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Mr. Oblivious Bicyclist didn’t so much as glance over his shoulder before taking the curve at speed, suddenly veering rightward past the corner CVS and slotting himself between the Volvo Pipsqueak ahead of him and the GMC Monstrosity following close behind.
Although speedy, the move lacked grace. In order to avoid flattening the cyclist, the towering GMC — conceivably the lovechild of an SUV and the Doof Wagon from “Fury Road” — had to stop short, its momentum coming to a sudden, brake-screeching halt to avoid repainting the vehicle’s glossy white exterior in lavish red.
Mr. Oblivious Bicyclist, who now weaved around the Volvo to avoid being held up by the line of traffic, didn’t seem to notice. Eyes steadfastly forward as he passed by me, still waiting for a break in the line of cars to turn into the CVS parking lot, the cyclist continued on his journey, unaware of the world around him.
“Well, that was dumb,” I said aloud, or something like it. As someone who’s been on the losing end of a battle between a two-wheeled vehicle and a car, I can’t help but grit my teeth and suck air whenever I see a small vehicle freewheeling through traffic as if untouchable.
Honestly, I don’t even think Mr. Oblivious Bicyclist’s devil-may-care attitude was intentional. It’s unlikely he awoke that Tuesday morning, dressed in all of his finest cycling accoutrements, looked into the mirror and told the Lycra-wrapped man he found there that today was the day he was going to give the proverbial middle finger to any vehicles he encountered on his journey.
“They’ve owned the roads for too long,” he didn’t tell himself in this scenario I’m fabricating. “No longer.”
More likely, the cyclist — as most of us get sometimes — was just hyper-focused on what he was doing and, therefore, dangerously unobservant. Sure, he may have 6,000 pounds of metal, rubber and death bearing down on him, but he’s got to keep that heart rate up or else the tiny screen on his arm will signal to the little dongles in his ears that he’s slacking. Death by flattening is nothing compared to death by sedentary lifestyle.
As most things do, the incident made me think about robots.
I’ve seen and read enough science fiction in my life to be wary of passing off menial tasks to increasingly intelligent artificial beings. Sure, letting a wheeled Frisbee suck up cat hair and Cheez-It crumbs from your hardwood floors might seem innocuous enough, but that’s just the first step before it takes over your life. Pretty soon, that Roomba you love so much will be using your Discover Card to purchase gym sets and your kids will be calling it “Dad.”
The rapid growth of AI — that’s artificial intelligence, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing — is of even greater concern. You think having your vacuum cleaner replace your role as a parent is bad, just wait until the browser on your Chromebook is writing term papers for 80% of the world’s students. How’s my kid supposed to get a decent-paying job when she never learned what Dr. T.J Ekleburg’s giant glasses symbolize in “The Great Gatsby” because Bing penned her essay on the subject?
Consider my hands sufficiently wrung.
Over the years, there has been a lot of concern over the advancement of self-driving cars, the ubiquitousness of which seems to be inevitable at this point. I imagine it won’t be long before we’re all sitting behind the autonomous wheels of self-guided vehicles, mindlessly scrolling through one TikTok after another as our mechanical chauffeurs transport us from restaurants where robots bring us prepared food to grocery stores where different robots brings us unprepared food.
And, sure, the idea of rolling death machines having free rein on our roadways is somewhat concerning to a guy who’s seen “Maximum Overdrive” more than a few times, but even a cynic like myself has to wonder if it would be any more dangerous than allowing someone like Mr. Oblivious Cyclist behind the wheel.
Finally, there was a safe gap in the line of cars blocking the CVS entrance. I turned into the parking lot and was immediately greeted by the hulking front-end of a Ford F-Gargantuan. I stopped quickly, back end of my car still in the street, to avoid getting crushed as it passed.
The driver was looking down at his phone. I don’t think he ever realized I was there.
“Robot Jesus, take the wheel,” I said, then slowly guided my car toward the CVS drive-thru and the anxiety medication that awaited me there.
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Don’t rest on your laurels, hiding indoors during the Dog Days — it’s time to plant fall stuff.
In spite of torrid summer heat and humidity, when just leaning on a shovel leads to sweat dripping from elbows, we Southerners are blessed with a great climate for gardening year-round. In fact, unlike our northern neighbors who pin all their garden hopes between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we can have two complete, back-to-back, start-to-finish summer gardens between the first and last frosts of April and November.
But outside of those months, you have to stay on top of things, and plant according to when stuff matures, not when it’s convenient for us to be outdoors. Stop wringing your hands over how the heat and humidity are sucking the vigor out of both us and our gardens; it’s time to plant for autumn.
Fall gardening is a misnomer when it comes to growing vegetables. Though we can plant a handful of truly cold-hardy vegetables, flowers, and herbs later, most old-hand gardeners know that fall is more about harvesting than planting. Many, but not all, types of others grow well in summer heat but mature best in the shortening days of fall, and even tolerating a frost or two to produce a bounty before cold sets in for good.
Waiting to plant them is a gamble that they will produce before fall’s first freeze; like it or not, we ought to be out setting some stuff in the dirt now so it can grow quickly and produce earlier.
Those who get right on it can actually have a super-productive second summer garden. There is a short window of opportunity left for planting traditional spring and summer favorites like tomatoes, peppers, basil, marigolds, zinnias, and many other heat-lovers which can actually out-produce the same weather-battered varieties left over from spring. Insects may be a bit more intense, but that’s what netting is for.
And those cool-climate vegetables, including lettuces, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, beets, and the like, will grow quickly over the next month or so and be extra productive well before cold shuts them down. I am perfectly aware that a lot of lucky garden gamblers keep those plants going well into winter, but their quality and survivability goes down quickly.
I base all this on what we know, from decades of truck crop farmers who want to have something to sell as early and as late as possible. Every October for four decades now the MSU Truck Crops Experiment Station near Crystal Springs has shown off world-class flowers and vegetables in full-harvest mode that were planted in July and August.
Watering deeply, not frequently, mulching where soils need protection from hot, drying sun, and controlling weeds and insects are what they do to coax the plants into a fantastic fall harvest. But planting in mid- to late summer is where they start.
If you wait, it will just be a gamble. Some plants, like lettuce, produce quickly, and I actually plant several times a couple or three weeks apart, to keep them coming along. Others, like garlic, kale and collards (and pansies and violas), can take cold weather and will make it through the winter and can be planted in October or November.
Main thing is, we are gardeners, not farmers. Rather than setting out a main crop once or twice a year, we keep at it, a pot, flower or raised bed, or garden row at a time, planting and harvesting and replanting as needed nearly all year.
And it’s time to get going for fall, not wait until fall.
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Tom and Chick experience their first mutual meltdown while riding the train to the Indiana State Fair. Broadcast on August 12, 1994. (Yes, those are real photos of the broadcast!) Join us next Friday at the Indiana State Fair with our house band, the Black Moods, at 9 a.m. in the Tap Room (purchase of fair admission required.) | https://www.bobandtom.com/2023/07/28/the-state-fair-train-fiasco-3/ | 2023-07-29T09:30:31 | 1 | https://www.bobandtom.com/2023/07/28/the-state-fair-train-fiasco-3/ |
Actors Deklan Powers and Connor King go over lines as "Almost, Maine" director Jules Mikell watches. The play will be performed Aug. 5 in Oxford at the Powerhouse Arts Center. The performance is free, but seating is limited.
Actors Deklan Powers and Connor King go over lines as "Almost, Maine" director Jules Mikell watches. The play will be performed Aug. 5 in Oxford at the Powerhouse Arts Center. The performance is free, but seating is limited.
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Mikell watches as Brenna Dogwood and Deklan Powers rehearse lines in the play "Almost, Maine."
OXFORD – In the remote town of Almost, Maine, people’s lives aren’t that much different than they would be in the big city.
People fall in love. Others fall out of love. They plan their futures together. Others no longer see a future together. There’s joy, and there’s heartbreak in Almost, Maine, and it’s the humanity of their stories that has made John Cariani’s play "Almost, Maine" one of the most popular on stages across the nation.
Theatre Oxford will present "Almost, Maine" at the Powerhouse Arts Center for one night only, Saturday, Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Directed by Jules Mikell as part of Theatre Oxford’s annual Hoka Days festival and co-produced by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, "Almost, Maine" is actually a series of vignettes about relationships across the mythical town.
Since its premiere at the Portland Stage Company in 2004-2005, "Almost, Maine" has proven so popular that theater companies across the nation have staged productions. The American National Theatre selected it as one of the most outstanding regional theater productions of the 2004-2005 season.
“For every scene that has heartbreak, there’s another scene that inspires hope that the right person is just around the corner, or maybe has been there the whole time,” director Mikell said about the play. “'Almost, Maine' takes a town and breaks it down to show the intricate and sometimes complicated lives of the individuals.”
The Powerhouse is located at 413 S. 14th St. in Oxford (on the corner of University Avenue). Parking is in back near the water tower. To learn more about Theatre Oxford, visit theatreoxford.org or follow on social media @theatreoxford.
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My family loves anything baseball. The sport binds us together. When we gather as a family, we talk baseball and our favorite teams. My son’s favorite team is the San Francisco Giants. I love the Chicago Cubs. The grands worship the Washington Nationals.
We look upon the period after the All-Star game as the second half of Major League Baseball season. So, to kill some time that week (I really don’t like the respite from watching regular games), I looked up information about the “Tupelo Flash,” Andy Reese. I walk by the field on Joyner Avenue that bears his name.
Reese, a Tupelo native, played for the New York Giants from 1927-1930 under the management of John McGraw. If you know anything about baseball, you know McGraw stood head and shoulders over managers in the early 20th century. He led the Giants to 10 National League pennants and three World Series titles from 1902-1932.
Reese was the youngest of seven children. His father, Mayfield, was a farmer and a city of Tupelo police officer. In high school, Reese lettered in baseball, football, basketball and track. He played the position of catcher on the 1919 Northeast Mississippi championship team at Tupelo High School.
Reese signed on as a freshman at Vanderbilt and played all four sports on the mountaintop. But at home, he played professional baseball for the Tupelo Wolves, a team in the Class D Tri-State League. Reese used the name Tidbit Bynum to maintain his eligibility at Vanderbilt, but someone dropped the word in the ear of a Vandy coach, and Reese’s collegiate days ended.
Loving the game, Reese went to the Memphis Chicks in 1926 and played in the outfield. His batting average of .302, 102 RBI and 20 stolen bases caught the attention of a scout for the Giants. That scout, Larry Doyle, told McGraw about Reese and the Giants got him for $15,000 — about $260,000 in 2023 dollars. By the way, the New York Giants football team offered Reese a contract, but McGraw said no because he worried about his newly acquired player getting injured.
In his first MLB appearance, Reese played leftfield against the Philadelphia Phillies. At the plate, he hit two singles. The Giants won that game. After the 1927 season, Reese married Margaret Stone, a Kentucky woman. He also trained with Ty Cobb in Augusta, Georgia.
During the 1928 season, Reese played the outfield and the infield with great success. The sportswriters covering the Giants dubbed him the "Tupelo Flash” and also called him “Handy Andy” because, as McGraw once told them, Reese could play any position on the field, even catcher and pitcher if asked.
Teammates just called him “Tupe,” short for his hometown. They found him to be an agreeable teammate, and sportswriters loved to hear him tell stories about growing up in what would become the All-America City. They told tales of his giant watermelon that won a first-prize at the Mississippi-Alabama State Fair and Dairy Show.
In 1929, Reese suffered an injury to his foot. He recovered and finished the season with a .263 average with 209 appearances at the plate, despite the infection that saw him hobbled until late July. In 1930, he hit a grand slam against Brooklyn but, again, an injury saw his effectiveness on the field wane and the Giants sent him down for the season.
After his career, which saw him rise to manage a Greenville team in the Class C. Cotton States League, Reese worked in Memphis and, later, for the Pennsylvania Tire Co. in Tupelo. Reese died in 1966 in his hometown. In 1969, he was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.
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Caught on camera: Bear takes dip in swimming pool during extreme heat
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 4:47 AM EDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
BURBANK, Calif. (CNN) - Humans aren’t the only creatures trying to find ways to stay cool in the extreme hot temperatures.
One bear tried to beat the heat by taking a dip in a jacuzzi.
It happened Friday in Burbank, California.
According to the Burbank Police Department, officers were responding to reports of a bear sighting.
When they arrived, they found the bear sitting in a jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
However, the bear then got out of the hot tub, scaled a wall and climbed a tree.
The city of Burbank is under a heat advisory until Saturday night.
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In the Democrat's offensive against presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a faint whiff of panic is in the air, a stirring of concern that no good can come from one of the nation’s most storied political names lingering on the fringes of the party’s President Biden re-election strategy.
Conventional wisdom has it that a candidate trailing by as much as 50 points should be ignored. Punching down is considered a foolish and counter-productive strategy.
The issue is not in doubt – the presidential nomination is hopelessly beyond Kennedy’s grasp. His high point came early in his campaign – reaching 20% in some polling – but has since settled into the low teens.
Given Kennedy’s standing and failure to gain ground, the establishment has embraced a broad and orchestrated attack not merely to marginalize him, but to toss him into the “kooks and cranks” bin and convince Democrats who might be enamored of him that he’s lost his grip on reality.
The ferocity of the attacks – accusing him of antisemitism and racism, for instance – is indicates a belief that he should be crushed rather than merely damaged.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York characterized Kennedy as a Republican pawn of right-wing political operatives, not so subtly tying him to former president Donald Trump, the Democratic Party’s anti-Christ.
The onslaught begs the question: Why go nuclear on a candidate who is 50 points behind, who’s lost much of the support he began with, has failed to gain any traction and cannot possibly win the nomination?
In what political universe and under what logic does Kennedy represent a threat to Biden?
To be sure, he’s given his critics ample opportunity to raise serious doubts about his fitness to lead.
His long history of claiming vaccines cause childhood ailments and psychological damage has placed him on the scientific fringe. His recent suggestion that the COVID-19 pathogen was bio-engineered to spare Asians and Jews while infecting Caucasians and African Americans was totally lacking in any foundation and brought well-deserved criticism raining down on his head.
It is difficult to regain credibility and convince others of seriousness of purpose and thought while burdened with a long history of out of the mainstream beliefs.
For the most part, the White House and the Biden campaign have wisely refrained from the attacking Kennedy, relying instead largely on Congressional surrogates to carry the message while remaining aloof and promoting the president’s agenda.
The president’s campaign has dismissed talk of a debate and the intensified focus on Kennedy’s conspiratorial ruminations provides further justification for refusing a one-on-one confrontation.
It also allays fears of many that Kennedy would hold his own in a debate while the Biden team would hold its collective breath hoping the president will avoid responses trailing off into mumbling, forget names and places, utter disconnected phrases or veer off into reminiscing.
Team Biden will argue that it would be dangerous to give Kennedy a national platform alongside the president to spout his wild-eyed debunked theories.
Moreover, if Biden chooses to withdraw – a matter of continued speculation despite being unlikely – it is crucial to prevent the party turning to Kennedy as a viable alternative.
While secretly longing for a 2020 reprise of a campaign from the basement, the Biden team has carefully placed him in front of friendly audiences and avoided any freewheeling interaction with the media. The strategy recognizes that Biden’s public approval remains in the low 40% percent range, a majority disapproves of his handling of inflation, and more than 40% of self-identified Democrats would prefer a different candidate.
Convincing voters that conditions under Biden are far more comfortable than their real-life daily experiences will be difficult. Erasing that disconnect will require more than selling “Bidenomics” – it will demand visible economic improvement, easing inflation and bringing the cost of living into alignment with personal income and ability to pay.
Achieving those goals should take precedence over tamping down misplaced and imaginary panic about a candidate with a legendary name but whose impact and influence are those of someone named Smith or Jones.
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Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
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Statues of Lady Justice portray her blindfolded because genuine justice is unbiased and should not be based on a person's appearance or other outside influences. Lady Justice holds scales to represent the impartiality of the court's decisions and a sword as a symbol of the power of justice.
The country was watching last week when Hunter Biden’s motorcade pulled up to the federal courthouse in Delaware last week. Doesn’t everyone get a motorcade escort to the court house when you’re pleading guilty?
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of a deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge.
On the bench was federal Judge Maryellen Noreika, U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Lady Justice is blindfolded for a good reason but thanks to Judge Noreika the plea deal arranged by Hunter’s lawyers and federal prosecutors didn’t pass the smell test either.
Judge Noreika did not accept the plea agreement, questioning the deal’s constitutionality and the wide, seemingly blanket immunity Hunter Biden would receive.
Obviously I’m no legal expert but the plea deal seemed to clear Hunter from being charged with any additional crimes he had committed since birth, including squealing the tires on the “Big Guy’s” Corvette. Big Guy is supposedly the code name on Hunter’s lap tops for his dad, President Biden.
From all accounts I read of the proceedings Judge Noreika began questioning defense lawyers and prosecutors about the possibility of any ongoing additional investigations of Hunter Biden and everybody got lockjaw.
Image that, a passel of lawyers and no one wanted to expound on the “truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
Neither the defense not the prosecution wanted to try and explain the expanse of the sweet deal plea agreement, which one legal analyst termed a “wink and nod” deal.
So after a brief time out, Hunter pled not guilty and got in his motorcade and left the courthouse.
Now it’s been my experience as an observer of legal proceedings that when a plea deal is withdrawn it results in the prosecutors pursuing every possible criminal count and serious jail time.
One can’t help but wonder who’s running the prosecution’s side of things.
Over the past several years President Biden has maintained his one consistent comment when questioned about his son’s alleged influence peddling schemes: “no knowledge of any foreign dealings of his son.”
Now the president is only claiming that he was “never in business” with Hunter. No knowledge is not the same as “never in business together."
Evidence is mounting to the contrary. Whistleblowers inside the FBI and Dept. of Justice are stepping forward. Hunter Biden’s lap tops are revealing names, dates and messages.
“Blanket” denials have been stripped down to just a long sleeve shirt.
How many times have we heard someone say, “they’re not sorry for what they did, they’re just sorry they got caught?”
Most parents love their children unconditionally. Joe and Jill Biden are no different. But who has led who astray?
Poverty, power and wealth can all lead to corruption. The love of power is more destructive than any drug on earth and the worst addiction.
Sixteen months away from our next presidential election we need to be praying for God’s deliverance.
Equal justice under the law is the foundation of a country’s survival.
Politics cannot prevail in the courthouse.
Honesty and integrity must be returned to leadership in the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice.
When did we stop demanding the truth?
If truth is not the most important thing in this world, then nothing else has any real value anyway.
Lady Justice needs to be blind, but she must have a heart and a soul—— and a belief in the oath that ends in "so help me God."
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Men's Citi Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The 12 matches today in the Citi Open qualifying qualification round 1 include No. 156-ranked Juncheng Shang matching up against No. Gage Brymer.
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Citi Open Info
- Tournament: Citi Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
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- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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FULTON, Miss. – Despite getting a late start to the recruiting season, first-year Itawamba Community College head football coach Travis Macon has found success in area talent for the 2023 season and beyond.
“We hit the road running,” Macon said about catching up on the recruiting trail. “We started getting really good feedback and ended up flipping kids from some of the top JUCO teams in the state, and that’s a pretty good in my book.”
A key to the Indians’ recruiting success has been in part due to local gridiron legends Kareem Moore and Justin Lucas.
Moore, assistant head coach and defensive backs coach, earned All-American honors at ICC and spent three seasons with the Washington Redskins after being drafted in the sixth round of the 2008 draft.
Lucas, defensive coordinator, anchored Aberdeen’s defense in two state championship appearances and a pair of NJCAA National Championships at EMCC.
“Those guys did a really good job in our district,” Macon said. “They know the coaches really well so the relationships were already there. By us coming home, the coaches were excited to see those guys out with ICC shirts on.”
Macon talked about how strong the football has been in the area over the past few years and says the upcoming seasons have the potential to be even stronger, making it even more important for the Indians to keep the homegrown talent home to help turn things around in Fulton.
“Our goal is to get players inside our district to understand they can stay home,” Macon said about the future of the program. “We’ve got a new facility; we’ve got good football and we’ve got good academics. So stay at home and give us time to get things going because we are going to create a winning tradition.”
ICC reports on August 6 to start working toward that winning tradition.
“It’s go time. Our guys are excited and ready for some action. I can’t wait to get into camp,” Macon said. “One thing I believe is that winners win, and the guys we recruited all came from winning programs. They’ve been competing during summer school and are ready to put the pads on.”
The Indians return 14 players from last year’s squad that finished 3-6. That means Macon will have to rely on a big freshman class.
“Our freshmen have really stepped up and are playing fast,” Macon said. “Most of the time a freshman can be a really good football player, but it takes them some time to get used to the speed of the game. They’ve been working hard to learn how to practice, how to finish and hopefully that will help them adjust to this level of play.”
The Indians will be tested early as they host traditional powerhouse Jones College on September 7.
“We’ve got a really big first game, and I like it that way,” Macon said. “We’re at home, and we’re going to introduce a new look. When Jones comes to town, they aren’t going to see the same team they saw last year, and we’re excited about that.”
“I want to make sure the stadium is packed because we’re going to need that twelfth man,” Macon emphasized. “These guys are working hard, and I want everyone to see the hard work show up on the field September 7.”
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STARKVILLE — The countdown to this year’s college football season has begun in earnest with just 35 days until Mississippi State football kicks off its season on Sept. 2 against Southeastern Louisiana at Davis Wade Stadium.
The Bulldogs, under first-year head coach Zach Arnett, will open fall camp on Aug. 3 with the team’s first practice taking place on Aug 4.
Until then, we will be taking a look at each position group on MSU’s roster, noting who could be the potential starters, backups and impact players to look out for on the gridiron.
MSU’s offensive line brings back as much experience as any group on the roster this season. The bulldogs will return four starters from its weekly group last season, only looking to replace 2022’s starting center, LaQuinston Sharp.
Here is what to know about MSU’s 2023 offensive linemen.
The Starters
Cole Smith, Graduate Senior
Intangibles: 6-3, 305 pounds, Pontotoc, Mississippi
Smith has played in 38 games over three seasons for MSU since transferring from LSU following the 2018 season. Smith played over 800 snaps last season at right guard. However, he is one of only two returning starters with experience at center, playing there in 2020. It wouldn’t be surprising to see Smith move into the middle of MSU’s offensive line this season.
Kameron Jones, Graduate Senior
Intangibles: 6-5, 315 pounds, Starkville, Mississippi
Jones has made 31 starts in his Mississippi State career, all since the 2020 season. Jones decided to use his COVID year to return to school this season. Jones should be back as MSU’s starting right tackle this fall.
Steven Losoya III, Redshirt Senior
Intangibles: 6-4, 320 pounds, Nashville, Tennessee
Since transferring from Middle Tennessee last offseason, Losoya III has made nine starts and played in 13 games for MSU. The majority of Losoya’s snaps last fall came at left guard, though he did make one start at center against Alabama.
He projects to be back in the inside off MSU’s offensive line, whether that is at center or the left guard spot.
Nick Jones, Senior
Intangibles: 6-3, 300 pounds, Byhalia, Mississippi
Jones, who transferred from East Mississippi Community College prior to the 2021 season, has made 13 starts over the past two years, including 12 last season. The majority of Jones’ snaps last year came at left tackle, where he projects as MSU’s returning starter, but he also has the ability to slide inside to left guard if needed.
