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NEW YORK — (AP) — At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with their investigations into Biden and his family.
“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. The former president and GOP frontrunner said it was time for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.
The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Trump as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and refusing to turn them over to investigators. The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Trump and two staffers sought to delete surveillance at the club in an effort to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation.
The case is just one of Trump's mounting legal challenges. His team is currently bracing for additional possible indictments, which could happen as soon as this coming week, related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election brought by prosecutors in both Washington and Georgia. Trump already faces criminal charges in New York over hush money payments made to women who accused him of sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant early frontrunner for the Republican nomination and has only seen his lead grow as the charges have mounted and as his rivals have struggled to respond. Their challenge was on display at a GOP gathering in Iowa Friday night, where they largely declined to go after Trump directly. The only one who did — accusing Trump of "running to stay out of prison" — was booed as he left the stage.
In the meantime, Trump has embraced his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Biden of using the Justice Department to maim his chief political rival. The White House has said repeatedly that the president has had no involvement in the cases.
At rallies — including Saturday's — Trump has tried to frame the charges, which come with serious threats of jail time, as an attack not just on him, but those who support him.
“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” he told the arena crowd in Erie, adding that, “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor.... Because I’m being indicted for you.”
But the investigations are also sucking up enormous resources that are being diverted from the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The Washington Post first reported Saturday that Trump's political action committee, Save America, will report Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of 2023 defending Trump and all of the current and former aides whose lawyers it is paying. The total is more than the campaign raised during the second quarter of the year.
"In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment," said Trump's spokesman Steven Cheung.
At the rally — held in a former Democratic stronghold that Trump flipped in 2016, but Biden won narrowly in 2020 — Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this past week that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry into the president over unproven claims of financial misconduct.
Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, said Saturday that, “The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it."
“Any Republican that doesn't act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaries and get out — out!” he told the crowd to loud applause. “They have to play tough and ... if they’re not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around ... and they're going to get my endorsement every singe time.”
Trump, during the 2022 midterm elections, made it his mission to punish those who had voted in favor of his second impeachment and succeeded in unseating most who had by backing primary challengers.
At the rally, Trump also called on Republican members of Congress to halt the authorization of additional military support to Ukraine, which has been mired in a war fighting Russia’s invasion, until the Biden administration cooperates with Republican investigations into Biden and his family’s business dealings — words that echoed the call that lead to his first impeachment.
“He’s dragging into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars,” Trump alleged. “In light of this information,” Congress, he said, “should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles ... the weapons stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DOJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings.”
House Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s finances, particularly payments Hunter, the president’s son, received from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that became tangled in the first impeachment of Trump.
An unnamed confidential FBI informant claimed that Burisma company officials in 2015 and 2016 sought to pay the Bidens $5 million each in return for their help ousting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was purportedly investigating the company. But a Justice Department review in 2020, while Trump was president, was closed eight months later with insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump’s first impeachment by the House resulted in charges that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens while threatening to withhold military aid. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate.
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MIDLAND, Texas — On Friday at about 11:48 p.m., officers with the Midland Police Department responded to the area of 511 S. Calhoun St. regarding a call of shots fired.
Officers arriving on scene found two subjects with gunshot wounds. 20-year-old Kevin Villa and a male juvenile. Both were initially treated on scene then transported to Midland Memorial Hospital.
Initial investigation revealed an unknown subject drove by and shot both victims before fleeing the scene.
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LAS VEGAS — A Nevada man is accused of strangling his roommate and living in their Las Vegas home for more than two months before family members discovered her body in an upstairs closet, authorities said.
George Anthony Bone, 31, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with open murder, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. He is accused of killing Beverly Ma, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced on Thursday.
Victim Beverly Ma's family stopped by the southwest valley home on Wednesday when they found her body in a closet. Police said suspect George Bone was "afraid of going back to jail … for being found with a dead body." https://t.co/Wd59sryaPG
— Las Vegas Review-Journal (@reviewjournal) July 29, 2023
In a news release, police said they received a telephone call at about 2:27 p.m. PDT about a report of a deceased woman found inside a residence at 5437 Railroad River Ave.
Ma’s relatives had gone to the residence because they had not seen her in person since April, the Review-Journal reported.
Family members called 911 and told the dispatcher that Ma’s body “was in the closet and had been there for two months,” KLAS-TV reported, citing court documents. Police found Ma’s body in the master bedroom closet shortly after arriving at the residence, according to KVVU-TV.
Police said that Bone allegedly said that in early May, he found Ma dead in the closet with a fabric belt around her neck, the Review-Journal reported. Upon further investigation, police said that Bone’s description of how Ma was found “had inconsistencies,” and evidence from the closet contradicted Bone’s claim that Ma killed herself, according to the newspaper.
“I was afraid of going back to jail … for being found with a dead body,” Bone allegedly told police.
Ma’s family said they last received a text message from her telephone on June 22, stating that she would be unable to attend a July 4 celebration in Washington, KVVU reported. A family member texted Ma again on July 2 but never heard back from her, according to the television station.
According to the arrest report, Bone allegedly admitted to ordering more than 170 items from Amazon under Ma’s name, the Review-Journal reported. He also allegedly set the air conditioner thermostat to 60 degrees, believing that it would limit the number of flies in the residence.
Bone also left a cooler by the closet, allegedly telling police that he wanted there to alert him in case Ma rose from the dead, which he had seen in “The Grudge,” a horror movie, according to the newspaper.
On Wednesday, one of Ma’s relatives sent an air conditioning repairman to fix the unit because the electric bill was high, KVVU reported. When no one answered, the family member gave the technician the access code to the residence and he went inside, according to the television station.
The technician called for Ma but received no response, KVVU reported. That is when family members came to the home and found her body, according to the arrest report.
According to the Review-Journal, Bone is a registered sex offender in Nevada after pleading guilty in 2013 to attempted lewdness with a child under 14. Bone took an Alford plea on the charge, KLAS reported. An Alford plea occurs when a defendant accepts that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him or her but does not admit guilt, according to the television station.
He was sentenced to two to eight years in state prison, court records show.
Bone allegedly told police that he had known Ma since he was in high school and became romantically involved with her after he was released from prison in 2019, KVVU reported.
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AUSTIN, Texas — As the back-to-school season is right around the corner, it's normal and understandable for children to experience anxiety about going back to school after a long summer break. Some may feel nervous about starting school for the first time.
Experts say there are steps parents can take to help ease the transition back to school by recognizing the symptoms of stress and anxiety and implementing some creative strategies.
Dr. Matthew Lederman, a board-certified internal medicine physician, expert in empathetic communication and NVC practitioner, recommends nonviolent communication (NVC) as a tool that can help ease the transition. Nonviolent communication can foster a stronger and more meaningful connection between parents and children, as it empowers parents and children to express emotions, needs and concerns more effectively.
"The connection happens in the heart, and we want to not only be in our hearts, but also be in the hearts with the children and help them get out of their heads and connect first to their anxiety. So we can say, 'Hey, I'm here and you're feeling really anxious,' or, 'I'm sensing you're feeling really anxious and I don't want you to have to hold that alone,'" said Lederman.
The seven steps include:
- Present a safe space: To create a safe space for your child, find a quiet place in the house where you can talk without distractions. Let your child know that they can discuss any concerns or feelings in this space. Avoid distractions from phones or television, or other members of the family. Focus on listening and being present with your child instead of thinking about what you need to do to fix the situation.
- Do not interrupt: When listening to a child's concerns, be sure not to interrupt or judge. Show empathy by nodding, maintaining eye contact and using verbal cues like "I see," or "That sounds tough." This will help your child feel heard and validated.
- Validation: You can help the other person feel understood and less alone by validating their feelings. For example, you might say, "It sounds like you're feeling anxious about going back to school and worried about fitting in. Is that right?"
- Encourage sharing: Encourage your child to share their concerns and fears about returning to school by asking questions that require more than a yes or no response. For example, you might ask, "What specifically worries you about going back to school?" Most suffering stems not from unpleasant feelings but from holding unpleasant feelings alone.
- Find solutions, together: Brainstorm with your child about possible solutions to their problem. Listen to what they have to say, and let them know that you value their input and trust their ability to care for their own needs. This will empower them to solve problems on their own in the future.
- Try a mantra: Mantras are positive affirmations or phrases that can be repeated to a child when he or she is feeling anxious. Examples include "I am capable and strong," or "I can handle anything that comes my way." This helps regulate the nervous system and create self-connection that stimulates a sense of safety.
- Encourage self-care: Help your child develop self-care routines to manage stress and anxiety. Encourage them to practice deep breathing exercises, mindfulness, physical exercise or engaging in hobbies they enjoy. Taking care of their well-being can help them feel more resilient and grounded.
"I think that to me, the most important thing is I work with a lot of parents and teach the goal is to be with your child, not to fix your child. A lot of times we think it's our job to fix and it's really about being with them and empowering them to lead the way. But you're there with them so they're not alone," said Lederman.
Lederman said feelings are not a problem or bad. They're just feelings. For kids, letting parents, teachers or caregivers know they have needs that are not being met is crucial. Also, Lederman said the suffering happens when you have to hold your unpleasant feelings alone, so let children know they're not alone and they can be with you during their time of pain. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/education/ease-back-to-school-anxiety/269-7b3b8d16-04f8-4e94-8538-bf5fe641df38 | 2023-07-30T04:46:27 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/education/ease-back-to-school-anxiety/269-7b3b8d16-04f8-4e94-8538-bf5fe641df38 |
TAIPEI, Taiwan — (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an "ammunition depot" after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people's taxpayer money the ... Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait," the statement said.
China's People's Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan's ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
While Taiwan has purchased $19 billion worth of weaponry, much of it has yet to be delivered to Taiwan. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles to Taiwan.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
“I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I’ve already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight,” she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
“I’m pretty tough on myself," she said. “But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace.”
The 800 was Ledecky’s second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
“It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women’s 200 backstroke. McKeown’s victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
“You can’t change the rules,” she said. “I got ruled out. It’s just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn’t do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive.”
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström’s individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps’ mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
“There are not too many secrets,” Sjöström said about her longevity. “Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble.”
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year’s world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/507-a7750f56-2a2d-4696-8048-afe9293dc5ed | 2023-07-30T04:46:33 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/507-a7750f56-2a2d-4696-8048-afe9293dc5ed |
SANTA MARIA DE JESUS, Guatemala — (AP) — Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo stood before a few hundred residents of this small Indigenous community on the slopes of the Agua Volcano and told them they could be the seeds of a brighter, more corruption-free spring in Guatemala.
The metaphor fits neatly with his political party, the Seed Movement, and allows the 64-year-old academic and former diplomat to riff on themes of renewal and growth.
But it also alludes to Guatemala’s “democratic spring," considered a more inclusive period in the country's history during the presidency in the 1940s and early 1950s of his late father, Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in the presidential election's first round June 25, but it was enough to give him the surprise second slot in the Aug. 20 runoff ballot. He will face Sandra Torres, a conservative and former first lady who was the leading vote-getter in the first round and is making her third bid for the presidency.
Arévalo's recent speech in Santa Maria de Jesus was similar to those he has given in Guatemala’s capital, but the imagery could be especially important in rural Indigenous communities as he seeks to rapidly expand his largely urban, youthful base before the runoff.
He won in Guatemala City and other important cities, including Sacatepequez and Quetzaltenango. It remains to be seen whether he can convince people in rural communities that he can address their daily problems.
The delayed certification of the first round results shortened the already small window that Arévalo has to reintroduce himself to much of the country as his opponents rush to paint their own negative picture.
“Do you feel what is happening?” Arévalo told the crowd in Santa Maria de Jesus. “The new spring is arriving, that’s what you feel, and you all are the seeds of that new spring."
“A new spring that is going to bring us well-being, the water we lack, the education they owe us, the health that they have denied us thanks to those corrupt contracts that serve few," Arévalo said, standing in front of an old, damaged Roman Catholic church, in a wide-brimmed hat and untucked shirt against the tropical heat.
Among those listening was Juana Orón, a 67-year-old homemaker of the Kaqchikel people. She is one of the older voters who remember hearing about Arévalo’s father, one of only two leftist presidents in Guatemala’s democratic era.
The elder Arévalo, who governed from 1945 to 1951, is credited with establishing key social programs that remain in place today, including Guatemala's labor code and social security. Guatemala’s democratic spring was cut short in 1954 by the CIA-backed overthrow of his successor, President Jacobo Arbenz.
Under Juan José Arévalo, the state advocated for rights for Indigenous peoples and others beyond the country’s small elite.
“I remember I was little and (my parents) said he had done good things,” said Orón whose first language as a child was Kaqchikel. If his father was good, Arévalo could be a good president, too, she said.
Opponents have tried to frame Arévalo’s candidacy as a step toward some of the region’s more notorious leftist regimes, such as Cuba and Nicaragua. They warn that the progressive candidate will bring expropriations, abortion and same-sex marriage to the conservative country.
Arévalo has been the election’s surprise.
In the days before the June 25 vote, he was polling below 3% and trailing at least seven of the other 21 candidates. But his anti-corruption message resonated in the country where gains against corruption have been erased and the justice system reoriented to pursue the prosecutors and judges who formerly led that fight.
In the month since that initial result, the Attorney General's Office announced an investigation into his party and had a judge suspend its legal status until the Constitutional Court stepped in to block that move.
In Santa Maria de Jesus, people wanted to compare Arévalo in person to what they were hearing about him. Some handed him flowers, posed for photos or reached out to touch him as he made his way through the throng.
Arévalo pushed back against attempts to frame him as a left-wing radical — he has said private property rights are not up for discussion — and pounded the issue of corruption.
“Let us work, let us get ahead on our own effort, let’s get rid of the corrupt once and for all,” he said.
For Francisco Jiménez, a political scientist at Rafael Landivar University, Arévalo will need concrete proposals to make inroads with the base of Torres, who has spent two decades assembling it.
“He will have to make governing proposals with a social agenda, where the people see that he is going to have an impact on their lives and communities,” Jiménez said. “The other part is continuing to present himself as the different model. That has been his success, someone totally different from the other candidates.”
Evangelical churches in Guatemala have painted Arévalo as an existential threat to the family.
Gladys Sunun, a 35-year-old Kaqchikel vendor from an evangelical family, said she came to hear Arévalo for herself. She said she had heard that Arévalo would convert Guatemala into another Cuba or Nicaragua, but left feeling that might not be true, though she wants to investigate more.
“He came to tell us not to worry,” she said. “It sounds real, but we don’t know.”
Her sister July Sunun said she wanted to hear more about Arévalo's positions on gender ideology. “As a mother I’m afraid, because we’ve grown up with a Christian background. I don’t want to marry my daughter with another woman," she said.
July Sunun acknowledged that Arévalo said he would respect the identities and decisions of the people, “but what he hasn’t said is that he won’t allow (same-sex marriage) to happen here."
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KALASIN, Thailand — It's a find millions of years in the making.
Scientists in Thailand have reportedly discovered the bones of what they believe to be a new species of dinosaur.
The new species, dubbed minimocursor phunoiensis in a paper about the find published in the journal "Diversity", is believed to be a part of the neornithischia group, and like other members of the group, it is thought to be herbivorous and bipedal. Scientists also believe it to be the oldest record of a species in the group discovered so far.
The name minimocursor phunoiensis comes from the Latin word "minimus", meaning "the smallest", and the suffix "-cursor", meaning runner.
The bones were found in the Late Jurassic Phu Kradung Formation in northern Thailand, which is considered one of the richest bone-beds in Southeast Asia. The bones are believed to be Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous in age, meaning they are likely around 145 to 161 million years old. The bones were reportedly actually discovered in 2012, but required years of study to determine that they were of a new species.
The skeleton is also remarkably intact, according to the scientists. The paper said the holotype recreation of the dinosaur, which was pieced together over a period of five years, is over 50% complete and is one of the best-preserved dinosaurs ever found in Southeast Asia.
The paper said the holotype of the bones is made up of a "partially articulated skeleton comprising a series of vertebrae (from the last three cervical to the 10th caudal) with a few ossified tendons; left scapula and manus; entire pelvic girdle; left femur, tibia, and fibula; left tarsals and metatarsals; and a few displaced bones: right jugal, left surangular and angular, incomplete tooth (now considered lost), right femur, tibia and fibula, phalanx, and pedal ungual."
Based on how much of the skeleton was recovered, scientists were able to estimate that this specimen was likely around 60 cm, or just under two feet long. However, the researchers also believe the skeleton to be from a young specimen in the species and estimated that adults could have been up to two meters long.
Bones from two other dinosaurs believed to be of the same species were also found in the same fossil bed, although the scientists have not fully confirmed whether they also belong to minimocursor phunoiensis or not. Given the numerous remains of different sizes found at the location, scientists believe minimocursor phunoiensis was quite common to the area.
Scientists believe the discovery could help to chart the evolution of neornithischian dinosaurs and provide more data about the prehistoric ecosystem in the area.
The study was led by Sita Manitkoon from the Palaeontological Research and Education Centre at Thailand's Mahasarakham University, and aided by many other scientists and researchers.
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ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) -After a tough season, the Warbirds finish with a final record of 3-11 after a 43-37 over the Orlando Predators.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia's war on the country, an official said Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks.
The summit will be held in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as no authorization had been given to publicly discuss the summit.
Those taking part in the summit will include Ukraine, as well as Brazil, India, South Africa and several other countries, the official said. A high-level official from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration also is expected to attend, the official said. Planning for the event is being overseen by Kyiv and Russia is not invited, the official said.
Details regarding the summit, however, remain in flux and the official did not offer dates for the talks. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the summit, said the talks would take place Aug. 5 and 6 with some 30 countries attending, citing “diplomats involved in the discussion.”
Saudi officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press, nor did Ukraine's Embassy in Riyadh. News of the summit comes after U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan visited the kingdom on Thursday.
The official who spoke to the AP said the summit would be the next step after talks that took place in Copenhagen in June.
Saudi Arabia's hosting of the talks come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in May attended an Arab League summit in Jeddah to press those nations to back Kyiv. Arab nations largely have remained neutral since Russia launched the war on Ukraine in February 2022, in part over their military and economic ties to Moscow.
Saudi Arabia also has maintained a close relationship with Russia as part of the OPEC+ group. The organization's oil production cuts, even as Moscow's war on Ukraine boosted energy prices, have angered Biden and American lawmakers.
But hosting such talks also help raise the profile of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has sought to reach a détente with Iran and push for a peace in the kingdom's yearslong war in Yemen. However, ties also remain strained between Riyadh and the West over the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, which U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Prince Mohammed ordered.
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Madhani reported from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Officers with the Midland Police Department responded to a call regarding shots fired in the area of 511 S. Calhoun St. at around 11:48pm, on Friday, July 28th.
According to a release from the City of Midland, upon arrival, officers found two subjects with gunshot wounds. Kevin Villa, 20, as well as a male juvenile. Both subjects were treated on the scene before being transported to Midland Memorial Hospital.
Initial investigation revealed an unknown subject drove by and shot both victims before fleeing the scene.
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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BALTIMORE — (AP) — Aaron Judge is giving the New York Yankees an immediate boost — at a time when their front office has some tough decisions to make.
Judge homered and singled twice in his second game back from the injured list and the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-3 on Saturday night. Giancarlo Stanton and Kyle Higashioka went deep as well for New York, which is still 3 1/2 games behind Toronto and Houston for the last two wild cards in the American League.
That's a tricky spot with Tuesday's trade deadline approaching.
“We've had years where we stick with who we got. We've had years where we get some bullpen arms, starters, a big bat,” Judge said. “It comes down to us doing our job on the field and then letting them take care of the rest. We'll see what happens."
The Yankees knocked out struggling Orioles starter Tyler Wells (7-6) in the third inning. In the sixth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a three-run double to make it 8-3.
Judge has three walks and three hits in nine plate appearances since returning Friday from the toe injury that kept him out since early June.
Ryan Mountcastle homered for the Orioles, but Clarke Schmidt (7-6) made it through five tough innings and the New York bullpen took it from there.
The Orioles remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East.
Judge walked three times Friday night, but the Yankees lost that game 1-0 on a ninth-inning homer by Baltimore's Anthony Santander. New York's offense was relentless a night later.
