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BALTIMORE (AP) — Aaron Judge is giving the New York Yankees an immediate boost — at a time when their front office has some tough decisions to make.
Judge homered and singled twice in his second game back from the injured list and the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-3 on Saturday night. Giancarlo Stanton and Kyle Higashioka went deep as well for New York, which is still 3 1/2 games behind Toronto and Houston for the last two wild cards in the American League.
That’s a tricky spot with Tuesday’s trade deadline approaching.
“We’ve had years where we stick with who we got. We’ve had years where we get some bullpen arms, starters, a big bat,” Judge said. “It comes down to us doing our job on the field and then letting them take care of the rest. We’ll see what happens.”
The Yankees knocked out struggling Orioles starter Tyler Wells (7-6) in the third inning. In the sixth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a three-run double to make it 8-3.
Judge has three walks and three hits in nine plate appearances since returning Friday from the toe injury that kept him out since early June.
Ryan Mountcastle homered for the Orioles, but Clarke Schmidt (7-6) made it through five tough innings and the New York bullpen took it from there.
The Orioles remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East.
Judge walked three times Friday night, but the Yankees lost that game 1-0 on a ninth-inning homer by Baltimore’s Anthony Santander. New York’s offense was relentless a night later.
Stanton’s first-inning drive easily cleared the big wall in left field at Camden Yards. Mountcastle tied it in the second, and Baltimore went ahead 2-1 on an RBI infield single by Ramón Urías. That lead was short-lived.
Judge hit a two-run shot — 442 feet to center field — in the third. Then Gleyber Torres added a sacrifice fly an inning later.
Santander made it 4-3 with an RBI groundout in the fifth, but New York broke the game open in the sixth. Cole Irvin allowed a leadoff homer by Higashioka — his third hit of the night — and then one-out singles to Judge, Stanton and Anthony Rizzo.
Bryan Baker came in and struck out DJ LeMahieu, but after fouling off five pitches, Kiner-Falefa cleared the bases with a line drive to left.
“One of the best at-bats of the season right there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Wells entered the game with a major league-leading WHIP of 0.99, but he allowed three runs, three hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings. In three starts since the All-Star break, he’s lasted just nine innings total.
“I think we’re going to be talking about a lot of things here coming up,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “Obviously, we’re in a weird week. He’s had tough times his last few starts. I think there are going to be discussions going on.”
Boone said he’s leaning toward giving Judge a day off in the series finale Sunday night. The Yankees are in a stretch of 13 games in 13 days.
“I kind of look at it as, hopefully he’s in a position to start nine or 10 of them,” Boone said. “Forget the toe. He hasn’t come close to playing games for almost two months. As much as I want him in there, we’ve got to be smart here a little bit, especially in this run.”
DIFFERENT ORDER
The Orioles used catcher Adley Rutschman in the leadoff spot because of his ability to get on base. He was hit by a pitch, walked and scored a run.
UP NEXT
New York’s Luis Severino (2-4) starts Sunday night against Baltimore’s Dean Kremer (10-4). It’s the final game of the season series, which is tied 6-all.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Aaron Judge homered for the first time since returning from a toe injury, sending a 442-foot drive over the wall in center field in the third inning against Baltimore on Saturday night.
The two-run shot gave the New York Yankees a 3-2 advantage. Giancarlo Stanton hit a solo homer in the first.
Judge was hitless since returning Friday, although he drew three walks in that game. He hit a towering flyout in his first plate appearance Saturday. Then he connected off Tyler Wells two innings later.
It was his 20th home run of the season. Judge started in right field Saturday after he was the designated hitter Friday.
Judge had been out since tearing a ligament in his right big toe June 3.
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WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor has requested a trade, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Saturday night.
Taylor, the 2021 NFL rushing champ, has been seeking a contract extension before his rookie contract expires at the end of this season and he’s been one of several running backs to publicly air their grievances throughout the offseason.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the request hadn’t been made public. NFL Network first reported Taylor’s request to be traded.
It came shortly after Taylor left team owner Jim Irsay’s motorhome after a meeting that lasted nearly an hour as the Colts conducted a night practice.
“It was just a good conversation and, you know, hopeful going forward,” Irsay told reporters after practice. “We’re looking forward to a great season, hoping that Jonathan’s a big part of that and I think we had a good conversation.”
Taylor has not spoken with reporters since being placed on the physically unable to perform list Tuesday. General manager Chris Ballard said then the Colts wanted to wait for a new deal until they could see how a healthy Taylor fit the new offense installed by first-year coach Shane Steichen.
Taylor topped the 2,000-yard mark twice in college at Wisconsin and rushed for 2,980 yards and 29 TDs in his first two NFL seasons. He was a unanimous All-Pro selection in 2021, when he led the league with 2,171 total yards and tied for the league lead in total touchdowns with 20.
Last year, he rushed for 861 yards despite missing six games with an ankle injury that required offseason surgery. Indy also struggled, finishing the season 4-11-1.
Irsay posted on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday suggesting some player agents were acting in bad faith by complaining about how much running backs earned with a franchise tag designation after the collective bargaining agreement was negotiated in good faith. The $10.1 million price tag is the lowest of any position other than kickers or punters.
On Saturday, in front of a capacity crowd at Grand Park in Westfield a staff member took Taylor to the nearby motorhome. Irsay did not divulge details of the meeting afterward, but did talk about two other former Colts star runners — Marshall Faulk, who was traded after Peyton Manning’s rookie season in 1998, and Edgerrin James, who left as a free agent between the 2005 and 2006 seasons.
“I’m responsible for everyone on the team and to look at the cap money as you go forward,” Irsay said. “It’s a great responsibility and you try to be as fair as you possibly can be with the whole football team. So again, I’m hopeful.”
Now the Colts may be looking to move Taylor before he even gets a chance to team up rookie quarterback Anthony Richardson, the No. 4 overall pick in April.
“We need to make sure he (Taylor) is healthy, and we expect he should have an outstanding year,” Irsay said. “(Linebacker) E.J. Speed had the same surgery and is doing well, but it’s early in the process and we want to make sure Jonathan is 100%.”
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1973 and 1974 Zeeland baseball teams celebrate 50 years since state championships
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Very few things make a Class B town in North Dakota come together like a run at a state championship.
It’s been 50 years since the town of Zeeland celebrated the school’s first-ever title, and this weekend in Bismarck, the athletes that made it happen came together to look back on their achievements.
“I will say to them... ‘50 years? You guys must be getting old!’” laughed Harold Bruning, former Zeeland High School head coach.
It’s been half a century since the Zeeland Vikings baseball team won the school’s first-ever state championship. It started a stretch of athletic success that spanned throughout the entire 1970s.
“I was fortunate enough to be part of a group that won two state tournaments, I got to play in the state basketball tournament. Like I said, it led me into the coaching gig,” said Steve Meier, Zeeland High School graduate.
Harold Bruning coached the Vikings to two baseball titles in 1973 and 1974. He had thrown the idea around to have a reunion for decades, and felt 50 years was the perfect time to do it.
“I think the biggest thing, growing up in a small community, you ride a group of athletes that love the sport, love to play, love to compete, and we have a coach that gave us some direction as far as how to win,” said Meier.
This weekend in Bismarck is the first time the group has gotten together since hoisting the hardware. Whether it’s the last time or not, the Zeeland Vikings are forever in the North Dakota High School history books.
“It’s just something in a small town, like Zeeland was, that was the activity. To me, they were already great people when they were on the team, and I just guided them,” said Bruning.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered its 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.”
It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there’s also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.”
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered its 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.”
It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there’s also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.”
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Bedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Some of the biggest names in soccer have yet to show up at the Women’s World Cup.
That’s literally been the case of Australian star Sam Kerr, who missed the first two games with a calf injury.
Kerr has recovered in time to play for Australia in a crucial final Group B game against Canada on Monday. The Matildas need to beat the Canadians to ensure they advance to the knockout round, and the Chelsea striker’s return to the lineup brings needed energy to the team.
“Mentally, it’s massive. It brings so much to our team and obviously also a lot to the opposition knowing that we have Sam available for this game,” Australia defender Ellie Carpenter said.
Kerr’s injury on the eve of Australia’s opening game against Ireland set the tone for a tournament that hasn’t been kind to some of its biggest stars. She was the face of co-host Australia’s preparations for the tournament, which is also being staged in New Zealand.
She dominated the covers of magazines across newsstands, while the autobiography she released late last year chronicled her rise to become arguably the best player in the women’s game right now. Kerr’s popularity transcends women’s soccer and she is considered a national icon.
So the disappointment was palpable when news broke about an hour before the opening match that Kerr was going to be sidelined at least two games in this tournament.
Kerr’s absence was felt in the 3-2 loss to Nigeria in Australia’s second game, a loss that put the Matildas in danger of elimination. It is not known what her role will be against Canada, but Australia needs Kerr to deliver in the final game of group play.
“I’m definitely going to be available, but how we decide to use that is not to be given to the opposition,” said Kerr.
The World Cup is supposed to be a showcase for the finest talent and biggest names, but injuries have always robbed the tournament of some its star players.
Norway forward Ada Hegerberg has had her playing time curtailed. Often referred to as “the Lionel Messi of women’s soccer,” Hederberg was part of a Norway’s 1-0 upset loss to New Zealand in the opening game of the World Cup.
It got worse for the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner when she suffered a groin injury in the warm-up ahead of Norway’s game against Switzerland, and she’s been ruled out of the final Group A game against the Philippines.
Keira Walsh of England suffered a knee injury against Denmark that will sidenline her for the Lionesses’ final Group D game against China. Described as irreplaceable, it is not known how much she will be able to play.
Even for some stars who have seen plenty of playing time, it has been difficult to make an impact.
American icon Alex Morgan has underwhelmed so far at her fourth World Cup, where she is hoping to help the United States to an unprecedented third consecutive title.
Morgan, the co-leading scorer at the last World Cup, has yet to score at this year’s event and missed a penalty in the 3-0 win against Vietnam. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said Morgan was adapting to playing in a forward line with Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman.
“I think it’s not hard to realize that Alex’s role is slightly different than the Alex that we’re used to maybe in the past,” Andonovski said. “She does set up the other two forwards a lot more. It’s not that she’s not capable of scoring goals or getting behind crosses, but we can also see her playing balls to Trinity and Soph, but also getting crosses for them as well.”
Morgan, at 34, is now one of the older players at the tournament.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is also searching for first goal of the tournament. Sinclair is highest scorer in international soccer — men or women — with 190 goals.
Like Morgan, she also missed a penalty, in a 0-0 draw with Nigeria that could still prove costly. She was benched for Canada’s second game against Ireland before coming in as a substitute at halftime as the gold medalist from the Tokyo Olympics logged a come-from-behind 2-1 win.
At 40 years old, Sinclair is having to accept a more limited role for Canada.
Brazil great Marta, at 37, has also been used sparingly in her sixth World Cup.
Her teammate, Debinha, who is also an iconic figure to Brazil fans, has been one of the standout players for her country so far. But she wasn’t able to stop a 2-1 loss to France on Saturday despite scoring in that match.
The gap appears to be closing in the women’s game, with underdogs proving more of a test for the more established nations. That’s one reason some of the big name stars have yet to impress in tournament.
One of the few standouts who has not disappointed so far has been Alexandra Popp, who scored twice in Germany’s 6-0 rout of Morocco.
Major tournaments are traditionally a mix of rising talents coming to the surface, while established stars have the chance to confirm their status among the greats.
Linda Caicedo of Colombia, Lauren James of England and Melchie Dumornay of Haiti have proven their worth as some of the brightest prospects in the game. But as the second round of games nears its completion, it feels like the tournament is still waiting for many of its big hitters to make an impact.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered its 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.”
It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there’s also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.”
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Remains of WWII veteran killed in Romania identified, laid to rest
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The remains of a missing U.S. Army Lieutenant were laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday.
According to WOIO, First Lieutenant Army Air Corps George “Bud” Julius Reuter was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in North Olmsted, Ohio.
Reuter, who was 25 years old at the time, was killed in action on August 1, 1943 near Ploiesti, Romania.
Reuter’s remains were identified January 10, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
After the war, many airmen were interred by Romanian citizens in the Bolovan Cemetery in Ploiesti. The American Graves Registration Command exhumed many unknown remains to identify U.S. veterans who went missing. The organization eventually reinterred the remains that could not be identified.
Reuter was laid to rest near his parents John George and Elizabeth Theodocia Reuter.
A memorial service was held for the lieutenant which included the presentation of four military medals: the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal for conspicuous gallantry in action against the enemy.
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Remains of WWII veteran killed in Romania identified, laid to rest
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The remains of a missing U.S. Army Lieutenant were laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday.
According to WOIO, First Lieutenant Army Air Corps George “Bud” Julius Reuter was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in North Olmsted, Ohio.
Reuter, who was 25 years old at the time, was killed in action on August 1, 1943 near Ploiesti, Romania.
Reuter’s remains were identified January 10, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
After the war, many airmen were interred by Romanian citizens in the Bolovan Cemetery in Ploiesti. The American Graves Registration Command exhumed many unknown remains to identify U.S. veterans who went missing. The organization eventually reinterred the remains that could not be identified.
Reuter was laid to rest near his parents John George and Elizabeth Theodocia Reuter.
A memorial service was held for the lieutenant which included the presentation of four military medals: the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal for conspicuous gallantry in action against the enemy.
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Remains of WWII veteran killed in Romania identified, laid to rest
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The remains of a missing U.S. Army Lieutenant were laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday.
According to WOIO, First Lieutenant Army Air Corps George “Bud” Julius Reuter was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in North Olmsted, Ohio.
Reuter, who was 25 years old at the time, was killed in action on August 1, 1943 near Ploiesti, Romania.
Reuter’s remains were identified January 10, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
After the war, many airmen were interred by Romanian citizens in the Bolovan Cemetery in Ploiesti. The American Graves Registration Command exhumed many unknown remains to identify U.S. veterans who went missing. The organization eventually reinterred the remains that could not be identified.
Reuter was laid to rest near his parents John George and Elizabeth Theodocia Reuter.
A memorial service was held for the lieutenant which included the presentation of four military medals: the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal for conspicuous gallantry in action against the enemy.
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Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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Spoon Fire burns 4,531 acres near Cedar Creek with no containment
CEDAR CREEK, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Crews continue to battle a growing wildfire that ignited in northeastern Arizona last week.
The Spoon Fire started on July 24 near State Route 60 between Globe and Showlow, about 11 miles southwest of Cedar Creek. The BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management- Fort Apache Agency says lightning caused the fire, which has spread to approximately 4,531 acres.
Officials say the fire moved toward the Salt River on Friday, and ground and air crews have worked to keep the fire from moving west toward Highway 60, including building a fireline to protect the road. Officials say the highway will be impacted by smoke as the Spoon Fire progresses, and larger columns of smoke are more likely to be seen in the afternoon and evening.
The BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management will hold a community meeting tonight to address the Cottonwood Ridge, Snake Ridge and Spoon fires at the Show Low Public Library Council Chamber at 181 N 9th Street. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and will also be live-streamed and recorded on the BIA Forestry & Wildland Fire Management- Fort Apache Agency’s Facebook page.
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UK Football’s Ray Davis Trying To Make Impact On And Off The Field
When UK fifth year running back Ray Davis isn’t on the football field, you can find him on the basketball court.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - When UK fifth year running back Ray Davis isn’t on the football field, you can find him on the basketball court.
“I typically on a Monday and Wednesday, for practices I’m up at five in the morning and I probably don’t go back home until 9:00 at night, you know, from being at practice all day, to watching film, to treatment, by the time I’m done I head over here and I’m here from six to 7:30 and I’m working with the guys and getting extra work,” he explained.
Davis coaches a basketball team of 10 and 11-year-olds three times a week and goes with them to weekend tournaments.