Kwatrivous Johnson, Graduate Senior
Intangibles: 6-7, 330 pounds, Greenwood, Mississippi
Johnson is the only non-returning starter that MSU is adding to its front five this season. Johnson spent most of his playing time last season at left tackle, with some snaps at left guard and right tackle. That versatility could be beneficial for MSU, as they try to fit him into an offensive line combination.
The Backups
Grant Jackson, Redshirt Junior
Intangibles: 6-6, 325, Brookhaven, Mississippi
In three seasons, Jackson has played in 27 games for the Bulldogs, primarily used on special teams units. The path for a starting position isn’t there barring injury.
Percy Lewis, Senior
Intangibles: 6-8, 345 pounds, Sallis, Mississippi
In his first season in Starkville after transferring from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Lewis appeared in 13 games, making one start against Illinois in the ReliaQuest Bowl. With his size and experience level, Lewis will serve as a strong backup in case of any injuries.
Albert Reese IV, Redshirt Sophomore
Intangibles: 6-7, 320, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Reese played in 13 games, making one start for MSU against Illinois in the ReliaQuest Bowl last season. He will also serve as a strong backup option to begin this season.
Jackson LaHue, Redshirt Freshman
Intangibles: 6-5, 315 pounds, Azle, Texas
LaHue did not play during the 2022 season, using a redshirt year. He projects to be a backup this fall.
Canon Boone, Redshirt Sophomore
Intangibles: 6-4, 305 pounds, Kemah, Texas
Boone has played in one game over his first two years in Starkville. He projects to be a backup this fall.
The Rest
Malik Ellis, Freshman
Intangibles: 6-5, 265 pounds, Laurel, Mississippi
Ellis was a three-star in MSU’s 2023 class, where he started at left tackle at Laurel High School. A redshirt year is the likely scenario for Ellis this season.
Wesley Davis, Redshirt Freshman
Intangibles: 6-4, 300 pounds, Collierville, Tennessee
Davis, a preferred walk-on, did not see any action for MSU last season.
Jayden Hobson, Freshman
Intangibles: 6-5, 295 pounds, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Hobson is a three-star prospect in MSU’s 2023 class. He will likely redshirt this season.
Leon Bell, Junior
Intangibles: 6-8, Junior, Alvin, Texas
Bell transferred to MSU after spending the past two years at Kilgore Community College. Bell will likely find himself in a backup position this fall.
Zay Alexander, Freshman
Intangibles: 6-7, 340 pounds, Tupelo, Mississippi
A three-star in MSU’s 2023 class, Alexander will likely redshirt this fall, given the experience and returning players ahead of him.
Amari Smith, Freshman
Intangibles: 6-7, 315 pounds, Brookhaven, Mississippi
A three-star in MSU’s 2023 class, Smith is another redshirt candidate this season.
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Women's Citi Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
As part of today's qualifying qualification round 1 (eight matches), No. 43-ranked Varvara Gracheva and No. 86 Leylah Annie Fernandez will be squaring off at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington, District of Columbia.
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- Tournament: Citi Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
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- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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OXFORD — All-American Nick Broeker might be gone after a storied career in Oxford, but the 2023 Ole Miss offensive line finds itself as experienced and deep as it’s been in recent years.
Broeker — who began his career as a tackle before sliding inside to guard as a senior in 2022 — was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the 2023 NFL Draft. Despite Broeker’s departure, the Rebels return four players with significant starting experience and added two veteran players in the transfer portal.
Ole Miss started a pair of redshirt freshmen at the tackle spots most of last season, with Jayden Williams starting all 13 games and Micah Pettus starting the final nine. Senior Jeremy James began 2022 as the team’s starting right tackle but later slid inside to guard.
Senior Caleb Warren started 12 of 13 games at center last season after spending his first two seasons at guard. The Louisville, Mississippi native has started 31 games in his career. James has starting experience at both tackle and guard and finished last season playing on the interior, starting nine games at guard. James has started 36 games for Ole Miss.
Junior Eli Acker started the first five games of the season — four at guard and one at center —before the Rebels switched up their lineup, moving James to guard and putting Pettus at right tackle. Acker has started nine games for the Rebels overall. Ole Miss was tied for 23rd nationally in sacks at 1.23 allowed per game, and the Rebels ranked third nationally in rushing offense at 256.6 yards per game.
Ole Miss also added former Washington offensive lineman Victor Curne and UAB’s Quincy McGee. Curne started 12 games at tackle in 2021 but played in just three games last season. He started 16 games in his career with the Huskies. McGee started 12 games for the Blazers at guard in 2022 and was second-team All-Conference USA.
There are talented options elsewhere on the roster as well. Junior guard Cedric Melton has logged three starts in his career, and the Rebels also added a handful of talented freshmen, including four-star prospect Brycen Sanders and three-star Ethan Fields.
The Rebels also have a new offensive line coach this season, as Jake Thornton is now at Auburn. John Garrison, formerly of NC State, coached Ole Miss during bowl season and enters his first full season. Garrison worked with Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin at FAU and has also served as offensive line coach at Nebraska and UNLV.
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Men's Generali Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
As part of today's qualifying qualification round 1 (eight matches), No. 133-ranked Facundo Bagnis and No. 215 Maximilian Neuchrist will be going head-to-head at Tennis Stadium Kitzbuehel in Kitzbühel, Austria.
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Generali Open Info
- Tournament: Generali Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
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- Venue: Tennis Stadium Kitzbuehel
- Location: Kitzbühel, Austria
- Court Surface: Clay
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KOSSUTH – Kossuth volleyball has come a long way during the career of Aven Mathis, and she aims to take it a little bit farther.
Entering its ninth year as a program, Kossuth has become a contender in Class 3A. The Aggies have reached the state semifinals each of the last two years.
That all came on the watch of Dawnell Haupt, the head coach the past three seasons. Carleigh Mitchell, Haupt’s assistant, is now the head coach.
“When coach Dawnell first came, we were kind of amateurs. We didn’t really know what to do,” said Mathis, who is now a senior and one of the top outside hitters in the area.
Last season, she recorded 347 kills and was named to the Daily Journal All-Area second team. With Kossuth having to replace its entire back row, Mathis must become an even bigger factor this year.
“On the court, that’s who they look to,” Mitchell said. “I don’t think she realizes it, but it’s something that comes natural to her.”
Mathis is one of three seniors, and it’s a group that will need to act as coaches on the floor. Mitchell doesn’t have as extensive a volleyball background as Haupt, so she’s leaning on the seniors to keep building on what they’ve learned the past three years.
“Some stuff is still new to me, but just the last three years, Dawnell has taught me a lot,” Mitchell said. “I respect her, respect everything she’s done for this program. But I told the seniors from the get-go, ‘There’s going to be some stuff, because y’all have been in this a little longer than I have. We’re going to have to rely on each other.’”
Mathis said it would have been hard to imagine three years ago that Kossuth would be considered a state title contender. But the Aggies have a real shot this year, if they can just get past the team that eliminated them from the playoffs each of the last two seasons: Alcorn Central.
The two teams scrimmaged at a recent Mississippi State University summer camp, and Kossuth won a few. So the players know it can be done.
“That’s a big motivating force,” Mathis said. “I get jitters every time I think about it.”
If the teams match up once again in the playoffs, Mathis doesn’t anticipate jitters being a problem. She enjoys the big games and big moments, and she knows how much her teammates depend on her.
“I always do better under pressure, because I feel like I have to step it up. I feel like I’m one of the leaders on the team, and if I step up, the whole team will step up. I play better when we’re under pressure usually, because I can keep myself under control.”
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As part of today's qualifying qualification round 1 (12 matches), No. 113-ranked Greet Minnen and No. 235 Gabriela Knutson will be clashing on the court at Tennis Club Sparta Praha in Prague, Czechia.
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Livesport Prague Open 2021 Info
- Tournament: Livesport Prague Open 2021
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: Tennis Club Sparta Praha
- Location: Prague, Czechia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Four aircrew members were missing after an Australian army helicopter ditched into waters off the Queensland state coast during joint military exercises with the United States, officials said Saturday.
The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter went down near Lindeman Island, a Great Barrier Reef tourist resort, at about 11 p.m. Friday, exercise director Australian Army Brigadier Damian Hill said.
A search involving U.S., Canadian and Australian personnel was underway to find the crew who are all Australian men, officials said.
Debris that appeared to be from a helicopter had been recovered, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Douglas McDonald said.
The Taipan was taking part in Talisman Sabre, a biennial joint U.S.-Australian military exercise that is largely based in Queensland. This year’s exercise involves 13 nations and more than 30,000 military personnel.
Defense Minister Richard Marles said the helicopter ditched, which refers to an emergency landing on water.
“Defense exercises, which are so necessary for the readiness of our defense force, are serious. They carry risk,” Marles told reporters in Brisbane. “As we desperately hope for better news during the course of this day we are reminded about the gravity of the act which comes with wearing our nation’s uniform."
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Hill said the exercise was postponed on Saturday morning but had restarted limited activity later in the day. Australia had grounded its Taipan fleet as a precaution, Hill said.
It was the second emergency involving an Australian Taipan this year, after one ditched into the sea off the New South Wales state coast in March. That helicopter was taking part in a nighttime counterterrorism training exercise when it ran into trouble. All 10 passengers and crew members were rescued.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Brisbane for a meeting on Saturday and is due to travel with Marles to north Queensland on Sunday to see the exercise.
Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute to the missing air crew at the outset of a meeting with their Australian counterparts, Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
“It’s always tough when you have accidents in training, but … the reason that we train to such high standards is so that we can be successful and we can protect lives when we are called to answer any kind of crisis,” Austin said.
“Our guys tend to make this look easy and they make it look easy because they’re so well exercised and rehearsed and trained, and this is unfortunately a part of that, what it takes to get them to where we need them to be,” Austin added.
Blinken said, “We’re so grateful to them for their dedication, for their service, for everything they’ve been doing to stand up for the freedom that we share and that is what unites us more than anything else.”
Marles thanked the United States for their contribution to the search and rescue effort.
The missing helicopter had just dropped off two Australian commandos before it hit the water, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Australia announced in January that its army and navy would stop flying the European-built Taipans by December 2024, 13 years earlier than originally planned, because they had proven unreliable. They will be replaced by 40 U.S. Black Hawks. Marles said at the time the Lockheed Martin-designed Black Hawks “have a really good proven track record in terms of their reliability.”
Australia’s Taipans had been plagued by problems since the first helicopter arrived in the country in 2007.
Australia’s entire fleet of 47 Taipans was grounded in 2019 to fix a problem with their tail rotor blades. A year later, 27 Taipans were grounded because of a problem with doors.
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Men's Mifel Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The eight matches today in the Mifel Open qualifying qualification round 1 include No. 249-ranked Abedallah Shelbayh squaring off against No. 334 Nick Chappell.
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Mifel Open Info
- Tournament: Mifel Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
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- Venue: Cabo Sports Complex
- Location: Los Cabos, Mexico
- Court Surface: Hard
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A shooting in a Seattle parking lot Friday night wounded five people, including two who were in critical condition, the city's police chief said.
The Seattle Police Department responded to a reported shooting around 9 p.m. in the 9200 block of Rainier Avenue South.
The shooting started in the parking lot of what was formerly known as King Donuts and was directed at a community event occurring nearby, Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said at the scene.
The five victims included two who were listed in critical condition and three who appeared to be stable. Four victims were transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and the fifth was treated at the scene, Diaz said.
“We know that there's dozens and dozens of rounds that were fired,” said Diaz, who noted police were not sure of a possible motive.
“Right now, we've really got to get guns off the streets,” Diaz said, explaining the number of shootings in the city has fluctuated but remains an issue.
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell thanked community members and police at the scene for working together to protect residents, calling the violence a tragedy.
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Marlins vs. Tigers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
The Miami Marlins versus Detroit Tigers game on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET will showcase a pair of hot hitters in Jon Berti and Riley Greene.
The favored Marlins have -160 moneyline odds to win against the underdog Tigers, who are listed at +135. The matchup's over/under has been set at 8 runs.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Odds & Info
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Marlins Recent Betting Performance
- The Marlins have played as the favorite in six of their past 10 games and have gone 2-4 in those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, the Marlins and their opponents are 5-5-0 in their last 10 games with a total.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Marlins' last 10 games.
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Marlins Betting Records & Stats
- The Marlins have gone 31-16 in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 66% of those games).
- Miami has gone 16-4 when it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -160 or shorter (80% winning percentage).
- The implied moneyline probablility for this matchup gives the Marlins a 61.5% chance to win.
- Miami has had an over/under set by oddsmakers 103 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 49 of those games (49-50-4).
- The Marlins are 4-2-0 against the spread this season.
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The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon — including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa.
He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications. “Those needs continue to grow, those drivers are still there," he said, "but the funding is drying up. So we’re looking at 2024 (being) even more dire.”
“The largest food and nutrition crisis in history today persists,” Skau said. “This year, 345 million people continue to be acutely food insecure while hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger.”
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress — all during a slowdown in the global economy.
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WFP is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency’s traditional donors to “step up and support us through this very difficult time.”
Asked why funding was drying up, Skau said to ask the donors.
“But it’s clear that aid budgets, humanitarian budgets, both in Europe and the United States, (are) not where they were in 2021-2022,” he said.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people — 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said. In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on WFP for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them. In the Palestinian territories, WFP cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force WFP to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly WFP’s seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories, “and so we will have an additional humanitarian emergency on our hands down the road.”
“Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward,” Skau said.
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South Korea vs. Morocco: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 30
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:40 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Group H matchup between South Korea and Morocco, which is each team's second game in the 2023 Women's World Cup, begins at 12:30 AM ET on July 30 at Coopers Stadium.
South Korea's matchup versus Morocco will be airing on FOX US.
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How to Watch South Korea vs. Morocco
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 12:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Adelaide, Australia
- Venue: Coopers Stadium
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South Korea Group Stage Schedule
South Korea's Recent Performance
- In its most recent match, South Korea suffered a 2-0 loss against Colombia and was outshot by 11 in the match, 15 to four.
- South Korea failed to score, with Ji Soyun leading the way with one shot, in the match.
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South Korea's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Young Geul Yoon #1
- Choo Hyojoo #2
- Hong Hyeji #3
- Shim Seo Yeon #4
- Yun-Ji Kim #5
- Lim Seonjoo #6
- Son Hwayeon #7
- Cho Sohyun #8
- Lee Geummin #9
- Ji Soyun #10
- Choe Yuri #11
- Moon Mira #12
- Eun Sun Park #13
- Jeoun Eunha #14
- Chun Garam #15
- Jang Selgi #16
- Lee Youngju #17
- Jung Mi Kim #18
- Casey Phair #19
- Kim Hyeri #20
- Jisu Ryu #21
- Yebin Bae #22
- Kang Chaerim #23
Morocco Group Stage Schedule
Morocco's Recent Performance
- In its most recent action on July 24, Morocco suffered a 6-0 loss to Germany, while posting 10 fewer shots than Germany.
- Morocco didn't manage a goal against , but Ghizlane Chebbak paced the team with two shots.
Morocco's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Khadija Er-Rmichi #1
- Zineb Redouani #2
- Nouhaila Benzina #3
- Sarah Kassi #4
- Nesryne El Chad #5
- Elodie Nakkach #6
- Ghizlane Chebbak #7
- Salma Amani #8
- Ibtissam Jraidi #9
- Najat Badri #10
- Fatima Tagnaout #11
- Assia Zouhair #12
- Sabah Seghir #13
- Rkia Mazrouai #14
- Fatima Zohra Gharbi #15
- Anissa Lahmari #16
- Hanane Ait El Haj #17
- Kenza Chapelle #18
- Sakina Ouzraoui Diki #19
- Sofia Bouftini #20
- Yasmin Katie Mrabet Slack #21
- Ines Arouaissa #22
- Rosella Ayane #23
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Switzerland vs. New Zealand: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 30
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:40 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Sunday, July 30 at 3:00 AM ET in Dunedin, New Zealand, Switzerland meets New Zealand in these teams' last group-stage match at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The matchup featuring Switzerland and New Zealand will be airing on FOX US,Fox Sports 2.
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How to Watch Switzerland vs. New Zealand
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 3:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US,Fox Sports 2
- Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
- Venue: Forsyth Barr Stadium
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Switzerland Group Stage Schedule
Switzerland's Recent Performance
- Switzerland finished level in its last matchup, 0-0, versus Norway on July 25. outshot Switzerland by a margin of nine to seven.
- Switzerland failed to score, with Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic leading the way with one shot, in the match.
- Through two Women's World Cup matches for Switzerland, Ramona Bachmann has scored one goal.
- So far in two Women's World Cup games, Seraina Piubel has scored one goal.
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Switzerland's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Gaelle Thalmann #1
- Julia Stierli #2
- Lara Marti #3
- Laura Felber #4
- Noelle Maritz #5
- Geraldine Reuteler #6
- Amira Arfaoui #7
- Nadine Riesen #8
- Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic #9
- Ramona Bachmann #10
- Coumba Sow #11
- Livia Peng #12
- Lia Walti #13
- Marion Rey #14
- Luana Buhler #15
- Sandrine Mauron #16
- Seraina Piubel #17
- Viola Calligaris #18
- Eseosa Aigbogun #19
- Fabienne Humm #20
- Seraina Friedli #21
- Meriame Terchoun #22
- Alisha Lehmann #23
New Zealand Group Stage Schedule
New Zealand's Recent Performance
- In its last outing on July 25, New Zealand suffered a 1-0 defeat to the Philippines, outshooting the Philippines 14 to four.
- New Zealand didn't score a goal against , but Hannah Wilkinson paced the team with four shots.
- Jacqui Hand has has not scored, but does have one assist for New Zealand in Women's World Cup (two games).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Wilkinson has one goal.
New Zealand's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Erin Nayler #1
- Ria Percival #2
- Claudia Bunge #3
- C.J. Bott #4
- Michaela Foster #5
- Malia Steinmetz #6
- Ali Riley #7
- Daisy Cleverley #8
- Gabi Rennie #9
- Annalie Longo #10
- Olivia Chance #11
- Betsy Hassett #12
- Rebekah Stott #13
- Katie Bowen #14
- Paige Satchell #15
- Jacqui Hand #16
- Hannah Wilkinson #17
- Grace Jale #18
- Elizabeth Anton #19
- Indiah Paige Riley #20
- Victoria Esson #21
- Milly Clegg #22
- Anna Leat #23
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Ford late on Thursday revealed the new Mustang Dark Horse R race car together with an associated one-make series known as the Mustang Challenge. The series starts in 2024 and will be sanctioned by IMSA.
Pricing for the turnkey race car starts at $145,000 and deliveries will begin in time for the first season of the Mustang Challenge. Ford hasn’t said how much a season of the Mustang Challenge will cost.
Ford said it designed the Mustang Dark Horse R to also be eligible for competition in “numerous” grassroots racing series, making the car ideal for up-and-coming drivers.
As the name suggests, the Mustang Dark Horse R is based on the Mustang Dark Horse, a track-focused but road-legal sports car that will join the rest of the redesigned 2024 Mustang range in showrooms this summer. A Mustang Dark Horse S track car is also planned at some point.
The Dark Horse R shares most of its parts with the regular Dark Horse, including a 500-plus-hp version of the Coyote 5.0-liter V-8. Also borrowed from the road car is the 6-speed manual transmission, Torsen limited-slip differential with a 3.73 final drive ratio, and aerodynamics package.
Key upgrades for racing include tow hooks and reinforced jacking points, improving cooling for the drivetrain, a Borla high-flow exhaust system, Multimatic DSSV dampers, adjustable front camber plates, adjustable anti-roll bars, Brembo racing brakes up front (stock Brembos remain at the rear), and custom 19-inch wheels wrapped in slick tires from Michelin.
The Dark Horse R’s cabin also comes stripped of features not required for track use. In place of these are an FIA-certified roll cage, safety nets, a race seat with safety belts (front passenger seat available), and a steering wheel with quick disconnect. A Motec data display and logging system also replaces the stock dash displays.
Ford hasn’t published a calendar for the first season of the Mustang Challenge but said the season will last 10-12 rounds, with some rounds coinciding with race weekends of other series. Each round will feature two practice sessions, one qualifying session, and two sprint races, with cash prizes awarded to top finishers.
The Dark Horse R is one of several racing versions of the latest Mustang. Others include the Mustang GT3, Mustang GT4, and Mustang GT Supercar. That last one is designed for Australia’s Supercars touring car series. Still coming is a new Mustang NASCAR race car that will compete starting in 2024.
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Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
____
Richer reported from Boston.
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Subaru is clearly contemplating what comes next as an edgier alternative to the WRX.
One such possibility is the WRX by Prodrive, a thoughtfully upgraded performance version of the current model for track days and performance driving.
The edgy alternative at Subaru dealerships used to be the WRX STI, which the company announced in March 2022 wouldn’t ever come back in the same form. “In the meantime, a next-generation internal combustion engine WRX STI will not be produced based upon the new WRX platform,” Subaru said with startling finality.
That doesn’t mean the STI is dead. Subaru hinted in the same statement that the STI may come back with electrification. Consider how the fully electric Solterra STI concept shown last year might fit alongside models such as the Kia EV6 GT.
But that would be a very different car.
As I recently experienced at the UK’s Millbrook Proving Ground, with a little time in the driver’s seat, the WRX by Prodrive shows how Subaru might provide loyal enthusiasts with their fix, despite a changing landscape.
This trick WRX was put together by Prodrive, a UK firm known for tuning and motorsports support—and for creating the exclusive $600,000 Prodrive P25 supercar I also drove at one of Millbrook’s handling courses.
While I’m pretty much charmed by any WRX, this one starts on the right note. One of the most distinctive elements I lock onto from across the infield addresses a pet peeve with the current WRX. Body-colored wheel arches in this version replace the stock car’s black-lipped ones, which simply venture too far into Outback and crossover territory. The wheel arch extensions add more than an inch of overall width, which probably adds to the impression—and there’s a rear wing that looks similar to the P25’s. It also gets the same size wheels as the P25, wearing P255/35R19 Bridgestone Potenza Sport tires.
Prodrive says its WRX makes about 30 hp more than the stock WRX thanks to remapped engine management, putting total output just over 300 hp versus the standard WRX’s 271 hp. On the relatively tight road course, where I’m mostly in third gear with brief digs into second, it’s hard to feel that difference without a stock WRX on hand, but it feels robust and flexible in the midrange revs.
As I find in the same handling course where I drove the P25, there is one immediate, distinct difference versus a stock WRX: Its upgraded Sparco SPX front seats are a smart upgrade, as the car corners a lot flatter and they’re needed to hold occupants in place. Prodrive has boosted anti-roll bar stiffness front and rear, upgraded the suspension bushings, and uprated the specs for both the Bilstein dampers and springs.
The brakes have been upgraded, too, with a package similar to the P25 bringing 6-piston calipers in front and 4-piston calipers in back—larger all around, with sport pads. Only on my last lap do I begin driving this WRX hard enough to step hard into the brake pedal, and it’s more decisive than the stock WRX’s for sure.
While it’s hard to tell how much harsher this setup might ride on real-world roads, it doesn’t give the impression that it might make the WRX’s capabilities any less accessible. Like the best STI models—the 2008-2010 model in my mind—it opens up new potential.
The relative simplicity of the package and upgrades stands in contrast to the seemingly endless tuning changes and upgrades that STI models used to boast over the WRX. There’s no quicker-ratio steering, selectable center diff, or resonating exhaust, to name just a few.