Stanton's first-inning drive easily cleared the big wall in left field at Camden Yards. Mountcastle tied it in the second, and Baltimore went ahead 2-1 on an RBI infield single by Ramón Urías. That lead was short-lived.
Judge hit a two-run shot — 442 feet to center field — in the third. Then Gleyber Torres added a sacrifice fly an inning later.
Santander made it 4-3 with an RBI groundout in the fifth, but New York broke the game open in the sixth. Cole Irvin allowed a leadoff homer by Higashioka — his third hit of the night — and then one-out singles to Judge, Stanton and Anthony Rizzo.
Bryan Baker came in and struck out DJ LeMahieu, but after fouling off five pitches, Kiner-Falefa cleared the bases with a line drive to left.
“One of the best at-bats of the season right there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Wells entered the game with a major league-leading WHIP of 0.99, but he allowed three runs, three hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings. In three starts since the All-Star break, he's lasted just nine innings total.
“I think we’re going to be talking about a lot of things here coming up,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “Obviously, we’re in a weird week. He’s had tough times his last few starts. I think there are going to be discussions going on.”
Boone said he's leaning toward giving Judge a day off in the series finale Sunday night. The Yankees are in a stretch of 13 games in 13 days.
“I kind of look at it as, hopefully he's in a position to start nine or 10 of them," Boone said. “Forget the toe. He hasn't come close to playing games for almost two months. As much as I want him in there, we've got to be smart here a little bit, especially in this run.”
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The Orioles used catcher Adley Rutschman in the leadoff spot because of his ability to get on base. He was hit by a pitch, walked and scored a run.
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New York's Luis Severino (2-4) starts Sunday night against Baltimore's Dean Kremer (10-4). It's the final game of the season series, which is tied 6-all.
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(KRON) — Crews contained a vegetation fire that burned along Interstate 580 in Livermore on Saturday, according to fire officials.
The fire, which was originally started by a car, spread into nearby vegetation just before 7 p.m. and grew to 87 acres. Officials say wind helped the fire, located along Flynn and Carroll Roads, spread into more vegetation.
Freeway traffic was interrupted as a result of the fire, officials said. Cal Fire crews were able to contain the fire by 8:30 p.m. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/40-acre-fire-burns-along-i-580-in-livermore/ | 2023-07-30T04:46:59 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/40-acre-fire-burns-along-i-580-in-livermore/ |
LAS VEGAS — (AP) — Terence Crawford knocked down Errol Spence Jr. three times Saturday night before finally ending the fight at 2:32 of the ninth round on a technical knockout to cement himself as one of the greatest welterweights in history.
The fight, the most-anticipated boxing match in several years, unified the division for the first time in the four-belt era that began in 2004.
Crawford (40-0, 31 knockouts) already owned the WBO belt, and took the WBC, WBA and IBF titles from Spence (28-1). Crawford also ran his KO streak to 11 matches, the second-longest active stretch.
Crawford, 35, has won titles in super lightweight and lightweight in addition to welterweight, capturing the latter after moving up in 2018. The Omaha, Nebraska, fighter became the first male boxer to become the undisputed champion in two divisions.
A big fight night on the Strip still brings out the stars, with recording artists Cardi B and Andre 3000 of Outkast, actor and Las Vegas resident Mark Walhberg, NBA star Damian Lillard and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at T-Mobile Arena. They were among the celebrities that also included former boxing champions such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Eminem introduced Crawford and his song “Lose Yourself” played as he walked into the ring.
Spence was the aggressor early on, but Crawford sent him to the floor with a right hand with 20 seconds left in the second round. Then Crawford went after Spence, but time ran out before he could finish him off.
Crawford, a minus-154 favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, then took control of the fight, landing several major blows, often on counters. But Crawford also picked his spots to go after Spence, his punching power taking a heavy toll.
In the seventh round, Crawford knocked down Spence twice — with a short right at 1:02 and with another right with just a second left.
The 33-year-old Spence who lives in DeSoto, Texas, won the IBF title in 2017, claimed the WBC championship in 2019 and took the WBA championship last year.
In the co-main event, Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (25-2-1) of Mexico beat Chicago resident Giovanni Cabrera (21-1) by split decision in a WBC and WBA lightweight match. Judges Benoit Roussel (114-113) and Don Trella (115-112) scored the fight in favor of Cruz, and Glenn Feldman gave Cabrera the fight by a 114-113 score. Cruz had a point deducted because of a head butt.
Also, Alexandro Santiago (28-3-5) of Mexico won the vacant WBC bantamweight title with a 115-113, 116-112, 116-12 decision over Nonito Donaire (42-8), who lives in Las Vegas.
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(KRON) — A Bay Area musician’s van was stolen outside of his Antioch home on Thursday. The van had all of his music equipment inside.
For nearly 15 years, Les Edwins has been entertaining visitors at Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 45 in San Francisco, making a living by sharing his art with others.
“A lot of people think that, you know, you’re performing out there and you’ve got a whole lot of money sitting around and it’s not true. It’s just like anybody else, you know. We’re going day by day, month by month, you know, paying our way through life,” said Edwins.
His neighbor’s surveillance camera captured the moment a thief stole his white van which was parked in the front of his home. “Everything that I use to perform. Generators. My drums. Both my computers. You know, personal effects. You know, it’s everything that I own that I perform with was in that van,” said Edwins.
Edwins has since filed a police report on his stolen van. The license plate number is “FM368DP”.
“I got no equipment. You know, music is my livelihood, so you know, it’s very impactful. Yeah, I can’t perform. I can’t make my money,” said Edwins.
He says another video shows a blue car circling the block before the theft occurred and believes someone hopped out and jumped into his van.
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NEW YORK – Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever," said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
"Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like "a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there's the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It's not sustainable and I'll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — (AP) — The American swim team has had a so-so meet at the world championships in Japan. Meanwhile, Australia and China have been pouring it on.
The American gold-medal count at the worlds is the lowest in at least two decades, although the overall medal count of gold, silver, and bronze, is similar to most years.
“Obviously, we’d like to win more gold medals and I think we will,” American coach Bob Bowman said going into Sunday's final day.
The slight predicament for Bowman is that two of the swimmers he coaches at Arizona State University, Leon Marchand of France and Hungary's Hubert Kos, have won four gold medals. Marchand has three, and he's sure to be a star in next year's Paris Olympic, and Kos has one.
That's the same gold-medal total for the entire American team through seven of eight days — four gold. The average for the Americans over the last nine championships has been about 15 golds.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, two of the first three questions Bowman fielded were about Marchand and Kos, from French and Hungarian news outlets.
“If you look at swimming, every coach on the U.S. team is coaching a foreign swimmer, an international swimmer. There's always that dynamic," said Bowman, who has legendary status for helping Michael Phelps win 23 Olympic gold medals."
Bowman was cautious about taking credit for Kos, who came to Arizona State late last year. He went from being a good individual medley swimmer to a world champion a few days ago in the 200-meter backstroke.
“I think it’s just the Bob Bowman effect,” said Kos, son of an American father and Hungarian mother. ”That’s as simple as it is."
He said Bowman had a “magic” touch.“
Bowman played down his role.
“He (Kos) had an excellent coach at home for 10 years before me,” Bowman said. "He deserved the credit for this. I just helped a little bit at the end.”
Swimming is an individual sport, separate from team sports like soccer. It would be unthinkable for the coach of Real Madrid to be also coaching Barcelona players on the side. But it's normal in swimming, and Bowman said he was “ethically” comfortable with it.
“I mean, the bottom line is I get paid to coach these guys at ASU,” he said. “I’m representing my country for the love of my country and happy to do that. I don’t think there’s an ethical question. It’s not a zero-sum. I’m not taking away from the US guys.”
He said he was interested in coaching the Americans at next year's Olympics, but suggested any decision was still pending.
“I don’t think we know yet,” he said. "I have to go through this week, get home, think about what the scenarios look (like) and then we’ll decide. I always want to do. But we’ll see how it goes.”
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor's unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter and this year promises to be worse after the city closed an arena that housed 500 people during the winter months. Bickering between the city’s liberal assembly and its conservative mayor about how to address the crisis, and a lack of state funding, have further stymied efforts to find a solution.
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it's “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
About 43% of Anchorage’s more than 3,000 unsheltered residents are Alaska Natives, and Bronson’s proposal also drew harsh criticism from those who called it culturally insensitive.
“The reality is there is no place to send these people because this is their land. Any policy that we make has to pay credence to that simple fact. This is Dena’ina land, this is Native land," said Christopher Constant, chair of the Anchorage Assembly. "And so we cannot be supporting policies that would take people and displace them from their home, even if their home is not what you or I would call home.”
Bronson's airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the U.S. West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
In May, the city shut down the 500-bed homeless shelter in the city's arena so it could once more be used for concerts and hockey games after neighbors complained about open drug use, trespassing, violence and litter. A plan to build a large shelter and navigation center fell through when Bronson approved a contract without approval from the Anchorage Assembly.
That leaves a gaping hole in the city’s ability to house the thousands of homeless people who have to contend with temperatures well below zero for days at a time and unrelenting winds blasting off Cook Inlet. At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no vacancies.
New tent cities have sprung up across Anchorage this summer: on a slope facing the city’s historic railroad depot, on a busy road near the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and near soup kitchens and shelters downtown.
Assembly members are slated to consider a winter stop-gap option in August falling far short of the need: a large, warmed, tent-like structure for 150 people.
Summer brings its own challenges: hungry bears last year roamed a city-owned campground where homeless people were resettled after the arena closed. Wildlife officials killed four bears after they broke into tents.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
It’s not clear if his proposal will move forward. There is not yet a plan or a funding source.
Dr. Ted Mala, an Inupiaq who in 1990 became the first Alaska Native to serve as the state’s health commissioner, said Anchorage should be working with social workers and law enforcement to discover people’s individual reasons for homelessness and connect them with resources.
Buying the unsheltered a ticket to another city is a political game that's been around for years. A number of U.S. cities struggling with homelessness, including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, have also offered bus or plane tickets to homeless residents.
“People are not pawns, they’re human beings,” Mala said.
The mayor's proposal, while focused on warmer cities, also would fund tickets to other Alaska locations for those who want them.
Clarita Clark became homeless after her medical team wanted her to move from Point Hope to Anchorage for cancer treatment because Anchorage is warmer. The medical facility wouldn't allow her husband to stay with her, so they pitched a tent in a sprawling camp to stay together.
Having recently found the body of a dead teenager who overdosed in a portable toilet, Clark yearns to return to the Chukchi Sea coastal village of Point Hope, where her three grandchildren live.
“I got a family that loves me," she said, adding she would use the ticket and seek treatment closer to home.
Danny Parish also is leaving Alaska, but for another reason: He's fed up.
Parish is selling his home of 29 years because it sits directly across the street from Sullivan Arena. Bad acts by some homeless people — including harassment, throwing vodka bottles in his yard, poisoning his dog and using his driveway as a toilet — made his life “a holy hell," he said.
Parish is convinced the arena will be used again this winter since there isn't another plan.
He, too, hopes to move to the contiguous U.S. — Oregon, for starters — but not before asking Anchorage leaders for his own plane ticket out.
“If they’re going to give them to everybody else," Parish said, “then they need to give me one.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/07/30/anchorage-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:14 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/07/30/anchorage-homeless-face-cold-and-bears-a-plan-to-offer-one-way-airfare-out-reveals-a-bigger-crisis/ |
NEW YORK – At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with their investigations into Biden and his family.
“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. The former president and GOP frontrunner said it was time for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.
The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Trump as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and refusing to turn them over to investigators. The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Trump and two staffers sought to delete surveillance at the club in an effort to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation.
The case is just one of Trump's mounting legal challenges. His team is currently bracing for additional possible indictments, which could happen as soon as this coming week, related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election brought by prosecutors in both Washington and Georgia. Trump already faces criminal charges in New York over hush money payments made to women who accused him of sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant early frontrunner for the Republican nomination and has only seen his lead grow as the charges have mounted and as his rivals have struggled to respond. Their challenge was on display at a GOP gathering in Iowa Friday night, where they largely declined to go after Trump directly. The only one who did — accusing Trump of “running to stay out of prison” — was booed as he left the stage.
In the meantime, Trump has embraced his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Biden of using the Justice Department to maim his chief political rival. The White House has said repeatedly that the president has had no involvement in the cases.
At rallies — including Saturday's — Trump has tried to frame the charges, which come with serious threats of jail time, as an attack not just on him, but those who support him.
“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” he told the arena crowd in Erie, adding that, “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor.... Because I’m being indicted for you.”
But the investigations are also sucking up enormous resources that are being diverted from the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The Washington Post first reported Saturday that Trump’s political action committee, Save America, will report Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of 2023 defending Trump and all of the current and former aides whose lawyers it is paying. The total is more than the campaign raised during the second quarter of the year.
"In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment," said Trump's spokesman Steven Cheung.
At the rally — held in a former Democratic stronghold that Trump flipped in 2016, but Biden won narrowly in 2020 — Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this past week that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry into the president over unproven claims of financial misconduct.
Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, said Saturday that, “The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it."
“Any Republican that doesn't act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaries and get out — out!” he told the crowd to loud applause. “They have to play tough and ... if they’re not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around ... and they're going to get my endorsement every singe time.”
Trump, during the 2022 midterm elections, made it his mission to punish those who had voted in favor of his second impeachment and succeeded in unseating most who had by backing primary challengers.
At the rally, Trump also called on Republican members of Congress to halt the authorization of additional military support to Ukraine, which has been mired in a war fighting Russia’s invasion, until the Biden administration cooperates with Republican investigations into Biden and his family’s business dealings — words that echoed the call that lead to his first impeachment.
“He’s dragging into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars,” Trump alleged. “In light of this information,” Congress, he said, “should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles ... the weapons stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DOJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings.”
House Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s finances, particularly payments Hunter, the president’s son, received from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that became tangled in the first impeachment of Trump.
An unnamed confidential FBI informant claimed that Burisma company officials in 2015 and 2016 sought to pay the Bidens $5 million each in return for their help ousting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was purportedly investigating the company. But a Justice Department review in 2020, while Trump was president, was closed eight months later with insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump’s first impeachment by the House resulted in charges that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens while threatening to withhold military aid. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/07/30/trump-amid-legal-perils-calls-on-gop-to-rally-around-him-as-he-threatens-primary-challenges/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:20 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/07/30/trump-amid-legal-perils-calls-on-gop-to-rally-around-him-as-he-threatens-primary-challenges/ |
TAIPEI – China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people's taxpayer money the ... Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait," the statement said.
China’s People’s Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan's ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
While Taiwan has purchased $19 billion worth of weaponry, much of it has yet to be delivered to Taiwan. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles to Taiwan. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:26 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ |
SANTA MARIA DE JESUS – Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo stood before a few hundred residents of this small Indigenous community on the slopes of the Agua Volcano and told them they could be the seeds of a brighter, more corruption-free spring in Guatemala.
The metaphor fits neatly with his political party, the Seed Movement, and allows the 64-year-old academic and former diplomat to riff on themes of renewal and growth.
But it also alludes to Guatemala’s “democratic spring," considered a more inclusive period in the country's history during the presidency in the 1940s and early 1950s of his late father, Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in the presidential election’s first round June 25, but it was enough to give him the surprise second slot in the Aug. 20 runoff ballot. He will face Sandra Torres, a conservative and former first lady who was the leading vote-getter in the first round and is making her third bid for the presidency.
Arévalo's recent speech in Santa Maria de Jesus was similar to those he has given in Guatemala’s capital, but the imagery could be especially important in rural Indigenous communities as he seeks to rapidly expand his largely urban, youthful base before the runoff.
He won in Guatemala City and other important cities, including Sacatepequez and Quetzaltenango. It remains to be seen whether he can convince people in rural communities that he can address their daily problems.
The delayed certification of the first round results shortened the already small window that Arévalo has to reintroduce himself to much of the country as his opponents rush to paint their own negative picture.
“Do you feel what is happening?” Arévalo told the crowd in Santa Maria de Jesus. “The new spring is arriving, that’s what you feel, and you all are the seeds of that new spring."
“A new spring that is going to bring us well-being, the water we lack, the education they owe us, the health that they have denied us thanks to those corrupt contracts that serve few," Arévalo said, standing in front of an old, damaged Roman Catholic church, in a wide-brimmed hat and untucked shirt against the tropical heat.
Among those listening was Juana Orón, a 67-year-old homemaker of the Kaqchikel people. She is one of the older voters who remember hearing about Arévalo’s father, one of only two leftist presidents in Guatemala’s democratic era.
The elder Arévalo, who governed from 1945 to 1951, is credited with establishing key social programs that remain in place today, including Guatemala's labor code and social security. Guatemala’s democratic spring was cut short in 1954 by the CIA-backed overthrow of his successor, President Jacobo Arbenz.
Under Juan José Arévalo, the state advocated for rights for Indigenous peoples and others beyond the country’s small elite.
“I remember I was little and (my parents) said he had done good things,” said Orón whose first language as a child was Kaqchikel. If his father was good, Arévalo could be a good president, too, she said.
Opponents have tried to frame Arévalo’s candidacy as a step toward some of the region’s more notorious leftist regimes, such as Cuba and Nicaragua. They warn that the progressive candidate will bring expropriations, abortion and same-sex marriage to the conservative country.
Arévalo has been the election’s surprise.
In the days before the June 25 vote, he was polling below 3% and trailing at least seven of the other 21 candidates. But his anti-corruption message resonated in the country where gains against corruption have been erased and the justice system reoriented to pursue the prosecutors and judges who formerly led that fight.
In the month since that initial result, the Attorney General’s Office announced an investigation into his party and had a judge suspend its legal status until the Constitutional Court stepped in to block that move.
In Santa Maria de Jesus, people wanted to compare Arévalo in person to what they were hearing about him. Some handed him flowers, posed for photos or reached out to touch him as he made his way through the throng.
Arévalo pushed back against attempts to frame him as a left-wing radical — he has said private property rights are not up for discussion — and pounded the issue of corruption.
“Let us work, let us get ahead on our own effort, let’s get rid of the corrupt once and for all,” he said.
For Francisco Jiménez, a political scientist at Rafael Landivar University, Arévalo will need concrete proposals to make inroads with the base of Torres, who has spent two decades assembling it.
“He will have to make governing proposals with a social agenda, where the people see that he is going to have an impact on their lives and communities,” Jiménez said. “The other part is continuing to present himself as the different model. That has been his success, someone totally different from the other candidates.”
Evangelical churches in Guatemala have painted Arévalo as an existential threat to the family.
Gladys Sunun, a 35-year-old Kaqchikel vendor from an evangelical family, said she came to hear Arévalo for herself. She said she had heard that Arévalo would convert Guatemala into another Cuba or Nicaragua, but left feeling that might not be true, though she wants to investigate more.
“He came to tell us not to worry,” she said. “It sounds real, but we don’t know.”
Her sister July Sunun said she wanted to hear more about Arévalo's positions on gender ideology. “As a mother I’m afraid, because we’ve grown up with a Christian background. I don’t want to marry my daughter with another woman," she said.
July Sunun acknowledged that Arévalo said he would respect the identities and decisions of the people, “but what he hasn’t said is that he won’t allow (same-sex marriage) to happen here." | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/guatemala-presidential-candidate-rushes-to-expand-base-beyond-urban-youth/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:33 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/guatemala-presidential-candidate-rushes-to-expand-base-beyond-urban-youth/ |
Lyons was filled with the sound of plucking banjos and lilting fiddles this weekend as thousands gathered for the annual Planet Bluegrass RockyGrass music festival.
Per usual, this year’s festival was sold out, with 4,500 people in attendance each of the three days. When they weren’t listening to lively bluegrass performances, guests spent time milling between vendor booths or beating the heat in the nearby St. Vrain Creek.
“There’s so much fun music culture in Lyons,” said Grace Barrett, director of communication and partnerships for Planet Bluegrass, on Saturday. “And it’s because people come for the community and the friends.”
This year also marks the 51st iteration of RockyGrass, over 30 of which have been held in Lyons at Planet Bluegrass Ranch. Barrett said the festival celebrated its 50-year milestone in 2022 with a few additions, like a photo exhibit, but wanted the emphasis to remain on the music.
“It’s really like, come and just be here, and let the magic of the place speak for itself,” Barrett said.
