Biles responds to the show of encouragement
Cuomo: “new variants are cause for concern.” But also:
Drone leaker Daniel Hale sentenced to almost four years
Hale, who choked up at times as he delivered a 17-minute statement to the court, expressed no remorse about his disclosures but deep regret about having played a part in lethal U.S.-run drone operations in Afghanistan …
Judge Liam O’Grady’s comments imposing the sentence amounted to something of a rebuttal to Hale’s claim. The judge said he was persuaded that Hale was motivated in part by genuine outrage over civilian casualties of U.S. drone operations, but the judge said Hale could have joined that debate without leaking classified information to The Intercept, an online news outlet.
“You’re not facing prison for speaking out about the drone program injuring and killing innocent persons. … A majority of Americans would have commended you for coming forward,” said O’Grady, an appointee of President George W. Bush. “You could have been a whistleblower and garnered all this attention without leaking any of these documents, frankly.”
Mike Enzi, the former senator from Wyoming, has died following a bicycle accident
Former senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), the onetime chairman of two Senate panels crucial to domestic policy, died Monday after suffering serious injuries in a bicycle accident. He was 77.
Enzi was riding his bicycle near his home in Gillette, Wyo., when he was injured Friday and flown to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colo.
Enzi “passed away peacefully today surrounded by his family,” a statement posted to his Twitter account late Monday said. His family said they plan to share details about a “celebration of a life well-lived” at a later time.
The genial, low-key conservative was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 after serving as mayor of Gillette and a member of the Wyoming legislature. He decided not to seek a fifth term in 2020.
Final missing Surfside victim identified
The identification of a 98th victim in the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, brought the painstaking process of searching for missing people to a close Monday. The remains of Estelle Hedaya, 54, were at last identified, her brother, Ikey Hedaya, told The Associated Press. Hedaya was the only victim left unrecovered when firefighters concluded their search for bodies Friday as, nearly a month after the collapse, the stories-high debris pile was cleared so that the building’s entire foundation was exposed.
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