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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.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.apr.org/business-education/business-education/2023-07-26/colleges-are-ending-legacy-admissions-to-diversify-campuses-post-affirmative-action | 2023-07-30T17:08:42 | 0 | https://www.apr.org/business-education/business-education/2023-07-26/colleges-are-ending-legacy-admissions-to-diversify-campuses-post-affirmative-action |
Former President Trump’s legal crises are growing more serious this week and show no signs of fading, even as his 2024 bid for the White House barrels forward.
Federal prosecutors filed additional serious charges against Trump on Thursday over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, and anticipation has reached a fever pitch over whether Trump will be charged in Washington, D.C., for his conduct after the 2020 election.
Here are five takeaways from the latest legal developments around Trump.
The new documents case charges are serious
The additional charges filed in Thursday’s superseding indictment point to more serious allegations against Trump that could make his grip on the GOP more tenuous in the months to come.
Prosecutors laid out a new set of allegations that Trump acted with two aides in attempts to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago after prosecutors subpoenaed it in connection with their investigation in June 2022. Trump now faces two new obstruction charges in connection with the allegations.
The indictment also included a new charge over Trump’s retention of a classified document containing secret Pentagon plans to attack Iran. The document is at the center of a recorded conversation mentioned in the original indictment in which Trump is discussing the materials with individuals who did not have security clearances.
The former president has tried to claim that he may not have had the physical document at the time, but the fresh allegations suggest prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to bring charges over the incident.
The nature of the allegations are sure to fuel further charges from Trump’s critics that he is unfit for office.
“I’ve never been indicted and I am not a lawyer, but if you are deleting evidence, it is because you know you are committing a crime,” former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a 2024 presidential candidate, said Thursday night. “And anybody who supports this, anybody who defends this, is complicit in endangering America.”
Trump’s circle is increasingly implicated
The superseding indictment added a third defendant to the case: Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
De Oliveira joins longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta in being charged in connection with the former president’s retention of classified documents and possible obstruction of efforts to get them back.
The indictment alleges De Oliveira, 56, extensively pushed Mar-a-Lago’s director of information technology (IT) — who was not charged or named in the indictment — to delete surveillance footage after prosecutors subpoenaed it in June 2022 in connection with their investigation.
Other Trump associates could still be implicated in the ongoing investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, particularly over a scheme to appoint alternative electors that would flip the Electoral College in Trump’s favor.
“Sadly, I’ve made this statement to many different people … Walt Nauta, run. Carlos [De Oliveira], run,” said Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney who reached a deal with prosecutors in Manhattan and has since turned against the former president.
Volume of legal risks is on the rise
One concern for Trump is that the sheer volume of charges against him is mounting, increasing his legal exposure.
The superseding indictment in the documents case means Trump now faces a total of 40 criminal counts in that case alone, three more than he did previously.
Trump is separately facing 34 felony counts in Manhattan over allegations of a hush money scheme to keep quiet allegations of an affair.
And Trump may face charges elsewhere; he is still under federal investigation in Washington, D.C., and in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Legal experts have noted that the more charges Trump faces, the greater his risk of being convicted on even a single count. “If you had a choice, you wouldn’t want to be indicted in three different jurisdictions,” said one Republican strategist.
Jan. 6 charges loom
Trump attorneys met with special counsel Jack Smith’s office Thursday over the investigation into the former president’s efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
With an indictment seeming imminent, Trump’s lawyers sought to make the case for why their client should not be charged.
A grand jury has typically been meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays, though no indictment was announced this week.
Still, Trump has received a target letter in the case, typically a sign that prosecutors have enough evidence to charge an individual in an investigation.
On top of the anticipation that is building over charges in D.C., the former president is under investigation in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the state’s election results in 2020. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has indicated charges could be announced in August, setting up for yet another cycle of bad legal developments for the former president.
Trump ups pressure on GOP allies
As the legal pressure on Trump mounts, he has turned to some of his Republican allies to ratchet up their defenses.
Trump, in comments to Fox News Digital after the superseding indictment was filed, complained that the charges against him were “ridiculous” and that the Justice Department was abusing its power.
“Hopefully the Republican Party will do something about it,” Trump said.
The former president’s comments may turn up the heat on some of his supporters in the House, and even Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), to back funding cuts to the special counsel’s office. Such measures have been floated by staunch Trump allies such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
The reality for Republicans is they will have to continue to answer questions about Trump’s conduct as the cases against him develop and the charges potentially mount.
Trump, asked if he would end his 2024 campaign even if convicted, told conservative radio host John Fredericks, “not at all.”
“There’s nothing in the Constitution to say that it could. And not at all,” Trump said. “Even the radical left crazies are saying no, that wouldn’t stop. And it wouldn’t stop me either.” | https://who13.com/hill-politics/5-takeaways-as-trumps-legal-troubles-mount/ | 2023-07-30T17:08:56 | 1 | https://who13.com/hill-politics/5-takeaways-as-trumps-legal-troubles-mount/ |
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Four people are dead and two are hospitalized after two separate crashes on Saturday. Both incidents are connected to an annual air show in Wisconsin, according to officials.
The first crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. A T-6 Texan aircraft crashed into Lake Winnebago near Oshkosh, where the Experimental Aircraft Association is holding its annual fly-in convention, EAA AirVenture.
Both people aboard the aircraft died, according to EAA officials.
A few hours later, a Rotorway 162F helicopter and ELA 10 Eclipse gyrocopter collided in mid-air at the south end of the EAA AirVenture flight line at Wittman Regional Airport, killing two and injuring two others. Both of the injured are in stable condition, according to EAA.
The Oshkosh Fire Department said one of the aircraft landed on top of a parked plane, but did not clarify which.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating both accidents and has not provided a cause for either.
“Naturally, with the mid-air collision, somebody was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” EAA director of communications Dick Knapinski said. “How that occurred and why that occurred is what the NTSB will investigate and, from then, lessons will be learned as to what aviators can do to keep themselves safer.”
The investigation will likely take months to reach its conclusion.
“NTSB investigations typically take between a full year to 18 months to complete,” Knapinski explained. “They will have a preliminary investigation within the next week or so and then put out those findings. But the probable cause will probably take a year or more to determine by the board.”
The factors the NTSB will examine in its investigations include weather conditions, pilot experience, aircraft condition, flight pattern, and communication between ground and flight operations to determine the cause, which could be pilot error, a mechanical issue, or another reason, according to Knapinski. He described the weather as “mild” and likely not a contributing factor.
“Having accidents like this in the singular is very rare,” he said. “Having two fatal accidents take place on the same day is exceedingly rare.”
These are not the first incidents regarding aircraft at or en route to EAA this week. On Thursday, a single-engine plane bound for EAA AirVenture crash-landed in a cornfield in Green Lake County, hospitalizing two people.
On Tuesday, Knapinski said there was a “forced landing” east of the north/south runway at EAA AirVenture. The pilot was the only person onboard and was not injured.
Last Saturday, a single-engine ERCO Ercoupe headed to EAA AirVenture crashed in Fond du Lac County, injuring the pilot.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/4-killed-in-2-separate-aircraft-crashes-near-wisconsin-air-show/ | 2023-07-30T17:08:57 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/4-killed-in-2-separate-aircraft-crashes-near-wisconsin-air-show/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Have you ever found yourself at a crosswalk, waiting for the walk sign to appear as traffic buzzes by. And even though you press the crosswalk button – maybe multiple times – it seems to take forever for the light to change in your favor.
While some slow-changing stop lights just need you to tell them you’re there, some crosswalk signals don’t care how many times you press the crosswalk button – it’ll change when it’s ready.
Let’s explain.
It’s not exactly clear when and where the first walk/don’t walk signs were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Records show it likely occurred in the 1930s, and they were much like they are today.
“When it was on, all traffic approaching the intersection stopped so pedestrians could cross the streets in all directions, including diagonally,” the DOT writes. One early system gave pedestrians 20 seconds to cross the street every 100 seconds. Another gave pedestrians the walk signal while traffic moving in the same direction had a green light.
About three decades later, crosswalk buttons began appearing. They were intended to allow vehicle traffic to continue moving smoothly until a pedestrian came along rather than frequently stopping traffic for nobody.
Today, many of those buttons are useless.
In Austin, Texas, for example, most of the downtown intersections have walk indicators that are part of the normal traffic cycle, the city’s Transportation and Public Works Department told Nexstar. This means pedestrians don’t have to push a button at all (however, outside of downtown Austin, almost all signals do have buttons).
In San Francisco, there are 1,286 traffic signals operated by the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency, 610 of which have a version of a pedestrian push button, a spokesperson told Nexstar.
At just 264 of those, pedestrians need to press a button to get a ‘walk’ signal to cross some or all of the streets at the intersection. San Francisco has 490 signals with Accessible Pedestrian Signal buttons – which verbally tell pedestrians what streets they’re on and when to cross – at 143 intersections, those buttons are also used to activate a walk signal at some or all of the crosswalks, a spokesperson explains.
Few work in Boston as well, where city officials told the Boston Globe there is too much vehicular and foot traffic to let one person influence the whole traffic light setup. Only about 100 of the roughly 1,000 pedestrian buttons in New York City work, according to reports. High costs of removing some of the non-working buttons prompted city officials to leave them in place, The New York Times reported, prompting many to find themselves pushing a useless button.
In addition to the impacts the buttons can have on interrupting traffic, some cities have cited their required maintenance when opting to abandon them.
Crosswalk signals that are actuated, meaning they are triggered by a pedestrian hitting the button or loop detectors, generally require more upkeep, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Still, actuated signals could be beneficial “where vehicle and pedestrian volumes vary considerably throughout the day.”
While some cities may leave you confused about whether the crosswalk button actually works, San Francisco has placed signs at intersections that require you to hit the button.
Unless you’re instructed not to push the crosswalk button, it’s likely in your favor to press the button to get the ‘walk’ signal. If you find yourself waiting for an extended period of time, you can cross the street when safe to do so. You can also report a walk signal that should be functioning but isn’t to your city, sometimes by calling 311 if your community uses that number. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ | 2023-07-30T17:08:57 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Facebook users still have a few weeks to claim their piece of a $725 million settlement Meta agreed to pay to resolve a lawsuit. Ex-Facebook users can get in on the action too, as long as they meet a few criteria.
The main requirement is that you had a Facebook account for any time between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. You also need to have been a United States resident during that period of time.
Even people who deleted their Facebook account qualify – they’re just likely to see a smaller payout. How big your check ends up being depends in part on how long your account was active.
People have until Aug. 25, 2023 to file a claim, either online or by mail.
After the deadline passes, a judge will need to give the settlement final approval. That hearing is set for Sept. 7.
If the settlement gets the final OK, it’s not yet clear when the payments will be sent out – but you might not need to wait for a check in the mail. When submitting your claim, you can fill out your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or direct deposit info to get your payment sent straight to your account.
It’s also not clear how much each eligible recipient will get. Legal fees and administrative costs need to be deducted first. The remaining amount will be divvied up among eligible Facebook users, but we don’t know how many people have submitted a claim.
We asked Scott Dodson, a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco and the director of the Center for Litigation and Courts, to help us estimate a figure. He broke down all the factors that go into calculating the size of a class action lawsuit payment, and said that based on similar cases he estimated the higher end of payments might be in the “triple digits.” Many more people will likely receive less than $100, he estimated.
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to settle the lawsuit claiming Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ | 2023-07-30T17:09:16 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ |
(The Conversation) – Rivers have been the lifeblood of human civilization throughout history, and yet we know surprisingly little about what lives in many of them – including the giant creatures that prowl their depths.
While we know the biggest animal in the ocean is the blue whale and the largest marine fish is the whale shark, the identity of the world’s largest freshwater fish species long remained a mystery.
Until 2022, that is, when fishers in Cambodia caught a giant freshwater stingray in the remote reaches of the Mekong River.
Weighing an astounding 661 pounds, the stingray surpassed by 15 pounds a giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005 that had previously been considered the unofficial record holder.
The discovery marked a milestone in fish biologist Zeb Hogan’s more than two-decade quest to study and protect giant freshwater fish. As a group, these megafish are among the most endangered animals on the planet.The world’s largest freshwater fish confirmed so far is a stingray caught in the Mekong River.
Before releasing the female ray back into the river, Hogan’s research team put an acoustic tracker on her. She has been sending back clues about stingrays’ elusive behavior ever since.
Colossal catfish and gargantuan gars
In a new book, “Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish,” Hogan and I tell the troubling story of the 30 or so fish species that live exclusively in rivers and lakes and can grow to more than 200 pounds or at least 6 feet (1.8 meters) long.
Found on all continents except Antarctica, they are a wonderfully weird bunch of creatures, from colossal catfish and carp to gargantuan gars.
But freshwater vertebrate populations have declined over the past five decades at twice the rate experienced by species within terrestrial or marine ecosystems. Megafish numbers in particular fell by a shocking 94%, according to one study of more than 200 large freshwater species.
One of the largest species, the Chinese paddlefish, is believed to have gone extinct sometime in the 2000s. “This is a fish that had been on Earth for more than 100 million years before disappearing in a flash,” says Hogan, who used to host National Geographic’s “Monster Fish” television show and now leads a University of Nevada, Reno, research project I am involved with called Wonders of the Mekong, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The importance of very large fish to freshwater ecosystems has been woefully understudied. Many giant freshwater fish are apex predators that can have profound effects on the ecosystems in which they live by keeping their prey populations in check and maintaining biodiversity.
What’s killing off the megafish
The decline of giant freshwater fish is due to human impacts, such as overfishing, dam building and climate change.
Large fish are disproportionately targeted by fishing. Since many of these species are slow to mature, they may never reach the age to reproduce. Dam building is another major threat, because large fish often need to make long migrations to complete their life cycles, and a new dam can block their migration paths.
In the Mekong, where more giant fish species are found than in any other river, climate change is causing more severe droughts and disrupting the monsoon seasons that govern the river’s essential flood regime.
There are signs that interest in freshwater species is gaining momentum, including increasing calls to explicitly include freshwater ecosystems in the 30×30 initiative, a global effort to set aside 30% of land and sea area for conservation by 2030. So far, however, conservation efforts to protect endangered giant freshwater fish species are mostly regional.
Alligator gars and sturgeon make a comeback
Although the outlook for most giant fish remains grim, some species, like the air-breathing arapaima in South America, may be bucking the trend.
The arapaima, a torpedo-shaped giant that can grow to lengths of more than 12 feet, has long been overharvested by fishers in the Amazon, where it’s known as the Amazonian cod. But stricter fishing regulations introduced by Indigenous communities appear to have led to populations’ rebounding in many places.
In the United States, the alligator gar, another air-breathing megafish, was once largely considered a “trash fish” thought to devour game fish, so it was systematically exterminated from much of its southern range. But then scientists began to study the species and found it was an important contributor to ecosystem functions. Today, alligator gar populations have bounced back in rivers like the Trinity in Texas.
A similar case involves the lake sturgeon, one of the few true freshwater sturgeons, whose populations in Wisconsin have benefited from long-term conservation efforts and science-driven management that includes strictly regulated seasonal recreational fishing.
Protecting the giants of the Mekong
Back in Cambodia, our Wonders of the Mekong project is raising public awareness about the plight of the megafish, and we are working closely with local fishers to encourage them to protect threatened species.
In an example of those efforts’ paying off, fishers in early 2023 caught a Mekong giant catfish weighing more than 200 pounds. Instead of killing it and selling the meat for a sizable profit, the fishers decided to release the fish in an elaborate ceremony in which it was sprinkled with flowers before it was let go.
In recent months, our project has also reintroduced into the Mekong rare giant catfish that were captured as young fish and raised in Cambodia, and giant barb, another critically endangered megafish species that historically has grown to 600 pounds.
While giant freshwater stingray numbers have plummeted in other parts of its native Southeast Asian range, the population appears to be relatively robust in the upper stretches of the Mekong River in Cambodia where the record ray was discovered. Data collected from that female, and reported in a study I co-authored, shows it is staying in much the same location, leading researchers to believe the area could be an important refuge for the stingrays and possibly other megafish.
Long-standing plans by the Cambodian government to build two large dams on this section of the river appear to have been scrapped, at least for now. At the end of 2022, the government instead put forth a proposal to turn the biodiverse stretch of the river, which is also home to a critically endangered population of Irrawaddy river dolphins, into a UNESCO World Heritage site.
While the record stingray is big, it might not be the largest of this species of ray in the Mekong. Local fishers speak of rays growing up to 200 pounds heavier.
It’s also possible the giant stingray is not the largest freshwater fish species. Research on the arapaima, for example, suggests it could grow as big, or even bigger, in places like Guyana. But, as Hogan says, “It’s not about finding the biggest fish. It’s about learning more about these amazing creatures to figure out how to better protect them.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/in-search-of-the-wonderfully-weird-giants-lurking-in-earths-rivers/ | 2023-07-30T17:09:22 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/in-search-of-the-wonderfully-weird-giants-lurking-in-earths-rivers/ |
TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from the hospital Saturday evening.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
Earlier this season, Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner suffered a skull fracture and a concussion after being struck by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. The ball hit Feltner on the back right side of his head, and he fell to the ground. He lay on his stomach as two members of the Rockies athletic training staff aided him. He was able to get on his feet and walked off the field with the assistance of the two trainers.
While it isn’t clear if Feltner will return this season — he was placed on the 60-day injured list after the May incident — he told reporters he does not “want to rule it out.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ | 2023-07-30T17:09:28 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ |
(KTLA) – A security guard at a nightclub was killed after being brutally beaten by a large mob in Hollywood early Sunday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Officers responded to the Dragonfly Hollywood nightclub in the 6500 block of Santa Monica Boulevard near Wilcox Avenue around 2 a.m. on reports of a group of 10 people attacking one person, police said.
“The victim was working at this nightclub, and a large group – for unknown reasons – confronted that security guard, causing him to fall into the street,” said LAPD West Bureau Homicide Division Detective Samuel Marullo. “At which time the group advanced and kicked and stomped him to death.”
Police are still investigating whether the fight began inside the club and spilled onto the street or if it began outside entirely.
Video from the scene captured first responders attempting life-saving measures on the security guard, only identified as a male in his 30s, as he was lying in the street.
Dragonfly Hollywood was still open and full of patrons at the time of the security guard’s death. According to the club’s social media, it was hosting its weekly Signature Saturdays event, with Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley headlining the festivities.
The club also hosts an event on Sundays called Sunday Night Fever, but it is unclear whether that event will be postponed following the security guard’s death.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information regarding the attack is urged to contact the LAPD immediately. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ | 2023-07-30T17:09:35 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The U.S. Geological Survey has a morbid request: they want you to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers if you live in one of six states.
According to the USGS, the pilot program hopes to collect specimens that can help “identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.” said USGS.
“There are some questions that can’t effectively be answered without help from a lot of people. It’s what makes citizen science so special and valuable,” said Julie Dietze, USGS scientist-in-charge of the effort. “Collections like this one are important because they have the potential to provide scientists now, and 20 years from now, access to specimens.”
“Citizen scientists” have been submitting their butterflies, moths, and skippers since April, but based on how many specimens have been received, collections may continue through November 2024.
The USGS is hoping to collect these dead insects to establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection and all the specimens collected will be added to the USGS Research Scientific Collections database.
If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas, you can participate in the USGS’s pilot program. These states were selected because they’re relatively close the migration pathway of Monarch butterflies, their proximity to the Corn Belt, and the number of Confined Animal Feeding Operations.
Before you run out to catch butterflies for submission, USGS says it will only accept insects that are already dead that have not been collected alive. The insect must also be larger than two inches.
Additionally, species that are protected by the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act or by state law are not accepted. Within the six participating states, that includes only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, which is found in Alabama.
Once you’ve found your dead bug, the USGS recommends putting it in a resealable plastic bag. Insects that are damaged or not fully intact will be accepted, and bugs can be put into the same bags. If you aren’t able to ship your bugs within three days, you can freeze them.
Specimens should then be placed into a sealed envelope addressed to:
USGS LRC
1217 Biltmore Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
You do not need to include a return address.
Species that are mailed in will be evaluated for the occurrence of antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, and mycotoxins, according to USGS.
Officials say the ‘dead’-line is November 1, 2023. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ | 2023-07-30T17:09:41 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/scientists-want-your-dead-butterflies-moths-if-you-live-in-these-states/ |
(AP) – A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alix chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ | 2023-07-30T17:09:47 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ |
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign notched a major victory Saturday when members of the California Republican executive committee voted to parcel out convention delegates based on the statewide vote next year — doing away with the state’s longtime system of awarding them by congressional district, which had been perceived as a more level playing field for lower-tiered candidates.
The new rules give Trump a shot at clinching all of the state’s 169 delegates — more than any other state — while at the same time making it harder for a challenger like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to make it a two-person race.
The dramatic shift in the rules, which came during a closed-door meeting Saturday in Irvine, was denounced as an underhanded political maneuver by allies of DeSantis, Trump’s leading opponent for the nomination, who tried to prevent the change and are now reconsidering their investments in the state.
“Smoke-filled backrooms do not reflect the will of or benefit voters in any state. Yet across the country games are afoot to enhance the potential outcome of primary elections for one former president who half of the Republican electorate no longer wants as the party leader,” Ken Cuccinelli, founder of the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down, said in a statement. “Even with these asinine primary rules changes, we remain confident Governor DeSantis will become the Republican nominee and 47th president of the United States.”
Several other key states have been making revisions to their delegate selection rules that could benefit Trump, after top Trump advisers launched an early effort to court state officials who have significant autonomy in deciding how their states select delegates.
Louisiana Republicans have moved to strengthen the role of candidates in selecting delegates, a change that comes after Trump won the state primary in 2016 but was not able to secure a majority of the delegates. Nevada Republicans have said they will not recognize the statewide primary, which Democrats voted to set for Feb. 6, but will instead hold a smaller party-run caucus around the same time to pick delegates — a move that will narrow the number of voters who are decisive in that state. In Michigan, where Democrats are forcing a primary in February in violation of Republican rules, the state party has said it expects to award most of its delegates at party-run caucuses in early March.
In Idaho, a Trump-friendly state where lawmakers eliminated the March presidential primary as a cost-saving measure, the GOP is now planning to hold a caucus before Super Tuesday that would make it the fifth state on the primary calendar. Republicans in North Dakota, where Gov. Doug Burgum (R) has launched his own presidential campaign, have also left open the possibility of moving that state’s caucuses to the first days of March, before most states enter the process.
The Trump campaign immediately expressed support Saturday for the California rule change, highlighting language that will allow any candidate who gets more than 50 percent of the statewide vote on March 5 to claim all of the state’s 169 delegates. County election officials will start mailing ballots on Feb. 5, 2024, before the Nevada primary but after the expected dates of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
“We are pleased the California Republican Party readopted a winner-take-all provision, and we look forward to competing across California to win all of its delegates, just as President Trump did in 2016 and 2020. Always Back Down and Ron DeSantis suffered a humiliating defeat as they tried to manipulate the party rules,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, intentionally misnaming the DeSantis super PAC, said in a statement. “President Trump looks forward to working with the California Republican Party to Make America Great Again as he continues to dominate statewide polling by over 50%.”
The most recent RealClearPolitics average of state polls in California shows Trump with 49 percent of the vote, compared with 23 percent for DeSantis and 7 percent for former vice president Mike Pence. No other candidate is polling over 5 percent in the state.
Top GOP officials in California had argued that the rules change was necessary to align the state’s delegate selection process with Republican National Committee guidelines, which require states that fall early on the primary calendar to award some of their delegates proportionally. Under the California GOP’s new rules, any candidate who receives a majority of votes statewide — 50 percent plus 1 — will win all of the at-large and congressional district delegates, as well as the alternates.
If no candidate wins a majority in California, the delegates will be apportioned among all of the candidates in a way that reflects the statewide vote. Even if Trump does not clear the threshold that allows him to win all the state’s delegates, he could be helped by the fact that many of the lower-tier candidates will be able to pick up delegates across the state, which could prolong the primary and complicate the hopes of a top rival like DeSantis.
“If Trump is cruising into Super Tuesday — and sitting well in most states, including California, that take over 50 percent of the vote — then it’s great for him and it will end the nomination process,” said California Republican strategist Rob Stutzman, referring to a blizzard of primaries on March 5 that will include California. “However, if he doesn’t get 50 percent, it gives a substantial delegate haul to any number of candidates. Then it’s a scenario where the race could extend well beyond Super Tuesday … It seems a little risky. It’s aggressive for the Trump campaign to want this change.”
California — a state where it is exorbitantly expensive to advertise on television — has long awarded delegates with a winner-take-all system by congressional district, giving lower-tier and more moderate Republican candidates a chance to build out their field programs as they seek delegates in districts that are favorable to them. But the Golden State delegate tallies often haven’t mattered, because the state’s primary fell later on the presidential nominating calendar.
Under the old system of apportionment by congressional district, campaigns “would have been hyperfocusing and targeting certain congressional districts where you could do well as a candidate,” said Tim Lineberger, a California political consultant who worked for the Trump campaign in the 2016 cycle but is now unaligned with any campaign.
“You’ll probably see more TV versus ground campaigns” under the new rules, he said. “But California is notoriously expensive, so I think it’s going to be cost-prohibitive to some of the lower-polling candidates.”
California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson said in a statement after Saturday’s vote that the rules change means that “Republican presidential candidates will not only be encouraged to spend real time campaigning in our state and making their case to voters, but Republican voters will equally be encouraged to turn out to support their chosen candidate to help them win delegates.”
In Nevada, several Silver State political consultants said there are concerns that the lack of clarity around when that state will hold its caucus — as well as the potential voter confusion over the fact that there will be both a caucus and a primary — could diminish the state’s influence after years in which Nevada proudly touted its status as the “first in the West” state.
The state’s GOP chairman, Michael J. McDonald, has long had a close relationship with Trump, and the former president recently endorsed two people who won the county chairman jobs in the state’s two most populated counties, Washoe and Clark. McDonald did not return calls seeking clarity on Nevada’s process.
The state is considered the most Trump-friendly of the early primary contests, in part because of its lower share of college-educated and churchgoing voters. But Nevada is also notoriously difficult to poll because of the state’s transient population. Republican voters have been loyal to Trump, who lost the state to Biden by 33,596 votes in 2020, and he has maintained his strength in rural areas. But his style has alienated many moderate voters in the narrowly divided state, contributing to his loss in the 2020 presidential contest.
Sigal Chattah, a Republican committeewoman in Nevada who has not made an endorsement in the presidential primary, said the decision to shun the state primary was not made to favor any candidate or campaign.
Nevada Republicans objected to the Democrats’ move to force the state to hold a primary, which they do not want to participate in. Instead they are pursuing legal action to ensure they can hold a GOP caucus and award delegates through that process.
“Without a disclosure telling voters that participation in the [primary] is irrelevant for the nomination, that is the grossest exercise of voter suppression,” she said. “You are defrauding Nevada Republican voters.”
The leadership of the Idaho Republican Party, which is closely aligned with Trump, recently voted to choose its delegates through a caucus system — a move that could also benefit the former president. The Republican State Central Committee adopted a proposal at its June meeting to schedule the caucus so that Idaho Republicans would vote fifth among the early contests and before Super Tuesday, though no formal date has been set. That could give Trump, who won the state with nearly 64 percent of the vote in the 2020 presidential contest, another early win next year.
Some members of the central committee also want the state legislature to restore Idaho’s March presidential primary after it was eliminated by the legislature to save more than $2 million. The central committee passed a resolution asking lawmakers to restore the primary to March, but the governor would have to call a special session to make that possible. Idaho Republican Chairwoman Dorothy Moon, who did not respond to calls for comment, said in a statement after the June meeting that the caucus proposal adopted was a strike against the “wealthy and powerful” who “want to manipulate our electoral systems to rig outcomes that favor their interests.”
The three senior campaign advisers to Trump all have significant delegate-counting experience. In 2016, Susie Wiles served on the convention rules committee, Chris LaCivita helped run the delegate process for the Republican National Committee, and Brian Jack served as the Trump campaign’s delegate director.
Jack worked for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the most powerful Republican in California, during the 2022 midterm elections. They have encouraged Trump to build close relationships with state party chairs, whom the former president has been known to call regularly, invite to rallies and sometimes host at Mar-a-Lago.
“We’re putting an organization together that can win in any state, in any format, anytime, and anywhere,” DeSantis spokesman Andrew Romeo said in a statement. “Game on.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/30/trump-republican-delegates-primary/ | 2023-07-30T17:10:45 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/30/trump-republican-delegates-primary/ |
INDIANTOWN, Fla. — Families can take a sneak peek inside the new Indiantown High School on Sunday.
The Indiantown High School Open House Celebration & School Preview Party takes place from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 19000 SW Citrus Blvd. Attendees can get a first glimpse inside the school and a chance to meet faculty and staff. There will be food, music, games and inflatables.
Students interested in attending the school who are not yet enrolled can get assistance with the application.
SPECIAL COVERAGE: Education
The school officially opens its doors to ninth, 10th and 11th graders when the school term begins on Aug. 9. It will open with 75 students and ultimately have 400 students across all grade levels.
IHS is operated by Indian River State College in partnership with the Martin County School District.
The school integrates traditional high school curriculum with workforce and college courses, producing graduates that can directly pursue career opportunities or higher education upon graduation.
The school offers block-style schedules with counseling and tutoring periods.
To learn more about the school or to apply for admission for the school year, visit indiantownhs.irsc.edu, call 772-597-5130 or email dslicis@irsc.edu. | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-martin-county/indiantown/new-indiantown-high-school-open-house-is-sunday | 2023-07-30T17:10:48 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-martin-county/indiantown/new-indiantown-high-school-open-house-is-sunday |
MITCH MCCONNELL: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's office is trying to tamp down speculation that he might not fill out his term as leader because of his health. McConnell froze up midsentence during a press conference on Wednesday. Later, he said he was "fine." In a statement, his office said McConnell "plans to serve his full term in the job they overwhelmingly elected him to do."