Saturday afternoon featured the preliminary round of the band contest, with 10 bluegrass groups performing songs under the shade of the ranch’s Wildflower Pavilion. The band that wins the final round Sunday gets to play on the main stage at next year’s RockyGrass.
“We were happy to go first and set the stage, set the volume, set the tone,” said Daniel Elkin with Boulder-based band Salty Strings, the opener for Saturday’s competition.
“We recognize the beautiful musical tradition of Boulder,” added band member Jonathan Bastian. “So we just feel super-proud to be doing our best and hopefully be a part of a new wave of bluegrass that comes out of the city.”
The festival pulled plenty of Colorado musicians as well as several from out of state, including groups from California and Kansas. It also hosted RockyGrass Academy a week prior with bluegrass classes and coaching for participants. Part of the academy was a kids’ camp offering the same experience for young musicians ages 7 through 14.
“That’s what’s cool about bluegrass — it starts with the kids, and it’s all an oral tradition that’s handed down,” said Jill Brzezicki, security supervisor for the festival. “They’re hearing it, and they’re repeating it. That’s how it’s been taught for 100 years, and it’s such a cool legacy to keep going.”
Brzezicki has been coming to the festival for more than 15 years. She called Lyons a town full of bluegrass fans and musicians.
“You could start a band just by walking out into the crowd and asking, ‘Do you want to play?’” she said. “And most of them are good.” | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/07/29/51st-rockygrass-festival-brings-bluegrass-tunes-to-lyons/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:35 | 0 | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/07/29/51st-rockygrass-festival-brings-bluegrass-tunes-to-lyons/ |
DUBAI – Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia's war on the country, an official said Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks.
The summit will be held in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as no authorization had been given to publicly discuss the summit.
Those taking part in the summit will include Ukraine, as well as Brazil, India, South Africa and several other countries, the official said. A high-level official from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration also is expected to attend, the official said. Planning for the event is being overseen by Kyiv and Russia is not invited, the official said.
Details regarding the summit, however, remain in flux and the official did not offer dates for the talks. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the summit, said the talks would take place Aug. 5 and 6 with some 30 countries attending, citing “diplomats involved in the discussion.”
Saudi officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press, nor did Ukraine's Embassy in Riyadh. News of the summit comes after U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan visited the kingdom on Thursday.
The official who spoke to the AP said the summit would be the next step after talks that took place in Copenhagen in June.
Saudi Arabia's hosting of the talks come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in May attended an Arab League summit in Jeddah to press those nations to back Kyiv. Arab nations largely have remained neutral since Russia launched the war on Ukraine in February 2022, in part over their military and economic ties to Moscow.
Saudi Arabia also has maintained a close relationship with Russia as part of the OPEC+ group. The organization’s oil production cuts, even as Moscow’s war on Ukraine boosted energy prices, have angered Biden and American lawmakers.
But hosting such talks also help raise the profile of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has sought to reach a détente with Iran and push for a peace in the kingdom's yearslong war in Yemen. However, ties also remain strained between Riyadh and the West over the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, which U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Prince Mohammed ordered.
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Madhani reported from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/official-tells-ap-that-saudi-arabia-will-host-ukrainian-organized-peace-summit-in-august/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:39 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/official-tells-ap-that-saudi-arabia-will-host-ukrainian-organized-peace-summit-in-august/ |
The force was with the Rockies on Saturday night at Coors Field, though it wasn’t channeled through Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi or Chewbacca.
CarGo was in the house.
Carlos Gonzalez, one of the most popular players in franchise history, is on hand this weekend as part of the Rockies’ season-long 30th-anniversary celebration.
“It’s amazing to be back,” Gonzalez said before the Rockies hosted Oakland. “It’s special, the way I was embraced by this city and these fans.”
Gonzalez played for the Rockies from 2009-18, was a three-time All-Star, and was the 2010 National League batting champion when he hit .336 with 34 homers and finished third in the MVP voting. CarGo, along with catcher Chris Iannetta, are the only two players to be members of three Rockies playoff teams. Iannetta played for the 2007, ’09 and ’18 clubs, while Gonzalez played for the 2009, ’17 and ’18 playoff teams.
“That was the best baseball and the most fun,” he said. “That’s what you play for. You want to be on the big stage and on national TV and playing meaningful games.
“To be able to do it three times was great, but I wish I was able to do more. But being part of three playoff teams makes me proud.”
Bud Black, who competed against Gonzalez as the manager of the Padres, and then managed Gonzalez with the Rockies in 2017-18, called CarGo a special player.
“A talented player who could beat you in any way and help you win in any way,” Black said. “He was an all-around, tremendous player. And the thing that I came to appreciate, probably as much as anything, was that he was a really good teammate — for everybody. CarGo was the guy everybody rallied around.”
Gonzalez said that came naturally to him.
“That’s something you don’t ask for,” he said. “I just always enjoyed being around (the ballpark), getting here early, being around my teammates, going to work and being around the cage and making jokes. Spilly (outfielder Ryan Spilborghs) mentioned that to me today.
“As soon as guys walked into the clubhouse, everybody would say, ‘Where’s CarGo? Where’s CarGo?’ I mean, I couldn’t even be sick for one day because I would be in the treatment room trying to get treatment and they’d all be like, ‘Where’s CarGo?’
“So I feel happy and blessed that I got along with not only my teammates but all of the people in the organization. I was just trying to be a good human being.”
Gonzalez and his family split their time between Miami and Los Angeles. He and his wife, Indonesia, have three children: their son, Santiago, and twin daughters, Carlota and Genova.
At 37, Gonzalez looks like he could still play right field.
“Two innings,” he said, flashing his easy smile.
Blackmon update. Veteran right fielder/designated hitter Charlie Blackmon took batting practice with the team for the first time since going on the injured list June 10 with a fractured right hand.
Blackmon, 37, plans to continue taking BP with the team for a couple of days to make sure his hand doesn’t swell up. Then he and the club will decide on a rehab assignment.
Blackmon was slashing .265/.347/.422 with five homers, two triples and 14 doubles before going on the IL.
B-Rod update. Second baseman Brendan Rodgers, returning from surgery to repair his left shoulder, is moving closer to rejoining the big-league club. Friday night, in his ninth minor league rehab game, he went 2 for 4 with a home run for Triple-A Albuquerque.
Sunday’s pitching matchup
A’s RHP Luis Medina (3-7, 5.50 ERA) at Rockies LHP Ty Blach (0-0, 5.51)
1:10 p.m. Sunday, Coors Field
TV: AT&T SportsNet
Radio: 850 AM/94.1 FM
Blach will make his second start of the season in what figures to be another bullpen game for Colorado. He was sharp when he pitched three scoreless innings as the opener last Sunday in Miami. The Regis Jesuit native also pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings July 1 vs. Detroit. Blach went 3-1 with a 4.40 ERA in 11 games (five starts) at Triple-A Albuquerque earlier this season. Medina has been pitching much better of late, going 2-1 with a 2.84 ERA and .207 batting average against over his last six games. In his first eight starts, he was 1-6 with a 7.55 ERA and a .288 average against. He’s allowed just two home runs in his last nine games (42 2/3 innings) after serving up 10 homers in his first five games (27 2/3 innings). He’s never faced the Rockies.
Pitching probables
Monday: Padres RHP Seth Lugo (4-5, 3.62) at Rockies LHP Austin Gomber (8-8, 5.83), 6:40 p.m., ATTRM
Tuesday: Padres TBA at Rockies RHP Peter Lambert (2-1, 4.76), 6:40 p.m., ATTRM | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/07/29/carlos-gonzalez-rockies-coors-field-return/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:41 | 1 | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/07/29/carlos-gonzalez-rockies-coors-field-return/ |
Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/overnight-drone-attack-on-moscow-injures-1-prompts-temporary-airport-closure/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:45 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/30/overnight-drone-attack-on-moscow-injures-1-prompts-temporary-airport-closure/ |
Reemelin (Romspert), Trudy Ann
age 93, passed in Lexington, KY on June 14, 2023 following a long battle with dementia and a recent fall that occurred on her birthday. Trudy was born on May 16th, 1930 in Dayton, Ohio to Richard Gloyd Romspert and Nancy Catherine Hill Romspert. She was a 1947 graduate of Stivers High School. Trudy attended Ohio University then began a career in bookkeeping. Trudy became a finance manager / office manager for many years. She enjoyed baking and entertaining friends and family. Trudy was proud to have been a longtime volunteer at Miami Valley Hospital. She was also an avid volunteer for the Kettering Police and Fire Departments. She enjoyed genealogy and was honored to be a member of First Families of Dayton. Trudy married Robert Edward Reemelin (Bob) on September 13, 1952. Bob preceded Trudy to their eternal home, just nine months ago. They would have celebrated their 70th anniversary last September. In addition to son Robert Bradford (Susan) survivors include granddaughters, Katherine (Austin) Isner and Kelly (Jeff) Vella; great grandchildren, Eleanor Katherine Isner, Taylor Ann Vella, Millie Margaret Vella and a great grandson will be arriving this fall. Trudy is also survived by other special friends and family. Trudy will be very missed by all that knew and loved her. Trudy was preceded in death by her parents and siblings (Edward, Jack, Helen, Louise, and Edna) Memorial donations can be made to the Bluegrass Care Navigators (Hospice) or to a favorite charity. Trudy was a member of Christ Church Kettering. A graveside interment service will be held for Trudy and Bob at Woodland Cemetery Dayton Ohio on Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 11:00am. A celebration of life will be held at 12NOON at Routsong Funeral Home, Kettering. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be made at www.routsong.com.
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The local volleyball scene was a bit down last season as only Niwot from the Boulder, Broomfield or Longmont area reached its respective state bracket.
On top of that, only nine of the 22 area teams had winning records in 2022.
Will there be a surge in success in 2023? An uptick?
Throughout this month, we will focus on each fall sport, diving into some of the most interesting storylines and unanswered questions about the programs around Boulder, Broomfield and Longmont.
In previous weeks, we dove into cross country, softball, boys soccer and gymnastics. Today, it’s volleyball.
Storyline one: Niwot won 21 matches under first-year coach Tony Engel, falling one win short of reaching the Class 4A semifinals. Can the Cougars make yet another deep run this fall?
Addison Engel could return this year. That alone should have the Cougars excited about their prospects.
Engel was a junior when she was the lone local player to make an all-state team last season, claiming her spot on the 4A second team. (The other 15 local players were honorable mentions). The Longmont Times-Call player of the year totaled 203 kills, 25 aces and 66 blocks.
Behind her play and her leadership, the Cougars finished second in the Longs Peak League to eventual state champ Thompson Valley. Get this: Five of their nine losses last year came either to TV or 4A runner-up Windsor.
Gone from that team is kills and ace leader Paige Demosthenes (209 and 51) and digs leader Varshini Panuganti (211).
Two: Under its third coach in as many seasons, Legacy won what is believed to be a program-best 21 matches in 2022. The year before, the Lightning won 18 games, ending a run of three straight losing seasons. Can they continue their winning ways this fall?
Legacy will have to find a way to replace the production left by grad Alexandra Urbina, who was fifth in the Front Range League with 259 kills last season, and ninth in digs with 241.
One name who could emerge as a standout this fall is Taryn McGonigle. As a junior outside hitter, McGonigle was second to Urbina in kills (161) and digs (195), and was also second on the team with 41 aces.
The Lightning won their first 10 games in 2022, and later went on to beat city-rival Broomfield for the first time since 2017, reverse sweeping the Eagles behind 11 kills from then-junior Kaci Esplin.
Three: Erie and Holy Family haven’t had a losing season since 2014. Broomfield and Frederick haven’t since before the pandemic. Who are some potential players that will help that trend go forward in 2023?
Broomfield graduated star outside hitter Lillia Neill and libero Kennedy Nelson, the Daily Camera player of the year, after the pair helped bridge the gap between the program’s longtime coach, Bob Knox, and Carisa Kessler. The Eagles went 17-8.
One interesting name for Broomfield this fall could be Macy Mahoney. As a junior last year, she led the team with nine assists per set. Then-junior Allie Patton could be another after posting 49 aces.
At Erie, the Tigers graduated their top outside hitter in Rowan Ramsey. And that’ll be tough to replace. But Avery Malek was a fresh-faced sophomore who proved lethal in service, totaling 62 aces. Then-junior Myla Wilkes added 71 kills and 42 blocks.
Frederick, after graduating standouts Katelin Sindelar and Delaney Frank, could still potentially get back Kelsey Matthews and Tatianna Staab. Matthews had 144 kills on a 40% clip as a junior. Staab had 226 digs as a freshman.
Holy Family, meanwhile, got nice play from Texas Tech commit Ava Olsen and other incoming senior Alexandra Ward. The Tigers should get a lot of returning talent back after finishing second in the Northern Colorado Athletics Conference to Windsor.
Four: Jefferson Academy, Prospect Ridge and Peak to Peak all finished with winning records in the 3A/2A Metro League last fall. JA was second in the league behind Forge Christian, PRA was third and Peak to Peak was sixth. Who has the best chance at winning the league title this fall?
If those who can return, do, JA and PRA should have pretty good shots at claiming the league crown in 2023.
Four of the top kills leaders for the Jaguars are eligible to return this fall, including Laila Gallaher and her 199 kills in 2022, as well as Emilee Harding, who had 175 kills on a 49% clip and a team-leading 42 aces.
Three of the top kills leaders can return for the Miners. Ella Luhmann is one of them, having 145 kills and 210 digs as a junior.
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BALTIMORE – Aaron Judge is giving the New York Yankees an immediate boost — at a time when their front office has some tough decisions to make.
Judge homered and singled twice in his second game back from the injured list and the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-3 on Saturday night. Giancarlo Stanton and Kyle Higashioka went deep as well for New York, which is still 3 1/2 games behind Toronto and Houston for the last two wild cards in the American League.
That's a tricky spot with Tuesday's trade deadline approaching.
“We've had years where we stick with who we got. We've had years where we get some bullpen arms, starters, a big bat,” Judge said. “It comes down to us doing our job on the field and then letting them take care of the rest. We'll see what happens."
The Yankees knocked out struggling Orioles starter Tyler Wells (7-6) in the third inning. In the sixth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a three-run double to make it 8-3.
Judge has three walks and three hits in nine plate appearances since returning Friday from the toe injury that kept him out since early June.
Ryan Mountcastle homered for the Orioles, but Clarke Schmidt (7-6) made it through five tough innings and the New York bullpen took it from there.
The Orioles remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East.
Judge walked three times Friday night, but the Yankees lost that game 1-0 on a ninth-inning homer by Baltimore's Anthony Santander. New York's offense was relentless a night later.
Stanton's first-inning drive easily cleared the big wall in left field at Camden Yards. Mountcastle tied it in the second, and Baltimore went ahead 2-1 on an RBI infield single by Ramón Urías. That lead was short-lived.
Judge hit a two-run shot — 442 feet to center field — in the third. Then Gleyber Torres added a sacrifice fly an inning later.
Santander made it 4-3 with an RBI groundout in the fifth, but New York broke the game open in the sixth. Cole Irvin allowed a leadoff homer by Higashioka — his third hit of the night — and then one-out singles to Judge, Stanton and Anthony Rizzo.
Bryan Baker came in and struck out DJ LeMahieu, but after fouling off five pitches, Kiner-Falefa cleared the bases with a line drive to left.
“One of the best at-bats of the season right there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Wells entered the game with a major league-leading WHIP of 0.99, but he allowed three runs, three hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings. In three starts since the All-Star break, he's lasted just nine innings total.
“I think we’re going to be talking about a lot of things here coming up,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “Obviously, we’re in a weird week. He’s had tough times his last few starts. I think there are going to be discussions going on.”
Boone said he's leaning toward giving Judge a day off in the series finale Sunday night. The Yankees are in a stretch of 13 games in 13 days.
“I kind of look at it as, hopefully he's in a position to start nine or 10 of them," Boone said. “Forget the toe. He hasn't come close to playing games for almost two months. As much as I want him in there, we've got to be smart here a little bit, especially in this run.”
DIFFERENT ORDER
The Orioles used catcher Adley Rutschman in the leadoff spot because of his ability to get on base. He was hit by a pitch, walked and scored a run.
UP NEXT
New York's Luis Severino (2-4) starts Sunday night against Baltimore's Dean Kremer (10-4). It's the final game of the season series, which is tied 6-all.
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A motorcyclist died Saturday following a crash with a tandem bicycle on Lefthand Canyon Drive near Spring Gulch Road northwest of Gold Hill.
The crash was reported at 12:08 p.m., according to Trooper Gabriel Moltrer with the Colorado State Patrol. The adult male motorcyclist collided with a tandem bike, which was carrying two riders.
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LAS VEGAS – Terence Crawford knocked down Errol Spence Jr. three times Saturday night before finally ending the fight at 2:32 of the ninth round on a technical knockout to cement himself as one of the greatest welterweights in history.
The fight, the most-anticipated boxing match in several years, unified the division for the first time in the four-belt era that began in 2004.
Crawford (40-0, 31 knockouts) already owned the WBO belt, and took the WBC, WBA and IBF titles from Spence (28-1). Crawford also ran his KO streak to 11 matches, the second-longest active stretch.
Crawford, 35, has won titles in super lightweight and lightweight in addition to welterweight, capturing the latter after moving up in 2018. The Omaha, Nebraska, fighter became the first male boxer to become the undisputed champion in two divisions.
A big fight night on the Strip still brings out the stars, with recording artists Cardi B and Andre 3000 of Outkast, actor and Las Vegas resident Mark Walhberg, NBA star Damian Lillard and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at T-Mobile Arena. They were among the celebrities that also included former boxing champions such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Eminem introduced Crawford and his song “Lose Yourself” played as he walked into the ring.
Spence was the aggressor early on, but Crawford sent him to the floor with a right hand with 20 seconds left in the second round. Then Crawford went after Spence, but time ran out before he could finish him off.
Crawford, a minus-154 favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, then took control of the fight, landing several major blows, often on counters. But Crawford also picked his spots to go after Spence, his punching power taking a heavy toll.
In the seventh round, Crawford knocked down Spence twice — with a short right at 1:02 and with another right with just a second left.
The 33-year-old Spence who lives in DeSoto, Texas, won the IBF title in 2017, claimed the WBC championship in 2019 and took the WBA championship last year.
In the co-main event, Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (25-2-1) of Mexico beat Chicago resident Giovanni Cabrera (21-1) by split decision in a WBC and WBA lightweight match. Judges Benoit Roussel (114-113) and Don Trella (115-112) scored the fight in favor of Cruz, and Glenn Feldman gave Cabrera the fight by a 114-113 score. Cruz had a point deducted because of a head butt.
Also, Alexandro Santiago (28-3-5) of Mexico won the vacant WBC bantamweight title with a 115-113, 116-112, 116-12 decision over Nonito Donaire (42-8), who lives in Las Vegas.
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In the search for defensive line depth following the indefinite suspension of Eyioma Uwazurike and Mike Purcell being on the active/non-football injury list, the Broncos reached out to a familiar face.
Denver held a visit for veteran defensive lineman Shelby Harris on Friday. Denver head coach Sean Payton thought the visit was worthwhile since Harris, who played five seasons for the Broncos, lives in the area. No further action was taken outside of the meeting as Payton expects the team to continue to explore their options.
“We’ll have a few others that we’d look to bring in,” Payton said without disclosing names. “Nothing other than that.”
The Broncos’ defensive line was one of the biggest question marks going into training camp, and things got more complicated due to Uwazurike’s suspension for violating the NFL’s gambling policy. Harris, who was sent to Seattle in 2022 as part of the Russell Wilson trade, could fill Denver’s need for an interior D-lineman who can rush the passer.
Harris recorded 21.5 sacks during his time in Denver, including two seasons where he had six sacks. He also has familiarity with defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, who was his head coach in Denver from 2017-2018. Outside of Harris, there are a handful of veteran defensive linemen who are still free agents. Among them: Michael Brockers, Matt Ioannidis and Akiem Hicks.
Fleming’s experience “big plus” for Denver
As the Broncos spent the offseason revamping the offensive line, Payton found a need for Cam Fleming’s experience, which led to the ninth-year pro returning to Denver on a one-year deal.
“His experience is a big plus for us,” Payton said.
Fleming, who has played in 111 career games, has started 19 of 20 matchups over the past two seasons with the Broncos. In 2022, he led Denver offensive linemen in snaps played, starting in 15 of 17 regular-season games. He is projected as a swing tackle option for the Broncos this season.
