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of those steps are very carefully Guglielmi said. examine the universe of options that could be available to us and try to have options for almost anything that could The corrections options In increasing measures of severity, Trump could be detained for an hour or two in a cell behind court- room on the 15th of the court- house in lower Manhattan or for days in a cell at a federal lockup or on Rikers Island. Oleson, the criminology professor, said putting Trump in a cell for an hour might not be more than whereas the of being sanc- tioned and to jail on Rikers Island might serve as a greater deter- rent because of the reputation and stigma attached to it, he said. Ronald Kuby, a veteran New York defense lawyer who has visited clients in city jails and also spent time in them for various acts of protest, said Trump is unlikely to enjoy any detention. Holding cells adjacent to court- rooms can hold two or three people and are claustrophobic, with one tiny window at most and a large metal door slams shut with a mighty Kuby said.
are meant for short habita- Kuby said. have a toilet. got a bench. And about If ordered held overnight at the courthouse, Trump could be housed in veritable rabbit warren of cells that feed into the holding cells for the various including some larger holding areas, Kuby said. For longer stays, long- time central booking complex known as The Tombs is no longer an option because it closed.
But Trump could be ordered held in the federal Metropol- itan Correctional Center in Manhat- tan, where Epstein died, or a federal lockup in Brooklyn. The least likely scenario, according to Kuby, would be Rikers, on the East River in the Bronx. The largest jail has room for a VIP detainee with a Secret Service entourage but could be terrifying for a germophobe like Trump, Kuby said. such a giant, sprawling, falling- down massive complex of horror, always a place to stick some- Kuby said. Rikers Island, which has 10 deten- tion facilities, is scheduled to close in 2027.
It has been the subject of numer- ous critical reports for unsanitary and dangerous conditions. At least 31 peo- ple have died in custody since January 2022, according to advocacy groups. a bad Kuby told USA TODAY. me. been experts said Trump could be housed in the West Facility, which has individual cells for detain- ees.
where former Trump Or- ganization chief Allen Weisselberg is serving a perjury sentence for lying during civil fraud trial. Trump would likely avoid the food at Rikers, by all accounts is ex- cruciatingly Kuby added. is not going to be in with other prisoners. undoubtedly not going to get the regular meal service. But he will be behind bars and cannot Kuby said.
Trump Continued from Page 1A storms that trigger auroras. A G4 (se- vere) geomagnetic storm watch is in ef- fect for Saturday, NOAA said. geomagnetic storm watch has been upgraded from G2 (Moderate) to G4 according to astronomer Tony Phillips, writing on SpaceWeather.com. Because gi- ant sunspot AR3664 keeps hurling CMEs toward Earth. Following X2.2 solar there are now at least 4 storm clouds heading our Phillips South and Arizona in the West.
So why the uptick in aurora sight- ings? And is this expected to continue? Well, if you love the aurora, in luck, as it may be coming to a sky near you more often over the next few years thanks to the which is expected to peak this year. have been an increase in au- rora seen in general on Shannon Schmoll, the director of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State Univer- sity told USA TODAY last year. sun has been more active, resulting in more solar storms that cause solar and coronal mass ejections. said. The colorful aurora forms when par- ticles from the sun get caught up in magnetic The parti- cles interact with molecules of atmos- pheric gases to generate the famed glowing green and reddish colors of the aurora.
Solar maximum is here The northern lights, also called the aurora borealis, have been appearing more frequently in the night sky over the U.S. recently. In April 2023, for ex- ample, a stunning aurora display was seen as far south as Arkansas in the Lights Continued from Page 1A seek to advance it Wood said in a statement. it is an ac- knowledgment that statehood will come only from a process that involves direct negotiations between the par- White House monitoring Israeli strikes in Rafah The White House said Friday it is monitoring be- tween the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. President Joe Biden, in an interview on CNN Wednesday, said the U.S.
would stop supplying certain weapons to Israel if it moved ahead with a planned invasion of Rafah. go so far as to say what seen here in the last 24 hours connotes or indicates a broad, large- scale invasion or major ground opera- said John Kirby, a White House spokesman on national security mat- ters. Kirby said the appears to be localized near the Rafah border cross- ing and involves Israeli troops already dispatched to the area following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. said, watching it with he reiterated.
Humanitarian told USA TO- DAY that aid shipments to Gaza had slowed to a trickle as Israeli troops bat- tled from Hamas and Palestin- ian Islamic Jihad in the eastern part of Rafah and Israeli jets dropped bombs. More than 100,000 Palestinians roughly the population of Burbank, California have left Rafah since Israel ordered an evacuation in preparation for an invasion. Gaza death tally omits medical fatalities The tally of casualties in Gaza talks back to square one, Hamas says Hamas said in a statement on Friday that rejection of a proposal supported by the Is- lamist militant group has brought ne- gotiations back to square one. The group added it will hold consul- tations with Palestinian fac- tions to review its negotiation strategy. On Monday, Hamas said it had ac- cepted what appeared to be an amend- ed proposal that from one Israel had been considering.
Prime Minister Benjamin said then that though the Hamas proposal is far from re- quirements, Israel will send a delega- tion to mediators to exhaust the possi- bility of reaching an agreement under conditions acceptable to government is under intense domestic pressure to secure the safe release of 128 hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, while his goverment continues to push for an assault on Ra- fah in southern Gaza. Contributing: Francesca Chambers and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY; Reuters reached 34,943 on Friday, according to Hamas-run health ministry, but that number includes only Palestinians killed in direct combat operations omitting those who have died from a lack of medical care for other condi- tions. That unknown number includes with chronic diseases, preg- nant women, and children with malnu- Zaher Sahloul, president of the humanitarian group MedGlobal, told USA TODAY. With hospitals mostly in ru- ins, will be more deaths that will not be counted as war said Sahloul, a Chicago-based doctor whose organization works in Ukraine, Syria, Gaza and Sudan.
This week, MedGlobal was forced to evacuate a clinic in the Zorub neighbor- hood of Rafah, which had been home to 10,000 people. The small clinic served 200 people and is being moved north along with many Zorub residents to the town of Deir al Balad as Israeli forces press Rafah and aerial bombings increase. of thousands of people are be- ing treated like Zaher said. Palestinians flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city Thursday. MOHAMMED Palestine Continued from Page 1A Palestinian children pull water containers as people flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city Thursday.
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