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter Friday to Rep. James Comer, the Republican chair of the committee, demanding the release of a transcript from a new FBI witness that he says contradicts Republicans' claims in the expanding congressional inquiry into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
G20 MEETING: The final meeting of climate and environment ministers from the world's largest economies ended without an agreement or joint statement Friday in Chennai, India, despite pleas from leading figures for nations to show a united front on climate change.
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CAPITOL RIOT: Thomas Sibick of Buffalo, New York, who stole a badge and radio from Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison.
DONALD TRUMP: Donald Trump asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday to reverse a federal judge's decision to keep his hush-money criminal case in a New York state court that the former president claims is "very unfair" to him.
TAIWAN: The U.S. on Friday announced $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, in what is the Biden administration's first major package drawing on America's own stockpiles to help Taiwan counter China. The announcement said the package would include defense, education and training for the Taiwanese. | https://greensboro.com/briefly/article_9adb9687-f741-5dcc-bd1b-54a5d4ffd6d4.html | 2023-07-30T17:13:18 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/briefly/article_9adb9687-f741-5dcc-bd1b-54a5d4ffd6d4.html |
December 27, 1930 July 21, 2023
A memorial service for Mary Ann Hancock of Richmond Va. will be held Sunday July 30, 2023 at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church Richmond. She passed away peacefully Friday July 21, 2023.
A native of Raleigh, N.C., moved to Greensboro with her husband raising their family. She moved to Henrico County in June of 1972 with her family. She retired from the Lung Association of Virginia.
Surviving are her daughter Martha Smith; sons David Hancock of Albuquerque, N.M. and Donald Hancock of St. Thomas, VI; seven grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren.
Please join the family in celebrating her life at a reception following service.
For condolences, visit www.obituariesvirginacremate. | https://greensboro.com/hancock-mary-ann/article_a484dbc9-6e35-5584-bcc9-51455f4fc1aa.html | 2023-07-30T17:13:24 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/hancock-mary-ann/article_a484dbc9-6e35-5584-bcc9-51455f4fc1aa.html |
National Night Out is set for Aug. 1. Starting in April, neighborhood leaders and groups began registering event sites for their communities. Greensboro has approximately 125 sites where residents, public safety and elected officials will participate.
National Night Out is celebrated annually and nation-wide as an opportunity to enhance relationships between law enforcement and neighbors, promote safety and awareness and foster a greater sense of community. Sponsored by the Greensboro Police Department, NNO involves our local police officers, firefighters, and elected officials, all of whom are able to connect with residents at their various cookouts and block parties.
The Greensboro Police Department has received more than 20 national awards from the National Association of Town Watch based on community participation for NNO. This level of police-community engagement and partnership would not be possible without the support of the residents of Greensboro.
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Some of the Greensboro sites and times include:
- Vershire Ave Playground, 4002 Vershire Ave,. 6:30-8 p.m.
- McCulloch Street Park, 301 E. McCulloch St, 6 p.m.
- Benbow Park South Side Blvd., 6 p.m.
- Dorothy Brown Park, 701 Dorothy Brown St., 4-7 p.m.
- Barber Park Event Center, Barber Park Drive, 6-7:45 p.m.
- Sternberger Park, 715 Summit Ave. 6-8 p.m.
- Eastside Community Center, 429 Gillispie St., 6-8 p.m.
- Steelman Park, 925 Highland Ave., 5-8 p.m.
- Park at Yale Street, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
- Idlewood/Latham Park, 811 W. Wendover Ave., 6-8 p.m.
- Lindley Park Recreation Center Park Terrace, 6-7 p.m.
- Nealtown Park, 805 Nealtown Road, Greensboro, 4:30-6 p.m.
- Windsor Center, 1601 E. Gate City Blvd., Greensboro, 6-8:30 p.m.
- Park Area, 3600 block, Starmount Drive, 6-8 p.m.
- Peterson Avenue, 6-8 p.m.
- Daniel Park, 410 Mimosa Drive, 6:30-8 p.m.
- AT&T, 816 Friendly Center Road, noon-2 p.m.
- Guilford Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 5904 W. Market St., 6-7:30 p.m.
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 408 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, 5-8 p.m.
- Refuel Station, 2410 E. Market St., 6-8 p.m.
- Saint John United Methodist Church, 1304 Merrit Drive, 6:30-8 p.m.
For information, residents should contact their community resource officers, email communityengagement@greensboro-nc.gov or call 336-373-2636. | https://greensboro.com/life-entertainment/national-night-out-set-for-aug-1/article_077d1ec4-2e34-11ee-baca-d36badeeb2b3.html | 2023-07-30T17:13:30 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/life-entertainment/national-night-out-set-for-aug-1/article_077d1ec4-2e34-11ee-baca-d36badeeb2b3.html |
Pet Adoption Special: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, through Sept. 30, Burlington Animal Services, 221 Stone Quarry Road, Burlington. All dogs weighing more than 20 pounds and all cat adoptions are reduced to $20. Adoptions include spay or neuter and vaccinations. www.burlingtonnc.gov/pets. Fosters are needed as well, visit www.burlingtonnc.gov/foster.
Wellness Clinic: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. second Saturday, RCSPCA Building, 300 W. Bailey St., Asheboro. Wellness checkups, skin and ear checks, heartworm tests, pet weighing, microchips, vaccines, preventative medicine. 704-288-8620 or info@cvpet.com.
Megan Blake Dog Training Classes: 4:30 p.m. Sundays, April through November, LeBauer Park, 200 N. Davie St., Greensboro. Ask questions, learn new dog behaviors. Drop-ins welcome. www.greensborodowntownparks.org/post/group-dog-training.
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Volunteer Days: 10 a.m. Sundays, Carolina Veterinary Assistance and Adoption Group, 394 Cook Florist Road, Reidsville. Walk, brush, interact with pets, gardeners are welcome to help in the community garden. 336-394-4106 or www.cvaag.org.
Adoption Fair: noon-3 p.m. Saturdays, PetSmart, 2641 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro. With Triad Independent Cat Rescue. Visit www.triadcat.org or email meowmire.yahoo.com.
Low-cost Rabies Clinic: noon-2 p.m. third Saturday, SPCA of the Triad, 3163 Hines Chapel Road, Greensboro. www.triadspca.org.
Virtual Adoption Fair: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. third Saturday. With Tailless Cat Rescue, SPCA of the Triad, Helping Hands 4 Paws and other local cat adoption groups. Posts originate at www.facebook.com/richard.partridge.332, but are tagged so that they show up on the individual rescues’ page. www.facebook.com/pg/taillesscatrescue/community/.
Adoption Fair: noon-3 p.m. Saturdays, PetSmart, 1206 Bridford Parkway, Greensboro. With Juliet’s House Animal Rescue. julietshouse1@gmail.com.
Cat Adoptions: Sheets Pet Clinic, 809 Chimney Rock Court, Greensboro. $100 for one cat, 6 months or older; $150 for two adopted together to the same home, 6 months or older. $125 for each kitten, $200 for two kittens adopted at the same time. Fees includes spay/neuter, microchipping, testing for feline leukemia and/or feline immunodeficiency virus, current and age-appropriate vaccinations, FeLV vaccinations for kittens, flea treatment, and deworming. All adoptees receive an “exit exam” from a veterinarian before going home. Every cat or kitten adopted from Sheets Pet Clinic receives half-price vaccinations for the rest of its life, if brought in for yearly wellness exams. Every cat receives one-month free pet insurance. Also, adoption fairs, 1-3 p.m. on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. petadoptions@sheetspetclinic.com or www.sheetspetclinic.com.
SPCA of the Triad: Open for adoptions from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays, 3163 Hines Chapel Road, Greensboro. Submit an adoption application and wait for approval email. www.triadspca.org, www.facebook.com/TriadSPCA, www.instagram.com/spca_of_the_triad/. Funds are needed for SPCA’s new 9,000 square foot, $3 million facility which will hold more than twice as many homeless pets than the current shelter. | https://greensboro.com/life-entertainment/the-pet-shop-calendar-of-events/article_6b1fb174-2652-11ee-9c31-172a234a0509.html | 2023-07-30T17:13:36 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/life-entertainment/the-pet-shop-calendar-of-events/article_6b1fb174-2652-11ee-9c31-172a234a0509.html |
The ‘Barbie’ bonanza continues at the box office, ‘Oppenheimer’ holds the No. 2 spot
NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Barbie,” the pink-infused pop sensation, has seen remarkably sustained business following its year-best $162 million opening. Its ticket sales dipped only 43%.
“Barbie” has also outpaced Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” to notch the best first two weeks in theaters of any Warner Bros. release. It’s rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie” has made at least $20 million.
“Oppenheimer,” from Universal Pictures, again landed in second place with an estimated $46.2 million. It, too, held especially strong in its second weekend, with sales decreasing just 44%. Nolan’s three-hour drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million thus far.
With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to a film industry still recovering ground it lost during the pandemic, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. Its domestic total stands at $139.2 million.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
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Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
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Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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SPORTSM-O-T Little Leaguers are Bristol-bound after thundering past Naamans for Delaware title William BretzgerDelaware News JournalCoaches, workers and volunteers whip the field into shape after a heavy thunderstorm moved through the area before M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut. The game was delayed about one hour and 45 minutes by the weather.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalThe home plate area is worked into playable shape following a storm just before the scheduled start of M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 8 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalA rainbow appears before M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' third baseman Nick Rubino stands under a dazzling sky in pregame drills before M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T's Nate Collins throws in his start in M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut. Collins didn't allow a hit until the fourth inning and pitched to all but the final Naamans batter, striking out 9.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T's Kevin Koerner tries for an out on a first-inning grounder in M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T infielders, including Cole Clark (left) and Kevin Koerner (right) gather with starter Nate Collins (center) in the first inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Isaac Aulick delivers a pitch in the first inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T players gather at home to celebrate a two-run homer by Nate Collins to open the scoring in the first inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T players converge on Nate Collins (9) at the plate after he homered to give M-O-T a 2-0 lead in the first inning of their 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Abram Judy throws in reilef in M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 8 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Josh Stiebel (left) and Matt Robinette combine for an out in the first inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans centerfielder Max Fox collects a M-O-T single in the second inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Joe Ricciardi makes a running catch in the third inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalA ground ball single gets through both Naamans' Josh Stiebel (left) and Matt Robinette in the third inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T gets set to play defense in the fourth inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T's Charlie Koch (left) and Jordyn Brown react after Brown's running catch in the outfield in M-O-T's 10-2 win against Naamans in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Nick Rubino (left) dives to try to catch M-O-T's Cole Clark off third base on a line drive in M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, ConnectWilliam Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Mason McAllister gets out of a base-loaded, one out threat in the fourth inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Max Fox reaches first base in front of M-O-T's Colton Murray with a single in the fifth inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Josh Stiebel celebrates his two-rbi double that got Naamans on the board as Paul Doherty reaches for a tag attempt in the fifth inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans' Max Fox (left) and Joe Ricciardi score to cut the M-O-T lead to 6-2 in the fifth inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalNaamans outfielders Max Fox (let) and Abram Judy are left on the wrong side of the fence as Jordyn Brown homers in the fifth inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T's Jordyn Brown (left) heads for home and his waiting teammates after hitting a solo home run in the fifth inning of M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T's Jordyn Brown comes in to record the final out in M-O-T's 10-2 win in the state Little League majors division championship at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T celebrates after the final out after winning the state Little League majors division title 10-2 against Naamans at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T celebrates after the final out after winning the state Little League majors division title 10-2 against Naamans at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News JournalM-O-T poses with the championship banner after winning the state Little League majors division title 10-2 against Naamans at Nanticoke Little League in Seaford, Delaware, Saturday, July 29, 2023. M-O-T will represent Delaware in regional play beginning August 6 in Bristol, Connecticut.William Bretzger/Delaware News Journal | https://www.delawareonline.com/picture-gallery/sports/2023/07/30/mot-little-league-wins-delaware-state-tournament-2023-championship-title-opponent-naamans/12301591002/ | 2023-07-30T17:14:58 | 0 | https://www.delawareonline.com/picture-gallery/sports/2023/07/30/mot-little-league-wins-delaware-state-tournament-2023-championship-title-opponent-naamans/12301591002/ |
NEWSClosing days of the Delaware State Fair 2023 in Harrington in photos Benjamin ChambersVisitors wait in line to ride the Giant Wheel on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalCrystal Coronas performs her hula hoops act during the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalFrom left, the Brockson's, Bentley, 3, Bennett, 6, and dad Paul, 30, from Ocean View, take a break on Chambers Road on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors go down the Dragstrip Mega Slide on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalA young visitor sprints to the top of the Dragstrip Mega Slide on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalThe Coronas Sisters perform during the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalAudience members await the start of the Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalThe Coronas Sisters perform during the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalKaylee Cale, 10, from Milford, enjoys the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalThe Coronas Sisters perform during the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalAn audience member watches the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors ride the Wave Swinger on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalA reflection of the Giant Wheel remained after a tornado briefly interrupted the rides on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalAn audience member enjoys a treat and a show during the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalPerformers perform a corde lisse act during the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors exit the Orbiter on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors watch the Demolition Derby presented by Taylor & Messick at the Grandstand on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors ride the Wave Swinger under an orange sky after a tornado briefly interrupted the rides on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalA family waits in line to buy ride and game tickets on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors ride the Wave Swinger on closing night of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalHigh-flying act Due Devotion performs a high wire stunt on a motorcycle during the Rockstars-themed Circus Hollywood show on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalA young visitors waits in line with her family to buy ride and game tickets on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalA family waits in line to buy ride and game tickets on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors wait in line to ride the Orbiter on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors enjoy the thrill of going down the Dragstrip Mega Slide on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors ride the Wave Swinger on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalExcited visitors exit the Orbiter on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors enjoy the Carousel ride on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors exit the Wave Swinger ride on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalA mother plays with her child on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors pack the stands for the Demolition Derby presented by Taylor & Messick at the Grandstand on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalClosing night fireworks light up the sky on day 10 of the Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalVisitors form a line to ride the Wave Swinger on day 9 of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Friday, July 28, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News JournalThe Wave Swinger, at left, and the Giant Wheel light up the sky on closing day of the 10-day Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Saturday, July 29, 2023.Benjamin Chambers/Delaware News Journal | https://www.delawareonline.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/07/30/closing-days-2023-delaware-state-fair-harrington/12301724002/ | 2023-07-30T17:15:04 | 1 | https://www.delawareonline.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/07/30/closing-days-2023-delaware-state-fair-harrington/12301724002/ |
(Green Car Reports) — GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt EV this week—as a future affordable EV product peg for the company’s product plan.
While the timeline is yet to be disclosed for the revamped Bolt EV, the timeline for the current Bolt EV disappearing from dealerships remains confirmed.
In April, GM disclosed that it would discontinue the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV at the end of 2023, as production winds down at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. GM had already committed that plant to produce the Chevrolet Silverado EV and other large electric trucks on its Ultium platform.
“Drawing on various Ultium and Ultifi technological advancements will help GM bring this popular model back to market on an accelerated timeline,” GM said Tuesday, confirming that the future Bolt EV won’t carry over its existing propulsion tech.
Future Bolt EV won’t be all-new
The automaker also suggested that not everything on the Bolt EV will be new. GM noted that it “will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
Ultium is the broad trade term applying to GM battery and electric propulsion families, and Ultifi is the term applying to its EV software, so this simply means that the future Bolt EV won’t carry forward with its present-generation LG Chem cells. Those cells had been the focus of a very costly, large-scale recall that appears to have been worth the effort, leaving customers satisfied and loyal to the brand and nameplate.
GM had no incentive to carry the current Bolt EV’s battery tech forward anyhow.
“We’re already on the road to delivering a 60% cost reduction compared to the Bolt EV with the next generation of Ultium,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021, of tech set to arrive mid-decade, as part of a statement touting the automaker as one of the few to have an EV that’s as affordable as the Bolt family.
Did GM ever actually kill the Chevy Bolt EV?
GM executives had already hinted to Green Car Reports and other outlets that while future electric small cars might be in the works, those vehicles wouldn’t use the same large-format Ultium pouch cells that GM planned to deploy on everything from the Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV on up to big trucks such as the GMC Hummer EV and Chevy Silverado EV.
Likewise, GM and Honda announced in April 2022 that they were working together on a joint architecture for affordable EVs—one that would use “next-generation Ultium battery technology,” according to GM.
At that time, those compact EVs were set to arrive for 2026. It’s hard to imagine GM working on multiple compact EV platforms outside China, so this week’s announcement likely signals that the project has been pulled ahead—perhaps like how the automaker managed to accelerate development of the Cadillac Lyriq.
GM may have provided some of the answer to what comes next. Earlier this year the company clarified that it might include the flexibility of cylindrical cells in future EVs, as part of its Ultium tech but not as part of the Ultium Cells LLC joint venture. That was made clearer this April with the announcement of a joint venture between GM and Samsung SDI that will mass-produce cylindrical cells for GM products starting in 2026.
The lower-profile cells would help answer the dimensional challenges that make those large-format cells harder to package within a small car or beneath the floor of a low-profile vehicle.
Bolt EV’s manufacturing dilemma
While the Bolt EV’s Michigan plant shifts to electric truck production later in the year, the automaker doesn’t have other immediate options for U.S. manufacturing. GM vacated its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that used to assemble compact cars and is located near the Ultium LLC cells facility. It’s now under the ownership of Foxconn, which will likely assemble the $29,900 Fisker Pear urban EV there.
Meanwhile, demand for the Bolt EV surges, and GM will face a gap in its lineup after the end of the year. Of the 36,024 EVs GM delivered in the first half of 2023, just 2,365 were of its new-generation Ultium EVs. The remaining 33,659 were Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
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In its update for investors earlier this week, CEO Barra pointed to the Bolt as one of its most in-demand vehicles, at or under a 10-day supply in dealer inventory.
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The ‘Barbie’ bonanza continues at the box office, ‘Oppenheimer’ holds the No. 2 spot
NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Barbie,” the pink-infused pop sensation, has seen remarkably sustained business following its year-best $162 million opening. Its ticket sales dipped only 43%.
“Barbie” has also outpaced Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” to notch the best first two weeks in theaters of any Warner Bros. release. It’s rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie” has made at least $20 million.
“Oppenheimer,” from Universal Pictures, again landed in second place with an estimated $46.2 million. It, too, held especially strong in its second weekend, with sales decreasing just 44%. Nolan’s three-hour drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million thus far.
With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to a film industry still recovering ground it lost during the pandemic, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. Its domestic total stands at $139.2 million.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
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The ‘Barbie’ bonanza continues at the box office, ‘Oppenheimer’ holds the No. 2 spot
NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Barbie,” the pink-infused pop sensation, has seen remarkably sustained business following its year-best $162 million opening. Its ticket sales dipped only 43%.
“Barbie” has also outpaced Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” to notch the best first two weeks in theaters of any Warner Bros. release. It’s rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie” has made at least $20 million.
“Oppenheimer,” from Universal Pictures, again landed in second place with an estimated $46.2 million. It, too, held especially strong in its second weekend, with sales decreasing just 44%. Nolan’s three-hour drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million thus far.
With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to a film industry still recovering ground it lost during the pandemic, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. Its domestic total stands at $139.2 million.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
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Dirt biker killed Saturday night after losing control, striking tree near Newark
A 26-year-old man was killed near Newark Saturday night after striking a tree while riding a dirt bike, New Castle County Police said.
Officers were notified of the incident at 8:39 p.m., just minutes after it had occurred. They arrived to the crash scene at the 800 block of Sheldon Drive, just west of Pike Creek.
Police say the biker lost control while navigating a turn, which led him to hit a tree. He was found by police underneath the dirt bike when officers arrived, they said.
First responders attempted to aid the victim, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The man's name has not been released as of Sunday morning.
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No other injuries were reported.
Police say the investigation into the crash is ongoing. They ask anyone with information about the incident contact New Castle County's Detective Belk at (302) 395-8052 or corey.belk@newcastlede.gov. Information can also be provided to (302) 573-2800, the county's non-emergency number for police.
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vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
Note: Please be aware that some of the features and technologies mentioned in this press release may currently only be available in the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of certain capabilities and functions may vary depending on your location.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
Stay informed of latest vivo news at https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Four people are dead and two are hospitalized after two separate crashes on Saturday. Both incidents are connected to an annual air show in Wisconsin, according to officials.
The first crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. A T-6 Texan aircraft crashed into Lake Winnebago near Oshkosh, where the Experimental Aircraft Association is holding its annual fly-in convention, EAA AirVenture.
Both people aboard the aircraft died, according to EAA officials.
A few hours later, a Rotorway 162F helicopter and ELA 10 Eclipse gyrocopter collided in mid-air at the south end of the EAA AirVenture flight line at Wittman Regional Airport, killing two and injuring two others. Both of the injured are in stable condition, according to EAA.
The Oshkosh Fire Department said one of the aircraft landed on top of a parked plane, but did not clarify which.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating both accidents and has not provided a cause for either.
“Naturally, with the mid-air collision, somebody was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” EAA director of communications Dick Knapinski said. “How that occurred and why that occurred is what the NTSB will investigate and, from then, lessons will be learned as to what aviators can do to keep themselves safer.”
The investigation will likely take months to reach its conclusion.
“NTSB investigations typically take between a full year to 18 months to complete,” Knapinski explained. “They will have a preliminary investigation within the next week or so and then put out those findings. But the probable cause will probably take a year or more to determine by the board.”
The factors the NTSB will examine in its investigations include weather conditions, pilot experience, aircraft condition, flight pattern, and communication between ground and flight operations to determine the cause, which could be pilot error, a mechanical issue, or another reason, according to Knapinski. He described the weather as “mild” and likely not a contributing factor.
“Having accidents like this in the singular is very rare,” he said. “Having two fatal accidents take place on the same day is exceedingly rare.”
These are not the first incidents regarding aircraft at or en route to EAA this week. On Thursday, a single-engine plane bound for EAA AirVenture crash-landed in a cornfield in Green Lake County, hospitalizing two people.
On Tuesday, Knapinski said there was a “forced landing” east of the north/south runway at EAA AirVenture. The pilot was the only person onboard and was not injured.
Last Saturday, a single-engine ERCO Ercoupe headed to EAA AirVenture crashed in Fond du Lac County, injuring the pilot.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Dean Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- He has started 21 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in 10 of them.
- Kremer has started 21 games this season, and he's lasted five or more innings 17 times. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has two appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 21 chances this season.
- The 27-year-old's 4.59 ERA ranks 54th, 1.305 WHIP ranks 48th, and 8.1 K/9 ranks 43rd among qualified pitchers in the majors this year.
Kremer Recent Games
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He's slashing .267/.369/.424 so far this season.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs, 38 walks and 57 RBI. He's also stolen three bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this year.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has collected 100 hits with 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs and 39 walks. He has driven in 44 runs with eight stolen bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line so far this season.
Torres Recent Games
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound for his 22nd start this season.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- Kremer has 17 starts of five or more innings this season in 21 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
- He has made 21 appearances and finished two of them without allowing an earned run.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this campaign, the 27-year-old ranks 54th in ERA (4.59), 48th in WHIP (1.305), and 43rd in K/9 (8.1).
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He has a .267/.369/.424 slash line on the year.
Rutschman Recent Games
Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 38 walks. He has driven in 57 runs with three stolen bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this season.
Santander Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 39 walks and 44 RBI (100 total hits). He has swiped eight bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line on the season.
Torres Recent Games
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(NEXSTAR) – Have you ever found yourself at a crosswalk, waiting for the walk sign to appear as traffic buzzes by. And even though you press the crosswalk button – maybe multiple times – it seems to take forever for the light to change in your favor.
While some slow-changing stop lights just need you to tell them you’re there, some crosswalk signals don’t care how many times you press the crosswalk button – it’ll change when it’s ready.
Let’s explain.
It’s not exactly clear when and where the first walk/don’t walk signs were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Records show it likely occurred in the 1930s, and they were much like they are today.
“When it was on, all traffic approaching the intersection stopped so pedestrians could cross the streets in all directions, including diagonally,” the DOT writes. One early system gave pedestrians 20 seconds to cross the street every 100 seconds. Another gave pedestrians the walk signal while traffic moving in the same direction had a green light.
About three decades later, crosswalk buttons began appearing. They were intended to allow vehicle traffic to continue moving smoothly until a pedestrian came along rather than frequently stopping traffic for nobody.
Today, many of those buttons are useless.
In Austin, Texas, for example, most of the downtown intersections have walk indicators that are part of the normal traffic cycle, the city’s Transportation and Public Works Department told Nexstar. This means pedestrians don’t have to push a button at all (however, outside of downtown Austin, almost all signals do have buttons).
In San Francisco, there are 1,286 traffic signals operated by the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency, 610 of which have a version of a pedestrian push button, a spokesperson told Nexstar.
At just 264 of those, pedestrians need to press a button to get a ‘walk’ signal to cross some or all of the streets at the intersection. San Francisco has 490 signals with Accessible Pedestrian Signal buttons – which verbally tell pedestrians what streets they’re on and when to cross – at 143 intersections, those buttons are also used to activate a walk signal at some or all of the crosswalks, a spokesperson explains.
Few work in Boston as well, where city officials told the Boston Globe there is too much vehicular and foot traffic to let one person influence the whole traffic light setup. Only about 100 of the roughly 1,000 pedestrian buttons in New York City work, according to reports. High costs of removing some of the non-working buttons prompted city officials to leave them in place, The New York Times reported, prompting many to find themselves pushing a useless button.
In addition to the impacts the buttons can have on interrupting traffic, some cities have cited their required maintenance when opting to abandon them.
Crosswalk signals that are actuated, meaning they are triggered by a pedestrian hitting the button or loop detectors, generally require more upkeep, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Still, actuated signals could be beneficial “where vehicle and pedestrian volumes vary considerably throughout the day.”
While some cities may leave you confused about whether the crosswalk button actually works, San Francisco has placed signs at intersections that require you to hit the button.
Unless you’re instructed not to push the crosswalk button, it’s likely in your favor to press the button to get the ‘walk’ signal. If you find yourself waiting for an extended period of time, you can cross the street when safe to do so. You can also report a walk signal that should be functioning but isn’t to your city, sometimes by calling 311 if your community uses that number. | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ | 2023-07-30T17:15:19 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Facebook users still have a few weeks to claim their piece of a $725 million settlement Meta agreed to pay to resolve a lawsuit. Ex-Facebook users can get in on the action too, as long as they meet a few criteria.
The main requirement is that you had a Facebook account for any time between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. You also need to have been a United States resident during that period of time.
Even people who deleted their Facebook account qualify – they’re just likely to see a smaller payout. How big your check ends up being depends in part on how long your account was active.
People have until Aug. 25, 2023 to file a claim, either online or by mail.
After the deadline passes, a judge will need to give the settlement final approval. That hearing is set for Sept. 7.
If the settlement gets the final OK, it’s not yet clear when the payments will be sent out – but you might not need to wait for a check in the mail. When submitting your claim, you can fill out your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or direct deposit info to get your payment sent straight to your account.
It’s also not clear how much each eligible recipient will get. Legal fees and administrative costs need to be deducted first. The remaining amount will be divvied up among eligible Facebook users, but we don’t know how many people have submitted a claim.
We asked Scott Dodson, a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco and the director of the Center for Litigation and Courts, to help us estimate a figure. He broke down all the factors that go into calculating the size of a class action lawsuit payment, and said that based on similar cases he estimated the higher end of payments might be in the “triple digits.” Many more people will likely receive less than $100, he estimated.
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to settle the lawsuit claiming Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ | 2023-07-30T17:15:25 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ |
Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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Ricky Burgess, (foreground, green shirt) piping superintendent with Superior Mechanical Inc., and others watch as a load of spirals is hoisted into the air by a crane at First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro on Monday, July 29, 2013. Church members set up lawn chairs and ate lunch while watching the crew haul away parts of the church's HVAC system affectionately named "Big John."
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Neither the Middle College at Bennett, nor Peeler Elementary had any remaining students.
The robbers did not take any jewelry and no one was injured.
Police are investigating the death as a homicide.
Situation is actually keeping some good teachers from continuing in the profession, and harming the state's teacher pipeline, official at the … | https://greensboro.com/on-greensboro-com/article_cfbf9348-bda3-5b3b-93fd-e82351fe53bb.html | 2023-07-30T17:15:25 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/on-greensboro-com/article_cfbf9348-bda3-5b3b-93fd-e82351fe53bb.html |
Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from the hospital Saturday evening.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
Earlier this season, Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner suffered a skull fracture and a concussion after being struck by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. The ball hit Feltner on the back right side of his head, and he fell to the ground. He lay on his stomach as two members of the Rockies athletic training staff aided him. He was able to get on his feet and walked off the field with the assistance of the two trainers.
While it isn’t clear if Feltner will return this season — he was placed on the 60-day injured list after the May incident — he told reporters he does not “want to rule it out.” | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ | 2023-07-30T17:15:31 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ |
‘Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, N.M., who built the world’s first atomic bomb. It’s not a documentary, but it gets the big historical moments and subjects right.
The issues that Nolan depicts are not relics of a distant past. The new world that Oppenheimer helped to create, and the nuclear nightmare he feared, still exists today.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons in his war in Ukraine. Iran is doing everything it can to develop nuclear weapons. China is expanding its nuclear arsenal. Hostile governments like China are stealing U.S. defense technologies, including from Los Alamos.