“We’ve paid a lot of attention to (the offensive line) in the offseason, overhauling that room and changing it to what we want it to look like,” Payton said. “(Fleming) will be a part of it.”
Planning ahead
The Broncos have an off day Sunday, but Payton will still be working.
Payton said he and the coaching staff will be planning out the next seven days with scripted practices that they created during the spring.
“We planned the first six practices…scripted all of it so it will be ready when camp began,” Payton said. “Tomorrow we will get another seven days of practice planning, we’ll look at cut-ups, talk about the (next) four or five days and look at the depth chart.” | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/07/29/shelby-harris-broncos-visit-defensive-line-depth/ | 2023-07-30T04:47:59 | 1 | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/07/29/shelby-harris-broncos-visit-defensive-line-depth/ |
FUKUOKA – The American swim team has had a so-so meet at the world championships in Japan. Meanwhile, Australia and China have been pouring it on.
The American gold-medal count at the worlds is the lowest in at least two decades, although the overall medal count of gold, silver, and bronze, is similar to most years.
“Obviously, we’d like to win more gold medals and I think we will,” American coach Bob Bowman said going into Sunday's final day.
The slight predicament for Bowman is that two of the swimmers he coaches at Arizona State University, Leon Marchand of France and Hungary's Hubert Kos, have won four gold medals. Marchand has three, and he's sure to be a star in next year's Paris Olympic, and Kos has one.
That's the same gold-medal total for the entire American team through seven of eight days — four gold. The average for the Americans over the last nine championships has been about 15 golds.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, two of the first three questions Bowman fielded were about Marchand and Kos, from French and Hungarian news outlets.
“If you look at swimming, every coach on the U.S. team is coaching a foreign swimmer, an international swimmer. There's always that dynamic," said Bowman, who has legendary status for helping Michael Phelps win 23 Olympic gold medals."
Bowman was cautious about taking credit for Kos, who came to Arizona State late last year. He went from being a good individual medley swimmer to a world champion a few days ago in the 200-meter backstroke.
“I think it’s just the Bob Bowman effect,” said Kos, son of an American father and Hungarian mother. ”That’s as simple as it is."
He said Bowman had a “magic” touch.“
Bowman played down his role.
“He (Kos) had an excellent coach at home for 10 years before me,” Bowman said. "He deserved the credit for this. I just helped a little bit at the end.”
Swimming is an individual sport, separate from team sports like soccer. It would be unthinkable for the coach of Real Madrid to be also coaching Barcelona players on the side. But it's normal in swimming, and Bowman said he was “ethically” comfortable with it.
“I mean, the bottom line is I get paid to coach these guys at ASU,” he said. “I’m representing my country for the love of my country and happy to do that. I don’t think there’s an ethical question. It’s not a zero-sum. I’m not taking away from the US guys.”
He said he was interested in coaching the Americans at next year's Olympics, but suggested any decision was still pending.
“I don’t think we know yet,” he said. "I have to go through this week, get home, think about what the scenarios look (like) and then we’ll decide. I always want to do. But we’ll see how it goes.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Wilder Cartagena scored in stoppage time to give Orlando City a 3-2 win over Santos Laguna in their Leagues Cup match at Exploria Stadium on Saturday night.
Cartagena scored in the 92nd minute to secure the win for the Lions.
Duncan McGuire continued his impressive rookie season securing a first half goal on a header and Orlando City captain Mauricio Pereyra scored an early second half goal.
With the win, Orlando lives on in the Leagues Cup and is set to face Lionel Messi and Inter Miami on Wednesday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people’s taxpayer money the … Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait,” the statement said.
China’s People’s Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan’s ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
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SANTA MARIA DE JESUS, Guatemala (AP) — Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo stood before a few hundred residents of this small Indigenous community on the slopes of the Agua Volcano and told them they could be the seeds of a brighter, more corruption-free spring in Guatemala.
The metaphor fits neatly with his political party, the Seed Movement, and allows the 64-year-old academic and former diplomat to riff on themes of renewal and growth.
But it also alludes to Guatemala’s “democratic spring,” considered a more inclusive period in the country’s history during the presidency in the 1940s and early 1950s of his late father, Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in the presidential election’s first round June 25, but it was enough to give him the surprise second slot in the Aug. 20 runoff ballot. He will face Sandra Torres, a conservative and former first lady who was the leading vote-getter in the first round and is making her third bid for the presidency.
Arévalo’s recent speech in Santa Maria de Jesus was similar to those he has given in Guatemala’s capital, but the imagery could be especially important in rural Indigenous communities as he seeks to rapidly expand his largely urban, youthful base before the runoff.
He won in Guatemala City and other important cities, including Sacatepequez and Quetzaltenango. It remains to be seen whether he can convince people in rural communities that he can address their daily problems.
The delayed certification of the first round results shortened the already small window that Arévalo has to reintroduce himself to much of the country as his opponents rush to paint their own negative picture.
“Do you feel what is happening?” Arévalo told the crowd in Santa Maria de Jesus. “The new spring is arriving, that’s what you feel, and you all are the seeds of that new spring.”
“A new spring that is going to bring us well-being, the water we lack, the education they owe us, the health that they have denied us thanks to those corrupt contracts that serve few,” Arévalo said, standing in front of an old, damaged Roman Catholic church, in a wide-brimmed hat and untucked shirt against the tropical heat.
Among those listening was Juana Orón, a 67-year-old homemaker of the Kaqchikel people. She is one of the older voters who remember hearing about Arévalo’s father, one of only two leftist presidents in Guatemala’s democratic era.
The elder Arévalo, who governed from 1945 to 1951, is credited with establishing key social programs that remain in place today, including Guatemala’s labor code and social security. Guatemala’s democratic spring was cut short in 1954 by the CIA-backed overthrow of his successor, President Jacobo Arbenz.
Under Juan José Arévalo, the state advocated for rights for Indigenous peoples and others beyond the country’s small elite.
“I remember I was little and (my parents) said he had done good things,” said Orón whose first language as a child was Kaqchikel. If his father was good, Arévalo could be a good president, too, she said.
Opponents have tried to frame Arévalo’s candidacy as a step toward some of the region’s more notorious leftist regimes, such as Cuba and Nicaragua. They warn that the progressive candidate will bring expropriations, abortion and same-sex marriage to the conservative country.
Arévalo has been the election’s surprise.
In the days before the June 25 vote, he was polling below 3% and trailing at least seven of the other 21 candidates. But his anti-corruption message resonated in the country where gains against corruption have been erased and the justice system reoriented to pursue the prosecutors and judges who formerly led that fight.
In the month since that initial result, the Attorney General’s Office announced an investigation into his party and had a judge suspend its legal status until the Constitutional Court stepped in to block that move.
In Santa Maria de Jesus, people wanted to compare Arévalo in person to what they were hearing about him. Some handed him flowers, posed for photos or reached out to touch him as he made his way through the throng.
Arévalo pushed back against attempts to frame him as a left-wing radical — he has said private property rights are not up for discussion — and pounded the issue of corruption.
“Let us work, let us get ahead on our own effort, let’s get rid of the corrupt once and for all,” he said.
For Francisco Jiménez, a political scientist at Rafael Landivar University, Arévalo will need concrete proposals to make inroads with the base of Torres, who has spent two decades assembling it.
“He will have to make governing proposals with a social agenda, where the people see that he is going to have an impact on their lives and communities,” Jiménez said. “The other part is continuing to present himself as the different model. That has been his success, someone totally different from the other candidates.”
Evangelical churches in Guatemala have painted Arévalo as an existential threat to the family.
Gladys Sunun, a 35-year-old Kaqchikel vendor from an evangelical family, said she came to hear Arévalo for herself. She said she had heard that Arévalo would convert Guatemala into another Cuba or Nicaragua, but left feeling that might not be true, though she wants to investigate more.
“He came to tell us not to worry,” she said. “It sounds real, but we don’t know.”
Her sister July Sunun said she wanted to hear more about Arévalo’s positions on gender ideology. “As a mother I’m afraid, because we’ve grown up with a Christian background. I don’t want to marry my daughter with another woman,” she said.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia’s war on the country, an official said Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks.
The summit will be held in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as no authorization had been given to publicly discuss the summit.
Those taking part in the summit will include Ukraine, as well as Brazil, India, South Africa and several other countries, the official said. A high-level official from U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration also is expected to attend, the official said. Planning for the event is being overseen by Kyiv and Russia is not invited, the official said.
Details regarding the summit, however, remain in flux and the official did not offer dates for the talks. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the summit, said the talks would take place Aug. 5 and 6 with some 30 countries attending, citing “diplomats involved in the discussion.”
Saudi officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press, nor did Ukraine’s Embassy in Riyadh. News of the summit comes after U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan visited the kingdom on Thursday.
The official who spoke to the AP said the summit would be the next step after talks that took place in Copenhagen in June.
Saudi Arabia’s hosting of the talks come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in May attended an Arab League summit in Jeddah to press those nations to back Kyiv. Arab nations largely have remained neutral since Russia launched the war on Ukraine in February 2022, in part over their military and economic ties to Moscow.
Saudi Arabia also has maintained a close relationship with Russia as part of the OPEC+ group. The organization’s oil production cuts, even as Moscow’s war on Ukraine boosted energy prices, have angered Biden and American lawmakers.
But hosting such talks also help raise the profile of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has sought to reach a détente with Iran and push for a peace in the kingdom’s yearslong war in Yemen. However, ties also remain strained between Riyadh and the West over the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, which U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Prince Mohammed ordered.
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime” and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
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Mississippi Hall of Fame gains new members
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Saturday, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame inductees began their day at the MSHOF Museum for a fan meet and greet.
The new inductees took pictures, signed autographs, and caught up with former players.
Inductee and former NFL defensive back John Mangum said, “To go through the room and see all of the plaques of everybody that’s been enshrined in the Hall of Fame, it’s just crazy how many really good players come out of this state. It’s just an unbelievable experience. Coming from Mississippi where they’re producing so many athletes, it’s just an honor to be included in this.”
Later, fans, friends and family gathered at the Jackson Convention Complex for the 60th annual induction ceremony.
Honorees include former Ole Miss player Jeff Herrod; former Southern Miss football player Patrick Surtain; former Jackson State football player Lewis Tillman; Magee native and former NFL player John Mangum; Greenwood native and former MLB pitcher Paul Maholm; Millsaps baseball coach Jim Page; Biloxi native and Olympic shooter Tony Rosetti; and former Ole Miss Women’s basketball player and coach Carol Ross.
Inductee Carol Ross said, “It’s a great honor to be with other great Mississippians that have made an impact in their sports and the ones that have come before us, and there’s plenty more that are yet to be in here that I’m excited about as well.”
All of the former Mississippi athletes expressed their respect for the athletes in the state and were grateful to be recognized and included.
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NEW YORK — (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
"This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn't matter," said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers' union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren't a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit "Never Have I Ever," said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
"Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like "a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there's the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It's not sustainable and I'll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — (AP) — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor's unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter and this year promises to be worse after the city closed an arena that housed 500 people during the winter months. Bickering between the city’s liberal assembly and its conservative mayor about how to address the crisis, and a lack of state funding, have further stymied efforts to find a solution.
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it's “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
About 43% of Anchorage’s more than 3,000 unsheltered residents are Alaska Natives, and Bronson’s proposal also drew harsh criticism from those who called it culturally insensitive.
“The reality is there is no place to send these people because this is their land. Any policy that we make has to pay credence to that simple fact. This is Dena’ina land, this is Native land," said Christopher Constant, chair of the Anchorage Assembly. "And so we cannot be supporting policies that would take people and displace them from their home, even if their home is not what you or I would call home.”
Bronson's airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the U.S. West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
In May, the city shut down the 500-bed homeless shelter in the city's arena so it could once more be used for concerts and hockey games after neighbors complained about open drug use, trespassing, violence and litter. A plan to build a large shelter and navigation center fell through when Bronson approved a contract without approval from the Anchorage Assembly.
That leaves a gaping hole in the city’s ability to house the thousands of homeless people who have to contend with temperatures well below zero for days at a time and unrelenting winds blasting off Cook Inlet. At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no vacancies.
New tent cities have sprung up across Anchorage this summer: on a slope facing the city’s historic railroad depot, on a busy road near the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and near soup kitchens and shelters downtown.
Assembly members are slated to consider a winter stop-gap option in August falling far short of the need: a large, warmed, tent-like structure for 150 people.
Summer brings its own challenges: hungry bears last year roamed a city-owned campground where homeless people were resettled after the arena closed. Wildlife officials killed four bears after they broke into tents.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
It’s not clear if his proposal will move forward. There is not yet a plan or a funding source.
Dr. Ted Mala, an Inupiaq who in 1990 became the first Alaska Native to serve as the state’s health commissioner, said Anchorage should be working with social workers and law enforcement to discover people’s individual reasons for homelessness and connect them with resources.
Buying the unsheltered a ticket to another city is a political game that's been around for years. A number of U.S. cities struggling with homelessness, including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, have also offered bus or plane tickets to homeless residents.
“People are not pawns, they’re human beings,” Mala said.
The mayor's proposal, while focused on warmer cities, also would fund tickets to other Alaska locations for those who want them.
Clarita Clark became homeless after her medical team wanted her to move from Point Hope to Anchorage for cancer treatment because Anchorage is warmer. The medical facility wouldn't allow her husband to stay with her, so they pitched a tent in a sprawling camp to stay together.
Having recently found the body of a dead teenager who overdosed in a portable toilet, Clark yearns to return to the Chukchi Sea coastal village of Point Hope, where her three grandchildren live.
“I got a family that loves me," she said, adding she would use the ticket and seek treatment closer to home.
Danny Parish also is leaving Alaska, but for another reason: He's fed up.
Parish is selling his home of 29 years because it sits directly across the street from Sullivan Arena. Bad acts by some homeless people — including harassment, throwing vodka bottles in his yard, poisoning his dog and using his driveway as a toilet — made his life “a holy hell," he said.
Parish is convinced the arena will be used again this winter since there isn't another plan.
He, too, hopes to move to the contiguous U.S. — Oregon, for starters — but not before asking Anchorage leaders for his own plane ticket out.
“If they’re going to give them to everybody else," Parish said, “then they need to give me one.”
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LOS ANGELES — “Let’s go Joe! Let’s go Joe!”
Cheers rang out in Dodger Stadium for the return of right-handed relief pitcher Joe Kelly, who was acquired by the Dodgers Friday in a trade with the Chicago White Sox.
In his first game after the trade, he played an important role in L.A's 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night.
Kelly returns to the team he won the 2020 World Series with after a little over a year in Chicago. The UC Riverside product gained online notoriety in his last stint with the Dodgers after taunting Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa.
Ironically, the Dodgers traded for Kelly on the three-year anniversary of Kelly’s pouty-face meme.
Joe Kelly gets traded back to the Dodgers on the same day that this happened three years ago 👀 pic.twitter.com/rHySxRY55l
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) July 28, 2023
While seeing Kelly back on the mound brought back fond memories for Dodgers fans, his presence may be key to bolstering a struggling pitching staff.
Kelly was quickly brought in after fellow reliever Caleb Ferguson, the Dodgers’ second pitcher of the night, squandered a 2-0 lead in the sixth inning. Ferguson allowed three hits and two runs in only 2/3 of an inning.
Huge cheers at Dodger Stadium for Joe Kelly, who will enter for Caleb Ferguson.
— Christina Huang (@stina_huang) July 30, 2023
Kelly was acquired from the White Sox yesterday and returns to the team he won the 2020 World Series with. pic.twitter.com/gkCf6QqKjA
He quickly cleaned up for Ferguson, getting himself out of a bases-loaded jam to end the sixth.
Kelly instantly stifled the building Reds momentum on Saturday, but his signing may not solve everything for a thin Dodgers pitching rotation.
The Dodgers held a 4.47 team ERA coming into Saturday’s game, ranking 21st out of the league’s 30 teams. With the slew of injuries that Los Angeles has dealt with, it’s no surprise why the pitching is inconsistent.
Veteran pitchers Walker Buehler and Dustin May have been out for the year due to injury. Buehler, an NL Cy Young candidate in 2021, underwent his second Tommy John surgery in August 2022 and still has a shot to return this season. May needs elbow surgery and is likely out for the season.
Longtime ace Clayton Kershaw had an inflamed shoulder during the Rockies series last month, but he’s working his way back. Kershaw was spotted pitching a simulated game before Saturday’s matchup.
Clayton Kershaw pitching is simulated game. #Dodgers pic.twitter.com/Yxp8Y0zwE4
— David Vassegh (@THEREAL_DV) July 29, 2023
Young pitchers, like Saturday’s rookie starter Emmet Sheehan, have been forced to step up and take on more responsibility. To secure Saturday’s win over the Reds, the Dodgers needed five pitchers, with three guys pitching less than a full inning.
Sure, having Kelly back to get the team out of a bases-loaded jam is pretty helpful. Lance Lynn, who was acquired in the same trade as Kelly, could pitch as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday.
But as things stand, the Dodgers may still need extra pitching help. And they have until Tuesday's trade deadline to get a deal done. | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/dodgers-trade/HVLRR6NH4GAD3RZJKGFKMOCFCI/ | 2023-07-30T04:51:03 | 0 | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/dodgers-trade/HVLRR6NH4GAD3RZJKGFKMOCFCI/ |
Terence Crawford secures undisputed welterweight title with dominant win over Errol Spence Jr.
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo Sports
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo Sports
Terence Crawford is the new king of the welterweight division after handing Errol Spence Jr. his first loss in a dominant performance to unify the belts at 147 pounds. | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/terence-crawford/MCXBAFQKNBDF5UPH3MZJVBPCTE/ | 2023-07-30T04:51:09 | 1 | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/terence-crawford/MCXBAFQKNBDF5UPH3MZJVBPCTE/ |
Derrick Lewis is nothing if not an entertainer.
The veteran UFC heavyweight notched his first win since 2021 on the main card of UFC 291 in the most demented of fashions, throwing out the rarely seen heavyweight flying knee to knock Marcos Rogério de Lima off balance. Thirty seconds and dozens of punches later, Lewis had a first-round TKO win.
DERRICK LEWIS CAME FLYING IN 😳#UFC291 LIVE on ESPN+ PPV pic.twitter.com/XLXJXYvK8r
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 30, 2023
Lewis then proceeded to get his money's worth out of the win, which was broke a record for most UFC knockouts with 14.
After losing his last three fights, Lewis yanked his shorts off — a move he's performed before — and threw down a crotch chop before jumping to the top of the Octagon.
AND HIS BALLS WAS HOT #UFC291 pic.twitter.com/uqz1Tqefxn
— UFC (@ufc) July 30, 2023
After being declared the winner, Lewis gave a postfight interview where, well, we'll just list off some highlights:
"I just said 'Imma throw some bulls*** and see if it lands.' It did."
"Your dickhead got a mind of its own."
"Shout out to my wife, I'm gonna come home and bust those guts up. Get ready girl."
Lewis also mentioned this was the final fight of his current UFC contract. As far as the promotion is concerned, he probably couldn't have represented himself better. | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/ufc-291-derrick/QILIE5O3K6PZCMWRKKXADRRINQ/ | 2023-07-30T04:51:16 | 0 | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/ufc-291-derrick/QILIE5O3K6PZCMWRKKXADRRINQ/ |
NEW YORK — (AP) — At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with their investigations into Biden and his family.
“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. The former president and GOP frontrunner said it was time for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.
The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Trump as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and refusing to turn them over to investigators. The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Trump and two staffers sought to delete surveillance at the club in an effort to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation.
The case is just one of Trump's mounting legal challenges. His team is currently bracing for additional possible indictments, which could happen as soon as this coming week, related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election brought by prosecutors in both Washington and Georgia. Trump already faces criminal charges in New York over hush money payments made to women who accused him of sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant early frontrunner for the Republican nomination and has only seen his lead grow as the charges have mounted and as his rivals have struggled to respond. Their challenge was on display at a GOP gathering in Iowa Friday night, where they largely declined to go after Trump directly. The only one who did — accusing Trump of "running to stay out of prison" — was booed as he left the stage.
In the meantime, Trump has embraced his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Biden of using the Justice Department to maim his chief political rival. The White House has said repeatedly that the president has had no involvement in the cases.
