work of keeping our federal agencies in check.
The sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) signed by President Biden on October 30, 2023, emphasizes risk reduction, rigorous testing of AI systems, and safety issues. Less well known is that it also pledges to promote AI innovation in government.
For years, this issue has been a research focus for Sharkey, professor of regulatory law and policy at New York University. An expert in administrative law who has written extensively about government agencies’ use of artificial intelligence, Sharkey has been specifically examining the use of AI for reassessing the effectiveness of existing regulations, otherwise known as “retrospective review” The process involves Federal interagency communication about potentially repetitive, or conflicting regulations. Agencies also issue requests for public comment on how existing regulations can be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed.
In May, Sharkey produced a report for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) that assessed government agencies’ past, current, and future use of AI in retrospective review, drawing on extensive research, supplemented with interviews with dozens of federal government employees and other professionals with interest in governmental use of AI. Prior to this ACUS study, there was limited information available regarding how agencies employed algorithms to aid in retrospective review, and Sharkey’s report is the basis for ACUS’s official recommendation, “Using Algorithmic Tools in Retrospective Review of Agency Rules.”
Here, Sharkey speaks about the evolving intersection of technology and government regulation and how executive agencies can integrate AI into rulemaking processes:
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday vowed that Taiwan will be reunited with the mainland, saying Beijing will “resolutely prevent anyone from splitting” the two sides in any way.
The comments came during a symposium in Beijing commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, the founding father of Communist China. In 1949, Mao led his country to defeat the Republic of China government, which then fled the mainland for Taiwan.
To this day, Beijing regards the democratically-governed island nation as part of its own territory, despite the strong objections of the government in Taipei. Over the past year and a half, China has staged multiple rounds of major war games around Taiwan and regularly sends warships and fighter jets into the Taiwan Strait.
Per reporting from the state-run Xinhua news agency, Xi said “the complete reunification of the motherland is an irresistible trend.”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping reviews the honour guard during a welcome ceremony at The Great Hall of the People on November 22, 2023 in Beijing, China. (Florence Lo – Pool/Getty Images)
He added that China must deepen integration between the two sides, promote the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait, and “resolutely prevent anyone from splitting Taiwan from China in any way.”
The report from Xinhua made no mention of using force against Taiwan, though China has never renounced that possibility. It also did not mention Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 13.
A busy street on Saturday evening in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. (Eryk Michael Smith)
The Chinese government has repeatedly denounced the frontrunner to be Taiwan’s next president, Lai Ching-te from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), as a dangerous separatist and has rebuffed his calls for talks.
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Both the DPP and Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), which traditionally favors close ties with China but denies being pro-Beijing, say only the island’s people can decide their future.
Reuters contributed to this report.
A chemical tanker operating in the Indian Ocean Saturday was struck by an Iranian attack drone, a US defense official says.
“The motor vessel CHEM PLUTO, a Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned, and Netherlands-operated chemical tanker was struck at approximately 10 a.m. local time (6 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time) today in the Indian Ocean, 200 nautical miles from the coast of India, by a one-way attack drone fired from Iran,” the official said in a statement.
The official added: “There were no casualties and a fire on board the tanker has been extinguished.”
A one-way drone is designed to impact its target rather than return to its origin.
“No US Navy vessels were in the vicinity,” the official said, adding that Naval Forces Central Command is communicating with the struck vessel which is making its way toward India.
The Indian Coast Guard posted on social media that there are 21 crew members on board and that “the vessel has started making (its) way toward Mumbai.”
Context: The strike comes after a series of attacks on shipping interests in the Red Sea by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels operating in Yemen, which have occurred since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
On Saturday, US Central Command reported more such incidents in a statement on social media. A crude oil tanker was hit by “a one-way attack drone” Saturday. There were no injuries, Central Command said. A separate chemical tanker operating in the southern Red Sea reported a “near miss” Saturday from a one-way drone, the command said.
Two “anti-ship ballistic missiles” were also fired into the southern Red Sea from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen but did not hit any vessels, according to the statement.
It also said the USS Laboon, a Navy destroyer, shot down four aerial drones that were heading toward it.
While the incidents originating from Yemen have been regular, Saturday’s strike in the Indian Ocean may mark a new escalation in tensions.
“This is the seventh Iranian attack on commercial shipping since 2021,” the statement added.
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Researchers have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air.
The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases from livestock housing, biogas production plants, and wastewater treatment plants to benefit the climate.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has determined that reducing methane gas emissions will immediately reduce the rise in global temperatures. The gas is up to 85 times more potent of a greenhouse gas than CO2, and more than half of it is emitted by human sources, with cattle and fossil fuel production accounting for the largest share.
A unique new method developed by a researchers from the University of Copenhagen and spin-out company Ambient Carbon has succeeded in removing methane from air.
“A large part of our methane emissions comes from millions of low-concentration point sources like cattle and pig barns. In practice, methane from these sources has been impossible to concentrate into higher levels or remove. But our new result proves that it is possible using the reaction chamber that we’ve have built,” says Matthew Stanley Johnson, an atmospheric chemistry professor who led the study.
Earlier, Johnson presented the research results at COP 28 in Dubai via an online connection and in Washington DC at the National Academy of Sciences, which advises the US government on science and technology.
Methane can be burnt off from air if its concentration exceeds 4%. But most human-caused emissions are below 0.1% and therefore unable to be burned.
