Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, declared there will be no committee investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn because the President’s power of executive privilege shields certain information and testimony.

Executive privilege is the principle that the President and high-level executive branch officers may refuse to divulge information or testimony when doing so would significantly harm the public interest. Courts have recognized that Presidents have occasional secrecy needs.

The legality of executive privilege is unquestioned, although this power is not absolute and presidential claims of privilege often have to yield to the needs of Congress, the courts and independent counsels.(nydailynews)…[+]

BARBADOS  – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the United Nations Office for Projects Services (UNOPS) have signed an agreement that provides a framework to improve cooperation between the two entities. The signing took place at the Bank’s headquarters in Barbados on February 7, 2017.

The agreement allows CDB to utilize expertise from UNOPS in the execution of specific projects, which the Bank is funding, so that the most effective outcomes for the Bank’s 19 borrowing member countries are achieved. Under the agreement, UNOPS may be called upon to provide technical advice, financial management, project management and technical infrastructure support for projects financed by CDB, where external support is needed. 

There is also expected to be an exchange of knowledge and information relating to sustainable actions and social responsibility.

The CDB team at the signing also included Director, Projects, Daniel Best; General Counsel, Diana Wilson Patrick; Deputy General Counsel, S. Nicole Jordan; Head of Procurement, Douglas Fraser; and Division Chief, Economic Infrastructure Division, L. O’Reilly Lewis…[+]

A disturbing video captured an NYPD sergeant using a stun gun on a pregnant 17-year-old girl in the Bronx — and now the use of force is the subject of an Internal Affairs Investigation.

“Get off of me, get off of me!” Dailene Rosario yelled around 10 p.m. Friday as cops grabbed her in the hallway outside her apartment. “I’m pregnant! I’m pregnant!”

Cops were called to the Wakefield apartment on an unrelated call reporting someone having an asthma attack. Patrol officers assigned to the 47th Precinct came across a fight on the fourth floor involving two men. There were about 15 onlookers.

The uniformed officers called for backup and about 10 other cops responded. Cops were trying to pull the girl’s arms behind her back, the video first posted by WorldstarHipHop.com shows. She screamed and the officers dragged her to the floor.(nydailynews)…[+]

A Russian spy ship was spotted “loitering” 30 miles south of Connecticut on Wednesday morning, according to Fox News. The vessel, named Viktor Leonov, has weapons but primarily serves as an intelligence-collection ship. The Viktor Leonov had made a port call in Cuba prior to moving north, where it had been previously monitored off the coast of Delaware. A U.S. official told Fox News that the ship was seen 30 miles south of the Connecticut town of Groton and was “loitering” near a submarine base.(nydailynews)…[+]

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA – The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is set to replace that country’s existing streetlights with energy-efficient LED lights. This is being done through funding from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The project, which was launched on February 9, 2017, at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua, will see over 14,000 high pressure sodium and mercury vapour lamps being replaced by the end of 2018.

The government has set a target to reduce the energy consumption of government facilities by 30 percent by the year 2025. It’s therefore our intention to replace all these high pressure sodium and mercury vapour lights with more efficient LED lights. These LED lights have…high efficiency, and therefore reducing energy consumption by almost 50 percent. This would lead to a reduction of fuel imports into the island, and also a reduction in carbon emissions,” said Hon. Robin Yearwood, Minister of Public Utilities, Civil Aviation and Transportation.

CDB is financing the Street Light Retrofitting Project through a loan of USD5.9 million (mn), as well as grant funding of an additional USD1 mn. The Project aims for an annual reduction of street lighting energy consumption by 4,900 MWh, and 3,200 tonnes in carbon dioxide emissions by the end of 2019.

Antigua and Barbuda currently has the highest per capita consumption of electricity of all Eastern Caribbean states. Electricity consumption by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, including street lighting, accounts for approximately 11 percent of nationwide consumption, which equated to costs of approximately USD37 mn in 2014…[+]

Police found a dead man, his body frozen and his head bruised, inside a vacant house in the Bronx Monday morning, sources said.

The house, on Bainbridge Ave. near E. 194th St. in the Fordham section, had been recently purchased, and investigators believe the man may have been a squatter, sources said.

Police found the man after getting a 911 call just before 10:45 a.m. His head was bruised and his face bloody, and cops are still sorting out how he became injured, according to sources.(nydailynews)…[+]

The New Jersey woman who suffered a deadly fall inside the Oculus transit hub was reaching for her sister’s hat — after a security guard refused to help retrieve it from the edge of an escalator, sources said Monday.

Jenny Santos, 29, teetered over the handrail about halfway down the escalator at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, said a police source who viewed surveillance video of the accident.

Stretching to grab the hat that was just a few feet out of reach, Santos — who had a blood-alcohol content of 0.167, more than twice the legal limit for driving while intoxicated — lost her balance and plummeted 34 feet to the marble floor below.

Santos had gone down the escalator before her fall, trying to spot the hat, the police source said. She went back up to the top and asked a security officer — employed by the privately run Allied Universal — for assistance, the source said. The guard allegedly told Santos he was unable to leave his post — prompting her to return to the descending escalator and make her fatal grab.(nydailynews)…[+]

Sally Yates was anything but treacherous in her final days as President Trump’s acting Attorney General.

Her role as a legal canary in the coal mine during a brief role heading the Justice Department may have poised the White House away from National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and inspired his ousting.

Yates tried insulating the White House from a series of looming controversies — the potentially illegal executive order banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries and the latest bombshell that Flynn misled several senior members of the Trump administration about his suspected pre-inauguration talks with a Russian diplomat.(nydailynews)…[+]

The man who fatally leaped from the George Washington Bridge was identified Sunday as the surgeon ex-husband of ABC News’ chief women’s health correspondent, according to reports.

Dr. Robert Ashton, 52, jumped from the span at 8:40 a.m. His death came two weeks after his divorce from Dr. Jennifer Ashton, 47, according to the Fort Lee Daily Voice.

The thoracic surgeon lived across the street from his ex, the Voice reported.

“Our hearts r (sic) broken that the father of my teenage children took his own life yesterday,” Ashton’s ex-wife wrote on Facebook Sunday.(nydailynews)…[+]

A New Jersey woman who fell to her death from an escalator at the Oculus transit hub was apparently horsing around on the handrail, mimicking a superhero before she lost her balance, a source said Sunday.

Officials who saw video of the tragic accident said victim Jenny Santos, 29, fell 34 feet early Saturday after laying prone on the banister of the escalator, like she was pretending to be flying, the source said.

Seconds later, Santos lost her balance and plunged from the street level to the C1 level on the main concourse, where she hit her head on the marble floor, the source said.

Earlier, officials had said Santos fell around 5:30 a.m. while stretching to grab her twin sister’s falling hat while the two were riding the escalator en route to a train to take them back to their home in Kearny, N.J.(nydailynews)…[+]