“Ray has been great for the kids,” said Mike Scott, owner of Hoop Dreams gym where Davis coaches. “For somebody that young, I mean, I kind of actually wish I had that same energy and motivation when I was his age. He’s got it figured out or whatever. It’s crazy, because I didn’t think he would have the time to do what he’s doing, because it’s actually a big commitment.”
He says he hopes to pursue coaching one day when he is done playing football.
Davis, who grew up in the foster care system says right now he’s just trying to be a positive influence in the kid’s lives.
“It’s a huge commitment, but I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t for the kids, you know? To be able to give back to them and mentor these kids is a huge, huge thing and I wish I kind of had it when I was young, so now that I’m able to be in that position, it’s just been great,” Davis told WKYT.
The former Vanderbilt Commodore teaches the players X’s and O’s, but says the kids teach him plenty too.
“I’ve learned to be patient at times, for sure, but I love my kids and they’ve taught me a lot, you know? They’ve taught me how to be a better grown up, a better mentor, a better person,” Davis said. “They teach me a lot and I’m blessed and I’m happy and I’m the one that’s fortunate to be coaching these guys and them allowing me the opportunity to do that.”
Davis and the Wildcats begin fall camp on August 2, and he says his team’s last tournament is that weekend as he gears up for football season. Fan Day is August 5.
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Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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- Innovative Relay Event Introduces Korean Ginseng Across to the East and West Coast
- with Billboard Ads Featuring Hollywood Stars Arden Cho and Kieu Chin
- HSW Brand expanding its lineup with Two New Sparkling Beverages Designed to Beat the Summer Heat: Recharge and Calm
LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Korea Ginseng Corp., the world's number one ginseng brand and leading next-generation global herbal brand, is spreading the word about its new beverage product, HSW, which reflects the health functional food's major trend keyword, 'Food as Medicine,' in a guerilla marketing campaign in key areas of the United States.
Korea Ginseng Corp., unveiled a brand advertisement on a billboard in Times square, Manhattan in the past month. Building on this momentum, Korea Ginseng Corp. has recently announced their plans for a relay guerilla marketing campaign, starting from the K-week event held at the Rockefeller center in New York. The event showcased their newest product, HSW, and featured traditional Korean games like Yut-nori and Dddakji-chiji, capturing the attention of American K-Culture fans. Building on the success of this first event, the brand is currently holding relay events across the city.
On the West Coast, Korea Ginseng Corp. will send its new mobile Ginseng Museum Café to this year's editions of the 626 Night Market, the largest night market in the United States, and to the Moon Festival, which celebrates LA's booming Asian street food scene. To draw attention to their one-of-a-kind trailer café, KGC will be running a fun social media awareness campaign and hosting on-the-spot game events and interactive samplings.
HSW is Korea Ginseng Corp.'s latest beverage offering, a contemporary twist on its best-selling energy tonic, Hong Sam Won. The new product is very much in sync with the hottest health food trend – 'Food as Medicine' – and caters to consumers seeking healthy, natural beverage options. With less than 40 calories per serving and zero caffeine, HSW is a light and guilt-free indulgence for the diet-conscious. In addition, Korea Ginseng Corp. is expanding its lineup with 'Recharge' and 'Calm,' two sparkling beverages designed for this year's hot summer season.
Rian Heung Sil Lee, a representative of Korea Ginseng Corp. U.S., notes, "Korean culture is being embraced by Americans, and interest in Korean health foods is at all-time high. We will be redoubling our efforts to make Korean red ginseng's unparalleled role as a food-as-medicine better known."
Korea Ginseng Corp.'s U.S. expansion began in 2002 and reached a new high point in 2021 with the opening of its flagship Ginseng Museum Café, in Manhattan. Since then, the global brand has introduced a new American-specific product line, KORESELECT, and has broadened its appeal with new distribution channels, including Amazon and Costco. Over the past three years, sales have more than doubled, confirming the impressive potential of the American market.
Leveraging its new American R&D Center, the company is committed to a proactive localization strategy and is planning to launch even more new products with the major marketing support of Korea's aT Center for Globalizing Korean Foods.
About Korea Ginseng Corp.
Korea Ginseng Corp.(KGC) is the world's number one ginseng brand and herbal dietary company. Established in 1899, it is one of the most proven and trusted herbal dietary supplement manufacturers, providing the highest quality, traditionally harvested Korean Red Ginseng products to support health and well-being. KGC runs four regional headquarters in the United States, China, Japan, and Taiwan, in addition to South Korea, and exports products to over 40 countries. With over 40% world market share, its presence spans Asia, Europe, the Middle East region and the U.S. KGC's family of brands include KORESELECT, CheongKwanJang, Good Base, and Donginbi. The KGC brands, inclusive of over 250 products, use the most exceptional ginseng combined with the finest herbs and ingredients to deliver superior products to meet everyone's needs.
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Fever vs. Mercury Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - August 1
The Indiana Fever (6-19) carry a four-game skid into a home contest versus the Phoenix Mercury (6-18), who have dropped three straight. It begins at 7:00 PM ET (on ESPN3 and AZFamily) on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.
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Fever vs. Mercury Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana
- TV: ESPN3 and AZFamily
- Favorite: Fever (-4.5)
- Over/Under: 164.5
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Fever vs. Mercury Score Prediction
Prediction: Mercury 85 Fever 81
Spread & Total Prediction for Fever vs. Mercury
- Pick ATS: Mercury (+4.5)
- Pick OU: Over (164.5)
Fever vs. Mercury Spread & Total Insights
- Indiana's record against the spread is 13-10-0.
- The Fever have no wins ATS (0-1) as a 4.5-point favorite or greater this season.
- This season, 12 of Indiana's 24 games have gone over the point total.
- The Fever have had an average of 166.3 points in their games this season, 1.8 fewer than this matchup's total.
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Fever Performance Insights
- The Fever's offense, which ranks seventh in the league with 80.6 points per game, has performed better than their worst defense (85.6 points allowed per game).
- Indiana ranks second-best in the WNBA by allowing just 32.5 rebounds per game. It ranks fifth in the league by pulling down 34.5 rebounds per contest.
- The Fever are committing 13.8 turnovers per game (eighth-ranked in WNBA) this year, while forcing 12.7 turnovers per contest (ninth-ranked).
- The Fever have struggled to rack up threes, ranking second-worst in the league with 6.3 threes made per game. They rank ninth with a 32.2% shooting percentage from beyond the arc this year.
- In terms of threes, the Fever's defense is struggling, as they rank second-worst in the league in three-pointers allowed (8.4 per game) and worst in three-point percentage allowed (36.9%).
- Indiana is attempting 49.6 two-pointers per game this year, which account for 71.7% of the shots it has attempted (and 79.3% of the team's baskets). Meanwhile, it is attempting 19.6 three-pointers per contest, which are 28.3% of its shots (and 20.7% of the team's buckets).
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Lynx vs. Sun Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - August 1
The Connecticut Sun (18-7) host the Minnesota Lynx (13-13) one game after DeWanna Bonner scored 31 points in the Sun's 87-83 loss to the Lynx. This contest airs on ESPN at 7:00 PM ET on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.
The matchup has no set line.
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Lynx vs. Sun Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut
- TV: ESPN
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Lynx vs. Sun Score Prediction
Prediction: Sun 88 Lynx 75
Spread & Total Prediction for Lynx vs. Sun
- Computer Predicted Spread: Connecticut (-12.7)
- Computer Predicted Total: 163.6
Lynx vs. Sun Spread & Total Insights
- Minnesota is 13-12-0 against the spread this season.
- Minnesota has played 26 games this season, and 14 of them have gone over the total.
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Lynx Performance Insights
- The Lynx are eighth in the WNBA in points scored (80.5 per game) and second-worst in points allowed (85.3).
- Minnesota is fifth in the WNBA in rebounds per game (34.5) and sixth in rebounds conceded (34.6).
- In terms of turnovers, the Lynx are sixth in the WNBA in committing them (13.3 per game). They are ninth in forcing them (12.7 per game).
- Beyond the arc, the Lynx are ninth in the WNBA in 3-pointers made per game (6.6). They are third-worst in 3-point percentage at 31.4%.
- Defensively, the Lynx are worst in the WNBA in 3-pointers conceded per game at 9.2. They are ninth in 3-point percentage allowed at 35.4%.
- In 2023, Minnesota has taken 30.9% percent of its shots from behind the 3-point line, and 69.1% percent from inside it. In terms of made shots, 22.3% of Minnesota's baskets have been 3-pointers, and 77.7% have been 2-pointers.
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Speak of the Devils Podcast Sitdown Series: Defensive end Michael Matus
The elder stateman of the Devils’ DL
TEMPE (3TV/CBS 5) -- It was a devastating blow heading into a a difficult year. Michael Matus, one of the defense’s key starters and team leaders, was lost for the season after tearing his ACL in fall camp. While rehabbing his knee, Michael stayed active by acting in a quasi-coaching role, mentoring his fellow defensive lineman.
After the season, his fifth in Tempe, he faced a choice. Move on to the next chapter, or come back for another run. It really wasn’t a choice. Not wanting to end his college career on a sour note, he’s back in Tempe, ready to contribute to the revamped defense and to help activate the Valley.
In this episode, Michael and I discuss the hard road back from injury, the changes in the program over the years, his leadership role, the growing Texas influence in the program, the new-look D-line, and more.
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Surprise Police increase officers at schools, enforce safe driving around campuses
SURPRISE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - As kids head back to class next week, the Surprise police department wants to ensure students, parents and faculty will be safe on campus.
The start of the school year means more traffic, school buses, young pedestrians, and bicyclists will be on the road to get to school. Therefore, Surprise Police encourage drivers to be patient and plan for additional traffic during an early morning or afternoon commute.
Starting Aug. 3, Surprise PD will enhance enforcement efforts around schools to help educate parents and students on pickup and drop-off procedures. The school zone enforcement will address the following:
- Speeding in school zones
- Speeding near crosswalks
- Not stopping when people are in crosswalks
- Passing in school zones
Along with traffic and driving enforcement, Surprise PD has increased officers in their School Resource Unit. Officers will be assigned to the following schools throughout the City of Surprise:
- Willow Canyon High School
- Shadow Ridge High School
- Valley Vista High School
- Paradise Honors High School
- Paradise Middle School
- Legacy Traditional School – Surprise
- Asante Preparatory School
- Kingswood Elementary School
- Marley Park Elementary School
- Cimarron Springs Middle School
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Mercury vs. Fever Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - August 1
Two struggling squads square off when the Indiana Fever (6-19) host the Phoenix Mercury (6-18) on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET. The Fever will look to break a four-game losing run against the Mercury, losers of three in a row.
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Mercury vs. Fever Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana
- TV: ESPN3 and AZFamily
- Favorite: Fever (-4.5)
- Over/Under: 164.5
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Mercury vs. Fever Score Prediction
Prediction: Mercury 85 Fever 81
Spread & Total Prediction for Mercury vs. Fever
- Pick ATS: Mercury (+4.5)
- Pick OU: Over (164.5)
Mercury vs. Fever Spread & Total Insights
- Phoenix is 7-16-0 against the spread this year.
- The Mercury have two wins ATS (2-9) as a 4.5-point underdog or more this year.
- Out of Phoenix's 23 games so far this season, 10 have hit the over.
- Mercury contests this season have a 160.6-point average over/under, 3.9 fewer points than this game's point total.
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Mercury Performance Insights
- The Mercury are the worst team in the league in points scored (76.2 per game) and eighth in points conceded (84.4).
- Phoenix is the worst team in the WNBA in rebounds per game (30.7) and fifth in rebounds allowed (34.3).
- The Mercury are the worst team in the WNBA in turnovers per game (15.9) and second-worst in turnovers forced (12.2).
- With 7 made 3-pointers per game and shooting 32.8% from beyond the arc, the Mercury are seventh and seventh in the WNBA, respectively, in those categories.
- Giving up 7.7 3-pointers per game and conceding 35.2% from beyond the arc, the Mercury are eighth and eighth in the league, respectively, in those categories.
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(CNN) — Butler County, Ohio, deputies found approximately 30 dead dogs and puppies, in various stages of decomposition, stuffed into fridges and freezers earlier this week at an Ohio animal rescue. According to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office, there were more than 90 dogs and puppies removed from what deputies and investigators said were “the most horrible conditions they have ever seen.”
The dogs and puppies were being held at two different properties in Madison Township in various structures, the sheriff’s office said. One of the structures law enforcement discovered was a garage with more than 25 caged canines and an indoor temperature of 89 degrees.
“Numerous animals” were kept in cages together that were “filled with urine, fecal matter, and no food or water. One cage contained a mother and eight newborn puppies,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Authorities also found 11 adult canines in “the main house,” with “some caged together,” according to the news release.
The deceased canines were found in five refrigerators and freezers, “some of which were not working,” throughout the two properties, the release said.
“Deputy Dog Wardens described the conditions of the house as unlivable. The odor was strong enough to burn their eyes and take away their breath. Conditions were so horrendous that Deputy Dog Wardens had to leave the structure numerous times to catch their breath,” the release states.
CNN has tried to contact the Butler County Sheriff’s Office for further comment.
The owner of the dog rescue was operating it under the business name “Helping Hands for Furry Paws,” according to the release.
The owner and operator of the rescue, who police identified as Rhonda Murphy, “faces dozens of charges of neglect and cruelty to companion animals, both felony and misdemeanor,” according to the release.
CNN was unable to contact or identify an attorney for Murphy. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/u-s-world/at-least-30-dead-and-more-than-90-malnourished-dogs-discovered-at-ohio-animal-rescue | 2023-07-31T00:21:17 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/u-s-world/at-least-30-dead-and-more-than-90-malnourished-dogs-discovered-at-ohio-animal-rescue |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Racing will resume at Churchill Downs in September, with no changes being made after a review of surfaces and safety protocols in the wake of 12 horse deaths, including seven in the days leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May.
The Louisville track suspended racing operations on June 7 and moved the rest of its spring meet to Ellis Park in western Kentucky at the recommendation of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, the sport’s national overseer.
Training continued at Churchill Downs during the track’s investigation.
Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen called the deaths "a series of unfortunate circumstances” and said the review “didn’t find anything fundamentally wrong or different about our track from previous years.”
“That, in a sense, can sometimes be unsatisfying,” he said. “But that’s business, and that’s sports.”
Two of the horse deaths occurred in undercard races on Derby day. Another five died later.
“The takeaway is, the track is very safe,” Carstanjen said Thursday on an earnings call with CDI investors.
"What we needed to do was spend some of this time in the interim, while we ran the rest of the (spring) meet at Ellis to just go soup to nuts through every single thing we do at the racetrack. There was nothing that jumped out as an apparent cause of the injuries, of the breakdowns; and, as we went through and rebuilt our processes from the ground up to check everything that we do to make extra sure, we didn’t find anything material.”
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Jessica Secrest has a reminder for all the mothers and parents out there: When it comes to raising kids, you don't necessarily have to do it all alone.
"I think a lot of the time as moms, we feel like having other people watch our children is burdening them, and that's not the case," the mom of two told "Good Morning America."
In the last year, Secrest and her best friend of two years, Emily, have teamed up to do what she calls "child care swaps" with each other and their spouses.
"I will go over to her house and put her kids to bed, feed them dinner, read them bedtime stories, do the whole bedtime routine," Secrest explained. "As soon as I arrive, she and her husband leave -- like, I walk in the door, they walk right out … and then she does the same thing for me. And it's worked out really great for us."
The two moms, according to Secrest, live just five minutes away from each other in the Greater Grand Rapids area of Michigan and both have two children who are similar in ages. Secrest is the mom of a 3-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son, while Emily, who declined to be interviewed for this article, has two kids who are 2 and 3.
