A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle, a sheriff said Monday. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris offered new details about the Sunday confrontation at Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d’Alene, a popular recreation area. He said Wess Roley was living out of his vehicle, had once aspired to be a firefighter and had only a handful of minor contacts with area police. Coeur d’Alene Fire Department Battalion Chief John Morrison, 52,...

 The former vice president of Ecuador who was detained last year during a highly criticized police raid on Mexico’s embassy in the South American country was sentenced Monday to 13 years in prison. Jorge Glas had been accused of misusing public funds intended for the reconstruction of two provinces affected by an earthquake in 2016. The quake devastated communities and killed hundreds of people. Glas became vice president in 2013, during the presidency of Rafael Correa, and was removed from that position in January 2018, when he was charged in a corruption case tied to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. Judge Mercedes...

China sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker Tuesday over perceived “anti-China” positions, including his authorship of bills that marked out the Philippines’ territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea. Francis Tolentino, who has just finished serving his term as majority leader of the Philippine Senate, is prohibited from entering China as well as the territories of Hong Kong and Macao, according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “For some time, some anti-China politicians in the Philippines have adopted a series of malicious words and deeds on issues related to China for their own selfish interests, which have harmed China’s...

 Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said Monday. Shanon Gray, an attorney representing the family of Kaylee Goncalves, confirmed that prosecutors informed the families of the deal by email and letter earlier in the day, and that his clients were upset about it. “We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho,” Goncalves’ family wrote in a Facebook post. “They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected.” A change of plea hearing...

 Crew members from a Disney cruise ship saved a girl who fell overboard and her father who jumped in after her. The Disney Dream rescue team pulled the girl and her father into a small boat on Sunday as the cruise ship was returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from the Bahamas on the last day of the voyage, according to Disney and passengers who recorded the rescue on video. Passengers were alerted that someone had fallen overboard by an announcement over the ship’s loudspeakers, said passenger Kevin Furuta in a social media post. “Thankfully the (Disney Cruise Lines) rescue team...

Akintunde Akinsehinwa was a Nigerian Army officer and aide-de-camp (ADC) to General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, Nigeria’s Head of State from 1975 until his assassination in 1976. Born on November 11, 1944, in Ondo City, he completed his secondary education in Benin City and earned his West African School Certificate in 1963 . With the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War in 1967, Akinsehinwa joined the Nigerian Army and trained at the Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Jaji. After six months, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and posted to the front lines with the 3rd Marine Commando Division, under...

A true life story of an 11-year-old Nigerian boy Anthony Madu, with passion for ballet dancing.  He gained global attention in 2020, after a 44-second video of him dancing barefoot in the rain was posted online and garnered over 16 million views. He received scholarship from the NYC Ballet Company following viral video The movie is about purpose, passion, and what happens when talent meets the right moment.