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Kansas child said ‘monster’ was under their bed; babysitter finds man hiding there
In a scene straight from a horror movie, a babysitter in Kansas was checking for "monsters" to reassure a scared child — and discovered a man hiding under the child's bed. The babysitter said one child she was babysitting complained there was a “monster” under the bed on Monday evening, the Barton County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. She tried to show the child that there was nothing lurking underneath, the release said, but ended up coming face-to-face with a man. The babysitter and man got into an “altercation” and one child was knocked over in the struggle, and the man fled. The sheriff's office dispatched to the home, in the 2000 block of Patton Road, just outside the city of Great Bend, around 10:30 p.m. on a disturbance call. The suspect was identified as Martin Villalobos Jr., 27, who once lived at the residence. However, he had been ordered to stay away from the property under a protection from abuse order, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies searched for him but were unsuccessful. The next morning he was spotted by law enforcement and tried to flee, but was captured after a brief pursuit on foot. Villalobos was arrested and transported to the Barton County Jail, booked on requested charges of aggravated kidnaping, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery, child endangerment, felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer and violation of a protection from abuse order. He’s being held ion $500,000 bond. It's not immediately clear if he's retained a lawyer.
Singer Johnny Mathis is retiring from touring, citing age and ‘memory issues’
It’s time to get a little “Misty”: Johnny Mathis, the singer who has entertained audiences since the 1950s, is retiring from touring, his team announced Wednesday.“As many of you may already be aware, Johnny Mathis is approaching his 90th birthday this year,” the statement said on Facebook. “So it’s with sincere regret that due to Mr. Mathis’ age and memory issues which have accelerated, we are announcing his retirement from touring & live concerts.”Mathis, who will perform four shows in April and May before hanging up his microphone for good, is canceling shows set for July, August, October and November in Biloxi, Miss., and at various Pennsylvania venues. A decade ago, the six-time Grammy Award winner wowed Clive Davis and his guests at the music producer’s annual pre-Grammys party, with the rare hometown gig sparking speculation that he might start enjoying the resurgent success that standards singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand were enjoying. At the time, Davis described to The Times an audience that was blown away by one of the best-selling singers of the 20th century: “People in the audience who put on live shows were asking me, ‘Where can we reach him? Why doesn’t he perform more? Look what he does to an audience!’”Mathis knew he had performed a great show that night, but he had learned over the years that that wasn’t a guaranteed outcome or a goal. Not every show could be his best. “You realize, ‘I don’t have to kill ‘em tonight,’” he told The Times. “But what I can do is entertain them. Sometimes you have to go on pure professionalism. ... If you do what I do, there’s no way you can sleepwalk [through a show]. I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they’ll still listen.”And people will get to listen to the Oscar-nominated Angeleno “croak” a handful more times, at shows in Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Jersey and yes, a rare home-state concert on May 10 in Santa Rosa.In the retirement notice on Wednesday, Mathis and his staff sent their “heartfelt gratitude” to his fans worldwide for their support, adding, “It’s truly been ‘Wonderful, Wonderful.’”People holding tickets for the four canceled shows can get a refund at the point of purchase, the team said. Mathis turns 90 on Sept. 30. The Times’ music critic Mikael Wood contributed to this report. More to Read
Canadian Prime Minister Carney calls Trump’s auto tariffs a ‘direct attack’ on his country
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that President Trump’s auto tariffs are a “direct attack” on his country and that the trade war is hurting Americans, noting that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low.Trump said earlier Wednesday that he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports and, to underscore his intention, he stated, “This is permanent.” “This is a very direct attack,” Carney responded. “We will defend our workers. We will defend our companies. We will defend our country.”Carney said he needs to see the details of Trump’s executive order before taking retaliatory measures. He called it unjustified and said he will leave the election campaign to go to Ottawa on Thursday to chair his special Cabinet committee on U.S. relations. Carney earlier announced a CA$2-billion ($1.4-billion) “strategic response fund” that will protect Canadian auto jobs affected by Trump’s tariffs.Autos are Canada’s second-largest export. Carney noted the sector employs 125,000 Canadians directly and almost another 500,000 in related industries. “Canada will be there for auto workers,” he said. Trump previously granted a one-month exemption to his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers. The president has plunged the U.S. into a global trade war — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its U.S. consumer confidence index fell 7.2 points in March to 92.9, the fourth straight monthly decline and its lowest reading since January 2021.