"Neither one of us have a huge support system outside of each other," said Secrest, who stays at home with her kids. "So, this has been a great way for us to get those regular date nights with [our spouses] without having to pay a babysitter and leave our kids with someone they're not comfortable with."
Secrest said where they live, child care is expensive and can start, on the lower end, at about $40 a day for a young child or about $270 a week for a less expensive daycare, which would total nearly $13,000 a year.
Data from the National Database of Childcare Prices, released in January, corroborates this, and the findings show that "childcare prices are untenable for families across all care types, age groups, and county population sizes" and that the current system "is reliant primarily on overburdened families and underpaid childcare workers." NDCP data also shows that the cost of child care steadily increased across the U.S. between 2018 and 2022.
Aside from the financial benefit, Secrest said she wanted to speak out about child care swaps on her TikTok to encourage other parents to take care of their mental health and keep their relationships healthy. Her video post has since been viewed over 1.1 million times.
"I didn't think it was anything super revolutionary, but I thought ... I could share this to help somebody else, have that light bulb moment go off for them that it doesn't have to be this hard," Secrest said.
Initially, when her friend Emily broached the idea last year, Secrest said she thought it would be a burden to her friends, but then her son's therapist suggested the same thing a couple of months later and Secrest said that's what changed her mind.
"Before I had Emily, I probably went on a date night a year with my husband. I rarely was able to get away just one-on-one with my spouse -- same for her -- unless we were paying a lot in child care, and that was just not realistic for us," Secrest recalled.
"So, I had to step outside of myself and say, 'Why do I feel like I'm burdening her with my children, [but] when she asks me to watch her children, I don't feel like it's a burden at all?' … I think it takes a lot of reworking your brain [to remind yourself] that you don't have to do this alone," she added.
Since then, Secrest said she and Emily have started doing child care swaps every month, and as much as they plan it in advance, they also try to stay flexible with each other.
"It was getting me into that mindset of like, we can share this burden together. We can share the children together, we can parent together and do this where nobody feels like they're overwhelmed and overloaded. We'll even do this if one of us needs to clean our house. 'Drop your kids off. I'll watch them. That's OK,'" Secrest explained.
The arrangement has worked out so well that Secrest said they plan on keeping it going for the foreseeable future.
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The parents of a girl who died by suicide at age 12 have reached a $9.1 million settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the local school district, their lawyer says.
Bruce Nagle, the attorney for Seth and Dianne Grossman, whose daughter Mallory died in 2017, said the settlement is the "largest settlement of a bullying case in New Jersey history."
"This settlement is one more step in dealing with this avoidable tragedy and I hope that it sends a clear message to all schools around the country that our children must be protected from the horrors of school bullying," Nagle said in a statement Wednesday announcing the settlement.
The school district, the Rockaway Township School District in Morris County, New Jersey, declined to comment to ABC News.
The Grossman family filed their lawsuit against the school district in 2018, claiming officials did nothing to stop what they said was ongoing and systemic bullying of Mallory.
In court documents, the Grossmans said school officials had several meetings with them and Mallory without taking any action against the alleged bullies, including on the day she took her life.
In that meeting, the parents alleged school officials advised them not to file a formal complaint. They say that irretrievably humiliated Mallory and placed the bulk of the responsibility on their daughter.
The Grossmans also alleged in the complaint that Mallory's classmates constantly kicked the sixth grader's chair while she was in class, and alleged that one student asked her in front of others when she was going to kill herself.
"We used to say, 'Go jump in the lake.' That was a funny thing to say. Now our kids are saying, 'Go kill yourself,'" Dianne Grossman said at the time the lawsuit was announced in June 2018. "We've got to recognize that that type of language has to be intolerable."
She continued, "The poor behavior and the poor decisions that these children make, it's still continuing. These children have not changed."
Dianne Grossman described her daughter as a gymnast and a cheerleader who "loved the outdoors."
"She was a quiet child," she said of Mallory. "She was sensitive."
In the wake of Mallory's death, the Grossmans launched a nonprofit organization, Mallory's Army Foundation, to support bullying prevention.
"Putting an end to bullying is not something achieved by individuals operating alone, it is done by a community banding together," the foundation states on its website. "We achieve this by unifying students, teachers, kids, and adults alike, against bullying and anyone who seeks to make less of, or cause harm to others."
The Grossmans were also active in supporting the enactment of legislation known as Mallory's Law, which amended New Jersey’s anti-bullying law to include stricter mandates for bullying prevention in schools.
As many as 20% of students ages 12 to 18 in the United States experience bullying, according to data shared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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BARGERSVILLE, Ind. — In Bargersville Sunday, a large community of people gathered to celebrate a life of service and honor someone who made the ultimate sacrifice.
CGX Crossfit's parking lot was filled with food trucks, vendors, kids playing and sounds of music.
The wedding song of two soulmates played for the hundred or so people who stood around in support.
Today was a day to honor fallen Indiana State Trooper Aaron Smith, who was killed just over a month ago in the line of duty in Hendricks County while trying to deescalate a police pursuit.
Aaron left behind his bride, Megan, who was in attendance, as well as parents and siblings.
Fellow members of the Indiana State Police gathered around, as well as members of his CrossFit gym.
It's a workout facility that is even more about community than it is about lifting weights or getting in shape.
It is where Aaron and his wife worked out and forged lifelong friendships.
Q Moore has been coming here for about 4 years now, just about as long as Aaron and Megan.
"I am the loud mouth of the gym, so always here just to push people, encourage people," said Moore, who was a workout partner of Aaron's. "And so that's kind of how I met Megan is because I was screaming at her to encourage her, to push her, and over the course of years being here, just developed a tremendous relationship with those guys."
Moore shows off the back corner of the gym where he says Aaron spent most of his time.
He describes Aaron as a soft-spoken, humble guy who didn't want any attention on him. He says the two would joke around together while working out — two opposite personalities that formed a close friendship.
Moore says Aaron never wanted any recognition for his good deeds, but he deserves the memorial and tribute today.
"My dad always said, you can tell what type of person someone was after they pass away and the amount of people who come to remember that person," said Moore. "I went to the showing and it was phenomenal, and then just this, in general, I mean just no shadow of a doubt about it how great of a person Aaron was and also how great of a person Megan is."
Moore shows the blue line on the equipment where Aaron worked out. The symbol of him will stay in the gym, just like the people in this gym plan to stay by Megan's side through tough times ahead.
"We want Megan to know that she is not in this by herself. God created us to be in community and we just want Megan to be able to feel that. We just want to support her, not just on this day, but for as long as we can," said Moore. "We back up our first responders, our officers and anybody that's in that field."
On the board in the back of the gym reads the Aaron Smith Memorial Workout of the Day. Throughout the day Sunday, many people came to the gym to exercise for him.
CGX CrossFit raised funds to support this family. They announced that this memorial event will happen every year from now on, on this date.
They are also setting up a memorial scholarship fund in his name and want Megan to help decide how that scholarship will be awarded.
If you want to support Megan and Aaron's family, you can donate to the official site here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=67UJVY86UNWZA
You can also donate in person at an Indiana Members Credit Union.
The "Aaron Smith Memorial Fund" is the only official fund in Trooper Smith's name.
Anyone can make a donation by stopping in the nearest IMCU branch or calling 800-556-9268.
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The Biden administration says it's hunting for destructive computer code or malware; it believes China has hidden deep inside networks controlling power grids, according to theNew York Times.
The discovery raises suspicions that hackers acting on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army have embedded malware designed to disrupt U.S. military operations in the event China were to invade Taiwan.
"So if it's not just localized and if it's a deep infiltration and it's utilized in that way, you can imagine the banking system or the power grid going down nationally or the water systems being ineffectual nationally, and that could obviously disrupt operations at home, not just for the purposes of slowing us down in response but actually taking us out of the game altogether, unable to resupply our forces and the like," said Jamil Jaffer, former counsel to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Earlier in May, tech giant Microsoft warned that hackers likely acting on behalf of China targeted U.S. military assets on the island of Guam, seeding harmful computer code in communications infrastructure.
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"It was referred to as a vault typhoon. And obviously, this raises some concerns about how deep in are the Chinese in our systems. Are they in just military systems? Are they just in that region? Is it spread more broadly across the country, other military bases overseas, or in the United States?" said Jaffer.
The news about the malware adds tension to an increasingly fraught U.S.-China relationship, with clashes that include increasing threats towards Taiwan and American efforts to ban complex semi-conductor sales to China.
The U.S. has also blamed China for other major infrastructure computer hacks as well as accusing the foreign power of spying on the continental U.S. with school bus-sized balloons.
For its part, China accused the U.S. of hacking into its telecom giant, Huawei.
The U.S. recently reiterated its commitment to defending Taiwan, the island nation off the coast of mainland China. Taiwan recently held military exercises.
"With respect to Taiwan, you know, the capability that we are providing them is defensive capability, as you know, in accordance with the Taiwan Relations Act. We are committed to helping them get the capability they need to defend themselves. And so, this is no change from what we've done in the past," said Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of Defense.
China regards Taiwan as a rogue province and a constant source of tension between the U.S. and China. Two nations that are trading partners and, at the same time, increasingly wary adversaries.
In response to the New York Times article, the Chinese embassy in Washington reacted with dismay, denying it engages in hacking and calling the United States a far bigger offender.
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Senate GOP leaders didn’t want it to get to this point.
They tried and tried to get Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to lift the holds he’s placed on hundreds of military promotions — which have opened Republicans up to attacks from the Biden administration.
But their efforts have failed, and they are now in a situation where the earliest a resolution might be found is September — when lawmakers will also be busy trying to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
“It’s hung around for a while. I support his goals,” said Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican. “The challenge obviously is the mechanism he used to get to the result has created some challenges. We want to figure out a way to resolve it and address that.”
“There are conversations now going on, which is good — between him and the military and others. We’ll have some time in August to work on a path forward, and hopefully we’ll find it,” he said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been among those trying to find a resolution, Thune said. Tuberville said he and McConnell discussed the holds Wednesday, hours after the GOP leader froze and felt lightheaded in front of reporters.
“At this point, everybody’s engaged trying to figure out how to solve this,” Thune added.
Tuberville began his holds in early March to protest a new Defense Department policy to reimburse service members who must travel to seek an abortion for those travel expenses.
Six months later, the list of holds has grown to 300. Senate Republicans were hoping to find a solution before leaving Washington for five weeks — five additional weeks during which those military officers will remain in limbo, fueling Democratic attacks and frustrating the Pentagon.
One Senate Republican said finding an offramp agreeable to both Tuberville and those opposed to the holds has become a “recurring discussion” in the Senate GOP conference, and that McConnell has been personally involved in that quest.
“There’s not a lunch that goes by that we don’t talk about it,” the senator said, but added there’s “no chance of a resolution” any time soon.
Aside from the potential political and national security implications of the holds, McConnell is worried about the institutional implications.
The longtime GOP leader recently told reporters at a press conference that he is concerned this could lead to a renewed Democratic effort to change the chamber’s rules.
Despite disagreeing with Tuberville’s tactic, however, he says he recognizes it is the prerogative of any single senator to place a hold on a nominee.
Senators on both sides of the aisle for months have been musing publicly and privately about what it would take to get the Alabama Republican to set his hold aside, but have come up empty at every turn.
Initially, there had been hope that a vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would reverse the abortion travel policy could do the trick, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led the effort.
But more recently, Tuberville has maintained that not only does any vote have to be standalone, but that the Pentagon would have to reverse its policy before any vote could be taken.
Trying to bridge that gap for lawmakers has become a herculean challenge no one has been able to complete.
Tuberville didn’t comment on efforts by Senate GOP leaders to seek a remedy, but he criticized the Biden administration and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for their lack of outreach in trying to strike a deal. He also hasn’t had any further conversations with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin since their July 17 call and said that the initial series of calls didn’t yield anything productive.
“There’s no conversation from the other side. It’s ‘our way or the highway.’ … How does that help?” Tuberville said. “They’re not worried about it, I guess. … I hate it, for the promotions and all that.”
He added that he has yet to talk to Schumer, who has refused to use up floor time moving the nominees through regular order because he believes it is the Senate GOP’s job to figure a way out of the maze of military holds.
“This is the responsibility of the Republican Senate caucus. … It’s up to them. I think in August, pressure will mount on Tuberville, and I think the Republicans are feeling that heat,” Schumer said late Thursday. “He’s boxing himself into a corner.”
But Democrats are trying to increase that pressure, with President Biden on Thursday night laying into the Alabama Republican and arguing his holds are harming military readiness and creating instability within the ranks of the armed forces.
“This partisan freeze is already harming military readiness, security and leadership, and troop morale,” Biden said in remarks at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington. “Freezing pay, freezing people in place. Military families who have already sacrificed so much, unsure of where and when they change stations, unable to get housing or start their kids in the new school.”
Senate Democrats also took to the floor before and after the NDAA vote Thursday to criticize their GOP colleague. Since the hold was put into place, Democratic senators have made 12 attempts to move the military promotions in bloc via unanimous request.
Perhaps adding to the difficulty, Tuberville has received a boost in support from voters at home and from conservative corners of the Senate GOP conference who believe he is making the right call, albeit a difficult one.
They also argue that if Senate Democrats truly want to move on some of the nominations, they can start to do so via regular order — a move Democrats have avoided in order to not set precedent.
“Democrats think they have a winning political thing on this. I don’t think they do, and I think Sen. Tuberville morally is in the right position with regard to the issue of abortion,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said. “The [Defense] Department has just as much of a responsibility to find a path forward as any single member does, and I’m not seeing the Department try to work in any fashion other than to simply put pressure on Sen. Tuberville.”
“They’re not trying to find a path forward. They think this is one of those items where if they keep putting pressure on him, he’ll cave, and I don’t think he will,” Rounds continued. “On the issue, he’s correct.” | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/gop-leaders-strike-out-on-getting-tuberville-to-bend/ | 2023-07-31T00:23:11 | 1 | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/gop-leaders-strike-out-on-getting-tuberville-to-bend/ |
CEDAR FALLS — Beginning Aug. 7, contractors will be continuing with the Iowa Highway 27/58 at Ridgeway Avenue reconstruction project by starting the second phase of work.
Crews will be opening up the westerly ramps of U.S. Highway 20 and closing its easterly ramps. An overall detour route has been established utilizing Viking Road and Hudson Road.
During this stage, crews will switch traffic on the Highway 27/58 crossover south of Viking Road and place traffic head-to-head on Highway 27/58 in the previous southbound lanes. North and southbound traffic will continue to be reduced to one lane on Highway 27/58 from Cedar Falls to Highway 20.
The intersection of Highway 27/58 and Ridgeway will be kept open but in a reduced capacity with lane closures. The intersection of Ridgeway Avenue and Nordic Drive will also be kept open. After the completion of this phase, subsequent stages will follow for the work at the intersections of Ridgeway Avenue and Nordic Drive.
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MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — A street party in Muncie, Indiana, turned into the scene of a deadly shooting early Sunday morning.
One man died and nearly two dozen others were injured. Of those wounded, 19 were treated at Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, and four were taken to other hospitals. Thirteen victims remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon.
After the mass shooting, police announced that there was no further danger to the general public.
”Stranger comes up and decides to take it personal on somebody he knows in the crowd,” said one anonymous man who claimed his nephew was the block party’s disc jockey. “And you can’t fight against an AR. He let loose in the crowd. Everywhere in the crowd.”
The Delaware County coroner identified the deceased victim as 30-year-old Joseph Bonner. There’s no indication if Bonner played an active role in the shooting, whether any other victims are suspected of firing guns, or if any firearms were recovered.
A witness at IU/Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie described a scene of emergency department chaos with more than 100 people descending on the facility — many of whom were victims that were taken to the hospital by private vehicles.
