Teen admits plot to kill pope in Phila.
CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey teenager has admitted plotting to kill Pope Francis when he visited Philadelphia in 2015, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
Santos Colon Jr., 17, pleaded guilty as an adult to attempting to provide material support to terrorists. The Lindenwold resident faces up to 15 years in prison.
He admitted plotting the assassination for nearly two months leading up to the pope’s visit, federal prosecutors said. The plot, which wasn’t carried out, involved using a sniper to shoot the pope during a Mass and setting off explosive devices nearby, they said.
The teen engaged someone he thought would be the sniper but was an undercover FBI employee, prosecutors said. FBI agents arrested him in 2015. Prosecutors declined to comment on a motive.
More allegations at Fox
NEW YORK — A Fox News contributor came forward Monday to level more sexual harassment allegations against deposed chief executive Roger Ailes, two days after it was revealed that the network’s most popular on-air personality, Bill O’Reilly, has settled multiple complaints about his own behavior with women.
A weekend report in The New York Times said that Mr. O’Reilly and his employer had paid five women a total of $13 million to settle allegations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate conduct by Mr. O’Reilly. The lawyer for another woman who says she was punished for rebuffing Mr. O’Reilly’s advances called on New York City’s Human Rights Commission to investigate his behavior.
On Monday, MercedesBenz said it was pulling its ads from “The O’Reilly Factor” because of the controversy.
The new lawsuit against Mr. Ailes was brought by Fox’s Julie Roginsky and is notable because it accuses Fox’s current management of trying to cover up for Mr. Ailes.
Medicaid expansion
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas won’t be extending its health coverage to thousands of poor adults under former President Barack Obama’s health care law after Democrats and moderate Republicans failed Monday to override conservative GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of an expansion bill.
The state House voted 8144 to override Mr. Brownback’s veto of the measure, but 84 votes — a two-thirds majority in the 125-member chamber — were needed to overturn the governor’s action. The measure would have expanded the state’s Medicaid program to cover as many as 180,000 additional adults.
The governor argued in his veto message that expanding Medicaid would burden the state with “unrestrainable” costs even though the 2010 national law promised that the U.S. government would pick up most of the cost.
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Technicians for Best Buy’s Geek Squad City computer repair facility had a long relationship with the FBI in “a joint venture to ferret out child porn,” according to claims in new federal court documents, which also note that Best Buy’s management “was aware that its supervisory personnel were being paid by the FBI.” … The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether corporations may be sued in American courts for complicity in human rights abuses abroad. … Two men were killed and two other men injured, one critically, in a shooting Monday afternoon in north Philadelphia, police said.