At rallies — including Saturday's — Trump has tried to frame the charges, which come with serious threats of jail time, as an attack not just on him, but those who support him.
“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” he told the arena crowd in Erie, adding that, “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor.... Because I’m being indicted for you.”
But the investigations are also sucking up enormous resources that are being diverted from the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The Washington Post first reported Saturday that Trump's political action committee, Save America, will report Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of 2023 defending Trump and all of the current and former aides whose lawyers it is paying. The total is more than the campaign raised during the second quarter of the year.
"In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment," said Trump's spokesman Steven Cheung.
At the rally — held in a former Democratic stronghold that Trump flipped in 2016, but Biden won narrowly in 2020 — Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this past week that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry into the president over unproven claims of financial misconduct.
Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, said Saturday that, “The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it."
“Any Republican that doesn't act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaries and get out — out!” he told the crowd to loud applause. “They have to play tough and ... if they’re not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around ... and they're going to get my endorsement every singe time.”
Trump, during the 2022 midterm elections, made it his mission to punish those who had voted in favor of his second impeachment and succeeded in unseating most who had by backing primary challengers.
At the rally, Trump also called on Republican members of Congress to halt the authorization of additional military support to Ukraine, which has been mired in a war fighting Russia’s invasion, until the Biden administration cooperates with Republican investigations into Biden and his family’s business dealings — words that echoed the call that lead to his first impeachment.
“He’s dragging into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars,” Trump alleged. “In light of this information,” Congress, he said, “should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles ... the weapons stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DOJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings.”
House Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s finances, particularly payments Hunter, the president’s son, received from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that became tangled in the first impeachment of Trump.
An unnamed confidential FBI informant claimed that Burisma company officials in 2015 and 2016 sought to pay the Bidens $5 million each in return for their help ousting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was purportedly investigating the company. But a Justice Department review in 2020, while Trump was president, was closed eight months later with insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump’s first impeachment by the House resulted in charges that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens while threatening to withhold military aid. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate.
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Lunar Luck Generator
The moon is a good luck generator, coming at our fortunes from all angles. First there’s a nod to Mercury, sweetly priming the pumps of communication. Then Mars gets the attention, suggesting people will follow through on their promises. The cherry on top is a lunar trine to Jupiter in Taurus, the sign of money, which could mean a bonus or generous tip.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s great value exchanged between generations today, much to the benefit of all. You’ll learn from those who are much older or younger than you, and you have plenty to teach the ones who are receptive to it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your value never changes because attention is given or taken away. It’s intrinsic. There’s a deep-rooted certainty in you today. It’s not that you know you’re right, but you do know you’re worthy, so there’s nothing to prove.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s a conflict between the responsibility you feel toward the others and the duty you have to do what’s right for you. Make no assumptions and remain calmly optimistic. A constructive conversation will illuminate a way to satisfy all.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you really want something, you tend to calculate the risks by minimizing the negatives and glorifying the gains. Take the wanting out of the equation and suddenly there is a much more accurate risk calculation available.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You don’t yet know which way of doing things fits you best. You’ll find out what it is by discovering what it’s not. Trying different methods is research. “This isn’t for me” is the data that gets you closer.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll receive a vision for a relationship. This dream is doable. Though there will be a magical feeling about the process, it will still happen in practical steps. Work back from the picture to outline the steps.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It is said that true love sees with the heart. Even so, test what you feel might be true against input from other senses. You may accept and love a person and yet find certain behaviors unacceptable.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t be in too much of a rush to learn about how a process works. Knowing more about your pursuit will give you all kinds of advantages, and a perspective that helps you see clever and creative solutions.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your wants will mesh with the needs of those around you. Communicate to learn how you can help one another. Some will be too proud to express themselves. You’ll have to go first.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). To fully possess your world when you know it will not be the same tomorrow takes courage. Today you have the gravitas to give yourself over to changeable things. You’ll follow your heart and make the commitment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To withhold approval or affection until someone does what you want is a short-sighted ploy that usually backfires. You prefer a more honest and direct approach, and will have great success with it today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Improvement cannot be forced or magically conjured. It won’t materialize in response to an order nor can it be bought. Things will get better in the same way they always have -- with a solid step-by-step plan and the determination to see it through.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 30). A paradox: Your life becomes simultaneously simpler and fuller. You’ll get carried away with a single focus and your enthusiasm opens a giant blossom of beauty. More highlights: a coveted membership that keeps you working toward a goal until it’s yours, an investment that triples your money, and renovations to up your game. Gemini and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 48, 17, 6, 33 and 28.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: Listen for the familiar voice of a “friend” in the upcoming movie “Bright Futures,” narrated by Lisa Kudrow. Kudrow initially struggled for her breakthrough in entertainment and even considered quitting the profession before landing the beloved and Emmy Award-winning role of Phoebe Buffay. The lioness was born when the sun and Mercury were in Leo and the moon was in adventurous and worldly Sagittarius.
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LAS VEGAS — A Nevada man is accused of strangling his roommate and living in their Las Vegas home for more than two months before family members discovered her body in an upstairs closet, authorities said.
George Anthony Bone, 31, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with open murder, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. He is accused of killing Beverly Ma, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced on Thursday.
Victim Beverly Ma's family stopped by the southwest valley home on Wednesday when they found her body in a closet. Police said suspect George Bone was "afraid of going back to jail … for being found with a dead body." https://t.co/Wd59sryaPG
— Las Vegas Review-Journal (@reviewjournal) July 29, 2023
In a news release, police said they received a telephone call at about 2:27 p.m. PDT about a report of a deceased woman found inside a residence at 5437 Railroad River Ave.
Ma’s relatives had gone to the residence because they had not seen her in person since April, the Review-Journal reported.
Family members called 911 and told the dispatcher that Ma’s body “was in the closet and had been there for two months,” KLAS-TV reported, citing court documents. Police found Ma’s body in the master bedroom closet shortly after arriving at the residence, according to KVVU-TV.
Police said that Bone allegedly said that in early May, he found Ma dead in the closet with a fabric belt around her neck, the Review-Journal reported. Upon further investigation, police said that Bone’s description of how Ma was found “had inconsistencies,” and evidence from the closet contradicted Bone’s claim that Ma killed herself, according to the newspaper.
“I was afraid of going back to jail … for being found with a dead body,” Bone allegedly told police.
Ma’s family said they last received a text message from her telephone on June 22, stating that she would be unable to attend a July 4 celebration in Washington, KVVU reported. A family member texted Ma again on July 2 but never heard back from her, according to the television station.
According to the arrest report, Bone allegedly admitted to ordering more than 170 items from Amazon under Ma’s name, the Review-Journal reported. He also allegedly set the air conditioner thermostat to 60 degrees, believing that it would limit the number of flies in the residence.
Bone also left a cooler by the closet, allegedly telling police that he wanted there to alert him in case Ma rose from the dead, which he had seen in “The Grudge,” a horror movie, according to the newspaper.
On Wednesday, one of Ma’s relatives sent an air conditioning repairman to fix the unit because the electric bill was high, KVVU reported. When no one answered, the family member gave the technician the access code to the residence and he went inside, according to the television station.
The technician called for Ma but received no response, KVVU reported. That is when family members came to the home and found her body, according to the arrest report.
According to the Review-Journal, Bone is a registered sex offender in Nevada after pleading guilty in 2013 to attempted lewdness with a child under 14. Bone took an Alford plea on the charge, KLAS reported. An Alford plea occurs when a defendant accepts that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him or her but does not admit guilt, according to the television station.
He was sentenced to two to eight years in state prison, court records show.
Bone allegedly told police that he had known Ma since he was in high school and became romantically involved with her after he was released from prison in 2019, KVVU reported.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an "ammunition depot" after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people's taxpayer money the ... Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait," the statement said.
China's People's Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan's ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
While Taiwan has purchased $19 billion worth of weaponry, much of it has yet to be delivered to Taiwan. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles to Taiwan.
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SANTA MARIA DE JESUS, Guatemala — (AP) — Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo stood before a few hundred residents of this small Indigenous community on the slopes of the Agua Volcano and told them they could be the seeds of a brighter, more corruption-free spring in Guatemala.
The metaphor fits neatly with his political party, the Seed Movement, and allows the 64-year-old academic and former diplomat to riff on themes of renewal and growth.
But it also alludes to Guatemala’s “democratic spring," considered a more inclusive period in the country's history during the presidency in the 1940s and early 1950s of his late father, Juan José Arévalo.
Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in the presidential election's first round June 25, but it was enough to give him the surprise second slot in the Aug. 20 runoff ballot. He will face Sandra Torres, a conservative and former first lady who was the leading vote-getter in the first round and is making her third bid for the presidency.
Arévalo's recent speech in Santa Maria de Jesus was similar to those he has given in Guatemala’s capital, but the imagery could be especially important in rural Indigenous communities as he seeks to rapidly expand his largely urban, youthful base before the runoff.
He won in Guatemala City and other important cities, including Sacatepequez and Quetzaltenango. It remains to be seen whether he can convince people in rural communities that he can address their daily problems.
The delayed certification of the first round results shortened the already small window that Arévalo has to reintroduce himself to much of the country as his opponents rush to paint their own negative picture.
“Do you feel what is happening?” Arévalo told the crowd in Santa Maria de Jesus. “The new spring is arriving, that’s what you feel, and you all are the seeds of that new spring."
“A new spring that is going to bring us well-being, the water we lack, the education they owe us, the health that they have denied us thanks to those corrupt contracts that serve few," Arévalo said, standing in front of an old, damaged Roman Catholic church, in a wide-brimmed hat and untucked shirt against the tropical heat.
Among those listening was Juana Orón, a 67-year-old homemaker of the Kaqchikel people. She is one of the older voters who remember hearing about Arévalo’s father, one of only two leftist presidents in Guatemala’s democratic era.
The elder Arévalo, who governed from 1945 to 1951, is credited with establishing key social programs that remain in place today, including Guatemala's labor code and social security. Guatemala’s democratic spring was cut short in 1954 by the CIA-backed overthrow of his successor, President Jacobo Arbenz.
Under Juan José Arévalo, the state advocated for rights for Indigenous peoples and others beyond the country’s small elite.
“I remember I was little and (my parents) said he had done good things,” said Orón whose first language as a child was Kaqchikel. If his father was good, Arévalo could be a good president, too, she said.
Opponents have tried to frame Arévalo’s candidacy as a step toward some of the region’s more notorious leftist regimes, such as Cuba and Nicaragua. They warn that the progressive candidate will bring expropriations, abortion and same-sex marriage to the conservative country.
Arévalo has been the election’s surprise.
In the days before the June 25 vote, he was polling below 3% and trailing at least seven of the other 21 candidates. But his anti-corruption message resonated in the country where gains against corruption have been erased and the justice system reoriented to pursue the prosecutors and judges who formerly led that fight.
In the month since that initial result, the Attorney General's Office announced an investigation into his party and had a judge suspend its legal status until the Constitutional Court stepped in to block that move.
In Santa Maria de Jesus, people wanted to compare Arévalo in person to what they were hearing about him. Some handed him flowers, posed for photos or reached out to touch him as he made his way through the throng.
Arévalo pushed back against attempts to frame him as a left-wing radical — he has said private property rights are not up for discussion — and pounded the issue of corruption.
“Let us work, let us get ahead on our own effort, let’s get rid of the corrupt once and for all,” he said.
For Francisco Jiménez, a political scientist at Rafael Landivar University, Arévalo will need concrete proposals to make inroads with the base of Torres, who has spent two decades assembling it.
“He will have to make governing proposals with a social agenda, where the people see that he is going to have an impact on their lives and communities,” Jiménez said. “The other part is continuing to present himself as the different model. That has been his success, someone totally different from the other candidates.”
Evangelical churches in Guatemala have painted Arévalo as an existential threat to the family.
Gladys Sunun, a 35-year-old Kaqchikel vendor from an evangelical family, said she came to hear Arévalo for herself. She said she had heard that Arévalo would convert Guatemala into another Cuba or Nicaragua, but left feeling that might not be true, though she wants to investigate more.
“He came to tell us not to worry,” she said. “It sounds real, but we don’t know.”
Her sister July Sunun said she wanted to hear more about Arévalo's positions on gender ideology. “As a mother I’m afraid, because we’ve grown up with a Christian background. I don’t want to marry my daughter with another woman," she said.
July Sunun acknowledged that Arévalo said he would respect the identities and decisions of the people, “but what he hasn’t said is that he won’t allow (same-sex marriage) to happen here."
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia's war on the country, an official said Saturday night. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks.
The summit will be held in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as no authorization had been given to publicly discuss the summit.
Those taking part in the summit will include Ukraine, as well as Brazil, India, South Africa and several other countries, the official said. A high-level official from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration also is expected to attend, the official said. Planning for the event is being overseen by Kyiv and Russia is not invited, the official said.
Details regarding the summit, however, remain in flux and the official did not offer dates for the talks. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the summit, said the talks would take place Aug. 5 and 6 with some 30 countries attending, citing “diplomats involved in the discussion.”
Saudi officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press, nor did Ukraine's Embassy in Riyadh. News of the summit comes after U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan visited the kingdom on Thursday.
The official who spoke to the AP said the summit would be the next step after talks that took place in Copenhagen in June.
Saudi Arabia's hosting of the talks come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in May attended an Arab League summit in Jeddah to press those nations to back Kyiv. Arab nations largely have remained neutral since Russia launched the war on Ukraine in February 2022, in part over their military and economic ties to Moscow.
Saudi Arabia also has maintained a close relationship with Russia as part of the OPEC+ group. The organization's oil production cuts, even as Moscow's war on Ukraine boosted energy prices, have angered Biden and American lawmakers.
But hosting such talks also help raise the profile of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has sought to reach a détente with Iran and push for a peace in the kingdom's yearslong war in Yemen. However, ties also remain strained between Riyadh and the West over the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, which U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Prince Mohammed ordered.
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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BALTIMORE — (AP) — Aaron Judge is giving the New York Yankees an immediate boost — at a time when their front office has some tough decisions to make.
Judge homered and singled twice in his second game back from the injured list and the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-3 on Saturday night. Giancarlo Stanton and Kyle Higashioka went deep as well for New York, which is still 3 1/2 games behind Toronto and Houston for the last two wild cards in the American League.
That's a tricky spot with Tuesday's trade deadline approaching.
“We've had years where we stick with who we got. We've had years where we get some bullpen arms, starters, a big bat,” Judge said. “It comes down to us doing our job on the field and then letting them take care of the rest. We'll see what happens."
The Yankees knocked out struggling Orioles starter Tyler Wells (7-6) in the third inning. In the sixth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a three-run double to make it 8-3.
Judge has three walks and three hits in nine plate appearances since returning Friday from the toe injury that kept him out since early June.
Ryan Mountcastle homered for the Orioles, but Clarke Schmidt (7-6) made it through five tough innings and the New York bullpen took it from there.
The Orioles remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East.
Judge walked three times Friday night, but the Yankees lost that game 1-0 on a ninth-inning homer by Baltimore's Anthony Santander. New York's offense was relentless a night later.
Stanton's first-inning drive easily cleared the big wall in left field at Camden Yards. Mountcastle tied it in the second, and Baltimore went ahead 2-1 on an RBI infield single by Ramón Urías. That lead was short-lived.
Judge hit a two-run shot — 442 feet to center field — in the third. Then Gleyber Torres added a sacrifice fly an inning later.
Santander made it 4-3 with an RBI groundout in the fifth, but New York broke the game open in the sixth. Cole Irvin allowed a leadoff homer by Higashioka — his third hit of the night — and then one-out singles to Judge, Stanton and Anthony Rizzo.
Bryan Baker came in and struck out DJ LeMahieu, but after fouling off five pitches, Kiner-Falefa cleared the bases with a line drive to left.
“One of the best at-bats of the season right there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Wells entered the game with a major league-leading WHIP of 0.99, but he allowed three runs, three hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings. In three starts since the All-Star break, he's lasted just nine innings total.
“I think we’re going to be talking about a lot of things here coming up,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “Obviously, we’re in a weird week. He’s had tough times his last few starts. I think there are going to be discussions going on.”
Boone said he's leaning toward giving Judge a day off in the series finale Sunday night. The Yankees are in a stretch of 13 games in 13 days.
“I kind of look at it as, hopefully he's in a position to start nine or 10 of them," Boone said. “Forget the toe. He hasn't come close to playing games for almost two months. As much as I want him in there, we've got to be smart here a little bit, especially in this run.”
DIFFERENT ORDER
The Orioles used catcher Adley Rutschman in the leadoff spot because of his ability to get on base. He was hit by a pitch, walked and scored a run.
UP NEXT
New York's Luis Severino (2-4) starts Sunday night against Baltimore's Dean Kremer (10-4). It's the final game of the season series, which is tied 6-all.
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LAS VEGAS — (AP) — Terence Crawford knocked down Errol Spence Jr. three times Saturday night before finally ending the fight at 2:32 of the ninth round on a technical knockout to cement himself as one of the greatest welterweights in history.
The fight, the most-anticipated boxing match in several years, unified the division for the first time in the four-belt era that began in 2004.
Crawford (40-0, 31 knockouts) already owned the WBO belt, and took the WBC, WBA and IBF titles from Spence (28-1). Crawford also ran his KO streak to 11 matches, the second-longest active stretch.
Crawford, 35, has won titles in super lightweight and lightweight in addition to welterweight, capturing the latter after moving up in 2018. The Omaha, Nebraska, fighter became the first male boxer to become the undisputed champion in two divisions.
A big fight night on the Strip still brings out the stars, with recording artists Cardi B and Andre 3000 of Outkast, actor and Las Vegas resident Mark Walhberg, NBA star Damian Lillard and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at T-Mobile Arena. They were among the celebrities that also included former boxing champions such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Eminem introduced Crawford and his song “Lose Yourself” played as he walked into the ring.
Spence was the aggressor early on, but Crawford sent him to the floor with a right hand with 20 seconds left in the second round. Then Crawford went after Spence, but time ran out before he could finish him off.
Crawford, a minus-154 favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, then took control of the fight, landing several major blows, often on counters. But Crawford also picked his spots to go after Spence, his punching power taking a heavy toll.
In the seventh round, Crawford knocked down Spence twice — with a short right at 1:02 and with another right with just a second left.
The 33-year-old Spence who lives in DeSoto, Texas, won the IBF title in 2017, claimed the WBC championship in 2019 and took the WBA championship last year.
In the co-main event, Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (25-2-1) of Mexico beat Chicago resident Giovanni Cabrera (21-1) by split decision in a WBC and WBA lightweight match. Judges Benoit Roussel (114-113) and Don Trella (115-112) scored the fight in favor of Cruz, and Glenn Feldman gave Cabrera the fight by a 114-113 score. Cruz had a point deducted because of a head butt.
Also, Alexandro Santiago (28-3-5) of Mexico won the vacant WBC bantamweight title with a 115-113, 116-112, 116-12 decision over Nonito Donaire (42-8), who lives in Las Vegas.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — (AP) — The American swim team has had a so-so meet at the world championships in Japan. Meanwhile, Australia and China have been pouring it on.
The American gold-medal count at the worlds is the lowest in at least two decades, although the overall medal count of gold, silver, and bronze, is similar to most years.
“Obviously, we’d like to win more gold medals and I think we will,” American coach Bob Bowman said going into Sunday's final day.
The slight predicament for Bowman is that two of the swimmers he coaches at Arizona State University, Leon Marchand of France and Hungary's Hubert Kos, have won four gold medals. Marchand has three, and he's sure to be a star in next year's Paris Olympic, and Kos has one.
That's the same gold-medal total for the entire American team through seven of eight days — four gold. The average for the Americans over the last nine championships has been about 15 golds.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, two of the first three questions Bowman fielded were about Marchand and Kos, from French and Hungarian news outlets.
“If you look at swimming, every coach on the U.S. team is coaching a foreign swimmer, an international swimmer. There's always that dynamic," said Bowman, who has legendary status for helping Michael Phelps win 23 Olympic gold medals."
Bowman was cautious about taking credit for Kos, who came to Arizona State late last year. He went from being a good individual medley swimmer to a world champion a few days ago in the 200-meter backstroke.
“I think it’s just the Bob Bowman effect,” said Kos, son of an American father and Hungarian mother. ”That’s as simple as it is."