Officers from several agencies — including a Muncie-based FBI agent — secured the crime scene and collected evidence while doctors and nurses treated the wounded from the mass casualty event.
By midday, detectives were still walking the debris-strewn street and parking lot with brown bags filled with collected evidence. A tow truck was also seen hauling away a bullet-riddled red Buick that appeared to have crashed during an attempt to leave the scene.
The Muncie Homecoming Festival committee said the street party where the shooting happened was not part of the official MHF celebration going on this week.
Muncie Parks Superintendent Carl Malone told Nexstar’s WXIN he chaired a neighborhood crime watch meeting last Thursday, and residents expressed fear that this weekend could turn volatile.
”We was a little concerned about violence that we thought might happen,” said Malone, who described Muncie Homecoming as a city-wide welcome home celebration held once every four years for former residents and family members to reconnect with their hometown. ”You had a lot of people congregating in one area, just hanging out and wanting to be part of the neighborhood activities. And then, at that point at time, it got into late night, and when you get into late nights, you usually have some sort of curfew violations, alcohol, guns and drugs seem to be a problem.”
Malone said Muncie has not had a community-wide gun violence initiative since 2015.
”We’ve always had concerns about this area and teenagers involved with handguns,” said Malone, whose niece attended the party. ”She just got out of surgery. She’s doing well. She’s whole. And then my godson was being treated out at Ball Hospital.”
Malone said he will meet with the city’s police leadership Monday morning to review the shooting and plans for keeping Muncie streets safe the rest of the summer.
”The mayor knows my push for gun violence, the lack of gun violence education, the lack of gun violence awareness, the lack of how to report gun violence in and out of our homes,” Malone said. “There’s a way to report crime, there’s a way to report guns, and we just have to report guns in and out of our backpacks and homes.”
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Must vs. want to
America, take off your blinders.
The Constitution allows any qualified person to run for the president of the United States. This isn’t a mandate. This voluntary service requires monumental sacrifices benefiting America.
A parent must provide for a minor child. Failure to adequately provide and perform what society’s minimum mandates carries consequences.
We must distinguish between mandatory obligatory and voluntary choices. U.S. jurisprudence protects our rights while helping us achieve our desires through litigation. The burden protecting their desires is on the individual seeking, not on the American society.
A run for the White House is not mandatory. Those reporting or explaining proposed delays in the criminal prosecution of one person to voluntarily run for the presidency must distinguish the difference.
The issue is: What a person must do vs. what a person wants to do.
Remember, there are millions of alternative and qualified potential choices. Some think they are the best one for the office.
Our legal system only protects an individual’s rights, not desires. Rest assured if one person was the only person for the job, Americans will draft or appoint him/her. Besides, they can run in 2028 if they are successful in litigation now.
Vernon Weems Waterloo
Christian nationalism
In response to Rick Brown on Christian nationalism: I had the privilege of meeting Bob Vander Platts. I believe you misunderstood his statement on IPTV. When he replied that there was a danger in putting the American flag first and the Gospel second, I don’t believe he was implying the flag isn’t important. Putting your trust in a nation and not in God is a problem. I would refer you the The Family Leader website for further clarification. They are doing good work in asking God to heal this land and help us elect leaders with biblical values.
Vonice Hoffman Jesup
No fireworks
In response to Crystal Funk’s letter: I totally agree! But I have to say the police have more things to do — guns.
The mayor, City Council are more to blame — they passed this law. I did not sleep for a week because of fireworks. Some even landed on my roof. I would totally be for no fireworks.
If fireworks were going off in mayor’s and City Council members’ home areas the police would be there in a minute. I wonder how many tickets were wrote for fireworks? Money is all the city of Waterloo wants — no matter the price to taxpayers.
Cris Brunko Wateloo
Dispelling nonsense
It is difficult to answer all the nonsense that keeps getting printed in letters. Truth and facts take a little longer than fables. Let’s look at the real pictures: Donald Trump trusted the Taliban to keep their word and the Afghan army to do its job. Neither happened. Joe Biden unfortunately did the same. The investigation (nothing happens without investigations these days) blamed both for the mess at the end. Also, for the record, it was not the U.S. Army that left weapons behind. They belonged to the Afghan army, who left them.
The lesson that we seem not to be able to learn is that you cannot hold up a puppet government. Definition: “Socialism” – the ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods by society rather than private individuals. Can someone point to one business or industry controlled by the U.S. government? Or do you refer to government subsidies to some businesses, like they have been doing for multinational corporations for decades? Are there some in government who lean that way? Barely. Joe Biden is not one of them. And finally: Every economic indicator shows the economy is better now than when Trump was president.
Rick Johnson Waverly
Pay the interest
In response to Fred Abraham’s opinion Saturday, July 15:
How quickly we forget two things:
1) “The government forgive the interest on federal loans” and “perhaps reimburse private lenders, some or all of the lost interest on private loans” means us (you and me) — we are the government when it comes to money. We pay.
2) If you borrow money anywhere else you paid back with interest. College/any educational loan is no different.
“Forgiving interest for graduates may be a good path to follow to protect the future for them.”
Can we stop this entitlement? They are graduates, they can understand, protecting their own future.
“This plan has the advantage of helping graduates, but also reminding them that borrowed money needs to be paid back” with interest, is also a pretty good lesson to learn.
If you cannot pay back interest, you should not borrow money.
There is the lesson graduates can understand.
Bonnie Wetzel Cedar Falls
With a flourish
The state’s new slogan, “Freedom to Flourish,” has caused some confusion. The meaning is clear if you think of a magician’s flourish. We go from freedom to a flourish, and poof! Voila! Freedom for women to have reproductive rights, freedom for teachers to teach, freedom for trans people to be themselves, all vanish into thinnest air! Cue the applause!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
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WATERLOO - A police officer was bitten by a dog while investigating a suspicious vehicle Friday night, according to Sgt. Jeff Tyler.
The officer then shot and killed the dog before being treated about a mile away at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital for the leg injury. Nyavais Shakur Johnson, 18, was charged with interference with official acts causing bodily injury, and was released after paying a $1,300 bond.
Police responded to the 9:35 p.m. call for a suspicious white Ford circling the area of Parker and Fourth streets.
The officer was pulling up next to the vehicle in the parking lot of the old St. Mary’s Catholic Church and School, 2127 E. Fourth St., when Johnson reportedly got out and took off running toward a home.
The officer caught up to Johnson and became involved in a struggle with him. Police say the teenager intentionally opened the door of the home, allowing the dog -- believed to be an English bulldog -- outside to attack.
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No other evidence of wrongdoing was found. Johnson reportedly told officers he was running out of fear of the police.
He has been the subject of past calls, including March 11, when Johnson was charged in another incident for harassing officers and interfering with official acts.
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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. “Oppenheimer” stayed in second with a robust $46.2 million. Sales for the two movies dipped 43% and 44%, respectably — well shy of the usual week-two drops.
“Barbenheimer” has proven to be not a one-weekend phenomenon but an ongoing box-office bonanza. The two movies combined have already surpassed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, call it “a touchstone moment for movies, moviegoers and movie theaters.”
“Having two movies from rival studios linked in this way and both boosting each other’s fortunes — both box-office wise and it terms of their profile — I don’t know if there’s a comp for this in the annals of box-office history,” said Dergarabedian. “There’s really no comparison for this.”
Following its year-best $162 million opening, the pink-infused pop sensation of “Barbie” saw remarkably sustained business through the week and into the weekend. The film outpaced Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” to have the best first 11 days in theaters of any Warner Bros. release ever.
“Barbie” has 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.
And the “Barbie” effect isn’t just in North America. The film made $122.2 million internationally over the weekend. Its global tally has reached $775 million. It’s the kind of business that astounds even veteran studio executives.
“That’s a crazy number,” said Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. “There’s just a built-in audience that wants to be part of the zeitgeist of the moment. Wherever you go, people are wearing pink. Pink is taking over the world.”
Amid the frenzy, “Barbie” is already attracting a lot of repeat moviegoers. Goldstein estimates that 12% of sales are people going back with friends or family to see it again.
For a movie industry that has been trying to regain its pre-pandemic footing — and that now finds itself largely shuttered due to actors and screenwriters strikes — the sensations of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have showed what’s possible when everything lines up just right.
“Post-pandemic, there’s no ceiling and there’s no floor,” Goldstein said. “The movies that miss really miss big time, and the movies that work really work big time.”
Universal Pictures’ “Oppenheimer,” meanwhile, is performing more like a superhero movie than a three-hour film about scientists talking.
Nolan’s drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million domestically thus far. With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
Showings in IMAX have typically been sold out. “Oppenheimer” has made $80 million worldwide on IMAX. The large-format exhibitor said Sunday that it will extend the film’s run through Aug. 13.
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 the film industry, 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,” which debuted the week before the arrival of “Barbenheimer,” grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. The film starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, has grossed $139.2 million domestically and $309.3 million oveseas.
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.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Barbie,” $93 million.
2. “Opppenheimer,” $46.2 million.
3. “Haunted Mansion,” $24.2 million.
4. “Sound of Freedom,” $12.4 million.
5. “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” $10.7 million.
6. “Talk to Me,” $10 million.
7. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” $4 million.
8. “Elemental,” $3.4 million.
9. “Insidious: The Red Door,” $3.2 million.
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JESUP — In collaboration with John Deere, the Jesup Volunteer Fire Department will screen a new film meant to spur interest in volunteerism and share more about what first responders do on a day-to-day basis.
The showing of “Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat” will be 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the fire department building, 641 Seventh St. The event will begin and end with firehouse tours from 6 to 6:40 p.m. and 8:30 to 9 p.m., respectively. Opening remarks are slated for 6:40 to 7 p.m.
The film is available to anyone, and was distributed nationally as part of the National Volunteer Fire Council’s “Make Me A Firefighter” campaign to attract volunteers.
“A big thing with being a volunteer firefighter is community awareness, showing the community what you do, the type of training you go through and why, when you do fundraisers for training and equipment, why you want so much involvement from the community,” said Capt. Shawn Even, a dangerous goods specialist at John Deere Waterloo Works.
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The film shines a light on the importance of volunteers who put their lives on the line and respond at all hours of the day. It weaves together diverse stories from around America to paint a portrait of volunteers serving their communities while transforming their own lives in the process.
“Even though it is a small community, a lot of people in the community don’t even know we need any help,” said Even. “We need to make people aware that there is definitely a need for volunteers.”
Jesup has 28 volunteers with four or five open slots. According to Even, that’s not considered a deficit because many members live or work in Jesup and can respond at any time.
John Deere, in a statement, said it recognizes the huge importance of volunteer firefighters and emergency responders in communities across the country and the importance of supporting them.
In 2022, Deere employees recorded more than 13,000 hours as volunteer firefighters and emergency responders — more than any other cause — earning nearly $225,000 in rewards from the John Deere Foundation.
“A lot of the communities in the surrounding areas more than likely have community members or volunteer fire department members who work at John Deere, and John Deere has a really cool opportunity called ‘Power for Good,’” said Jordan Hoffmann, one of Jesup’s firefighters and also a senior ergonomic professional at John Deere Waterloo Works. “The program allows people to donate their time, and with every hour volunteered, Deere puts $20 toward whatever organization you want to donate to.
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Monday Forecast: Mainly morning storms with warm to hot conditions
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The start of the new week will bring the continuation of the same late night to early morning rain and storm chances. By the time the afternoon comes, activity quiets down and temperatures will range the 80s and 90s.
SUNDAY EVENING TO MONDAY MORNING: Yet another round of rain & storm potential is in the forecast for Sunday night and into Monday morning. Activity will build into the west Sunday night and move across the state, plus scattered additional development is possible in the central and eastern areas. Damaging winds, large hail and heavy rainfall are the primary threats through the night. Areas in the marginal risk will most likely have damaging winds and heavy rainfall as the primary threats, while the slight risk areas have damaging winds, hail, heavy rainfall and we cannot rule out an isolated tornado. Please have several reliable ways to receive weather alerts as we will continue to see the chance for storm activity severe nights over the last several days.
Overall, Monday will bring the continuation of precipitation activity, partly to mostly cloudy skies and high temperatures in the mid 80s to the mid 90s. It will still be humid but there will be a light breeze between 10 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph. Low temperatures for Tuesday morning will be seasonal in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Now let’s talk Monday storm chances: Overall the best chance for rain will be in the morning and then late evening to overnight. The chance for rain and storm activity will persist in portions of central and eastern Nebraska Monday morning and into the early afternoon. Isolated showers and storm chances remain throughout the region for the afternoon to the evening. Then... the next round of late evening to overnight rain & storm chances moves into the west once again. The evening and overnight chance for storms in far western Nebraska will also bring the chance for isolated strong to severe storms with large hail and damaging winds. Isolated to scattered rain and storm chances will move across the 1011 region through the night and into Tuesday morning.
The chance for nocturnal and early morning storms will continue through the new week. Temperatures will hang out in the mid to upper 80s and lower 90s through Friday, but “cooler” temperatures are possible over the weekend.
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Tuesday is set to be a day focused on community relations in the Cedar Valley.
National Night Out events are planned across the area. The free gatherings are meant to build a safer community by offering the opportunity for neighbors to get to know one another, city officials and law enforcement.
Waterloo has a slate of neighborhood block parties planned while Cedar Falls and Waverly are planning one larger community event at central locations.
“The hope is that we all get to know one another,” said Waterloo Neighborhood Services Coordinator Stephanie Shavers. “With the council members, sometimes you just see the name on the election ballot but never get the chance to meet them. This is your chance to intermingle with them.”
“Some neighborhoods really went all out, and I love it because this is the time to hear about what good is happening in our neighborhoods and bring those to the forefront,” she added.
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Relationships are the “imperative” to success in the mind of Shavers.
“It’s hard to dislike or distrust anyone when you get to know them,” she said. “That may be as simple as police officers play basketball with kids. Then, we take pride in where we all live.”
Tyson Foods is assisting the Neighborhood Services Division by providing all the areas with 100 pounds of meats for each individual celebration. The events are scheduled as follows:
- Highland, 5-7 p.m. at Highland Park, Vine and Dietrick streets.
- Church Row, 6:30-8 p.m. at Washington Park, Park Avenue and South Street.
- Roosevelt and We Care, 5-8 p.m. at Sullivan Park, Adams Street and East Fourth Street.
- 415 Walnut Collective, 6-8 p.m. at Harvest Vineyard Church, 715 E Fourth St.
- Orange, 6-8 p.m. at Lichty Park, 6200 Grace Drive.
- Unity, 6-8 p.m. at Ferguson Field, Oneida Street and Linden Avenue.
- Southdale, 5-7 p.m. in the area of Marigold Drive and Dahlia Boulevard.
The Cedar Falls Public Safety Department scheduled its event from 4:30 to 7 p.m. with an emphasis on children’s activities at its headquarters, 4600 Main St.
Attendees will be able to engage Cedar Falls Public Safety and Black Hawk County Consolidated Dispatch personnel as well as explore emergency vehicles and enjoy kid’s activities, face-painting, and games with some prizes and gift cards available thanks to local businesses.
“It’s going to be a fun event, especially for families and kids,” said Communications Specialist Amanda Huisman. “They can meet with officers, explore rescue vehicles, learn about what public safety is all about, and it’s just a great way to close out the summer.”
Additionally, attendees can meet the Pets Supplies Plus mascot. Cedar Falls Fareway will be providing complimentary hot dogs, chips, and water. Scratch Cupcakery will have mini-cupcakes and cookies available, as well.
The public is asked to enter through the fire apparatus bay’s large doors from Bluebell Road. If looking to organize a neighborhood event and invite public safety officers to attend, people are asked to call the center at (319) 273-8612.
“Our responders in uniform are the the people you want to get to know because they are the ones who are there to help and keep our community safe,” said Huisman.