Charges that Oppenheimer was a Soviet spy and a security risk — a major focus of the movie — have been disproved. In December 2022, the Biden administration posthumously voided the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s 1954 decision to revoke Oppenheimer’s security clearance, calling that process biased and unfair. Declassified records reveal that Soviet spying on the U.S. atomic bomb effort advanced Moscow’s bomb program, but Oppenheimer was no spy.
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Oppenheimer’s perspective
Oppenheimer joined the Manhattan Project, a nationwide effort to build an atomic bomb before the Nazis developed one, in 1942. The scientists he led at the Los Alamos site were probably the most talented group of minds ever assembled in a single laboratory, including 12 eventual Nobel laureates.
In 1954, at the height of the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer was accused of being a communist and even a Soviet spy. What’s the truth?
We know that in the 1930s, and until 1943, Oppenheimer was a Communist sympathizer. His brother, Frank, and his girlfriend, Jean Tatlock, belonged to the Communist Party of the United States, and Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine, was a former member.
For “Oppy,” as his students called him, Marxism was intellectually interesting, but it was also practical. Oppenheimer saw communism as the best defense against the rise of fascism in Europe, which, being of Jewish heritage, was personal for him.
By 1943, however, Oppenheimer’s support for Communist Party causes shifted — evidently, as he realized the enormity of his mission to produce an atomic bomb. That year, Oppenheimer helped U.S. Army security officers identify scientists he believed were communists.
Russian overtures
Oppenehimer was a top target for Soviet intelligence, which assigned him the code names “CHESTER” and “CHEMIST.” He was also being cultivated by Soviet intelligence officers. But being targeted and cultivated for recruitment is not the same as being a recruited spy.
As the movie shows, in 1943, Oppenheimer’s academic colleague at the University of California, Berkeley, Haakon Chevalier, told Oppenheimer that a British scientist working in San Francisco could relay information to the Soviets. Oppenheimer rejected the approach, but for reasons that remain unclear, he did not inform authorities for several months.
Over the ensuing years, Oppenheimer provided at least three versions of the story, sometimes involving his brother, Frank. It seems likely that Robert was trying to protect his brother from Army security.
Archives made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse now establish beyond doubt that Oppenheimer was not a Soviet agent. In fact, Soviet intelligence reports about the Manhattan Project reveal that at key points, Stalin’s spy chiefs were frustrated that their operatives had not recruited Oppenheimer. But the Russians did penetrate the Manhattan Project — the greatest security breach in U.S. history.
An excerpt from British security agency MI5’s dossier on J. Robert Oppenheimer describes efforts to persuade Oppenheimer and other scientists to share information about their atomic bomb research with the Soviet Union.
Spies all over
Multiple scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project provided critical information about U.S. atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union.
“Oppenheimer” focuses on Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant theoretical physicist who fled from Nazi Germany to Britain and became a British naturalized subject. From the time he started to work on Britain’s wartime atom bomb project, Fuchs was in what he later described as “continuous contact” with Soviet intelligence, providing theoretical calculations that were necessary to build the atom bomb.
Gen. Leslie Groves, the military commander of the Manhattan Project, later blamed the British for failing to identify Fuchs as a Soviet spy. That’s correct. But the declassified dossier on Fuchs from Britain’s security service, MI5, shows that, at the time, the agency did not have any positive, reliable evidence of Fuchs’s communism. MI5 knew that Fuchs was anti-Nazi, but not that he was pro-Soviet.
As I discuss in my new book, “Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West,” other spies at Los Alamos included a prodigious scientist, Theodore “Ted” Hall (code name “MLAD,” or “Young”); Julius Rosenberg (code name “ANTENNA,” later “LIBERAL”); and David Greenglass (“BUMBLEBEE,” “CALIBER”). Other Soviet spies, like the British scientist Alan Nunn May, worked in other parts of the Manhattan Project.
These men had multiple motives for betraying U.S. atomic secrets. They were communist true believers and thought atomic weapons were too powerful to be held by one country alone. Moreover, they had a (misguided) defense — that the Soviet Union was America’s wartime ally, so they were “only” delivering secrets to an allied government. But as Nolan correctly shows in the movie, when Chevalier approached Oppenheimer with the same argument, Oppenheimer retorted that it was still treason.
Soviet espionage inside the Manhattan Project would change history. By the end of World War II, Stalin’s spies had delivered the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Kremlin. This accelerated Moscow’s bomb project. When the Soviets detonated their first atomic weapon in August 1949, it was a replica of the weapon built at Los Alamos and dropped by the Americans on Nagasaki.
Even now, nearly 80 years later, secrets about Soviet nuclear espionage are still emerging. One Soviet agent whose espionage has only recently been revealed is George Koval (code name “DEVAL”), an American engineer who was drafted into the Manhattan Project, where he worked on polonium bomb “initiators” at a facility in Dayton, Ohio.
After Koval died in 2006, at the age of 93, Russia’s ministry of defense disclosed that the initiator for the first Soviet atomic bomb was prepared to specifications provided by Koval. Putin posthumously honored Koval as a “Hero of Russia,” offering a champagne toast in his honor.
New targets
If Nolan’s film inspires audiences to read the deeply researched biography of Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, which inspired Nolan to make this movie, or other accounts of the Manhattan Project or the Cold War, they will find that the underlying tissues of science and espionage remain alive.
Today, the world stands at the edge of technological revolutions that will transform societies in the 21st century, much as nuclear weapons did in the 20th century: artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biological engineering. Watching “Oppenheimer” makes me wonder whether hostile foreign governments may already have stolen keys to unlocking these new technologies, in the same way the Soviets did with the atom bomb. | https://greensboro.com/opinion/calder-walton-how-the-soviets-stole-nuclear-secrets-and-targeted-oppenheimer-the-father-of-the/article_3632e46e-2a66-11ee-94db-f7de17799598.html | 2023-07-30T17:15:31 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/opinion/calder-walton-how-the-soviets-stole-nuclear-secrets-and-targeted-oppenheimer-the-father-of-the/article_3632e46e-2a66-11ee-94db-f7de17799598.html |
The Spruce Creek Watershed in Kittery has unhealthy bacteria levels, and a new grass roots effort in the community aims to change that.
Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper Melissa Paly has been studying the problem for years and says development is to blame.
"It really comes down to a lot of development we've seen, a lot of homes - many of them on septic systems - and continued growth along Route One corridor without adequate stormwater management. So we're going to need to lean into stormwater management and septic systems changes," Paly said.
In the midst of Paly's investigation she noticed algae blooms in the creek and now believes nitrogen is getting into the water through stormwater runoff and leaking septic systems.
Grass Roots Group Save Kittery Waters is now launching a CreekSmart Campaign to study nitrogen in the Spruce Creek water column.
"So we kind of have to start all over again and find the sources of nitrogen that are triggering these algae blooms and that's what this group, Save Kittery Waters, is really trying to tackle," Paly said.
Paly, Kittery's town council and other advocates are launching the CreekSmart Campaign on Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Kittery Community Center Star Theatre. | https://www.mainepublic.org/news/2023-07-30/spruce-creek-watershed-in-kittery-on-threatened-streams-and-marine-watersheds-priority-list-due-to-unhealthy-bacteria-levels | 2023-07-30T17:15:31 | 1 | https://www.mainepublic.org/news/2023-07-30/spruce-creek-watershed-in-kittery-on-threatened-streams-and-marine-watersheds-priority-list-due-to-unhealthy-bacteria-levels |
(KTLA) – A security guard at a nightclub was killed after being brutally beaten by a large mob in Hollywood early Sunday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Officers responded to the Dragonfly Hollywood nightclub in the 6500 block of Santa Monica Boulevard near Wilcox Avenue around 2 a.m. on reports of a group of 10 people attacking one person, police said.
“The victim was working at this nightclub, and a large group – for unknown reasons – confronted that security guard, causing him to fall into the street,” said LAPD West Bureau Homicide Division Detective Samuel Marullo. “At which time the group advanced and kicked and stomped him to death.”
Police are still investigating whether the fight began inside the club and spilled onto the street or if it began outside entirely.
Video from the scene captured first responders attempting life-saving measures on the security guard, only identified as a male in his 30s, as he was lying in the street.
Dragonfly Hollywood was still open and full of patrons at the time of the security guard’s death. According to the club’s social media, it was hosting its weekly Signature Saturdays event, with Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley headlining the festivities.
The club also hosts an event on Sundays called Sunday Night Fever, but it is unclear whether that event will be postponed following the security guard’s death.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information regarding the attack is urged to contact the LAPD immediately. | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ | 2023-07-30T17:15:37 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/nightclub-security-guard-allegedly-beaten-to-death-in-hollywood-police/ |
As two of the longest serving election officials in North Carolina, we write from Hickory with an important invitation for voters across the state — and an urgent warning.
We are Republican and Democratic officers of the Catawba County Board of Elections, with 39 years of combined service! We disagree on many topics, but we are united in making the voting process work fairly and securely for our county’s citizens. In fact, having board members from opposing parties, plus partisan diversity among poll workers, provides an added dimension of security because our presence alongside each other strengthens our oaths to follow election law as it is, not as our parties wish it might be.
Here’s our invitation: Come join us! Whether you think elections are full of fraud or just wonder how ballots are counted, we invite you to get deep inside the system by working as an elections official in your community.
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In mid-August, county boards of elections across North Carolina will be appointing poll workers — we call them judges — who will be trained, paid and assigned to a polling place to help administer the 2023 and 2024 elections. You can use the State Board of Elections’ website to sign up to serve or contact your county political party or your county elections board.
By becoming poll workers, many skeptics have learned that we have a remarkable system in North Carolina — the best in the nation! — because it involves citizens from different parties working side by side with a professional staff at each stage of the process. No system run by humans is perfect; certainly mistakes can happen, but we suspect you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see how many procedures are in place to safeguard a citizen’s right to vote, as well as the election’s overall accuracy.
Sadly, an epidemic of misinformation is taking a toll on people’s confidence in election security and accuracy. People hear something strange about a voting machine in Wisconsin or Arizona, true or false, and then attack our procedures and officials. Now, some legislators in Raleigh are promoting a host of election changes in the name of improving voter confidence.
Some changes would have a profound impact on your voting experience.
In a recent letter, we joined other long-serving county board members to urge legislators to talk with local elections officials about the possible unintended consequences of these proposals. For example, one bill (HB 772) would allow up to 12 political observers to “move freely around the voting enclosure” and make audio or video recordings in various situations. As a practical matter, that level of activity would be impossible to supervise and would likely increase, rather than reduce, voters’ concerns about secure and secret balloting.
Another proposal (SB 749) says the county board of elections director would not be hired by the board but by county commissioners — whose election the director oversees. This would put that director, and by extension all the professional staff, in an impossible situation.
Another bill (SB 747) says by next fall county boards must authenticate absentee voters by matching signatures on ballot forms and old registration forms. The process is not clearly defined or funded. It would be prudent to recognize that other states have taken more time to develop safeguards so signatures (and ballots) are not wrongly rejected.
We’re very concerned that some of these proposals could harm rather than enhance confidence in our elections. We invite and need your help! Share your views with your N.C. House and Senate members, and please urge them to discuss these bills with local elections officials to learn about their practical consequences.
We have a good election system in North Carolina. By working together — board members, professional staff, voters and lawmakers — we can resolve problems that arise and maintain a voting process that is accessible, secure and fair. | https://greensboro.com/opinion/column/david-hood-and-barry-cheney-a-call-for-help-from-veteran-elections-officials/article_34bebc9a-2d48-11ee-968c-a789cd9a55be.html | 2023-07-30T17:15:37 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/opinion/column/david-hood-and-barry-cheney-a-call-for-help-from-veteran-elections-officials/article_34bebc9a-2d48-11ee-968c-a789cd9a55be.html |
Updated July 30, 2023 at 1:02 PM ET
KHAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb ripped through a political rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader on Sunday in the country's northwestern Bajur district, police and health officials said. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 200 wounded, including children, in one of the worst attacks in recent years.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers' convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman's Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place. AP video showed wounded people being carried from the scene in the chaotic aftermath of the explosion.
Bajur used to be a haven for Islamic militants. It is the former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a militant group that is a close ally of the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The TTP was in recent years evicted from the area as a result of operations by the Pakistani military.
In a statement sent to The Associated Press, the TTP condemned the bombing, saying it was aimed at pitching Islamists against each other. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, also condemned the bombing. "Such crimes cannot be justified in any way," he said in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Though a separate group, the TTP remains a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021. The takeover emboldened the TTP. They unilaterally ended a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government last November and have since stepped up attacks across the country.
One of the victims, Adam Khan, 45, was hit by splinters in his leg and both hands. He said it was around 4 p.m. when the explosion knocked him to the ground.
"There was dust and smoke around and I was under some injured people from where I could hardly stand up, only to see chaos and some scattered limbs," he said.
Initially, police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies arrived at a local hospital, bringing the death toll to 40. Feroz Jamal, the provincial information minister, told The Associated Press that so far 40 people had been "martyred" and nearly 200 wounded in the bombing.
The JUI workers' convention was arranged in a hall close to a market, but later tents were added because of the large number of supporters who turned out. The venue was being guarded by party volunteers with batons. An announcement was being made for the arrival of Abdul Rasheed, a senior leader of the party, when the bomb exploded.
The bombing was one of the four worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people, mostly schoolchildren, were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar. In January, 74 people were killed in a bombing at a mosque in Peshawar. More than 100 people, mostly policemen, died in a bombing at the city's mosque at police headquarters in February this year.
District health officer Dr. Faisal Khan said 40 bodies from the blast were at Khar's main hospital. Some of the wounded were in critical condition and were being transferred to a facility in Peshawar and the adjoining district of Dir, including by army helicopters.
Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and President Arif Alvi condemned the attack and asked officials to provide all possible assistance to the wounded and the bereaved families.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman's party, was among the dead. JUI leaders Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin were also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally.
Rasheed, the regional chief of the party, said the attack was an attempt to remove JUI from the field before parliamentary elections in November, but he said such tactics would not work.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the upcoming elections.
"Many of our fellows lost their lives and many more wounded in this incident. I will ask the federal and provincial administrations to fully investigate this incident and provide due compensation and medical facilities to the affected ones," Rasheed said.
Mohammad Wali, another attendant at the rally, said he was listening to a speaker address the crowd when the huge explosion temporarily deafened him.
"I was near the water dispenser to fetch a glass of water when the bomb exploded, throwing me to the ground," he said. "We came to the meeting with enthusiasm but ended up at the hospital seeing crying, wounded people and sobbing relatives taking the bodies of their loved ones."
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A change in the FedEx Cup playoffs benefited this week’s field for the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club.
With just the top 70 golfers going to the first round of the playoffs after this week’s final regular-season PGA Tour tournament, more of the sports bigger names will be in the Triad.
“I’m really happy with this group of names and the field that we will have,” said Mark Brazil, the executive tournament director.
Among those golfers outside the top 70 on the points list who have committed are Adam Scott, Justin Thomas, Shane Lowry, Gary Woodland and Billy Horschel.
Thomas, who has won two PGA Championships, needs to have a good week to continue his season.
What also has helped the field strength are golfers who are around the top 50 who want to strengthen their positions. Hideki Matsuyama, who won the 2021 Masters, committed on Friday along with Matt Kuchar.
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Matsuyama is 49th on the points list and Kuchar is 58th. Only the top 50 after the first FedEx Cup playoff tournament advance to the next round.
“He’s a huge star all over the world, and having him at Sedgefield just makes our tournament better on many levels,” Brazil said of Matsuyama. “He understands that the higher he is in points when the playoffs begin, the better his chances are of reaching the Tour Championship.”
Also committing late was Sam Burns, who is No. 20 on the points list and is having his best season. Burns and Thomas are trying to make pushes to be considered for the U.S. Ryder Cup team.
“We’ve talked a lot about the new format for the playoffs and we figured it would help us as we talked to players about coming to Greensboro,” Brazil said. “It will add some obvious excitement around our tournament so I’m extremely pleased with how the field shaped up.”
The field has 13 of the top 40 in the FedEx Cup points list and 68 of the top 100.
“A lot of guys are working to get into the top 70 and make the playoffs, and a lot are working to stay in the top 50 or make it into the top 50 after the first playoff event to be eligible for the designated events next season,” Brazil said. “And several are looking to make into the top Comcast Business Tour Top 10 and a shot at that bonus money.”
Brazil said that ticket sales are going well, with a 30% improvement heading into the week.
Sponsorship is also doing well, especially with the added skyboxes. “We lost a couple of suites on the 17th hole, but we picked up three skyboxes there,” Brazil said.
Two Wake Forest graduates, Kyle Reifers and former champion Webb Simpson, are also in the field. Also, Davis Love III, a three-time champion, is scheduled to play.
The final four golfers into the field will be determined in a Monday qualifying tournament at Bermuda Run Country Club.
The tournament will be open to the public starting on Wednesday with a pro-am. The first round begins Thursday with the final round on Sunday as the golfers will compete for the Sam Snead Cup and the $1.3 million winner’s check. Tickets must be purchased online with no ticket sales at the gates.
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The 2023 high school football season for the Triad is scheduled to start for most teams on Aug. 18. In advance of the season, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal highlight the local position players to watch for.
LINEBACKERS
Jahveer Branch, Smith, Jr.: The Golden Eagles’ edge defender had 10 sacks as a sophomore, including 3.5 vs. Atkins and 3 vs. Southern Guilford. The 6-2, 225-pounder is active from the edge and has speed useful moving inside on twists. Also had a 20-yard pick-six against Atkins. Key piece for new coach Montis Lash.
Tavion Bullock, Eastern Guilford, Sr.: Tackling machine had 134 last year after only having three combined in the first two games. Also had 10 sacks. A 5-10, 160-pounder who gets by much bigger linemen and doesn’t show fear at small size. One of six defenders returning for the Wildcats, who reached the NCHSAA 3A fourth round.
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Caleb David, West Forsyth, Sr.: The 6-1, 215-pounder is expected to be a big factor for new Coach Kevin Wallace on both sides of the ball. Speedy yet physical backer had 140 tackles and six sacks to earn All-Northwest First Team honors. One of seven defenders returning for the Titans who finished 4-7 and had a NCHSAA 4A first round exit. Used last year as a wildcat running back.
Deity Deablo, Oak Grove, Sr.
The brother of NFL player Divine Deablo. Lengthy 6-5, 245-pound edge defender earned Second Team All-Northwest honors in 2022 with 50 combined tackles for the Grizzlies, who reached the NCHSAA 3A second round. Standup guy with long arms and good extension at point of attack. Has six Division I offers, including Appalachian State and Boston College.
Jerome Gibson, Mount Tabor, Sr.
Led the Spartans with 111 tackles and 11 for losses, while also providing 4 sacks as a middle backer. The 6-1, 220-pounder looks to be a key factor for a veteran unit that returns nine starters. Strong, big body is skilled in run fits and balances a defense that brings a notably strong secondary on the back end.
Matthew Hill, Atkins, Jr.
The Camels leading returning tackler at 52 did so in nine games as a sophomore playing both outside linebacker and in the secondary. Also had 6 sacks, which was second on the team. Key defensive player for new coach Johmar Barringer. Listed at 6-2, 185 and was all-conference last year.
Robert Jordan, Glenn, Sr.
The 5-10, 210 is looked to be a critical part of the Bobcats defense that is traditionally strong under coach Antwon Stevenson. The coach said this summer that he has had a 280-pound power clean. Had 63 tackles in seven games last season to earn All-Northwest Second Team.
Aidan Mansfield, Reidsville, Sr.
The 2022 HSXTRA Second Team selection was a part of the area’s top tackling tandem with teammate Paul Widerman. Had 134 tackles for the NCHSAA 2A state runner-up. A true outside backer at 6-2, 180 pounds whose coverage and ball skills got him four interceptions last season.
Hayden Meeks, McMichael, Sr.
The 2022 Defensive MVP for the Phoenix had 65 tackles and led the conference with 10 sacks. Had two sacks in four different games. Standup outside linebacker off the edge listed at 5-10, 215. A leader for a defensive line group that is looked to be a strength for McMichael who went 7-4 last year.
Adae Motley, Ragsdale, Jr.
The 6-2, 190-pound all-conference selection had 82 tackles last year. Will be a part of a defense that shifts from a four-man front to a three-man front.
Kenyon Smith, North Forsyth, Jr.
The Vikings Defensive Player of the Year had a team-leading 58 tackles and is expected to play big role as a junior. Middle linebacker who bulked up significantly to 6-1, 215 pounds.
Paul Widerman, Reidsville, Sr.
The returning HSXTRA First Team selection led the Triad in tackles last season with 144, based on MaxPreps statistical database. Also a blitzer with 5 sacks. Physical 6-0, 220-pound backer who lined up inside and outside for the Rams. Takes good pursuit angles and knack for reading blockers. Committed to Lafayette College. | https://greensboro.com/sports/high-school/football/piedmont-triad-linebackers-to-watch-for-the-2023-season/article_34ef449e-2e3a-11ee-8ce7-138c643238e7.html | 2023-07-30T17:15:45 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/sports/high-school/football/piedmont-triad-linebackers-to-watch-for-the-2023-season/article_34ef449e-2e3a-11ee-8ce7-138c643238e7.html |
HIGH POINT — Mickey Jannis is keeping the heartbeat of his baseball career going with a pitch which has a notable history, but has all but reached the end of its life.
Jannis, 35 and currently a member of the Atlantic League’s High Point Rockers, was believed to be the only pitcher using the knuckleball when he reached the major leagues in 2021. It’s the unpredictable pitch in which spin rate can be counted on one hand.
As it leaves the pitcher’s unorthodox grip, all that’s known is that its destination is somewhere in the vicinity of home plate. Its path is unclear; batters have no idea, and in some cases, neither does the catcher. It’s such a peculiar pitch that a major-league manager came up with a special glove to cut down on passed balls.
The knuckleball got its name by the grip used to throw it, either with the knuckles on the ball or hovering just over as the pitcher’s fingernails impact the surface. MLB.com says Eddie Cicotte, who pitched from 1905 to 1920, had the nickname “Knuckles” for how he gripped the ball. It’s believed he was the first to throw it regularly.
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It’s not a pitch Jannis picked up to resurrect his career. He started throwing it when he was 12 years old and stayed with it.
“When I was 12 or 13, I saw a special on Tim Wakefield, and he threw it with two fingers as opposed to three,” he said. “And I just went out the next day and just chucked it as hard as I can. And it really just came out natural for me. So it was just something I always kind of had in my back pocket.”
And, in an era when pitchers are typically trying to blow 90-plus mph fastballs by hitters, Jannis is attempting the frustrate the opponent with a pitch none of them has likely ever seen. It’s helped keep him in the game, especially since his initial run in the major leagues came to a halt after he was drafted by Tampa Bay.
“When I was drafted, I was 88 to 92, and the average major league fastball was 89 to 90, so I was right up there with the average major league fastball when I was drafted,” he said. “When I got released, I just kind of saw it as what I do right now isn’t what teams want to see. Being a little bit older, I wanted to do something different, and I knew I had a good knuckleball growing up, messed around with it a little bit.”
Career path
When Cal State-Bakersfield started playing baseball in 2009, Jannis, named for Mickey Mantle because his father was a New York Yankees fan, was the first starting pitcher. He threw 5 2/3 innings of no-hit ball in the opener against 2008 national champion Fresno State and struck out eight. From there, his professional baseball career copied a path much like the pitch he’s relying on to get the Rockers into the postseason.
From Princeton in the Appalachian League, where he went 3-1 as a reliever in 2010, Jannis worked his way through the minors until he reached the New York Mets AAA farm club in Syracuse in 2019. He lost 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but returned in 2021 and made his major league debut with the Baltimore Orioles as the only knuckleballer in the majors. In that game on June 23, 2021, Jannis went 3 1/3 innings, giving up eight hits, seven runs and four walks while recording one strikeout in a start against the Houston Astros. That one strikeout was the first batter he faced, Yordan Alvarez.
Jannis signed with the Rockers in 2022 and returned this season to be a key element in the team’s success. He’s the league’s only nine-game winner, and he’s fourth in the league with a 3.29 ERA and fifth with 76 strikeouts.
In his previous outing last Sunday, Jannis gave up six hits and three earned runs over six innings in High Point’s 10-3 victory over the Long Island Ducks. The win snapped a personal two-game losing streak.
The great knuckleballers
Former Pittsburgh Pirates power hitter Willie Stargell is quoted as describing the knuckleball as “a butterfly with hiccups.” Stargell played in an era when there were a few of those pitchers still around. For sure, one of them preceded his arrival in the majors.
Hoyt Wilhelm, who was born in Huntersville, built his 20-year major-league career on the unpredictable pitch. Wilhelm didn’t reach the majors until he was 29 years old. According to his biography posted on the Baseball Hall of Fame site, he spent seven years in the minors before reaching the big leagues with the New York Giants in 1952, when he compiled a 15-3 record as a reliever with a 2.43 earned run average. As a member of the Orioles, he threw a no-hitter against the New York Yankees late in the 1955 season.
While with the Orioles, Manager Paul Richards came up with a catcher’s mitt that was reported to be 41 inches in circumference so catchers could handle Wilhelm’s knuckler. While with the Chicago White Sox, he recorded 99 saves between 1964 and 1968 and an ERA of 1.92. Wilhelm compiled those marks after his 40th birthday. He retired in 1972 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985.
Phil Niekro also used the knuckleball to help him reach the baseball hall. Niekro also achieved the rare status of using the pitch to pick up 300 wins and 3,000 strikeouts in his 24-year career. Much of that came while he pitched for the Braves, and he used that pitch until he retired at 48.
Among the game’s more notable knuckleball pitchers are Wilbur Wood, Tom Candiotti, R.A. Dickey, Charlie Hough and Wakefield, according to a ranking published by MLB.com. Jannis said he has spoken to both Candiotti and Hough.
Sports Illustrated reported that former Boston Red Sox pitcher Steven Wright was throwing the knuckleball until he was found to have violated Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy and also tested positive for steroids. Wright has not pitched in the majors since 2019.
And there’s Matt Waldron, a San Diego Padres prospect who spent most of 2022 in Triple A El Paso, SI said.
How it’s going
Jannis settled on the knuckleball as his primary pitch in 2012. While he had a decent fastball and slider, he deemed his floater was his go-to pitch. By 2013, it was his only pitch.
“I was very inconsistent with it, which is kind of how the pitch is. If you’re not throwing it for strikes, hitters can just take it, take it, take it, take it, and that’s kind of how I was in 2012, the first year when I was throwing it,” he said. “Then in 2013, I really kind of figured out how to keep it in the zone for strikes and get hitters to commit to swinging at it.”
To continue baffling hitters, Jannis turns to pitching coach Frank Viola, who led the Minnesota Twins to a World Series title in 1987. Viola wasn’t known to throw the knuckleball in his career, but he does have a method in coaching Jannis.
“Having Frank around, he’s really good. And what I asked for more is not really about the knuckleball,” Jannis said. “It’s more about making sure my mechanics are perfect because when I get out of sync ... that’s when the spin on the ball changes and that’s what causes spin on the ball.”
Jannis is among a number of players with the Rockers who feel they have what it takes to get back to the major leagues, even if the calendar suggests the window of opportunity is closing.
“But the fact that I still believe that I have a major-league knuckleball, I think that’s what drives me to keep going ... I truly believe that I can still pitch in the major leagues and be successful,” Jannis said. “And a lot of guys feel that way here. For some of us, it won’t happen, but you know, some of us will and you just kind of go out there, do the best you can and hopefully you get that opportunity again.” | https://greensboro.com/sports/professional/jannis-uses-nearly-extinct-pitch-to-keep-career-rolling-with-high-point-rockers/article_115d6918-2e56-11ee-aa61-a7fe84ec16e1.html | 2023-07-30T17:15:51 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/sports/professional/jannis-uses-nearly-extinct-pitch-to-keep-career-rolling-with-high-point-rockers/article_115d6918-2e56-11ee-aa61-a7fe84ec16e1.html |
72 Three Mets batters, including Pete Alonso, were hit by pitches in Thursday's win over Washington, increasing their league-leading total to 72. New York set a major league record by being hit by 112 pitches last season.
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Q: I think someone in my neighborhood in Winston-Salem is having too many yard sales. Is there a limit to how many yard sales you can have and if there are too many, how can it be reported? C.W.
Answer: Yes, there is a limit to the number of yard or garage sales Winston-Salem residents can have during a year.
Winston-Salem City Ordinance Sec. 38-27 spells out the garage or yard sale limits. Residents are limited to two yard or garage sales per year. Having more than two garage or yard sales in a year is illegal and is a class 3 misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $500.
Each sale cannot last more than seven days. The sales cannot be for reselling items that were bought for the sale and must be "residential household items."
If you have suspicions that someone is having too many yard sales, you can report it to City Link by calling 336-727-8000 or calling 311 on a smart phone. You can email them at citylink@cityofws.org or contact them through their webpage on the city's website, cityofws.org. You can also download their smartphone app.
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Q: How is car window tinting checked and who does it? I've seen some cars and trucks lately that look like the tinting might be too much. L.E.
Answer: The amount of window tinting is governed by state law.
N.C. General Statute 20-127 states that the "total light transmission of the tinted window shall be at least thirty-five percent (35%)."
A light source that is approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles is required to be used to test the tinting.
The maximum reflectance is 20%.
Window tinting is checked during the annual car inspection.
The tinting also cannot be red, yellow, or amber.
A spokesperson for the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles said, "DMV does not maintain inspection station reports detailing tinted windows. Inspection stations are only required to report pass or fail without details."
Q: There is a streetlight on my street that needs to be replaced. Does the City of Winston-Salem replace them or does Duke Energy? R.K.