If you can put some of those expectations aside, you’re not sure waiting for an electric STI is quite your thing, and you just want a better WRX, well, here it is.
Neither Subaru nor Prodrive will say if this might be sold as a package or a standalone car, by Subaru or by Prodrive, and price certainly isn’t mentioned. However, both insist that this represents a smart but relatively frugal set of accessories and improvements built on the stock Subaru WRX, which starts at $31,625 with a 6-speed manual (as this one has) for 2023. Seeing that Subaru of America got me out here, and it’s built on what’s essentially a U.S.-spec left-hand-drive car, it’s safe to say they’re interested.
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Caught on camera: Bear takes dip in swimming pool during extreme heat
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:47 AM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
BURBANK, Calif. (CNN) - Humans aren’t the only creatures trying to find ways to stay cool in the extreme hot temperatures.
One bear tried to beat the heat by taking a dip in a jacuzzi.
It happened Friday in Burbank, California.
According to the Burbank Police Department, officers were responding to reports of a bear sighting.
When they arrived, they found the bear sitting in a jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
However, the bear then got out of the hot tub, scaled a wall and climbed a tree.
The city of Burbank is under a heat advisory until Saturday night.
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Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
____
Richer reported from Boston.
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
Colson Whitehead channels the paranoia and fear of 1970s NYC in 'Crook Manifesto': "My early '70s New York is dingy and grimy," the Pulitzer Prize-winning author says. Whitehead's sequel to Harlem Shuffle centers on crime at every level, from small-time crooks to Harlem's elite.
Crime writer S.A. Cosby loves the South — and is haunted by it: Cosby's novel All the Sinners Bleed centers on a Black sheriff in a small Southeast Virginia county. The novel was inspired by his own experiences growing up in the shadow of the Confederacy.
You can listen to the original interviews and review here:
Colson Whitehead channels the paranoia and fear of 1970s NYC in 'Crook Manifesto'
Crime writer S.A. Cosby loves the South — and is haunted by it
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Caught on camera: Bear takes dip in swimming pool during extreme heat
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 4:47 AM EDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
BURBANK, Calif. (CNN) - Humans aren’t the only creatures trying to find ways to stay cool in the extreme hot temperatures.
One bear tried to beat the heat by taking a dip in a jacuzzi.
It happened Friday in Burbank, California.
According to the Burbank Police Department, officers were responding to reports of a bear sighting.
When they arrived, they found the bear sitting in a jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
However, the bear then got out of the hot tub, scaled a wall and climbed a tree.
The city of Burbank is under a heat advisory until Saturday night.
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Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
____
Richer reported from Boston.
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Men's Citi Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The 12 matches today in the Citi Open qualifying qualification round 1 include No. 156-ranked Juncheng Shang matching up against No. Gage Brymer.
Check out the latest odds for the entire Citi Open field at BetMGM.
Citi Open Info
- Tournament: Citi Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Women's Citi Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
As part of today's qualifying qualification round 1 (eight matches), No. 43-ranked Varvara Gracheva and No. 86 Leylah Annie Fernandez will be squaring off at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington, District of Columbia.
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Citi Open Info
- Tournament: Citi Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: Rock Creek Park Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Men's Generali Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
As part of today's qualifying qualification round 1 (eight matches), No. 133-ranked Facundo Bagnis and No. 215 Maximilian Neuchrist will be going head-to-head at Tennis Stadium Kitzbuehel in Kitzbühel, Austria.
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Generali Open Info
- Tournament: Generali Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: Tennis Stadium Kitzbuehel
- Location: Kitzbühel, Austria
- Court Surface: Clay
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As part of today's qualifying qualification round 1 (12 matches), No. 113-ranked Greet Minnen and No. 235 Gabriela Knutson will be clashing on the court at Tennis Club Sparta Praha in Prague, Czechia.
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Livesport Prague Open 2021 Info
- Tournament: Livesport Prague Open 2021
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: Tennis Club Sparta Praha
- Location: Prague, Czechia
- Court Surface: Hard
Who will win the Livesport Prague Open 2021?
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Men's Mifel Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The eight matches today in the Mifel Open qualifying qualification round 1 include No. 249-ranked Abedallah Shelbayh squaring off against No. 334 Nick Chappell.
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Mifel Open Info
- Tournament: Mifel Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: Cabo Sports Complex
- Location: Los Cabos, Mexico
- Court Surface: Hard
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South Korea vs. Morocco: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 30
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:40 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Group H matchup between South Korea and Morocco, which is each team's second game in the 2023 Women's World Cup, begins at 12:30 AM ET on July 30 at Coopers Stadium.
South Korea's matchup versus Morocco will be airing on FOX US.
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How to Watch South Korea vs. Morocco
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 12:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Location: Adelaide, Australia
- Venue: Coopers Stadium
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South Korea Group Stage Schedule
South Korea's Recent Performance
- In its most recent match, South Korea suffered a 2-0 loss against Colombia and was outshot by 11 in the match, 15 to four.
- South Korea failed to score, with Ji Soyun leading the way with one shot, in the match.
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South Korea's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Young Geul Yoon #1
- Choo Hyojoo #2
- Hong Hyeji #3
- Shim Seo Yeon #4
- Yun-Ji Kim #5
- Lim Seonjoo #6
- Son Hwayeon #7
- Cho Sohyun #8
- Lee Geummin #9
- Ji Soyun #10
- Choe Yuri #11
- Moon Mira #12
- Eun Sun Park #13
- Jeoun Eunha #14
- Chun Garam #15
- Jang Selgi #16
- Lee Youngju #17
- Jung Mi Kim #18
- Casey Phair #19
- Kim Hyeri #20
- Jisu Ryu #21
- Yebin Bae #22
- Kang Chaerim #23
Morocco Group Stage Schedule
Morocco's Recent Performance
- In its most recent action on July 24, Morocco suffered a 6-0 loss to Germany, while posting 10 fewer shots than Germany.
- Morocco didn't manage a goal against , but Ghizlane Chebbak paced the team with two shots.
Morocco's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Khadija Er-Rmichi #1
- Zineb Redouani #2
- Nouhaila Benzina #3
- Sarah Kassi #4
- Nesryne El Chad #5
- Elodie Nakkach #6
- Ghizlane Chebbak #7
- Salma Amani #8
- Ibtissam Jraidi #9
- Najat Badri #10
- Fatima Tagnaout #11
- Assia Zouhair #12
- Sabah Seghir #13
- Rkia Mazrouai #14
- Fatima Zohra Gharbi #15
- Anissa Lahmari #16
- Hanane Ait El Haj #17
- Kenza Chapelle #18
- Sakina Ouzraoui Diki #19
- Sofia Bouftini #20
- Yasmin Katie Mrabet Slack #21
- Ines Arouaissa #22
- Rosella Ayane #23
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Caught on camera: Bear takes dip in swimming pool during extreme heat
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 1:47 AM MST|Updated: 47 minutes ago
BURBANK, Calif. (CNN) - Humans aren’t the only creatures trying to find ways to stay cool in the extreme hot temperatures.
One bear tried to beat the heat by taking a dip in a jacuzzi.
It happened Friday in Burbank, California.
According to the Burbank Police Department, officers were responding to reports of a bear sighting.
When they arrived, they found the bear sitting in a jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
However, the bear then got out of the hot tub, scaled a wall and climbed a tree.
The city of Burbank is under a heat advisory until Saturday night.
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Switzerland vs. New Zealand: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 30
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:40 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Sunday, July 30 at 3:00 AM ET in Dunedin, New Zealand, Switzerland meets New Zealand in these teams' last group-stage match at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The matchup featuring Switzerland and New Zealand will be airing on FOX US,Fox Sports 2.
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How to Watch Switzerland vs. New Zealand
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 3:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: FOX US,Fox Sports 2
- Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
- Venue: Forsyth Barr Stadium
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Switzerland Group Stage Schedule
Switzerland's Recent Performance
- Switzerland finished level in its last matchup, 0-0, versus Norway on July 25. outshot Switzerland by a margin of nine to seven.
- Switzerland failed to score, with Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic leading the way with one shot, in the match.
- Through two Women's World Cup matches for Switzerland, Ramona Bachmann has scored one goal.
- So far in two Women's World Cup games, Seraina Piubel has scored one goal.
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Switzerland's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Gaelle Thalmann #1
- Julia Stierli #2
- Lara Marti #3
- Laura Felber #4
- Noelle Maritz #5
- Geraldine Reuteler #6
- Amira Arfaoui #7
- Nadine Riesen #8
- Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic #9
- Ramona Bachmann #10
- Coumba Sow #11
- Livia Peng #12
- Lia Walti #13
- Marion Rey #14
- Luana Buhler #15
- Sandrine Mauron #16
- Seraina Piubel #17
- Viola Calligaris #18
- Eseosa Aigbogun #19
- Fabienne Humm #20
- Seraina Friedli #21
- Meriame Terchoun #22
- Alisha Lehmann #23
New Zealand Group Stage Schedule
New Zealand's Recent Performance
- In its last outing on July 25, New Zealand suffered a 1-0 defeat to the Philippines, outshooting the Philippines 14 to four.
- New Zealand didn't score a goal against , but Hannah Wilkinson paced the team with four shots.
- Jacqui Hand has has not scored, but does have one assist for New Zealand in Women's World Cup (two games).
- In two Women's World Cup matches, Wilkinson has one goal.
New Zealand's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Erin Nayler #1
- Ria Percival #2
- Claudia Bunge #3
- C.J. Bott #4
- Michaela Foster #5
- Malia Steinmetz #6
- Ali Riley #7
- Daisy Cleverley #8
- Gabi Rennie #9
- Annalie Longo #10
- Olivia Chance #11
- Betsy Hassett #12
- Rebekah Stott #13
- Katie Bowen #14
- Paige Satchell #15
- Jacqui Hand #16
- Hannah Wilkinson #17
- Grace Jale #18
- Elizabeth Anton #19
- Indiah Paige Riley #20
- Victoria Esson #21
- Milly Clegg #22
- Anna Leat #23
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The heat and humidity return for the weekend into next week, heat advisories might be issued again soon as we close out July and head into early August.
While no significant weathermakers are on the horizon, daytime heat, humidity, and the seabreeze will trigger scattered to numerous showers & storms each day through next week.
Coverage might be enhanced a bit early next week with a weak tropical wave moving through.
All in all, it's a typical mid-summer forecast with highs in the 90s, the "feels like" over 105, and storms around developing near the coast then moving inland each afternoon.
There are currently no advisories posted for the boaters or beach goers.
In the tropics a disturbance in the central Atlantic has a 70% chance (high) of developing into a depression in the next few days and will likely become "Emily" next week but it's expected to curve well out to sea and have no impact on the U.S.
MORE WEATHER: Radar |Alerts | 7-Day Forecast | Hourly Forecast
TODAY: Scattered showers & storms, moving inland. Highs: Lower 90s Winds: SE 10
TONIGHT: Clouds around, muggy. Lows: near 80. Winds: SE 5
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THE HAGUE – Salvage crews were preparing Saturday to tow a car-carrying cargo ship that has been burning for days to an anchor point in the North Sea after flames and smoke on board subsided, the Dutch government said.
Fire erupted in the Fremantle Highway late Tuesday night near a chain of islands in the northern Netherlands and has been blazing ever since. The ship is carrying 3,783 new vehicles, including 498 electric vehicles, the company that chartered the vessel said.
One crew member died and others were injured after the fire broke out on the ship that was heading from Bremerhaven in Germany to Singapore. The crew was evacuated in the early hours of Wednesday. The cause of the fire has not been established.
Measurements Friday showed that heat, flames and smoke had subsided enough for salvage experts to board the ship for the first time and establish a strong towing connection with a tugboat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said.
It will be towed, likely over the weekend, to a new position 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the island of Schiermonnikoog , the ministry said in a statement. The timing of the operation that is expected to take 12-14 hours depends on smoke development and weather, the ministry added. The aim is ultimately “once conditions on board allow,” to tow the ship to a port, though the destination has not yet been decided.
The ministry said the ship is stable and intact below the waterline.
The burning vessel is close to the shallow Wadden Sea, a World Heritage-listed area that is considered one of the world’s most significant habitats for migratory birds. It’s also near the Netherlands’ border with Germany, whose environment minister, Steffi Lemke, has warned of "an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions,” if the ship were to sink. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/29/burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ | 2023-07-29T09:36:22 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/29/burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ |
Caught on camera: Bear takes dip in swimming pool during extreme heat
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 4:47 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
BURBANK, Calif. (CNN) - Humans aren’t the only creatures trying to find ways to stay cool in the extreme hot temperatures.
One bear tried to beat the heat by taking a dip in a jacuzzi.
It happened Friday in Burbank, California.
According to the Burbank Police Department, officers were responding to reports of a bear sighting.
When they arrived, they found the bear sitting in a jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
However, the bear then got out of the hot tub, scaled a wall and climbed a tree.
The city of Burbank is under a heat advisory until Saturday night.
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Market report: July 29, 2023 Jul 29, 2023 2 hrs ago Facebook Twitter Email Print Facebook Twitter Email Print Market report for July 24:Steers (average): 450 to 500 lbs., $235; 500 to 550 lbs., $235; 550 to 600 lbs., $228; 600 to 650 lbs., $195.50; 800 to 850 lbs., $196. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. kAmw6:76CD W2G6C286Xi f__ E@ fd_ =3D][ S`fcj fd_ E@ g__ =3D][ S`dgj gd_ E@ h__ =3D][ S`gaj `[___ E@ `[_d_[ S`g`j `[ad_ E@ `[b__[ S`dhj `[b__ E@ `[bd_ =3D][ S`dh]k^AmkAm(6:89 4@HD W2G6C286Xi w6:76C6EE6D[ S`dgj w:89 J:6=5:?8 4@HD[ S``e]d_j |65:F> J:6=5:?8 4@HD[ S`_hj {@H J:6=5:?8 4@HD[ Shgj qF==D S``c E@ `bb]d_]k^Am Facebook Twitter Email Print Tags Zoology Zootechnics The Economy Recommended for you Day Precip Temp Fri 0% 72° 102° Fri Friday 102°/72° Partly cloudy. Lows overnight in the low 70s. Chance of Rain: 0% Sunrise: 06:11:05 AM Sunset: 08:29:27 PM Humidity: 24% Wind: SE @ 9 mph UV Index: 0 Low Friday Night Some clouds. Low 72F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Sat 15% 73° 102° Sat Saturday 102°/73° Partly cloudy. Highs 100 to 104F and lows in the low 70s. Chance of Rain: 15% Sunrise: 06:11:57 AM Sunset: 08:28:31 PM Humidity: 19% Wind: S @ 10 mph UV Index: 8 Very High Saturday Night Partly cloudy skies. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 73F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Sun 6% 73° 102° Sun Sunday 102°/73° More sun than clouds. Highs 100 to 104F and lows in the low 70s. Chance of Rain: 6% Sunrise: 06:12:49 AM Sunset: 08:27:33 PM Humidity: 23% Wind: S @ 10 mph UV Index: 9 Very High Sunday Night Partly to mostly cloudy. Low 73F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Mon 24% 70° 95° Mon Monday 95°/70° Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 70s. Chance of Rain: 24% Sunrise: 06:13:41 AM Sunset: 08:26:34 PM Humidity: 34% Wind: SSE @ 11 mph UV Index: 7 High Monday Night Mostly cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy after midnight. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low around 70F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Tue 58% 69° 91° Tue Tuesday 91°/69° Afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s. Chance of Rain: 58% Sunrise: 06:14:34 AM Sunset: 08:25:33 PM Humidity: 40% Wind: S @ 9 mph UV Index: 9 Very High Tuesday Night Scattered thunderstorms in the evening. Partly cloudy skies overnight. Low 69F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%. Wed 50% 67° 89° Wed Wednesday 89°/67° Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s. Chance of Rain: 50% Sunrise: 06:15:27 AM Sunset: 08:24:31 PM Humidity: 44% Wind: SSW @ 9 mph UV Index: 10 Very High Wednesday Night Scattered thunderstorms early. Skies will become mainly clear overnight. Low 67F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Thu 18% 66° 90° Thu Thursday 90°/66° A few clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 60s. Chance of Rain: 18% Sunrise: 06:16:20 AM Sunset: 08:23:27 PM Humidity: 41% Wind: SSW @ 8 mph UV Index: 9 Very High Thursday Night Some clouds early will give way to generally clear conditions overnight. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 66F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Featured Businesses Colorado Hemp Solutions P.O. Box 13, Grand Junction, CO 81501 +1(970)434-4143 Colorado Hemp Institute 8714 Cr 300, Parachute, CO 81635 +1(970)285-9797 The Happy Camper 1043 N River Rd., Palisade, CO 81526 +1(970)609-0420 Website Tokin Tipi 393 E 2nd St., Parachute, CO 81635 +1(970)285-5660 Western Slope Hemp Growers Association PO Box 1094, Paonia, CO 81428 +1(970)399-7164 Website Buds Dispensary 2034 I-70 Frontage Rd, Old US Highway 6, De Beque, CO 81630 +1(970)285-9307 Website Holly Alm RE/MAX 4000 +1(970)683-2553 Website Find a local business
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Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
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Richer reported from Boston.
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Grand Junction Police officers Arnold Naik, left, and Tim Long place a woman under arrest for having multiple active arrest warrants on July 18. BELOW: Long logs names to check for any active arrest warrants.
Grand Junction Police officers Arnold Naik, left, and Tim Long place a woman under arrest for having multiple active arrest warrants on July 18. BELOW: Long logs names to check for any active arrest warrants.
Changes in Colorado’s drug laws and an overall drop in the crime rate are driving down the number of felonies filed in Mesa County, according to the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
In 2020, Colorado state law changed to make most low level drug possession a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Possession of more than one gram of fentanyl was later changed back to a felony.
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Men's Citi Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The 12 matches today in the Citi Open qualifying qualification round 1 include No. 156-ranked Juncheng Shang matching up against No. Gage Brymer.
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Citi Open Info
- Tournament: Citi Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Men's Generali Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
As part of today's qualifying qualification round 1 (eight matches), No. 133-ranked Facundo Bagnis and No. 215 Maximilian Neuchrist will be going head-to-head at Tennis Stadium Kitzbuehel in Kitzbühel, Austria.
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Generali Open Info
- Tournament: Generali Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: Tennis Stadium Kitzbuehel
- Location: Kitzbühel, Austria
- Court Surface: Clay
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Palisade bans skilled gaming businesses By SAM KLOMHAUS Sam.Klomhaus@gjsentinel.com Sam Klomhaus Author email Jul 29, 2023 3 hrs ago Facebook Twitter Email Print Facebook Twitter Email Print The town of Palisade Board of Trustees unanimously voted Tuesday to ban skilled gaming businesses within town limits.Skilled gaming businesses, also called “gray casinos,” operate using arcade-style games with money payouts. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. kAmpC62 =2H 6?7@C46>6?E 286?4:6D 92G6 D2:5 D<:==65 82>:?8 3FD:?6DD6D 2C6 2DD@4:2E65 H:E9 :?4C62D65 4C:>:?2= 24E:G:EJ] !2=:D256 6?24E65 2 E6>A@C2CJ 32? :? y2?F2CJ G:2 2? 6>6C86?4J @C5:?2?46[ 2?5 >256 E96 32? 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Men's Mifel Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 3:41 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The eight matches today in the Mifel Open qualifying qualification round 1 include No. 249-ranked Abedallah Shelbayh squaring off against No. 334 Nick Chappell.
Check out the latest odds for the entire Mifel Open field at BetMGM.
Mifel Open Info
- Tournament: Mifel Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 29
- TV Channel:
- Venue: Cabo Sports Complex
- Location: Los Cabos, Mexico
- Court Surface: Hard
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Chance of Rain: 15%
Sunrise:06:11:50 AM
Sunset:08:28:27 PM
Humidity: 21%
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Sunset:08:27:29 PM
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UV Index: 9 Very High
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Sunset:08:26:30 PM
Humidity: 33%
Wind: S @ 11 mph
UV Index: 7 High
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Chance of Rain: 52%
Sunrise:06:14:28 AM
Sunset:08:25:29 PM
Humidity: 40%
Wind: SSW @ 8 mph
UV Index: 9 Very High
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A few clouds. Low 69F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
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Chance of Rain: 49%
Sunrise:06:15:21 AM
Sunset:08:24:27 PM
Humidity: 44%
Wind: SSW @ 9 mph
UV Index: 10 Very High
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Chance of Rain: 15%
Sunrise:06:16:14 AM
Sunset:08:23:24 PM
Humidity: 41%
Wind: SSW @ 8 mph
UV Index: 9 Very High
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Some clouds early will give way to generally clear conditions overnight. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low near 65F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph.
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Chance of Rain: 3%
Sunrise:06:17:07 AM
Sunset:08:22:19 PM
Humidity: 33%
Wind: SSW @ 8 mph
UV Index: 9 Very High
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Miles Kochevar expects the Colorado Mesa football team to compete for the RMAC championship this season. The Mavericks were picked fourth in the preseason coaches poll released Monday. BELOW: CMU quarterback Gavin Herberg throws a pass in the Mavs’ 56-36 win over New Mexico Highlands last season.
Colorado Mesa quarterback Gavin Herberg throws a pass Saturday in the Mavs’ win over New Mexico Highlands. Herberg threw for 321 yards and four touchdowns and also ran for 76 yards and a score in the victory.
Miles Kochevar expects the Colorado Mesa football team to compete for the RMAC championship this season. The Mavericks were picked fourth in the preseason coaches poll released Monday. BELOW: CMU quarterback Gavin Herberg throws a pass in the Mavs’ 56-36 win over New Mexico Highlands last season.
Colorado Mesa quarterback Gavin Herberg throws a pass Saturday in the Mavs’ win over New Mexico Highlands. Herberg threw for 321 yards and four touchdowns and also ran for 76 yards and a score in the victory.
With their feet settled and a routine established, the Colorado Mesa football team is eyeing a breakout in year two of the Miles Kochevar regime.
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WASHINGTON — Yellow, the beleaguered trucking company that received a $700 million pandemic loan from the federal government, notified staff Friday that it is shutting down and laying off employees at all of its locations.
The move comes before an expected bankruptcy filing by Yellow in the coming days. The closure of the company would mean the loss of approximately 30,000 jobs and mark the end of a business that just three years ago was deemed so critical to the nation’s supply chains that it warranted a federal bailout.
“The company is shutting down its regular operations on July 28, 2023, closing and/or laying off employees at all of its locations, including yours,” the company said in a memo to staff that was reviewed by The New York Times.
Yellow has been locked in protracted labor negotiations with International Brotherhood of Teamsters over a new contract that the company has said is essential to its ability to move forward with a restructuring plan.
As of the end of March, Yellow’s outstanding debt was $1.5 billion, including about $730 million that is owed to the federal government. Yellow has paid approximately $66 million in interest on the loan, but it has repaid just $230 of the principal owed on the loan, which comes due next year.
Yellow is one of the largest freight trucking companies in the United States, and its downfall could have a ripple effect across the nation’s supply chain. Its impending bankruptcy comes days after UPS reached an agreement with the union representing more than 325,000 of its U.S. workers, averting a strike.
Yellow’s management and union negotiators have been trying to reach an agreement over wages and other benefits but failed to clinch a deal.