“His trade war is hurting American consumers and workers and it will hurt more. I see that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low,” Carney said earlier while campaigning in Windsor, Ontario ahead of Canada’s April 28 election. The tax hike on auto imports starting in April means automakers could face higher costs and lower sales. Trump previously placed 25% tariffs on Canada’s steel and aluminum and is threatening sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products — as well as on all of America’s trading partners — on April 2. “He wants to break us so America can own us,” Carney said. “And it will never ever happen because we just don’t look out for ourselves, we look out for each other.”Carney, a former two-time central banker in Canada and the U.K., made the earlier comments while campaigning against the backdrop of the Ambassador Bridge, which is considered the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries. It plays an especially important role in auto manufacturing.Carney said the bridge carries $140 billion Canadian dollars ($98 billion) in goods every year and CA$400 million ($281 million) per day. “Now those numbers and the jobs and the paychecks that depend on that are in question,” Carney said. “The relationship between Canada and the United States has changed. We did not change it.”In the auto sector, parts can go back and forth across the Canada-U.S. border several times before being fully assembled in Ontario or Michigan.Ontario Premier Doug Ford, whose province has the bulk of Canada’s auto industry, said auto plants on both sides of the border will shut simultaneously if the tariffs go ahead. “President is calling it Liberation Day. I call it Termination Day for American workers. I know President Trump likes tell people ’You’re fired!” I didn’t think he meant U.S. auto workers when he said it,” Ford said.Trump has declared a trade war on his northern neighbor and continues to call for Canada to become the 51st state, a position that has infuriated Canadians.Canadians booed Trump repeatedly at a Carney election rally in Kitchener, Ontario.The new prime minister, sworn in March 14, still hasn’t had a phone call with Trump. It is unusual for a U.S. president and Canadian prime minister to go so long without talking after a new leader takes office.“It would be appropriate that the president and I speak given the action that he has taken. I’m sure that will happen soon,” Carney said. Opposition Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said the tariffs will damage American auto workers just as they will damage Canadian auto workers. “The message to President Trump should be to knock it off,” Poilievre said. “He’s changed his mind before. He’s done this twice, puts them on, takes them off. We can suspect that may well happen again.”Gillies writes for the Associated Press. More to Read
HHS plans to cut 10,000 employees across the department
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Utah governor signs bill to phase out state’s universal mail ballot system
Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill into law Wednesday that will phase out the state's universal vote-by-mail system.Under the new law, registered voters will have to opt in to receive a mail ballot instead of automatically receiving one, starting in 2029. Voting rights advocates said it marks the first time a state has rolled back a universal mail-in voting policy. Utah is one of eight states with a universal mail ballot system, and the only one of the group that is solidly Republican. The move is also the latest example of Republicans seeking to advance voting restrictions, both at the state and national levels. In the years following the 2020 election as President Donald Trump and his allies began aggressively perpetuating false claims of voter fraud, several Republican-led states have enacted restrictive new voting laws, including stricter photo ID requirements. On Wednesday, Trump signed a sweeping executive order seeking to require people to prove their citizenship when they register to vote. Trump has at times also called for an end to mail-in voting. His latest executive order also requires that all ballots must be received by Election Day, an attempt to supersede states that allow mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day to be counted afterward.Under the law signed by Cox, voters will be required, starting in 2029, to opt in to a new system to receive and then send back a mail-in ballot. Voters can opt in to the new system when they apply for or renew a driver’s license or state identification card, or when they vote in person.Utah's new law also changes the deadline for when a ballot must be sent in. It requires that county election officials only count ballots that have been received before 8 p.m. local time on an Election Day. Previously, county elections officials had been permitted to count all ballots postmarked through the day before Election Day, as long as the ballot arrived in the mail up until two weeks after Election Day.The changes take Utah off the list of states that use a universal mail-in ballot system. The others are Nevada, Colorado, Washington, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Vermont, as well as Washington, D.C. Critics of the new law Cox signed said that the changes are likely to make it more difficult for voters in rural areas to cast votes.“Universal mail voting was enormously popular in Utah because it gave voters more freedom and flexibility to vote. Utah is now the first and only state to roll back a universal mail voting system. Voters, especially those in rural areas, will bear the brunt of this restrictive move,” Chris Diaz, director of legislative tracking at the Voting Rights Lab, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that tracks voting and state election bills, said in an email.Cox, for his part, has praised the bill as “brilliant,” claiming it will “restore trust” among voters in the elections system.