To remove methane from air, the researchers built a reaction chamber that, to the uninitiated, looks like an elongated metal box with heaps of hoses and measuring instruments. Inside the box, a chain reaction of chemical compounds takes place, which ends up breaking down the methane and removing a large portion of the gas from air.
“In the scientific study, we’ve proven that our reaction chamber can eliminate 58% of methane from air. And, since submitting the study, we have improved our results in the laboratory so that the reaction chamber is now at 88%,” says Matthew Stanley Johnson.
The researchers built a reaction chamber and devised a method that simulates and greatly accelerates methane’s natural degradation process.
They dubbed the method the Methane Eradication Photochemical System (MEPS) and it degrades methane 100 million times faster than in nature.
The method works by introducing chlorine molecules into a reaction chamber with methane gas. The researchers then shine UV light onto the chlorine molecules. The light’s energy causes the molecules to split and form two chlorine atoms.
The chlorine atoms then steal a hydrogen atom from the methane, which then falls apart and decomposes. The chlorine product (hydrochloric acid) is captured and subsequently recycled in the chamber.
The methane turns into carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2) in the same way as the natural process does in the atmosphere.
Chlorine is key to the discovery. Using chlorine and the energy from light, researchers can remove methane from air much more efficiently than the way it happens in the atmosphere, where the process typically takes 10-12 years.
“Methane decomposes at a snail’s pace because the gas isn’t especially happy about reacting with other things in the atmosphere. However, we’ve discovered that, with the help of light and chlorine, we can trigger a reaction and break down the methane roughly 100 million times faster than in nature,” explains Johnson.
A 40-foot shipping container will soon arrive at the chemistry department. When it does, it will become a larger prototype of the reaction chamber that the researchers built in the laboratory. It will be a “methane cleaner” which, in principle, will be able to be connected to the ventilation system in a livestock barn.
“Today’s livestock farms are high-tech facilities where ammonia is already removed from air. As such, removing methane through existing air purification systems is an obvious solution,” explains Johnson.
The same applies to biogas and wastewater treatment plants, which are some of the largest human-made sources of methane emissions in Denmark after cattle production.
As a preliminary investigation for this study, the researchers traveled around the country measuring how much methane leaks from cattle stalls, wastewater treatment plants and biogas plants. In several places, the researchers were able to document that a large amount of methane leaks into the atmosphere from these plants.
“For example, Denmark is a pioneer when it comes to producing biogas. But if just a few percent of the methane from this process escapes, it counteracts any climate gains,” concludes Johnson.
The research has just been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
The research was conducted in collaboration between the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Arla, Skov, and the UCPH spin-out company Ambient Carbon, started and now headed by Professor Matthew Stanley Johnson. The company was started to develop MEPS (Methane Eradication Photochemical System) technology and make it available to society.
Funding for the research came via a grant from Innovation Fund Denmark for the PERMA project, a part of AgriFoodTure.
Source: University of Copenhagen
Cher was appointed temporary conservator of her son Elijah Blue Allman’s estate in a conservatorship petition filed Wednesday.
The 77-year-old singer claimed Elijah is “substantially unable to manage his financial resources due to severe mental health and substance abuse issues,” in documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
Allman is the son of Cher and late musician Gregg Allman. Cher married Gregg Allman days after her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975.
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Cher was appointed conservator over her son Elijah Blue Allmans estate. (SGranitz)
Representatives for Cher did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Cher argued in the conservatorship petition, “Elijah is entitled to regular distributions from a trust established by his father for his benefit, but given his ongoing mental health and substance abuse issues, Petitioner is concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will immediately be spent on drugs,leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself, and putting Elijah’s life at risk.”
Two of Elijah’s siblings nominated their mother to act as the conservator.
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“Petitioner has worked tirelessly to get Elijah into treatment and get him the help he needs,” documents stated.
Cher is worried about funds distributed to Elijah being “immediately” spent on drugs. (Photo by Ron Davis)
Cher also claimed that Elijah’s estranged wife, Marie Angela King, is “not supportive of Elijah’s recovery and that Angela actively works to keep Elijah from getting clean and sober or receiving mental health treatment that he desperately needs.”
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“Most recently, Petitioner is informed and believes that Angela took steps to check Elijah out of the treatment center where he was receiving much needed medical care. Petitioner notes that because Angela and Elijah are currently in the midst of dissolution proceedings, Angela is not entitled to appointment as conservator of Elijah’s estate unless the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that such appointment would
be in Elijah’s best interest.”
In documents obtained earlier this year, King claimed Cher abducted Allman in November 2022 while the former couple attempted to work on their marriage privately. Allman originally filed for divorce from King in November 2021, and she countered with her own filing one year later.
Cher said her husband’s estranged wife is “not supportive” of his recovery efforts. (Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)
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King claimed that she was “unaware” of Allman’s location and was told by one of the four men that Cher had hired them to retrieve her son. The allegations that Allman was taken away via Cher’s orders came to light in family court documents King filed in December 2022 when King filed a request to reschedule a hearing.
At the time of the filing, King stated her “husband has been receiving medical care since August 2022,” and the last time she saw Allman was during the alleged kidnapping.
Allman and King first married in 2013. King is an English singer with the group KING. The couple called it quits in 2020 and Allman filed for divorce the following year.
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