The fate of Yellow’s assets is not yet clear. In 2020, the Trump administration, which had ties to the company and its executives, agreed to give the firm a pandemic relief loan in exchange for the federal government assuming a 30% equity stake in the company.
Yellow said last month that it sought the assistance of the Biden administration in brokering a deal with the union. The White House had no comment this week on the situation.
A company official said Thursday that Yellow was preparing for “a range of contingencies” but that talks with the union were continuing. On Friday, a spokesperson for the company declined to comment on the firm’s future.
The Teamsters on Friday warned in a letter to local unions representing Yellow workers that the likelihood of the company’s survival was “increasingly bleak.”
“We recommend that all Yellow employees who have personal belongings and tools at the terminals should take them home today,” wrote John Murphy, co-chair of the Teamsters freight industry negotiating committee.
As Yellow’s bankruptcy became more likely this week, shippers were diverting freight away from its network and its stock price plunged.
Analysts at the financial services firm Stephens estimated that the company could be burning through as much as $10 million in cash per day. In a note to clients, the analysts said that the lost business and the threat of a strike had left the trucking company “mortally wounded” and that the firm could reach the “end of the road.”
Financial woes at Yellow, which previously went by the name YRC Worldwide, have been building for years.
In July 2020, the Treasury Department announced it was giving a $700 million loan to the trucking company, helping it to stay afloat. But the loan immediately raised questions, in part because the firm was struggling financially and was being sued by the Justice Department over claims that it had defrauded the federal government for a seven-year period. The company ultimately agreed to pay $6.85 million to resolve those allegations. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/after-700-million-u-s-bailout-trucking-firm-yellow-is-shutting-down/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2023-07-29T09:37:17 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/after-700-million-u-s-bailout-trucking-firm-yellow-is-shutting-down/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews were preparing Saturday to tow a car-carrying cargo ship that has been burning for days to an anchor point in the North Sea after flames and smoke on board subsided, the Dutch government said.
Fire erupted in the Fremantle Highway late Tuesday night near a chain of islands in the northern Netherlands and has been blazing ever since. The ship is carrying 3,783 new vehicles, including 498 electric vehicles, the company that chartered the vessel said.
One crew member died and others were injured after the fire broke out on the ship that was heading from Bremerhaven in Germany to Singapore. The crew was evacuated in the early hours of Wednesday. The cause of the fire has not been established.
Measurements Friday showed that heat, flames and smoke had subsided enough for salvage experts to board the ship for the first time and establish a strong towing connection with a tugboat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said.
It will be towed, likely over the weekend, to a new position 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the island of Schiermonnikoog , the ministry said in a statement. The timing of the operation that is expected to take 12-14 hours depends on smoke development and weather, the ministry added. The aim is ultimately “once conditions on board allow,” to tow the ship to a port, though the destination has not yet been decided.
The ministry said the ship is stable and intact below the waterline.
The burning vessel is close to the shallow Wadden Sea, a World Heritage-listed area that is considered one of the world’s most significant habitats for migratory birds. It’s also near the Netherlands’ border with Germany, whose environment minister, Steffi Lemke, has warned of “an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions,” if the ship were to sink. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2023-07-29T09:37:23 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
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Burning cargo ship off Dutch coast will be towed to a new location after flames and smoke subsided
By MIKE CORDER
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says that salvage crews are preparing to tow a car-carrying cargo ship that has been burning for days in the North Sea to a new anchor point after flames and smoke on board subsided. Fire erupted in the Fremantle Highway late Tuesday night near a chain of islands in the northern Netherlands and has been blazing ever since. The ship is carrying 3,783 new vehicles, including 498 electric vehicles. One crew member died and others were injured after the fire broke out. The cause of the fire hasn’t been established. The Dutch government said Saturday it will be towed, likely over the weekend, to a new position north of the island of Schiermonnikoog. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ | 2023-07-29T09:39:06 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ |
Shooting in Seattle parking lot injures 5 people, including 2 critically, police chief says
SEATTLE (AP) — A shooting in a Seattle parking lot has wounded five people, including two who were in critical condition. Seattle Police Department Chief Adrian Diaz says officers responded to a reported shooting around 9 p.m. Friday in the 9200 block of Rainier Avenue South. Diaz says the shooting started in the parking lot of what was formerly known as King Donuts and was directed at a community event occurring nearby. The five victims include two who were listed in critical condition and three who appeared to be stable. Diaz says four victims were transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and the fifth was treated at the scene. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/shooting-in-seattle-parking-lot-injures-5-people-including-2-critically-police-chief-says/ | 2023-07-29T09:39:12 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/29/shooting-in-seattle-parking-lot-injures-5-people-including-2-critically-police-chief-says/ |
Airline secrets: When to book and why you shouldn’t check your bag
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN
(CNN) — Well there it goes, the hottest July on record. Extreme weather conditions in southern Europe and elsewhere are a wake-up call, experts say, and the vacation as we know it might well be over. Read tips on how you can make your next trip greener and then check out the rest of the news from the world of travel this week.
Insider tips for flying
When you’re facing potential delays, cancellations and sweatbox waiting areas, it’s best to be fully prepped before hitting the airport. That’s where flight attendants’ secrets for surviving summer travel come in. Our explainer has the inside scoop on everything you need to know – from the best time of day to fly to when a tight connection becomes too tight.
They also recommend avoiding checking your bags: overpacking weighs you down and bags often get lost. Lost bags are partly why luggage trackers have become the hottest travel accessory of 2023. Keen cyclist Barry Sherry found that out when he used one to track his bike after it had been lost by his airline.
And while you might find it hard to dream of chestnuts, sleighs and open fires while thermometers are hitting record-breaking highs, if you want to snap up a winter travel bargain, the time to hunt is now. “Always book opposite season,” says expert Scott Keyes.
Our animal friends
So we’re nearly at the end of Shark Week, and it’s time to ask yourself: Could I defend myself in the event of a shark attack? Do I even know where the world’s shark bite capitals are? Am I aware, for transparency, that the Discovery Channel and CNN share a parent company: Warner Bros. Discovery?
Time to get clued up on all that, because the next thing you need to prepare yourself for are angry sea lions. One charged tourists on a California beach recently and, as this video shows, this sea lion sure wasn’t playing ball.
And finally, from ocean deep to mountain high, a parrot and his owner had to be rescued from a Welsh peak after becoming stranded. Not forgetting its manners in the face of adversity, the bird greeted its saviors with a perky “hello.”
Grand designs
There’ll soon be a fresh way to get your kicks on Route 66 when a $2 billion Disneyland-sized “Americana-themed” park and resort opens along the northeast Oklahoma stretch of the famous highway in 2026.
And in Las Vegas, a futuristic entertainment venue – set to be christened in September with a series of concerts by U2 – is also the world’s largest spherical structure. Check out this video of the epic glowing orb.
If it’s the largest mirror-covered building in the world you’re looking for, though, the place to head is Saudi Arabia. Maraya is a 500-seat concert hall, community center and event space that shimmers like an oasis in the dramatic desert landscape of AlUla.
Happy campers
Sleeping under the stars, that fresh morning air, coffee by campfire – August is peak season for outdoor adventures. If you’re a camping novice, our explainer tells you everything you need to know before you set out.
Our partners at CNN Underscored, a product reviews and recommendations guide owned by CNN, have got your back also. They’ve selected this 2023 list of the 18 best lightweight backpacking tents, according to outdoor experts.
The tents will be particularly useful when visiting some of the most spectacular, and hard to reach, US national park campgrounds. Leave your car behind, strap your backpack on and discover that some of the best things in life come with a bit of extra hard work.
Bon appetit
A bakery in Rhode Island might just make the best chocolate pastries outside of France. New Englanders certainly think so: Le Bec Sucre sells out before 9.30 a.m. every weekend.
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Timothée Chalamet’s silly little hat is hot-off-the runway, actually
By Leah Dolan, CNN
(CNN) — There are several ways to wear a beanie: Cuffed, uncuffed, doubled cuffed, or far back from the hairline, delicately balanced on the crown of your head, as was the preference of British footballer David Beckham circa 2013. But few have sported the style debuted by Timothée Chalamet on Monday, which came complete with a surprising tuft of hair protruding from the top of his knitted hat.
His unconventional accessory has already proved divisive online, having been compared to a bonnet, an embroidered coffee filter and one of the petal crowns worn by illustrator Cicely Mary Barker’s ethereal flower fairies. Some have condemned the hat as deeply “unserious” and “weird,” while others have taken more kindly. “I want to pet that floofy little poof of hair that sticks out of the top,” wrote one social media user.
Naysayers will have to take up their disdain with Kim Jones, creative director of Dior since 2018. Chalamet’s hat debuted at Dior’s Spring-Summer 2024 menswear show last month, along with an array of similarly silly headpieces. As models rose up through trap doors in the floor, many were wearing fluorescent-colored knitted pieces that were half-beanie, half-floral fascinators. Each hat was cut at the top, like a small volcano that — at least in Chalamet’s case — could allow for an eruption of chocolate curls.
The beanies were created by milliner Stephen Jones and couture knitter Cecile Feilchenfeldt. Jones and Feilchenfeldt took inspiration from 1980s New Wave fashion and the club kids of New York, infusing the punk hats with a more romantic sensibility by adorning them with flowers using an ancient Chinese technique called “ronghua.”
While the wider world might not be ready for Chalamet’s look, there could be a method to his madness. The daring outfit comes just two weeks after the official release of the “Wonka” trailer, in which Chalamet plays a young Willy Wonka looking to establish himself as a master chocolate maker. Many came to question his casting in the Roald Dahl prequel, citing specifically his lack of silliness when embodying what is a notoriously quirky character. Now, Chalamet could be using his street style and silly hat to prove a point — or dip his toe into some method acting.
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Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
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Richer reported from Boston.
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Most states received a D or F grade on maternal mental health. It could get worse.
By Carlotta Dotto and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN
Nearly every state in the United States is neglecting access to maternal mental health care, according to a recent report, and experts fear the situation could get worse as more states severely restrict or ban abortion.
All but 10 US states received either a D or F grade on a number of key measures of maternal mental health risk policies and access to care — including access to therapists, psychiatrists or mental health treatment programs, according to a May report released by the nonprofit Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, in partnership with researchers from George Washington University. This is the group’s first report grading states on maternal mental health resources and policies.
Forty states and the District of Columbia received grades of a D or F, while just one state – California – earned a grade higher than a C. No state where abortion was banned or severely restricted received a grade higher than a D+.
More than a dozen states have banned abortion access in the year since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which has had severe consequences for maternal mental health, some providers told CNN. Other states continue to restrict abortion – most recently, Iowa legislators passed a six-week ban that has since been temporarily blocked by the courts. A 12-week ban went into effect in North Carolina on July 1.
“The truth is that access to mental care in this country – specifically in states where abortion has been restricted – has been abysmal for a very long time,” said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.
The Policy Center report found that most states lack specialized care for pregnant and postpartum women. For instance, only five states — California, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey and Oklahoma — require ob/gyns to conduct maternal mental health screening during prenatal and postpartum visits, Caitlin Murphy, research scientist at the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, told CNN.
Alabama and Mississippi – two states that banned abortion almost immediately after the Supreme Court reversed Roe vs. Wade – already had among the lowest numbers of certified perinatal mental health providers relative to the expected number of births, according to data from the report. Both states received an F on the report cards.
About 4 million babies are born every year in the country, and roughly 600,000 (20%) of US mothers may experience challenges with their mental well-being every year, according to the Policy Center. Black women are twice as likely as White women to experience maternal mental health conditions but half as likely to receive treatment, according to the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance.
“What we see is that the areas where there is the most need are actually the areas with the fewest resources and providers available,” Murphy said.
Texas is among the 15 states that received an F. Before the Dobbs decision, it banned abortions after six weeks of gestational age – before many people realize they are pregnant.
Elaine Cavazos, the chief clinical officer at a reproductive mental health care clinic in Austin, said that abortion bans have worsened an already-poor state of access to reproductive and mental health care in the state. She told CNN fears over prosecution for aiding and abetting an abortion have created a barrier between patients and providers to speak openly about their reproductive experiences, from pregnancy termination in another state to pregnancy loss.
“Mental health is already tricky as it is, but when you add in a layer of ‘We can’t even talk about these things openly for fear that some negative repercussion could happen to our client,’ it just adds a layer of oppression,” Cavazos said.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found in an ongoing study that when people are denied abortion and are forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy, their mental health suffers, increasing the risk of perinatal mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.
The UCSF researchers found that people who were denied an abortion experienced more symptoms of anxiety and low self-esteem than people who received one, according to their Turnaway Study.
For people who are able to obtain an abortion out of state, bans have introduced major practical and financial barriers, McNicholas said.
“Seeking an abortion in this country at this time – particularly if you live in the Midwest and the South, and most certainly if you live in a ban state – is a moment of incredible anxiety,” she said. “Not necessarily because you need an abortion but because it is so difficult to do so.”
McNicholas said she has often encountered people seeking abortions due to pre-existing mental health conditions that could be exacerbated by a pregnancy. This includes people in recovery from addiction or who already experienced a case of postpartum depression from a previous pregnancy.
“Abortion has been a really critical tool for them to continue to manage mental health crises in their lives and to keep them healthy and safe,” McNicholas said.
Maternal health professionals are also moving away from abortion-restricted states which experts said may result in even less capacity to screen for and detect maternal mental health conditions.
Most states have low access to maternal mental health care professionals already. The report cards allocated points for any state that had at least 5 certified perinatal mental health providers per 1,000 annual births. Just two states – Vermont and Montana – met that threshold. Those two states had fewer than 20,000 births combined in 2022, according to provisional CDC data
Residency applications decreased slightly last year nationally, but those decreases were larger in states with total abortion bans, particularly for ob/gyns, according to research from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Although there is no systemic process to measure how many women receive maternal mental health screening and diagnosis in the United States, the CDC estimates that more than half of pregnant women suffering from depression don’t receive treatment.
“Providers are already leaving the states with abortion restrictions because they feel like they really can’t do their job properly,” Murphy said. “They feel they can’t provide high-quality care to patients, whether that’s through counseling or to ensure that a birthing person who needs to terminate their pregnancy for health reasons can do it.”
More providers fear also being held responsible for facilitating an abortion if their patient miscarries, which is especially common early in pregnancy, Murphy told CNN.
“This is a big risk for the mother and the baby, both in terms of mental health and general health,” Murphy said.
While experts told CNN they are most concerned about states where abortion bans were enacted — and where bans may still be introduced — the state of maternal mental health is poor nationally, and bans stand to affect patients beyond a state’s boundaries.
Providers in states with access to abortions are seeing an increase in patient loads, as well as misinformation and mistrust – all of which create barriers to care, said Anna King, a perinatal counselor and training director of the LA-based non-profit Maternal Mental Health NOW.
“Providers and communities across the board are feeling really impacted in terms of their ability to proceed in the way that they were,” King said.
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What Ukraine must do to win in its southern push – and what Russia has in reserve
By Tim Lister, CNN
(CNN) — The Ukrainian military is doubling down on efforts to break through thick Russian defenses in its counteroffensive in the south, which has struggled to gain momentum since being launched at the beginning of June.
Ukrainian officials have said little about what fresh units are being committed to the offensive, but the military has clearly added recently-minted units equipped with western armor in at least one important segment of the southern front.
The challenges faced by the Ukrainians are perhaps less to do with numbers and more to do with capabilities, training and coordination, factors that are critical when an attacking force is faced with such an array of defenses.
Fragments of geolocated video show that western armor such as Bradley fighting vehicles have been part of the renewed assault and that experienced units have been brought into the fray. But tight operational security on the part of the Ukrainians precludes a full assessment of what is being done to reboot the counteroffensive – and where.
There’s still debate about the size of the additional effort.
George Barros of the Institute for the Study of War – a Washington-based group – told CNN: “We had not seen any evidence of a battalion-level attack and certainly no brigade-level attacks. If the Ukrainians are indeed committing full battalions and brigades now as reported, that would mark a clear new phase of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.”
A Ukrainian brigade is roughly 3,000 troops.
Mines and more mines
For weeks Ukrainian forces have struggled to break through Russian lines because of layers of defenses: tank traps, other obstacles and dense minefields. According to some Ukrainian accounts, they have resorted to using small groups of military engineers working through forested areas to cut a path through or evade these minefields.
But navigating them will not break the back of Russian defenses. Satellite imagery shows multiple layers of Russian fortifications, sometimes 20 kilometers deep: breach one and another awaits.
Despite hurried training, some of it in western Europe, Ukrainian forces appear to be struggling to carry out combined arms operations: the use of multiple different assets to suppress and degrade Russian defenses both in the air and on the ground.
“Russian attack helicopters and fighter-bombers are exploiting weaknesses in Ukraine’s air defenses, enabling the Russians to strike Ukrainian ground forces. Conducting a mechanized penetration of this magnitude while the adversary has air superiority is extremely difficult,” says Barros at the ISW.
“Operations are more sequential than synchronized,” says analyst Franz-Stefan Gady after a visit to the front lines and extensive conversations with the Ukrainian military.
“Ukraine will have to better synchronize and adapt current tactics, without which western equipment will not prove tac[tically] decisive in the long run. This is happening but it is slow work in progress.”
Gady says that in addition, Ukrainian troops he spoke with “are all too aware that lack of progress is often more due to force employment, poor tactics, lack of coordination (between) units, bureaucratic red tape/infighting, Soviet style thinking etc.”
He says that makes the Ukrainians more vulnerable as they try to advance, and there is some evidence of that in the few videos that have emerged on social media.
“It’s not just about equipment. There’s simply no systematic pulling apart of the Russian defensive system that I could observe,” Gady tweeted. “Weakening Russian defenses to a degree that enables maneuver,” which will include the use of cluster munitions, is a critical task in the weeks ahead.
The commitment of new units this week does appear to have enabled the Ukrainians make modest advances south of the town of Orikhiv, edging closer to the important Russian hub of Tokmak some 20 kilometers to the south of the current frontline.
There are other modest successes further east, but the few frontline accounts to have emerged speak of unceasing Russian aviation and artillery strikes.
Kostyantyn Denysov, a member of the Freedom Legion, said the fighting was relentless.
“In a word, it’s hell,” he told RFE/Radio Liberty this week. “There are small arms battles along the entire contact line, counter-battery fighting.”
“Their helicopters are flying here in pairs and shelling our positions, Su-25 assault aircraft are working, dropping bombs on our guys’ heads. Many units have been brought here to try not only to stop our movement, but also to recapture lost positions in certain areas.”
The Ukrainian military’s critical need is to gain momentum – and force Russian commanders to make painful choices about where and how to deploy their units.
It is far too early to tell whether the Ukrainian counteroffensive has entered a more dynamic phase. The ISW cautions that “this kind of penetration battle will be one of the most difficult things for Ukrainian forces to accomplish.”
Nor can the Ukrainians focus their entire effort on the south. The Russians still hope to make tactical advances of their own in the north and eastern fronts, so the Ukrainians have to retain substantial and capable forces along the straggling northern front.
As former Australian general Mick Ryan writes: “General Gerasimov, who we assume retains overall command of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, is implementing a defensive strategy. But concurrently he is conducting offensive activities at the tactical and operation levels,” especially along the front that leads north from Kreminna to Kupyansk.
The Kremlin has seized upon the slow progress of the Ukrainian counter-offensive: a rare opportunity to go beyond damage limitation.
President Vladimir Putin said on July 21 that it was “clear today that the Western curators of the Kiev regime are certainly disappointed with the results of the counteroffensive that the current Ukrainian authorities announced in previous months.”
But this conflict has been a graveyard of premature declarations.
There are factors that may work in Ukraine’s favor.
George Barros at the ISW says the Ukrainians may be able to exploit geographical advantages.
“Russian defensive lines are not all contiguous or uniformly suited for strong defence. Some lines are bisected by water features or difficult terrain. Some lines are arrayed in such a manner that it could make a controlled withdrawal from one prepared defensive line to the other difficult.”
Pointing to successful Ukrainian attacks along the Mokri Yaly river, Barros says that “many such exploitable terrain intricacies exist along the southern frontline.”
Russian units are suffering battle fatigue, with insufficient rotation or relief even as reinforcements are brought forward. Elements of the 58th Combined Arms Army have been fighting in Zaporizhzhia non-stop for nearly two months.
Its commander, Major General Ivan Popov, was dismissed earlier this month for complaining to the Russian Defense Ministry about the situation.
Most observers say that in contrast, Ukrainian morale remains robust.
Even so, Gady contends that “Russian forces, even if severely degraded and lacking ammo, are likely capable of delaying, containing or repulsing individual platoon- or company-sized Ukrainian advances unless these attacks are better coordinated & synchronized along the broader frontline.”
The long road
Some Ukrainian officials have complained that allied expectations have been unreasonable given the depth of Russian defenses and Russian air superiority – and the speed with which they have had to stand up new brigades.
While grateful for Western equipment such as mine engineering vehicles and cluster munitions, they say much more is needed. F16s would neutralize Russia’s air superiority; longer-range artillery would accelerate the damage to the Russian military’s logistics.
Absent an unexpected collapse of Russian lines, Ukrainian gains “are likely to occur over a long period of time and interspersed with lulls and periods of slower and more grinding efforts as the Ukrainians come to successive Russian defensive lines and themselves require relief and rotation,” says the ISW.
Gady concurs. “I suspect this will remain a bloody attritional fight with reserve units being fed in incrementally in the coming weeks and months,” he tweeted.
If that is the case, and this conflict begins to resemble the static frontlines that began to solidify in Donbas in 2015-16, when Russian-backed forces captured Ukrainian territory, other questions arise.
Will western governments begin to exert pressure on Ukraine to seek a settlement? And given the losses suffered thus far, Russia’s ability to generate reinforcements and the uncertainties surrounding the US presidential election – will the Ukrainian government’s own calculations shift?
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Christine Sinclair: the making of soccer’s most lethal striker
By Ben Morse, CNN
(CNN) — Diana Matheson is driving but can’t help checking her phone. She knows she shouldn’t, but the temptation is too much.
She pulls over to devote her full attention to her phone.
Matheson is being distracted by events in Edinburg, Texas, where a crowd of 820 people are watching history being made.
Christine Sinclair has just tapped home her second goal of the game and Canada’s fourth goal in an 11-0 win over St. Kitts and Nevis.
Although it might not sound spectacular, it is a landmark goal: her 185th for her country, meaning the Canadian has just become the all-time leader for international goals scored by both men and women.
Matheson, a longtime Canada teammate of Sinclair’s, watched the replay of the history-making goal in January, 2020, on her phone. It was a journey she will never forget.
“It was a big moment,” Matheson – who made 206 appearances, scoring 19 goals, for Canada – told CNN. “The fact that a Canadian holds the goal-scoring record in the world’s most popular game is, I mean, it’s unbelievable.”
Sinclair’s name is etched in the record books, ahead of soccer luminaries such as Abby Wambach, Mia Hamm and Cristiano Ronaldo.
And the 40-year-old has a chance to add further records to her name as she leads Canada at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
She could become the first player of either sex to score in six World Cups – she became just the second to score in five editions in 2019, after Marta had done so. Ronaldo becoming the third to do so in 2022.
From becoming Canada’s young-ever player when she made her debut aged 16 to arguably soccer’s greatest ever goal scorer, Sinclair has led quite the life. With this likely her last World Cup, she has one final opportunity to add ‘world champion’ to her long list of achievements.