Additionally, a 20-minute drive to the north, Waverly’s annual event will be held from 4:30 to 8 p.m. in Kohlmann Park, 212 First St. N.W. Inflatables, activities, refreshments and all 16 members of the police department will be present.
“Everyone will be there and we have a lot of new officers to meet,” said Police Chief Richard Pursell. “It’s free thanks to a lot of businesses donating and anyone from the community is welcomed to stop by.”
The Waverly Police Department can be reached at (319) 352-5400 for any questions or special requests.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breathe, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered its 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.”
It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there’s also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.”
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Bedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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Remains of WWII veteran killed in Romania identified, laid to rest
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The remains of a missing U.S. Army Lieutenant were laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday.
According to WOIO, First Lieutenant Army Air Corps George “Bud” Julius Reuter was buried at Sunset Memorial Park in North Olmsted, Ohio.
Reuter, who was 25 years old at the time, was killed in action on August 1, 1943 near Ploiesti, Romania.
Reuter’s remains were identified January 10, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
After the war, many airmen were interred by Romanian citizens in the Bolovan Cemetery in Ploiesti. The American Graves Registration Command exhumed many unknown remains to identify U.S. veterans who went missing. The organization eventually reinterred the remains that could not be identified.
Reuter was laid to rest near his parents John George and Elizabeth Theodocia Reuter.
A memorial service was held for the lieutenant which included the presentation of four military medals: the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal for conspicuous gallantry in action against the enemy.
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Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain
(AP) -PAVLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The summer winds carried the smell of burned grain across the southern Ukrainian steppe and away from the shards of three Russian cruise missiles that struck the unassuming metal hangars.
The agricultural company Ivushka applied for accreditation to export grain this year, but the strike in mid-July destroyed a large portion of the stock, days after Russia abandoned the grain deal that would have allowed the shipments across the Black Sea without fear of attack.
Men shirtless and barefoot, with blackened soles from ash, swept unburnt grain into piles and awaited the loader, whose driver deftly steered around twisted metal shrapnel, bits of missile and craters despite his shattered windshield.
They hoped to beat the next rain to rescue what was left of the crop. According to the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Russia struck the facility July 21 with three Kalibr- and Onyx-class cruise missiles.
“We don’t have a clue why they did it,” explained Olha Romanova, the head of Ivushka. Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
She cannot comprehend why the Russians targeted Ivushka, as there are no nearby military facilities and the frontlines are far from the village in the Odesa region.
“They spent so much money on us,” she said, puzzled. The missiles that ruined the silos are worth millions of dollars — far more than the crop they destroyed.
But Ivushka wasn’t the only target in Odesa. The main port also was struck, leaving Black Sea shipping companies that relied upon the grain deal to keep them safe and food supplies flowing to the world at a standstill.
The Black Sea handled about 95% of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia’s invasion and the U.N.-brokered initiative allowed Ukraine to ship much of what farmers harvested in 2021 and 2022, said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Ukraine, a major supplier of corn, wheat, barley and vegetable oil, shipped 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million U.S. tons) of grain under the nearly yearlong deal designed to ease a global food crisis. It has been able to export an additional 2 million to 2.5 million metric tons (2.2 to 2.7 million U.S. tons) monthly by the Danube River, road and rail through Europe.
Those are now the only routes to ship grain, but have stirred divisions among nearby European countries and generated higher costs to be absorbed by Ukrainian farmers, said Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Russian missiles strikes against the Danube port last Monday also raised questions about how much longer that route will remain viable.
That’s a disincentive to keep planting fields already threatened by missiles and strewn with explosive mines. Corn and wheat production in agriculture-dependent Ukraine is down nearly 40% this year from prewar levels, analysts say.
From the first of July last year until June 30 this year, Ukraine exported 68 million tons of grain, according to data from Mykola Horbachov, the president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Ukrainian farmers shipped 11.2 million tons via railways, 5.5 million tons by road transport and around 18 million tons through Danube ports. Additionally, nearly half of the total exported grain, 33 million tons, was delivered through seaports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Ihor Osmachko, the general director of Agroprosperis Group, was unsurprised by Russia’s withdrawal from the deal leading to its collapse. His company had never considered it a reliable or permanent solution during wartime.
He said Russians frequently stymied the deal, even while it was functioning, by delaying ship inspections until the cargos were sent back, leading to $30 million in losses for his company alone. Now, they are once again forced to pay to reroute 100,000 tons of grain trapped in ports that are no longer safe, Osmachko said.
“We have been preparing for this whole time,” Osmachko said. “We haven’t stopped. We are moving forward.”
Osmachko estimated around 80% to 90% of the approximately 3.2 million tons of grain Agroprosperis exported to China, Europe and African countries during the past year went through the grain corridor.
“The most significant problem today is the cost of logistics,” explained Mykola Horbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association. Before the war, farmers paid approximately $20 to $25 per ton to transport grain to the Odesa ports. Now, logistics costs have tripled as they are forced to pay more than $100 to transport a single ton via alternative routes through the Danube port to Constanta, Romania.
“If we were to go on the Danube with the grain corridor closed, practically all our production would be unprofitable,” Osmachko said.
The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports. The most Agroprosperis has sent through this route is 75,000 tons per month, compared with a monthly average of 250,000 tons through Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian harvest this year is the lowest in a decade, according to a July report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Horbachov said shipping costs to export around the world and uncertainty about the length of the war will last could quickly make new planting unprofitable for Ukrainian farmers.
Ukraine currently produces three times more grain than it consumes, while global prices will inevitably rise if the country’s exports decrease.
“I think you’re looking at a diminished Ukraine for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer,” said Glauber, the former U.S. agricultural official. “That’s something the rest of the world just needs to make up.”
The war from all sides poses risks for Agroprosperis.
In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor. Sometimes they must stop their combines in the middle of the wheat fields to pick up shrapnel from Russian projectiles.
“It can get tough at times,” Osmachko acknowledged. “But there are responsibilities — some have duties on the front. Some must grow food and ensure the country’s and world’s security.”
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Volodymyr Yurchuk in Lviv, Ukraine, and Courtney Bonnell in London contributed.
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Lynx vs. Sun Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - August 1
The Connecticut Sun (18-7) host the Minnesota Lynx (13-13) one game after DeWanna Bonner scored 31 points in the Sun's 87-83 loss to the Lynx. This contest airs on ESPN at 7:00 PM ET on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.
The matchup has no set line.
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- When: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut
- TV: ESPN
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Prediction: Sun 88 Lynx 75
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- Computer Predicted Spread: Connecticut (-12.7)
- Computer Predicted Total: 163.6
Lynx vs. Sun Spread & Total Insights
- Minnesota is 13-12-0 against the spread this season.
- Minnesota has played 26 games this season, and 14 of them have gone over the total.
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Lynx Performance Insights
- The Lynx are eighth in the WNBA in points scored (80.5 per game) and second-worst in points allowed (85.3).
- Minnesota is fifth in the WNBA in rebounds per game (34.5) and sixth in rebounds conceded (34.6).
- In terms of turnovers, the Lynx are sixth in the WNBA in committing them (13.3 per game). They are ninth in forcing them (12.7 per game).
- Beyond the arc, the Lynx are ninth in the WNBA in 3-pointers made per game (6.6). They are third-worst in 3-point percentage at 31.4%.
- Defensively, the Lynx are worst in the WNBA in 3-pointers conceded per game at 9.2. They are ninth in 3-point percentage allowed at 35.4%.
- In 2023, Minnesota has taken 30.9% percent of its shots from behind the 3-point line, and 69.1% percent from inside it. In terms of made shots, 22.3% of Minnesota's baskets have been 3-pointers, and 77.7% have been 2-pointers.
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CEDAR FALLS — The apple continues to fall not far from the tree as a Cedar Falls father-son duo take the American Ninja Warrior stage once again for the season 15 semifinals.
The first night of semifinals will air Monday at 7 p.m. on NBC as some of the nation’s most agile athletes compete to get one step closer to a national title and a $1 million prize.
Some Cedar Valley faces will be on screen as NinjaU gym owner Scott Behrends, his son Ben and Hudson native Jackson Twait all earned a spot in the semi-finals.
Over 3 million viewers tuned in to the qualifying round episode featuring the three, Scott finishing the course in two minutes and 3.93 seconds and coming in fourth place.
Ben took a fall just under a minute into his run on the obstacle “Ring the Bells,” the fifth out of six obstacles in the course. A new obstacle this season, it involves swinging between four handles attached to giant bells. Despite not completing the course, he moved at a fast enough pace to still rank seventh and advance to the next stage.
Twait had a similar story, also falling on “Ring the Bells” but still managing to secure another run with a sixth place finish.
The top 12 men and top four women from each of the eight qualifying rounds advanced on to the semifinals in Los Angeles. From that point on, the top Ninjas will go on to compete in the national finals in Las Vegas.
This year’s semifinals are a different format than previous seasons. Instead of taking on the obstacle courses one at a time, the competitors will be racing head to head.
“We both are racing some long-time veterans of the show from the Chicago area. ... They are very experienced and explosive so it will be some great races!” Scott said of his and Ben’s performance.
He said that both father and son’s full runs will be featured in the episode.
All of the season’s episodes were filmed in March of this year, but the Cedar Valley competitors have found strong support from the community as the episodes air on TV.
“My favorite thing I heard was ‘You are making so many people happy’ from a fan of the show,” Scott said. “People love the father-son duo and were excited to see us both move on to race in the semifinals.”
This is Scott’s third season on the show. In season 11 he advanced to the finals. This is Ben’s first time making it to the semifinals. Twait is in his fifth season on the show, qualifying for the national finals twice.
Evelyn Schmitz of Cedar Falls runs toward the warped wall during the 9-10 year old qualifying round of "American Ninja Warrior Junior" in July of 2019. Schmitz's episode will air Friday, April 3, 2020 on the Universal Kids network.
Evelyn Schmitz of Cedar Falls tackles an obstacle during the 9-10-year-old qualifying round of "American Ninja Warrior Junior" in July. Schmitz's episode will air Friday on the Universal Kids network.
Scott Behrends navigates an obstacle during the Las Vegas National Finals Night 2 of 'American Ninja Warrior,' which aired Sept. 2, 2019. Behrends did not qualify for the next stage.
Scott Behrends reacts after he hits the final buzzer, signifying the completion of his run, during the Seattle/Tacoma City Qualifiers episode of Season 11 of NBC's "American Ninja Warrior," which aired June 24.
Scott Behrends runs across the Broken Bridge obstacle during the Seattle/Tacoma City Qualifiers episode of Season 11 of NBC's "American Ninja Warrior," which aired June 24.
Jackson Twait, left, poses with girlfriend Grace Jorgensen during the taping of Twait's episode of "American Ninja Warrior" in Cincinnati, Ohio, in May 2019.
Scott Behrends, center, poses with his family, from left, sons Jason and Ben, wife Lindsey and daughter Lia, during a taping of Scott's "American Ninja Warrior" episode in May 2019. The episode will air June 17, 2019, at 7 p.m. on NBC.
Scott Behrends stands next to the "American Ninja Warrior" logo during his May 2019 taping for an episode of the show's 11th season on NBC. Behrends will appear on the show during the June 17, 2019, episode.
Jackson Twait, a Hudson native and UNI student -- shown on an obstacle course in this undated courtesy photo -- will tape a run through the course on "American Ninja Warrior" in the summer of 2019.
Jackson Twait, a Hudson native and UNI student -- shown on an obstacle course -- will tape a run through the course on "American Ninja Warrior" this summer.
PHOTOS: Cedar Valley residents on 'American Ninja Warrior'
Cedar Falls resident and Ninja U gym owner Scott Behrends, 39, along with Hudson native and UNI student Jackson Twait, 21, both got onto the 2019 season of NBC's "American Ninja Warrior."
Behrends and Twait both got separate calls to separate cities -- Behrends in Tacoma, Washington, and Twait in Cincinnati -- and both taped their episodes in May.
In late June and early July, when the episodes aired, the Cedar Valley learned both contestants hit the buzzer, moving on to their respective City Final (which both have already taped). Both of those episodes are expected to air sometime in August 2019.
Here's a photo gallery of the pair as they trained and appeared on the show so far.
Evelyn Schmitz of Cedar Falls runs toward the warped wall during the 9-10 year old qualifying round of "American Ninja Warrior Junior" in July of 2019. Schmitz's episode will air Friday, April 3, 2020 on the Universal Kids network.
Photo by Eddy Chen/Universal Kids)
Evelyn Schmitz of Cedar Falls tackles an obstacle during the 9-10-year-old qualifying round of "American Ninja Warrior Junior" in July. Schmitz's episode will air Friday on the Universal Kids network.
Photo by Eddy Chen, Universal Kids
Evelyn Schmitz of Cedar Falls poses for her "Hero Shot" for the reality competition show "American Ninja Warrior Junior."
Photo by: Eddy Chen, Universal Kids
Scott Behrends navigates an obstacle during the Las Vegas National Finals Night 2 of 'American Ninja Warrior,' which aired Sept. 2, 2019. Behrends did not qualify for the next stage.
David Becker, Courtesy NBC
Jackson Twait hits the first obstacle, the Shrinking Steps, during his run at the Cincinnati City Finals episode of "American Ninja Warrior."
Courtesy NBC
Jackson Twait, left, with fellow contestant Ethan Swansom, at the Cincinnati City Qualifiers round of "American Ninja Warrior" as shown July 8 on NBC.
PHOTO COURTEY OF DENNIS MONG/NBC
Hudson's Jackson Twait makes his way through the qualifying round in Cincinnati as shown on NBC's 'American Ninja Warrior' show July 8.
PHOTO COURTESY OF DENNIS MONG/NBC
Scott Behrends reacts after he hits the final buzzer, signifying the completion of his run, during the Seattle/Tacoma City Qualifiers episode of Season 11 of NBC's "American Ninja Warrior," which aired June 24.
PHOTO BY MATTHEW HAYWARD, NBC
Scott Behrends runs across the Broken Bridge obstacle during the Seattle/Tacoma City Qualifiers episode of Season 11 of NBC's "American Ninja Warrior," which aired June 24.
PHOTO BY MATTHEW HAYWARD, NBC
Jackson Twait, left, poses with girlfriend Grace Jorgensen during the taping of Twait's episode of "American Ninja Warrior" in Cincinnati, Ohio, in May 2019.
COURTESY PHOTO
Scott Behrends, center, poses with his family, from left, sons Jason and Ben, wife Lindsey and daughter Lia, during a taping of Scott's "American Ninja Warrior" episode in May 2019. The episode will air June 17, 2019, at 7 p.m. on NBC.
COURTESY PHOTO
Scott Behrends stands next to the "American Ninja Warrior" logo during his May 2019 taping for an episode of the show's 11th season on NBC. Behrends will appear on the show during the June 17, 2019, episode.
Jackson Twait, a Hudson native and UNI student -- shown on an obstacle course in this undated courtesy photo -- will tape a run through the course on "American Ninja Warrior" in the summer of 2019.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JACKSON TWAIT
Jackson Twait, a Hudson native and UNI student -- shown on an obstacle course -- will tape a run through the course on "American Ninja Warrior" this summer.
PHOTO COURTERSY OF JACKSON TWAIT
Scott Behrends works on a course at the Ninja U gym Wednesday afternoon. Behrends will be competing on NBC's "American Ninja Warrior."
KELLY WENZEL, COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Scott Behrends works on a course at the Ninja U gym Wednesday afternoon. Behrends will be competing on NBC's "American Ninja Warrior."
KELLY WENZEL, COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Scott Behrends demonstrates some of the obstacles in the newly opened Ninja U obstacle training gym in Cedar Falls Friday.
Brandon Pollock
Scott Behrends demonstrates some of the obstacles in the newly opened Ninja U obstacle training gym in Cedar Falls Friday.