Answer: There are several ways to report a light that needs to be replaced, according to Jimmy Flythe, the central region director of government and community relations for Duke Energy Carolinas.
He recommends customers go to duke-energy.com/outages and click the "Request a light repair" link. Once you choose your location, you'll get a map that can be searched by address. Click on the light in question to request service.
"Customers can also call us at 800-777-9898 to report the problem," said Flythe.
NCDMV Saturday hours
For people who need to get their driver's license renewed but are having a hard time during the week finding a time to go to the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles, here are the area offices that are open on Saturdays. They are open from 8 a.m. to noon.
■ Winston-Salem South, 2001 Silas Creek Parkway, 336-7612258
■ Greensboro West, 2391 Coliseum Blvd., Suite 12, 336-3345438
■ Greensboro East, 2527 E. Market St., 336-334-5745
NCDMV reported Friday that these offices have had no wait times on Saturdays in the last month and a half.
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Updated July 30, 2023 at 1:02 PM ET
KHAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb ripped through a political rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader on Sunday in the country's northwestern Bajur district, police and health officials said. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 200 wounded, including children, in one of the worst attacks in recent years.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers' convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman's Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place. AP video showed wounded people being carried from the scene in the chaotic aftermath of the explosion.
Bajur used to be a haven for Islamic militants. It is the former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a militant group that is a close ally of the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The TTP was in recent years evicted from the area as a result of operations by the Pakistani military.
In a statement sent to The Associated Press, the TTP condemned the bombing, saying it was aimed at pitching Islamists against each other. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, also condemned the bombing. "Such crimes cannot be justified in any way," he said in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Though a separate group, the TTP remains a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021. The takeover emboldened the TTP. They unilaterally ended a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government last November and have since stepped up attacks across the country.
One of the victims, Adam Khan, 45, was hit by splinters in his leg and both hands. He said it was around 4 p.m. when the explosion knocked him to the ground.
"There was dust and smoke around and I was under some injured people from where I could hardly stand up, only to see chaos and some scattered limbs," he said.
Initially, police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies arrived at a local hospital, bringing the death toll to 40. Feroz Jamal, the provincial information minister, told The Associated Press that so far 40 people had been "martyred" and nearly 200 wounded in the bombing.
The JUI workers' convention was arranged in a hall close to a market, but later tents were added because of the large number of supporters who turned out. The venue was being guarded by party volunteers with batons. An announcement was being made for the arrival of Abdul Rasheed, a senior leader of the party, when the bomb exploded.
The bombing was one of the four worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people, mostly schoolchildren, were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar. In January, 74 people were killed in a bombing at a mosque in Peshawar. More than 100 people, mostly policemen, died in a bombing at the city's mosque at police headquarters in February this year.
District health officer Dr. Faisal Khan said 40 bodies from the blast were at Khar's main hospital. Some of the wounded were in critical condition and were being transferred to a facility in Peshawar and the adjoining district of Dir, including by army helicopters.
Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and President Arif Alvi condemned the attack and asked officials to provide all possible assistance to the wounded and the bereaved families.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman's party, was among the dead. JUI leaders Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin were also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally.
Rasheed, the regional chief of the party, said the attack was an attempt to remove JUI from the field before parliamentary elections in November, but he said such tactics would not work.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the upcoming elections.
"Many of our fellows lost their lives and many more wounded in this incident. I will ask the federal and provincial administrations to fully investigate this incident and provide due compensation and medical facilities to the affected ones," Rasheed said.
Mohammad Wali, another attendant at the rally, said he was listening to a speaker address the crowd when the huge explosion temporarily deafened him.
"I was near the water dispenser to fetch a glass of water when the bomb exploded, throwing me to the ground," he said. "We came to the meeting with enthusiasm but ended up at the hospital seeing crying, wounded people and sobbing relatives taking the bodies of their loved ones."
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The Alabama Crimson Tide won’t miss the College Football Playoff in back-to-back years under Nick Saban, right?
Alabama backers have been asking themselves this question all offseason, and it’s almost time to see if they can successfully manifest it. Below are the three best Alabama bets of the 2023 season, and each is available via our BetMGM bonus code ALBONUS, worth up to $1,000 in first-bet bonuses.
BetMGM bonus code ALBONUS: 2023 Alabama Crimson Tide season outlook
The Crimson Tide missed the CFP last season for the first time since 2020 and only the second time in the format’s nine-year lifespan. Alabama went 11-2 with road losses to Tennessee and LSU by a combined four points.
To make matters worse, each defeat came on the final play of the game. While Bama may have been one of the four best teams in college football in 2022, the CFP committee maintained its stance that two-loss teams get no preferential treatment in postseason play, even if they’re from the SEC.
This will only be the case for one more year as the CFP expands to 12 teams in the 2024 season. But Saban and Co. now know the standard is one loss or back to a less meaningful bowl game.
The most prominent Alabama storyline is the departure of Bryce Young to the NFL, leaving Jalen Milroe, Tyler Buchner, and Ty Simpson to battle for QB1 duties. While Saban has yet to declare a Week 1 starter, BetMGM has faith in Milroe, as he carries +5000 odds to win the Heisman, while the other two are +8000.
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Alabama Crimson Tide future bets: National Championship winners (+600 or better)
The biggest threat to Bama claiming the National Championship is the Georgia Bulldogs, who are +200 to win it all. Georgia, led by coach Kirby Smart, is the first school to win consecutive titles in the CFP era.
But the Bulldogs also have question marks at passer, as two-year starter Stetson Bennett is now a pro. Carson Beck is his successor, but the 20-year-old has just 58 passing attempts in two seasons in Athens.
Former Notre Dame offensive coordinator Tommy Rees joined the Tide this offseason and promises to be a major help in bringing the new QBs along. Rees boasts an impressive track record in his three years coaching the Irish.
Alabama’s exceptional offensive line will provide plenty of time in the pocket for the eventual starting passer to get acclimated.
College football betting picks: Alabama to make the College Football Playoff (+155 or better)
If you don’t have faith in the Tide to finish the job, opting into its CFP qualifier market provides a safer bet. If Alabama can maintain an undefeated record going into the SEC Championship game, which will likely be against -380 SEC East favorite Georgia, the Tide can afford to lose the game and still earn a CFP berth.
Navigating the SEC West hasn’t been a breeze in recent years, but Alabama is fortunate to play many of its toughest opponents at Bryant-Denny Stadium. That includes Ole Miss, Arkansas, Tennessee, LSU, and a non-conference game vs. Texas.
Bringing Milroe, Buchner, or Simpson along won’t be easy, but playing the pivotal games at home will be a plus.
Crimson Tide best bets: Week 1 Alabama vs. Middle Tennessee State over 54.5 (-110 or better)
It’s tradition for college football powerhouse programs to schedule seemingly easy wins in Week 1 or 2 of the season. It gives fans an almost guaranteed victory to cheer on while the coaches get a low-stakes game to learn what kinks need to be fixed.
In the past five seasons, excluding the 2020 COVID year when SEC teams only played conference opponents, Alabama has taken these cupcake matchups seriously. The Crimson Tide hasn’t always covered the giant point spread, which is 38 points in Week 1, but it’s consistently lit up the scoreboard.
- 2022 vs. Utah State: 55-0
- 2021 vs. Mercer: 48-14
- 2020: COVID season
- 2019 vs. Duke: 42-3
- 2018 vs. Arkansas State: 57-7
- 2017 vs. Fresno State: 41-10
Look for another high-scoring affair from the Crimson Tide to kick off the 2023 season.
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The latest "cancel culture" attack has struck directly through the heart of country music as the mob has come for one of our most popular current stars, Jason Aldean.
Make no mistake, this isn’t just about Jason - who is a friend, and I’m also a fan - this is about all of us in country music.
Freedom of expression is under attack. We are increasingly seeing it throughout our culture. Yet, freedom of speech and creative expression are essential to a free country — it’s the American way of life. Canceling artists is anti-American, it’s insidious and if it gains a foothold, it will take another generation to weed it out.
I myself was "canceled" from the National Endowment of the Arts by President Joe Biden just one year into his administration. A curt letter was sent to me, and no explanation was given. Oddly enough, I had served presidents on both sides for over a decade - first appointed to the NEA by President George W. Bush, then served 8 years under President Barack Obama, and 4 years under President Donald Trump before receiving the news I was being terminated. I presume the reason I was canceled is due to my song "God Bless the USA" being played at former President Donald Trump’s rallies and my refusal to "demand" he stop using it, as some critics have suggested I do.
The reason I won’t give in, and the reason Jason Aldean won’t back down, is we know how this ends.
CMT COULD FACE BUD LIGHT SITUATION AFTER CANCELING JASON ALDEAN'S VIDEO
As I was writing "God Bless the USA," which commemorates its 40th anniversary this year, I witnessed firsthand my grandparents on their Sacramento, California farm struggle with Cold War-era regulations to shut down their grain production in response to our battles with the Soviet Union. I saw what that did to their livelihoods, and that’s where I got the inspiration for the opening line of the song, "If tomorrow all the things were gone I’d worked for all my life, and I had to start again with just my family and my wife…" The large red tractor which appears in the official video for the song has become a symbol which so many Americans tell me as I travel across the country that they see as a symbol of hard work, perseverance, and the American way.
A few years after I wrote the song "God Bless the USA," a man named President Ronald Reagan stood boldly and asked Soviet leaders to "tear down that wall." Folklore has it that his advisers told him numerous times not to say it, for it would be far too controversial for those times. However, Reagan didn’t back down and if you visit The Ronald Reagan Library in my home state of California, you will see the transcript from that day, in which Reagan himself kept penciling that line back in. He knew that you could only have peace through showing strength.
We must ensure that we don’t allow cancel culture to take our freedom of expression away.
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In response to the cancel culture, I’m committing the rest of my life to freedom of expression, to country music, and to America’s veterans who’ve died and served to protect those freedoms. That is why I’m inviting all Americans to join me in going to AdoptAVet.com and sending Veterans to the movies this Veterans Day for a special salute to country music, a genre which celebrates all that is great about America.
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Huntsville police are investigating after a 26-year-old man was shot and killed in north Huntsville on Saturday.
Isaac Augusta Young was shot in a strip mall parking lot located at 3750 Highway 53 just before 2:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.
He was transported to the hospital for his injuries but died there, Huntsville Police Department spokesperson Sydney Martin told AL.com.
“Major Crimes Unit Investigators are working to speak with a person of interest,” Martin said in an email. “No further information is available as the investigation is ongoing.” | https://www.al.com/crime/2023/07/huntsville-man-dies-after-being-shot-in-parking-lot.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:16 | 0 | https://www.al.com/crime/2023/07/huntsville-man-dies-after-being-shot-in-parking-lot.html |
Chandler Smith suffered a scary crash as the NASCAR Xfinity Series took on Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, on Saturday.
Smith was speeding down the front stretch and headed into turn one when it appeared he lost his brakes. Smith was forced to drive his No. 16 Chevrolet off the pavement, onto the grass and eventually slammed into the wall on his driver’s side to slow down. He came to a stop in the gravel.
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"I was having some brake fade throughout the runs," Smith said after he exited the infield care center, via Racing News.
"But I didn’t think that I was abusing them by any means that would make them fail on me. Going up the hill on the front stretch, I heard something snap in half. Then, I felt something come off of the car.
"The whole front nose just dropped when that happened. I went to pump the brakes, there was nothing there."
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Kaulig Racing’s Chris Rice said it appeared a rotor exploded off of Smith’s vehicle before he crashed into the wall.
Sam Mayer won the race – the first victory of his Xfinity Series career. He held off Parker Kligerman, Austin Hill, Sage Karam and Riley Herbst.
Smith is fifth in the playoff standings. Hill is first. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/chandler-smith-crashes-hard-into-wall-at-xfinity-series-race-after-losing-brakes/article_b1853209-eb26-5c8e-8009-687fb39a42a1.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:17 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/chandler-smith-crashes-hard-into-wall-at-xfinity-series-race-after-losing-brakes/article_b1853209-eb26-5c8e-8009-687fb39a42a1.html |
The all new Lifetime movie To Kill a Stepfather will premiere Sunday, July 30 at 8/7c.
Those who want to catch the premiere, but have already ditched basic cable, can still live stream tonight’s movie premiere with Philo.
You can also stream the movie the day after it premieres with a Lifetime Movie Club subscription. Those who subscribe through Amazon Prime Video (available to all Amazon Prime members) will get a 7-day free trial upon signup.
What is Philo?
Philo is considered one of the cheaper live streaming services available as it allows users to stream over 70 live TV channels for just $25 a month.
Other than Lifetime, popular channels offered with Philo include the Hallmark Channel, MTV, AMC, HGTV, History Channel, Discovery Channel, CMT, TLC, BET and more.
The streaming service also offers unlimited DVR along with various movies and TV shows users can watch on-demand.
New subscribers can also take advantage of Philo’s 7-day free trial and watch To Kill a Stepfather for free before committing to anything.
What is To Kill a Stepfather about?
Lifetime’s official description of To Kill a Stepfather is as follows:
Nicole Ray learns that her stepfather, Matthew, whom she hadn’t seen in years, suffered a deadly fall down the stairs at the family home and that her estranged mother, Kate, has been arrested for his murder.
As Nicole begins investigating what happened, she finds out that not everything is as it seems, as if someone wants to let this sleeping dog lie… at any price.
Alexandra Camacho, Kelly McCart, Jamel King, Avis Wrentmore and Elyse Mirto star. | https://www.al.com/tv/2023/07/how-to-watch-to-kill-a-stepfather-on-lifetime-where-to-stream.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:22 | 0 | https://www.al.com/tv/2023/07/how-to-watch-to-kill-a-stepfather-on-lifetime-where-to-stream.html |
The first action needed to stop human trafficking in the U.S. is to secure the border, Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News in an exclusive interview.
"The first thing you really want to do is secure the border because right now many children are being trafficked into America because they believe the border to be open," McCarthy told Fox News at a movie event held last Tuesday. There were over 10,300 human trafficking incidents reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline in 2021.
The screening, held for members of Congress, featured "Sound of Freedom," a film depicting the horrors of human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. The low-budget movie's lead actor Jim Caviezel, and Tim Ballard, on whom the film is based, were in attendance.
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Ballard, a former U.S. federal agent, began Operation Underground Railroad ten years ago to combat human trafficking after rescuing two children from exploitation in South America.
"The border policies that we have in this country are actually incentivizing traffickers," Ballard told Fox News at the private screening. "If you're an unaccompanied minor coming into this country and you're released to anyone, this is very dangerous."
Ballard referenced a program that enacted stricter biometric verification procedures at the border, including familial DNA tests, recently ended under Biden as the contracts that backed the project expired.
The Speaker said he is proud the Republican majority passed a border security package earlier in May. The bill included measures to restart border wall construction and change laws related to unaccompanied children.
"I wish the Senate would take it up," the Republican leader told Fox News.
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There is a "sophisticated network" of child migrant smuggling into forced labor and other forms of slavery in the U.S., Tara Lee Rodas, a whistleblower from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), testified before Congress in April.
The New York Times reported a rise in migrant child labor exploitation in February, claiming that over the last two years, HHS lost contact with over 85,000 migrant minors after they were placed in sponsor homes.
"Human trafficking should not be a partisan issue, we need to save our children," the Speaker told Fox News. "And this film, I hope, would inspire both people on both sides of the aisle to realize what needs to get done to solve this problem."
McCarthy and Ballard held a brief discussion on combating human trafficking before the screening began.
"I think movies are a good thing to bring people together, but also educate the members of Congress," McCarthy told Fox News.
"The ‘Sound of Freedom’ does exactly that," he continued. "This is an educational film."
To watch the full exclusive interview with the Speaker, click here. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/children-are-being-trafficked-speaker-mccarthy-warns-how-bidens-border-policy-put-migrant-kids-at/article_4d758537-17f4-5590-8a27-3b58d4d52547.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:23 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/children-are-being-trafficked-speaker-mccarthy-warns-how-bidens-border-policy-put-migrant-kids-at/article_4d758537-17f4-5590-8a27-3b58d4d52547.html |
(WARNING: The above released footage is graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers).
Recently released body camera footage shows a Colorado deputy fire a Taser at a man running onto an interstate just seconds before he is hit and killed by a vehicle.
Larimer County Sheriff’s deputy Lorenzo Lujan is heard saying "S--t, s--t" about five seconds before the driver of an SUV honks and hits 28-year-old Brent Thompson on I-25, according to body camera footage released on Wednesday.
Sheriff John Feyen said in a statement that his department grieved Thompson’s death but defended the deputy’s "decisive action" on the night of February 18 to deploy his Taser at Thompson as he ran onto the interstate into oncoming traffic. Thompson was suspected of giving a fake name to deputies after he was pulled over at about 9:15 p.m. for expired registration.
"Every incident provides an opportunity to reflect and grow as an agency, and this incident is no exception," Feyen wrote. "The deputy was forced to make a choice with no easy answer: act and try to stop the suspect… or stand by passively and simply hope no innocent people got hurt. We will continue to discuss this challenging case in training and internal conversations about dynamic decision-making, safety priorities, and the consequences of action or inaction."
MAN FATALLY STRUCK BY CAR ON COLORADO INTERSTATE AFTER RUNNING FROM DEPUTIES
Feyen said in a video message that an internal review of Lujan's conduct found that he acted in accordance with the department’s policies. The county's district attorney said last week that Lujan used poor judgment, but cleared him of criminal charges.
"Unfortunately, Mr. Thompson’s choices created a potentially no-win situation," the sheriff said. "Simply letting him run away could have resulted in deadly consequences for travelers on the highway and the deputy was forced to make a choice: act and try to stop the suspect or stand by passively and just hope no innocent people got hurt."
Thompson’s family is demanding Lujan be fired and is urging the Colorado attorney general to review District Attorney Gordon McLaughlin's decision not to press charges.
"He didn't deserve to be murdered like that," Thompson's mother told The Colorado Sun.
Attorneys with Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC, who are representing the family, said in a statement that the "tasering of an individual in the middle of an interstate highway at night is criminal and reprehensible conduct and has no place in law enforcement. The Thompson family is left with no choice but to seek justice from a civil jury."
Body camera footage shows Thompson pivot as Lujan informs him he is under arrest. Thompson then runs across southbound lanes and across a grassy median before jumping over a guardrail and onto northbound lanes. Lujan fires his Taser as Thompson crosses the right lane, just seconds before Thompson collapses in the road.
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Investigators who reconstructed the crash found that Thompson was hit with the Taser probes 5.6 seconds before he was struck by the vehicle. The driver of the Ford Explorer was driving 65 to 70 miles per hour and was likely 533 to 615 feet away when Thompson was hit by the Taser.
Citing the distance and obstructions, it was unlikely Lujan would have been able to see the vehicle before deploying his Taser, investigators wrote in a critical incident review led by the Fort Collins Police Department.
After Thompson was struck by the vehicle, Lujan pulled Thompson to the road shoulder to provide aid before paramedics arrived, according to the sheriff’s office. However, the body camera footage released by the sheriff's department ends before Thompson was hit.
Unedited body camera footage released by Thompson family attorneys shows Thompson's body rolling after being struck by the SUV as Lujan stands on the side of the road. The deputy then puts Thompson in handcuffs, pulls his body to the side of the road and performs CPR.
Thompson was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Lujan told investigators he believed Thompson was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to The Colorado Sun. Deputies later found drug paraphernalia and narcotics in his car, and an autopsy showed Thompson had fentanyl in his system.
"I also want to draw attention to the silent but destructive player in this and so many other cases: Fentanyl. This drug is devastating lives and families every day, and our community must continue the conversation to stop the devastating effects of illicit drugs in Larimer County," Feyen wrote in his statement.
Thompson’s family criticized the sheriff's office for including his criminal history and drug use in its investigation.
"Blaming Brent for his death is callous and dishonest," Thompson family attorneys said in their statement. "At the time that Brent ran from law enforcement, he was only suspected of committing the crimes of driving with expired registration and giving a false name to law enforcement." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/colorado-sheriffs-office-releases-bodycam-footage-of-man-being-struck-by-suv-after-being-tased/article_42b40422-f1d0-5102-84d7-a0809edb4992.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:29 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/colorado-sheriffs-office-releases-bodycam-footage-of-man-being-struck-by-suv-after-being-tased/article_42b40422-f1d0-5102-84d7-a0809edb4992.html |
USA Today was criticized Saturday over a tweet describing Hunter Biden's crimes as "foibles" and "ammunition" for Republicans as President Biden campaigns for 2024.
"Hunter Biden's foibles provide ammunition for Republicans who want to inflict harm on Joe Biden ahead of 2024 presidential campaign," the tweet read.
USA Today also included a link to an article headlined, "'Trying to slime the president': Will GOP attacks on Hunter Biden hurt Joe Biden in 2024?"
The National Review's Charles Cook called the tweet a "masterpiece" and criticized the outlet's focus on Republicans.
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"This is literally the definition of gaslighting," another wrote, responding to USA Today.
"A very creative way to describe not paying your taxes," The New York Post's Jon Levine wrote.
Hunter Biden initially agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax, as part of plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge.
However, the deal fell apart on Wednesday in a Delaware court after the judge questioned whether the prosecution's investigation was still ongoing.
HUNTER BIDEN’S LAWYERS, DOJ CALLED OUT FOR ‘FAILURE’ IN PLEA BARGAIN FIASCO: ONLY JUDGE ‘DID HER JOB PROPERLY’
He ended up pleading "not guilty" as Judge Maryellen Noreika did not accept the plea agreement.
"When you're a Democrat, felonies are foibles. When you're a Republican, fantasies are felonies," Ian Haworth wrote.
Another wrote that the "foibles" claim was "full on state propaganda," as others pointed out the outlet's "Republican's pounce" framing.
After Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a press briefing that questions regarding the president's son should be directed at the Department of Justice and his lawyers.
"I know many people have been following the news in Delaware today and are going to have a lot of questions. And so, here’s what I’ll say at the top before I turn it over to my colleague, the admiral. Hunter Biden is a private citizen, and this was a personal matter for him. As we have said, the president, the first lady, they love their son, and they support him as he continues to rebuild his life," Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday.
For more Culture, Media, Education, Opinion, and channel coverage, visit foxnews.com/media. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/critics-mock-usa-today-tweet-lamenting-hunter-bidens-foibles-definition-of-gaslighting/article_93efac93-8288-5d38-9bea-d5e07a216310.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:35 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/critics-mock-usa-today-tweet-lamenting-hunter-bidens-foibles-definition-of-gaslighting/article_93efac93-8288-5d38-9bea-d5e07a216310.html |
Derrick Lewis had a monster performance against Marcos Rogerio de Lima on Saturday night during their heavyweight bout at UFC 291.
"The Black Beast" came out firing on all cylinders. As soon as the bell rang to start the first round, the 264-pound competitor hit Rogerio de Lima with a flying knee and knocked him on the ground. Lewis then pounced on Rogerio de Lima and hit him in the face a few times.
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Rogerio de Lima tried to get Lewis off of him while he was on his back. But Lewis kept on the attack and continuously punched his opponent in the head. As Rogerio de Lima tried to flip on his back to cover up, the assault continued and the referee stepped in and called the fight.
Lewis picked up his 27th victory in about 30 seconds.
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"I just thought I'd throw some bulls--- out there and see if it lands," Lewis said of the flying knee to commentator Joe Rogan, via MMA Fighting. "It's been a long time coming. I've been wanting to hit mothef---ers for two years. I finally hit somebody."
Lewis had lost three consecutive fights going back to February 2022, with his last win coming against Chris Daukaus in 2021.
He came into the fight ranked No. 10 in the heavyweight division. Jon Jones is the UFC heavyweight champion. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/derrick-lewis-stuns-ufc-291-opponent-with-flying-knee-wraps-up-fight-in-about-30/article_3fa74b60-41e3-515a-b8d1-c81b05f93224.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:41 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/derrick-lewis-stuns-ufc-291-opponent-with-flying-knee-wraps-up-fight-in-about-30/article_3fa74b60-41e3-515a-b8d1-c81b05f93224.html |
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s longtime friend and business associate, is expected to testify on Capitol Hill Monday and share intimate details about foreign ventures he worked on and the level at which President Biden was allegedly involved.
Archer is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee Monday and is reportedly preparing to tell lawmakers that President Biden met with dozens of Hunter's business associates while he was serving as vice president between 2009 and 2017.
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Archer is expected to detail the meetings he witnessed that both Bidens attended—either in person or via telephone. Archer will reportedly testify that Hunter would specifically introduce his father to foreign business partners or prospective investors.
Archer’s intimate knowledge of the business arrangements come after years of working closely with Hunter, including on the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings with him, beginning in 2014.
Archer also co-founded investment firm Rosemont Seneca alongside the president’s son and Climate Envoy John Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz. Archer served as managing director.
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Archer co-founded BHR Partners in 2013— a joint-venture between Rosemont Seneca and Chinese investment firm Bohai Capital. BHR Partners is a Beijing-backed private equity firm controlled by Bank of China Limited.
Archer was forced to resign from BHR Partners in May 2016 after he came under federal investigation.
In February 2022, he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity and the subsequent sale of those bonds through "fraudulent and deceptive means," according to the Department of Justice.
WHITEY BULGER'S NEPHEW PLAYED KEY ROLE IN HUNTER BIDEN'S CHINESE BUSINESS VENTURES
Archer visited Biden's vice presidential residence for a holiday reception in December 2009, and he met with Biden in the West Wing of the White House on April 16, 2014, just days before Archer and Hunter joined the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings in Ukraine.
Archer also played golf with Joe and Hunter Biden in the Hamptons at least once during the Obama administration in August 2014, four months after he and Hunter joined Burisma.
Joe Biden, while serving as vice president, and Hunter Biden allegedly "coerced" Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky to pay them millions of dollars to help get the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the firm fired, according to allegations included in an unclassified FBI FD-1023 form. At the time, Joe Biden was in charge of U.S.-Ukraine policy for the Obama administration. Biden has publicly boasted about his success in having that prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, fired, though supporters said firing Shokin was consistent with U.S. policy.
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Archer’s expected testimony comes as the House Oversight Committee continues its investigation into whether the Bidens used the influence that then-Vice President Biden had in the White House to elicit foreign business deals. The committee is also investigating the Biden family’s "corrupt" business practices.
"We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speakerphone," the committee said in a statement.
HUNTER BIDEN'S FRIEND TO TELL CONGRESS THEN-VP JOE JOINED DOZENS OF SON'S BUSINESS MEETINGS VIA PHONE: REPORT
Since reports of his planned testimony, Archer has reportedly told friends he has fled his Long Island and Brooklyn homes, but he still plans to testify.
Archer's lawyer released a statement this week saying, "There have been many leaks and much speculation about Mr. Archer’s potential statement to the Oversight Committee, but next week, Mr. Archer will get to speak for himself."
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart during his first court appearance Wednesday morning.
The president's son was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge.
Instead, he pleaded "not guilty" as federal prosecutors confirmed that the president's son is still under federal investigation. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/devon-archer-the-man-who-will-testify-to-congress-about-his-business-dealings-with-hunter/article_302be93d-6c98-597d-b84d-cfe0bf40afef.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:48 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/devon-archer-the-man-who-will-testify-to-congress-about-his-business-dealings-with-hunter/article_302be93d-6c98-597d-b84d-cfe0bf40afef.html |
The Minnesota Vikings and three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Danielle Hunter have agreed to terms on a new deal, the team announced Sunday.
Hunter will remain with the team on a one-year deal worth $20 million with $17 million guaranteed, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport. This was reportedly agreed upon late Saturday night and also includes a clause to prevent the Vikings from placing the franchise tag on Hunter after this season.
Vikings, pass rusher Danielle Hunter agree to terms on a 1-year, $20M deal including $17M guaranteed. (via @TomPelissero, @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/5U8o5wiAsH
— NFL (@NFL) July 30, 2023
This development comes after the Vikings were reportedly looking at options to move the 28-year-old pass rusher, per ESPN.
Hunter was set to earn $5.5 million this season. It would have been the last year of his five-year, $70 million extension, a deal that was reworked two offseasons ago.
Hoping to negotiate for more money, he reportedly skipped the voluntary offseason workout program and mandatory minicamp but did report to 2023 Vikings Training Camp by the veterans' deadline last Tuesday.
Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell told reporters on Saturday he was communicating with Hunter every day. "We're still kind of in that on-going process," O'Connell said, via NFl
"I'm having daily dialogue personally with him. My hope is we continue to work towards [finding common ground] over the course of a long training camp. He's played a lot of football, he'll be ready to go."
Now, he'll play another season and earn a salary reflective of his production before he becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Last season, Hunter recorded 10.5 sacks, marking his first double-digit sack season since 2019. His 70 pressures were also a high since 2019. He only played in seven games during the 2021 season due to a torn pectoral muscle.
He has developed significantly since he joined the Vikings fresh out of LSU in 2015. Over 102 career games and 73 regular-season starts, he has notched 71 sacks and 112 QB hits. | https://www.star945.com/news/national/danielle-hunter/ZHST5TI4UXAX7I6UYGRAWNN6KI/ | 2023-07-30T17:18:48 | 1 | https://www.star945.com/news/national/danielle-hunter/ZHST5TI4UXAX7I6UYGRAWNN6KI/ |
Former Virginia Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell – once prosecuted by now-Special Counsel Jack Smith for violating federal bribery law only to see his conviction unanimously overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court – said the ex-war crimes prosecutor would rather win a case than have the facts correct.
In 2016, federal prosecutors announced they would not pursue a second case against McDonnell after the Chief Justice John Roberts-led unanimous ruling vacating the conviction. McDonnell had been accused of accepting luxury gifts from a businessman in exchange for promoting a supplement he was hawking.