‘Christine Sinclair is a goal scorer’
Matheson recalls a 16-year-old Sinclair bursting onto the scene and vividly remembers her first on-pitch encounter with ‘Sinc.’
“I think I actually got an elbow in the face from Sinc that day and knowing Sinc, she would say it’s my fault because my height is of that of her elbows, so she’d blame it on me,” she said.
Growing up in a sporting family – her father and uncle both were players, her dad managed in the Canada Soccer National Championships – Sinclair had a well-rounded sporting background that included soccer, basketball and baseball.
She was the star of her local school soccer team, and at the age of 15 attended games at the 1999 Women’s World Cup in Portland – a tournament regarded as a watershed for women’s soccer with increased attendances and viewership.
Once soccer became the sole focus, Sinclair went from strength to strength, committing to the University of Portland while also making her first forays on the international stage with the under-20s Canadian team.
Not only did she develop an eye for a goal – she scored a record 110 goals for the Portland Pilots – but she also established her effective style of play.
Matheson described Sinclair as a dynamic player early on in her career, with a game full of movement and hard running. But, more importantly, she said “Christine Sinclair is a goal scorer.”
“She’s one of the rare, rare type of player that they receive a ball anywhere in and around the vicinity of the goal and their heart rate and their blood pressure drops, if anything, and she just has always had the ability to put the ball in the back of the net where the goalkeeper isn’t,” she said.
Over the years, with age quelling the dynamism, Sinclair has had to tweak her game, changing focus from speed and onto ball control and positioning.
Kenneth Heiner-Møller, former manager and assistant manager of the Canadian women’s national team, said that ability to adapt her game points to her biggest strength: her brain.
“Her movement is like textbook material,” Heiner-Møller – who calls Sinclair a “warm” person – told CNN.
“Her movements, for me, they’re second to none. I haven’t seen anyone with that ability to be in the right position at the right time without being offside and all that.”
Matheson highlighted how much easier her job as an attacking midfielder was with someone of Sinclair’s ability and skillset in front of her.
But Heiner-Møller, while acknowledging the obvious benefits of having a lethal striker in his team said it did come with its downsides.
“So much [is] put on her shoulders but also built around her,” he said.
“I think that’s a code that got cracked later on that a lot of other players, like very skillful players, younger players, came through in the team. So it wasn’t just everything was on Christine. It was on more than her, like other players could also contribute to the success.
“There was a phase of like six, eight, 10 months potentially where it was still on her, like she was the best by far now, all of a sudden, the quality of the players improved and then it was easier.
“But having a player like Christine should never be a downside. And when she was not there, you could feel it very much.”
A crowning moment?
Not traditionally known for being a footballing nation, Sinclair’s arrival in the Canadian national team coincided with the country’s most successful period.
The Canadians finished fourth at the 2003 World Cup – Sinclair scoring three goals along the way – as well as back-to-back bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics Games.
However, Sinclair wrote her name into Canadian sports folklore, captaining the team to a triumphant gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, beating powerhouses Brazil, the US and Sweden along the way.
And now, with potentially one final World Cup in front of her, she has the opportunity to cement her legacy as one of the most transformative players in soccer history.
In arguably the most open Women’s World Cups in history, both Heiner-Møller and Matheson said there was no reason Sinclair couldn’t lead Canada to glory. Qualification to the knockouts is still not guaranteed, however, after a draw and a win in the opening two games. Progress rests on the final match against host Australia on Monday.
“I do think they could be a contender for the title. I think the biggest precursor for success is having previous success,” Møller said. “And they are the title holders from the last big tournament.
“So coming in with that mindset of having been successful already, knowing exactly what it takes to be a tournament team, I think that’s something they could find very beneficial.
“So I’ll hold them up there as a final four team. And if they’re not going to get there, I know they’ll be disappointed.”
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Poor weather forecast at Belgian GP raises safety concerns for F1 stars following recent death of 18-year-old driver
By Ben Morse, CNN
(CNN) — A number of F1 drivers have raised concerns about safety at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, after inclement weather was forecasted.
On Saturday – the day of the sprint race – there is a 90% chance of rain and thunderstorms, peaking in the late morning and early afternoon at Spa-Francorchamps, according to CNN’s Weather team.
On the day of the Belgian GP, there is a 40% chance of rain. The bulk of that rain is likely to fall in the afternoon and evening, otherwise there will be mostly cloudy skies.
The track at Spa-Francorchamps has a history of crashes. Earlier in July, 18-year-old Dutch driver Dilano van ’t Hoff died as the result of a collision during a Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine (FRECA) race at the track.
In 2019, Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert died after being hit at high speed at Spa-Francorchamps.
Alpine driver Pierre Gasly, a friend of Hubert, has led tributes to his fellow Frenchman whenever F1 has returned to the track.
Meanwhile Mercedes driver George Russell has called on the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), motorsport’s governing body, to make “bold” decisions in regards to calling off the race should the weather deteriorate.
“At the moment it’s constant communication with the FIA following the tragic passing of Dilano in FRECA. The two questions are: Is Spa safe enough? Then, it’s a question of the conditions. Motorsport will always be dangerous when you’re travelling at this speed,” Russell said, per Sky Sports.
“If you were to put a ranking of risk of all of the circuits, for sure Spa is one of the riskier circuits along with Jeddah, Monaco and Suzuka to a degree. Then the combination of the weather, it’s very challenging.
“We just have no visibility whatsoever. The way I describe it is driving down a motorway in pouring rain and turning your windscreen wipers off. So not really any short-term solutions. I personally think Spa is safe enough, we just need to find a solution for the visibility.”
Two years ago, the race was canceled due to poor weather after just three minutes and 27 seconds of racing.
Russell, who is also a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, added: “Fortunately the weather looks better on Sunday, so that will be going ahead. But following recent events, I think the FIA have to be bold with their decisions when it comes to safety and visibility.
“We all want to race but when you’re going down that straight at over 200mph and you can’t see 50 meters in front of you, there will be huge incidents. So they have a big responsibility this weekend.”
Other drivers – including Carlos Sainz, Valtteri Bottas and Fernando Alonso – have echoed Russell’s concerns about the safety of driving on the track in poor weather.
Eau Rouge
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc also said changes can be made to the track to make it safer.
“The walls in the straights after Eau Rouge I think could be … we should have a bit more space on the left and right where, if you lose control of the car,” Leclerc told reporters during his pre-race press conference.
“I think the way it is done at the moment, you are bouncing on the walls, and you have very high chances of finding yourself in the way again, and I think this is probably a change that we should consider in the future.”
Eau Rouge, named after the stream which runs underneath it and its reddish hue, is one of motorsport’s most famous corners. The corner has evolved over the years, with the safety measures implemented, such as barriers being moved back, as cars get faster.
Leclerc added: “Then the two biggest problems after that is visibility. It’s really difficult to put into words what we are seeing, apart from saying that we are seeing nothing.
“But we are not exaggerating, when we say we don’t see anything: we really don’t see anything when it’s raining.
“And this is a really big problem for Formula 1, for motorsport in general, any single-seaters. Now, we have quite a bit of downforce, there’s quite a lot of spray. And then this causes quite a lot of incidents, just because we cannot react to what there is in front. So easy to say that, much more difficult to find a solution for that.
“But I know that the FIA is on it, and is obviously trying to do the best on that. When is it safe to start a race, and this is another topic for the FIA to look closely, especially on a weekend like this, where it seems we will have quite a lot of rain throughout the whole weekend, to not feel the pressure of starting a race.”
“But at the end … safety comes first. And this needs to be the priority and people, and first of all, us drivers, we shouldn’t complain if we don’t have any laps because it is not safe to do so, with everything that has happened.”
CNN has reached out to the FIA and the track’s organizers at Spa-Francorchamps for comment.
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Best Unlimited Data Plans for July 2023
Picking an unlimited data plan for your phone isn't always as easy as it should be, so we compared the best unlimited data plans from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.
It doesn't matter if you're an Apple fan using the latest iPhone or a lifelong Android user looking to upgrade to the newest Pixel or Galaxy -- to get the most out of your device you'll need a good unlimited data plan. Unfortunately, when it comes to finding the overall "best" unlimited plan, things can get a little challenging. Unlike with home internet services, where your options are often limited by your location, most people living in the US have their pick of all the major competitors and carriers.
And with so many different options, it can be tricky to tell which ones are truly a good value, especially since carriers love to make bold claims about performance and coverage at different prices. Adding to the fun are recent reshuffling of plans by both T-Mobile and Verizon with different names, perks, prices and features.
To help you narrow down the best unlimited data plans out there, I'm going to focus on the three major carriers -- Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T -- combing through the multiple postpaid unlimited plans available to find the ones that provide the most perks and value for single lines and for families of four, so you can find the best plan for you and your budget.
Know your area
Before we get to the plans, to get the best deal you need to make sure you have the coverage that you need. This makes it very hard for us to give a blanket recommendation of any one carrier. T-Mobile's service in New York may be excellent, but if you're in rural Iowa, Verizon is more reliable.
While your mileage may vary, the good news is that these networks are growing and improving all the time, particularly as the three major players race to blanket the US with 5G. It's quite possible that you left a network complaining about its sparse service a decade ago, but now it's beefed itself up because of that race to acquire customers.
If you know any friends or family in your area that already use the carrier you're considering, ask about their experience. You could also go to a carrier's store and see if they offer any free ways to try out the service before switching over, such as T-Mobile's Network Pass. Verizon now offers a similar 30-day "Test Drive" program while the Cricket prepaid service has rolled out its own trial program that lets you sample parent AT&T's network.
Know your deals and discounts
One other thing to keep in mind: discounts. All of the carriers offer additional discounts that you could be eligible for, depending on your employer, military status, student status or age.
First responders, military members, veterans, nurses and teachers can get discounts on every major carrier. Verizon has discounts for students, while T-Mobile's Work perk could knock 15% off the monthly price of a Go5G Plus plan, with AT&T offering a similar program for its Unlimited Premium plans that it calls Signature. AT&T also has a promotion for teachers that offers 25% off its latest unlimited plans.
If you're 55 or older, you may also be eligible for a discounted plan: T-Mobile offers discounted plans nationwide for as low as $55 a month for two lines, and Verizon and AT&T offer similar options -- but only for Florida residents.
It's also worth noting that some carriers, particularly Verizon right now, sometimes advertise different rates on their websites that are geared toward switchers. A current promotion at the carrier offers a discount on the monthly plan, but only if you switch to Verizon and are bringing your own phone (not trading in and financing a new one on an installment plan). Our recommendations below reflect the actual rate outside of these very specific promotions.
Now, onto the picks.
Best unlimited data plans of 2023
T-Mobile recently reshuffled its plans, getting rid of what was our previous pick in this spot, the Base Essentials plan that offered a single line for $45 a month. It replaced that option with an Essentials Savings plan, a "limited time" offer of $50 a month for a single line.
If you only need one line, AT&T's new Value Plus plan could be the way to go. You get unlimited talk, text and data and 5G access. There are no perks like a free streaming service subscription or hotspot data and you will need to stick to one line.
Because of T-Mobile's restructuring of its cheapest plans, this has gotten a bit more complicated. As mentioned above, both T-Mobile Essentials and Essentials Saver include unlimited talk, text and data for all of the carrier's base unlimited plans, including 5G access.
Verizon's updated plans have replaced the carrier's previous Welcome Unlimited offer with... one named Unlimited Welcome. While the names are flipped, the core offer is still largely the same: There are no streaming perks like the Disney Bundle with this plan, no hotspot data and you can't hop on Verizon's fastest 5G networks (which it calls Ultra Wideband). You do, however, get Verizon's network for $120 a month for four lines, assuming you have automatic payments set up.
This is a bit more complicated. Verizon used to be our pick with its Play More plan that bundled in the Disney Bundle (ad-free Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu with ads) and services like Google Play Pass or Apple Arcade into the plan's sticker price.
T-Mobile Magenta & Magenta Max for 1 or 2 lines, Go5G and Go5G Plus for 3+
Runner-up for perks
T-Mobile's new plans are also a bit complicated. For most people, T-Mobile's Magenta and Magenta Max options are the better pick when it comes to looking for perks for one or two lines. They are cheaper than the new Go5G options and have most of the same features, except with a cheaper monthly rate ($70 for one line on Magenta, $120 for two lines; $85 for one line on Magenta Max, $140 for two lines).
More about unlimited data plans and perks
AT&T's unlimited plans no longer have much in the way of perks. The carrier used to offer a free subscription to HBO Max with its top Unlimited Elite offering ($85 for one line, $50 a month if you have four lines), but it got rid of the option in early June 2022.
It is also worth reiterating that carrier perks -- like Verizon and the Disney bundle or T-Mobile's offering of Netflix, Paramount Plus, ViX Plus and Apple TV Plus -- are often limited to one subscription per account, not one for each line you have.
Unlimited data plan FAQs
Why get unlimited?
If you're on T-Mobile, all of your plans are unlimited, and Verizon no longer lets new users sign up for a shared data plan. Only AT&T still offers some tiered data plans.
Is unlimited data really unlimited?
It is, but the speeds you get may vary depending on your plan and how much data you use in a given month. Whereas in the past carriers would slow down or "throttle" your speeds if you pass a certain limit (usually over 22GB of data within a month) for the remainder of your billing cycle, today all three major providers say they'll only do that in special cases.
Is hotspot included?
A hotspot, or the ability to share your phone's connection with other devices, will vary based on the plan you have. Some, like AT&T's Value Plus and Verizon's Unlimited Welcome, don't include it at all while others -- such as AT&T's Unlimited Starter and T-Mobile's Essentials and Magenta -- offer limited amounts of high-speed access before capping your hotspot performance to "3G" or "2G" speeds.
We'll keep updating this article as new unlimited plans and better deals emerge. In the meantime, if you know of a better wireless plan deal or have your own favorites, message me on Twitter @eliblumenthal.
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
Colson Whitehead channels the paranoia and fear of 1970s NYC in 'Crook Manifesto': "My early '70s New York is dingy and grimy," the Pulitzer Prize-winning author says. Whitehead's sequel to Harlem Shuffle centers on crime at every level, from small-time crooks to Harlem's elite.
Crime writer S.A. Cosby loves the South — and is haunted by it: Cosby's novel All the Sinners Bleed centers on a Black sheriff in a small Southeast Virginia county. The novel was inspired by his own experiences growing up in the shadow of the Confederacy.
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Crime writer S.A. Cosby loves the South — and is haunted by it
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CANBERRA, Australia — Four air crew members were missing after an Australian army helicopter ditched into waters off the Queensland state coast during joint military exercises with the United States, officials said Saturday.
The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter went down near Lindeman Island, a Great Barrier Reef tourist resort, at about 11 p.m. Friday, exercise director Australian Army Brigadier Damian Hill said.
A search involving U.S., Canadian and Australian personnel was underway to find the crew who are all Australian men, officials said.
Debris that appeared to be from a helicopter had been recovered, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Douglas McDonald said.
The Taipan was taking part in Talisman Sabre, a biennial joint U.S.-Australian military exercise that is largely based in Queensland. This year's exercise involves 13 nations and more than 30,000 military personnel.
Defense Minister Richard Marles said the helicopter ditched, which refers to an emergency landing on water.
"Defense exercises, which are so necessary for the readiness of our defense force, are serious. They carry risk," Marles told reporters in Brisbane. "As we desperately hope for better news during the course of this day we are reminded about the gravity of the act which comes with wearing our nation's uniform."
Hill said the exercise was postponed on Saturday morning but had restarted limited activity later in the day. Australia had grounded its Taipan fleet as a precaution, Hill said.
It was the second emergency involving an Australian Taipan this year, after one ditched into the sea off the New South Wales state coast in March. That helicopter was taking part in a nighttime counterterrorism training exercise when it ran into trouble. All 10 passengers and crew members were rescued.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Brisbane for a meeting on Saturday and is due to travel with Marles to north Queensland on Sunday to see the exercise.
Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute to the missing air crew at the outset of a meeting with their Australian counterparts, Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
"It's always tough when you have accidents in training, but ... the reason that we train to such high standards is so that we can be successful and we can protect lives when we are called to answer any kind of crisis," Austin said.
"Our guys tend to make this look easy and they make it look easy because they're so well exercised and rehearsed and trained, and this is unfortunately a part of that, what it takes to get them to where we need them to be," Austin added.
Blinken said, "We're so grateful to them for their dedication, for their service, for everything they've been doing to stand up for the freedom that we share and that is what unites us more than anything else."
Marles thanked the United States for their contribution to the search and rescue effort.
The missing helicopter had just dropped off two Australian commandos before it hit the water, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Australia announced in January that its army and navy would stop flying the European-built Taipans by December 2024, 13 years earlier than originally planned, because they had proven unreliable. They will be replaced by 40 U.S. Black Hawks. Marles said at the time the Lockheed Martin-designed Black Hawks "have a really good proven track record in terms of their reliability."
Australia's Taipans had been plagued by problems since the first helicopter arrived in the country in 2007.
Australia's entire fleet of 47 Taipans was grounded in 2019 to fix a problem with their tail rotor blades. A year later, 27 Taipans were grounded because of a problem with doors.
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A year ago, she played for UNC. Now, this Chadds Ford native is the Tar Heels’ head coach at age 23.
Matson is one of the youngest Division I coaches in history. She succeeded Karen Shelton, who retired after 42 seasons of building the Tar Heels into one of the nation’s best programs.
When she was 9 years old, Erin Matson told her father that she wanted to play in the Olympics. At age 13, she had her first stint with the U.S. women’s national indoor field hockey team, and she won gold in the World League Semifinals at age 17 with the U.S. national team.
Her field hockey career started early and progressed quickly. After winning four NCAA championships with North Carolina, the Chadds Ford native has Tar Heels achievements rivaling those of NBA great Michael Jordan and two-time women’s World Cup champion Mia Hamm.
However, Matson’s legacy at Chapel Hill is only beginning. She was named North Carolina’s head coach in January at age 22, becoming one of the youngest Division I coaches in history. She succeeded Karen Shelton, a West Chester graduate, built the Tar Heels into a national power before retiring after 42 seasons.
Matson is prepared to continue that standard. The first-year coach has competed on the biggest stage and learned from greats like Shelton along the way — all of which, Matson said, has prepared her for this moment.
“From being the youngest player on a really experienced [national] team, from being a freshman and having an impact on a team that has fifth-years,” Matson said, “that’s been a massive part of my journey.
“I’ve had a lot of people to learn from, a lot of mistakes to learn from, whether they were my own or others. I will do whatever I can to be the best at something. I had that mindset as a player, but carrying that over now into this role and being a coach, I will do whatever it takes to outwork everybody to be the best coach I can be for this group of girls.”
‘Fell in love with the sport’
Before trying field hockey, Matson played on a local youth softball team in Landenberg, Pa., where she lived with her parents, Jill and Brian, until she was in seventh grade.
One of Jill’s close friends, Lori Browning, also had a daughter on the team. (Her daughter, Antonia Browning, went on to play softball at West Chester.) Lori Browning told the Matsons about a field hockey clinic at Papermill Park in Newark, Del., and asked, “What do you think about signing our girls up?”
Still to this day, Brian and Jill can recall the moment Erin picked up a stick for the first time. She dribbled on the grass, wearing an oversize tie-dye T-shirt, and had an immediate grasp of the game.
“She had natural athleticism,” said Jill, who played softball and field hockey at Yale. “She was a lefty hitter, she just sort of naturally got down on the right positions and was a fast learner, like coachable. At a very young age, she fell in love with the sport.”
Soon after picking up a stick, Matson asked her parents if she could play on a travel team. She joined WC Eagles, one of the top-ranked clubs in the country, in Spring City, Pa. Learning under coach Jun Kentwell, who was a player on the Chinese national team for eight years, instilled confidence and discipline in Matson.
“They taught her lessons in self-confidence and leadership by putting her in high pressure situations,” said Brian, who played baseball at Delaware. “It was building her to be fearless.”
Matson competed up an age group when she made her first national team appearance with the indoor squad at 13 years old. She started to get used to playing with girls who were stronger and faster, but it encouraged her to work harder.
“It was never a conversation in my own head of like, ‘I’m gifted’ or ‘I’m pretty good at this.’” she said. “[WC Eagles] just taught me things about how to be a great teammate, how to be competitive, things you don’t get taught anywhere else in America.”
Kentwell knew Matson’s work ethic would be her greatest asset. Each training session, Matson, who played forward, would write down everything they were doing that day in a notebook so she wouldn’t forget.
“I was training her individually one day a week, making sure she’s getting the international technique,” Kentwell said. “If she made one mistake, she would grab the ball and repeat it again. She was so dedicated when she made a mistake — she’ll never have an excuse.”
Since most of her time was spent with Team USA, Matson played only her freshman and sophomore year at Unionville High School, from which she graduated in 2018.
Matson is one of two 16-year-olds to be selected to the U.S. women’s field hockey national team. At 17, she recorded her first cap against Australia in 2017 and recalled playing with many of her future Tar Heel teammates that year, such as Ashley Hoffman, Lauren Moyer, and Julia Young.
“I learned from the older teammates,” Matson said. “I was 17 on the outdoor national team with 30-year-old teammates, who just were married and having conversations about having kids and knew exactly what they needed to eat before pregame meals, while I’m sitting here doing my high school math homework.
“I loved the fact that I was getting exposure to things that I wouldn’t have got without those opportunities.”
“I was never one to get caught up in regrets or what-ifs or comparing myself to a normal high school kid, because I wasn’t; everyone here playing for Carolina wasn’t a normal kid. It was just choices to me, and it set me up for success.”
When asked by younger girls if the international experience felt overwhelming or if she missed out on being a teenager, Matson noted that she couldn’t attend every school event, like senior week, and had to rush from prom to a tournament. But, she explained, it’s important to remember your goals.
“I was never one to get caught up in regrets or what-ifs or comparing myself to a normal high school kid,” she added. “Because I wasn’t. Everyone here playing for Carolina wasn’t a normal kid. It was just choices to me, and it set me up for success.”
‘Mature beyond her years’
Shelton met Matson while competing for WC Eagles. Her niece, Laura Shelton, a former player at Penn, also competed on that team. The club was a recruiting hotbed for UNC, so when Karen Shelton took her yearly visit around Christmastime, Matson stood out immensely.
“She was unselfish,” Shelton said. “She has a knack for scoring goals, she loved to score goals, but she’ll make the right decision at the right time. She has that awareness of what’s going on around her — incredible, well-rounded scope.”
The recruiting process, like most of Matson’s career, started earlier. She committed to UNC during her sophomore year, passing over over Duke, Virginia, and Princeton.
Entering college, Matson had one goal: win a national championship. She not only succeeded in doing so, but earned four of five possible NCAA titles in her collegiate career.
Matson became the second player ever to win the Honda Award, which is given to the best collegiate female athletes, three times — Shelton was the first — and is the Atlantic Coast Conference all-time career leader in goals and points.
“It’s fun for me to have watched her mature as a young woman,” Shelton said. “From changing her hairstyle, dating boys — she always liked the baseball players — to falling in love. The things that student-athletes do, it’s such an important developmental stage in their life. Erin has always been mature beyond her years.”
Shelton led the Tar Heels to a stellar 2022 season. Behind Matson as a fifth-year student, the team finished undefeated (21-0) while capturing the program’s 10th NCAA and 25th ACC crown.
At the end of the season, Shelton, 65, announced her retirement. She left the program as the winningest coach in the history of the sport. Matson, then 22, had considered going into coaching in the past, so after talking with her coach and her parents, she thought, why not take a chance on this opportunity.