Scott Behrends navigates an obstacle during the Las Vegas National Finals Night 2 of 'American Ninja Warrior,' which aired Sept. 2, 2019. Behrends did not qualify for the next stage.
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JOHNSTON — A monthslong review of state victims services policies — including the pause in state funding of abortions for rape victims — is ongoing but a decision is expected soon, a spokeswoman for Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said Friday.
The policy decisions made as a result of that audit, including whether to permanently stop that state funding for rape victims’ abortions, will be permanent and will not require legislative action, Bird said.
Bird on Friday discussed that ongoing review, her office’s pending arguments before the Iowa Supreme Court on the latest legislation to restrict abortions in the state, and other topics during her appearance on this weekend’s episode of “Iowa Press” on Iowa PBS.
Bird in April paused the attorney general office’s practice of using the state’s victim compensation funds to pay for emergency contraception — and, in rare cases, abortions — for victims of sexual assault, while her office reviewed the policy.
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Later that month, it was reported that payments for emergency contraception for nearly 70 sexual assault survivors had yet to be reimbursed, according to a statement from Planned Parenthood North Central States, based on records from the Attorney General’s Office obtained by Iowa Public Radio.
The Attorney General’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for an updated figure Friday.
“We are working on that audit and what the outcome of that will be. But you’re right, we did pause payments to entities like Planned Parenthood and others that were being reimbursed for abortions and for Plan B,” Bird said during taping. “However, those services still remain available under Iowa law to victims. It’s just whether public funds will pay for them.”
Bird was asked on the program whether, once the audit is done, that policy will become permanent. Bird answered yes, and her office later clarified that she meant whatever decisions are made will become permanent policy, but the specific decision of whether the state will cover the cost of rape victims’ abortions remains undetermined.
Abortion law
Bird said the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade paved the way for stronger restrictions on abortions to be considered constitutional by the courts.
Bird also declined, as some conservative and Republican Iowans have, to call for the impeachment of the three Iowa Supreme Court justices who declined to overrule a 2019 district court judge’s decision to block the abortion restrictions passed in 2018.
“My role here is to defend and enforce the law. And here in Iowa, the issue that we have before us is defending the heartbeat law, and I am glad to do that and glad that the Iowa Supreme Court took it up so quickly so that more innocent lives aren’t lost,” Bird said.
Prosecuting local cases
Bird declined to say what it would take for her to direct her office to prosecute a case that a county attorney declines to prosecute, but did say that such an instance has not yet arisen since she became attorney general after the 2022 elections.
Iowa Republicans’ sweeping legislation that reorganized the executive branch of state government included language that clarified the attorney general’s authority to prosecute any cases, even if a county attorney declines.
The attorney general has always had that authority by state law, but the previous attorney general, Democrat Tom Miller, who occupied the office for roughly four decades, operated under a de facto policy of not prosecuting local cases unless a county attorney requested his office’s assistance.
Bird is a former Guthrie County attorney.
“As it stands today, there is no case in Iowa that we have intervened in without the request of the local county attorney,” Bird said. “That’s not to say that it couldn’t happen at some point, but it would be an unusual situation. So far that kind of situation hasn’t presented itself. But if it did and it was necessary, that could be a possibility.”
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DES MOINES — Donald Trump was the target of sharp criticism from some of his fellow Republican candidates for president — albeit from candidates who are hovering around the bottom of the polling ladder — Friday night in Iowa during a state party fundraiser that featured remarks from 13 GOP candidates.
Will Hurd, a former Texas Congressman, told a gathering of more than 1,200 in downtown Des Moines that Trump is not running to make America great again or represent Americans. He is running to keep himself out of prison.
The remarks were met with loud boos from the crowd, who paid at least $150 each to attend. Hurd left the stage with nearly two minutes left in his available speaking time.
Trump has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of mishandling classified documents after he left the White House, and could soon be indicted on charges in a separate investigation into his efforts to convince state elections officials to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Democratic President Joe Biden.
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In an effort to display why Republicans need to move in a different direction, Hurd noted that a Republican presidential candidate has not won the popular vote in 20 years, and reminded the crowd that Republicans lost their U.S. House majority in 2018, and the White House and U.S. Senate majority in 2020, and did not grow their numbers in the U.S. House in 2022 as much as historical projections suggest they should have.
“One of the things we need in our elected leaders is for them to tell the truth, even if it’s unpopular,” Hurd said. “Donald Trump is not running for president to make America great again. Donald Trump is not running for president to represent the people that voted for him in 2016 and 2020. Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison,” Hurd said, eliciting loud and extensive booing from the crowd.
“I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. Listen, I know the truth is hard,” Hurd said over the booing. “But if we elect Donald Trump, we are willingly giving Joe Biden four more years in the White House, and America can’t handle that.”
Hurd is not registering in most polling on the Republican presidential primary.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who been hovering around 1 percent in most primary polls, implored Iowa Republicans to set the tone in the party’s primary by voting to move on from Trump.
“The GOP is under threat today. As it stands right now, you will be voting in Iowa while multiple criminal cases are pending against former President Trump,” Hutchinson said. “Iowans have an opportunity to say, ‘We as a party need a new direction for America and for the GOP. We are a party of individual responsibility, accountability, and support for the rule of law. We must not abandon that.”
Trump’s onetime vice president, Mike Pence, made a more veiled appeal for Republicans to abandon Trump. He said Republicans need to turn away from familiarity and populism and find a new, more traditionally conservative leader for the party.
That new leadership, Pence argued, is necessary to defeat Biden in the 2024 election.
“I understand the temptation to cling to what is familiar over leadership fitted to the times, but I believe we must resist the politics of personality and the siren song populism unmoored from conservative values,” Pence said. “Because different times call for different leadership.”
Trump, who was the night’s final speaker, did not appear to directly respond to any of those comments.
Trump said he was the best candidate to beat Biden in a general election, pointing to polls that show him beating the president in a hypothetical matchup.
“I’m leading Biden by six, seven, eight and 11 points, while DeSanctus is losing to Biden in all cases,” Trump said, employing his derogatory moniker for DeSantis. “I wouldn’t take a chance on that one.”
Trump also said the various investigations into allegedly criminal conduct are politically motivated and that they would not be happening if he was not running for president again.
“If I weren’t running, I would have nobody coming after me, and if I was losing by a lot, I would have nobody coming after me.”
A full baker’s dozen: 13 presidential candidates addressed the gathering of more than 1,200 at the Iowa Events Center in downtown Des Moines.
Each candidate was given 10 minutes to speak and not a second more. With so many candidates speaking, in order to abbreviate the program, the campaigns were warned that the microphone would be shut off at exactly 10 minutes, even if the candidate was still speaking.
Hutchinson was the only to have his remarks cut off by a killed mic, just as it appeared he was making his closing comments.
Eleven of the 13 candidates rented hospitality rooms on the lower level of the venue to host people after the event. The longest line formed around Trump’s hospitality room, as people waited for their chance to have a photo taken with the candidate. There also was a line to get into DeSantis’ hospitality room.
Democratic National Committee spokesperson Ammar Moussa issued a statement after the event, calling it “a grand finale for an absolute dumpster fire of a week for the 2024 Republican primary field.” She accused the Republican presidential candidates of being “desperate to find some kind of new extreme (policy) plank to get an edge.”
“(Election year) 2024 Republicans made clear tonight that whoever the nominee is, they are guaranteed to push an agenda too dangerous and out of touch with hardworking American families,” Moussa said.
The following are quotes from the remaining Republican presidential candidates who spoke at Friday night’s event.
Nikki Haley
Taking aim at some fellow candidates, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley said it was not just Democrats, but Republicans too, that caused the high national deficit. She noted the first COVID relief law, passed under then-President Donald Trump and a Republican-run Senate, spent billions on social programs and expanded Medicaid and federal food assistance.
“Our Republicans did that to us too. You go back and look at that $2.2 trillion COVID stimulus bill they passed with no accountability, that expanded welfare that has now left us with 90 million Americans on Medicaid, 42 million Americans on food stamps. And did Republicans try to make it right? No, they doubled down and opened up earmarks again for the first time in 10 years.”
Ron DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told the crowd he had a track record of delivering conservative wins, and promised to bring that ambition to the White House.
“Everything I promised people I would do, we did,” he said of his time as governor of Florida. “And we delivered more than what we promised. We expanded Second Amendment rights, we enacted the heartbeat bill, we cut taxes by $2.7 billion.”
Taking a line common among the Republican field, DeSantis said he would dismantle bureaucracy in the federal government, taking specific aim at Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert and COVID-19 adviser to Trump, and the FBI and Department of Justice.
DeSantis has been critical of the COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination mandates, as well as COVID mitigation measures during the initial months of the pandemic.
Tim Scott
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, as he regularly does on the campaign trail, made his personal story and his faith central themes of his remarks. He also spent a chunk of his time speaking about immigration policy, and finished by saying Republicans must “win the culture war” in America.
“For any of this to happen, we have to win the cultural war here at home. The radical left and Joe Biden has us, as they continue to sell this drug of victimhood and the narcotic of despair, leading to a culture of grievance,” Scott said. “We must win this battle against a culture of grievance. … We must choose greatness over grievance, victory over victimhood, and we must protect this land of opportunity so it doesn’t become, with the radical left, the land of oppression.”
Perry Johnson
Michigan businessman Perry Johnson made his signature pitch to cut 2 percent each year from the federal discretionary budget. He said the results would erode the federal debt and lower taxes for Americans.
“We are going to freeze the budget and cut 2 cents out of every dollar of discretionary spending,” he said. “I want to be at a point where we can say that all Americans live a great life. I’m tired of the government always talking about how they’re spending money instead of talking about how they should be cutting taxes.”
Doug Burgum
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said his presidential campaign will focus on the economy, energy, and national security. He highlighted his work with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on the Republican Governors Association, and introduced his wife Kathryn, who speaks publicly about her recovery from addiction.
“Growing up in a small town, you weren’t the enemies of your neighbors. It’s not the person down the street. We should be uniting this country to fight against our real enemies: China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Mexican drug cartels,” Burgum said.
Francis Suarez
Francis Suarez said his record as mayor of Miami sets him up to be the next U.S. president.
He pointed to policies that lowered taxes, increased police funding and boosted economic growth. He’d bring those sensibilities to the Oval Office and kick-start the national economy, he said.
“Bidenomics is not going to solve (the deficit), by the way,” he said, adding later, “If you’re asking me what Bidenomics is, it’s actually a situation where the poor get poorer. A situation where if you have your money in a bank account, you lose purchasing power to inflation, or it gets harder to borrow money.”
Ryan Binkley
Texas businessman Ryan Binkley also appeared to address Trump supporters without specifically naming the former president. Brinkley said the Republican Party is “battling for the soul of the future,” and said he believes there are some in the party who want to look forward, and some who want to settle scores from the past.
“In my heart, to you, I have to tell you, it is time, and I believe it’s God’s will, that we move forward as a nation,” Binkley said. “We have to. It’s so difficult to try to settle scores and look in the rearview mirror when there’s a huge vision ahead.”
Larry Elder
Larry Elder said he was running to bring attention to the “epidemic of fatherlessness” in America and address what he called failing schools in America’s inner cities. Those issues, he said, are not talked about enough in the Republican Party.
“If I can put these issues front and center — the lie that America remains systemically racist, the need for school choice and the epidemic of fatherlessness — if I can put these issues front and center along with a couple of others, then I will feel like I’ve given back to my party and more importantly, I will feel that I’ve given back to my country,” Elder said.
Vivek Ramaswamy
Ohio entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said a conservative American identity could fill what he called a void of meaning in American culture. He pledged to abolish a host of federal agencies, including the Department of Education, the FBI, the CDC and the IRS.
“When that deep state has become so rotten, we can no longer just fix it from the top,” he said. “This is not a moment for reform. I don’t stand for reform. I stand for revolution. This is the moment of the American Revolution — those 1776 ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago.” | https://wcfcourier.com/news/state-regional/iowa-republicans-2023-lincoln-dinner/article_a2a86af8-2e1f-11ee-8a2b-d33f6ac19677.html | 2023-07-31T00:24:10 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/state-regional/iowa-republicans-2023-lincoln-dinner/article_a2a86af8-2e1f-11ee-8a2b-d33f6ac19677.html |
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds, who has become a key player in the Republican presidential race, released a list of 2024 presidential candidates who will join her for one-on-one interviews at next month’s Iowa State Fair.
Notably absent is current GOP primary front-runner and former President Donald Trump, who has faced criticism for attacking Reynolds over her commitment to staying neutral in the leadoff caucus state.
Reynolds invited all 2024 GOP presidential hopefuls, including Trump, for a “fair-side” chat. The Republican governor has shrugged off pointed criticism from Trump, who in posts on his Truth Social social media platform blamed her for remaining neutral in the 2024 caucuses and claimed credit for her rise to the governor’s office in 2018.
Other presidential candidates, well aware of Reynolds’ popularity with Iowa voters, rose to her defense. Those included Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, seen as the former president’s top primary rival, whose campaign criticized what it called Trump’s latest snub to Iowans.
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The Iowa State Fair has been a must-stop for decades for presidential contenders of both political parties in the year ahead of the first-in-the-nation nominating contests.
“While Ron DeSantis is committed to putting in the work necessary to win Iowa and will be hitting the accelerator in the coming weeks, Donald Trump is proving he’s not up for the fight in the Hawkeye State,” DeSantis campaign spokeswoman Carly Atchison said in a statement.
Trump skipped a gathering of some 2,000 Christian conservatives earlier this month at the evangelical Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines.
It’s the most recent example of Trump shrugging off prominent multicandidate campaign events in the leadoff caucus state for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, opting instead for visits on his own schedule. Trump also skipped Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s 2024 “Roast and Ride” GOP fundraiser in June.
Trump stopped in Cedar Rapids last week to record a town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity and visited a meeting of the Linn County GOP at an Elks Lodge.
And Trump did plan to attend Friday’s Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines.
A pair of recent polls of Iowa Republican voters shows Trump holds a commanding lead ahead of the 2024 caucuses, despite swirling legal battles and criticism for attacking Reynolds.
Reynolds will host “fair-side chats” with the likes of DeSantis, former U.S. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former Vice President Mike Pence.
“I am so proud that I get to have the opportunity to introduce these candidates to Iowans at an event so near and dear to my heart,” Reynolds said in a statement. “The Iowa State Fair showcases the best of Iowa — from our people to our culture and wonderful agriculture industry — and it’s the perfect venue for a conversation with the candidates.”
The current full schedule is as follows:
Aug. 10, 10:30 a.m.: Conservative talk radio host and former California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder.
Aug. 11, 8:30 a.m.: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum; 9:30 a.m.: Former Vice President Mike Pence; 10:30 a.m.: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
Aug. 12, 8:30 a.m.: Ohio biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy; 9:30 a.m.: Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley; 10:30 a.m.: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Aug. 15, 8:30 a.m.: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson; 9:30 a.m.: Texas pastor Ryan Binkley; 10:30 a.m.: South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
Aug. 18, 9:30 a.m.: Michigan businessman Perry Johnson; 10:30 a.m.: Former Texas U.S. Rep. Will Hurd.
Iowans can submit questions for candidates here: https://secure.winred.com/reynoldsgregg/fairsidechats
The interviews will take place at JR’s SouthPork Ranch. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/state-regional/reynolds-presidential-hopefuls-state-fair/article_08e0d56e-2b5d-11ee-a1b8-73af21909f47.html | 2023-07-31T00:24:16 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/state-regional/reynolds-presidential-hopefuls-state-fair/article_08e0d56e-2b5d-11ee-a1b8-73af21909f47.html |
FRANKFURT, Germany — Adidas said Friday that it is releasing a second batch of high-end Yeezy sneakers after cutting ties with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, as the German sportswear brand seeks to unload the unsold shoes while donating to groups fighting antisemitism.