Los Angeles sheriff retesting 4,000 DNA samples due to possible error
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will retest about 4,000 DNA samples after discovering some exam kits used last year and in early 2025 might be prone to "intermittently poor performance," authorities said Wednesday.The department received an Aug. 28 letter last year from the test kit manufacturer warning of these problems, but the notice "was forwarded to an individual in the Sheriff’s Department Scientific Services Bureau, who is no longer employed by the Department," according to a department statement. That bureaucratic misstep might have caused a months-long delay in removing those potentially faulty kits. "However, it was recently discovered that the affected kits remained in use for approximately eight months, from July 2024 through February 2025," the sheriff continued."In response, the Department has launched an internal administrative investigation into this matter. There are established policies, procedures, and quality assurance safeguards in place to ensure reliability and consistency of scientific results." The sheriff’s department said the bad test kits should not have resulted in false positives to wrongly implicate an innocent person.Based on the information provided by the DNA testing kit manufacturer, the use of the affected kits "may have led to incomplete or suboptimal results" but is not likely to have falsely identified any individual, the statement continued. "To address the potential impact, the Sheriff’s Scientific Services Bureau will retest approximately 4,000 samples."The L.A. County Sheriff's Department, with nearly 10,000 deputies and 8,000 other employees, is the nation's largest sheriff's department."We take the integrity of our criminal investigations and the reliability of our forensic testing very seriously,” said Sheriff Robert Luna said in a statement. “We are committed to thoroughly addressing this important issue, ensuring transparency, and taking immediate corrective action to protect the accuracy of ongoing and future cases." Sheriff's deputies and prosecutors from the L.A. County District Attorney's Office are reviewing cases.“We will follow the facts in whichever direction they take us on any individual case and make decisions that are in full accordance with the law on how to remedy any particular situation that requires such remediation," District Attorney Nathan Hochman said. "Ensuring the integrity of the criminal justice process to build and maintain trust in its outcomes is paramount as we go forward.”
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RFK Jr. makes sweeping cuts in federal health programs, including CDC, FDA
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans Thursday to slash the Department of Health and Human Services, cutting nearly a quarter of its workforce in a major restructuring that will consolidate several departments.According to the Department of Health, the cuts will save $1.8 billion annually and reduce the employee headcount from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees. Combined with previous layoffs, the agency said, the layoffs will bring the department down to about 62,000 workers.Under a restructuring plan, the number of health department divisions will drop from 28 divisions to 15 — including a new Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA. The number of regional offices will drop from 10 to five.“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl,” Kennedy said in a statement. “We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic. This Department will do more — a lot more — at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”The national and global health community has been bracing for dramatic change since Kennedy, an opponent of some vaccines and an advocate of stronger food safety, took office vowing radical reform. The primary target of Kennedy’s cuts is the Food and Drug Administration, which will cut its workforce by 3,500 full-time employees, according to a health department fact sheet. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will also cut 2,400 employees while the National Institutes of Health cuts 1,200 employees.In an address posted to the social media platform X, Kennedy called his department a “sprawling bureaucracy” that had seen rates of cancer and chronic disease increase as its budget had increased. His overhaul of the department, he admitted would be a “painful period” for the agency. More to Read