“It was a long process, multiple rounds of interviews,” Matson said. “I got a text from our athletic director later on saying, ‘Hey, are you free tomorrow?’ I was thinking, ‘Is this a good text or Is this bad text?’ Definitely didn’t sleep well that night. When I came into the office the next morning, he slid a paper across, offering me the job.
“It was emotional. I’ll never forget the moment and just how grateful I was, I can’t say thank you enough for Bubba Cunningham [UNC’s director of athletics] and the board of trustees for taking a chance on me.”
“A lot of kids look up to Erin Matson. She’s a leader in our sport; she was as a player, and she will be as a coach.”
She first called her parents, then Shelton, to relay the news, and the celebration began. Matson brings a needed refresh to the program, Shelton said, and she understands the culture of the team.
In many ways Shelton and Matson are alike. The coach took over UNC in 1981 — when she had just turned 23. She also played seven years on the national team and competed on the 1984 Olympic team while coaching.
“She’s young enough to still play at the absolute elite level,” Shelton said. “A lot of kids look up to Erin Matson. She’s a leader in our sport; she was as a player, and she will be as a coach.”
Matson heavily weighed the thought of putting her playing career on hold. Although, she hasn’t yet realized her dream of competing in the Olympics, it doesn’t mean that the door is closed. Her focus in the meantime, though, is to empower the female athletes around her.
“This is where I wanted to put my energy,” Matson said, “This team deserves the best coach in the country, and that’s what I will try to do for them every single day. I can’t do that if I’m putting my energy elsewhere. If the stars align down the road, then so be it, and we can figure it out — great. But if not, I’m happy and fulfilled as can be with being in the coaching role.” | https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/unc-field-hockey-coach-erin-matson-20230729.html | 2023-07-29T09:40:43 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/unc-field-hockey-coach-erin-matson-20230729.html |
Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
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Richer reported from Boston.
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Fresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former President Donald Trump sought to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
The latest criminal charges unsealed Thursday deepen Trump’s legal jeopardy, alleging a more central role for the former president than previously known in a cover-up that prosecutors say was meant to prevent them from recovering top-secret documents he took with him after he left the White House. Coming as Trump braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the new allegations strengthen special counsel Jack Smith’s already powerful case against Trump while undercutting potential defenses floated by the former president, experts say.
“Before these new charges, you could maybe try some sort of defense that ‘this was all a mistake, it was my staff’ or confusion about what documents he actually had,” said former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor.
“But especially now, when you’re trying to destroy video footage,” he added, “that’s kind of the final nail in the coffin. I don’t see much in the way of a defense, not a real defense. All he can do is claim he’s being persecuted and hope for a holdout juror or something.”
Trump resorted to that familiar playbook on Friday, writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that “this is textbook Third World intimidation by rabid, lawless prosecutors.” He insisted during an interview with radio host John Fredericks that he did nothing wrong and accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate his staff into making up lies about him.
Later Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago security tapes were voluntarily handed over to prosecutors. Trump said he was told they were not “deleted in any way, shape or form.”
The new Florida charges came as a surprise given that Trump and his legal team have been focused on the prospect of an additional indictment in Washington — possibly within days — related to his efforts to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump received a letter this month informing him that he’s a target in that probe, and his lawyers met Thursday with special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
Hours after that meeting, Smith revealed the new classified documents case charges on top of a 38-count indictment issued last month against Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta. The updated indictment includes a detailed chronology of phone conversations and other interactions between Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, in the days after the Justice Department last June drafted a subpoena for security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Video from the home would ultimately become vital to the government’s case because, prosecutors said, it shows Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room — an act alleged to have been done at Trump’s direction and in an effort to hide records not only only from investigators but Trump’s own lawyers.
The day after a draft subpoena was sent to the Trump Organization, the indictment says, Trump called De Oliveira and spoke with him for about 24 minutes. Though the details of that conversation are not included in the indictment, De Oliveira is described by prosecutors as asking a Mar-a-Lago information technology staffer several days later how long the server retained footage for and is quoted as telling the employee that “the boss” wanted it deleted.
Lawyers for Nauta, who has pleaded not guilty, and De Oliveira declined to comment on the allegations. De Oliveira is expected to make his first court appearance in Miami on Monday.
To the extent that evidence of Trump’s involvement in trying to delete video is circumstantial rather than direct, it might present a challenge for prosecutors, said David Aaron, a former Justice Department national security prosecutor who has worked on cases involving the mishandling of classified documents.
But if they can tie the effort to Trump, he added, “it’s devastating in its own right, because it doesn’t matter at that point what he thought he had the right to do, or whatever other defense he’s going to have about the classified documents. That’s in and of itself very bad.”
It could also help prosecutors establish that Trump knew what he was doing was wrong because “you only delete video of what you’ve done if you think it’s going to get you in trouble,” Aaron said. And Trump’s own accusations against others, like his claims against Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, could boomerang against him.
Trump has claimed that Clinton deleted emails from her private server for the purpose of obstructing a criminal investigation into her own handling of classified information — something the FBI and Justice Department never alleged — but now stands himself accused of scheming to delete evidence he feared would be incriminating.
“He has specifically criticized other public figures for deleting data when he says they thought they were going to be in trouble,” Aaron said. “So if you needed to prove his consciousness of guilt, it’s not just an obvious thing that you would ask the jury to rely on common sense for — he’s actually made statements about what it means when someone does this.”
Trump and Nauta are set for trial next May, though it’s not clear if that date will hold.
Smith’s team also added a new count of willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document about a Pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country prosecutors say Trump showed off during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
That charge comes after Trump repeatedly claimed he didn’t have any secret documents when he spoke, only magazine and newspaper clippings, even though an audio recording captured him saying “this is secret information.” The document was returned to the government in January 2022, months before the subpoena for classified records.
It’s not clear why prosecutors moved now to indict another one of Trump’s underlings, though bringing charges against De Oliveira that could carry significant prison time adds serious pressure on him, potentially increasing the odds that he could decide to cut a plea deal and cooperate.
“But, you know, Trump seems to inspire a lot of loyalty, at least in some people,” Eliason said. “Maybe they are holding out for the idea that he is reelected and he can pardon them.”
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Richer reported from Boston.
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From the outside, the tall white building looks like any other hip, new Brooklyn living space. But about a thousand migrant men sleep here every night and there's room for hundreds more. It's a sort of mega shelter, poised to become one of New York City's largest.
It's been open for just a few weeks, and it's already riddled with accusations of abuse.
For months, Mayor Eric Adams has been issuing warnings that the New York City shelter system simply cannot handle the deluge of over 90,000 people it has received in the last year or so. "We have no more room in the city," he cautioned at a recent press conference. "We need help from the federal government."
The Adams administration is challenging New York's right to shelter law in court: That's the law that for decades has assured that the city provide a safe haven to anyone in need, regardless of immigration status.
Adams also recently announced several unusual measures including distribution of fliers to asylum-seekers at the border in order to discourage migrants from coming to New York City. Single adults will only be able to stay in shelters for 60 days before having to reapply.
Activists say it's in keeping with this policy shift that the new shelter site — located in Brooklyn's posh Clinton Hill neighborhood — is being referred to as an "emergency respite center," rather than a shelter. It's been touted as a temporary humanitarian aid solution.
NPR spent several days speaking to asylum seekers who say conditions in the building are dire. Many described zones of 80 to 90 people sharing two bathrooms. A 26-year-old man named Deivy says he's fleeing armed conflict in Colombia and that he's been living in the shelter for over a week.
He asked that his last name be withheld for fear of retaliation. Deivy says fighting over use of the bathroom facilities is common and showering is an odyssey. Parked outside, two trailers with showers serve the entire building.
"It's bad in there," says one Mauritanian man named Neimar, who also asked that his last name be withheld for fear he'd be in trouble with shelter authorities. Sitting listlessly on a nearby park bench, Neimar describes the experience as a sort of limbo. "We had no life where we came from, but here we have no luck here. No clothing. No food. Nothing."
Lack of access to food is one of the most common complaints. On a recent day shelter occupants say lunch consists of a bag of chips and a water. Often the food has gone bad.
What troubles many people here the most is the security guards. "They treat us like animals," says Neimar. "As if we were not people."
In interviews with more than two dozen people, nearly everyone recounted experiencing physical harassment and verbal slights at the shelter. "I understand enough English to know I'm being insulted," says Deivy.
NPR reached out to the New York City government multiple times for comment on these accusations without response.
Advocates say shelters like this one are disheartening, especially given that New York has long been seen as a beacon for immigrants. "For at least 40 years, New York City has provided a right to shelter to all people — regardless of their immigration status — who need a place to stay for the night," says Columbia University Professor Elora Mukherjee, who studies immigration and law. She called the shift in policy "devastating."
For many migrants and asylum seekers, this Brooklyn location is not the first encounter with the New York shelter system. But it does feel like the last straw. Several described the situation at this new site so dire, they would rather sleep under a nearby highway overpass. Others have no choice but to join a homeless camp of nearly 20 men.
Among them is Jose Antonio. He says he left Venezuela to escape government harassment. "Eighty people using two bathrooms?" he says. "It's a health hazard." When he arrived at the shelter a few weeks ago, it was under construction, still lacking lights. After an altercation over bathroom access in the morning, he says, he was asked to leave. He now he sleeps outside. During the day, he works odd landscaping gigs.
The motto down here: stay working.
But the question of work and who is allowed to do it is where the federal immigration bureaucracy labyrinth gets even more complicated. The soonest an asylum seeker can get a work permit is six months after they apply for asylum. That's a process that can in turn take years.
"The Mayor does make a good point when he says that the city needs help. And that help should take various forms," said Professor Elora Mukherjee. The city, she says, needs the federal government to lend their authority. "First and foremost: the federal government should authorize asylum seekers to receive their lawful work organization as soon as they enter the United States and fill out the relevant paperwork."
There's no indication that this will happen anytime soon. Instead, many men rent scooters in order to work for food delivery apps. By noon on a recent day, the dinging sound of orders start echoing under the bridge.
The men head out.
It's a dystopian scene: asylum seekers, staying in a shelter and under a bridge, delivering pricey meals throughout New York.
A few days later, the police sweep the camp. For several hours the men say they are driven around the city on a bus and taken to two different shelters where they are turned away.
Eventually, the bus drops them off in Brooklyn again. The men walk back to the highway overpass and to the camp where they find many of their belongings are now missing. One man reports his immigration papers, cellphone, and clothing all gone.
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Temperatures remain very warm heading into this weekend and beyond | 7/29 AM
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - Today will be another mostly sunny day across Texoma as temperatures will surge into the lower to middle 100s once again this afternoon. Luckily dewpoints will remain in the comfortable to slightly humid range this afternoon, so heat indices will remain near actual air temperatures. Nevertheless, it is imperative to continue to follow heat-related safety tips.
Ensure you are taking breaks out from the sun in shaded regions or air-conditioned areas, drinking plenty of water and fluids, wearing loose-fitted and light-colored clothing, and checking up on loved ones. Never leave pets or small children in an unattended car as these can heat up dangerously very quickly.
Tonight, temperatures will dip into the upper 60s with some passing clouds. Winds will be blowing out of the south between 5 to 10mph.
For the day on Sunday, we will begin with mostly cloudy conditions but as the day progresses, we will see breaks in the clouds and see partly cloudy skies. Afternoon highs will once again climb into the middle 100s across much of the viewing area. Southerly winds will turn southeasterly later in the day between 5 to 10mph.
Heat continues into the new work week, with afternoon temperatures in the middle 100s all week long. We will not see much in the way of rain chances, if any, this week due to a ridge of high pressure across our area. That may change heading into the next weekend and could give us a bit of relief in the way of cooler temperatures.
Have a great weekend, Texoma, and stay safe in the heat!
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Dallas Goedert steps into an Eagles leadership role, hoping younger players will push him to the next level
Goedert hopes that by helping younger tight ends, he's helping himself get better.
Dallas Goedert has been hitting the film room — but not to watch his own tape.
The tight end is making a conscious effort to take on more of a leadership role. It’s early in Eagles training camp, but he has tried to keep his younger teammates in mind as he goes through the practices and meetings.
“I watch their clips, I tell them what I see, I tell them what I’m thinking when I’m running that play,” Goedert said. “It’s always keeping football in my mind, thinking about what I would do if I was in their position during their plays.”
In his mind, the improvement of his teammates can only make Goedert better.
Goedert is already considered one of the top tight ends in the NFL. However, he has yet to earn Pro Bowl or All-Pro honors. He played backup to Zach Ertz until 2021. But after stepping into the starting role, he was hampered by injuries through the 2022 season.
In the 12 games Goedert played last season, he had 55 receptions for 702 yards and three touchdowns. He finished seventh in yardage amongst NFL tight ends despite playing the least number of games of the top 20 tight ends. However, his time on IR disqualified him from the Pro Bowl ballot.
Pro Bowl honors and a Super Bowl win are the goals, but Goedert is taking it one day at a time, just as coach Nick Sirianni has preached. He’s scaling the mountain slowly, but if he improves each day, he’ll reach the peak, he said.
“I just tried to pick one thing each day and try to get better at that and focus on that for the day,” Goedert said. “And you stack enough of it, and I should be able to improve in a lot of aspects.”
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Goedert identified a few points he is focusing on, starting with the mental side. He’s studying the playbook, which is new after the departure of Shane Steichen and the hiring of Brian Johnson as offensive coordinator. It’s “kind of the same, kind of different” from Steichen’s systems, and there are definitely some new wrinkles.
They’re trying to install it quickly, but it’s early in camp. Even so, Jalen Hurts has shown an uncanny ability to know what’s coming, and Goedert is drawing inspiration from his quarterback’s advanced thinking. Goedert wants to know where center Jason Kelce is going to point before he does it, whom to attack, and how to attack.
Other focuses include staying low when blocking, getting better at his breaks, and fine-tuning his routes. Goedert took the initiative at minicamp to confer with wide receivers AJ Brown, DeVonta Smith, and Greg Ward, who are some of the best at route-running.
Kelce has said he would like to see Goedert improve on the three touchdowns he scored last season. However, Goedert indicated he understands that the run game works for the Eagles right now and is OK with whatever it takes for his team to win. But that doesn’t mean his day won’t come.
“If that ever stops, maybe we can go to me,” Goedert said. “I’m going to keep working on my craft, so when the opportunities come, I can make more plays on them.”
With so many returning to the Eagles offense, Goedert has big expectations for this season, both personally and for the team. And it’s not just the veterans who have impressed him.
While less experienced tight ends are fighting for reps and ultimately spots on the roster, Goedert will continue to help, hoping the younger players will sharpen him.
“The better they can be, the better they’re going to push me to become,” Goedert said. “So I feel like leading them and helping them is also helping myself. It works hand in hand.” | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-dallas-goedert-training-camp-tight-end-20230729.html | 2023-07-29T09:40:52 | 0 | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-dallas-goedert-training-camp-tight-end-20230729.html |
James Bradberry’s penalty in the Eagles’ Super Bowl loss drove everyone crazy. Except him.
The play will never be forgotten around here. It cost the Eagles a championship. But Bradberry, to his credit, has cast it out of his mind.
James Bradberry says that he doesn’t think about the penalty that cost the Eagles the Super Bowl. Not unless someone asks him about it. So after the Eagles practiced Friday at the NovaCare Complex, someone asked him about it. Before we get to Bradberry’s answer, the topic requires some narrative unpacking and lots of what-ifs.
Yes, yes, it might be unfair to home in on Bradberry like this, especially after so much time has passed since the Eagles’ 38-35 loss at State Farm Stadium on Feb. 12.
After all, everyone knows the cliche that every play in every game is important and no single mistake by a player or bad call by an official determines the final outcome. And everyone knows that the Kansas City Chiefs turned a Jalen Hurts fumble into a game-changing touchdown, that Quez Watkins turned a potential big play into a momentum-killing drop, and that Andy Reid went full Westley-vs.-Vizzini on Jonathan Gannon in the second half.
But let’s be real. Super Bowl LVII was tied with 1 minute, 54 seconds to go and Kansas City was facing a third-and-8 when Bradberry was flagged for holding JuJu Smith-Schuster. The penalty gave the Chiefs a first down and allowed them to run the clock down until, when Harrison Butker hit the winning field goal, eight seconds remained in regulation. Give the ball back to Hurts that night with 90 seconds to go and two timeouts, and even with the Eagles down by three, you’d still have to like their chances to force overtime at least.
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Then there’s the issue of whether the call was correct and justifiable. Yes on the former, less so on the latter. It was a hold — a subtle hold, but a hold nonetheless. Bradberry admitted as much in the locker room afterward.
The key question was whether the officials had established an unspoken rule: In that particular game, they would not penalize a defensive back for that particular kind of hold. If they broke that rule by calling that hold on Bradberry, then he, the Eagles, and their fans have a pretty legitimate beef, and if they wanted, they could continue driving themselves crazy with outrage and might-have-beens.
James Bradberry has not driven himself crazy over that penalty. He has more than five months of distance from it, and from then to now, he has handled the incident and its aftermath in the same standup manner. As he said, he answers when he’s asked about it — and he had to be asked about it. But by all indications, he does not dwell on it and does not wallow in any disappointment or anger about it.
“I try to live my life with a DB mindset,” he said Friday. “A play’s going to happen. Good play, bad play — you’ve got to move on to the next one. That’s how I really thought about it.”
He applies the same principle to the other aspects of his career, too. He will turn 30 on Thursday, and the cornerback opposite him, Darius Slay, is 32. Both of them were selected to the Pro Bowl last season; the Associated Press named Bradberry to its All-Pro second team. But neither of them is, by the NFL definition of the term, young. Can they repeat that same measure of excellence?
“The best thing we can do is just forget about what we did last year and move on to this year,” said Bradberry, who must be a huge Ted Lasso fan, because he apparently has the memory of a goldfish. “I think we can be as good as we want to be. I know Slay, for one, I feel like he’s a Hall of Famer. He’s one of the greatest corners of this decade — well, of this past decade, and we’re trying to build in this decade, as well.”
Was he sensitive to making Slay sound old?
“You know what?” Bradberry said. “We’re both getting up there in age, but that’s what also makes us better. We have a lot of experience. Whatever we lack, we make up for it in our mental game.”
» READ MORE: How All-Pro CB James Bradberry decided the Eagles were the right fit — and against ‘more lucrative’ offers
In March, he re-signed with the Eagles, considering other options in free agency but ultimately agreeing to a three-year contract that could be worth as much as $38 million. Maybe it’s a silly question, but did he fear that the Super Bowl penalty would be held against him (no pun intended) by the teams that were interested in signing him?
“I wasn’t worried about that,” Bradberry said. “I felt like I had a pretty good year. Had it affected the signing, I just would have had to live with it.”
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PHOENIX — A historic heat wave that turned the U.S. Southwest into a blast furnace throughout July is beginning to abate with the late arrival of monsoon rains.
Forecasters expect that by Monday at the latest, people in metro Phoenix will begin seeing high temperatures under 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) for the first time in a month. As of Friday, the high temperature in the desert city had been at or above that mark for 29 consecutive days.
Already this week, the overnight low at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport fell under 90 (32.2 C) for the first time in 16 days, finally allowing people some respite from the stifling heat once the sun goes down.
Temperatures are also expected to ease in Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Death Valley, California.
The downward trend started Wednesday night, when Phoenix saw its first major monsoon storm since the traditional start of the season on June 15. While more than half of the greater Phoenix area saw no rainfall from that storm, some eastern suburbs were pummeled by high winds, swirling dust and localized downfalls of up to an inch (2.5 centimeters) of precipitation.
Storms gradually increasing in strength are expected over the weekend.
Scientists calculate that July will prove to be the hottest globally on record and perhaps the warmest human civilization has seen. The extreme heat is now hitting the eastern part of the U.S, as soaring temperatures moved from the Midwest into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, where some places are seeing their warmest days so far this year.
The new heat records being set this summer are just some of the extreme weather being seen around the U.S. this month, such as flash floods in Pennsylvania and parts of the Northeast.
And while relief may be on the way for the Southwest, for now it's still dangerously hot. Phoenix's high temperature reached 116 (46.7 C) Friday afternoon, which is far above the average temperature of 106 (41.1 C).
"Anyone can be at risk outside in this record heat," the fire department in Goodyear, a Phoenix suburb, warned residents on social media while offering ideas to stay safe.
For many people such as older adults, those with health issues and those without access to air conditioning, the heat can be dangerous or even deadly.
Maricopa County, the most populous in Arizona and home to Phoenix, reported this week that its public health department had confirmed 25 heat-associated deaths this year as of July 21, with 249 more under investigation.
Results from toxicological tests that can takes weeks or months after an autopsy is conducted could eventually result in many deaths listed as under investigation as heat associated being changed to confirmed.
Maricopa County confirmed 425 heat-associated deaths last year, and more than half of them occurred in July.
Elsewhere in Arizona next week, the agricultural desert community of Yuma is expecting highs ranging from 104 to 112 (40 C to 44.4 C) and Tucson is looking at highs ranging from 99 to 111 (37.2 C to 43.9 C).
The highs in Las Vegas are forecast to slip as low as 94 (34.4 C) next Tuesday after a long spell of highs above 110 (43.3 C). Death Valley, which hit 128 (53.3 C) in mid-July, will cool as well, though only to a still blistering hot 116 (46.7 C).
In New Mexico, the highs in Albuquerque next week are expected to be in the mid to high 90s (around 35 C), with party cloudy skies.
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At CHOP, ‘ultra-deep’ genetic testing detects rare mutations that cause debilitating childhood diseases
A 14-year-old dancer from Mechanicsburg was among 35 children to benefit from genetic testing at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dancing was medicine for Avery Rountree. Twirling, gracefully leaping, and raising her leg high above her head were among the few things that soothed her pain.
The teenager was born with malformed blood vessels and lymphatic ducts in her left leg, causing it to throb and swell with excess fluid. Medication didn’t seem to help much.
Wearing a compression stocking on her aching leg, she could compete like any other member of her team at DanceVibe studio in Mechanicsburg, Pa. But anytime she stopped moving — standing, sitting, even sleeping — she was in constant pain.
Then in April 2022, her physicians at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia offered her hope. They had identified the rare mutation that caused her pain, using a new “ultra-deep” type of genetic testing far more powerful than traditional techniques. Developed in just the past three years, the technique is used in just a handful of medical centers around the world.
Her results, the Rountrees were surprised to learn, suggested she might benefit from a drug designed to treat a different disease, breast cancer.
Physicians at CHOP have now used this type of test to guide their choice of medication for 55 children with vascular anomalies, a collection of rare conditions in which any part of the body can become engulfed with painful, sometimes disfiguring overgrowths.
In some cases, the genetic tests prompted the doctors to start patients on a new drug. In others, the results suggested the children should stick with the medications they already were taking. So far, 35 of the 55 children have seen their symptoms improve, the team reported in a study in June, published in Nature Medicine.
In Avery’s case, the abnormal growths in her left leg were not cancerous, the doctors reassured the girl, then 13, and her parents. But the tests revealed that she carried a mutation that plays a role in some cancers. The breast-cancer drug might help.
But there were risks. The drug might not work. There could be side effects, including hair loss. And because she’d be part of a clinical trial, she might not even get the drug, but rather a placebo.
The young dancer was eager to try. Yet a few months into the trial, Avery’s pain got worse, to the point she could not dance at all.