The online sale, to start Wednesday through Adidas smartphone apps and its website, follows an earlier set of sales in May. Models that will be available include the Yeezy Boost 350 V2, 500, and 700 as well as the Yeezy Slide and Foam RNR.
The company cut ties with Ye in October after he made antisemitic and other offensive remarks online and in interviews. That left Adidas holding 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) worth of unsold Yeezys and searching for a responsible way to dispose of them.
Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said in May that selling the popular sneakers and donating some of the profits was the best solution to deal with the unsold inventory and make a difference. He said the company spoke with nongovernmental organizations and groups that were harmed by Ye’s comments and actions.
Part of the profits from the sales of the Yeezy shoes will go to the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change, run by social justice advocate Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd.
Shoes sold directly by Adidas in North America will include blue square pins established by Robert Kraft's Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism as a symbol of solidarity in rejecting antisemitism, the company said.
The Anti-Defamation League calls the sale “a thoughtful and caring resolution” for the unsold merchandise and that “any attempt to turn the consequences of (Ye's) actions into something that ultimately benefits society and the people he has hurt is most welcome.”
Adidas declined to give details on numbers of shoes that would be released for sale and how much of the proceeds would be donated. Asked if Ye would receive royalties from the sales, the company would only say that “we will honor our contractual obligations and enforce our rights but will not share any more details."
The company said Monday that the first sale of Yeezy shoes helped its preliminary second-quarter financial results and contributed to it raising its outlook for the year — from a high single-digit decline in revenue to a mid-single digit decline.
That would still amount to an operating loss of 450 million euros (more than $494 million) this year, instead of a loss of 700 million euros.
Adidas, which reports its earnings for the first half of the year on Thursday, said it expected future Yeezy sales to further boost its results.
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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 is it “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 Alex 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://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/us-mother-daughter-reported-kidnapped-in-haiti/507-dffeb51f-530c-4af0-9846-d782c40b2a43 | 2023-07-31T00:24:34 | 1 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/us-mother-daughter-reported-kidnapped-in-haiti/507-dffeb51f-530c-4af0-9846-d782c40b2a43 |
FUKUOKA, Japan — FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday at the world championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds.
She also is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 8.87 seconds, which is the seventh-quickest she'd ever swum — wasn't quite good enough in her favorite event.
"I'm just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I've already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight," she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
"I'm pretty tough on myself," she said. "But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace."
The 800 was Ledecky's second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
"It's fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool," Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best at the worlds. Australia won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women's 200 backstroke. McKeown's victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for her disqualification earlier in the 200 IM.
"You can't change the rules," she said. "I got ruled out. It's just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn't do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive."
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the 50 butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 seconds and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjöström's individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps' mark.
Sjöström also broke her own record in the 50 free, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old mark was 23.67 set in 2017.
"There are not too many secrets," Sjöström said about her longevity. "Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble."
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was expected to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year's world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Caeleb Dressel won the event at the Olympics but did not qualify for the U.S. team. McEvoy's time was quicker than Dressel's winning time in Tokyo — 21.07.
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/sports/olympics/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/281-0edcc6a7-0264-4811-98c2-5b5008f25340 | 2023-07-31T00:24:41 | 1 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/sports/olympics/katie-ledecky-passes-michael-phelps-for-most-individual-golds-at-world-championships/281-0edcc6a7-0264-4811-98c2-5b5008f25340 |
Here are the top stories that dominated the news during the past week, curated by the KX News digital staff:
1: Bismarck man terrorizes apartment building, forces evacuation. A 41-year-old Bismarck man was arrested on Sunday, July 23 after he allegedly ingested methamphetamine, attempted to kick down the door to someone’s apartment, ripped a doorbell off of the wall of someone’s apartment, and pulled the fire alarm for the apartment building, forcing an evacuation.
2: Was an aircraft burning over the Bismarck sky? Here’s what we learned. A KX viewer spotted it briefly on a weather cam shot during the July23 Sunday night newscast around 10:15 p.m. A streak across the right side of the video, like an aircraft in flight that seemed to be on fire and trailing smoke. Then the screen went to a commercial and that was the last of the image. The viewer was concerned it might have been a plane in trouble.
3: Survey identifies best skinny-dipping spots in North Dakota. With the hot weather and the relative ruralness of North Dakota, the thought has likely crossed the minds of many people to perhaps lose the clothes and take a discreet, cooling skinny-dip in a nearby pond, stream or lake. A dating advice website has compiled a list of the best skinny-dipping spots in all 50 states, including 13 in North Dakota.
4: Man who stole tip jar at State Fair intended for Fargo families identified. A North Dakota State Fair food booth owner planned on donating the tips he and his wife made at the fair to the families affected by the Fargo shooting. But their tip jar was stolen from their food truck on July 24. However, the owner reports, the man who stole the tip jar has been identified.
5: Jelly Roll sells out North Dakota State Fair Grandstands. The concerts during the State Fair are one of the main attractions throughout the week — and this year’s concerts have brought more people into the Grandstand compared to those in the past. State Fair officials said singer Jelly Roll had more than 18,000 people in attendance, selling out the grandstand — marking one of the NDSF’s biggest concerts to date. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/in-case-you-missed-it-top-stories-from-july-23-29-2023/ | 2023-07-31T00:24:51 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/in-case-you-missed-it-top-stories-from-july-23-29-2023/ |
ATLANTA — Matt Olson says it’s no mystery why he’s leading the majors in RBIs.
In the Atlanta Braves’ powerful lineup, Olson is often hitting with runners on base.
Olson drove in five runs with two homers, including a go-ahead, two-run blast in the eighth, and the Braves beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-6 on Sunday to cap their sweep of the high-scoring series.
Olson has 35 homers, the most in the NL, and 88 RBIs, the most in the majors. The Braves scored 29 runs in the three-game sweep in the matchup of NL division leaders.
“There’s always dudes on base,” Olson said. “I feel like I’m rarely taking at-bats with the bases empty.”
The only player in the majors with more homers than Olson is Shohei Ohtani, with 39. Ohtani will bring the Los Angeles Angels into Atlanta for a series beginning Monday night.
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With the sweep, the Braves won five of six against the Brewers in the last two weeks, including two of three in Milwaukee on July 21-23.
“You know you’re probably not shutting them out,” said Brewers left fielder Christian Yelich, who had a homer and drove in two runs but described the series as “a tough three days.”
Yelich said a “back-and-forth game” is likely against Atlanta. Sure enough, the Brewers lost despite holding leads of 1-0, 3-2 and 6-5.
“To keep roaring back, it’s a testament to how tough these guys are,” said Braves manager Brian Snitker.
Atlanta began the day leading Philadelphia by 11 games in the NL East. The Brewers led Cincinnati by 1/2 game in the NL Central.
Orlando Arcia led off the eighth with a double to left field off Joel Payamps (4-2). With one out, Olson’s tie-breaking 35th homer landed in the Atlanta bullpen in right-center, giving the Braves the lead. It was the first earned runs allowed by Payamps, who took a 1.68 ERA into the game, in a span of 18 appearances since June 8.
Kirby Yates (5-0) pitched a scoreless eighth. Raisel Iglesias earned his 20th save by striking out the side in the ninth.
Olson’s three-run homer drove in Ronald Acuna Jr., who singled and stole second, and Austin Riley, who walked, to give the Braves a 5-3 lead in the third.
Collin McHugh blew the 5-3 lead by giving up three runs in the sixth. William Contreras doubled in two runs for Milwaukee.
Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna tied the game at 6 with his homer off Hoby Milner.
Riley continued his power surge for Atlanta by hitting his eighth homer in the last 11 games, his 24th, in the first. The two-run shot off Colin Rea carried 463 feet to left-center.
Rea allowed five runs in five innings.
Carlos Santana, acquired from Pittsburgh on Saturday, hit his first homer with the Brewers in the third. The liner over the right-field wall gave Milwaukee a 3-2 lead. Christian Yelich led off the third with his 16th homer.
Rookie returns
Atlanta rookie AJ Smith-Shawver, recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett before the game, allowed three runs on four hits and four walks in five innings.
“He’s got a great way about him,” said Snitker of the 20-year-old right-hander. “There’s no panic in him. … There’s tremendous upside for him as he figures things out.”
First things first
Thanks to Riley’s homer, the Braves have scored 109 first-inning runs, the most in the majors by any team in any inning. The Texas Rangers’ 90 fourth-inning runs are second on the list.
“We come in ready to swing and ready to do damage,” Ozuna said.
Training room
Brewers: LHP Wade Miley (left elbow) will come off the 15-day injured list to start Wednesday night at Washington. Miley was added to the team’s rotation plans Sunday. … RHP Brandon Woodruff (right shoulder) will pitch for Triple-A Nashville on Tuesday. … RHP Julio Teheran (right hip impingement) was placed on the 15-day IL. RHP Peter Strzelecki was recalled from Nashville.
Braves: LHP Taylor Hearn was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett after allowing four runs and recording only one out in Saturday night’s 11-5 win. The move cleared a roster spot for Smith-Shawver.
Up next
Brewers: RHP Corbin Burnes (9-6, 3.46) is scheduled to pitch Monday night’s opener of a three-game series at Washington against RHP Jake Irvin (3-5, 4.96).
Braves: Atlanta opens an interleague series against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night as RHP Charlie Morton (10-8, 3.57) faces RHP Griffin Canning (6-4, 4.46). Morton is 4-1 with a 3.83 ERA in 10 career starts against the Angels. | https://kenoshanews.com/brewers-tagged-for-eight-homers-in-two-days/article_5c766116-2f00-11ee-99f2-3f8e278b46bf.html | 2023-07-31T00:24:51 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/brewers-tagged-for-eight-homers-in-two-days/article_5c766116-2f00-11ee-99f2-3f8e278b46bf.html |
A post this morning by a local farmer said, “My neighbors should thank me. I harvested 120 acres of hay yesterday and tonight it rained.”
There is always a connection between rain and getting hay in the barn. If it rains and the crop gets too mature, then the leaves drop, and the crop isn’t as good of quality. If it doesn’t rain, then there is not any hay to cut. But it does seem that the day a farmer decides to harvest hay is the day it rains. With the rain comes the lightning. That is why lightning is like politics.
There is always a hurry when cutting hay to complete the task before the rain and lightning start. Lightning in a field can cause serious injury and even death to a farmer who is not wise enough to reluctantly give it up and wait the day or two longer till the cut hay dries. No one knows when lightning will strike or where.
In politics, when lightning strikes it has the effect of elevating a relatively unknow into the center of the political debate. A candidate for office one day, the following a potential and viable candidate to become the next member of Congress or even the next president of the United States.
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It’s therefore most appropriate that the contest to see who the next president will be starts in the land where they grow corn and harvest hay. Which brings us to Wendell Willkie, who did not start out in politics but as country lawyer in Akron, Ohio. He transplanted himself to New York where he commenced work as an attorney for a utility company. Within three years, he became the company’s president. It was in this capacity that he became a national spokesman for the opposition to President Roosevelt’s plan to create the Tennessee Valley Authority, which would and did compete with private companies. Willkie toured the country warning against what he felt was government overreach and then, although foregoing a run in the Republican primaries, still sought his party’s nomination and won it. All in four months. He defeated two formable rivals, Robert Taft, the son of President William Howard Taft, and Thomas Dewey, who would go on to become governor of New York for multiple terms and the Republican candidate in 1944 and 1948 presidential elections.
The key here was this: Although James MacGregor Burns described him in appearance as “he looked like a man that had slept in his suit,” Willkie bridged the gap between the isolationist Taft and the non-interventionist Dewey.
In more modern times, we need look no further than former Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colorado, who came out of nowhere to finish second to Walter Mondale in the 1984 Democratic caucus. Hart went to western Iowa, where everyone knew there were no Democrats, and found them. Traveling from town to town in a van purchased for him by Chickasaw County Chair Steve Lynch and nicknamed Van Force One, he did the same drill day after day. On caucus night, he became Mondale’s chief rival. Asked by journalist Jules Witcover after his achievement whether he was worried about funding, Hart gleefully replied, “Not anymore.”
All of this leads us to the question, is there a Willkie or a Hart running in the 2024 Republican caucus? The answer is, I do not know. But two potential candidates leap to mind: South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. Scott is hot now, which may not be a good tactic; but Burgum shows real potential. He is a conservative but is focusing his campaign on issues, like energy independence and U.S.-China relations. He wants to curb federal government’s expansion in people’s lives, and, unlike all the others, he doesn’t claim to be just like Trump only better. I particularly enjoy the fact that he refuses to join the DeSantis’ culture war.
I can predict only this: You don’t bail hay in January, but even without it, you might see some lighting. | https://wcfcourier.com/opinion/columnists/dave-nagle-column-wendell-willkie-caucuses/article_a0236744-2ca1-11ee-ae4e-bb635c2f4821.html | 2023-07-31T00:24:59 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/opinion/columnists/dave-nagle-column-wendell-willkie-caucuses/article_a0236744-2ca1-11ee-ae4e-bb635c2f4821.html |
You may be among the 35% of Americans who have never heard the term “white Christian nationalism.” But, of those citizens who are knowledgeable of the concept, it carries a decidedly negative view. The belief is becoming more important to understand as cultural diversity, racism, immigration issues, political divisiveness and political pandering is before us.
What is white Christian nationalism? Generally – according to the Southern Poverty Law Center – it “refers to a political ideology and identity that fuses white supremacy, Christianity and American nationalism, and whose proponents claim that the United States is a ‘Christian nation.’”
Research conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute with the nonpartisan Brookings Institution as well as a poll sponsored by Southern Poverty Law Center/Tulchin reached the same conclusion: the white Christian nationalism movement is a growing threat to America’s democracy.
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The far-right antigovernment and religious rights movement of the 1990s is getting stronger and will play a major role in 2024 local, county, state and federal elections.
From Nov. 21-Dec. 14, 6,212 Americans were asked by PRRI/BI for their reply to these five statements: 1) the U.S. government should declare America a Christian nation; 2) U.S. laws should be based on Christian values; 3) if the U.S. moves away from its Christian foundations, we will not have a country anymore; 4) being Christian is an important part of being truly American; and 5) God has called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of American society.
Answers across all five questions were found to be highly correlated.
Fifty-four percent of the GOP faithful are adherents of Christian nationalism vs. 23% of independents and 15% of Democrats.
The PRRI/BI research notes five core attitudes are often associated with Christian nationalist beliefs: anti-Black, anti-Semitic [Jewish], anti-Muslim, anti-immigration and patriarchal adherence of traditional gender roles (husband is head of the household).”
Furthermore, research revealed “Christian nationalism beliefs are strongly correlated with support for QAnon, an extremist movement of the political right,” whose tenets include: “1) The government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking operation; 2) There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders; and 3) Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center offers a summary of the movement that should be a wake-up call to Americans: “White Christian nationalism is a key ideology that inspired the failed Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and fueled multiple failed political campaigns in 2022 ... however, white Christian nationalism remains a persistent and growing threat to U.S. democracy.”
Any person with a modicum of intelligence knows European colonists immigrated to America to escape religious persecution, expand their economic opportunities and live in a country where there was separation of church and state.
Followers of the white Christian nationalism movement want to contradict the principles and norms of democracy and make America an authoritarian country.
Adherents of white Christian nationalism are the drivers of antidemocratic conspiracy theories and election denialism and possibly book banning, LGBTQIA denigration, “sanitized” black history curriculum, anti-female reproductive rights, gerrymandering and attacking diversity, equity and inclusion.
