Highly Respected Music Director, Composer and Musician Ushers in New Era of Morgan’s Storied Band Tradition   (BALTIMORE – July 19, 2022) — Morgan State University (MSU) President David K. Wilson, Ed.D., and Eric Conway, D.M.A., chair of the University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts, have welcomed Jorim E. Reid Sr., D.M.A., as assistant professor, coordinator of instrumental music and the new director of bands at Morgan. Serving in his capacity as the director, Dr. Reid will be the principal conductor overseeing Morgan State University’s Symphonic Winds, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo and celebrated “Magnificent Marching Machine” Marching Band. Dr. Reid will officially assume…

BALTIMORE (WMAR) — Police responded to yet another violent weekend in Baltimore City. Since Friday night, five people were killed, seven were injured in nine shootings. Two of those deaths including teens – a 17-year-old and 18-year-old – near Morgan State University. Morgan State University put out a statement saying the incident did not involve anyone affiliated with the school. “The police district is 200 feet away and for somebody to be that brazen to kill two people and shoot others right next to a police station, it just crazy to me.” There were also 25 confirmed robberies over the…

Ukrainian officials claimed Russia’s main motive in attempting to draw Belarus into the war is rooted in its need to have the Belarusian army at its “disposal.””Moscow’s desire to cover the lack of its military capabilities is behind the attempts to involve Belarus in the war,” advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenkyy, Mikhail Podolyak said Wednesday. “Russia needs Belarusian army disposal and the power loss of the Lukashenko regime.”Kyiv has been sounding the alarm that Belarus may decide to enter the war to aid Russia’s “special military operation” and this week Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko suggested “big war” was on the horizon.  BELARUS…

Mexico needs to do more to help combat the fentanyl crisis that is plaguing America, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer.”We know that the vast, vast majority of that is coming from Mexico, and we know that it is being synthesized openly,” Anne Milgram, the DEA administrator, said during an appearance Friday on “America’s Newsroom.” “And so Mexico — they know it’s happening, we know it’s happening and they need to work to stop it.”The fentanyl crisis started almost a decade ago with illegal distribution in North America in 2014, according to a DEA…

Mexican forces have arrested infamous drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero nearly a decade after he walked out of prison and returned to drug trafficking. An official with Mexico’s Navy on Friday confirmed Caro-Quintero’s arrest but provided no further details. Caro-Quintero left prison in 2013 after serving 28 years of a 40-year prison sentence for his involvement in the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has maintained that he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence.CALIFORNIA FENTANYL BUST: FEDS SEIZE 1 MILLION COUNTERFEIT PILLS WORTH UP…

At least four rockets were fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip just after midnight on Saturday, the Israeli military said, as President Joe Biden remains in the region.The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed the rocket attack in a series of tweets, including a video showing the moment the IDF missile defense system shot one rocket out of the air.”Sirens sounding in southern Israel,” read an initial tweet. In a follow-up tweet, the IDF said it responded to the rocket attack by targeting a Hamas rocket production site.BIDEN MEETS WITH SAUDI ARABIA’S PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN, TALKING ‘ENERGY SECURITY'”In response to…

The U.S. says Russian officials visited an Iranian airfield multiple times in recent weeks to view attack-capable drones it is looking to obtain for its attack against Ukraine.Iran showed the drones to Russian officials at Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 15, the White House said. The Biden administration has published satellite imagery showing Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 drones flying at the airfield at the same time a Russian delegation transport plane was on the ground.White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced the administration’s findings.The administration has “information that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with several…

President Biden reaffirmed the U.S. partnership and commitment to work with the Middle East as Saudi Arabia announces it will increase its oil production. “The U.S. is going to remain an active partner in the Middle East as the world grows more competitive,” Biden told reporters on Saturday in Jeddah. “It’s only becoming clearer to me how closely woven America’s interests are with successes in the Middle East. We will not walk away to leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran.”He added, “We will seek to build on this moment with active, principled, American leadership.”Biden’s comments follow…

After the report came out, the mayor of Uvalde, Don McLaughlin, said the acting chief during the shooting, Lt. Mariano Pargas, had been placed on administrative leave and that the city had begun its own internal investigation. The city released body camera footage documenting the actions of the Uvalde officers at the scene.The facts laid out in the report also made clear that neither existing gun laws, nor expanded background checks passed by Congress in response to the shooting, would have prevented the gunman, Salvador Ramos, from obtaining the weapon he used.Though referred to by some peers as a “school…

The United Nations Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to extend its U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti for another year but did not back a China-led provision to include some bans on transfers of small arms and light weapons. The motion presents another instance of China attempting to increase its involvement on the island. Violence erupted across Haiti following last year’s assassination of President Jovenel Moise. Authorities have failed to identify and arrest those involved in planning and financing the assassination while gangs moved to aggressively expand their territory during the period of absent leadership. The U.N.’s mandate will remain in effect until…