In vacating McDonnell's conviction, the Supreme Court ruled that setting up a meeting or organizing an event – without doing more – isn't considered an "official act," as charged by the Justice Department, where at the time the Public Integrity Section was run by Smith.
Smith, as special counsel, has indicted former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified information following a federal raid on his Mar-a-Lago compound.
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McDonnell joined "Life, Liberty & Levin" on Sunday to sound off about his case and that of the former president.
"That stretch was exceptionally painful; three-and-a-half years from the investigation until we got the unanimous vindication by the U.S. Supreme Court. I knew in my heart from the very beginning – I'm a lawyer, obviously, looking at the law and the facts – that these charges were completely wrong," he said.
McDonnell said his attorneys at the time went to the Justice Department with an "extensive brief" about why they believed Smith and his prosecutors "got the law wrong" and why he, the defendant, was innocent.
"And yet they persisted and pulled the trigger and the indictments started. And of course, they've got all the investigators. They got all the money; they've got the access to The Washington Post through multiple leaks," he alleged.
‘BIDEN SECURED TRUMP’S NOMINATION': REPUBLICANS UNITED IN OUTRAGE OVER DOJ INDICTMENT
McDonnell said that even though the Roberts Court vacated the conviction, it was a difficult time for him and his family.
"My walk-away from that, especially as I looked at what [Smith] did in the Lois Lerner case with advising people that they were was okay to go after conservatives and Bob Menendez and other cases is that I think he's just overzealous," he said.
In April 2015, the Justice Department indicted Menendez, a Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey, on bribery allegations alleging he wrongfully accepted gifts from a Florida ophthalmologist. Menendez pleaded not guilty and the case ultimately ended in a mistrial in late 2017.
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Outside the Newark courtroom at the time, Menendez said "the way this case started was wrong, the way it was investigated was wrong, the way it was prosecuted was wrong…"
On "Life, Liberty & Levin," McDonnell claimed Smith would "rather win than get it right," and claimed that alleged mindset is influencing some of the moves in the Trump case.
"I think he doesn't do an honest look at the law to see if the facts apply to the law," McDonnell said.
Smith also saw the campaign-finance-related prosecution of former Democratic presidential candidate then-North Carolina Sen. John Edwards declared a mistrial, Levin noted.
The New York Times at the time called it a high-profile example of several "visible efforts" by Smith's DOJ section, listing other investigations where charges were unsuccessful or not brought including against then-Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the late Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and ex-Rep. Allan Mollohan, D-W.V.
Following his appointment as special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022, Smith pledged to "conduct the assigned investigations, and any prosecutions that may result from them, independently and in the best traditions of the Department of Justice."
"The pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch. I will exercise independent judgment and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate," Smith said. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/ex-virginia-gov-who-saw-conviction-by-jack-smith-thrown-out-says-hed-rather-win/article_ce4b9ccc-1fd3-5fa7-8436-bb728e796468.html | 2023-07-30T17:18:54 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/ex-virginia-gov-who-saw-conviction-by-jack-smith-thrown-out-says-hed-rather-win/article_ce4b9ccc-1fd3-5fa7-8436-bb728e796468.html |
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Tears began to trickle down Hali Long's cheeks as her mind raced back in time, to the start of a magical journey. It began years ago with the Women's World Cup impossibly distant. It concluded here at Eden Park on Sunday in front of 30,000 screaming Filipino fans and likely millions more watching on TV. They gathered at malls in Manila, or at homes in Missouri, to watch the Philippines women's national team. They gathered outside the team's hotel hours before kickoff, then saluted players even after a 6-0 loss to Norway, which eliminated the Filipinas from the 2023 World Cup.
The loss saddened them, but didn’t sap their spirit. Long, their captain, sank to her knees, and bowed her head, and cried — “but it was happy tears, proud tears,” she said.
Because she recalled the days when support for the team was scarce, when training gear and sometimes even soccer balls were non-existent.
She recalled the women who'd built the Philippines national team into what it was, so that she and dozens of other foreign-born recruits could build it into what it now is.
That’s when emotion welled inside Long, the Missouri-born daughter of a Filipina mother. Before it could choke her, she rattled off names of former players and coaches. She gushed about Inna Palacios, “my best friend, my partner, my captain,” a reserve goalkeeper left off the World Cup roster, one of many homegrown players displaced by Filipino Americans. She spoke about Camille Rodriguez, and Patrice Impelido, and Belay Fernando, and Buda Bautista, and others.
“They've all been a part of this journey,” Long said. She and 21 other “heritage players” got to experience the thrill of the nation’s first World Cup, but as they savored its final moments, they made a concerted effort to center the women who came before them and the girls who’ll come next.
“It really is all for them,” Long said, and then she stepped back to collect herself, the emotion overwhelming.
“Wow. Sorry,” she muttered, with streaks gleaming off both cheeks. “It just means a lot.”
She’d joined the national team around 2016 and dove head-first into Filipino culture. She moved to Manila and obtained dual citizenship. She overcame injuries to dedicate massive chunks of her life to Filipino soccer. By 2019, the national anthem would bring those tears to her eyes. “It's the pride and honor you have to represent your country anywhere,” Long said.
But still, some countrymen were skeptical. The roster began to fill with players who, to some, didn’t look or sound Pinay. At the very least, they’d grown up disconnected from the land their family calls home.
The national team, though, allowed them to reconnect. Many followed Long's lead, and made it their mission to serve the country however they could. They dreamed of qualifying for a World Cup, and capturing the imagination of a basketball-crazed nation. And this month, that's exactly what they did. Manila's malls — which are less shopping centers, more so gathering places — filled for watch parties. They exploded when Sarina Bolden scored the nation's first-ever World Cup goal and clinched a stunning 1-0 win over New Zealand.
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“That's ultimately why we play,” Bolden said Sunday. “For people back in the Philippines. And for Filipinos around the world.”
The malls filled again for Sunday’s Group A finale against Norway. So did Eden Park, long before kickoff. It filled with Filipino flags and festive outfits. One man in a Filipino boxing robe and gloves drew enthusiastic cheers when he popped up on stadium video boards. And once the game began, every minor moment — an intercepted pass, an incursion into the Norway half — would draw a shrill roar.
“Even when [goalkeeper Olivia McDaniel] would make basic saves, they were screaming, and yelling,” Bolden said with a smile. “And we love that so much.”
An unmistakable chant rang around the famous stadium early on: “Fi-li-pi-nas! Fi-li-pi-nas!”
Players always expected an uptick in interest and support at the World Cup. But “this,” defender Dominique Randle said, “was 10 times more than what we could've ever imagined.”
A reporter told Long after the match: “The way Filipinos in Manila look at football is like super different now.”
And that, all along, was their goal.
“I hope football grows immensely,” Bolden said. “Right now it's basketball, volleyball that are the predominantly main sports in the Philippines. But after this, that's gotta change.”
It has to change because, as Long said, "we kinda had to work our way backwards." They started with the national team rather than the grassroots. They started by importing talent. Now they have to develop it.
“Qualifying for the World Cup, it showed all the gaps we have in our system,” Long admitted.
The players know that they have inspired young girls, that they will encourage participation, that thousands will see them and want to be them.
“I just want all the little girls in the Philippines to know that this is a dream that can be attainable. They can do this,” McDaniel said.
Long echoed that: “The little girls I see waving and cheering, they deserve to be here. And I want them to know that it's possible for them.”
“But we have to make it possible for them,” Long added. “Through investment, through funding.” And that, she knows, is the difficult part.
Her team’s success was largely funded by a prominent Filipino businessman, Jefferson Cheng. There is a lingering worry among some longtime fans around what might become of the team if Cheng’s support someday dries up.
“Jefferson Cheng and the PFF took a really big chance to give us anything and everything we could to prepare, to even qualify for the World Cup,” Long said. “And to bet on the unknown is a risk — in business, in life.”
But it’s a worthwhile risk, she argued. “It's the utmost honor to bring ‘Lupang Hinirang’ [the Filipino anthem] here, to bring the Philippine flag here for the first time,” she said. “And to be on the pitch to do that — definite highlight of my life.”
It had been almost an hour now since she stepped off that pitch, since her World Cup ended. Journalists had dispersed, and teammates were waiting, but Long stayed until there was only her and one reporter left. Because she wanted to send a message, that investment creates opportunity, and opportunity changes lives — like hers.
“Every struggle, every tear, every laugh,” she said with her final words of the night — “it was all worth it on this very, very incredible journey.” | https://www.star945.com/news/national/philippines/JYCE5D3R6I6JP3VBCYXTRFEQ5Q/ | 2023-07-30T17:18:54 | 0 | https://www.star945.com/news/national/philippines/JYCE5D3R6I6JP3VBCYXTRFEQ5Q/ |
Artificial intelligence (AI) experts are warning that Hollywood’s portrayal of the autonomous technology does, in fact, pose some legitimate concerns. While films like "The Terminator" are known for their glorified exaggerations, one expert argued there may be some fact hiding in the science fiction.
Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, joined Fox Nation’s new special "AI: The Terminator Effect," in which industry experts explore the potential dangers of artificial intelligence - and examine what Hollywood films have gotten right and wrong.
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As of May 2 of this year, 11,500 Hollywood screenwriters, represented by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have been on strike, largely over the inclusion of AI. While the writers are asking for increased and commensurate pay and for a guaranteed number of writers per room, they're also fighting for regulated use of artificial intelligence in the writing process.
Earlier this month, Hollywood actors joined the screenwriters in their months-long strike against studios, streaming services and production companies represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), marking the first time in over six decades that the two unions have been on strike at the same time.
Much like the writers, the actors, represented by Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), want guarantees from studio and production companies about how, exactly, AI will be used.
While the writers have vocalized concerns that their creativity will be compromised with AI's involvement in storytelling, and the actors fear their image and likeness will be replicated by AI to no end, many would rightfully assume Artificial Intelligence is Hollywood's new villain.
"A.I. is a perfect target. It’s this unfeeling ‘other’ that makes a great villain," one expert explains in the Fox Nation special. "If it becomes an A.I. with intelligence beyond human capability, it could destroy us."
On "Fox & Friends" Thursday, Hendrycks argued that film depictions of AI encourage viewers to consider new possibilities regarding what the technology is capable of.
"One of those [possibilities] is the risk of some weaponized A.I. system being something that we lose control of," he told host Lawrence Jones. "So right now we don't have robotics, but we could imagine in possibly the next few years there being some risk of potentially some bot that is able to hack and that causing a lot of destruction. Later on when we get robotics, then a lot of these other scenarios become a possibility."
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"But risks of us potentially losing control of some weaponized A.I. system, that's something that we can't rule out," Hendrycks said.
Hendrycks issued a stern warning in "The Terminator Effect," saying, "If A.I. systems go rogue, which is a legitimate possibility, it's very uncertain how we're going to try and put the genie back in the bottle."
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He said researchers are moving as quickly as possible to develop autonomous A.I. systems, which have traditionally been featured as the villain in films like "I, Robot," "Avengers: Age of Ultron," and the upcoming "Mission: Impossible."
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The ultimate goal, Hendrycks warned, is to remove the need for people in order to operate A.I.
"They're trying to automate as many jobs as possible because this makes a lot of money," Hendrycks explained. "So a lot of people are trying to make it be the case that they're more autonomous and don't require human intervention and can make decisions faster and better than people."
"So that's what the current incentives are, and that's what a lot of researchers are trying to do - for good or bad."
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Fox News' Laura Carrione contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES — A security guard of a Los Angeles, California nightclub was killed after some kind of altercation with a large group early Sunday morning.
Los Angeles Police Department officers were called out to the Dragonfly Hollywood nightclub in the 6500 block of Santa Monica Boulevard by Wilcox Avenue around 2 a.m. Sunday, according to KABC. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the victim lying unresponsive.
Authorities say the victim was working at the time of the incident as a security guard when he was approached by a large group of people, the news outlet reported.
Witnesses reported that the incident turned violent once the security guard fell to the ground and the group began to beat him, KABC reported.
“The victim was working at this nightclub, and a large group – for unknown reasons – confronted that security guard, causing him to fall into the street,” said LAPD West Bureau Homicide Division Detective Samuel Marullo, according to KTLA. “At which time the group advanced and kicked and stomped him to death.”
The news outlet reported that the group was up to nine people as KABC reported it was 10 people.
The victim was taken to the hospital where he later died from his injuries. The news outlet said that his identity has not yet been released.
“We know that oftentimes people will record these types of incidents on their cellphone. We would encourage them to share that with us as it can help bring a sense of justice to this person’s family,” Marullo said, according to KABC.
It is unclear what lead up to the deadly incident. No arrests have been made yet, according to KTLA. | https://www.star945.com/news/trending/security-guard-beaten-death-outside-hollywood-nightclub-police-searching-multiple-suspects/HXY6SGJPVJHUHDH624WLNISPYU/ | 2023-07-30T17:19:00 | 1 | https://www.star945.com/news/trending/security-guard-beaten-death-outside-hollywood-nightclub-police-searching-multiple-suspects/HXY6SGJPVJHUHDH624WLNISPYU/ |
Florida is the first state to officially approve PragerU as an educational vendor.
A spokesperson from the Florida Department of Education sent Fox News Digital a statement saying the materials aligned with Florida’s new educational standards.
"The Florida Department of Education reviewed PragerU Kids and determined the material aligns to Florida’s revised civics and government standards. PragerU Kids is no different than many other resources, which can be used as supplemental materials in Florida schools at district discretion," a spokesperson for the DOE said.
"PragerU Kids did not submit a bid to be included in the 2022-23 instructional materials adoption for social studies. The list of adopted materials is available on the Instructional Materials page of the Department’s website here."
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Students will be watching PragerU videos as educations resources in their classrooms starting this fall. The videos typically address political and social issues such as poverty, race, and American history.
According to a press release sent by PragerU, "More states are coming on board, encouraging educators to share PragerU’s educational videos and study guides with their students."
It claims that teachers in the past have been terminated for showing PragerU videos in the classroom.
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"In the past, teachers have been disciplined — even fired — for showing PragerU videos in their classrooms. Now, PragerU videos are not only being allowed in classrooms but superintendents and education commissioners are actively encouraging teachers to use PragerU’s content to educate their students."
PragerU has 2.35 million subscribers on YouTube.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been embroiled in controversy after adopting legislation that restricted the teaching of gender and critical race theory.
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Most recently revising instruction standards for African-American history.
Florida DOE’s new standards received backlash for what critics said teaches that slaves "benefited" from slavery.
After the standards were made public, Vice President Kamala Harris and major groups such as the NAACP and Florida Education Association (FEA) took aim at DeSantis.
DeSantis’ also signed the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act (Stop W.O.K.E. Act) in 2022 which prohibits instruction that imply an individual’s status as either privileged or oppressed is determined by his or her race, color, national origin, or sex.
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APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. — Police said they found two donkeys wandering around a roadway in Apache Junction, Arizona over the weekend.
Apache Junction Police Department on Twitter described an encounter with two donkeys Saturday as “unexpected.”
“Our vigilant patrol officers couldn’t believe their eyes when they stumbled upon these adorable donkeys crossing the road,” police said.
The donkeys were trying to cross the road by 12th and Goldfield in Apache Junction, according to KTVK.
The news outlet said that the donkeys were eventually reunited with their owners. The donkeys were also not injured.
Temperatures in Arizona have been over the 100s last few weeks and as much of the country has been under extreme heat warnings as July is expected to be the world’s hottest month on record.
🚓Unexpected Morning Encounter🐴🛣️Our vigilant patrol officers couldn't believe their eyes when they stumbled upon these adorable donkeys crossing the road near 12th/Goldfield! Acting swiftly, they gathered them up and happily reunited them with their owners #AJAnimalAdventures pic.twitter.com/v2ATM73oEw
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Lisa Kudrow is celebrating her 60th birthday!
The actress is best known for portraying Phoebe Buffay for 10 seasons on the hit NBC sitcom "Friends." She appeared on the show alongside co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox.
Although the show went off the air almost 20 years ago, it remains as popular as ever, as it continues to find new audiences through its presence on various streaming networks.
Here are some behind-the-scenes tidbits from one of the most popular shows of the 1990s and early 2000s.
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One of the show's most memorable moments came in the season four finale when Ross mistakenly says Rachel's name at the altar instead of his bride Emily's. Turns out, the storyline was inspired by a real-life mistake made while filming a scene earlier in the season.
In the 2019 book, "Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era," Saul Austerlitz interviewed the show's creators, writers, producers and some of the cast. The book contained many behind-the-scenes secrets from the set, one of them being how the writers came up with the idea for the name mix-up.
According to Austerlitz, the writers knew they wanted Ross and Emily to go through with the wedding, but they weren't sure how exactly the episode was going to end. When filming another scene earlier in the season, David Schwimmer, who played Ross on the show, was meant to say "Emily, the taxi's here," but said "Rachel, the taxi's here" instead.
Austerlitz wrote it was "at this moment" when one of the producers, Greg Malins, and one of the creators, David Crane, turned to each other and decided that is how the season would end.
During Max's 2021 special "Friends: The Reunion," the cast and creators of the show discussed how filming a stunt during a particular episode ended with one of the main castmembers injured.
The memorable season three episode, "The One Where No One's Ready," features a running bit in which Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry's respective characters, Joey and Chandler, are fighting over who gets to sit in a specific chair. At one point in the episode, both Chandler and Joey run towards the chair, jumping onto it while calling dibs, which is when things went south for LeBlanc.
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"I went just to jump over the coffee table and somehow tripped, and my legs went up in the air and my shoulder came out of the socket," LeBlanc told his castmates during the reunion. The cast later watched footage of the incident, in which LeBlanc can be seen landing on the armchair at a strange angle and walking off, very clearly in pain.
According to the cast, paramedics were then called onto set and production on that specific episode was shut down. Turns out, LeBlanc had dislocated his shoulder and had to wear a sling, something which was written into the show, explained away by saying Joey fell off the bed.
Prior to landing the role of Phoebe Buffay on "Friends," Lisa Kudrow played the character of Ursula on another popular NBC sitcom, "Mad About You." Ursula was the rude waitress who worked at the restaurant the main characters Paul and Jamie often frequented. Since both shows took place in New York and aired on NBC, the "Friends" writers wrote Ursula into the show.
"My husband Jeffrey [Klarik] was on "Mad About You" as a writer. We had to go to [creators] Danny Jacobson and Paul Reiser to get their permission, and amazingly because of that relationship… they were incredibly generous and let us do it, which is nuts," creator David Crane told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. "I wouldn't let anybody do that with a character on our show!"
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Filming the scenes involved using a stand-in for Kudrow to act across, which ended up being the actress' sister.
"I think feeling the [stress] she put her sister into by being the double was more in her head at the time, so those scenes were a little bit tricky to shoot," executive producer Kevin S. Bright explained. "But it ended up being a lot of fun when you put it together."
At the end of season one, Jennifer Aniston debuted "The Rachel," which would go on to become one of the most talked about hairstyles in the history of television. She continued to sport the haircut throughout the show's second season, but Aniston wasn't a fan of the style.
Aniston has spoken out about how much she disliked the haircut on more than a few occasions.
"I love Chris, and he's the bane of my existence at the same time because he started that damn Rachel, which was not my best look," she told Allure in 2011. "How do I say this? I think it was the ugliest haircut I've ever seen."
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In 2013, Aniston told Marie Claire that "'The Rachel' was high maintenance."
"I got that haircut and was like, ‘Wow, this is amazing,’ and then I was totally left with this frizzy mop on my head, because I had no idea how to do what he did," she later said at the 2018 InStyle Awards.
In Matthew Perry's memoir, "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing," the actor spoke out about the history-making negotiation between the cast and executives. Perry recalled David Schwimmer receiving a lot of positive attention following the first season, revealing it was his idea to negotiate salaries as a team.
"It was a decision that proved to be extremely lucrative down the line," Perry wrote. "His decision served to make us take care of each other through what turned out to be a myriad of stressful network negotiations, and it gave us a tremendous amount of power."
He wrote that by season eight, the entire cast was making $1 million per episode. Perry thanked Schwimmer in his book for "making us stick together when he could have gone it alone and profited more than all the rest."
At the time, People reported, both Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston took a pay cut in order to make sure the whole cast was paid equally. Aniston spoke about her decision to negotiate as a team during a 2021 interview on "The Howard Stern Show," explaining "we were all doing the exact same amount of work," and that she "wouldn't have felt comfortable knowing [she] was making more."
"We all felt that way," Courteney Cox added. "I thought it was the most important thing — as we all did — that we all were equal in every single way. That was the first time that people had all stuck together in a cast. I think it was scary, probably, for productions after that."
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When the Rembrandts were first approached to write the theme song for "Friends," they were asked by the creators of the show to come up with something similar to a song by the band R.E.M. During an interview with Buzzfeed News, band members Danny Wilde and Phil Solem explained they sat down with composer Michael Skloff and lyricist Allee Willis one day, and two days later were in the recording studio.
"That's where we hashed out the idea and made sure all the parts work," Solem said. "Allee was sending faxes with the lyrics on them, like, 'Here's a new line!' 'Try this one!' 'How about this?' At the end of the day, we had a rough version… So, it was over the course of three days that we were actually working on it. And then, what seemed like five seconds later, it was on TV."
The song's signature four claps were added in as a final touch, and in an effort to have a hand in the creation of the song, show creators Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane wanted to record the claps themselves. Wilde recalled having to do over 25 takes to get the clapping right.
Initially, the song was only written as a 45-second tune to use for the show's intro. After a Nashville radio station played the song on a loop for three minutes, Wilde explained "it got a crazy amount of requests," prompting them to write the rest of the song.
"Here's what was really crazy: At that point, the producers got in on the writing. So we all just sat around, tossing ideas around," Solem said. "There was a lot of interaction. It was, like, seven people!"
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When the full version of the song was released, the cast of "Friends" was featured in the music video.
In his recent memoir, Matthew Perry discussed his addiction to both alcohol and prescription medication, admitting during an interview with Diane Sawyer that he took 55 Vicodin a day, as well as taking Methadone, Xanax and drinking copious amounts of vodka each day.
"You can track the trajectory for my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season," Perry wrote in his memoir. "When I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills; when I have a goatee, it’s a lot of pills."
While Perry said all five of his "Friends" castmates attempted to help him behind the scenes, he explained that Jennifer Aniston was the one who called him out on his alcohol abuse a few times. He wrote she came up to him and said, "We know you're drinking," and recalled the moment when speaking to Sawyer, saying, "Yeah, imagine how scary a moment that was."
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"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).
This verse comes from the Book of Isaiah, one of the latter prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
Isaiah, whose name means "the Lord saves," is sometimes referred to as the "prince of prophets," said the website Bible Study Tools.
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It is unclear if he wrote the entirety of the Book of Isaiah, but the events in it are believed to have occurred about seven centuries prior to the birth of Christ.
Even for the most devout believers, God's timing can feel very frustrating, Pastor Jesse Bradley of Auburn, Washington told Fox News Digital.
Bradley is pastor of Grace Community Church.
"How do you respond when your dreams are delayed, your hopes are hindered and your expectations are erased?" he said.
"Your life is going in one direction — then something happens that you never wanted. It tests you to the core."
A person must realize that his or her "plans and preferences are very different than reality" — and that God's timing "initially doesn't make any sense."
"There is massive disappointment, and you are tempted to wander down a road of darkness, despair and defeat," said Bradley.
Yet the verse in Isaiah serves as a reminder that while God's timing may not line up with expectations, it is better than anything humanity is capable of knowing.
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"Delays do not mean denial," said Bradley. "A person's story is not over yet."
Bradley's own life story shows that God's timing does not necessarily match up with man's own plans.
After playing soccer at Dartmouth College, Bradley pursued a professional career overseas.
"As a goalkeeper in Zimbabwe, my career ended with a tragic illness," he revealed.
"I was fighting for my life for one year, and it took 10 years to fully recover."
Bradley had envisioned his 20s as a decade of athletic achievements, marriage and financial prosperity, yet and it was anything but.
"As it played out, I experienced many serious and chronic physical symptoms, was battling for my mental health daily, with waves of anxiety and depression, was single and ran out of money — moving into my parent's basement," he said.
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Bradley offered advice to Bronny James, an 18-year-old basketball phenom who recently suffered a cardiac arrest during practice at the University of Southern California.
Right now it is unclear if James will ever be able to play basketball again.
"We have a timetable in our hearts and minds, and life doesn’t submit to it," he said.
"God is never contained in our boxes, too. There is mystery as to what God causes, when God allows, the times God is actually against the outcome as we unnecessarily and cruelly hurt each other, and when the enemy of our souls comes to steal, kill and destroy," said Bradley.
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And while a person cannot find the answers to every question, people "can always chose their responses."
Said Bradley, "When you feel like God is moving too slowly or too quickly, you have the option to make some internal and external shifts … Bronny James has time now to listen closely to doctors, his body and God."
Amid his own health issues, Bradley told Fox News Digital that he "found my strength in the Lord" — and began reading and memorizing the Bible.
"I wrote down 10 blessings at night to preserve my attitude with a gritty gratitude," he said.
He added, "Abiding with Jesus became my top priority."
Said Bradley, "I learned that I can pour out my heart to God in prayer — and God can and will carry my heaviest burdens. I began to receive God’s love in fresh ways, instead of a performance-based identity and trying to achieve his favor," he said.
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"God’s grace flooded my soul at the lowest points of my life."
James — or anyone else attempting to cope with less-than-ideal timing — should "cultivate habits that renew their minds, make room for God and bring healing," said Bradley.
"Build on islands of strength. Take the next step, do the right thing and be intentional and faithful," he said. "There are no limits to what God can do."
In the end, "God is the One who ultimately decides when to bring us home," said Bradley.
And as Christ died for the sins of humanity and defeated death, humanity has "an indestructible hope," he added.
"If you want to have your sins forgiven, and enjoy the peace of God, and live eternally, then receive the Lord Jesus as your Savior and follow Him. Hope is relational," said Bradley.
"Your hope is only as strong is the one in whom you trust."
With his health challenges, Bradley told Fox News Digital that he "realized that every day is a gift from God" and that "God used the pain to fuel and forge new purpose and passion."
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Bradley said, "I didn’t have hope until I lost it. Now I am able to spread hope around the world."
Hope is available to everyone — and "there is a hope for greater than our challenges," he said.
"God’s timing is perfect, because his character and eternity is perfect," he said.
"You can trust him when you feel frustrated because he is faithful forever. During the most devastating moments, remember to lift up your eyes."
He said, "Look to the One who weeps with you, knows every detail and sees perfectly the big picture," he said.
He added, "You can have a security that transcends your initial disappointments with timing. God’s greatest gift is his presence." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/gods-timing-is-perfect-even-when-things-seem-to-go-wildly-wrong-says-washington-pastor/article_3dbcbfba-eb20-5338-ab53-79491425cb92.html | 2023-07-30T17:19:18 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/gods-timing-is-perfect-even-when-things-seem-to-go-wildly-wrong-says-washington-pastor/article_3dbcbfba-eb20-5338-ab53-79491425cb92.html |
"Sound of Freedom" shattered box office expectations, raking in over $140 million across the U.S. and casting a spotlight on one of the most overshadowed problems in today's world.
Human trafficking survivor Bishop Donna Hubbard said she's not surprised by the film's success, however, and praised it for raising so much awareness that even congressional lawmakers are jumping in to call for action.
Hubbard joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday where she weighed in on the issue. "[This is] something that is so personal for me, but it's also the number one human rights issue in the world, in our generation and in our time," she said.
'SOUND OF FREEDOM' STAR WARNS IT'S A ‘DANGEROUS’ TIME FOR CHILDREN: THEY ARE ‘IN THE CROSSHAIRS’
She later added, "The trafficking of people of color did not just begin with the human trafficking movement, so that we need to understand that it was beyond our comprehension to think about trafficking children. However, trafficking people of color from around the world, whether it was the Caribbean or Africa, has happened for many, many years, long before this. But the fact that human trafficking now knows no gender, no age, no ethnicity, it is, like I said, the number one human rights issue. That [the movie] brings it to the forefront of the conversation."
"It's not a surprise that this movie became popular or that it's such a hit because now people are identifying human trafficking as more than just sexual exploitation."
SENATE REPUBLICANS CITE ‘SOUND OF FREEDOM’ TO DEMAND HEARINGS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING, BIDEN'S BORDER POLICIES
In D.C., Senate Republicans are demanding hearings on human trafficking and the Biden administration's border policies, noting that the film shed light on the crisis.
Sens. Ron Johnson, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul and Tom Cotton are among several lawmakers who signed a letter calling for the hearings, citing an estimated 17,500 victims each year.
The GOP officials allege the Biden administration's "open border policy" fortifies the drug, sex and human trafficking industry.
Meanwhile, the film, starring Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, and more, has garnered criticism from some who allege its most outspoken advocates have ties to conspiracy-based group QAnon.
Media outlets, including the U.K.'s The Guardian and Jezebel are mong those that have drawn the link.
SUCCESS OF ‘SOUND OF FREEDOM’ PROVES THAT AUDIENCES ARE ‘HUNGRY’ FOR ENTERTAINMENT WITH VALUES, CRITIC SAYS
Despite the apparent hate, others, like Hubbard, tout the film as a beacon of hope and healing for victims who are not being heard.
"I think it's most important that people are truly informed about all forms of trafficking, because for so many years, human trafficking was just considered as sexual exploitation. And I think that we know now human trafficking is so much more than sexual exploitation," Hubbard told Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy.