Purple splotches
At first, Avery’s condition seemed like no big deal.
She was born with purple splotches on her left leg, and her pediatrician said they were a type of birthmark that would probably disappear by the time she turned 5.
Instead, when she was 4, one of the spots turned a darker color, becoming puffy and tender to the touch. Her whole left calf started to swell, too, and it became painful to sit or stand.
Her mom, Tobie, took her to Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, where the family lived then, and learned that the girl’s condition was not going away. It was the first time they heard the words “vascular anomaly,” along with a slew of other medical terms, and Tobie Rountree was overwhelmed.
She called her husband from the car and said: “Never again am I going to the doctor by myself.”
The Rountrees soon became fluent in the jargon of their daughter’s condition, learning that disorders of the vascular system are as diverse as they are bewildering. One was called vanishing bone disease, in which the vessels that connect the lymph nodes grow out of control, eroding the patient’s bones to the breaking point. Other vascular anomalies can cause the arms or legs to swell to four times normal size. Still others cause lymphatic fluid to leak around the heart and lungs, making it difficult to breathe.
An MRI revealed unusual growth in Avery’s capillaries and some lymphatic vessels in her left leg. She underwent several rounds of treatment called sclerotherapy, which sometimes is used to treat varicose veins. A substance was injected into her abnormal blood vessels, causing them to become blocked with scar tissue.
But it was a temporary solution, as abnormal blood vessels would grow right back. If she sat down or stood still for any length of time, fluid pooled in her leg, and it was torture. Dance class, which she had started as a 3-year-old, was the only thing that brought her real relief, whether from the boost to her circulation or the joy of doing something she loved.
“It’s a distraction,” she said.
The family moved to Pennsylvania when Avery turned 9, and one of her Texas physicians gave them this parting message:
If you’re moving anywhere close to Philadelphia, you need to take Avery to CHOP.
Not like Ancestry.com
Two decades after scientists deciphered the complete human genome, DNA testing now seems almost commonplace. Amateur genealogists use test results to find long-lost relatives or explore their heritage. Police use them to solve cold cases. And increasingly, physicians use genetic testing to select treatments for their patients.
But with conditions like Avery’s, it can be a challenge, said Denise M. Adams, director of the Comprehensive Vascular Anomalies Program at CHOP.
That’s because these conditions are generally not inherited, instead resulting from a mutation that occurs during pregnancy. That means the mutation is present in a small number of cells, not throughout the body, so it can’t be detected with a cheek swab or a drop of saliva.
“It’s not like Ancestry.com,” she said.
Doctors sometimes try to identify a telltale mutation by taking a biopsy from the affected part of the child’s body, she said, but that doesn’t always work.
Instead, the geneticists at CHOP perform what they call “ultra-deep” genetic sequencing, identifying minute amounts of mutated of DNA floating freely in the child’s blood or lymphatic fluid.
This mutated DNA is present in a small fraction of the blood, so in order to find it, geneticists must amplify the sampled genetic material by thousands of times, said Hakon Hakonarson, director of CHOP’s Center for Applied Genomics. The team then uses sensitive tools to pinpoint the location of the mutation.
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Avery was eager to try it. She was already taking one medication that had helped some children with conditions similar to hers, called KT syndrome, but it didn’t seem to have much of an effect. The swelling in her leg had gone down somewhat, but the pain was just as bad as before.
The genetic tests revealed she had a mutation in a gene called PIK3CA. Adams told the Rountrees that a different drug called alpelisib — the one that had been approved to treat breast cancer — might help.
Avery would be eligible to join a Novartis-sponsored trial of the drug.
Her parents were reluctant. The drug might cause side effects, including headaches, fatigue, and hair loss. Then there was the chance that their daughter didn’t even get the drug. One-third of trial participants would start on a placebo.
But the young dancer had no qualms.
“Avery was adamant,” her mom said. “She wanted to try this both for herself and for others.”
In July 2022, she took her first pill.
Avery’s choice
By late October, it was clear that whatever Avery was taking had not worked.
Her pain had become so excruciating that she couldn’t dance. She stayed on the sidelines while her teammates practiced their moves, taking notes to memorize the choreography.
Eventually, Avery’s leg hurt so much that she had to stay home from school.
Her physician urged her to consider withdrawing from the trial and going back to the old drug, which seemed at least to have kept her stable.
No way, Avery replied. Even if she was among the trial participants on a placebo, she knew that in the 17th week of the trial, all participants were being switched to the real medication. It was Week 15. If she could just hold out for two more weeks…
Her mom supported her choice. An elementary school teacher, Tobie Rountree believed in letting adolescent children learn to advocate for themselves. She told her daughter’s physician:
“She’s 13.5 years old. If she thinks she can do it, we need to listen to her.”
Avery went back to school. And in November, she started on a daily dose of 50 milligrams of the experimental drug, later increased to 125 milligrams.
Nothing happened at first. Then, little by little, the swelling her leg receded.
And eventually, she felt well enough to dance.
“It has been a very difficult year,” she said. “I feel like I’ve definitely come a long way.”
A full assessment of how well the drug works in Avery and the other children will come in several years, after statisticians carefully analyze all the scans and lab results.
For now, the Rountrees have no doubt — despite a setback at the end of April.
Avery was getting ready for the last big dance competition of the season, putting in 15 hours of weekly practice at the studio, when she suffered a painful blood clot in her left leg. The family got on the phone with Adams, their physician at CHOP. Was she OK to dance?
Adams left it up to her patient.
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Everybody has a Barbie story. Here’s how 4 local leaders remember the iconic doll.
For some, she was just a doll. For others, Barbie was the flagship of a culture that polices female bodies and dictates what is beautiful.
Like any wildly successful icon, Barbie has been both reviled and revered. But she is always a diva, flashing her practiced smile, our barbs and compliments bouncing off her plastic body as she stands unperturbed.
Her metrics prove she’s the ultimate ”It Girl”: The brand brought in almost 1.5 billion in 2022, and the dolls have been sold in over 150 countries. And the Barbie movie, released just last weekend, broke box-office records with an opening weekend haul of $337 million globally.
With over one billion dolls sold since her birth in 1959, Barbie connects millions of adults who may share little else but the memory of playing with her. Almost everyone has a Barbie story.
Here are a few.
Ala Stanford, founder, Black Doctors Consortium
It was the late 1970s when Ala Stanford started playing with Barbie, but it wasn’t a completely “warm and fuzzy” experience. First, Barbie was expensive and Stanford’s mother had to buy the knock-off brand from the Woolworths or Kmart.
“The Barbie doll’s elbow and knee could bend and the Barbie dolls were softer — more like skin. The dolls we got were plastic and hollow, so much so, if you squeezed them too hard they would break,” Stanford said.
And then there was the hair.
“There were different kinds of Barbies. They came in a box with a pink background, but it was the Barbie head with the hair on it that I remember the most,” Stanford said.
Although there have been Black dolls in the Barbie line since 1969, the first Black and Hispanic dolls named Barbie were released in 1980. The problem with the Barbie head, for Stanford, was that although it had brown skin, it had straight hair.
“That wasn’t my hair,“ said Stanford, who spent hours trying to imitate her own natural hair styles on her Barbie head. One lesson she learned at eight years old was that she didn’t fit in the “illusion of beauty” that Barbie represented.
Still, the lure of Barbie is strong. One Christmas, out shopping with her family, Stanford purchased a Black doctor Barbie as a collectible, one of the 250 careers Barbie has had in her 64 years.
“I remember buying it and keeping in the box. Definitely Black Barbie looked more like me. I thought, ‘Wow, if only I had this when little’,” she said.
Kristen Donnelly, COO of a network of Philadelphia-based companies
For Kristen Donnelly, Barbie wasn’t about fashion and hair. “I didn’t spend hours brushing her hair.”
“I was born in 1983, and I remember playing with Barbies all throughout my childhood.”
It was all about the Princess adventure fantasy. Donnelly grew up surrounded by Barbies, eventually owning 200 of them. Her favorites were always the Barbies in princess outfits. But Donnelly’s Princess Barbie wasn’t exactly the traditional Royal. She may have been fabulously turned out (of course!) but she would often choose career over marrying the prince.
Donnelly spent her childhood creating elaborate modern feminist stories which usually ended with Barbie saving herself. (Sorry, Ken.)
But Donnelly also couldn’t see her young self in the idealized doll whose physical dimensions have been reported to damage the very self-esteem of the millions of girls who play with her.
“I’ve been fat most of my life,” said Donnelly. But she refuses to join the chorus of Barbie haters.
She believes Barbie was the country’s scapegoat. “Barbie gets a lot of flack — but she was the flagship of a culture that polices women bodies into certain shapes.”
Today, Barbie is more diverse than ever with 35 skin tones, 97 hair styles, and nine body types. “I am glad Mattel has listened to so much feedback,” Donnelly said.
Joanna E. McClinton, speaker of the Pa. House of Representatives
When she was about five years old, Joanna E. McClinton started playing with Barbie. According to the National Museum of Play, the average American girl owns ten Barbies. But McClinton’s mother struggled financially so McClinton never had more than one Barbie to play with.
“I didn’t have a big collection of Barbies,” recalled McClinton. But she would get together with her girlfriends who had Barbie houses and cars and full clothes collections and the fun would begin. The same kind of fun she has today with her six-year-old goddaughter when the two of them get together to build a Barbie house or play with another accessory.
McClinton insists that Barbie is a toy. Period.
“It was not profoundly deep,” McClinton said, adding that it wasn’t until she was a young adult she learned about the Barbie controversies. That Barbie’s strong fashionista sense limited girl’s vision, and her unreal body curves established impossible female beauty standards.
“Barbie was a little woman that I held in my hands and could dress up. I remember that Barbie was spectacularly beautiful until we would cut her hair,” McClinton chuckled.
What McClinton said she doesn’t remember is all of Barbie’s jobs, including a pilot, Navy Admiral, astronaut, and president. “I don’t remember her having all the career and jobs,” said McClinton, Pennsylvania’s first female Speaker of the House.
Shirley Moy, executive director, Lenfest Center for Community Workforce Partnerships
About nine out of 10 American girls own at least one Barbie doll, according to the National Museum of Play. Shirley Moy was part of the small minority that didn’t own one.
“I can’t help you with the Barbie dolls. We played with Dawn dolls. I don’t know why we had Dawn dolls,” Moy said.
Topper Toys, an Elizabeth, N.J. company, introduced Dawn dolls in the early ‘70s, before the company went bankrupt a few years later. For a brief time, the Dawn doll, which was six-and-a-half inches tall, became a rival of the taller Barbie. She may have been of similar quality and had a rack of clothes, but she was smaller, cheaper, and sold in grocery stores — not department stores where Barbie was purchased.
“My recollection is that Dawn doll was not as sexualized as Barbie,” Moy said. “She still had breasts but she was skinnier, not the same (as Barbie).”
As with all Barbie rivals, Dawn faded away after a few years, mostly forgotten.
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LIMA, Peru — Although the top tourist destination in Peru is the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, high in the Andes Mountains, the capital Lima also holds a treasure trove of ancient ruins — so many, in fact, that authorities can't take care of them all.
The city is home to more than 400 known pyramids, temples and burial sites, many of which predate the Incas and and are known in Spanish as "huacas." They sit next to modern shopping centers, hotels and highways or rise up in the middle of neighborhoods in this city of 11 million people. Meanwhile, archaeologists keep digging up new sites.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former Peruvian president who lives across the street from a pyramid called Huallamarca, built around 1,800 years ago, says with a smile: "I know where I am when I wake up in the morning. I'm in Peru!"
Due mostly to budget limitations, Huallamarca is one of only 27 sites in Lima that have been excavated, restored and opened to visitors, according to archaeologists who spoke with NPR.
Many other sites are deteriorating. Squatters have occupied some, and others have become de facto garbage dumps or gathering spots for drug users and homeless people.
"Everywhere you dig, you will find something — because Lima was home to great civilizations," says Micaela Álvarez, director of the museum at Pucllana, a massive pyramid in Lima's business district of Miraflores. "But it's impossible to save everything in a poor country."
Pucllana is one of the exceptions.
Thought to be about 1,500 years old, the pyramid was a ceremonial site for the Lima Indigenous group that gave this city its name. Excavations began in 1981 and continue today.
On a recent morning, workers scraped sand and dirt from part of the site that archaeologists are beginning to explore for the first time. Nearby, guides pointed to the intricate brickwork, which has withstood earthquakes, and then led visitors to the top of the 82-foot-tall pyramid for views of the Pacific Ocean.
Among the visitors was Manuel Larrabure, a professor at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania who was born and raised in Lima but had never been to Pucllana.
"It's very impressive," he said. "The tendency is to look outside of Lima for interesting things, but it's good to look inside and to appreciate our own culture. People are still getting to know these sites."
Before it was restored following the start of excavations some 40 years ago, Pucllana was routinely looted and abused. At one point, a factory was using Pucllana's sand and clay to make bricks. Tour guide Blanca Arista says the pyramid also served as a neighborhood playground — and a motocross track.
"It's unbelievable, but several groups were practicing motocross," she said. "So, imagine different groups riding motorcycles, riding bikes."
Indeed, Lima's ancient Indigenous sites have, more often, been desecrated instead of safeguarded, says Giancarlo Marcone, a Peruvian archaeologist and professor at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lima.
Some were bulldozed to make way for apartment blocks and streets amid a wave of migration from the countryside that began in the 1950s.
"That put a lot of pressure on the city, and we didn't have good planning," Marcone says. "Until recently, we didn't really care about what we had."
Attitudes shifted as Peruvians became more sensitive to their cultural heritage and the country's ancient sites began to attract more international tourists. Janie Gómez, who until April was deputy culture minister, said the government of President Dina Boluarte is committed to preserving these sites.
"Their recovery will prevent them from deteriorating and being invaded," she told the state-run Andina news agency in January. "The millennial history over which Lima was built must not be lost."
However, Peru is struggling to reduce poverty and improve hospitals and schools, Marcone says. Thus, governments have been unable or unwilling to finance robust excavations or to turn more than a few sites into tourist attractions. The result is that many have been left in limbo.
Rosa María Barillas, a Peruvian archaeology student who recently completed fieldwork at an ancient temple on the outskirts of Lima, recalls looters prowling the area.
"I had to chase them away," she says.
Other sites have been colonized by squatters. The archaeological complex at Mateo Salado, near Lima's international airport, features a beautifully restored 1,000-year-old pyramid, but is also home to several modern houses. Until 2013, when major restoration work began, farmers used the site to cultivate roses and neighborhood kids played soccer there.
In the working-class neighborhood of Los Olivos, a dusty, dun-colored archaeological site called Infantas I is hemmed in by streets and houses. Ashes from a campfire are smoldering while trash piles up in several areas. Three youths are smoking crack, and a shirtless man is digging up sand and putting it in sacks. The area is part of a series of temples, but has yet to be excavated.
Benito Trejo, who heads the neighborhood committee, calls Infantas I a headache.
"It's not a good thing, because these sites are ignored by the government which is supposed to look after them," he says.
There was no response to NPR's requests for comment from the Culture Ministry.
For now, archaeologists say that surrounding communities must get more involved in preserving and promoting the sites. Pucllana, for example, has been used for art exhibits, while other sites have hosted film screenings.
At Mateo Salado, fifth graders were recently visiting the site and drawing pictures of the ruins, which are part of their school logo.
"We shouldn't look at these sites simply as relics of the past," says Andrés Ramírez, one of the instructors. "They should be part of everyday society. That's what we are trying to promote."
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Peco will clear Norristown homeless encampment, after working with advocates on ‘respectful’ relocation plan
Most of the 15 people living on the Norristown site have already left. Peco plans to post signs next month giving the remaining six individuals 45 days to move.
In a coda to events that drew attention to the growing crisis of homelessness in one of Pennsylvania’s wealthiest counties, Peco plans to clear the homeless encampment on its Norristown property in September.
The energy utility has spent the last two months collaborating with anti-homelessness advocates to devise a plan that prioritized the needs of the people living in tents on the 3,000 feet of Peco-owned land along the Schuylkill River Trail — a process that advocates praised for its respectfulness and generosity.
Next month, Peco will post signs advising people on the property that they must move within 45 days — which advocates called a more-generous time frame than is usually given by private property owners seeking to sweep an encampment. In some cases, property owners don’t give notice at all.
The majority of the 15 people living on the site have already left, though about six remain, said Mark Boorse, director of program development at Access Services, a county-funded nonprofit that operates a homelessness outreach program. His organization has worked to relocate people since May — to a county shelter, among other locations — and plans to continue working with the remaining six.
» READ MORE: Norristown official wants to bus people living homeless to Villanova University
Upon learning of the encampment, Peco “was forced to figure out how to make sure we were keeping the lights on from a reliability perspective, but also to ensure that the people who are there were treated with dignity and respect,” said Doug Oliver, the utility’s senior vice president for external affairs.
In May, when Peco announced its plan to clear the site at an unspecified date, some of the people living homeless on the property criticized the prospect of a sweep.
“They’re moving us around like we’re dirt,” Adam Edgington, 41, a former salesman, said at the time.
He and his wife had lived in a tent on the Peco site since the fall. Edgington said police officers have come by to warn people of the impending clear-out. “It makes you feel unstable,” Edgington added. “Things are falling apart fast.”
Still, advocates praised Peco for its willingness to listen.
“For a private landowner to be this helpful and this respectfully concerned, that’s more than what we typically see,” Boorse said.
» READ MORE: ‘Pretty stupid’: Homeless in Norristown encampments weigh in on sweeps, busing
Ultimately, though, he said, it’s the responsibility of public officials to address the issue of homelessness and the lack of shelter and affordable housing options.
“The fact that some people are on privately owned land is a consequence of the fact that we have a crisis level of homelessness in the community and that people don’t have legal spaces where they can be,” Boorse said, adding: “People who are responsible for the community at large, this is a question for them to address. It’s not the burden of the private landowners.”
Some key factors have exacerbated homelessness in Norristown, where 21% of the population of about 35,000 people lives in poverty.
In 2021, flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida damaged a low-income Norristown apartment complex with about 100 units, forcing tenants to evacuate.
Last year, a 50-bed homeless shelter in Norristown was closed after the state conferred to the borough the land on which the facility sat. County social services agencies petitioned to extend the lease of what had been the only local shelter, but Norristown officials declined.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for Norristown to build something that generates tax revenue, said Borough Council President Tom Lepera in late May.
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Peco’s May announcement of its intention to clear the encampment sparked a series of events that involved Lepera suggesting he would bus unhoused people to Villanova, where homeless advocate Stephanie Sena works, according to Sena and other advocates.
Lepera, a Democrat who was first elected to council in 2019 and took over the presidency in January 2022, denied suggesting he would do so. | https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/peco-homeless-encampment-sweep-norristown-20230729.html | 2023-07-29T09:41:03 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/peco-homeless-encampment-sweep-norristown-20230729.html |
Ron DeSantis was involved in a traffic accident while in Chattanooga, Tenn., this week raising money for his presidential bid. The candidate was not injured, which may have been the single best piece of news the campaign has had in a while.
The other kind of news for the Florida Republican seemed to be everywhere and all at once. His campaign announced it was shedding a third of its staff and "retooling" its fundraising amid reports of donor desertion. The Associated Press referred to the campaign as "stalled," Rich Lowry of National Review used the words "faltering" and "diminished" in a piece for Politico. The Wall Street Journal editorial page, often a cheerleader for the governor, noted "the headlines say [the campaign] is in an unrecoverable dive."
The media critiques went beyond DeSantis' problems with staffing and fundraising to question his performance on the stump. Stories told of DeSantis "scolding" students at one event for wearing masks and snapping at reporters at a news conference.
Most troubling of all may have been DeSantis' problems with messaging. He has defended his administration's new Florida history curriculum, which alludes to "benefits" that enslaved people may have derived from their life in bondage – such as blacksmithing skills. That drew a rebuke from rival candidate Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who's Black, who said there had been no "silver lining in slavery."
DeSantis may have been expected to stand by his state's curriculum changes, but it was harder to understand why he reached for controversy by saying he might appoint Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as head of the FDA or the CDC. Kennedy, a Democrat, is also a candidate for president, and famous as a vaccine conspiracy theorist, harshly critical of the scientists who lead the federal health agencies.
Most candidates would not consider either slavery or RFK Jr. an issue to emphasize, much less the hill they would choose to die on.
Perceptions prompt comparison to former presidential hopeful Rick Perry
Perceptions of DeSantis have changed greatly since he won reelection in November 2022 by 20 points. In January he was seen as the foremost threat to Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, trailing the former president by just two percentage points in the 538.com average of national polls. As of this week, that gap has widened to 37 percentage points. DeSantis poll numbers have fallen by more than half as other candidates have entered the fray and taken a share. And that trendline has prompted comparisons to the recent history of another Sun Belt governor who had his eyes on the White House, Rick Perry of Texas.
A dozen years ago, Perry entered the GOP lists for the 2012 nomination against incumbent President Barack Obama. Having been elected and reelected in the nation's second most populous state, Perry had a gaudy list of endorsements and wealthy backers. His TV ads were impressive.
But Perry's in-person campaigning did not match expectations. After the first candidate debates of 2007 the buzz was all about his lackluster performances. Vowing to fight on, Perry pointed to a November debate where he hoped to turn things around. That was when he pledged to eliminate three cabinet level departments of the federal government if elected – Education, Commerce ... and he could not remember the third. After a fumbling pause he said: "Oops."
Needless to say, things did not get better after that. Crushed in the 2012 Iowa caucuses, Perry all but ignored New Hampshire to concentrate on South Carolina. But when his poll numbers there also sagged, he dropped out. In 2016, having just retired as the longest-tenured governor in Texas history, he tried again. But in a field of more than 15 candidates dominated by Trump, Perry barely registered. He dropped out before the Iowa caucuses.
Needless to say, no candidate for president wants to be compared to Rick Perry. But on Fox News on June 28, DeSantis told a Fox News host he would eliminate the same three departments as Perry — Education, Commerce and, as Perry had eventually remembered, Energy (which wound up being the department where Perry served as secretary under Trump). DeSantis threw in the IRS, too, which gave him a longer list than Perry's.
Throughout the agonizing train wreck that was the Perry campaign, the candidate seemed unable to understand that the persona and priorities that had lifted him to such success in Texas were not working the same on the national stage.
Can this campaign be saved?
DeSantis' campaign has reached the point where some observers wonder if it's too late to turn his fortunes around. They note that Trump's growing advantage over DeSantis in polls has been driven less by improving numbers for Trump than by deteriorating support for the Floridian.
But there are positives in this picture for the Florida governor. First, it is early — or at least relatively early — in the campaign season. The first voting activity leading to actual delegates being chosen does not happen until January 15, when Iowa holds its caucuses. That gives DeSantis and other candidates still seeking traction more than five months to find it. If the right formula can be found, there is time to follow it.
Second, the field is in some senses still unsettled. While half the Republican electorate may be satisfied with Trump, there is still the other half. And if the ever-mounting legal woes of the former president finally begin to erode the bedrock of his support, it may be possible for a single strong challenger to consolidate the opposition.
Third, there are beacons of hope for troubled candidates in recent presidential campaign history. By choosing to call the latest phase of his effort an "insurgency," DeSantis has acknowledged that he is battling the odds. Of course, when he adopted the campaign motto "The Great American Comeback," he was not expecting it to apply to his campaign.
