Ex-security big Scowcroft dies

Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser under former Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, has died. He was 95.

Spokesman Jim McGrath confirmed Scowcroft died Thursday of natural causes in his home in Falls Church, Va.

Scowcroft, well-known for his handling of the Persian Gulf

War, was one of the nation’s top experts on national security. Having also served under Ford, he’s the only person to hold the position of national security adviser for two administrations.

Prior to his appointment by Ford in 1975, Scowcroft (inset) served in the Air Force and ended his 29-year career there as a lieutenant general.

Historian David F. Schmitz, in his study of Scowcroft’s career, noted

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The father and son jailed on murder charges in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery are asking a Georgia judge to grant them bond and to throw out two charges in their indictment.

Gregory McMichael and his adult son, Travis McMichael, were jailed and arrested in May, more than two months after Arbery was slain. The 25-year-old Black man was chased and fatally

A man was hospitalized with critical injuries early Saturday after he was struck by a car near a Queens intersection, officials said.

The victim, believed to be is in his 60s, was crossing Northern Blvd. near 147th St. in Murray Hill around 5:15 a.m. when a passing car slammed into the former statesman was at the center of numerous post-Vietnam War discussions of American foreign policy and lent his voice to major discussion on the U.S. response to the collapse of communism in Europe as well as Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Gulf War.

“The key tenets of his thinking, shaped by the Second World War, were that national security policy had to protect the nation from aggression, provide international stability, control arms while maintaining preparedness, and shape an international environment that was conducive to America’s goals and needs,” Schmitz wrote.

By the time Scowcroft began advising Bush in 1989, the pair were already close confidantes. shot after the McMichaels, who are white, spotted him running in their neighborhood just outside the port city of Brunswick.

Attorneys for both men filed legal motions Thursday asking Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley to set a bond that would allow the McMichaels to be freed pending trial. The judge denied bond last month for William Bryan Jr., a third man charged in Arbery’s killing. him.

Medics rushed the victim to NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital Queens, where he remained in critical condition Saturday.

The motorist who struck him remained at the scene.

No arrests had been made as cops continued their investigation.