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Body of Obama’s Personal Chef Found Drowned Near Family Estate on Martha’s Vineyard

The body of former President Barack Obama’s personal chef was reportedly found to have drowned near the family’s estate on Martha’s Vineyard.

On Sunday, Massachusetts State Police enacted a search for a missing paddleboarder after a fellow paddleboarder said that the man had “struggled on the surface, went under, and didn’t surface,” according to the Associated Press. The man was later identified as 45-year-old Tafari Campbell from Dumfries, Virginia, the personal chef of former President Barack Obama, who had been visiting the home on Martha’s Vineyard. None of the Obamas were present at the time of his death.

“The search was paused late Sunday but on Monday state police said sonar from a boat located the body about 100 feet (30 meters) from shore at a depth of about 8 feet (2.4 meters). Campbell was not wearing a life jacket, police said,” noted the AP.

Campbell’s body was recovered from the Edgartown Great Pond on Monday. According to the Vineyard Gazette, environmental police located his body “using sonar from a boat”
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In a statement, Barack and Michelle Obama hailed Campbell as a creative and passionate man whom they considered family.

Carjackings Up 126 Percent in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

FOX News noted that robbery is up 16 percent, thefts are up 14 percent, and sexual assaults are up five percent in Chicago.

Gun violence has remained a constant throughout Johnson’s first few months as mayor.

This past weekend, Breitbart News pointed out nearly 20 were shot Friday into Saturday night and nearly 30 were shot Friday into mid-afternoon Sunday.

By Monday morning, ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times put the total number of shooting victims at 33 with six fatalities.

Chicago, like all of Illinois, has an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a red flag law, a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, and a licensing requirement for gun owners. Cook County — the county in which Chicago sits — has its own ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.

San Francisco Walgreens We Visited Had 3 Thefts in 30 Minutes, Stores Are Locking up Lotion, Coffee

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Senior National Correspondent Kyung Lah reported on crime in San Francisco and said she witnessed three instances of theft in one Walgreens location in the city in a 30-minute time period and noted that stores are having to lock up items like frozen food, coffee, and lotion.
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She added that the store — which is located in the Richmond neighborhood of the city — has items like mustard locked up and reported that Walgreens says the store has the highest theft rate of all of their nearly 9,000 locations in the U.S. and is “hit more than a dozen times a day.”

Lah further stated that it isn’t just Walgreens dealing with theft, and reported from stores where frozen food, fake eyelashes, lotion, nail polish, and coffee are behind locks.

She concluded by noting that while property and violent crime rates at the end of 2022 in San Francisco were lower than pre-pandemic levels, things like low-level drug use and retail theft are considered low-level crimes, “but they’re uniformly and widely felt by so many.”

Didn't Kain comment anything on how rundown many American cities are as of late?

North Korea Finally Talks to U.N. About Missing U.S. Soldier After Weekend Missile Barrage

United Nations Command, the agency responsible for implementing the 1953 armistice that ended hostilities in the Korean War, confirmed on Monday that it had begun “conversations” with North Korea about the fate of American soldier Travis King.

King reportedly purchased a ticket to a tour of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea last week and, while in the Panmunjom “peace village” on the border, ran into North Korea. He departed for the DMZ after military escorts accompanied him to Incheon International Airport, in the greater Seoul area, to board a flight to Texas. Rather than boarding the flight, King bizarrely got on a bus for the tour.

Prior to his disappearance, King, believed to be 23 years old, served two months in a South Korean jail for allegedly assaulting South Korean citizens and attacking police.

American officials have emphasized that King “willfully and without authorization” ran into North Korea, meaning he was not under any American military orders to do so nor is there evidence that anyone in the armed forces conspired with him on his flight.
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American authorities have failed to engage Pyongyang on King’s departure and his exact location and current state remain unknown at press time. Neither the communist North Korean government nor North Korean state media – which, in the past, has been eager to boast of Americans imprisoned in the country – has made any public statement acknowledging King’s illicit entry into the country or his fate. He has not been seen in public, in North Korea or elsewhere, since Tuesday, when he ran across the border.
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Lieutenant General Andrew Harrison, who Reuters identified as “a British Army officer serving as deputy commander” of the U.N. Command, said on Monday that his organization is in “conversation” with the Korean People’s Army (KPA), the North Korean military, regarding King.
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Harrison’s remarks at a media briefing on Monday suggest that discussions with North Korea on the matter are being made through the “pink phone,” the Korea JoongAng Daily reported, describing the medium as “a pink phone on the South Korean side of the JSA that links the UNC with the KPA.” The JSA is the Joint Security Area, the part of the DMZ where King disappeared. The pink phone is believed to be located in Panmunjom; the Associated Press noted that U.N. Command boasted of regular conversations with North Korea through the phone as of January.

US-Born NBA Player Kyle Anderson Takes Chinese Citizenship to Play for China in FIBA World Cup

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kyle Anderson has obtained Chinese citizenship and will play for China in the upcoming FIBA World Cup, according to reports.

The 29-year-old, New York-born player whose grandmother was born in Jamaica to a Chinese father and Jamaican mother, is now the first pro basketball player to become a naturalized citizen of China, according to Reuters.

On Monday, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) announced that Anderson “obtained Chinese nationality this morning and met Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association.”

Anderson was called “Li Kai’er,” his given Chinese name, in the Chinese news release.
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It was not stated if Anderson renounced his U.S. citizenship, or if he is a dual citizen.

In 2018, Anderson went to China to re-connect with his grandmother’s family in the village of Shenzhen.
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It seems likely Anderson will fast become a key player for China. The team is ranked 27th in the world and is in the league’s Group B with South Sudan, Serbia, and Puerto Rico.

New York Venue Cancels Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Pro-Israel Lecture

The New York Society for Ethical Culture (NYSEC) canceled an event Monday that was to have featured Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivering a pro-Israel speech to a Jewish group Tuesday evening.

The group, the World Values Network, a project of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, will still host the event at another venue. However, the cancelation by NYSEC marks the latest effort by a supposedly liberal organization to marginalize Kennedy.

Kennedy’s address to the group had been arranged prior to a recent controversy in which he had speculated on the development of bioweapons, and had cited a study showing the coronavirus’s different impacts on different population groups — remarks that Kennedy’s critics tried to construe as antisemitic.
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“At this dangerous time for American and world Jewry, where antisemitism is on the rise across the globe, it is imperative that those seeking the presidency deliver their unambiguous proposals for combatting Jew-hatred and at this communal event no subject will be off limits.”
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The cancelation inadvertently highlighted Kennedy’s emergence as a free speech advocate. Last week, he testified in Congress about the rise of new forms of censorship, after Democrats tried to stop him from speaking.
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“Somehow I’m subject to this new form of censorship, which is called ‘targeted propaganda’ … the most appalling, disgusting pejoratives … are applied to me, to silence me,” he told the House Weaponization Subcommittee.

Kennedy has detailed his support for Israel and the Jewish community, saying he wants to make the “moral case for Israel.”