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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jensen Ackles & Eric Dane Race To Prevent 'Chernobyl-Level Event' In L.A. In First ‘Countdown' Trailer
It's a race against time in Countdown as Jensen Ackles, Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho try to stop a high-stakes terror threat in Los Angeles in the first trailer for the Prime Video action drama series from Derek Haas. 'I was just checking to see how you were after that bomb went off in our face last night,' says Ackles' Mark Meachum to Camacho's Amber Oliveras as the trailer opens. Cue to a massive car bomb explosion. 'Ready to rock,' replies a confident Amber. More from Deadline Jensen Ackles' Action Drama 'Countdown' Sets Prime Video Premiere Date; First-Look Photos 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming 'Overcompensating' Team On Their "Try Everything" Mentality While Exploring The Rollercoaster Of College Life Created by Haas, in Countdown, when an officer with the Department of Homeland Security is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum (Ackles), is recruited to a secret task force, alongside undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement, to investigate. But the hunt for the killer soon uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have imagined, kicking off a race against time to save a city of millions. In addition to Ackles, Dane and Camacho, the series also stars Violett Beane, Elliot Knight and Uli Latukefu. Countdown is created by showrunner and EP Haas and produced by Amazon MGM Studios. As previously announced, the series will launch with its first three episodes on June 25. New episodes will follow weekly, leading up to the season finale on Sept. 3 Check out the trailer above. [youtube Best of Deadline 'The Morning Show' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 'Hacks' Season 4 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Paralympic skier facing child abuse charges after undercover operation in Lehi
Charges are allegations only. All arrested persons are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. LEHI, UTAH () — A Paralympic skier is now facing felony child abuse charges after allegedly attempting to meet up with two young girls and their 'mother', who was actually an undercover officer. Gilbert Camacho, 24, is facing two first-degree felony counts of attempted child rape and two first-degree felony counts charges of attempted sodomy on a child, according to the affadavit. A Lehi police officer began an undercover chat operation on Saturday, when they became aware of Camacho. He was allegedly communicating online with what he thought to be the mother of a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old to sexually abuse them. One killed, another burned in fatal West Valley rollover When asked what Camacho was looking for with the children, he said, 'Use them,' according to the affidavit. Camacho reportedly said he had 'experience with their ages' and that he had been with 'a few girls a little younger but mostly around their ages.' Court documents state that Camacho said he had engaged in sexual behavior with other children, including his 'niece' and his 'buddies daughter.' When the 'mother' asked Camacho if she was a bad person for doing this with her children, Gilbert allegedly responded, 'I don't think we're awful, But it's really how they perceive it.' A time was arranged for a meetup for Camacho to sexually abuse the children with whom he thought to be their mother. He was then taken into custody. Documents say he was in possession of a firearm, and that detective found candy in his vehicle the 'mother' asked him to bring to gain the children's trust. According to the affidavit, an interview was conducted with Camacho, where he stated that his intention was to 'humiliate and possibly assault the Mother as more of a vigilante type conduct.' Camacho reportedly said he was intending to call the police, and he only spoke about wanting to sexually abuse the children to gain the trust of the mother to confront her. When asked about the candy he brought, Camacho said he planned to give it to the mother before humiliating her and 'filming his vigilante conduct.' Camacho told officers that he was associated with a group called 'Miami Avengers', who find individuals who try to meet children to sexually assault them to actually humiliate these individuals and post the videos online. Camacho said he didn't intend to sexually abuse the children, according to the affidavit. Documents state that Camacho doesn't have any legs and that he allegedly claimed, due to that, he would be unable to sexually assault the children. Documents say that Camacho is on the Paralympic ski team for Puerto Rico. Orem woman allegedly blocks driver, causing 'significant congestion' during road rage incident RFK Jr. ends COVID shot recommendation for healthy kids, pregnant women President Trump appears to lose patience with Putin Road test in Texas: RSL heads to Austin after strong offensive showing Paralympic skier facing child abuse charges after undercover operation in Lehi Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
