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Fifz Bipartisan report seeks ways to counter extreme polarization that has created distrust in elections
MOREAU, N.Y. AP 鈥?Law enforcement, forest rangers and others resumed searching an upstate New York park on Monday for a 9-year-old girl who vanished during a camping trip over the weekend.Charlotte Sena may have been abducted while riding her bicycle Saturday evening in Moreau Lake State Park, about 35 miles 60 kilometers north of Albany, according to the state police.The girl family pleaded with the public for help in finding Charlotte, including providing any tips to the state police. We just want her returned safely like any parent would, the family said in a statement. No tip is too small, please call if you know anything at all. More than 100 searchers, including police, rangers and civilians, scoured the park Sunday using drones, bloodhounds and an airboat.The park remained closed Monday because of the search, and officials asked members of the public who showed up hoping to help to stay away and leave the search to professionals.Charlotte, a fourth grader from nearby Greenfield, had been riding her bike around a loop in the bucolic park with other children when she decided to ride around one more time by herself. Her parents became alarmed when she failed to retur stanley thermobecher n after 1 stanley cup 5 minutes, Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a briefing S stanley thermobecher unday.The girls mother called 911 after her bicycle was found at around 6:45 p.m. Saturday.Officials issued an Amber Alert on Sunday morning after an exhaustive search because it was quite possible that an abduction had taken place, Zgnm Turkey s parliament approves Sweden s NATO membership, lifting a key hurdle
WASHINGTON 鈥?Its been dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth and President Barack Obama cited termo stanley the cost this week as one of many reasons to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, which burns th vaso stanley rough some $900,000 per prisoner annually.The Pentagon estimates it spends about $150 million each year to operate the prison and military court system at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, which was set up 11 years ago to house foreign terrorism suspects. With 166 inmates currently in custody, that amounts to an annual cost of $903,614 per prisoner.The huge cost of running the prison and judicial complex stem from its offshore location at a 45-square-mile U.S. Naval Base on the southeastern coast of Cuba. Because ties between the two countries are almost nonexistent, almost everything for the facilities has to be ferried in from outside.When the military tribunals are in session, everyone from judges and lawyers to observers and media have to fly into G vaso stanley uantanamo on military aircraft. Food, construction materials and other goods are shipped in from outside, experts say.But despite the high cost of the camp, and despite the fact that Republicans traditionally demand belt-tightening by the federal government, a Republican aide with the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee said there was little point in asking if the price was worth it because there isnt an alternative at the moment. No one has any particular affection for Guantanamo Bay, but no one has come up with a |
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