He said Bowman had a “magic” touch.“
Bowman played down his role.
“He (Kos) had an excellent coach at home for 10 years before me,” Bowman said. "He deserved the credit for this. I just helped a little bit at the end.”
Swimming is an individual sport, separate from team sports like soccer. It would be unthinkable for the coach of Real Madrid to be also coaching Barcelona players on the side. But it's normal in swimming, and Bowman said he was “ethically” comfortable with it.
“I mean, the bottom line is I get paid to coach these guys at ASU,” he said. “I’m representing my country for the love of my country and happy to do that. I don’t think there’s an ethical question. It’s not a zero-sum. I’m not taking away from the US guys.”
He said he was interested in coaching the Americans at next year's Olympics, but suggested any decision was still pending.
“I don’t think we know yet,” he said. "I have to go through this week, get home, think about what the scenarios look (like) and then we’ll decide. I always want to do. But we’ll see how it goes.”
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- A teenage driver was arrested after an elderly man walking was hit by a car in a Midlothian neighborhood Saturday night.
Officers responded to 911 calls around 9:10 p.m. after a man is late 70s was hit by a car in the 2300 block of Edgeview Lane in the Salisbury community, Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett.
The man was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Police described his injuries as non life-threatening.
Charges are pending against the teenage driver, according to sources.
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NEW YORK — A few hours before Saturday night’s game against the New York Mets, Trevor Williams called over to Riley Adams in the visitors’ clubhouse at Citi Field and asked his Washington Nationals teammate if he had seen the news. This was well before former Nationals ace Max Scherzer had agreed to be traded from the Mets to the Texas Rangers.
Instead, Williams joked with Adams that he had been sent to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Adams laughed and responded: “Yeah, for Mookie Betts? Me for him.” The conversation, though just friendly banter, underscored the reality of this time of year — pretty much anyone, even an under-the-radar backup catcher such as Adams, could be moved ahead of the trade deadline if the right offer comes along.
A few hours later, Adams roped a two-run double in the third inning, putting Washington up by six, ending Mets starter Carlos Carrasco’s outing and adding an exclamation point on an early offensive onslaught. Lane Thomas drove in Adams to extend the Nationals’ lead to seven, and Washington eventually prevailed, 11-6, to snap its two-game skid.
“A team like that with their power abilities, you can never fully relax,” Adams said of the Nationals’ early lead. “But it kind of frees you up as a team, and I think everyone starts playing a little loose here. And you can see a little bit more joy out there. I think that’s all exciting.”
For the second time in the week, the start of the Nationals’ game was delayed by inclement weather in the forecast despite clear skies at the time. But the rain eventually came, and the game started 80 minutes late.
Once it got going, the Nationals (44-61) turned an early mistake into an early lead. New York third baseman Mark Vientos made a throwing error while trying to retire leadoff man CJ Abrams. Thomas grounded out, sending Abrams to second, before the Nationals recorded four straight singles to grab a 4-0 lead. In the second inning, Jeimer Candelario’s double drove in Alex Call. In the third, Adams’s two-bagger extended the lead.
Adams added an RBI double in a three-run ninth. He went 2 for 5, raising his batting average to .304 and his OPS to .919 over 92 at-bats. Though Adams is by no means a surefire trade candidate, he might be an intriguing option for a Nationals team that is “open for business,” per General Manager Mike Rizzo.
“I’ve obviously been a part of a trade at the deadline, but, no, you can’t think about anything,” he said. “Baseball is hard enough to play. You got to focus on that before anything else.”
Adams, 27, was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays for Brad Hand in July 2021. Last season, he hit .176 over 155 at-bats, and he struggled in the final month while getting the majority of the playing time after starter Keibert Ruiz was injured. But Adams has improved enough this year that Manager Dave Martinez has played him more.
Adams’s swing-and-miss rate was high last year and isn’t much better this season; he had dropped from 30.1 percent to 27 percent entering Saturday. But he is swinging much more often. He had increased his first-pitch swing rate from 27.1 percent last season to 41.1 percent in 2023; the MLB average is 29.6 percent. In all, he’s swinging at 53 percent of the pitches he sees instead of 45.6 percent a year ago.
“He’s staying aggressive,” Martinez said. “He’s playing well. He really is. I’m proud of him for coming out every day, doing his work, trying to get better. He has gotten better, so good for him. Good for us.”
Catching prospects are a strength of the Nationals’ farm system. Drew Millas, 25, is a strong defender at Class AAA Rochester with a solid contact tool. And Israel Pineda, 23, was called up in September after hitting 16 home runs across three levels. He has battled injuries all year but could contribute if he stays healthy and continues to develop.
So the Nationals, hypothetically, could trade Adams while his value is high. Teams always have a need for a backup catcher who can swing the bat. But Saturday night, Adams helped Patrick Corbin and four relievers beat the sputtering Mets (49-55).
Corbin allowed four runs over 5⅔ innings. Jordan Weems, Mason Thompson, Kyle Finnegan and Andrés Machado covered the final 3⅓; Machado allowed back-to-back homers to open the ninth, but the win was well in hand.
“It’s probably one of the toughest things to do where you’re not out there every day, you’re not getting the game reps that you need,” Corbin said of Adams’s role as the backup catcher. “But people don’t see the stuff he does outside [of the game]. He’s catching our bullpens in between. He’s sitting in our meetings — even the games he’s not catching. He’s doing everything you could ask for for a backup catcher.”
After Adams’s double chased Carrasco, boos rang out at Citi Field. Though still audible, they were eventually drowned out by former Nationals pitcher Reed Garrett entering from the bullpen to Blink-182’s “All the Small Things.” That song, coincidentally enough, is Adams’s walk-up music at Nationals Park. On Saturday, it served as a celebration of sorts of Adams, who keeps making the most of his few chances.
Note: Seven of the Nationals’ 2023 draft picks played their first professional game in the Florida Complex League on Saturday as the team took part in a doubleheader. Their No. 2 pick, outfielder Dylan Crews, did not play, but third baseman Yohandy Morales, their second-round pick, went 1 for 3.
The others who played: outfielder Andrew Pinckney (fourth round), shortstop Marcus Brown (fifth), second baseman Gavin Dugas (sixth), catcher Ryan Snell (seventh), shortstop Phillip Glasser (10th) and outfielder Elijah Nunez (14th). | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/30/riley-adams-nationals-mets/ | 2023-07-30T04:57:11 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/30/riley-adams-nationals-mets/ |
We’re inside four weeks away from high school football and August, kickoff month, is almost on the calendar.
The Harding Academy Wildcats will have a change of pace this season by seeking redemption instead of a repeat. In the program’s first season moved up to 4A on the heels of three consecutive 3A state titles, Harding went undefeated until falling to Malvern 64-39 in the state final.
The Wildcats’ success, perhaps highlighted by knocking off top-ranked Arkadelphia, was in spite of sophomore quarterback Owen Miller being thrust into the starting role before the season when Diamond Hogs pitcher commit Kade Smith left the team to focus on baseball.
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Lunar Luck Generator
The moon is a good luck generator, coming at our fortunes from all angles. First there’s a nod to Mercury, sweetly priming the pumps of communication. Then Mars gets the attention, suggesting people will follow through on their promises. The cherry on top is a lunar trine to Jupiter in Taurus, the sign of money, which could mean a bonus or generous tip.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s great value exchanged between generations today, much to the benefit of all. You’ll learn from those who are much older or younger than you, and you have plenty to teach the ones who are receptive to it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your value never changes because attention is given or taken away. It’s intrinsic. There’s a deep-rooted certainty in you today. It’s not that you know you’re right, but you do know you’re worthy, so there’s nothing to prove.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s a conflict between the responsibility you feel toward the others and the duty you have to do what’s right for you. Make no assumptions and remain calmly optimistic. A constructive conversation will illuminate a way to satisfy all.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you really want something, you tend to calculate the risks by minimizing the negatives and glorifying the gains. Take the wanting out of the equation and suddenly there is a much more accurate risk calculation available.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You don’t yet know which way of doing things fits you best. You’ll find out what it is by discovering what it’s not. Trying different methods is research. “This isn’t for me” is the data that gets you closer.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll receive a vision for a relationship. This dream is doable. Though there will be a magical feeling about the process, it will still happen in practical steps. Work back from the picture to outline the steps.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It is said that true love sees with the heart. Even so, test what you feel might be true against input from other senses. You may accept and love a person and yet find certain behaviors unacceptable.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t be in too much of a rush to learn about how a process works. Knowing more about your pursuit will give you all kinds of advantages, and a perspective that helps you see clever and creative solutions.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your wants will mesh with the needs of those around you. Communicate to learn how you can help one another. Some will be too proud to express themselves. You’ll have to go first.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). To fully possess your world when you know it will not be the same tomorrow takes courage. Today you have the gravitas to give yourself over to changeable things. You’ll follow your heart and make the commitment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To withhold approval or affection until someone does what you want is a short-sighted ploy that usually backfires. You prefer a more honest and direct approach, and will have great success with it today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Improvement cannot be forced or magically conjured. It won’t materialize in response to an order nor can it be bought. Things will get better in the same way they always have -- with a solid step-by-step plan and the determination to see it through.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 30). A paradox: Your life becomes simultaneously simpler and fuller. You’ll get carried away with a single focus and your enthusiasm opens a giant blossom of beauty. More highlights: a coveted membership that keeps you working toward a goal until it’s yours, an investment that triples your money, and renovations to up your game. Gemini and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 48, 17, 6, 33 and 28.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: Listen for the familiar voice of a “friend” in the upcoming movie “Bright Futures,” narrated by Lisa Kudrow. Kudrow initially struggled for her breakthrough in entertainment and even considered quitting the profession before landing the beloved and Emmy Award-winning role of Phoebe Buffay. The lioness was born when the sun and Mercury were in Leo and the moon was in adventurous and worldly Sagittarius.
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It’s time to grab your tickets and check to see if you’re a big winner! The Powerball lottery jackpot continues to rise after one lucky winner in California won $1 billion in the July 19 drawing. Is this your lucky night?
Here are Saturday’s winning lottery numbers:
10-25-27-34-38, Powerball: 02, Power Play: 3X
Double Play Winning Numbers
10-23-27-62-65, Powerball: 15
The estimated Powerball jackpot is $60 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $30.4 million.
The Double Play is a feature that gives players in select locations another chance to match their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing. The Double Play drawing is held following the regular drawing and has a top cash prize of $10 million.
Powerball is held in 45 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Double Play add-on feature is available for purchase in 13 lottery jurisdictions, including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
A $2 ticket gives you a one in 292.2 million chance at joining the hall of Powerball jackpot champions.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Taylor Swift’s “Era’s Tour” concert rocked Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Saturday night. But attendees of the Giants’ 3-2 walkoff victory over the Boston Red Sox earlier in the day still heard several of Swift’s infectious hits.
Before Giants batters took their swings, and in between innings, the sounds of the pop star’s expansive discography filled the air around Oracle Park.
The players’ normal walkup songs were replaced by a selection of the 12-time Grammy winner’s greatest hits (and songs from ‘Reputation.’)
A few seconds before Wilmer Flores drove in Austin Slater, the guitar riff from “Style” floated around the park.
Next up was walk-off hero, J.D Davis, who was introduced by a short section of “Teardrops on My Guitar” from the Grammy-winner’s debut album.
Davis could only be described as Ready for It when offered a Kenley Jansen pitch that he turned into a game-winning home run.
And so on and so forth, a playlist that went back and forth between Swift’s 13 studio albums (10 unique and three re-releases), curated by longtime shortstop Brandon Crawford, belted through the speakers in the hours before Swift took the stage a few miles to the south.
“A favorite album, oh, I don’t know,” Crawford said. “They’re all so different.”
This isn’t the first time Crawford, also known as DJ BC Raw, has taken control of the team’s walkup music. It is team tradition for Crawford to select his teammate’s songs for the final home game of the season.
Crawford, who said he watched Swift perform in concert 12 years ago in Arizona, said some of his teammates were picky when it came to their songs.
“I had ‘Shake it Off’ for him,” Crawford said about Casey Schmidt’s original song, which was changed to another 1989 tune in ‘Wildest Dreams.’
Leadoff hitter Austin Slater was the only one who did not agree to get in on the Taylor Swift-themed music party.
“He was the only one … not a team guy,” Crawford said sarcastically, letting those in the room know there was no real Bad Blood between the teammates.
The Giants’ manager Gabe Kapler didn’t have a walkup song picked out for him, but he said the Swift and Bon Iver duet “Exile” was his favorite Swift tune.
“That would be a pretty cool show, and I’d love to see it,” Kapler said about catching the Swift concert. | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/taylor-swift-themed-sf-giants-game-brings-out-all-the-hits/ | 2023-07-30T04:59:05 | 0 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/taylor-swift-themed-sf-giants-game-brings-out-all-the-hits/ |
PAHOKEE, Fla. — It's the weekend and the Muck Tavern on Lake Okeechobee is typically a busy place. But lately business has been a bit slow and there's a reason for it.
"It's not typical it's been typical these last couple of months because of the algae that you guys know that's present in the water here in the lake," Manager Whitney Cunningham said.
She said the marina at times is like a ghost town as many people have gone elsewhere to fish, boat and eat.
"It's kind of a deterrent because of the smell. It is very aggravating. It's not appealing," she said. "It'll typically run off customers or people that are coming to view the lake."
The Florida Department of Health issued a health alert for the presence of blue-green algae toxins for multiple locations on Lake Okeechobee.
Water samples taken on Wednesday showed the presence of the algae.
Concerns continue to grow during this summer heat.
Blue-green algae blooms can appear year-round but are more frequent in summer and fall. Plus, blue-green algae can produce toxins.
Signs are up at the Pahokee city marina and boat ramp warning folks about the situation.
Cunningham said something has to be done.
"Not sure how they'll get this under control but, definitely, as you can see, it's empty here," she said. | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-the-glades/pahokee/toxic-blue-green-algae-in-lake-okeechobee-draws-concern | 2023-07-30T04:59:05 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-the-glades/pahokee/toxic-blue-green-algae-in-lake-okeechobee-draws-concern |
Women’s World Cup: New Zealand’s Football Ferns fight for their ticket to the round of 16 | July 30, 2023
CHICAGO - The FIFA Women’s World Cup only happens once every four years, and whether you’re a soccer devotee or someone who just tunes in when the Cup comes around, you won’t want to miss the action. Never fear: We’ve got you covered.
Every day through the Final on August 20, FOX Digital will be breaking down the details on all the can’t-miss matches, players to watch and other essential details. What’s next: the Football Ferns are set to make history – for better or worse.
Watch the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup only on FOX and FS1.
Women’s World Cup matches on July 30, 2023
Day 11 of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup features four matches.
- South Korea (0 wins, 1 loss, 0 draws) vs. Morocco (0-1-0), 12:30 a.m. EST (FS1, FOX Sports app)
- Norway (0-1-1) vs. the Philippines (1-1-0), 3:00 a.m. EST (FS1, FOX Sports app)
- Switzerland (1-0-1) vs. New Zealand (1-1-0), 3:00 a.m. EST (FOX, FOX Sports app)
- Germany (1-0-0) vs. Colombia (1-0-0), 5:30 a.m. EST (FS1, FOX Sports app)
For details on the results of concluded matches, scroll down to the ‘Soccer spoilers’ section.
Match spotlight: Switzerland vs. New Zealand
In a mind-bending explainer on the various routes every Women’s World Cup team can take to reach the round of 16, FOX Sports dropped this statistic, one that should be encouraging to fans of New Zealand’s Football Ferns: "No host nation has ever gone out in the group stage, which bodes well for Australia, top of Group B, and New Zealand."
The Ferns already made history with their first match of the tournament, as Hannah Wilkinson’s goal against the impressive team from Norway earned the co-host country its first-ever victory in a WWC match. But in their second match of the group stage, it was somebody else’s turn, as the Philippines, which is making its Cup debut with the 2023 tournament, notched their first-ever goal in a 1-0 upset over New Zealand.
So it’s all on the line for the NZ side with this third match. A victory against the Swiss sends them sailing into the round of 16 for the first time. They could still advance with a draw, given some specific conditions, but a loss means the end of the road, which would be another historic feat – but who wants to break new ground that way?
As for the Swiss, if they win this match, they win group A, and if they lose, there’s still a chance of progressing to the next round. But Leah Walti and company won’t want to leave things to chance.
RELATED: 8 teams that could stop USWNT from three-peating at 2023 World Cup
Players to watch on July 30, 2023
New Zealand: Olivia Chance, midfielder
This outstanding contributor, who plays for Scottish club Celtic, is deeply committed to her team: FIFA notes that Chance has traveled "further than any other player in the world to represent her national team, clocking up more than 145,000 km [rougly 90,000 miles] across 12 trips between August and March alone."
Norway: Ada Hegerberg, striker
Hegerberg, one of soccer’s biggest stars, returns to the Norwegian side after sitting out the 2019 cup. FOX Sports calls her "a contender for the Golden Boot" – but that all depends on whether or not she’s fit to play. Hegerberg was pulled from play minutes before the start of Norway’s group stage match against Switzerland; her return would bring a huge sigh of relief from Norwegian fans (and from people who like to watch people who are very good at soccer).
Philippines: Sarina Bolden, forward
FIFA calls this seasoned player a "cold-blooded goalscorer with razor-sharp instincts inside the box" with "impressive physical strength." She’s also got something of a home-turf advantage: When not repping her home country, Bolden plays for Australia’s Western Sydney Warriors; she scored the history-making goal in the team’s exciting upset of host country New Zealand.
Switzerland: Leah Walti, midfield
The Swiss captain had to fight her way to this WWC appearance, thanks to a serious injury in May. But the Arsenal star is fit and ready to propel her team to victory; FIFA notes that as the "link-up player between defense and attack, it will be up to Walti to thread passes through to her team-mates as well as stymying opposition attacks before they happen in the middle of the park."
Morocco: Nouhaila Benzina, defender
When Nouhaila Benzina stepped onto the field for Morocco’s first match of the Women’s World Cup against Germany, she made history — and not just as a player for the first Arab or North African nation ever in the tournament. The 25-year-old defender was the first player to wear the Islamic headscarf at the senior-level Women’s World Cup.
Where is the 2023 Women’s World Cup taking place?
The eyes (and cameras) of the world have turned toward host countries Australia and New Zealand.
In what time zone is the Women’s World Cup taking place?
Well, there's more than one time zone involved, as the battles for the Cup will take place in 10 stadiums in two countries. But suffice it to say that you're looking at times that are anywhere from 12 hours (for matches in Perth, Australia) to 16 hours (all New Zealand-based matches) ahead of EST.
That means some matches – like Nigeria vs. Canada, the first match of day two (July 21) – will be played early in the day locally but air on what's technically the evening before in the U.S. (in this case, July 20). Who said there's no such thing as time travel?
RELATED: Who could be the breakout star for this young, talented USWNT squad?
Where can you stream the FIFA Women’s World Cup?
We’re living in the future, baby! All matches will be live-streamed on FOXSports.com and via the FOX Sports app, and full replays will also be available. So if you’re not into watching soccer at 3 a.m., you’re covered!
How can I watch the FIFA Women’s World Cup on live TV?
The FIFA Women’s World Cup will air on FOX and FS1. The complete schedule awaits your perusal at FOXSports.com. In addition to all FIFA Women’s World Cup matches, head to your preferred FOX platform for game highlights, replays, stats, player stories, analysis and more.
How does the elimination round work in the Women’s World Cup?
Good question! As with the men’s World Cup, it’s a wee bit complicated. The 32 qualifying teams have been split into eight groups, each assigned a letter (A-H). In the first round, the groups compete against each other: each "side" (team) will participate in three in-group matches. A win is worth three points, a draw worth one point and a loss is worth (you guessed it) zero points.
At the end of the round, the top two teams (as determined by point total) in each group proceed to the knockout round. That’s 16 teams total.
RELATED: 2023 Women's World Cup betting primer: How to bet on soccer
When does Team USA play next?
After their July 27 draw with the Netherlands, Alex Morgan, Lindsay Horan and company will square off against Portugal on August 1.
Soccer spoilers: today's results
Watch this space!
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Collecting prayers has become a pastime.