"We have to really identify all forms of human trafficking, and those include involuntary organ donors, sex, sexual exploitation and, of course, pornography. But we also have to look at child soldiers and child brides, how they relate to modern times and our inner city situations with children, adoption, how some of those have been used by traffickers as well. Then, of course, there is labor trafficking and labor trafficking being the number one form of trafficking based on international labor organization statistics."
She said the other aspect of human trafficking that needs to be up for discussion is how children are enticed into it, particularly with regard to social media recruitment and how, in many cases, victims are criminalized themselves.
"Legislators have to begin to look at not criminalizing the victims. So often victims are criminalized themselves, as in my case, but so often victims are criminalized that we forget to look at the backside of human trafficking. And I think all of that needs to be considered," she said.
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The ‘Barbie’ bonanza continues at the box office, ‘Oppenheimer’ holds the No. 2 spot
NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Barbie,” the pink-infused pop sensation, has seen remarkably sustained business following its year-best $162 million opening. Its ticket sales dipped only 43%.
“Barbie” has also outpaced Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” to notch the best first two weeks in theaters of any Warner Bros. release. It’s rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie” has made at least $20 million.
“Oppenheimer,” from Universal Pictures, again landed in second place with an estimated $46.2 million. It, too, held especially strong in its second weekend, with sales decreasing just 44%. Nolan’s three-hour drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million thus far.
With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to a film industry still recovering ground it lost during the pandemic, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. Its domestic total stands at $139.2 million.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
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(iSeeCars) — The average new car costs $43,528, while the average one-to-five-year-old used car costs $34,291 according to the latest iSeeCars data.
While used cars are significantly cheaper than new cars, both are still a major expense. That’s why it’s important to set a realistic budget and determine how much money you can afford to pay for your new — or new to you — car. We have the answers to help you determine that age-old question: how much car can I afford?
- Determine Your Credit Score
Unless you’re paying for your car in full, you’ll need to secure a car loan. The first step toward getting a car loan and figuring out how much you can afford to pay is determining your credit score. This can also be referred to as your “FICO score” and is a numerical representation of your credit history. The three major credit reporting agencies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – can each provide you with your FICO credit score. Another option is to check with your bank or credit card companies. Many of these institutions also provide a free credit monitoring service that will tell you your credit score.
A credit report, as well as monitoring services, also include a record of your credit history, including any items that are lowering your credit score. The higher your credit score, the better loan term you will be able to secure. Car manufacturers and dealerships will advertise special payment terms like zero-percent financing, but it’s important to remember those terms typically only apply to buyers with favorable, if not top-tier, credit scores.
If your credit score is low, you should try to boost your number before you purchase a car. You should aim for a credit score of 680 or above, but higher is always better. You can start by making sure you make your credit card and loan payments — especially any auto loan payments — on time. Resolve any past-due accounts, and pay down as much of the balance on your loans as you can, especially revolving credit accounts. You should also avoid opening new accounts, as frequent inquiries to the credit bureaus seeking new credit can lower your credit score.
While a good credit score isn’t required to secure a car loan, it will afford you a better annual percentage rate (APR) on the interest you’ll have to pay. The higher interest rate you have, the more you will end up paying in the long run. If you are unable to achieve a favorable credit score, another option is to get a co-signer on your loan. Your co-signer will agree to make loan payments if you default on your loan, which can lower an otherwise high interest rate.
- Determine Your Down Payment
Making a down payment will lower the amount of the loan, or principle, you will need to take out, which will reduce your monthly payment. This also reduces the overall interest you’ll pay on the loan over time. While this can help make a car easier to afford, don’t deplete your savings account. Be sure to keep enough money on hand for whatever surprises might come your way. Dealers and lenders may offer deals for zero down payment financing, but you can still put money down to shorten the length of your loan and reduce your monthly payment.
- Estimate the Value of Your Trade-In
The process of trading in your car begins with determining how much your car is worth. Major factors that impact your car’s value include how many miles it has on the odometer and its overall condition. Having your vehicle professionally detailed can also boost the trade-in value for your current vehicle.
Several websites, including Edmunds (Edmunds.com) and Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com) have valuation tools that will give you a ballpark estimate on the value of your car. Make sure you are as honest as possible in answering any questions about your car’s condition. Some valuation tools offer an estimate specifically for trade-in value, but that’s just what it is – an estimate.
You can also sell your car to a private buyer, which will be more profitable than trading your car into a dealership. In this instance, you can price your car in accordance with its market value, which is higher than your car’s trade-in value. A car’s trade-in value is the amount of money a car dealer will offer you for your vehicle, whereas market value, also referred to as private party value, is the amount of money you would get selling your car directly to a buyer. Because dealerships handle the complex process of selling the vehicle, they offer a lower trade-in value to ensure they make a profit when they sell the car.
There are helpful online tools like the iSeeCars Price My Car Tool, which provide a detailed pricing report to help calculate your used car’s value. Simply enter your vehicle’s VIN or provide its make, model, year, trim, style, and mileage.
Whether you decide to sell your car privately or trade-in at the dealership, you can apply your car’s value toward the purchase price of your next vehicle, along with your down payment if you’re making one.
- Calculate Your Car Budget
Setting a monthly budget will guide your new or used car search. As a general rule of thumb, your car payment should not exceed 10 percent of your monthly income, and your total car expenses (fuel, maintenance, car insurance, registration) should not exceed 15 percent of your monthly take-home pay, which is the amount of money you make each month after taxes. Or, if you’re paying in cash, determine the amount you’re willing to pay for your vehicle. You can use the 15 percent rule as a guide, but if you have other major monthly expenses like student loans, you should determine a monthly payment you can comfortably afford.
- Determine Your Car Loan Amount
After you determine your monthly payment amount, you can determine how much you can borrow from a lender for your car purchase. One way to do this is by obtaining a pre-approval letter from a financial institution, which will review your credit history to determine how much money they will loan you. Keep in mind that you might be pre-approved for more than you can afford, so make sure you stick to your budget. You can also use a car affordability calculator, which is available on many personal finance websites, by entering your credit score, estimated monthly payment, and desired loan term. Remember — the shorter your loan term, the less you will pay in interest over time. Don’t be tempted to stretch out your loan term in order to have a lower monthly payment, because you’ll end up paying more in the long term. For example, if you purchase a $25,000 used car and put $4,000 down with an interest rate of 4.5 percent, your monthly payment on a four-year loan will be roughly $625 and you will pay $1,488 in interest over the duration of the loan. If you spread the loan out over five years with a higher interest rate of 5 percent, you will pay roughly $396 per month and nearly double, $2,778, in total interest. While a smaller monthly payment might seem appealing, it will cost you a lot more in the long run.
It’s important to note that most lenders will not provide a loan on a vehicle that’s more than five years old, so if you are relying on the financing you should consider a later model used vehicle.
- Shop Around for the Best Loan Rates
You should always visit a bank or credit union to get pre-approved for a loan before you go to the dealership. Even if you plan on securing an auto loan through the dealership, having a pre-approval option from a financial institution can help you negotiate against the dealer’s rate. It will also show them that you are a serious buyer, which will give you more bargaining power. Because dealers make more money on vehicles they finance, they will likely try to beat the rates you’ve already secured.
- New Car or Used Car?
When purchasing a vehicle, you have the choice of buying a new or used car. Although they are more expensive, there are perks to buying a new vehicle, including peace of mind, the reduced likelihood of unexpected repair bills, and warranty coverage. New cars also typically come with lower interest rates and financial incentives.
According to an iSeeCars study on off-lease car deals, the average used car loses 39 percent of its value after three years. When you buy a used car, the largest percentage of depreciation has already been absorbed by the original owner, and you get the car at a much lower price. You can even buy a car that is just one year old, which will typically cost 17 percent less than its new version. However, in today’s market, some lightly used cars cost more than their new versions, so be sure to compare the cost of new and lightly used vehicles. You may find that buying a new car is a better financial decision than purchasing a lightly-used one.
If you’re purchasing your used car through a franchise dealer, you will have the option to purchase a certified pre-owned (CPO) car. (Check out our handy guide to learn what does certified pre-owned mean? to better understand the CPO car buying process.) CPO cars are typically used cars that are less than five-years-old and have fewer than 75,000 miles on the odometer. CPO cars typically cost slightly more than non-certified used cars, but they are backed by manufacturer warranties and may also carry special financing. CPO cars combine the best of both the new and used car worlds, by offering added warranty protection on a late-model used car.
- Buying or Leasing?
Another factor to consider is whether you want to buy or lease your vehicle. If you choose to lease, you don’t need to finance because you’re not buying the car. You just need to be able to afford the down payment and the monthly payments. If you don’t want to borrow from a bank and take out a loan, leasing could be your best option. Your lease payments typically cost less money than what you would pay for a monthly car payment if you were buying the vehicle. You can also get a much nicer car for your money and get to drive a new car every few years. Another benefit of leasing is that you don’t have to pay for repairs, as issues with your car that occur during your lease term are usually covered by the car’s factory warranty.
The downside to leasing is that you never own the vehicle. As soon as your leasing term ends, you will begin the cycle again. If you purchase a vehicle, you will likely be able to enjoy several years without a car payment, provided that you don’t take out too long of a loan term. Another drawback is that car leases come with mileage limits, which commonly range from 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year. If you exceed those mileage limits, you will have to pay excessive mileage fees, which can get expensive. Lastly, the upfront cost to lease is usually more than if you were purchasing. You might need to put down a larger down payment due to your credit score, and it’s likely that the dealership will often want the first month’s payment as well.
For more information on leasing vs. buying a car, refer to our guide.
- Be Sure to Factor In Extra Costs
It’s important to make sure you budget for more than the advertised price of the car. While each state has different taxes and associated fees, you can expect to pay an extra 10% on top of the purchase price to cover the total cost of the vehicle. This includes sales tax, which is typically 5 percent to 10 percent depending on your state. There’s also documentation and registration fees, which also vary by state and the amount can be found on your state’s department of motor vehicles website. If you’re financing the vehicle, it’s important to understand you’ll also be paying interest on the financed portion of the vehicle. You should also research the car’s ownership costs to get a better understanding of what you’ll be paying per month. Car insurance is a major added expense, and it will cost more on later-model used vehicles. Be sure to check with your insurance agent before you purchase the vehicle to get an idea of what your new monthly rate will be. Be aware that used car insurance rates are also higher on sports cars and performance vehicles. You can also take the opportunity to shop around with other auto insurance companies to compare insurance quotes to ensure you’re getting the best rate. If you’re purchasing an SUV or a less fuel-efficient vehicle, you should also factor in additional fuel costs to make sure there is room in your budget. (You can refer to our list of Best Gas Mileage Cars to help reduce your fuel costs.)
- Find the Right Car
Once you’ve determined your budget, you can now search for cars within your budget. Helpful car websites and search engines have made it easier and more convenient than ever to find the right car to meet your needs. Car search engines like iSeeCars.com equip buyers with all the information they need to find the right vehicle.
- Beware of Depreciation
The depreciation on a new car means there’s a much greater loss in its value in the first few years after purchase compared to a used car. After all, The average new car loses nearly half its value after five years. If you’re going to keep your new car for the life of your loan, which will likely be between 5 and 7 years, that’s not a concern. But if you decide to switch cars earlier, the vehicle’s depreciation represents a significant ownership cost. If you plan to switch cars every few years you’ll save a lot of money buying cars that are at least 3 years old. Keep in mind that cars depreciate at different rates, so buying a car that best holds its value is a smart purchase decision.
12. Find the Best Price
Now that you’ve selected which models you’re interested in, you can do your research to find the best deal. While this mainly applies to used cars, which vary greatly in pricing, you can also do research to see which dealerships and manufacturers are offering the best new car incentives and finance rates. You may find that you can afford a more expensive vehicle than you anticipated if you spot a good deal.
Used car search engine iSeeCars.com uses data to objectively rank millions of cars and thousands of dealers, providing helpful insights and guidance to car buyers to find a good car at a good price from a trustworthy seller. Used car search engines and research sites allow you to easily compare prices and features like warranties, vehicle histories, and condition. Tools like the iSeeCars free VIN check will provide you with a pre-purchase analysis to ensure you are making the smartest purchase decision possible. It will also alert you to any red flags that could end up costing you money down the road. This includes:
- Pricing Analysis – Calculates the car’s fair value based on the local market and maps similar cars for sale locally.
- Condition – Analysis of mileage on the odometer, positives and negatives about the vehicle’s features and condition, and other resources like theft record, recalls.
- Depreciation – Estimates how much the car will depreciate over 1, 3, and 5 years
- Supply Analysis –Identifies similar vehicles for sale within the local area.
- Best Time to Buy – Analyzes when or what months may get you a better price.
- Vehicle History – Free CARFAX or Autocheck reports when provided by the seller.
Bottom Line
Whether you’re buying or leasing a car, it’s important to understand that you’ll likely keep your vehicle for several years. When taking out an auto loan or signing a lease contract, do your best to anticipate your future financial situation and make sure you’ll be able to make payments for the duration of the payment term. Also, when you determine how much you can afford to pay for a vehicle, you can still shop for cars that cost less than that amount. Just like it’s important to do your research and shop around for a vehicle, the same rule extends to auto loans. Follow our steps and you will find the best car at the best price within your budget.
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A U.S. District Court in Mississippi on Tuesday temporarily blocked a voting law in the state that was supposed to go into effect July 1. The law, known as Senate Bill 2358, creates new restrictions for who can assist someone while voting by mail.
Voting rights and disability rights advocates, who filed the lawsuit, argue Mississippi's law violates a federal protection that allows a voter to choose who helps them cast a ballot.
In his order striking down the law, U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate wrote, "voting polls are expected to extend outstretched hands of welcome and provide unfettered access to conscientious citizens anxious to enjoy 'participatory democracy'- whether those citizens be among the vulnerable and the disabled."
SB 2358, which was signed into law earlier this year, set new limits on who can collect and transmit a ballot that was mailed to someone else. In Mississippi, the state's absentee-by-mail voting program is for limited groups of voters — people out of town on Election Day, people 65 or older and people with a temporary or permanent physical disability.
Under the new law, though, only election officials, postal workers, a family member or household member or a caregiver would be able to assist these voters in mailing back their ballot. The law also set new criminal penalties. Under SB 2358, not following these restrictions is punishable by imprisonment of up to one year in county jail and/or a fine of up to $3,000.
Opponents of Mississippi's law say voters should be able to choose who helps them vote — including a friend or someone from a community organization.
Ahmed Soussi, a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in a written statement that "Mississippians may now continue to assist voters without the fear of prosecution."
"We are glad that the Court recognized the federal guarantee to voters with a disability or language barrier to select a person of their choice to provide them assistance," he said. "What is important now is to make sure everyone who is eligible to vote does vote in the upcoming elections."
Supporters of the Mississippi law argued it was necessary to prevent ballot harvesting, which is when someone collects and returns other people's ballots.
Many Republicans have argued this practice leads to vote stealing and fraud, which studies have found to be extremely rare in United States elections.
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said in a video address earlier this year that across the country "bad actors have used ballot harvesting to take advantage of elderly and vulnerable voters." He said the practice is an effort to undermine the democratic process.
"Senate Bill 2358 is now law and Mississippi's elections are safer because of it," Reeves said.
However, Judge Wingate wrote that state and local election officials were "unable to provide any data illustrating whether Mississippi has a widespread ballot harvesting problem" when asked in court.
"Seemingly, no fact-findings or committee-finding investigations or legislative committee inquiries have focused upon this perceived threat," he wrote. "This may explain why the definitional approach of the statute is so barren."
The court's injunction blocking SB 2358 applies to Mississippi's upcoming general election in November — as well as the state's August primary, which is currently underway.
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Tech is expensive, and there are endless ways to ruin yours. Scan this list of five ways you might be destroying your phone, laptop, tablet and TV.
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Now, some bad news: Your smartphone hates the heat. Smartphones work best between 35 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Colder or hotter, you risk hardware damage and shorter battery life.
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Stick to the shade. Be careful not to set your phone in the sun. Aim for the shade if you’re outside — or even in the car. Don’t set it on the sunny passenger’s seat. That’s a one-way drive to overheating.
Take off your phone case. They trap heat, which can be more or less problematic depending on the material it's made from. Just be extra careful not to drop it and crack your screen. I keep one of these screen protectors on for this very reason.
Stuck outside or in a warm room? You want to make your phone as lightweight as you can, process-wise. Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and demanding apps. Games with lots of graphics, video streaming and other resource-intensive tasks can strain your phone’s hardware and cause it to overheat.
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Your computer is at risk, too
This can happen any time of year, but the hotter it is, the more likely your laptop or even desktop can overheat. And, like your phone, hot temperatures can do some real damage to the internal components. Try these steps.
Bust the dust: You’ll need a small screwdriver set, a can of compressed air (or an electric duster that never runs out) and some cotton swabs.
Improve your laptop’s airflow. Your computer can overheat if it can’t circulate enough air to stay cool. Make sure it’s sitting on a hard surface like a desk. If you lay your laptop on a bed or blanket, the uneven surface blocks the vents and can cause overheating. Put it on a book, a tray or a cooling pad to keep air flowing.
Close everything you can. Yep, too many processes can create too much heat in your PC or laptop, too. Dozens of tabs could be heating things up more than you think. Restart your computer while you’re at it to close down processes running in the background.
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
(AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency.
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.
“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the judge wrote in his decision.
Email messages seeking comment were sent to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages seeking comment also were sent to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.
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(Green Car Reports) — GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt EV this week—as a future affordable EV product peg for the company’s product plan.
While the timeline is yet to be disclosed for the revamped Bolt EV, the timeline for the current Bolt EV disappearing from dealerships remains confirmed.
In April, GM disclosed that it would discontinue the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV at the end of 2023, as production winds down at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. GM had already committed that plant to produce the Chevrolet Silverado EV and other large electric trucks on its Ultium platform.
“Drawing on various Ultium and Ultifi technological advancements will help GM bring this popular model back to market on an accelerated timeline,” GM said Tuesday, confirming that the future Bolt EV won’t carry over its existing propulsion tech.
Future Bolt EV won’t be all-new
The automaker also suggested that not everything on the Bolt EV will be new. GM noted that it “will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
Ultium is the broad trade term applying to GM battery and electric propulsion families, and Ultifi is the term applying to its EV software, so this simply means that the future Bolt EV won’t carry forward with its present-generation LG Chem cells. Those cells had been the focus of a very costly, large-scale recall that appears to have been worth the effort, leaving customers satisfied and loyal to the brand and nameplate.
GM had no incentive to carry the current Bolt EV’s battery tech forward anyhow.
“We’re already on the road to delivering a 60% cost reduction compared to the Bolt EV with the next generation of Ultium,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021, of tech set to arrive mid-decade, as part of a statement touting the automaker as one of the few to have an EV that’s as affordable as the Bolt family.
Did GM ever actually kill the Chevy Bolt EV?
GM executives had already hinted to Green Car Reports and other outlets that while future electric small cars might be in the works, those vehicles wouldn’t use the same large-format Ultium pouch cells that GM planned to deploy on everything from the Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV on up to big trucks such as the GMC Hummer EV and Chevy Silverado EV.
Likewise, GM and Honda announced in April 2022 that they were working together on a joint architecture for affordable EVs—one that would use “next-generation Ultium battery technology,” according to GM.
At that time, those compact EVs were set to arrive for 2026. It’s hard to imagine GM working on multiple compact EV platforms outside China, so this week’s announcement likely signals that the project has been pulled ahead—perhaps like how the automaker managed to accelerate development of the Cadillac Lyriq.
GM may have provided some of the answer to what comes next. Earlier this year the company clarified that it might include the flexibility of cylindrical cells in future EVs, as part of its Ultium tech but not as part of the Ultium Cells LLC joint venture. That was made clearer this April with the announcement of a joint venture between GM and Samsung SDI that will mass-produce cylindrical cells for GM products starting in 2026.
The lower-profile cells would help answer the dimensional challenges that make those large-format cells harder to package within a small car or beneath the floor of a low-profile vehicle.
Bolt EV’s manufacturing dilemma
While the Bolt EV’s Michigan plant shifts to electric truck production later in the year, the automaker doesn’t have other immediate options for U.S. manufacturing. GM vacated its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that used to assemble compact cars and is located near the Ultium LLC cells facility. It’s now under the ownership of Foxconn, which will likely assemble the $29,900 Fisker Pear urban EV there.
Meanwhile, demand for the Bolt EV surges, and GM will face a gap in its lineup after the end of the year. Of the 36,024 EVs GM delivered in the first half of 2023, just 2,365 were of its new-generation Ultium EVs. The remaining 33,659 were Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
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In its update for investors earlier this week, CEO Barra pointed to the Bolt as one of its most in-demand vehicles, at or under a 10-day supply in dealer inventory.
“Actually, we can’t build enough Bolts right now,” Barra said to Wolfe Research analyst Rod Lache. | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ | 2023-07-30T17:19:35 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ |
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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TOKYO – Japanese police arrested a family of three in Hokkaido for allegedly decapitating a man and taking the head home.
The victim’s body was discovered on July 2 in a hotel room in the city of Sapporo, the capital of Japan’s northernmost prefecture. The victim, 62-year-old Hitoshi Ura, was found in a "love hotel" in Susukino, a red-light district in Sapporo City.
The story made waves in Japan earlier this week when police arrested Runa Tamura, 29, and her father, psychiatrist Osamu Tamura, on charges of mutilation of a corpse, theft, and disposal of a body.
Police also arrested Tamura's mother after searching the family’s home and discovering the victim’s head. Police collected clothes, a suitcase and other items as potential evidence.
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The victim had attended a disco event popular among members of the LGBT community before checking in at a love hotel where the incident occurred. Love hotels often rent out rooms nightly or by the hour and are routinely utilized for sexual activities.
According to the Hokkaido Shimbun, investigators said the hotel’s security camera showed the victim entering the hotel with someone carrying a large suitcase. Ura checked in with his companion around 11 p.m. on July 1. One person was captured on camera leaving with the large suitcase later that night. Police also suspect that the father dropped off and picked up Runa from the hotel. The footage appeared to show two women checking into the hotel. Ura was known in the red-light district as a cross-dresser who frequented bars and clubs.
The grandfather of the suspect in the case was quoted in Shueisha Online and revealed unwanted sexual intercourse as a possible motive. The grandfather said after an alleged sexual assault he made Ura promise never to see his granddaughter again. However, Ura allegedly attempted see her again, which may have prompted the events that followed, he claimed.
When the grandfather scolded the parents for not reporting the alleged assault to law enforcement, the father replied that "He said he would never do it again and never show his face again, so we settled the matter ourselves," according to the statement the grandfather made. The family told the grandfather about this over the phone the day the father and daughter were arrested, the report stated.
Police suspected Runa Tamura was the person who went with the victim to the hotel after conducting interviews with local stores and restaurants in Susukino.
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Shueisha Online also reported that the murder victim frequented bars and clubs known for sexual activities and would often dress as a woman.
The victim was married with a family and was respected in his community. His wife filed a missing persons report on July 3. Police and family were then able to identify the body.
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Community Link: Flanner House celebrates 125 years
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Each week in Community Link, Carolene Mays takes a look at an organization or business that is making a positive impact on the community.
This week, Mays was joined by Brandon Cosby, executive director at Flanner House.
Serving as a community hub of empowerment, the Flanner House helps individuals and families move toward self-sufficiency and stability.
Cosby says the Flanner House will be celebrating its 125th anniversary, and after all these years, the mission has always remained the same.
“It’s to work with individuals and families and community to move people from positions of crisis to self-reliance, self-determination, and self-sufficiency, and that can take on any number of different looks,” he said.
The Flanner House will be hosting its 7th Annual Black Business Block Party on Aug. 5 from 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. at 2424 Doctor Martin Luther King Jr St.
“It is a day-long event that will have more than 200 independent local black-owned businesses. Everything from doctors to lawyers, to artists, to fashion designers, and everything in between. There will be live music. This year we’ve added a midway, so there will be carnival rides. It is a tremendous event that we we’ve enjoyed watching grow over the course of the last several years,” Cosby said.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Orioles vs. Yankees on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Adley Rutschman, Gleyber Torres and others are available in the Baltimore Orioles-New York Yankees matchup at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, starting at 7:10 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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MLB Props Today: Baltimore Orioles
Dean Kremer Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Kremer Stats
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Dean Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- He has started 21 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in 10 of them.
- Kremer has started 21 games this season, and he's lasted five or more innings 17 times. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has two appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 21 chances this season.
- The 27-year-old's 4.59 ERA ranks 54th, 1.305 WHIP ranks 48th, and 8.1 K/9 ranks 43rd among qualified pitchers in the majors this year.
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Adley Rutschman Props
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +185)
Rutschman Stats
- Rutschman has 100 hits with 17 doubles, 14 home runs, 61 walks and 46 RBI.
- He's slashing .267/.369/.424 so far this season.
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Anthony Santander Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Santander Stats
- Anthony Santander has 97 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs, 38 walks and 57 RBI. He's also stolen three bases.
- He has a .253/.325/.467 slash line so far this year.
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Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Torres Stats
- Torres has collected 100 hits with 13 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs and 39 walks. He has driven in 44 runs with eight stolen bases.
- He has a .258/.323/.426 slash line so far this season.
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vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode
SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today held this year's Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, where it showcased a host of innovations in imaging technology. The company unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm customized V3 chip, as well as the latest algorithm technology. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the event, vivo also announced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly" crowned the Best Photograph of the Year.
Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visual artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the event to share their views on technological innovation and the future of mobile imaging.
"At vivo, we are committed to advancing 'human-centric professional imaging'. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life's most precious moments," said Mr. Yu Meng.
At a time when everyone can be a creator, vivo has been dedicated to providing exceptional user experience with innovative mobile imaging technology. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to expanding technological boundaries in partnership with other industry leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to boost its image technology strengths and improve the user experience in any scenario.
Unveiling the latest V3 chip and algorithm technology
The brand's latest V3 chip adopts a 6nm process and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP architecture and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) technology. The technology upgrade delivers a superior user experience by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automatic subject focus detection and switching, cinema-like skin optimization, and cinematic color processing. This makes vivo the first Android phone maker to enable 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing functions.
In addition to the launch of the new V3 chip, vivo has also announced a composite algorithm matrix solution. The company's new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances image quality, color, tone, and computing functionality by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for three sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo also developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based on the common portrait and night scene user scenarios. Additionally, vivo has been continuously upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to ensure the best possible shooting experience in various scenarios.
Building a prosperous image ecosystem with joint innovation
vivo's long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough innovations for X series, from generation to generation proving ZEISS technologies and iconic optical designs were adapted for vivo's flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to name just a few.
At the event, vivo and ZEISS jointly announced a periscope lens design with the new "Vario-Apo-Sonnar" standards. APO design is considered to have the level of the industry's top-quality control of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will be adapted to a mobile imaging system enhancing a high performance zoom quality.
Further leveraging the floating lens group technology in the periscope lens, aiming to provide ultra-high resolution and enhanced focusing capability, to enable users to achieve excellent macro shooting outcomes. At the same time, it also has a creamy bokeh effect that allows the subject to be further emphasized.
The T* Coating is ZEISS's signature technology for anti-reflective coating on optical surface. The co-engineered rear camera system in the vivo's X series has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and reduced significantly unwanted lens flares in images under challenging lighting conditions such as nighttime, strong backlighting, and complex light sources.
For vivo's upcoming X series flagship model, ZEISS T* Coating will be equipped with Multi-ALD technology to enhance further the image clarity, by reducing center reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the visible light spectrum. Compared with the previous generation of ALC coating, the reflectivity will be reduced by 50%.
In addition to product innovation and joint development, being user-oriented is in vivo's and ZEISS' joint belief. vivo is committed to further diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, including co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.
Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products said: "At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects."
vivo has announced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 series. Additionally, vivo plans to team up with Sony for further collaboration on technologies such as 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR in the future. vivo will also actively expand joint innovation research by collaborating with more industry partners, and with educational institutes such as ETH Zurich and other universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a more diversified and open mobile imaging ecosystem.
Creating professional portraits and the ultimate night scene experiences
vivo has formed a unique portrait style that blends clear texture, natural skin tones, and a balance of real and virtual effects across device iterations. In addition, the brand continues to research and develop 3D portrait technology with 3D facial reconstruction and virtual content.
To this end, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to establish a 3D image laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical field system, capable of reconstructing extremely delicate 3D models of human faces and producing highly realistic visual effects in virtual environments. Based on experience gained from past products and real-life business scenarios, the company's 3D models achieve precise facial expressions, body postures and gestures.
These technologies have been developed with three user scenarios in mind: generative portrait style, generative portrait editing, and various portrait special effects. Users will be able to take photos that perfectly balance real and virtual effects, edit photos powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.
vivo has introduced enhancements to its technical capabilities in image quality, tone, and color for landscape shooting. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to improve image quality and supply the most advanced quality solution for night scenes at all focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW technology offers exclusive parameter adjustment capabilities, meeting any professional imaging requirements for all focal lengths.
Based on VOIE, vivo has also introduced a True Color Night model powered by AI learning to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement enables adaptive tone and color adjustments for night scenes and for night scenes with high contrast, a comprehensive night HDR solution has been introduced to tackle viewing issues in preview, shooting and display modes. In addition, the new XDR Photo 2.0 adds a highlight color preservation mechanism for light sources with high dynamic range and saturation at night. This improves the overexposure for highlights without affecting the color performance of the light source and preserves the night scene.
In the future, vivo will work together with Adobe, Apple, and Google to improve HDR photo standardization and overcome the inconsistent display of HDR photos on different devices—making vivo the only Chinese company involved in the development of the IOS standards for HDR photos.
On top of vivo's original distinctive colors and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo's team has launched a series of rich and personalized colors, drawing inspiration from classic photography techniques, classic films, and masterworks.