The term "comeback" has long been associated with the first presidential push of a young Arkansas governor named Bill Clinton. Then 45, Clinton was seeking the Democratic nomination against the sitting president George H.W. Bush in 1992. Bush had been so popular following the success of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 that many ambitious Democrats in Washington thought it better to wait for the 1996 cycle to run. Clinton looked strong in the preliminary phase of the campaign but was on the ropes as the primaries began, battered by two potentially fatal blows.
Newspaper stories had highlighted steps he took to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, and in a woman he had known in Arkansas named Gennifer Flowers told a supermarket tabloid the two had had a years-long affair. She repeated her story in a televised news conference.
Clinton stumbled to a distant third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses (won by a favorite son candidate, Tom Harkin) and fell far behind in New Hampshire. But on that state's primary night in February, Clinton in second place had closed the gap to single digits and won half the available delegates.
He went on TV to thank New Hampshire for making "Bill Clinton the comeback kid." The national media coverage largely followed that line, much to the distress of the primary's first-place winner, Sen. Paul Tsongas of neighboring Massachusetts. A few weeks later, on Super Tuesday, Clinton won most of the big state primaries, many of them in the South, and the lion's share of the delegates. He was soon cruising to the nomination.
McCain turned his ship around
More directly comparable to DeSantis' situation, and closer to his political home, was the turnaround achieved 16 years later by the campaign of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain. A former POW in Vietnam who had made many friends in his time in the Senate, McCain was well known for his spirited "Straight Talk Express" campaign challenging George W. Bush for the GOP nomination in 2000. McCain came up short that time, but his profile was elevated in the Senate and he retained much of his appeal for independents.
But when it came to running another campaign, McCain quickly ran aground. The national agenda had changed over the two terms of the second President Bush, which included the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The man who had been New York City mayor during those attacks, Rudy Giuliani, was now running for president as "America's Mayor" and leading in national polls for a time.
Other notables in the field in 2007 included Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (now a senator from Utah) and Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas. McCain's standing in Iowa had suffered with his opposition to ethanol subsidies and he trailed Romney in polling in New Hampshire.
In the summer of 2007, with his early money drying up and fundraising slowed, McCain saw many news accounts of his flagging campaign. Some were ready to write him off. But that July he revamped his campaign from top to bottom and let go some longtime aides, including close friends, to begin anew. He seemed ready to do whatever it took, including altering his positions on key issues such as immigration.
By the time the campaign reached the voters in January 2008, the McCain operation had righted itself. After conceding Iowa to his rivals, McCain stormed back into contention with a smashing win in New Hampshire that netted him most of the delegates at stake.
As for one-time front-runner Giuliani, he had decided he did not need to go hard at Iowa and New Hampshire and concentrated instead on the late January primary in Florida. Giuliani finished third there, winning no delegates, and withdrew from the race the next day.
The following week brought Super Tuesday and a favorable mix of states for McCain, who won nine states to Romney's seven and Huckabee's five and pocketed most of the delegates. Romney then left the race and urged the other candidates and the party to unite behind McCain.
At such times in the past, struggling campaigns have rescued themselves with the right moves and a dose of luck. At other times, it has taken major missteps by front-running candidates to open the door. In DeSantis' case, it might well require both.
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Someone has been mass reporting illegal sidewalk cafes in Philly to 311. Some people want user FD22 to stop.
Hero or someone who wants to watch it all burn? Depends on where on the sidewalk you’re standing.
Little is known about what drives Philadelphia 311 user “FD22,” except that at least in the last month, that person has gone on a reporting spree. The target? Sidewalk cafes — different from streeteries that take up parking spaces — and other allegedly illegal outdoor structures used for dining.
On one day recently, FD22 submitted six of these complaints accompanied by photo evidence. Should we believe the order of submissions resembles FD22′s path that day, it presumably started in Center City, making its way to Old City, then Fitler Square, and Pennsport, totaling about 45 minutes of driving or more than two hours on foot. Zoom in and it looks as though some of the photos were taken from the inside of a car with a side mirror visible in one sidewalk cafe shot and a bit of a car hood in another.
On another day, FD22 filed only three complaints, all in the Italian Market. Two weeks ago, FD22 reported six more businesses.
FD22′s reports have not gone unnoticed. While scrolling through the 311 app, someone noticed FD22′s work, compiled screenshots of the reports, and posted them on the internet forum Reddit with the subject headline: “Wondering where all the sidewalk cafes are going? Someone’s bulk reporting them to 311.″ Naturally, jokes about grabbing the pitchforks and finding the person doing the reporting ensued.
Because FD22 is reporting anonymously, The Inquirer could not reach out for comment to ask about this new passion.
Still, hundreds of people on Reddit tried to guess FD22′s motivations: Maybe this is a wheelchair user or person with a stroller concerned about accessibility? FD22 already has to deal with cars blocking the crosswalks and parking on sidewalks, some surmised.
Or perhaps it was another business trying to limit competition?
For the most part, internet users have come to the defense of sidewalk cafes, which they say liven up the streets.
“Some of these instances are just a few tiny chairs that are nowhere near blocking the sidewalk,” wrote the person who posted about the 311 reports on Reddit.
“If we punish every good thing for not being 100% legit I worry we’ll end up with less business, less to do, and less safe streets.”
But if sidewalk cafes are disappearing, it doesn’t appear to be because of FD22′s work. Much of the complaints remain “in progress” or waiting in the 311 universe, along with endless complaints about abandoned cars, illegal dumping, and broken streetlights, waiting to be passed along to responsible agencies.
Spokespeople for L&I and the Streets Department would not say whether the bulk reporting creates a potential for backlog on already overburdened systems. And a spokesperson for Philly311 said the system had not experienced an increase in unlicensed business complaints in recent months even with the FD22 complaints.
Whether you see FD22 as a hero or curmudgeon largely depends on what side of the sidewalk seating you’re on. Regardless, people can’t help but be fascinated by FD22 going around the city and reporting those perceived to be obstructing to the public’s right of way.
For Beth Amadio, owner of Fitler Square’s Cotoletta, being reported on 311 came as a surprise. Her business was one of six reported in one day and she’d not heard of the complaint or from any regulatory agency when The Inquirer reached out. She said neighbors liked the outdoor setup.
“It’s not just like people throwing tables outside,” she said, as she tried to look up her paperwork online, certain she was up to code and up to date. “If anybody’s license is expired, all they have to do is go online and renew it. It’s probably just an oversight, you know.”
Frank Menniti, owner of Nitty’s Tavern in South Philadelphia, said he also didn’t know his business was reported. He said he’s going through an appeals process to try to keep his outdoor seating but the paperwork has been cumbersome and he does believe he’s gotten at least one fine from the city.
“They’re not giving me any guidance on how to go about it,” said Menniti of his sidewalk cafe, which is under a shelter made of wood.
Sidewalk cafe licenses allow bars and restaurants to have public seating on sidewalks. Requirements include having a commercial activity license, liability insurance, and being current on all taxes.
A streetery license allows restaurants to have outdoor seating in the parking lane, but business owners have been critical of the many requirements and restrictions. Many restaurants got rid of their streeteries as the city began to crack down on the structures this year.
Reddit users noted that plenty of restaurants seem to ignore the rules, including a few of the establishments FD22 singled out, which appear to leave little sidewalk room for people with strollers or wheelchairs. Some oversight would be good, they said.
But Steve Hencheck is not worrying about other businesses, just his. The owner of Gleaner’s Cafe, Hencheck would go on 311 to respond to FD22′s complaint directly. Although his small tables extend from the sidewalk to the street, Hencheck said he’s technically not in a parking lane and he worked with the city years ago to be able to place a few tables on that stretch of Ninth Street — similar to how some businesses extend their produce stands.
“I had to jump through a bunch of hoops,” he said in an interview. “It was fine. I did it. It’s over and now it’s legit and I don’t know I just keep my head down and go.”
Whoever is reporting sidewalk cafes is also keeping his or her head down and carrying on. FD22 has not filed a complaint under that username in a week but someone anonymously reported five more businesses for illegal sidewalk cafes in the last week in a way that very much resembles FD22′s filing style. | https://www.inquirer.com/news/sidewalk-cafes-phiiladelphia-311-reddit-20230729.html | 2023-07-29T09:41:09 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/news/sidewalk-cafes-phiiladelphia-311-reddit-20230729.html |
Covering a World Cup is a privilege, but it’s also a month-long grind
Here's a look at our reporter's travels at the women's World Cup.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — For a soccer journalist, there’s no bigger privilege than covering a World Cup. That doesn’t mean that it’s a paid vacation to the other side of the world. In fact, it’s not that at all.
I don’t just say that to reassure my bosses while I’m 16 time zones away. World Cups are long and a lot of work. It’s not just covering games, it’s covering everything around them — and a lot of the time is spent getting from one place to another.
Sometimes, that’s getting from the U.S. practice site in Auckland’s northern suburbs to the team’s media hub downtown, then south to Eden Park for a game at night. Or it’s going from one host city to another, and all of those trips require flights. None of the host cities are close enough to each other to have good intercity rail service like there is in Europe, Japan, or America’s northeast corridor.
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That’s even more true if you’re traveling between New Zealand and Australia, which the U.S. will do if it reaches the knockout rounds. (That I just wrote “if” instead of “when” is a story in itself, obviously.) It’s a nearly four-hour flight from Auckland to Sydney, and it crosses two time zones. Think of a flight from Philadelphia to Denver, and it’s about the same.
The good news is that the cities themselves are very easy to get around. That’s especially true of Auckland and Wellington, the two cities I’ve been so far. They’re very walkable, they both have major public transit systems, and the stadium in Wellington is on the north edge of downtown.
The only drawback was Wellington living up to its reputation as the windiest city in the world. It’s the winter here in the southern hemisphere, and it got plenty cold during the U.S.-Netherlands game even though it was an afternoon kickoff. I packed a pair of fingerless gloves at the last minute before leaving home, and I’m glad I did.
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A lesson about mental health
On game days, the press areas of stadiums open three hours before kickoff, and if you aren’t there at least one hour before kickoff, you risk losing your place in the press seating area. There aren’t press boxes at World Cup venues — instead there are areas of the seating bowl that are converted into workspaces for the writers and broadcasters who’ve come from across the globe.
(This will happen at Lincoln Financial Field in 2026, along with all the other host stadiums in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.)
You have to pace yourself when you’re working at a World Cup. If you try to write every little thing every day, you’ll wear yourself out fast, and you definitely won’t get enough sleep. The cliché that sleep is for the weak is false. It’s good for your mental health, and there’s nothing wrong with prioritizing that.
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This is my fourth career women’s World Cup and my second for The Inquirer. When I did a full run for the first time in 2015, I was fortunate to have friends and colleagues who’d already covered men’s and women’s tournaments. They had me prepared for the grind, and I was ready for it again this time.
I’m thankful that I have a lot of backup from colleagues back home, especially Gus Elvin, Lochlahn March, and Sapna Bansil, who are leading the way on our morning recaps online.
I try to take a little time to myself each day, whether it’s buying the New Zealand Herald newspaper in the morning or going for a walk on the waterfront. The walk from my hotel to the U.S. media facility is especially pretty, as I take a bridge over the harbor that leads to a great view of the Auckland skyline.
On days when I’ve had a decent amount of spare time, I’ve gotten on one of Auckland’s many public ferries and taken a ride across the water. The views have been amazing, and it’s among the cheapest way to take everything in.
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Taking in the sights
On the one true day off I’ve had so far, I took a ferry to Waiheke Island, a popular vacation spot for city folks. It’s also a big tourist attraction, and on this day a whole lot of Americans in town had the same idea I did. The weather was perfect, sunny and in the low 60s, the beach was gorgeous, and the main shopping street had a great laid-back vibe.
Even better, I got there early enough in the morning that I was able to walk up a hill and take in a chorus of birdsong. I won’t forget that any time soon.
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Taking in the morning birdsong chorus on Waiheke Island pic.twitter.com/JcGIagTqEW
— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) July 22, 2023
I wasn’t in Wellington for long, just from the day before the U.S.-Netherlands game until the day after. It’s a smaller city, but because it’s the nation’s capital, it has a bustling downtown. On the morning of the game, I took the city’s historic cable car up to the city’s botanical gardens, then walked down through the gardens to the New Zealand Parliament building, which was on the way to the stadium. That definitely got my steps in for the day.
You can see some of the photos I’ve taken on my X — the app formerly known as Twitter — feed, @thegoalkeeper. (It still sounds too weird to use that new name.)
I’ve been Down Under for two weeks now. If the U.S. goes all the way to the final, I’ll have be gone for 5½ weeks.
It’s been the trip of a lifetime, and there still could be a lot left to go: more moving from event to event, more time on buses and trains and planes, more games, more writing. I haven’t even watched a lot of the tournament’s other games live because I’ve been too busy to do so. Fortunately, New Zealand’s main sports channel has been airing replays all the time.
I want to reiterate that I know how much of a privilege it is to be here. I wouldn’t trade a second of it. But sometimes people like to get a look behind the scenes at what it’s like for journalists to cover a big event, so hopefully this piece has given you some insights.
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The Middletown-Odessa-Townsend (MOT) Little League U10 girls softball all-star team will depart Saturday morning, July 29, 2023, for the Eastern Regional tournament in Mountaintop, Pennsylvania.
The MOT squad defeated Lower Sussex 2-1 last Friday to win the Delaware state championship.
The team will be meeting at the Volunteer Hose of Middletown fire headquarters for a 9 a.m. departure.
They will have a full police, fire, and medic escort to Route 1. | https://www.wdel.com/news/a-championship-sendoff-in-middletown/article_717ff5fc-2ca0-11ee-ae83-b38e95c53202.html | 2023-07-29T09:41:36 | 0 | https://www.wdel.com/news/a-championship-sendoff-in-middletown/article_717ff5fc-2ca0-11ee-ae83-b38e95c53202.html |
State and city officials, including Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki, joined with community leaders on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, to cut a ribbon for the grand reopening of the Claymont Street Apartments.
The building at East 16th and Claymont streets sustained significant damage in flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 1, 2021.
The Brandywine Creek flooded in Chester County and drained down into Wilmington, dumping feet of water on the Eastside and Riverside sections of Wilmington.
The 29 affordable units have been fully renovated and reoccupied. | https://www.wdel.com/news/claymont-street-apartments-get-new-lease-on-life/article_3eba7b6e-2d5f-11ee-8cb6-4bb97f76c917.html | 2023-07-29T09:41:42 | 0 | https://www.wdel.com/news/claymont-street-apartments-get-new-lease-on-life/article_3eba7b6e-2d5f-11ee-8cb6-4bb97f76c917.html |
A Laurel man has been arrested on several charges related to the theft of copper wiring that resulted in a railroad line being disabled for four days.
Delaware State Police said the Troop 4 Property Crimes Unit this week began to investigate a copper wire theft that occurred earlier in July at the Carload Express railroad tracks in Laurel. Detectives learned that the stolen wire, which was part of the safety system, was sold at a Seaford recycling center.
According to State Police, 49-year-old William Smallwood of Laurel was arrested at his residence without incident Tuesday. Smallwood is charged with:
Criminal Mischief Over $5,000 (Felony)
Theft Under $1,500 – 2 counts
Falsifying Business Records – 2 counts
Selling Stolen Property – 2 counts
Criminal Mischief
Criminal Trespass Third Degree – 2 counts
Smallwood has been released on $8,400 unsecured bond. | https://www.wdel.com/news/downstate-man-charged-with-stealing-copper-wiring-related-to-railroad-safety/article_b33ea096-2c97-11ee-9c86-93203d36c727.html | 2023-07-29T09:41:48 | 1 | https://www.wdel.com/news/downstate-man-charged-with-stealing-copper-wiring-related-to-railroad-safety/article_b33ea096-2c97-11ee-9c86-93203d36c727.html |
For several hours on the morning of April 14, 2023, they allegedly terrorized drivers in the Brandywine Valley, and led police in multiple jurisdictions on multiple pursuits.
Now, the four suspects in a string of crimes that culminated in the kidnapping, rape, and robbery of a woman, are under federal indictment on multiple counts including robbery under the federal Hobbs Act.
U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, said a federal grand jury indictment handed down July 13th has been unsealed charging 24-year old Tonnaire McNair-Matthews, 23-year old David Hinson, 21-year old Michael Caldwell, and 20-year old Mahkiya Powell, with Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery, Carjacking, Hobbs Act Robbery, and Brandishing and Use of a Firearm in Relation to a Hobbs Act Robbery charge.
In addition, McNair-Matthews was charged with Kidnapping and the other three as accessories after the fact.
If convicted, all four face a maximum of life in prison.
The four have already been indicted on nearly three dozen state charges including McNair-Matthews for rape.
In announcing the indictments, Weiss' office laid out a detailed chronology and geography of the events that lasted about six hours.
The four allegedly conspired to rob unsuspecting drivers by rear-ending them in a stolen Jeep Grand Cherokee intending to rob them after they got out of their vehicles.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said after multiple attempted robberies, McNair-Matthews, who was driving the Jeep, rear-ended a vehicle in Pennsylvania being driven by a woman who was on her way to work.
The victim pulled over after crossing into Delaware. According to the indictment McNair-Matthews then approached her vehicle, pointed a ghost gun at her, forced her back inside the vehicle and then drove her against her will back into Pennsylvania.
Prosecutors allege that during the ride, McNair-Matthews forced the victim to disrobe, demanded her bank card and PIN code, and then sexually assaulted her. After stopping the vehicle in Pennsylvania, McNair-Matthews then allegedly raped her. He then abandoned her, drove her vehicle back into Delaware, and began withdrawing money from her bank account using cash machines.
The indictment said McNair-Matthews reunited with the three accomplices in Wilmington and gave them the victim's bank card, PIN, and the ghost gun. He then allegedly told the three to clean the victim's car and take whatever personal property was left behind.
The events continued according to the DOJ as Hinson and Caldwell got in a stolen Nissan Pathfinder and went to local gas stations to withdraw money from ATMs.
McNair-Matthews and Powell then caught up with the other two at the Royal Farms on South Market Street in Wilmington where police spotted them and gave chase.
The four, in two different vehicles, were able to evade police, and drove on I-95 into Delaware County where Pennsylvania State Police became involved. The vehicle with Hinson and Caldwell was again spotted and another high speed chase ensued back down I-95, ending with a crash at the Route 202 off ramp.
Hinson and Caldwell were tracked down and arrested in the area of the Wilmington Skating Club and Rock Manor Golf Course.
Powell was arrested on April 17th and McNair-Matthews, who fled to Maryland was caught the same day. | https://www.wdel.com/news/federal-charges-tacked-on-to-accused-carjacking-crew/article_1940cc7c-2d4f-11ee-80c0-6732cf440151.html | 2023-07-29T09:41:55 | 1 | https://www.wdel.com/news/federal-charges-tacked-on-to-accused-carjacking-crew/article_1940cc7c-2d4f-11ee-80c0-6732cf440151.html |
If you've spent any amount of time near the Delaware or New Jersey coasts in the summer, you're probably very familiar with one of your more painful fellow visitors.
The greenhead horsefly, known scientifically as Tabanus nigrovittatus, is making its annual appearance in the area, biting its way into the ire of many beachgoers.
They tend to spawn along coastal marshes, especially prevalent in Delaware near the Delaware Bay and the Delaware Inland Bays near the Indian River in Sussex County.
As many as 70 larvae can be formed in a single square yard in the winter, sometimes eating their own kind and other invertebrates in the nearby soil or water. After 1-3 years, they go to a drier area where they undergo metamorphosis into a horsefly.
The horsefly typically emerges in late spring, and after mating along the marsh land, an initial 100-200 egg mass is laid by the female.
In other to continue producing egg masses, the female needs blood, and that's where humans and other animals come into the equation.
Human blood, along with that from livestock, horses, and other animals found near marshes, is rich in proteins perfect for egg development.
The females have about 3-4 weeks of biting strength, creating a cycle of biting and egg production, which can help exacerbate the problem of painful bites in an area.
Horsefly stings tend to hurt more than mosquito bites, because mosquitos actually release a mild anesthetic when going after your blood, helping to dull the pain. Horseflies don't offer you the same courtesy, according to the UK's Natural History Museum.
Attempts are being made to mitigate the horsefly count up and down the East Coast, with horsefly traps being installed, lulling the flies
Rutgers University in New Jersey has used box traps to collect the horseflies, and some traps have netted over 1,000 horseflies per hour, important in a state that, like Delaware, has a lot of coastal plain marshland.
The flies enter a bottomless box placed about 2 feet above the marsh surface.
They become trapped at the top, and die within 24 hours and begin decomposing.
If you're wondering about male horseflies, they feed on nectar, and therefore don't attack human or animals.
Experts recommend avoiding fly bites by wearing long sleeves -- not a popular choice in the summer --, pants, and light colors when near marshland, or at the beach if near marshy areas.
Products with lavender or eucalyptus can also make you less appealing to the horseflies.
If you are bitten, first-aid skin creams can help dull the pain, but you should avoid scratching the area to avoid an infection.
July is typically the peak season for the horseflies, but depending on conditions, they can stick around Delaware through September.
Until Fall arrives, if you seen a green-eyed fly land on you, be prepared to feel the pain. | https://www.wdel.com/news/greenhead-horse-flies-biting-their-way-into-delawareans-vacations/article_e1e54c46-2ce8-11ee-8909-bb06a35931ec.html | 2023-07-29T09:42:01 | 0 | https://www.wdel.com/news/greenhead-horse-flies-biting-their-way-into-delawareans-vacations/article_e1e54c46-2ce8-11ee-8909-bb06a35931ec.html |
A crash between a motorcycle and a car on Route 1 in Middletown has claimed the life of the motorcycle operator, who was also struck by another vehicle.
Delaware State Police said the southbound motorcyclist was apparently going at a high rate of speed at about 12:21 a.m. Friday and traveled into another lane as he approached a moderate curve. Then he collided with the back of a car. The 47-year-old Dover man was thrown from the motorcycle, and was hit by a southbound pick-up truck. He died at the scene.
The other drivers were not injured, according to State Police.
Southbound Route 1 was closed near Route 299 for about four hours. State Police said the motorcyclist who died was not wearing a helmet.
The Troop 2 Collision Reconstruction Unit is investigating the cause of the crash. Anyone with information or who may have witnessed it is asked to call 302-365-8486 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 800-TIP-3333. | https://www.wdel.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-on-route-1-in-middletown/article_a29a5808-2d54-11ee-b8c9-5feb5bbc6034.html | 2023-07-29T09:42:07 | 1 | https://www.wdel.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-on-route-1-in-middletown/article_a29a5808-2d54-11ee-b8c9-5feb5bbc6034.html |
An offender who climbed the fence at the Plummer Community Corrections Center in Wilmington in March has been captured in Philadelphia.
The Delaware Department of Correction said Thursday that 24-year-old Tramane Wright is now awaiting extradition to Delaware. He was caught July 10th by Philadelphia Police.
Wright was at the Plummer Center for a Violation of Probation related to a charge of Criminal Mischief. | https://www.wdel.com/news/offender-arrested-four-months-after-scaling-fence-at-plummer-center/article_67a37e9c-2cc2-11ee-95ca-03370b806d43.html | 2023-07-29T09:42:13 | 0 | https://www.wdel.com/news/offender-arrested-four-months-after-scaling-fence-at-plummer-center/article_67a37e9c-2cc2-11ee-95ca-03370b806d43.html |