There are seasons in life when we simply don’t have the inspiration or the emotional bandwidth to form coherent sentences in which to pray. There are seasons when you simply are not sure that all the prayers you have prayed have even been heard. There are seasons I have wondered what’s the point and have indignantly asked God, “Seriously? What the heck? This is it?!”
Sometimes these season collide and we need to consider the words and prayers of another to give voice to our silent sighs.
In case you might be in need of someone else’s prayers today let me share a few that I have collected and prayed in my own “wordless” seasons.
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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
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I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. — Thomas Merton
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — St. Francis
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God, Lord of all creation, lover of life and of everything, please help us to love in our very small way what You love infinitely and everywhere. We thank You that we can offer just this one prayer and that will be more than enough, because in reality every thing and every one is connected, and nothing stands alone. To pray for one part is really to pray for the whole, and so we do. Help us each day to stand for love, for healing, for the good, for the diverse unity of the Body of Christ and all creation, because we know this is what You desire: as Jesus prayed, that all may be one. Amen. — Richard Rohr
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Help! Thanks! Wow! — Anne Lamott
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Oh God, enlighten my mind with truth;
Inflame my heart with love;
inspire my will with courage:
enrich my life with service.
Pardon what I have been; sanctify what l am; order what I shall be. Amen. — Unknown | https://trib.com/opinion/columns/rudkin-a-collection-of-prayers/article_36a6189c-2ccf-11ee-a425-93f0b89a6594.html | 2023-07-30T04:59:44 | 1 | https://trib.com/opinion/columns/rudkin-a-collection-of-prayers/article_36a6189c-2ccf-11ee-a425-93f0b89a6594.html |
LAS VEGAS – Most Mountain West defensive coordinators were happy to see Jake Haener run out of eligibility and move on to an NFL career.
But Haener wasn’t the primary issue for Wyoming the last two seasons. His counterparts were.
Fresno State defeated the Cowboys 17-0 in Laramie with Sean Chambers and Levi Williams taking turns throwing incompletions.
Last season Andrew Peasley was out of rhythm in his return from a concussion and UW was out of healthy bodies at key positions during a 30-0 drubbing at Bulldog Stadium to close the regular season.
The Bulldogs, who went on the win the MW in head coach Jeff Tedford’s return to the sideline, are picked to finish third in the preseason conference media poll despite losing Haener and a list of key players from the championship team.
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“Obviously, I did not play well against Fresno last year,” Peasley said at the MW media day event earlier this month at Circa Resort & Casino. “They’re going to have a lot of new players on the field this year. I think I have to take a step up to prepare for that game and trust the game plan. They’re going to be one of the top dogs, they always are, in the conference.”
Tedford said the competition to replace Haener, who passed for 2,896 yards with 20 touchdowns and three interceptions in 10 games last season, will continue until one of the candidates separates himself as the clear QB1.
Logan Fife posted a 2-2 record when Haener missed four games with an injury, but the fourth-year junior had two touchdowns and six interceptions during the stretch. The UCF transfer has 23 touchdowns and seven interceptions in his career.
“Once he started getting comfortable, he started really taking strides and becoming his own self,” wide receiver Erik Brook said of Fife’s development behind Haener. “I feel like at first, he was trying to make the big play all the time, the Jake-esque play all the way down the field. Those will come but he started understanding the offense and understanding what defenses were giving him, which really helped his game evolve.”
Fresno State must also replace running back Jordan Mims (1,372 yards, 18 touchdowns) and wide receivers Jalen Moreno-Cropper (1,086 yards, five touchdowns), Nikko Remigio (852 yards, six touchdowns) and Zane Pope (623 yards, four touchdowns).
However, the Bulldogs return four starters on the offensive line and seven starters on a defense that ranked 14th in the FBS in points allowed (19.4 per game).
Tedford was the Bulldogs’ head coach from 2017-19 before taking two years off to focus on his health and returning in 2022 after Kalen DeBoer left to take the Washington job.
Fresno State has won two MW championships, three bowl games and posted three 10-win seasons during Tedford’s four seasons on the sideline.
The Bulldogs were 1-4 last season after a 40-20 loss at Boise State but finished the season on a nine-game winning streak that included a 28-16 atonement over the Broncos in the MW title game on the blue turf and a victory over Washington State in the L.A. Bowl.
The division-less 2023 MW schedule will send preseason favorite Boise State to Bulldog Stadium on Nov. 4.
"It seems like we play them like twice a year at Boise," Tedford said. "I have their locker-room memorized. I have my little thing in their laundry room. I know exactly where my chair is. We've been there so much it'll be nice to get them at our place."
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A man was killed Saturday night in a double shooting in Prince George’s County, the police said.
The site is near the Walker Mill and Largo areas. It is about a mile west of the Capital Beltway and south of Central Avenue.
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Emmett Till would have turned 82 today. Till was tortured and murdered in Mississippi after a white woman accused the Black 14-year-old of whistling and grabbing at her. Till and his mother's willingness to share the brutality Till suffered marked a pivotal moment in the early Civil Rights Movement. Mamie Till Mobley described her decision in a 2003 interview with The Chicago Project.
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MAMIE TILL MOBLEY: Let the people see what I've seen. And I want open casket viewing from now until the time we take Emmett for burial.
KELLY: Now, almost 70 years after Till was beaten, shot, had a cotton gin tied around his body and was thrown in the Tallahatchie River, Till and his mother are being memorialized in the form of three monuments in Chicago and Mississippi. President Biden signed the proclamation designating the sites earlier today. Patrick Weems is the executive director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Miss. He was at the White House when President Biden put pen to paper. We spoke before he headed to that event.
Patrick Weems, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
PATRICK WEEMS: Thank you, Mary Louise.
KELLY: You've come to D.C. for this event at the White House, and you picked up the Till family en route.
WEEMS: We drove from Chicago to D.C. to be here today, and I couldn't think of a more memorable trip to be here with Wheeler Parker, who's one of the most gracious, forgiving human beings and probably one of the most important people alive.
KELLY: So tell me about the three locations. There are two in Mississippi, one in Illinois. Start with the one that marks the site where Till's body was believed to have been pulled from the Tallahatchie River. What will visitors see there?
WEEMS: Yeah, well, hopefully what they won't see is a bullet-riddled sign. You know, we've had a lot of history of this site being desecrated, being shot up. We were able to put a bulletproof marker there recently in the last couple of years. But more significant is that the site where Till's body came out of the Tallahatchie River will now be a part of the National Park Service system. And to know that it will be federally protected - to make sure that if someone does vandalize our signs, it won't be a local sheriff. It will be the federal government that will get involved. But this is the big bang of the Civil Rights Movement, as Jesse Jackson talked about. This is a site where so many Black bodies were thrown into rivers. But Emmett's miraculously emerged. An 18-year-old fisherman found the body and brought it to the banks of the Tallahatchie River, where his body was initially identified because he had his father's ring on his finger. But then later, Mamie Till made sure the body came to Chicago, where she said, this is my son. I know my son.
KELLY: Yeah. And that's - the site in Illinois is the site where she insisted on an open casket. Describe what we'll see there.
WEEMS: Yeah. So, I mean, public officials wanted to bury Emmett in Mississippi. The sheriff had a directive to make sure the body was buried in Money, Miss. Mamie refused. She wanted to have a very private mourning for her son, first and foremost. But she also took that moment to remember and kind of resist white supremacy, resist the Jim Crow system by having a public funeral, having an open casket to show the world what they did to her son.
KELLY: And then the last location is also in Mississippi, back in Tallahatchie County.
WEEMS: That's right. So the site of the injustice - right? - so the miscarriage of justice took place in our courtroom in 1955. And it's also the site where people like Willie Reed, an 18-year-old sharecropper who witnessed the murder. He testified at the trial, and he whispered his testimony because he was scared to death. He later had a nervous breakdown, changed his name and moved to Chicago and didn't talk about this until 30 years later. And so, you know, it's a low point in American history, the fact that these men get off without any penalty. But it also is a testimony to people like Medgar Evers, Willie Reed, Mose Wright, Mamie Till, Dr. T.R.M. Howard - people who did the right thing that day and had the courage to at least try to get some attempt at justice.
KELLY: You know, I'm thinking about how this monument designation comes as a national conversation is underway about how to teach Black history in our schools. Do you think these monuments might help inform that conversation?
WEEMS: They already are. I mean, this is American history. We have young people visit these sites already. This will only amplify and make it easier for young people to come. It takes the best of us to talk about the worst of us. And if we're going to have a true democracy and multicultural democracy, we have to understand where we've stumbled. And we stumbled badly in 1955. And no matter party affiliation, I think we should all agree that what took place in 1955 was wrong. The system was wrong. Mississippi was wrong. The United States was wrong. But we can be better. It's our hope that this memorial marks a line in the sand that says, never again, and that if we want to hold and cherish our democracy, we need to learn about Mose Wright and Mamie Till.
KELLY: Patrick Weems. Thank you.
WEEMS: Thank you, Mary Louise. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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A jury has ordered anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy and associates to pay more than $50 million in damages to Idaho's largest hospital in connection with armed protests last year that led to a security lockdown.
The decision handed down late Monday follows a ten day civil trial in which Bundy was a no show and where attorneys with St. Luke's Hospital outlined what they called an extensive campaign of bullying, intimidation and disinformation directed at doctors and medical staff that they say continues today.
"Standing up to threats, bullying, intimidation, disruption and self serving actions was necessary. Inaction would have signaled that their menacing behavior was acceptable," said Chris Roth, CEO of St. Luke's Health System, in a statement.
The drama goes back to March of 2022 when Bundy led a series of tense protests against the hospitalization of one of his associate's infant grandkids who state social workers said was malnourished. According to court documents, protesters, some armed, tried to force their way into the hospital's locked exits. Some held "wanted" signs naming individual doctors and nurses and even blocked an ambulance entrance as car horns blared.
At the trial, the hospital's security director, Abbey Abbondandolo told the jury that he ordered a security lockdown and diverted all incoming ambulances to other hospitals because he feared Bundy and his militia followers were close to taking over the hospital and carrying out a "Pizzagate" style attack.
"This is not just a guy going rogue. He's like a military leader who's able to coordinate actions and mobilize people on different fronts," Abbondandolo said.
The jury trial offered a window into the dark world of far-right extremism, with intimidation and threats being directed at top officials even in one of the most conservative states in the nation.
Ammon Bundy, who ran for governor in Idaho in 2022, receiving some 90,000 votes, routinely attacks the state's Republican leaders, including its conservative governor, on social media. Bundy and his followers frequently spread Q Anon conspiracy theories that St. Luke's and its staff who cared for the infant grandson were part of a global child sex trafficking cabal.
Meanwhile, it's unclear how much if any of the $50 million in damages, half of them punitive, will ever get paid. St Luke's says it plans to donate the money upon collection to one of its child health services organizations.
Bundy, who has defied a civil arrest warrant, appears to remain holed up in his home in a rural area outside Boise where he's been claiming erroneously that he has no assets left to be taken.
"People in a jury deciding how much St. Luke's is going to take from those who exposed the truth about them is a mockery to justice. When a baby is born he or she does not become property of the state or hospital executives," Bundy said in a tweet responding to the verdict.
This is just the latest legal drama for Bundy, who a jury actually acquitted in 2016 for leading a 41 day armed takeover of a federal bird sanctuary in Oregon. Bundy has also been arrested for trespassing in the Boise area several times more recently, even leading to his being banned from the Idaho state capitol for one year.
"They are, to some degree, terrorists in the way that they're acting. And then he turns around and makes himself the martyr or the victim, which is just ludicrous," says Gary Raney, a retired sheriff in Ada County, Idaho's most populous.
Leading up to the civil trial, Raney was advising local law enforcement to wait things out and not immediately go in and serve the warrant. The local sheriff had warned earlier this year that Bundy was becoming increasingly aggressive toward his deputies.
Raney told NPR he thinks Bundy will get served soon but there's no rush while tempers are flaring.
"The predicament is just keeping the community safe over there with all these - I'll use the technical term - yahoos that are over living on Bundy's property, trying to protect him from who knows what," Raney said.
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Updated July 27, 2023 at 3:40 PM ET
When The Sims came out back in the year 2000, it changed the gaming landscape. Here was a game made for everybody, a game that looked and played like real life, if only real life was a lot more fun.
It was such a big deal that even mainstream news outlets like us were talking about it. Dan Morris, former executive editor of PC Gamer Magazine, told NPR that part of its appeal was its familiarity and relatability. "It's sort of the part of us that always liked, you know, playing with dollhouses," he said. In a medium where players were usually confronted with science fiction and fantasy, it was the mundanity of The Sims' world that proved refreshing.
But while The Sims spawned many sequels, you can't officially buy the original, and even if you have it, it's not designed to run on modern systems. That fate, sadly, isn't an anomaly — most classic video games can't be played on today's hardware. A new study from The Video Game History Foundation finds that only 13% of titles produced before 2010 are available on modern platforms.
Games made before 1985 fare even worse, with only 3% still being sold. Salvador calls that period the "silent film" era of video games, when designers established the medium's basic grammar. "There's a very real danger," says study author Phil Salvador, "that in a few decades these games will be unavailable and unplayable to a wide audience." That concern took on new urgency this year, when Nintendo shuttered its 3DS and Wii eShops, taking whole generations of games off the market.
But why does it matter that we can't, for example, play the original Sims when its commercially successful sequels are easily purchasable? "That's like saying, well, you know, why do we need the original Psycho if we can get Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho?" argues Salvador. "Video games are cultural history in the same way that film is cultural history or books or movies."
That history can tell you a lot about a video game, and the time and place it was born into.
In the early 1990's, Sega was a video game giant. But when they released their Sega Saturn video game console in America in 1995, it flopped. Many of the games on that system are now out of print. But fans are keeping its memory alive.
David Lee writes about the system and its games on the blog SegaSaturnShiro, which he co-founded. "I just really love the mystique of it," he explains. "I love how it kind of has this troubled and complex story." Games like Clockwork Knight, he says, have a colorful and chaotic visual style that felt uniquely 90's Sega. "It's just got a look to it, a visual charm to it, that's just very much of the time," he explains.
Fan communities have played a major role preserving video games, but official institutions are lagging behind. Phil Salvador argues that libraries also need the power to make these games and their histories more accessible to researchers. "I worry about the long-term future of video games [is] going to be if we have to sort of rely entirely on the fan community for this kind of documentation."
Kendra Albert at the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic says that current copyright law makes that difficult, and video game companies want to keep it that way. "The rationale that the lobbying groups often come forward with is that this will harm the market for existing games," Albert says.
But Albert feels that this perspective is out of step with both the reality of consumer demand and the goals of preservationists. Preservationists want libraries to have more flexibility when it comes to making games available to researchers. For example, current copyright law makes it legally questionable to share video games remotely through software emulation. Games historians want access to the original titles, because companies change old games when they re-enter the market as remasters and remakes.
Professor Adrienne Shaw of Temple University, who founded the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, points to the game Baldur's Gate as an example. The 2012 remaster of the original game added same-sex relationship options for some of its characters. While the game became accessible to more players, it became a fundamentally different object to a researcher studying queer relationships in video games.
Albert and other advocacy organizations will ask the U.S. Copyright Office to exempt video games from some of these copyright laws when the appeals process begins this fall. Similar appeals have been denied in the past, leaving official preservation of the young medium in doubt.
James Perkins Mastromarino contributed to this story. contributed to this story
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Of all extreme weather conditions, heat is the most deadly. It kills more people in the U.S. in an average year than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined. The human body has a built-in cooling mechanism – sweat. But that system can only do so much, especially in soaring temperatures with high humidity.
Here's a look at what happens to the human body in extreme temperatures – and the three main pathways to fatal consequences.
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Organ failure caused by heatstroke
When the surrounding temperatures approach your internal body temperature – which is about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for most of us – your body starts to cool off through evaporative cooling, better known as sweating. But when it's very humid out, that sweat won't evaporate as well and cool you down.
When your body is exposed to heat, it will try to cool itself down by redirecting more blood to the skin, says Ollie Jay, a professor of heat and health at the University of Sydney, where he directs the Heat and Health Research Incubator. But that means less blood and less oxygen are going to your gut. If these conditions go on long enough, your gut can become more permeable.
"So, nasty things like endotoxins that usually reside and stay inside the gut start leaking out of the gut, entering the circulation. And that sets off a cascade of effects that ultimately result in death," Jay says.
For example, those toxins can activate white blood cells, says Camilo Mora, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who has researched how heat can turn fatal. "They say, Oh my God, we're getting attacked right now. And the white blood cells are going to attack this contamination in the blood, creating coagulation" – or blood clots, Mora says. Those clots can lead to multiple organ failure.
"And at that point, it's pretty irreversible," Jay adds.
Cardiovascular collapse
The second way people die in high heat also has to do with your body pumping more blood to the skin. Your heart has to pump faster – which can make you feel lightheaded – to keep your blood pressure up.
"We might have a heart rate of 60 beats per minute, all of a sudden, we might be asking the heart to contract 100 times per minute, 110 times per minute. So now you're asking the heart to do a lot more work," Jay says.
Those spikes in the heart rate can be triggers for a heart attack, he says, especially for the elderly and those with underlying heart conditions.
Fluid loss leading to kidney failure
The third deadly danger has to do with the fluids your body is losing in extreme heat. People can sweat as much as a liter and half per hour, Jay says. And if you don't replenish those fluids, you get dehydrated and your blood volume shrinks, which makes it harder to maintain blood pressure. That can strain your heart and your kidneys.
"People with kidney disorders can be at greater risk of a negative health outcome during extreme heat exposure," Jay says.
Mora notes another danger to the kidneys that people who work physically demanding jobs in high heat outdoors face. Rhabdomyolysis causes muscle tissue to break down, releasing proteins into the blood that can clog kidneys. This usually occurs in the acute phase of heatstroke. Jay says there's also some evidence that habitually working outdoors in high heat without proper hydration can increase the risk of chronic kidney disease.
What you can do to stay safe
Watch for the first signs of mild heat exhaustion:
If that happens, Jay says, get out of the heat and into the shade or indoors ASAP. Drink plenty of water and wet your clothes and skin. Immersing your feet in cold water can also help.
Jay says the goal is to cool down so you don't progress to severe heat exhaustion, where you might start vomiting or seem to lose coordination – signs of neurological disturbance.
If your core body temperature rises to about 104 degrees Fahrenheit, Jay says, that's where you risk heatstroke.
How hot is too hot?
Experts say there's no absolute temperature at which extreme heat can turn dangerous.
"It depends on the individual," says Lewis Halsey, a professor of environmental physiology at the University of Roehampton in the U.K. "It depends on how acclimated they are to heat. It depends how long they're exposed to the heat for. It depends on how they're experiencing this heat."
If sweating is our superpower to keep cool, then "the kryptonite to that superpower is humidity," Halsey says.
So a person might start feeling overwhelmed much sooner in higher humidity at lower temperatures than if they're in dry heat, he says. Direct sunlight will heat us up faster than when we're in the shade. A nice breeze could help sweat evaporate and cool us off.
The elderly and very young are considered particularly vulnerable in the heat. But Mora of the University of Hawaii at Manoa notes heat stress can hit anyone.
He points to the story of a young family who died after becoming dangerously overheated while hiking on a day in August 2021 when temperatures reached 109 degrees Fahrenheit in Northern California. The husband, wife, their one-year-old daughter and even the family dog were found dead two days later.
Mora says those kinds of conditions could kill within a few hours — even if you are young and healthy.
"The military has done a lot of research into heat exposure and they find the first symptoms of heat exhaustion, heatstroke after only a few hours, even among the healthiest of people," Mora says.
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LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Bicycle Riders took advantage of the cooler weather to raise funds for a youth group with a religious foundation.
The Rally Point River Ride has been happening for 15 years, where participants bike through the park's path and local roads, covering distances ranging from 10 to 62.5 miles. The Rally Point Youth Center, a faith-based organization on the north side of Lima, coordinates this yearly activity. It helps the center gain the resources to guide children and facilitate their connection with God.
"We specifically are targeting the urban youth within our area. We have after-school programs, we have club nights, and we have small groups. During the summer, we have summer programming as well, camps, retreats, and all that." added Junior Ramos, Rally Point Director.