2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners
During this year's Special Event at the Imaging Conference, vivo also announced the winners of this year's VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The top award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro 's "Let Me Fly", which is crowned the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competition included awards in six categories: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two special awards were also announced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.
Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has received nearly one million submissions from over 40 countries and regions. This year, vivo received submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and many other countries and regions.
Note: Please be aware that some of the features and technologies mentioned in this press release may currently only be available in the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of certain capabilities and functions may vary depending on your location.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 500 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
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Former President Trump’s legal crises are growing more serious this week and show no signs of fading, even as his 2024 bid for the White House barrels forward.
Federal prosecutors filed additional serious charges against Trump on Thursday over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, and anticipation has reached a fever pitch over whether Trump will be charged in Washington, D.C., for his conduct after the 2020 election.
Here are five takeaways from the latest legal developments around Trump.
The new documents case charges are serious
The additional charges filed in Thursday’s superseding indictment point to more serious allegations against Trump that could make his grip on the GOP more tenuous in the months to come.
Prosecutors laid out a new set of allegations that Trump acted with two aides in attempts to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago after prosecutors subpoenaed it in connection with their investigation in June 2022. Trump now faces two new obstruction charges in connection with the allegations.
The indictment also included a new charge over Trump’s retention of a classified document containing secret Pentagon plans to attack Iran. The document is at the center of a recorded conversation mentioned in the original indictment in which Trump is discussing the materials with individuals who did not have security clearances.
The former president has tried to claim that he may not have had the physical document at the time, but the fresh allegations suggest prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to bring charges over the incident.
The nature of the allegations are sure to fuel further charges from Trump’s critics that he is unfit for office.
“I’ve never been indicted and I am not a lawyer, but if you are deleting evidence, it is because you know you are committing a crime,” former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a 2024 presidential candidate, said Thursday night. “And anybody who supports this, anybody who defends this, is complicit in endangering America.”
Trump’s circle is increasingly implicated
The superseding indictment added a third defendant to the case: Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
De Oliveira joins longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta in being charged in connection with the former president’s retention of classified documents and possible obstruction of efforts to get them back.
The indictment alleges De Oliveira, 56, extensively pushed Mar-a-Lago’s director of information technology (IT) — who was not charged or named in the indictment — to delete surveillance footage after prosecutors subpoenaed it in June 2022 in connection with their investigation.
Other Trump associates could still be implicated in the ongoing investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, particularly over a scheme to appoint alternative electors that would flip the Electoral College in Trump’s favor.
“Sadly, I’ve made this statement to many different people … Walt Nauta, run. Carlos [De Oliveira], run,” said Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney who reached a deal with prosecutors in Manhattan and has since turned against the former president.
Volume of legal risks is on the rise
One concern for Trump is that the sheer volume of charges against him is mounting, increasing his legal exposure.
The superseding indictment in the documents case means Trump now faces a total of 40 criminal counts in that case alone, three more than he did previously.
Trump is separately facing 34 felony counts in Manhattan over allegations of a hush money scheme to keep quiet allegations of an affair.
And Trump may face charges elsewhere; he is still under federal investigation in Washington, D.C., and in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Legal experts have noted that the more charges Trump faces, the greater his risk of being convicted on even a single count. “If you had a choice, you wouldn’t want to be indicted in three different jurisdictions,” said one Republican strategist.
Jan. 6 charges loom
Trump attorneys met with special counsel Jack Smith’s office Thursday over the investigation into the former president’s efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
With an indictment seeming imminent, Trump’s lawyers sought to make the case for why their client should not be charged.
A grand jury has typically been meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays, though no indictment was announced this week.
Still, Trump has received a target letter in the case, typically a sign that prosecutors have enough evidence to charge an individual in an investigation.
On top of the anticipation that is building over charges in D.C., the former president is under investigation in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the state’s election results in 2020. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has indicated charges could be announced in August, setting up for yet another cycle of bad legal developments for the former president.
Trump ups pressure on GOP allies
As the legal pressure on Trump mounts, he has turned to some of his Republican allies to ratchet up their defenses.
Trump, in comments to Fox News Digital after the superseding indictment was filed, complained that the charges against him were “ridiculous” and that the Justice Department was abusing its power.
“Hopefully the Republican Party will do something about it,” Trump said.
The former president’s comments may turn up the heat on some of his supporters in the House, and even Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), to back funding cuts to the special counsel’s office. Such measures have been floated by staunch Trump allies such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
The reality for Republicans is they will have to continue to answer questions about Trump’s conduct as the cases against him develop and the charges potentially mount.
Trump, asked if he would end his 2024 campaign even if convicted, told conservative radio host John Fredericks, “not at all.”
“There’s nothing in the Constitution to say that it could. And not at all,” Trump said. “Even the radical left crazies are saying no, that wouldn’t stop. And it wouldn’t stop me either.” | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/5-takeaways-as-trumps-legal-troubles-mount/ | 2023-07-30T17:19:41 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/5-takeaways-as-trumps-legal-troubles-mount/ |
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Congress has no "authority" to regulate the high court, becoming the first justice to publicly speak out against Democratic lawmakers’ attempts to impose a code of ethics on the court.
Alito made the comments during an interview to the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, which was published Friday after Democrats pushed Supreme Court ethics legislation through a Senate committee.
"I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period," Alito said of Congress.
While the bill’s prospects in the full Senate are weak, Democratic lawmakers have sought to address the Supreme Court’s unique status as the only federal court created by the Constitution, which puts it outside an ethics code developed by the federal judiciary.
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The Democrats’ effort comes after ProPublica began reporting on the activity of Supreme Court justices, with one such report revealing that Alito had taken a luxury vacation in Alaska with a Republican donor who had business interests before the court.
The 73-year-old Alito, who joined the court in 2006, has rejected the idea that he should have disclosed the Alaska trip or stepped away from cases involving the donor, hedge fund owner Paul Singer. Alito penned his own Wall Street Journal op-ed, which was published hours before ProPublica posted its story.
Alito said in the latest column that while judges and justices typically don't respond to their critics, "at a certain point I’ve said to myself, nobody else is going to do this, so I have to defend myself."
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Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have criticized Alito for the recent interview.
"What a surprise, guy who is supposed to enforce checks and balances thinks checks shouldn’t apply to him," Ocasio-Cortez posted on social media. "Too bad! Corruption and abuse of power must be stopped, no matter the source. In fact, the court should be *most* subject to scrutiny, bc it is unelected & life appointed."
"Alito’s next opinion piece in the WSJ is about to be ‘I am a little king, actually. The Constitution doesn’t explicitly say I’m not,’" the congresswoman wrote in a separate post.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., also responded, calling for a code of ethics for justices of the high court.
"Let’s translate these statements from Justice Alito, real quick: What we do and how we do it, who pays for our trips and our vacations, or a family member’s tuition, is none of your damn business," Schiff wrote. "So buzz off. They need an enforceable code of ethics. Now."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/justice-alito-says-no-provision-in-constitution-allows-congress-to-regulate-supreme-court/article_93d6886f-7d7c-51a1-b872-a1b729527b5a.html | 2023-07-30T17:19:43 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/justice-alito-says-no-provision-in-constitution-allows-congress-to-regulate-supreme-court/article_93d6886f-7d7c-51a1-b872-a1b729527b5a.html |
‘All INdiana Politics’: July 30, 2023
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Sunday’s episode of “All INdiana Politics,” Garrett Bergquist sits down with Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita to discuss suing landlords who violate the terms of their leases, out-of-state landlords neglecting maintenance duties, housing law changes, what tenants can do, and much more.
Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats discusses former President Donald Trump’s new charges in a classified documents case, intel agencies working together to secure elections, intelligence breaching, and more.
Last but not least, Phil Sanchez sits down with two members of Indiana’s best political team, Democrat Destiny Wells and Republican Whitley Yates, to discuss former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s proposal to eliminate the Office of Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity if he is elected governor of Indiana. The trio also discuss Rokita’s call for stronger landlord-tenant laws, and the push for an impeachment of President Joe Biden.
“All INdiana Politics” airs at 9:30 a.m. Sundays on WISH-TV. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/allindianapolitics/all-indiana-politics-july-30-2023/ | 2023-07-30T17:19:45 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/allindianapolitics/all-indiana-politics-july-30-2023/ |
Orioles vs. Yankees Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Baltimore Orioles (63-41) host the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET on Sunday, with both teams hoping to win the series.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Orioles will send Dean Kremer (10-4) to the mound, while Luis Severino (2-4) will take the ball for the Yankees.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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- Probable Pitchers: Kremer - BAL (10-4, 4.59 ERA) vs Severino - NYY (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
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Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Dean Kremer
- The Orioles will hand the ball to Kremer (10-4) for his 22nd start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw seven innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run while allowing three hits.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in 21 games this season with a 4.59 ERA and 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .262.
- In 21 starts this season, he's earned 10 quality starts.
- In 21 starts this season, Kremer has lasted five or more innings 17 times, with an average of 5.5 innings per appearance.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Dean Kremer vs. Yankees
- The Yankees rank 21st in MLB with 454 runs scored this season. They have a .230 batting average this campaign with 144 home runs (sixth in the league).
- This season, the right-hander has pitched against the Yankees in two games, and they have gone 9-for-43 with two home runs and five RBI over 12 innings.
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Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Luis Severino
- The Yankees are sending Severino (2-4) out for his 12th start of the season. He is 2-4 with a 6.46 ERA and 45 strikeouts over 54 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, the righty threw 5 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.46, with 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season. Opponents are hitting .314 against him.
- Severino is trying to collect his fourth quality start of the year.
- Severino will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.9 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Luis Severino vs. Orioles
- He will take the hill against an Orioles offense that ranks 17th in the league with 869 total hits (on a .248 batting average). The team also slugs a collective .417 (10th in the league) with 122 total home runs (14th in MLB action).
- Head-to-head against the Orioles this season, Severino has pitched 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits while striking out three.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Four people are dead and two are hospitalized after two separate crashes on Saturday. Both incidents are connected to an annual air show in Wisconsin, according to officials.
The first crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. A T-6 Texan aircraft crashed into Lake Winnebago near Oshkosh, where the Experimental Aircraft Association is holding its annual fly-in convention, EAA AirVenture.
Both people aboard the aircraft died, according to EAA officials.
A few hours later, a Rotorway 162F helicopter and ELA 10 Eclipse gyrocopter collided in mid-air at the south end of the EAA AirVenture flight line at Wittman Regional Airport, killing two and injuring two others. Both of the injured are in stable condition, according to EAA.
The Oshkosh Fire Department said one of the aircraft landed on top of a parked plane, but did not clarify which.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating both accidents and has not provided a cause for either.
“Naturally, with the mid-air collision, somebody was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” EAA director of communications Dick Knapinski said. “How that occurred and why that occurred is what the NTSB will investigate and, from then, lessons will be learned as to what aviators can do to keep themselves safer.”
The investigation will likely take months to reach its conclusion.
“NTSB investigations typically take between a full year to 18 months to complete,” Knapinski explained. “They will have a preliminary investigation within the next week or so and then put out those findings. But the probable cause will probably take a year or more to determine by the board.”
The factors the NTSB will examine in its investigations include weather conditions, pilot experience, aircraft condition, flight pattern, and communication between ground and flight operations to determine the cause, which could be pilot error, a mechanical issue, or another reason, according to Knapinski. He described the weather as “mild” and likely not a contributing factor.
“Having accidents like this in the singular is very rare,” he said. “Having two fatal accidents take place on the same day is exceedingly rare.”
These are not the first incidents regarding aircraft at or en route to EAA this week. On Thursday, a single-engine plane bound for EAA AirVenture crash-landed in a cornfield in Green Lake County, hospitalizing two people.
On Tuesday, Knapinski said there was a “forced landing” east of the north/south runway at EAA AirVenture. The pilot was the only person onboard and was not injured.
Last Saturday, a single-engine ERCO Ercoupe headed to EAA AirVenture crashed in Fond du Lac County, injuring the pilot.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/4-killed-in-2-separate-aircraft-crashes-near-wisconsin-air-show/ | 2023-07-30T17:19:48 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/4-killed-in-2-separate-aircraft-crashes-near-wisconsin-air-show/ |
Age is but a number for Kate Beckinsale, who channeled her inner "Playboy" bunny days after turning 50.
Wearing a black sequined bodysuit with ripped tights, Beckinsale's outfit was adorned by signature bunny ears, a bow tie and sleeve cuffs.
Just days after her big birthday, Beckinsale kept the party going, writing she was off to celebrate her "birthday twin," in friend Oliver Gliese.
Beckinsale stunned in photos alongside her friends, who were also decked out in similar "Playboy" attire.
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The "Underworld" actress had celebrated her own big day on Wednesday, taking to Instagram to share the joy she has found in getting older.
"I tell you what. Getting old is f---ing great . Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the most magical day full of joy and love and dear dear friends and the odd bird (not me but also me)," she captioned her Instagram post, which featured pictures and videos of Beckinsale with friends and many peculiar animals.
Known for her candor, Beckinsale has previously slammed accusations that she has had plastic surgery to maintain her stunning looks.
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When a fan inquired on Instagram if Beckinsale had a facelift, the actress shot down the claims, writing, "no threads no thread lift no Botox no laser no nose job no filler," she wrote. "I do have facials with prp to boost collagen and micro current for skin tightening and oxygen. I probably would try laser but I’m a bit scared . Haven’t so far ."
The British star has also frequently made headlines for the men she has dated – many of whom are younger, including comedians Pete Davidson and Matt Rife.
"I witness men constantly doing whatever they like, whether that’s in relationships, or deciding to buy a motorbike, or getting a tattoo," she previously told Women's Health of a double standard for women and men in relationship with a large age gap. "It hasn’t been interpreted as, ‘Why hasn’t he had more children?’ or ‘Is he ever going to decide to become a parent?’ or ‘Why has he had so many girlfriends?'
"It can feel like a little bit of a political act to be a woman over 32 who’s having any fun at all," she elaborated. "And by that, I don’t mean doing drugs and drinking and partying, because I never am, but being goofy, and going out, and not going, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to sit home and anticipate menopause while crocheting.’ Unless you’re doing that, it somehow seems to be risqué, which is just ridiculous to me." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/kate-beckinsale-cosplays-as-playboy-bunny-days-after-50th-birthday/article_73ca9a2f-0b7e-59aa-bba9-4a2819ddb17c.html | 2023-07-30T17:19:49 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/kate-beckinsale-cosplays-as-playboy-bunny-days-after-50th-birthday/article_73ca9a2f-0b7e-59aa-bba9-4a2819ddb17c.html |
Explosion at Thailand fireworks warehouse kills at least 12 people
(CNN) — At least 12 people were killed and 121 injured in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in southern Thailand.
The incident – in the village of Mu No – reduced the warehouse and surrounding area to rubble, drone footage showed.
At least two of the victims were children, including a four-year-old boy and a eight-month-old baby girl, according to state run Radio Thailand.
Over a hundred houses were also damaged.
The cause of the explosion is under investigation but initial reports suggested there had been a welding error.
Police plan to charge the owner of the warehouse with a criminal offense for “causing the explosion and resulting in people’s deaths and injuries and property damage,” Narathiwat Provincial Police Commander Anuruth Imarb said in a press conference on Sunday.
“I have nothing left,” said Samsueya Chuenchompoo, whose house was destroyed, according to the AFP news agency.
“I don’t even have a roof over my head now. When there was a flood, I still could survive but now I really have nothing left.”
Fireworks accidents are not uncommon in Thailand. Several people were reportedly injured in another blast in the northern city of Chiang Mai earlier this week. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/explosion-at-thailand-fireworks-warehouse-kills-at-least-12-people/ | 2023-07-30T17:19:51 | 0 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/explosion-at-thailand-fireworks-warehouse-kills-at-least-12-people/ |
100 years ago
1923: Warren G. Harding, president of the United States, died at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, last night at 7:35 o’clock, of apoplexy, following an attack of ptomaine poisoning. The sad news of this untimely death in the prime of life of our beloved national leader comes with stunning force to a mourning nation. President Harding was making an extended tour of the United States and Alaska. Last Friday night he had an attack of ptomaine poisoning. His vitality was not high. He was very tired from excessively hard work for weeks prior to leaving Washington and since leaving the capitol had been pursued by matters of much importance which had to be attended to in spite of the strenuous features of the trip. The daily programs and the preparation of speeches for cities and towns, the meeting of countless thousands of men and women, and the necessary advance preparations for cities to still be visited taxed even rugged Warren B. Harding to the utmost. And behind all that, the severe attack of influenza he suffered last winter in Washington had reduced his vitality, probably far beyond his realization or that of his physicians and family.
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1948: The Sedona school house and gymnasium-auditorium, center of the civic and social life of the Oak Creek community, was completely destroyed by fire between 3 and 4 o’clock Monday afternoon after being struck by lightning. Tuesday Sturgeon Cromer, superintendent of schools of Flagstaff school district, and members of the school board went to Sedona to survey the situation and make plans for rebuilding or make other arrangements for the school year beginning in September. The new building under construction near the old structure was not damaged. It was to provide additional accommodations for the growing school.
Final Week! Little Miss America and All-American Boy Contest. If you have not already had your children’s pictures taken, do it now! It will be too late soon. Yes, you will be the judge to decide who the cutest kids in Flagstaff are. Ballots and pictures of all the entrants in the contest will be at Fronske Studio. Voting in the studio will begin July 30th and close Thursday, August 5th. There will be four final winners from Flagstaff: Girls from zero to three years old, tiny tot. Girls from three to seventeen year old, Little Miss America. Boy from zero to three years old, tiny tot. Boy from three to seventeen years old, All-American Boy. (ad)
50 years ago
1973: A 12-year-old Flagstaff-area girl was killed, four people were seriously injured and 32 people were checked for injuries at Flagstaff Community Hospital as the result of a diesel tractor-bus crash on Highway 89 North early today. The dead: Connie Dunmire, 12, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Dunmire of Doney Park, who was a passenger in the cab of the diesel tractor. The crash, which occurred shortly after midnight, put Community Hospital on an emergency disaster status and before the ordeal was over, 32 people were checked for various injuries. City police reported the bus was apparently attempting a U-turn in the highway to get in the southbound lane when its gear box went out and it stalled between two traffic medians. The southbound diesel tractor slammed into the side of the big vehicle, driven by Pastor Davis Harrell, knocked it 15 feet down the road and “ripped it open at the seams.”
Things are looking bad for several meat distributors in Flagstaff, but worse for butchers in rural parts of northern Arizona. Vaughn’s General Store in the Verde Valley has been hit hardest by a shortage of beef in connection with President Nixon’s Phase 4 Plan. “I can’t get carcass beef,” said Lee Vaughn. “I was getting between three and five head a week, but now we’ve had to ration our customers.” Vaughn said his customer reaction to the rationing was rather philosophical. “Most of them are older people and they’ve gone through this once before. They are mostly retired people so they understand. It’s the young people who will scream. They’re philosophical. I’m not. If they had never started those stupid freezes and price ceilings, this would never have happened. The law of supply and demand would have taken over — it always has.”
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1998: The new frontier in human genetics being explored by today’s scientists is worrisome to American Indians because it abruptly conflicts with their spirituality and world view, says Frank Dukepoo, a Hopi Indian who is a professor of genetics at Northern Arizona University and one of only two American Indian geneticists in the nation. Dukepoo is particularly concerned about the Human Genome Diversity Project, which is defined as a comprehensive study of genetic diversity, including the study of Indigenous people such as U.S. and Canadian Indians. The project, headed by Luca Cavalli-Sforza of Stanford University, has been under discussion for seven years by genetic researchers. The idea behind the project is to gather blood and other samples from tribes and ethnic groups around the world, some of them so small that their survival may be in doubt. While that might seem a positive goal, the sensitive aspect of the project is that its collection of genetic material from people in the study could then be used for a variety of biomedical or anthropological studies and possibly lead to commercialization of genetic products, Dukepoo said. American Indians take a holistic view of Mother Earth and her natural order, a profound belief in the sanctity of life and oppose any attempt to manipulate living organisms for purposes of profit, power and control. They also vehemently oppose the patenting of genetic information because they believe a person (or even part of a person) cannot be owned, he said.
Susan Johnson has lived in Flagstaff for over 30 years and loves to delve into her adopted hometown’s past. She has written two books for the History Press, Haunted Flagstaff and Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders, and, with her son Nick, manages Freaky Foot Tours. You’ll find her hiking the trails with her corgi, Shimmer.
All events were taken from issues of the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and the Coconino Sun. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-history-cromer-visited-sedona-after-lightning-destroyed-school/article_4788a3b8-2b18-11ee-ad4d-5fec2ac9c26f.html | 2023-07-30T17:19:52 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-history-cromer-visited-sedona-after-lightning-destroyed-school/article_4788a3b8-2b18-11ee-ad4d-5fec2ac9c26f.html |
(NEXSTAR) – Have you ever found yourself at a crosswalk, waiting for the walk sign to appear as traffic buzzes by. And even though you press the crosswalk button – maybe multiple times – it seems to take forever for the light to change in your favor.
While some slow-changing stop lights just need you to tell them you’re there, some crosswalk signals don’t care how many times you press the crosswalk button – it’ll change when it’s ready.
Let’s explain.
It’s not exactly clear when and where the first walk/don’t walk signs were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Records show it likely occurred in the 1930s, and they were much like they are today.
“When it was on, all traffic approaching the intersection stopped so pedestrians could cross the streets in all directions, including diagonally,” the DOT writes. One early system gave pedestrians 20 seconds to cross the street every 100 seconds. Another gave pedestrians the walk signal while traffic moving in the same direction had a green light.
About three decades later, crosswalk buttons began appearing. They were intended to allow vehicle traffic to continue moving smoothly until a pedestrian came along rather than frequently stopping traffic for nobody.
Today, many of those buttons are useless.
In Austin, Texas, for example, most of the downtown intersections have walk indicators that are part of the normal traffic cycle, the city’s Transportation and Public Works Department told Nexstar. This means pedestrians don’t have to push a button at all (however, outside of downtown Austin, almost all signals do have buttons).
In San Francisco, there are 1,286 traffic signals operated by the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency, 610 of which have a version of a pedestrian push button, a spokesperson told Nexstar.
At just 264 of those, pedestrians need to press a button to get a ‘walk’ signal to cross some or all of the streets at the intersection. San Francisco has 490 signals with Accessible Pedestrian Signal buttons – which verbally tell pedestrians what streets they’re on and when to cross – at 143 intersections, those buttons are also used to activate a walk signal at some or all of the crosswalks, a spokesperson explains.
Few work in Boston as well, where city officials told the Boston Globe there is too much vehicular and foot traffic to let one person influence the whole traffic light setup. Only about 100 of the roughly 1,000 pedestrian buttons in New York City work, according to reports. High costs of removing some of the non-working buttons prompted city officials to leave them in place, The New York Times reported, prompting many to find themselves pushing a useless button.
In addition to the impacts the buttons can have on interrupting traffic, some cities have cited their required maintenance when opting to abandon them.
Crosswalk signals that are actuated, meaning they are triggered by a pedestrian hitting the button or loop detectors, generally require more upkeep, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Still, actuated signals could be beneficial “where vehicle and pedestrian volumes vary considerably throughout the day.”
While some cities may leave you confused about whether the crosswalk button actually works, San Francisco has placed signs at intersections that require you to hit the button.
Unless you’re instructed not to push the crosswalk button, it’s likely in your favor to press the button to get the ‘walk’ signal. If you find yourself waiting for an extended period of time, you can cross the street when safe to do so. You can also report a walk signal that should be functioning but isn’t to your city, sometimes by calling 311 if your community uses that number. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ | 2023-07-30T17:19:54 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/are-you-wasting-your-time-pressing-crosswalk-buttons/ |
Several years ago, NBA all-time great LeBron James embarked on a noble philanthropic journey by aiming to transform the lives of at-risk student and parents in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.
The I Promise School opened in 2018 as a part of the Akron Public Schools system. But, multiple years have gone by since the school's fall class of eighth-grade students produced passing scores for Ohio's math test, according to a report from the Akron Beacon Journal.
The last time the students passed the state's math test happened when they were in the third grade, per the report. One Akron Public Schools official described the test results as "discouraging."
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"It is discouraging," Keith Liechty-Clifford, the district's director of school improvement said.
The mission of the I Promise School, according to on their website, is to help "those students who are already falling behind and in danger of falling through the cracks."
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Although the I Promise School is considered a public school, it operates in partnership with the LeBron James Family Foundation. The school receives identical local, state and federal funding as any other public school.
But, the reported poor student performance has created concern among some Akron school officials.
The school offers a unique approach to education, striving to act as somewhat of an intervention for the school district's lowest-performing students at a young age.
Last month, James launched the I Promise Housing development, which will provide 50 affordable units in Akron.
"Young people who have a quality place to live are better students and become better citizens in our community," Dan DeVille of the East Akron Neighborhood Development Corporation told News 5 Cleveland.
School board President Derrick Hall expressed disappointment about the school's failure to meet testing expectations.
"For me as a board member, I just think about all the resources that we're providing," Hall said. "And I just, I'm just disappointed that I don't think, it doesn't appear like we're seeing the kind of change that we would expect to see."
Liechty-Clifford also shared data that reflected improvements in some students' grades on a year-over-year basis based on state test results, while others declined.
The LeBron James Family Foundation released a statement on Monday saying it remains steadfast in its commitment.
"When we started this work to wraparound students through education, we entered this partnership with Akron Public School for the long haul," the statement said.
"Because this work requires a long-term commitment, hard work, and a lot of love and care. And that's what we bring each and every day because the I Promise School is more than a school. We're here for the ups and downs, and will continue to wraparound our students and their entire families so they can be successful in school and in life, no matter the challenges and obstacles that come their way."
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Regarding Flagstaff’s Independence Day Parade: many witnessed a wave of quiet shock following one particular float. Sponsored by a local business, it brazenly celebrated the Second Amendment with a machine gun mounted to a decommissioned military vehicle and signs encouraging parents to teach their children to shoot guns.
First, we want to say that we believe this business had every right to participate in the parade. Our goal is not to change anyone’s political stance on this polarizing issue, but to point out: such a display is tone deaf and insensitive considering current events. Freedom does not denote a lack of responsibility to community and context. We must acknowledge ours is a country riddled with gun violence. It is worth noting, too, that this year's parade coincided with the one-year mark of the Highland Park shooting, where seven people died during a community's Fourth of July celebration.
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Regardless of our differing ideologies, we must agree that deaths due to gun violence are a cause for collective mourning. With that in mind we question whether it aligns with community care to have such a float in our parade. It must be possible to celebrate our country's freedom without glorifying the violent means by which it was achieved, the same violence that terrorizes our country today.
To those who share a sense of dismay regarding the float and the message it sent, we encourage you to visit momsdemandaction.org for information about the work this national organization does to prevent gun violence, as well as local meetings and events. Together we can engage in constructive dialogue and create a safer community for all.
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Facing legal peril, Trump calls on GOP to rally around him as he threatens primary challenges
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 front-runner 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 figure 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.
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The legal challenge from Northern Arizona Healthcare against the city and Proposition 480 is yet another example of NAH’s disdain for the democratic process and the rights of voters to decide the future of our city.
The argument that “hospital” was not mentioned in the legal summary is bogus. The referendum’s wording was taken verbatim from the city ordinance, and every petition had the full ordinance attached. The rezoning ordinance passed by Flagstaff City Council, in fact, did not mention the word “hospital,” nor is “hospital” mentioned anywhere in the zoning code.
NAH is being disingenuous. Since the city and NAH wrote the ordinance that was copy-pasted into the petition, they are essentially saying that NAH and Flagstaff City Council misled the public by writing the ordinance. If NAH has a problem with this, they need only look in the mirror.
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(NEXSTAR) – Facebook users still have a few weeks to claim their piece of a $725 million settlement Meta agreed to pay to resolve a lawsuit. Ex-Facebook users can get in on the action too, as long as they meet a few criteria.
The main requirement is that you had a Facebook account for any time between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. You also need to have been a United States resident during that period of time.
Even people who deleted their Facebook account qualify – they’re just likely to see a smaller payout. How big your check ends up being depends in part on how long your account was active.
People have until Aug. 25, 2023 to file a claim, either online or by mail.
After the deadline passes, a judge will need to give the settlement final approval. That hearing is set for Sept. 7.
If the settlement gets the final OK, it’s not yet clear when the payments will be sent out – but you might not need to wait for a check in the mail. When submitting your claim, you can fill out your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or direct deposit info to get your payment sent straight to your account.
It’s also not clear how much each eligible recipient will get. Legal fees and administrative costs need to be deducted first. The remaining amount will be divvied up among eligible Facebook users, but we don’t know how many people have submitted a claim.
We asked Scott Dodson, a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco and the director of the Center for Litigation and Courts, to help us estimate a figure. He broke down all the factors that go into calculating the size of a class action lawsuit payment, and said that based on similar cases he estimated the higher end of payments might be in the “triple digits.” Many more people will likely receive less than $100, he estimated.
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to settle the lawsuit claiming Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ | 2023-07-30T17:20:00 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ |
A shooting in Lansing, Michigan, early Sunday wounded five people, two of them critically, authorities said.
Officers responded around 1 a.m. to gunfire in the 1300 block of West Holmes Road and found multiple shooting victims among a large crowd of people, the Lansing Police Department said in a statement emailed to told Fox News Digital.
Lansing firefighters rushed several victims to a local hospital. Police requested assistance from neighboring jurisdictions, due to the size of the crowd.
The victims, who were not publicly named, ranged in age from 16 to 26 years old, police said. Two victims were in critical condition.
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Multiple firearms were recovered from the scene and police took several persons of interest into custody.