A new Pride event is coming to Boise. Here's when, where and why
When Meridian resident Joel Camacho came out to his family at age 14, they weren't the happiest people, he recalled. Now, over two decades later, his mom will attend Boise's first LatinX Pride, an event that Camacho is helping to plan and arrange. Camacho, the lead organizer and head of fundraising, said he wants the inaugural LatinX Pride to be a space for families to heal. And although polls show the term LatinX is unpopular within the Latino community, he said the goal is simply to make all people feel included. 'I want to create a space for more older Latino generations to come and celebrate their gay uncles or gay sons or gay brothers or gay dads,' Camacho said. 'It's hard for us to feel that our entire self is being celebrated because there's a piece that's missing, and that is our Latino heritage.' LatinX Pride is free to attend and will take place May 31 at Cecil D. Andrus Park across from the Idaho Capitol, on the eve of Pride Month. Anyone is welcome to come, whether they are LGBTQ+ or Latino, Camacho said. Attendees will find a wealth of food, including empanadas, Caribbean dishes, tacos, quesadillas and more, Camacho said. The theme is 'La Diáspora,' or the diaspora. Camacho said it recognizes that Latinos come from many different backgrounds, different countries, and different racial identities or religious affiliations. 'There's no one-size-fits-all,' Camacho said. 'There's no one face.' Boise Mayor Lauren McLean will deliver the keynote speech. Idaho's LGBTQ+ community is at a crossroads, said Amanda Bladt, who is co-head of safety and volunteers for LatinX Pride. Idaho's Republican legislators continue to introduce anti-LGBTQ+ bills, they said, such as a memorial asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn gay marriage. Bladt identifies as genderqueer. Bladt said many LGBTQ+ Idahoans are trying to determine whether they should even stay in the Gem State. 'We want to have these amazing and joyful experiences that really celebrate the history of our communities,' Bladt said. 'LatinX Pride is about an intersection.' Although June is Pride Month, the Boise Pride Festival has made a permanent move to September, so that students who might be out of town in the summer have a chance to attend while school is in session. In particular, organizers have said it helps the Boise State LGBTQ+ community. Boise adds two official flags in latest jab at Legislature's new law Boise-area sheriff criticizes a new Idaho law he says police can't enforce
New Straits Times
15-05-2025
- Politics
- New Straits Times
Pope Leo XIV survived a bomb threat and charmed locals
HECTOR Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, landing in Peru at a time when the country was being torn apart by internal conflict. Camacho was a young teenager and altar boy in 1985 in the northern Peruvian town of Chulucanas at the edge of the jungle when Prevost arrived to be a parish priest. It was the future pope's first time in a country that would be his home on and off for the next 40 years. Reuters travelled to the town where Prevost first started putting his religious education in the United States and Rome into practice, speaking to those who recalled him as a charming young man with an early talent for the ministry. "He had this aura that spoke to people. People flocked to him," Camacho, now 53, said in a tiny chapel in the village of Yapatera where Prevost once preached. Camacho recalled travelling to the adobe mud-brick churches that dot the region with Prevost, sometimes walking on foot, sometimes on horseback, carrying crucifixes and ceremonial wine. He remembered Prevost asking altar boys for help with words in Spanish, taking them on trips to beaches, and hiring karate, swimming and basketball coaches to keep the town's youth away from crime. "He came here when he was really young, but we thank that young man who walked with us, played basketball in the arena and would take us to the beach for the weekend." Despite gold and other mineral riches, northern Peru is an area of high poverty, often hit by flooding in the rainy season. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was roiled by internal conflict between the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path and government forces, violence that left some 70,000 people dead. Fidel Alvarado, a priest in the Chulucanas diocese, was a 20-year-old student in the seminary when he met Prevost. He recalled a bomb destroying the church door, and threats made to the priests, with Prevost and the other North American priests being told to leave in 24 hours or they would be killed. But they stayed, said Alvarado. "What convinced them to stay was the people, they had travelled around and felt the love of the people," he said. In Yapatera, an old, undated sepia-tone photo showed a young Prevost holding up a chalice of wine at the church, where the once dirt floor has now been cemented over. The room where Prevost stayed as a young missionary at the diocese residence in Chulucanas was on the second floor, past a small garden courtyard. It was simple but spacious with a bed, desk, armchair, night stand and a shared bathroom. Cristobal Mejia, 70, current bishop of the Chulucanas diocese, showed Reuters around. He remembered Prevost as a studious man who typically went to bed at 11 pm and woke up at 5am to pray in a prayer room adorned with stained-glass. Nearby sits the garage, where there is a pick-up truck similar to the one Prevost used to enjoy driving in the area. Prevost, who became a Peruvian citizen in 2015, over the years became fluent in Spanish. His favourite dishes are some of the country's staples, including lime-cured fish ceviche and chicken chicharron. From 2015 to 2023 he was bishop of Chiclayo city, some four hours' drive from his first parish. Locals Reuters spoke to kept saying the same thing about Prevost - that he was like a "shepherd that smelled of the sheep," meaning he was very close to his congregation. "He always spoke to us about the value of community, which is part of the beauty of Saint Augustine," Alvarado said. Leo XIV will be the first pope from the Augustinian order. Alvarado said the Augustinians wanted to go out to where the people were, and that the order gave scholarships for people to study engineering and law at university. "I hoped he'd take the name of Augustine, but knowing Robert he didn't want to make it look like Augustinians were the center of things and were governing," Alvarado said. The last Leo was known for his commitment to social justice. "He's saying he wants a church that listens to the plight of the poor, and I think Robert is going to do that, he's going to unite instead of divide," said Alvarado. Oscar Antonio Murillo Villanueva, 64, a priest at the nearby Trujillo archdiocese, said he knew Prevost in the late 1980s and that Prevost had helped him after a period of personal tumult. "He suffered with the pain of the Peruvian people," Villanueva said. "He never remained silent about the injustices that occurred here in Trujillo and in Peru... the massacres that occurred in Peru, the situations the rulers did nothing about, the rainy season floods." Others recalled Prevost as fun and cool-headed, never being guided by strong emotions. They said, though, he could be strict when it came to academic rigour, expelling students from the seminary for cheating. Jose William Rivadeneyra, a seminarian and now a teacher, remembered Prevost as jovial. "He made a lot of jokes and it was contagious. He had an unrivaled sense of humour." Camacho, who kept serving as an altar boy for Prevost when he later went to Trujillo, said he never saw Prevost angry or emotional, even in the toughest of circumstances. "One day I found him packing his clothes and he said he was going back to the United States because his mother had died," Camacho said. "I felt an immense pain, I cried for him, but he had this calmness. He was very prepared, like his mother was in the hands of God, who would receive her." Camacho asked Prevost if he could name his daughter after his late mother and he agreed, later becoming Mildred Camacho's godfather. Now 29, Mildred has children of her own and says she has kept in contact with Prevost as he rose through the ranks of the Church, all the way to the Vatican. "He sent me letters, he sent me mail, he told me about his trips, missions," she said, showing Reuters photos he had shared. "His phrase was always, keep me in your prayers as I have you present in mine." * The writers are from Reuters
NDTV
14-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
As Young, "Jeans-Wearing" Priest In Peru, Pope Leo XIV Survived Bomb Threat
Chulucanas (Peru): Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, landing in Peru at a time when the country was being torn apart by internal conflict. Camacho was a young teenager and altar boy in 1985 in the northern Peruvian town of Chulucanas at the edge of the jungle when Prevost arrived to be a parish priest. It was the future pope's first time in a country that would be his home on and off for the next 40 years. Reuters travelled to the town where Prevost first started putting his religious education in the United States and Rome into practice, speaking to those who recalled him as a charming young man with an early talent for the ministry. "He had this aura that spoke to people. People flocked to him," Camacho, now 53, said in a tiny chapel in the village of Yapatera where Prevost once preached. Camacho recalled travelling to the adobe mud-brick churches that dot the region with Prevost, sometimes walking on foot, sometimes on horseback, carrying crucifixes and ceremonial wine. He remembered Prevost asking altar boys for help with words in Spanish, taking them on trips to beaches, and hiring karate, swimming and basketball coaches to keep the town's youth away from crime. "He came here when he was really young, but we thank that young man who walked with us, played basketball in the arena and would take us to the beach for the weekend." Despite gold and other mineral riches, northern Peru is an area of high poverty, often hit by flooding in the rainy season. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was roiled by internal conflict between the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path and government forces, violence that left some 70,000 people dead. Fidel Alvarado, a priest in the Chulucanas diocese, was a 20-year-old student in the seminary when he met Prevost. He recalled a bomb destroying the church door, and threats made to the priests, with Prevost and the other North American priests being told to leave in 24 hours or they would be killed. But they stayed, said Alvarado. "What convinced them to stay was the people, they had travelled around and felt the love of the people," he said. In Yapatera, an old, undated sepia-tone photo showed a young Prevost holding up a chalice of wine at the church, where the once dirt floor has now been cemented over. The room where Prevost stayed as a young missionary at the diocese residence in Chulucanas was on the second floor, past a small garden courtyard. It was simple but spacious with a bed, desk, armchair, night stand and a shared bathroom. Cristobal Mejia, 70, current bishop of the Chulucanas diocese, showed Reuters around. He remembered Prevost as a studious man who typically went to bed at 11 pm and woke up at 5 am to pray in a prayer room adorned with stained glass. Nearby sits the garage, where there is a pick-up truck similar to the one Prevost used to enjoy driving in the area. Prevost, who became a Peruvian citizen in 2015, over the years became fluent in Spanish. His favourite dishes are some of the country's staples, including lime-cured fish ceviche and chicken chicharron. From 2015 to 2023 he was bishop of Chiclayo city, some four hours' drive from his first parish. 'Value Of Community' Locals Reuters spoke to kept saying the same thing about Prevost - that he was like a "shepherd that smelled of the sheep," meaning he was very close to his congregation. "He always spoke to us about the value of community, which is part of the beauty of Saint Augustine," Alvarado said. Leo XIV will be the first pope from the Augustinian order. Alvarado said the Augustinians wanted to go out to where the people were, and that the order gave scholarships for people to study engineering and law at university. "I hoped he'd take the name of Augustine, but knowing Robert he didn't want to make it look like Augustinians were the center of things and were governing," Alvarado said. The last Leo was known for his commitment to social justice. "He's saying he wants a church that listens to the plight of the poor, and I think Robert is going to do that, he's going to unite instead of divide," said Alvarado. Oscar Antonio Murillo Villanueva, 64, a priest at the nearby Trujillo archdiocese, said he knew Prevost in the late 1980s and that Prevost had helped him after a period of personal tumult. "He suffered with the pain of the Peruvian people," Villanueva said. "He never remained silent about the injustices that occurred here in Trujillo and in Peru... the massacres that occurred in Peru, the situations the rulers did nothing about, the rainy season floods." 'He Had This Calmness' Others recalled Prevost as fun and cool-headed, never being guided by strong emotions. They said, though, he could be strict when it came to academic rigour, expelling students from the seminary for cheating. Jose William Rivadeneyra, a seminarian and now a teacher, remembered Prevost as jovial. "He made a lot of jokes and it was contagious. He had an unrivalled sense of humour." Camacho, who kept serving as an altar boy for Prevost when he later went to Trujillo, said he never saw Prevost angry or emotional, even in the toughest of circumstances. "One day I found him packing his clothes and he said he was going back to the United States because his mother had died," Camacho said. "I felt an immense pain, I cried for him, but he had this calmness. He was very prepared, like his mother was in the hands of God, who would receive her." Camacho asked Prevost if he could name his daughter after his late mother and he agreed, later becoming Mildred Camacho's godfather. Now 29, Mildred has children of her own and says she has kept in contact with Prevost as he rose through the ranks of the Church, all the way to the Vatican. "He sent me letters, he sent me mail, he told me about his trips, missions," she said, showing Reuters photos he had shared. "His phrase was always, keep me in your prayers as I have you present in mine." (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