The River Ride event aims to raise approximately $20,000 to support the ongoing mission of Rally Point. Additionally, the organizing committee expresses gratitude towards Great Lakes Crop Insurance for their generous contributions for 15 years. | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/in-the-2023-rally-point-river-ride-cyclists-from-in-and-around-lima-pedal-for/article_4ce74054-2e5f-11ee-b8c0-332b50db825a.html | 2023-07-30T05:07:48 | 0 | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/in-the-2023-rally-point-river-ride-cyclists-from-in-and-around-lima-pedal-for/article_4ce74054-2e5f-11ee-b8c0-332b50db825a.html |
CELINA, OH (WLIO) - Despite some setbacks from storms and high winds Friday night into early Saturday morning, organizers pulled through and kept the Celina Lake Fest going strong as ever.
Each year the festival has a different theme, and this year's was "Christmas in July." Kids could meet holiday characters like Santa and the Grinch throughout the park and take part in activities like gingerbread house decorating. The weekend draws a lot of tourism to the area for big events like fireworks or the pet show. Local businesses like hotels and restaurants see a boost from the festival, especially with the number of natives who return home every year to come to have some fun.
"It just brings a lot of people back home for this family-friendly event that we have. A lot of different things that we have that go on this weekend, people enjoy coming back to Celina, we have the amphicars that have been coming for 20 plus years," said Michelle Miller, co-chairman of the festival.
"It's just become a tradition. I think you start as a young child, you come see the fireworks or you go to the parade. Then as you grow up, sometimes you're in the parade. And I think it's just a thing, and now so many class reunions happen, people love to come back and just experience that. I think it brings back that hometown feel for a lot of people," added Erin Moeller, the secretary of the festival.
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ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - Horses, cattle, and cowboys wowed crowds at the Allen County Fairgrounds Saturday night.
The Lima Stampede Rodeo came to town, featuring talented riders and wranglers young and old from across the country, including one from Ada, Ohio. Between rounds of steer wrestling, bronc riding, and other challenges, the energetic announcers kept the energy high with jokes, music and even crowned the best mullet in the audience.
One performer, 16-year-old Preston Rodriguez of Michigan, who has trained and worked with animals all his life, says that it's about more than just knowing how to ride a horse and pull off all the stunts.
"It takes a lot because it's not just you, you have to train your horses and make sure that they can deal with all these sounds and people and take the pressure. It takes years, some just get it and they love it, but this one behind me, it's been a couple of years and it's still trying to figure it out a little bit," Rodriguez explained.
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LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Activate Allen County invited Lima residents to a fun afternoon at the South Jackson Community Garden.
The annual Block Party had live music, local organizations providing information about resources available, free food, and a bouncy house. The event is a great way to introduce people to the Community Garden and show off how much it's expanded over the years. Activate Allen County hopes that the space can both serve as a pocket park and empower people to grow their own healthy food items.
"It's important that everybody, regardless of their income, where they live, they should have access to green space, a place to grow fruits and vegetables and to connect with the community. We're located really close to the river walk here so it's accessible to people and having these places in neighborhoods is key to the quality of life," explained Josh Unterbrink, the co-director of Activate Allen County.
Unterbrink adds that kids who help grow their own vegetables are more likely to willingly try eating them. | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/south-jackson-community-garden-welcomed-public-to-free-block-party/article_67aaef9c-2e7f-11ee-ad56-eb0a702ec255.html | 2023-07-30T05:08:06 | 1 | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/south-jackson-community-garden-welcomed-public-to-free-block-party/article_67aaef9c-2e7f-11ee-ad56-eb0a702ec255.html |
HANCOCK COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - The Discovery Center of the Hancock Park District organized an open house for visitors to explore the various activities and attractions.
The Discovery Center, named after Richard S. "Doc" Phillips, organized an event to showcase its various programs. Attendees could engage in multiple activities, including bird watching, reading, interacting with touch table puppets, and watching nature videos. Additionally, visitors could observe up-close animals such as fish, crayfish, and clams.
"We offer a wide variety of programs. We do have this building open up once a month for Sunday open houses. We do have our historical homes opened up out at Litzenberg Memorial Woods open once a month. We do have two different story times that happen here once a month, as well as our portable planetarium program. But, in other programs we do, we do just about a little bit of everything throughout the year at all of our parks." explained Tim Kleman, Program Specialist.
If you want to know more about the services provided by the Hancock Park District, you can visit their website or contact (419) 425-7275. | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/the-hancock-park-district-for-richard-s-doc-phillips-discovery-center-invites-visitors-to-participate/article_00f9d4da-2e60-11ee-895c-73ef9b475818.html | 2023-07-30T05:08:12 | 1 | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/the-hancock-park-district-for-richard-s-doc-phillips-discovery-center-invites-visitors-to-participate/article_00f9d4da-2e60-11ee-895c-73ef9b475818.html |
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Linda Black Horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (07/30/23). Benefits flow through your professional work this year. Prepare for fun at home this summer, before autumn inspires creative breakthroughs. Making a professional change this winter for new creative directions leads to exciting and fascinating springtime explorations. Catch a rising career tide.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Look for opportunities to advance your career and find them. Fortune amplifies initiative. Consider what you would love and discover it hiding in plain sight.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Your investigation is getting interesting. Grab a lucky opportunity. Explore another angle and win. Connect with an inspiring teacher or mentor. Discover buried treasure.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Collaborate to grow your shared financial venture. Quick action can get especially lucrative results. Pull together to harvest and conserve a wonderful windfall.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is an 8 — Enjoy great conditions for improving physical performance. Stretch and focus on your breath. Learn new tricks. Connect with nature and friends for extra credit.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Find and follow an intriguing connection. You’re especially lucky in love. Indulge diversions, enthusiasms and fun. Discover creative and romantic possibilities. Relax and enjoy.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Visions of domestic renewal inspire action. Discover forgotten treasures and heirlooms. Have fun with family. Share stories and treats. Encourage each other to grow.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Have fun with your family. Visions of domestic renewal inspire action. Discover forgotten treasures and heirlooms. Share stories and treats. Encourage each other to grow.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — You’re especially brilliant. Write and sketch your creative ideas. Things are starting to make sense. Prepare carefully and then launch to a growing audience.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Grab a lucky break with lucrative conditions. Don’t fall asleep on your laurels. Listen and learn. Monitor your market and move quickly.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Dress for success. Actions speak louder than words. A personal opportunity beckons with no time to waste. Take charge for the results you want.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — You’re especially sensitive, creative and inventive. You can get what you need. Envision a passion or dream fulfilled. Plot your course and discover hidden shortcuts.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Collaborative efforts get a boost. Actions now can have long-term benefits. Turbocharge teamwork with an inspiring vision. Play your part and together surge ahead.
Astrologer Nancy Black continues her mother Linda Black’s legacy horoscopes column. She welcomes comments and questions on Twitter, @LindaCBlack. For more astrological interpretations like today’s Gemini horoscope, visit Linda Black Astrology by clicking daily horoscopes, or go to www.nancyblack.com.
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MARNE - On Hall of Fame Night at Berlin Raceway, the couple that helps operate the track received the surprise of their lives, along with another great night of racing on Saturday.
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WELCOME TO THE HALL
As was announced earlier in the week, seven-time track champion Ross Meeuwsen was inducted into the Hall of Fame prior to the night’s racing beginning.
What came as a shocker were the other inductees that were announced.
DBD Ventures, led by Don DeWitt of Hudsonville, purchased the lease to the track back in 2011, and helped the track grow into more than just a racing venue. On Hall of Fame Night, he and his wife, Minnie, were named members of the 2023 class.
“I just appreciate all of the fans,” an emotional Don mentioned during the ceremony. “I thank all the drivers, the staff, they’re unbelievable.”
Minnie also was very grateful for the nomination.
“I just want to thank everyone that works hard like the concessions, the office and wherever they are, they are working hard to make this place go.”
POLLARD SETS THE TONE FOR THE BATTLE
In the final tune-up prior to next month’s Battle at Berlin, the TEKTON Super Late Model series saw a few travelers make their way to Berlin, trying to see how their cars measure up.
The 75-lapper began with track veteran Scott Thomas using his pole position to take the early lead. While Dylan Stovall followed close behind, Thomas ended up leading the first half of the race. While the two were battling on Lap 39. short track star Bubba Pollard, who started the feature in 11th, snuck his way into the lead.
The Suwanee, Georgia native built up a sizeable lead, however, that was erased with just four laps to go after the yellow came out following Wes Griffith spinning out between Turns 1 and 2. Yet, Pollard got a great jump on the restart, blowing away the rest of the field to snag the victory.
Pollard, who won the inaugural Money in the Bank in 2017, says that the move to go back to racing with Senneker Performance was important to helping turn his season around.
“It was good,” Pollard stated in victory lane. “Ever since we got back [with Senneker], they’ve been fast. It’s been a long year, but I just can’t thank Senneker race cars enough.”
With Pollard being one of the favorites in the upcoming premier event, he says Berlin is one of his favorite tracks to compete at.
“I love this track because you can move around, you can pass, you can race. I enjoy coming here because of the fans, it’s packed out every week. That’s what I enjoy racing in front of.”
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ROELOFS FINALLY GETS THE EDGE
While he has been to victory lane this season, and has two track championships under his belt, Auto Value 4-Cylinder driver Cole Roelofs has had some tough luck in 2023. Twice thus far, the former NASCAR Division 4 National Championship has been a part of two incredibly close finishes, but came up short.
However, his fortunes changed on Saturday.
His brother, Case, took a comfortable lead early in the first 15-lap feature, and led all the way until Lap 14, when Chad Potter spun on the final lap, bringing out the caution. That set up a one-lap dash between Case and Cole, who worked his way into second place. The brothers were door-to-door for the entire 7/16-mile, with Cole getting his nose out at the last second, winning by just .008 seconds.
FRYE FLIES TO THE WIN
In the Betten Baker Sportsman Series, a familiar face graced victory lane in the first of two features.
Starting up front, Tanner Tallarico took the early lead, but the race came to a pause on Lap 7 when Dennis Holtzlander III spun after making contact with Scott Baker in Turn 1. On the ensuing restart, Tallarico got a great jump on former Limited Late Model champion, Josh Frye., but the driver of the No. 44 was able to take the lead on Lap 8, never looking back. Frye was able to cruise to his first win of the season in the series.
VANHORSSEN MOTORS TO ANOTHER VICTORY
The second 4-Cylinder race of the night might not have been as entertaining as the first,but it was a notable win for another former track champion.
Fast qualifier David Simpson took an early lead in the race, but just four laps in, lapped traffic caused havoc up front, and Seth VanHorssen was able to take advantage, making the pass to grab first place. Current points leader Justin Roelofs tried to challenge for the lead in the closing laps, but Vanhorssen managed to hang on for his series-leading fourth win in 2023.
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BROTHER BESTS BROTHER
In the second Sportsman feature, there was some brotherly “love”, as Ryan Holtzlander and Dennis Holtzlander III would go at it again.
Ryan grabbed an early lead in the race, but a pair of yellow flags came out on Laps 8 and 9 after Joe Jones lost control of his car on both occasions.
On the ensuing restarts, Ryan kept his spot atop the leaderboard, but Dennis moved up to the back bumper of his brother. Then, on Lap 14, the brothers came together in Turn 3, with Dennis getting the better of Ryan. Dennis would hang on the rest of the way to grab his third win of the season.
SNEAKY SENSIBA
The Engine Pro Vintage Modified Series made its third appearance in Marne on Saturday. After Randy Pierson and Dave Sensiba grabbed heat wins, points leader Todd Cowan was able to take the lead early in the race. Things got interesting on Lap 10, as Duane Debonte and Pierson made contact in Turn 3, bringing out the yellow flag.
When the race resumed, Sensiba, who is battling with Cowan for the series championship, made his way through the pack to take the lead with just five laps to go. Cowan tried his best to get his spot back, but Sensiba stayed out in front, earning his fifth win of the season.
MINI-WEDGE HOWL
The Good Humor Wedges were back in action on Saturday night. In another rambunctious feature, Carter Wolf was able to beat Colby Brownlee and Biniam VanWynen for the win in the 15-lap race.
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COMING UP
Arguably one of the biggest nights of the season is coming up next week, as Berlin Raceway will host Thursday Night Thunder, featuring some of the best drivers in the world from the Superstar Racing Experience. Tony Stewart, Helio Castroneves, Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin are among the names that will be racing in the primetime event.
On the undercard, the Model Coverall Limited Late Models will make their returns after a two-week absence. That race is scheduled to start around 6:30 p.m. ET, and can be streamed on FloRacing. The SRX races begin at 9 p.m., and will be live on ESPN, and will be streaming on FuboTV (7-day free trial).
FINAL RESULTS FOR JULY 29
Super Late Model Feature (75 laps)
1. Bubba Pollard
2. Dylan Stovall
3. Terry Senneker Jr.
4. Joe Bush
5. Andrew Scheid
6. Brian Campbell
7. Keith Herp
8. Austin Hull
9. Wes Griffith
10. Ken Wobma
11. Kevin Cremonesi
12. Brian Tillema
13. Jordon Riddick
14. Boris Jurkovic (DNF)
15. Scott Thomas (DNF)
16. Nathan Koester (DNF)
17. Bob Spencer (DNF)
18. Tim Horvath Sr. (DNF)
19. Evan Shotko (DNF)
Sportsman Feature #1 (20 laps)
1. Josh Frye
2. Brian Thome
3. Allen Davis
4. Scott Baker
5. Joe Jones
6. Tanner Tallarico
7. Ryan Holtzlander
8. Corey Holtzlander
9. Dennis Holtzlander III
10. Kevin Ford
11. Korey Ensing
12. Jack Russell
13. Brayden Cook
14. Travis Dyke
15. Jackson Walker
16. Maurice Davis
17. Derek Vath (DNF)
Sportsman Feature #2 (20 laps)
1. Dennis Holtzlander III (3)
2. Scott Baker
3. Brian Thome
4. Josh Frye
5. Ryan Holtzlander
6. Corey Holtzlander
7. Korey Ensing
8. Kevin Ford
9. Tanner Tallarico
10. Joe Jones
11. Jackson Walker
12. Travis Dyke
13. Jack Russell
14. Maurice Davis
15. Brayden Cook
16. Allen Davis (DNF)
17. Derek Vath (DNF)
4-Cylinder Feature #1 (15 laps)
1. Cole Roelofs (2)
2. Case Roelofs
3. Nathan McNabb
4. Luke Bouwma
5. Chase Roelofs
6. Justin Roelofs
7. Dave Simpson
8. Seth VanHorssen
9. Don McNabb
10. Dave Avink
11. Hunter Wiersma
12. Charlie DeJong
13. Alex Ruiter
14. Chad Potter
15. Bob Hosteter
16. Bill VanderVelde
17. Bill Richter
18. Richard Succaw
19. Jason Whitman
4-Cylinder Feature #2 (15 laps)
1. Seth VanHorssen (4)
2. Justin Roelofs
3. Don McNabb
4. David Simpson
5. Luke Bouwma
6. Nathan McNabb
7. Cole Roelofs
8. Chase Roelofs
9. Case Roelofs
10. Charlie DeJong
11. Hunter Wiersma
12. Alex Ruiter
13. Bill VanderVelde
14. Rob Hosteter
15. Bill Richter
16. Chad Potter
17. Dave Avink
18. Richard Succaw
19. Jason Whitman
VROA Modified Feature (20 laps)
1. Dave Sensiba (5)
2. Todd Cowan
3. Alan Marcott
4. Duane Debonte
5. Brian Beukema
6. Don Smith
7. Mike Ouendag
8. Randy Pierson
9. Floyd Harsen
10. Ken Quimby
11. Brad Penoyer
12. Trinton Bronkema
Mini-Wedge Feature (15 laps)
1. Carter Wolf
2. Colby Brownlee
3. Biniam WanWynen
4. Parker McKinney
5. Lillian McCallum
6. Ethan Hoekstra
7. Jackson Cook
8. Austin McCallum
9. Elliott Davis
10. Mason Kriesch
11. Ayden McWhinney
12. Tanner Greenbauer
13. Madison Kriesch
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Updated July 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM ET
Two Supreme Court decisions are changing the way students, educators and even the Biden administration are approaching higher education.
The first ruling ended affirmative action for public and private colleges. It declared that race conscious admissions programs at both Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The second put a halt to President Biden's student loan cancellation plan. Now the Biden administration is trying to find new ways to make college more accessible. The administration recently unveiled a new student loan repayment plan that will save borrowers thousands of dollars by keeping monthly payments low and preventing interest from accumulating.
This week, the administration's focus is on affirmative action: The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into the practice of legacy admissions at Harvard University, and on Friday, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Wesleyan University, which recently got rid of legacy admissions.
Legacy admissions are on the chopping block
The federal inquiry comes after to three Boston-based groups — the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network — filed a complaint with the Education Department against Harvard. It accuses the university of discriminating against Black, Hispanic, Asian and other non-white undergraduate applicants by showing preference for those who have family relationships with donors or alumni.
In a statement to NPR, Harvard spokesperson Nicole Rura said the university is reviewing its admissions policy to ensure it is "complying with the law and to carry forward Harvard's longstanding commitment to welcoming students from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences."
Ivory Toldson, the national director of Education Innovation and Research at the NAACP, said that legacy admissions compromise a university's ability to create a diverse student body. He said if colleges are committed to diversity, they should not be favoring applicants from wealthier backgrounds.
"Now that race conscious admissions has been outlawed by the Supreme Court, you have to look at other ways to achieve diversity," Toldson said during an interview for Morning Edition.
Toldson said legacy admissions should be abolished.
The impact of legacy admissions policies on a student body
A study released this week by the Harvard School of Economics showed that richer applicants are getting a leg up in the college admissions process. Students from affluent backgrounds are twice as likely to get into top colleges than students from more middle class backgrounds, even if the students have similar GPAs and SAT scores.
Admissions data cited in documents that were part of the affirmative action case revealed that nearly 70% of the university's legacy applicants were white — including applicants who have relationships with donors, those who are children of faculty or staff, and athletes applicants. And while legacy applicants make up less than 5% of applicants to Harvard, the data showed they constitute around 30% of the applicants admitted each year, the ruling cited.
Some schools have gotten rid of legacy admissions altogether.
Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts college in Connecticut that has a 16% acceptance rate, recently eliminated its legacy admissions policy. Wesleyan President Michael Roth told NPR's Leila Fadel, during an interview for Morning Edition, the decision to end the policy was a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended affirmative action as part of college admissions.
"It became clear to me that any advantage you give to incumbents, to people who already have advantages, is a glaring sign of unfairness," Roth said.
Other schools have done the same. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities also ended legacy admissions this month, and Colorado passed a state law banning the practice at all public colleges and universities.
"Not getting in" is just one concern for students
Whitney Gouche is vice president of a nonprofit called EMERGE that serves high-achieving students from low-income areas in Texas. She said her students feel discouraged by the recent Supreme Court decision.
"We've explained to our students, that regardless of the decision, you still belong here, she said. "You have the merits to be a successful student at this campus."
Convincing students to apply isn't the easiest task — concerns about high cost are also on students' minds. Even if they get in, it could cost about $70,000 in tuition for an elite college like Wesleyan.
Roth said that while admitted students who qualify for financial aid will receive it at Wesleyan, the university has to do more to convince students to apply in the first place.
"We have to be very aggressive in recruiting students from places that haven't typically looked at schools like Wesleyan," Roth said.
Roth said that ending legacy admissions won't solve the more widespread problem of education disparities in the United States.
"Legacy admissions is attractive to talk about, but the real issues are elsewhere," Roth said.
This story was edited by Nicole Cohen and Erika Aguilar.
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ATLANTA — Police are investigating after thieves damaged multiple buildings en route to stealing two separate ATMs just minutes apart early Saturday morning in Atlanta.
Officers responded to the Mulu Mart at 1265 Lee St. SW at 3:34 a.m. to a call of a business burglary. When they got there, they noticed substantial damage to the side of the building, appearing that the suspects had driven their car into the building to get in where they stole the ATM machine.
Just 14 minutes later at 3:48 a.m., Atlanta Police officers responded to the Conley Food Mart at 807 Conley Rd. SE to a call of yet another business burglary. When officers got to this location, they noticed the front door was damaged along with the inside of the food mart as well.
The ATM machine was also missing from the business, as well as "an unknown number of cigarette packages," police said.
The two locations are just 13 minutes apart, according to Google Maps.
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