No further details about the persons of interest, the extent of the victims’ injuries and their current conditions were immediately provided.
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Detectives and crime scene investigators are at the scene working to determine the circumstances that led to the shooting.
Authorities asked anyone with information about the shooting to contact Detective Sergeant Kyle Schlagel at (517) 483-6885, the Lansing Police Department at (517) 483-4600, Crime Stoppers at (517) 483-7867 or send a private message through the Lansing Police Department Facebook page. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/michigan-shooting-injures-5-2-critically-several-persons-of-interest-in-custody/article_a0889af8-e98d-59e6-b6f8-4b879519583f.html | 2023-07-30T17:20:02 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/michigan-shooting-injures-5-2-critically-several-persons-of-interest-in-custody/article_a0889af8-e98d-59e6-b6f8-4b879519583f.html |
Illegal child labor is on the rise in a tight job market
New York (CNN) — A 14-year-old boy who cleaned meat cutting machines was “falling asleep in class and missing class as a result and suffering injuries from chemical burns” in Nebraska from 2021 to 2022, according to the Labor Department. Another 13-year-old suffered severe burns from cleaning agents.
Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), one of the largest providers of food safety sanitation in the US, had employed 31 children between the ages of 13 and 17 to work for meat industry monoliths like Cargill and JBS USA across Minnesota and Nebraska, the Department of Labor said last November.
These weren’t isolated cases.
US child labor violations have jumped in recent years. Some well-known companies, consumer-facing name brands, have been caught employing children for grueling work in dangerous conditions. A tight labor market has prompted many employers to search for the cheapest available labor; state legislators are even pushing bills that would limit legal protections for underage workers.
Now, the Department of Labor has announced actions it’s taken so far this year through a new interagency task force on child labor.
“Child labor is an issue that gets to the heart of who we are as a country and who we want to be,” said Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su in a news release Thursday. “Like the President, we believe that any child working in a dangerous or hazardous environment is one child too many.”
In many of these cases, it’s the children of recent migrants working long hours in difficult conditions, said Jordan Barab, deputy assistant secretary at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration during the Obama administration.
“You’re piling vulnerable on top of vulnerable here,” Barab added.
JBS has said that they do not tolerate child labor and that they would stop using PSSI at every location where the child labor violations were alleged to have occurred. Cargill also said that had zero tolerance of the use of underage labor and ended their contract with PSSI.
Child labor cases jump
PSSI, a company owned by the Blackstone Group, the world’s largest private equity firm, defended their hiring practices.
“As parents and citizens, we don’t want a single person under 18 working for PSSI, period – and take extensive steps to prevent individuals at the local level from circumventing our wide-ranging procedures,” PSSI said in a statement to CNN.
The company “runs all new employees through the government’s E-Verify system to confirm the validity of their identification documents, the only way those procedures could be circumvented is through deliberate identity theft and/or fraud for a hire at a local plant,” PSSI said in a statement to CNN.
The company has recently hired a new CEO, conducted additional audits of its employee base and training for hiring managers and hired a third-party law firm to review its child employment policies, PSSI said.
In their investigation, Labor Department investigators found PSSI’s use of child labor across eight states “systemic” and “clearly [indicating] a corporate-wide failure.” The adults who had recruited, hired, and supervised the children, they said, “tried to derail our efforts to investigate their employment practices.”
The Department of Labor announced earlier this year that PSSI paid $1.5 million in civil penalties for the child labor violations.
Between October 1, 2022, and July 20, 2023, the Department of Labor concluded 765 child labor cases, found 4,474 children employed in violation of federal child labor laws and assessed more than $6.6 million in penalties against employers, the agency announced on Thursday.
That’s a 44% increase in the number of children illegally employed and an 87% increase in penalties compared to the same period the year before, according to the Labor Department.
In addition, the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department is currently pursuing more than 700 open child labor cases.
At 16 McDonald’s franchise locations in Louisiana and Texas, children as young as 14 operated dangerous equipment and worked long and late hours, the DOL said this week. Two months earlier in a Louisville, Kentucky, McDonald’s, the department found two 10-year-olds working without pay until as late as 2 a.m., preparing and serving meals, working the drive-thru and cash register and cleaning the restaurants, according to a DOL release.
“Under no circumstances should there ever be a 10-year-old child working in a fast-food kitchen around hot grills, ovens and deep fryers,” said Wage and Hour Division District Director Karen Garnett-Civils in a in a DOL statement.
“These reports are unacceptable, deeply troubling and run afoul of the high expectations we have for the entire McDonald’s brand,” Tiffanie Boyd, senior vice president and chief people officer at McDonald’s USA, told CNN. “We are committed to ensuring our franchisees have the resources they need to foster safe workplaces for all employees and maintain compliance with all labor laws.”
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets the minimum age for most employment at 14 years old, restricts hours for employees under 16 and prohibits any youth under 18 from working in hazardous conditions or occupations.
Most child labor violation cases involve children working more or later hours than allowed. But the Department of Wage and Hour division found 688 children working illegally in hazardous jobs in fiscal year 2022. That’s the highest annual figure since fiscal year 2011.
Child labor on the rise in a tight job market
Unemployment in the United States sits near record lows at 3.6%, and a lack of workers has made it difficult for employers to fill jobs, especially in lower paid work.
“Employers are going to the cheapest and easiest avenue … to find workers,” said Barab.
Officials at the Labor Department emphasized in a press call this week that the increase in child labor violation findings is partially due to “significantly enhanced child labor enforcement efforts” in recent months.
However, there’s often an uptick in child labor when the job market is tight, said David Weil, the former dean at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and former administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the DOL.
Last year, for example, young children were found to be working in dangerous conditions at factories in Alabama that contracted with Hyundai and Kia, a Reuters investigation found. Seeing children in those kinds of jobs, along with the meatpacking work, is unprecedented, Weil said.
“These are jobs that anyone under the age of 18 has been prohibited to work at since 1938,” he said.
The origin of these problems began brewing in the 1970s, said Weil, when companies began focusing more deeply on their core revenue generating work to create larger returns and please shareholders.
Strong human resource departments weren’t helping improve margins, so “a lot of companies started to explore different ways of shedding the messy work of employment to others,” he said. That meant using staffing agencies, subcontractors and third-party management.
Now, 50 years later, some well-known brands are not in direct control of many of the people who work for them. In the cases of child labor at the meatpacking plant and at Hyundai-Kia, the companies used third-party labor suppliers and said they weren’t aware of children working illegally.
“Hyundai wouldn’t want to ever directly hire children,” said Weil. “But when you set up a system like that, and then you go into a labor supply shortage, you get this kind of outcome.”
Hyundai has since divested from one supplier and has required another to verify workers’ ages.
“The use of underage labor at a supplier or any operation is unacceptable, and we are committed to making sure non-compliance never happens again,” said Jaehoon (Jay) Chang, president and CEO of Hyundai, the parent company of Kia, in a statement. “This is a zero tolerance issue. Even though there were issues with third-party staffing agencies that provided false documentation to these suppliers, ultimately, the responsibility is with Hyundai to make sure all our suppliers understand and meet our high global workforce standards.”
McDonald’s, likewise, isn’t in charge of hiring at the majority of its restaurants, which are owned and operated independently.
The fight to weaken child labor laws
The Department of Labor on Thursday said its interagency task force on child labor has begun cross-training with other governmental agencies like Health and Human Services and the Office of Refugee Resettlement to identify and report possible incidences of child labor exploitation.
They say they’re also pursuing partnerships with the US Department of Agriculture and leadership from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico to stop the exploitation of migrant children.
The Biden administration, meanwhile, says it plans to issue steeper penalties to companies that illegally employ youth in potentially hazardous conditions.
But at the same time that violations of child labor protections are rising, states across the country are introducing legislation to weaken child labor laws.
At least 10 states have introduced or passed bills in the past two years meant to weaken protections against employing children, according to a March report by the Economic Policy Institute.
This year, bills to weaken the laws have been introduced in Missouri, Ohio, and South Dakota.
One bill proposed in Nebraska would allow youth employees to be paid less than the state’s minimum wage.
A bill in Arkansas that repeals work restrictions for 14- and 15-year-olds has been signed into law and a bill passed in Iowa extended the hours that teens can work and the establishments where they can be employed.
Another in Minnesota could allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work on construction sites. (The bill did not make it out of committee.)
Minnesota State Sen. Rich Draheim, a Republican, co-authored the bill.
He told CNN earlier this year that the bill contained caveats that would keep youth workers on construction sites out of dangerous conditions and would require they take safety classes. But he said that ultimately his plan provides exposure to different career paths.
“I think we’re doing more harm than good [to young people] by not exposing them to jobs,” he said.
People who are against these bills, he said, often come from urban areas. But in rural America, he explained, it’s common for young people to start working earlier, and more help is needed.
Still, valuing work experience over education is short-sighted, said Weil.
“We have said as a society that the most important thing for a child aged 14 or 15 is to complete their education,” he said. “That’s what’s going to give them an ability to earn and do all the things we want children to grow up to be able to do. To say the way to deal with a labor supply situation is to relax is myopic and immoral.”
Working after school or during the summers to build character is one thing, but these cases highlight a very different reality for young laborers. “The kind of experience that an upper middle class young person has in summer employment is a very different animal than a child in a household that is struggling to get by and needs to have its children work more hours to help support the family,” said Weil. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/illegal-child-labor-is-on-the-rise-in-a-tight-job-market/ | 2023-07-30T17:20:03 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/illegal-child-labor-is-on-the-rise-in-a-tight-job-market/ |
(The Conversation) – Rivers have been the lifeblood of human civilization throughout history, and yet we know surprisingly little about what lives in many of them – including the giant creatures that prowl their depths.
While we know the biggest animal in the ocean is the blue whale and the largest marine fish is the whale shark, the identity of the world’s largest freshwater fish species long remained a mystery.
Until 2022, that is, when fishers in Cambodia caught a giant freshwater stingray in the remote reaches of the Mekong River.
Weighing an astounding 661 pounds, the stingray surpassed by 15 pounds a giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005 that had previously been considered the unofficial record holder.
The discovery marked a milestone in fish biologist Zeb Hogan’s more than two-decade quest to study and protect giant freshwater fish. As a group, these megafish are among the most endangered animals on the planet.The world’s largest freshwater fish confirmed so far is a stingray caught in the Mekong River.
Before releasing the female ray back into the river, Hogan’s research team put an acoustic tracker on her. She has been sending back clues about stingrays’ elusive behavior ever since.
Colossal catfish and gargantuan gars
In a new book, “Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish,” Hogan and I tell the troubling story of the 30 or so fish species that live exclusively in rivers and lakes and can grow to more than 200 pounds or at least 6 feet (1.8 meters) long.
Found on all continents except Antarctica, they are a wonderfully weird bunch of creatures, from colossal catfish and carp to gargantuan gars.
But freshwater vertebrate populations have declined over the past five decades at twice the rate experienced by species within terrestrial or marine ecosystems. Megafish numbers in particular fell by a shocking 94%, according to one study of more than 200 large freshwater species.
One of the largest species, the Chinese paddlefish, is believed to have gone extinct sometime in the 2000s. “This is a fish that had been on Earth for more than 100 million years before disappearing in a flash,” says Hogan, who used to host National Geographic’s “Monster Fish” television show and now leads a University of Nevada, Reno, research project I am involved with called Wonders of the Mekong, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The importance of very large fish to freshwater ecosystems has been woefully understudied. Many giant freshwater fish are apex predators that can have profound effects on the ecosystems in which they live by keeping their prey populations in check and maintaining biodiversity.
What’s killing off the megafish
The decline of giant freshwater fish is due to human impacts, such as overfishing, dam building and climate change.
Large fish are disproportionately targeted by fishing. Since many of these species are slow to mature, they may never reach the age to reproduce. Dam building is another major threat, because large fish often need to make long migrations to complete their life cycles, and a new dam can block their migration paths.
In the Mekong, where more giant fish species are found than in any other river, climate change is causing more severe droughts and disrupting the monsoon seasons that govern the river’s essential flood regime.
There are signs that interest in freshwater species is gaining momentum, including increasing calls to explicitly include freshwater ecosystems in the 30×30 initiative, a global effort to set aside 30% of land and sea area for conservation by 2030. So far, however, conservation efforts to protect endangered giant freshwater fish species are mostly regional.
Alligator gars and sturgeon make a comeback
Although the outlook for most giant fish remains grim, some species, like the air-breathing arapaima in South America, may be bucking the trend.
The arapaima, a torpedo-shaped giant that can grow to lengths of more than 12 feet, has long been overharvested by fishers in the Amazon, where it’s known as the Amazonian cod. But stricter fishing regulations introduced by Indigenous communities appear to have led to populations’ rebounding in many places.
In the United States, the alligator gar, another air-breathing megafish, was once largely considered a “trash fish” thought to devour game fish, so it was systematically exterminated from much of its southern range. But then scientists began to study the species and found it was an important contributor to ecosystem functions. Today, alligator gar populations have bounced back in rivers like the Trinity in Texas.
A similar case involves the lake sturgeon, one of the few true freshwater sturgeons, whose populations in Wisconsin have benefited from long-term conservation efforts and science-driven management that includes strictly regulated seasonal recreational fishing.
Protecting the giants of the Mekong
Back in Cambodia, our Wonders of the Mekong project is raising public awareness about the plight of the megafish, and we are working closely with local fishers to encourage them to protect threatened species.
In an example of those efforts’ paying off, fishers in early 2023 caught a Mekong giant catfish weighing more than 200 pounds. Instead of killing it and selling the meat for a sizable profit, the fishers decided to release the fish in an elaborate ceremony in which it was sprinkled with flowers before it was let go.
In recent months, our project has also reintroduced into the Mekong rare giant catfish that were captured as young fish and raised in Cambodia, and giant barb, another critically endangered megafish species that historically has grown to 600 pounds.
While giant freshwater stingray numbers have plummeted in other parts of its native Southeast Asian range, the population appears to be relatively robust in the upper stretches of the Mekong River in Cambodia where the record ray was discovered. Data collected from that female, and reported in a study I co-authored, shows it is staying in much the same location, leading researchers to believe the area could be an important refuge for the stingrays and possibly other megafish.
Long-standing plans by the Cambodian government to build two large dams on this section of the river appear to have been scrapped, at least for now. At the end of 2022, the government instead put forth a proposal to turn the biodiverse stretch of the river, which is also home to a critically endangered population of Irrawaddy river dolphins, into a UNESCO World Heritage site.
While the record stingray is big, it might not be the largest of this species of ray in the Mekong. Local fishers speak of rays growing up to 200 pounds heavier.
It’s also possible the giant stingray is not the largest freshwater fish species. Research on the arapaima, for example, suggests it could grow as big, or even bigger, in places like Guyana. But, as Hogan says, “It’s not about finding the biggest fish. It’s about learning more about these amazing creatures to figure out how to better protect them.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/in-search-of-the-wonderfully-weird-giants-lurking-in-earths-rivers/ | 2023-07-30T17:20:06 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/in-search-of-the-wonderfully-weird-giants-lurking-in-earths-rivers/ |
TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from the hospital Saturday evening.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
Earlier this season, Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner suffered a skull fracture and a concussion after being struck by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. The ball hit Feltner on the back right side of his head, and he fell to the ground. He lay on his stomach as two members of the Rockies athletic training staff aided him. He was able to get on his feet and walked off the field with the assistance of the two trainers.
While it isn’t clear if Feltner will return this season — he was placed on the 60-day injured list after the May incident — he told reporters he does not “want to rule it out.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ | 2023-07-30T17:20:07 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/mlb-player-suffers-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-in-head-by-91-mph-pitch/ |
Nancy Grace sat down with the mother of late LSU sophomore Madison Brooks in a Fox Nation special on the LSU student, during which she retraced the horrifying moments she experienced after finding out her daughter was hospitalized and in critical condition after being left for dead on the side of a busy Louisiana highway.
"It was just utter shock," Brooks' mom Ashley Baustert told Grace. The hospital that cared for her daughter, who was in critical condition, called her twice on the night the horrific tragedy unfolded, but she was asleep and didn't hear the phone until early the next morning.
Terrified, she threw on gym clothes and raced to the hospital where she discovered a devastating truth.
"They told me she was brain-dead," she said.
MADISON BROOKS DEATH: LSU STUDENTS HAILED AS GOOD SAMARITANS AFTER ALLEGED BATON ROUGE RAPE
"They said it just like that?" Grace asked.
"Yes, they told me that she was unresponsive. I asked, ‘What are her chances? Maybe a miracle could happen. We’re going to pray for a miracle.' I just started screaming. I fell to the ground…"
Baustert said she noticed four nurses surrounding her daughter when she entered the room. "She was so swollen… it really didn't even look like her [but] I could tell it was her. I could not believe that my 19-year-old was in this position. How did this happen?"
She told Grace she knew that she was going to get answers, and vowed to her daughter she would uncover the truth.
"I told her, and I promised her that I would fight to find out the truth on [sic] what really happened because she would have never put herself in that situation."
Baustert made the difficult decision to let her daughter go. After waiting for Madison's father to travel up from Florida, their daughter's organs were donated to people in need.
LSU DEATH: MADISON BROOKS' LAST TEXT TO MOM, WHO ‘KNEW SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENED’
The details of the night Brooks stumbled onto a busy four-lane highway in Baton Rouge and was fatally struck by a car after she was allegedly raped and released from her attackers' vehicle on the side of the road are slowly coming together.
Her blood alcohol level was reportedly .319% at the time – four times the legal level to drive.
In The Pelican State, going to bars at age 18 is legal, though consuming alcohol underage is not. Her credit card records show she spent less than $20 on drinks at a local hotspot called Reggie's, but the amount she consumed was enough to leave her so intoxicated she was seen falling from her barstool, Grace said.
Kerry Miller, attorney for Brooks' mom Ashley Baustert, said the bartenders gave her most of the drinks she consumed.
"She goes to a bar, gets in, knows a number of the bartenders at the bar and is served large quantities of alcohol," Kerry Miller, attorney for Baustert said, adding later, "We know she had way too much to drink. Things had gotten out of control…"
LSU DEATH: MADISON BROOKS' FAMILY ON LEAKED VIDEO CLIPS NIGHT OF ALLEGED RAPE: ‘REALLY LOW BLOW’
Surveillance footage captured the night of her death showed her running across the street toward four men she had met earlier that night.
Two of them allegedly raped Brooks - though Ronald Haley, defense attorney for Everett Lee and Kaivon Washington, says both encounters were consensual.
Grace, previewing the Fox Nation special Tuesday on "Fox & Friends," called out similarities between the case and the Natalee Holloway disappearance still shrouded in mystery.
"They over-served her at the bar. Reminds me a little bit of [the] Natalee Holloway situation. She gets into a car with people she doesn't really know that well. She ends up being horribly sex[ually] assaulted," she told anchor Steve Doocy, before calling for the young men to be charged.
"They [her attackers] push her out on the highway, and she gets run over and killed. I want felony murder charges on all of those young men, and that has not happened yet."
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Over 100 days after her daughter's death, it all still feels fresh for Baustert.
"How can I live without her? How am I going to go on, as a mother, without her? That was the main question because she wasn't just my daughter, she was my best friend…" she said. "She was the first person I would call in the morning and the last person I would call at night."
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PHOENIXThe International Rescue Committee's Welcome Center in Phoenix turns 4Arizona RepublicAaron Rippenkroeger, executive director of the International Rescue Committee, is interviewed at the organization's Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2023.Joel Angel Juarez/The RepublicAn unidentified Venezuelan asylum seeker poses for a portrait at the International Rescue Committee's Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2023. The asylum seeker chose to not be identified because of their ongoing immigration process.Joel Angel Juarez/The RepublicAn unidentified Venezuelan asylum seeker poses for a portrait at the International Rescue Committee's Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2023. The asylum seeker chose to not be identified because of their ongoing immigration process.Joel Angel Juarez/The RepublicAaron Rippenkroeger, executive director of the International Rescue Committee, gathers with staff at the organization's Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2023.Joel Angel Juarez/The RepublicAaron Rippenkroeger, executive director of the International Rescue Committee, poses for a portrait at the organization's Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2023.Joel Angel Juarez/The RepublicAn unidentified Venezuelan asylum seeker is interviewed at the International Rescue Committee's Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2023. The asylum seeker chose to not be identified because of their ongoing immigration process.Joel Angel Juarez/The RepublicAn unidentified Venezuelan asylum seeker poses for a portrait at the International Rescue Committee's Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2023. The asylum seeker chose to not be identified because of their ongoing immigration process.Joel Angel Juarez/The RepublicArtwork created by the children of asylum seekers hangs in a playroom at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicBeth Strano, asylum seekers and families engagement manager, shows the clothing storage room at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicAsylum seekers can pick out clothes at the Welcome Center in Phoenix, photographed on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicPhotographs of young asylum seekers hang in a hallway at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicThe meeting room for asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicThe luggage of asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicA vending machine offers snacks and charging cables for asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix, photographed July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicInformation to help asylum seekers is prepared at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicMedical services are available for asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix, photographed on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food, and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicA note of encouragement is left for the volunteer workers who assist the asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicThe intake room for asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicState resource information is prepared for asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix, photographed July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicMaria Jose Pinzon, asylum seekers and families program manager, which is run by the International Rescue Committee, explains the intake procedure for asylum seekers at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The RepublicEmily Snyder, a family nurse practitioner at the Welcome Center in Phoenix on July 12, 2023. The Welcome Center marks four years of providing shelter, food and other humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers released by federal immigration authorities. Some credit the center for eliminating the street releases of asylum seekers in the past and alleviating the strain placed on local churches that had stepped in to accommodate them.Rob Schumacher/The Republic | https://www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/news/local/phoenix/2023/07/30/international-rescue-committees-welcome-center-phoenix-photos/12245066002/ | 2023-07-30T17:20:09 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/news/local/phoenix/2023/07/30/international-rescue-committees-welcome-center-phoenix-photos/12245066002/ |
Kamala Harris takes center stage in Biden reelection campaign’s rapid response to GOP
(CNN) — Gathered at the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory last weekend, a group of aides and advisers to Kamala Harris marveled at what they had just pulled off.
They did not even have a venue lined up when they started reaching out to supporters about attending a quickly arranged speech in Jacksonville, Florida, the next day. But by Friday afternoon, Harris had delivered a fiery speech that was well received among Democrats, blasting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the state’s new curriculum standards on Black history and expressing concern that Republicans wanted to “replace history with lies.” That set off a week of responses from the governor, which his opponents have used as ongoing fodder for attacks.
So last Monday, Harris aides started planning her trip to Iowa for four days later: a discussion on reproductive rights in a state where Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds had just signed a new ban on abortions after six weeks. (A state judge has since put the law on hold.) There were many of the same lines, including her riff on so-called leaders, but now on another topic that President Joe Biden’s aides are eager to highlight Republican positions on. And instead of speaking from behind a podium, Harris sat in a comfortable chair in front of a packed room of women at Drake University.
The timing – hours before the leading GOP presidential candidates gathered in Des Moines for a marquee fundraising dinner – was no mistake.
Aides and advisers are already workshopping ideas for the next quickly targeted and arranged appearance.
Growing her profile
This is a shift for a vice president whose aides have often complained of her being left out of the spotlight and without support by many in the president’s inner circle. Now there is a conscious effort by both Biden and Harris aides to build her up.
Harris has been quietly noting how other Democrats, including her friend and sometimes rival for attention California Gov. Gavin Newsom, have grabbed the national spotlight by swinging at Republicans aggressively. Aides say she has also been watching the news out of the Republican presidential race and telling Biden aides she wants to be seen as fighting against extremism.
“This is moment where I do believe there is a full-on attack against hard-won freedoms, but we have power,” Harris said in Iowa.
Two years into wrestling with the ambiguities of her job responsibilities and facing questions about how she spends her days, Harris is embracing what comes with being the administration’s No. 2. There are fewer can’t-move meetings on her schedule than there are for the president. Fewer logistics are required to get her around the country. The security threshold is much lower for having traffic rerouted around her motorcade, or for protecting wherever she goes on the ground.
Biden aides see their path to victory next year rooted in large part in connecting with Black voters, women, young people and other groups that tend to respond warmly to Harris. Her increased public presence – speaking out on issues such as race, reproductive rights and guns – is part of a broader strategy overseen by Biden’s senior advisers and coordinated by campaign aides that is also about deliberately keeping the president mostly out of the direct fray until at least early next year.
“These are all issues that resonate with the core constituencies we need to turn out in 2024. They are also issues that she is uniquely well positioned to speak to, and that motivate our base,” a Biden campaign official said. “She’s in the center of this three-circle Venn diagram.”
A bonus: Because these are technically official government events, they are a way to have taxpayers, rather than a campaign still bulking up its finances, foot the bill.
And when she touches down, Harris can drive almost as much attention as the president. Sometimes, given the topics and her profile, even more.
“Her presence made this a national story – which it should have been regardless,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said of Harris’ speech in Jacksonville on the state’s new standards for teaching Black history, which, according to a document posted to the state’s Department of Education website, require instruction for middle schoolers to include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Biden aides lapped up the response and the series of events it set off, including DeSantis accusing Rep. Byron Donalds – a Black Republican from Florida who backs former President Donald Trump – of being a shill for Harris, and Trump aides firing back at DeSantis in Donalds’ defense. Donalds said later he disagreed with Harris, stating that his issue was with “one line” in the Black history curriculum. Michigan Rep. John James and Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt – who, like Donalds, are Black Republicans who have endorsed Trump – also criticized DeSantis over the line about slavery in Florida’s new curriculum standards.
Presidential candidates have been pushed to weigh in, too. South Carolina’s Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, responded to a question on the subject by discussing what he called the devastation of slavery and adding, “I would hope that every person in our country – and certainly running for president – would appreciate that.”
Even people who were already Harris fans say they have been impressed by what they have been seeing out of her in this new approach.
“It felt like a new Kamala had arrived into the sphere from the White House,” said Jasmine Burney-Clark, the founder of the Florida Black political group Equal Ground, reflecting on Harris’ Jacksonville speech.
Burney-Clark said she was struck both by the lack of the usual stilted teleprompter feel to Harris’ speech and by how the vice president engaged with a small group about the path forward on the issue ahead of her remarks.
Even after multiple meetings and events with Harris in recent years, Burney-Clark said, “It was not someone I felt like I had seen before.
‘People were inspired’
The proof of concept that Harris and her aides are using is April’s quickly put-together trip to Nashville, where she delivered an impassioned speech after Tennessee Republicans expelled two Black Democratic state legislators who had protested on the state House floor against inaction on gun control following a mass shooting in the city.
The lawmakers’ expulsion – and the sparing of one of their White colleagues who had also protested – was already all over the local and national press that week, but Harris’ arrival brought a different level of attention. It also provided a different sense for the activists on the ground about why they should stay involved and believe in the Democratic leadership out of Washington.
“People were inspired by what they heard. They were motivated by what they heard. It brought some sense of revival,” state Rep. Justin Jones, one of the two expelled (and since reinstated) lawmakers, told CNN. “It gave us some more flames to what was already burning here.”
Harris has had more stops scheduled on what her office is calling her “summer conference tour,” including at the NAACP convention this past Saturday in Boston and an Everytown for Gun Safety event in Chicago in mid-August. In between, though, are many days that can be filled in with less-planned trips – Harris herself, according to an aide, was the one who told staff to get her to Jacksonville while flying on Air Force Two to Indiana for another event the day before.
To date, Harris’ role in the reelection campaign has been mostly as a fundraising draw, with multiple people involved telling CNN that she has been in high demand.
But stepping out more publicly also inevitably makes Harris more of a target for Republican attacks – most of which have seized on both Biden’s age and the criticism that the vice president is out of touch. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has so far been the one leading that charge. Haley warned an Iowa crowd earlier this month, “We can’t afford a President Kamala Harris – I will say that over and over again.”
But for disaffected Democrats looking for leaders to leap into fights, Burney-Clark said, Harris is important as a different kind of lightning rod.
“People are untethered. They’re unenthusiastic and uninterested in electoral politics,” Burney-Clark said. “Hope is something people always hold on to. Inspiration is something people always hold on to.” | https://www.wishtv.com/news/politics/kamala-harris-takes-center-stage-in-biden-reelection-campaigns-rapid-response-to-gop/ | 2023-07-30T17:20:10 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/politics/kamala-harris-takes-center-stage-in-biden-reelection-campaigns-rapid-response-to-gop/ |
If you’re outside Tuesday night, keep your eye on the sky. You might catch a glimpse of a rocket blasting off from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia.
NASA officials say if skies are clear, people as far away as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York may be able to see the 139-foot-tall Antares rocket during the first few minutes it lifts up into the atmosphere. In New Jersey, skywatchers should look towards the southwestern area of the sky, and binoculars will help.
The rocket is scheduled to lift off at 8:31 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, Aug. 1.
“This will be Northrop Grumman’s 19th commercial resupply services mission for NASA, delivering science investigations, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station,” NASA said in a news release announcing the launch.
“Viewing locations on Chincoteague Island include Robert Reed Park on Main Street or Beach Road spanning the area between Chincoteague and Assateague Islands,” NASA said. “The Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Atlantic beaches also provide good viewing locations.”
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. for people who want an up-close view of the launch. “Visitors interested in viewing the launch from the Visitor Center are encouraged to carpool as parking is limited,” NASA said.
More launch viewing information is available on the visitor center website.
For people too far away from the East Coast, NASA said the launch will be live-streamed on NASA Television and the space agency’s website, as well as YouTube, Twitter and the NASA’s App, with live launch coverage and countdown commentary scheduled to start at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
“Members of the public outside of the viewing area can register to attend the launch virtually,” NASA said.
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