Currently there are 14 Republicans and three Democrats wanting to win the Nov. 5, 2024, presidential election. Hundreds of candidates will be seeking local, county, state and federal offices of power. Citizens must be vigilant and keep candidates who espouse any resemblance of white Christian nationalism out of public office. | https://wcfcourier.com/opinion/columnists/guest_columnists/corbin-column-white-christian-nationalism/article_ce39f1b0-2be9-11ee-8863-2b00ae733b9e.html | 2023-07-31T00:25:05 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/opinion/columnists/guest_columnists/corbin-column-white-christian-nationalism/article_ce39f1b0-2be9-11ee-8863-2b00ae733b9e.html |
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Senate GOP leaders didn’t want it to get to this point.
They tried and tried to get Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to lift the holds he’s placed on hundreds of military promotions — which have opened Republicans up to attacks from the Biden administration.
But their efforts have failed, and they are now in a situation where the earliest a resolution might be found is September — when lawmakers will also be busy trying to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
“It’s hung around for a while. I support his goals,” said Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican. “The challenge obviously is the mechanism he used to get to the result has created some challenges. We want to figure out a way to resolve it and address that.”
“There are conversations now going on, which is good — between him and the military and others. We’ll have some time in August to work on a path forward, and hopefully we’ll find it,” he said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been among those trying to find a resolution, Thune said. Tuberville said he and McConnell discussed the holds Wednesday, hours after the GOP leader froze and felt lightheaded in front of reporters.
“At this point, everybody’s engaged trying to figure out how to solve this,” Thune added.
Tuberville began his holds in early March to protest a new Defense Department policy to reimburse service members who must travel to seek an abortion for those travel expenses.
Six months later, the list of holds has grown to 300. Senate Republicans were hoping to find a solution before leaving Washington for five weeks — five additional weeks during which those military officers will remain in limbo, fueling Democratic attacks and frustrating the Pentagon.
One Senate Republican said finding an offramp agreeable to both Tuberville and those opposed to the holds has become a “recurring discussion” in the Senate GOP conference, and that McConnell has been personally involved in that quest.
“There’s not a lunch that goes by that we don’t talk about it,” the senator said, but added there’s “no chance of a resolution” any time soon.
Aside from the potential political and national security implications of the holds, McConnell is worried about the institutional implications.
The longtime GOP leader recently told reporters at a press conference that he is concerned this could lead to a renewed Democratic effort to change the chamber’s rules.
Despite disagreeing with Tuberville’s tactic, however, he says he recognizes it is the prerogative of any single senator to place a hold on a nominee.
Senators on both sides of the aisle for months have been musing publicly and privately about what it would take to get the Alabama Republican to set his hold aside, but have come up empty at every turn.
Initially, there had been hope that a vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would reverse the abortion travel policy could do the trick, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led the effort.
But more recently, Tuberville has maintained that not only does any vote have to be standalone, but that the Pentagon would have to reverse its policy before any vote could be taken.
Trying to bridge that gap for lawmakers has become a herculean challenge no one has been able to complete.
Tuberville didn’t comment on efforts by Senate GOP leaders to seek a remedy, but he criticized the Biden administration and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for their lack of outreach in trying to strike a deal. He also hasn’t had any further conversations with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin since their July 17 call and said that the initial series of calls didn’t yield anything productive.
“There’s no conversation from the other side. It’s ‘our way or the highway.’ … How does that help?” Tuberville said. “They’re not worried about it, I guess. … I hate it, for the promotions and all that.”
He added that he has yet to talk to Schumer, who has refused to use up floor time moving the nominees through regular order because he believes it is the Senate GOP’s job to figure a way out of the maze of military holds.
“This is the responsibility of the Republican Senate caucus. … It’s up to them. I think in August, pressure will mount on Tuberville, and I think the Republicans are feeling that heat,” Schumer said late Thursday. “He’s boxing himself into a corner.”
But Democrats are trying to increase that pressure, with President Biden on Thursday night laying into the Alabama Republican and arguing his holds are harming military readiness and creating instability within the ranks of the armed forces.
“This partisan freeze is already harming military readiness, security and leadership, and troop morale,” Biden said in remarks at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington. “Freezing pay, freezing people in place. Military families who have already sacrificed so much, unsure of where and when they change stations, unable to get housing or start their kids in the new school.”
Senate Democrats also took to the floor before and after the NDAA vote Thursday to criticize their GOP colleague. Since the hold was put into place, Democratic senators have made 12 attempts to move the military promotions in bloc via unanimous request.
Perhaps adding to the difficulty, Tuberville has received a boost in support from voters at home and from conservative corners of the Senate GOP conference who believe he is making the right call, albeit a difficult one.
They also argue that if Senate Democrats truly want to move on some of the nominations, they can start to do so via regular order — a move Democrats have avoided in order to not set precedent.
“Democrats think they have a winning political thing on this. I don’t think they do, and I think Sen. Tuberville morally is in the right position with regard to the issue of abortion,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said. “The [Defense] Department has just as much of a responsibility to find a path forward as any single member does, and I’m not seeing the Department try to work in any fashion other than to simply put pressure on Sen. Tuberville.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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(KRON) — A 15-year-old Berkeley teen is swimming her way into the history books.
Maya Merhige became the youngest person to swim the 21-mile Catalina Channel and previously conquered the Lake Tahoe Triple Crown last year. This accomplished teen swims to raise awareness for pediatric cancer research. She joins KRON4 Anchor Stephanie Lin to share more.
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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. “Oppenheimer” stayed in second with a robust $46.2 million. Sales for the two movies dipped 43% and 44%, respectably — well shy of the usual week-two drops.
“Barbenheimer” has proven to be not a one-weekend phenomenon but an ongoing box-office bonanza. The two movies combined have already surpassed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, call it “a touchstone moment for movies, moviegoers and movie theaters.”
“Having two movies from rival studios linked in this way and both boosting each other’s fortunes — both box-office wise and it terms of their profile — I don’t know if there’s a comp for this in the annals of box-office history,” said Dergarabedian. “There’s really no comparison for this.”
Following its year-best $162 million opening, the pink-infused pop sensation of “Barbie” saw remarkably sustained business through the week and into the weekend. The film outpaced Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” to have the best first 11 days in theaters of any Warner Bros. release ever.
“Barbie” has 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.
And the “Barbie” effect isn’t just in North America. The film made $122.2 million internationally over the weekend. Its global tally has reached $775 million. It’s the kind of business that astounds even veteran studio executives.
“That’s a crazy number,” said Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. “There’s just a built-in audience that wants to be part of the zeitgeist of the moment. Wherever you go, people are wearing pink. Pink is taking over the world.”
Amid the frenzy, “Barbie” is already attracting a lot of repeat moviegoers. Goldstein estimates that 12% of sales are people going back with friends or family to see it again.
For a movie industry that has been trying to regain its pre-pandemic footing — and that now finds itself largely shuttered due to actors and screenwriters strikes — the sensations of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have showed what’s possible when everything lines up just right.
“Post-pandemic, there’s no ceiling and there’s no floor,” Goldstein said. “The movies that miss really miss big time, and the movies that work really work big time.”
Universal Pictures’ “Oppenheimer,” meanwhile, is performing more like a superhero movie than a three-hour film about scientists talking.
Nolan’s drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million domestically thus far. With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
Showings in IMAX have typically been sold out. “Oppenheimer” has made $80 million worldwide on IMAX. The large-format exhibitor said Sunday that it will extend the film’s run through Aug. 13.
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 the film industry, 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,” which debuted the week before the arrival of “Barbenheimer,” grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. The film starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, has grossed $139.2 million domestically and $309.3 million oveseas.
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.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Barbie,” $93 million.
2. “Opppenheimer,” $46.2 million.
3. “Haunted Mansion,” $24.2 million.
4. “Sound of Freedom,” $12.4 million.
5. “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” $10.7 million.
6. “Talk to Me,” $10 million.
7. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” $4 million.
8. “Elemental,” $3.4 million.
9. “Insidious: The Red Door,” $3.2 million.
10. “Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani,” $1.6 million.
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(KRON) — Crews are responding to a brush fire along the BART train tracks Sunday afternoon, the Concord Police Department announced on Twitter. The fire on Oak Grove Road and David Avenue in Concord has caused road closures and BART delays.
Authorities did not give an estimated time for when the roads will reopen. Concord police tweeted about the fire at 4:18 p.m. on Sunday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor’s unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter and this year promises to be worse after the city closed an arena that housed 500 people during the winter months. Bickering between the city’s liberal assembly and its conservative mayor about how to address the crisis, and a lack of state funding, have further stymied efforts to find a solution.
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it’s “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
About 43% of Anchorage’s more than 3,000 unsheltered residents are Alaska Natives, and Bronson’s proposal also drew harsh criticism from those who called it culturally insensitive.
“The reality is there is no place to send these people because this is their land. Any policy that we make has to pay credence to that simple fact. This is Dena’ina land, this is Native land,” said Christopher Constant, chair of the Anchorage Assembly. “And so we cannot be supporting policies that would take people and displace them from their home, even if their home is not what you or I would call home.”
Bronson’s airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the U.S. West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
In May, the city shut down the 500-bed homeless shelter in the city’s arena so it could once more be used for concerts and hockey games after neighbors complained about open drug use, trespassing, violence and litter. A plan to build a large shelter and navigation center fell through when Bronson approved a contract without approval from the Anchorage Assembly.
That leaves a gaping hole in the city’s ability to house the thousands of homeless people who have to contend with temperatures well below zero for days at a time and unrelenting winds blasting off Cook Inlet. At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no vacancies.
New tent cities have sprung up across Anchorage this summer: on a slope facing the city’s historic railroad depot, on a busy road near the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and near soup kitchens and shelters downtown.
Assembly members are slated to consider a winter stop-gap option in August falling far short of the need: a large, warmed, tent-like structure for 150 people.
Summer brings its own challenges: hungry bears last year roamed a city-owned campground where homeless people were resettled after the arena closed. Wildlife officials killed four bears after they broke into tents.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
It’s not clear if his proposal will move forward. There is not yet a plan or a funding source.
Dr. Ted Mala, an Inupiaq who in 1990 became the first Alaska Native to serve as the state’s health commissioner, said Anchorage should be working with social workers and law enforcement to discover people’s individual reasons for homelessness and connect them with resources.
Buying the unsheltered a ticket to another city is a political game that’s been around for years. A number of U.S. cities struggling with homelessness, including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, have also offered bus or plane tickets to homeless residents.
“People are not pawns, they’re human beings,” Mala said.
The mayor’s proposal, while focused on warmer cities, also would fund tickets to other Alaska locations for those who want them.
Clarita Clark became homeless after her medical team wanted her to move from Point Hope to Anchorage for cancer treatment because Anchorage is warmer. The medical facility wouldn’t allow her husband to stay with her, so they pitched a tent in a sprawling camp to stay together.
Having recently found the body of a dead teenager who overdosed in a portable toilet, Clark yearns to return to the Chukchi Sea coastal village of Point Hope, where her three grandchildren live.
“I got a family that loves me,” she said, adding she would use the ticket and seek treatment closer to home.
Danny Parish also is leaving Alaska, but for another reason: He’s fed up.
Parish is selling his home of 29 years because it sits directly across the street from Sullivan Arena. Bad acts by some homeless people — including harassment, throwing vodka bottles in his yard, poisoning his dog and using his driveway as a toilet — made his life “a holy hell,” he said.
Parish is convinced the arena will be used again this winter since there isn’t another plan.
He, too, hopes to move to the contiguous U.S. — Oregon, for starters — but not before asking Anchorage leaders for his own plane ticket out.
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Accidents or crashes?
Thank you for the deep look at India’s challenges with its rail system in the June 9 Daily article “Why India lags behind in rail safety – and where it goes from here.”
Recently, I’ve seen billboards placed by my state’s Department of Transportation that make a point by crossing out the word “accidents” and replacing it with “crashes.” That point, of course, is that crashes are avoidable, as opposed to the sense of accidents just happening and not being preventable.
I think that the founder of the Monitor might agree that “accident” is not as useful as other, more specific terms that leave out the notion of chance. Perhaps the Monitor could consider this in future reporting.
Jerry McIntire
Elk Rapids, Michigan
Thriving with less, not more
It would have been thought-provoking if the article “One is the loneliest number: What will help people connect again?” from the July 10 & 17 Weekly issue had looked into how those who are not dependent on social interactions (some would label them “introverts”) actually thrived during the lockdowns.
This perspective can point to a new way of thinking! The whole current push seems to shout “social, social, social” without end. Maybe it’s time to think about this again, and the Monitor is just the vehicle to do that. Often, the world’s greatest works are done alone. There are many examples, and they are encouraging, and telling these stories strengthens and supports those who honestly do thrive with less, rather than more, societal contact. For the Monitor’s founder, that meant alone with God.
Please lead the way and consider balancing this out for a world that needs it.
Elena Toft
Falls Church, Virginia
An annual reminder
I agree that it would be nice to have an “Interdependence Day” as described in the recent piece “Happy Interdependence Day!” in the July 3 Weekly issue.
However, this should not be at the expense of our Fourth of July celebrating our country’s independence! The remarkable truths put forth in Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence established a standard that has called to the hearts and minds of people all over the world since 1776. In the United States, we are still working to live up to these standards.
To drop the annual reminder of those remarkable words and the standards they set – not just for the early Colonists, but as it has turned out, for the whole world – would be, in my opinion, a huge blunder.
Nancy Walden
Medford, Massachusetts
Holding the South together
As a somewhat child of the South (born in Louisville, Kentucky; grew up partially in Virginia), I, too, have wondered why the South seems so much more violent.
This question was amplified when close friends of mine moved to Atlanta and felt the need to carry concealed firearms, though they had never done so before – and these people are not gun enthusiasts.
Thank you for probing, in your June 5 cover story, “Exposing the roots of violence,” whether there is something truly unique about the South that makes it the way it is – beyond its very challenging legacy.
Can there perhaps be a follow-up story, or more of a focus on the need for better institutions to promote our togetherness, employment, health, and education? The need for better institutions and common glue is not limited to the South, but, for whatever reason, these have not taken root.
There’s more here, or rather, there’s more to the explanation for the lack of progress than poor alignment of the stars.
Stuart Page
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(KRON) — Fire crews battled a two-alarm fire at a two-story home early Sunday morning in San Pablo.
The home was unoccupied at the time the fire broke out. Officials say the fire started in the attic.
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BRIGHTON, Iowa (AP) — You-pick farms are struggling through heat, drought and haze as customers cancel picking appointments and crops across Iowa refuse to grow.
These farms offer visitors the chance to harvest their own produce straight from the tree, bush or ground.
But this summer marks Iowa’s third year in a row of drought. And that is hurting farmers who grow water-intensive crops like blueberries and strawberries that are particularly sensitive to heat and drought, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported.
Kim Anderson told The Gazette that her well started faltering during last summer’s heat and drought at her 5-acre Blueberry Bottom Farm near Brighton in southeastern Iowa.
Many of her blueberry bushes became parched. And recently, for the first time in the farm’s five-season history, she had to cancel a day of picking appointments because there weren’t enough ripe berries.
“I just never anticipated something like this, that the well wouldn’t have enough water,” she said.
Similarly, Dean Henry told The Gazette that these are the worst conditions he has seen in his 56 years of operating the Berry Patch Farm in Nevada in central Iowa.
Henry said the Iowa Department of Natural Resources restricted his well water usage from 20 acres a day to 1 acre a day. But his strawberry plants need lots of water.
This year, his entire crop failed.
The heat has affected customers too. Some you-pick farms reported a decrease in customer visits, according to The Gazette. If people do come, they aren’t staying as long as normal to take in the entertainment at the farms, like picnic tables or games.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires also caused Iowa skies to grow hazy and air quality to be poor several times this summer. Customers canceled their appointments on especially hazy days, Anderson said. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-you-pick-farms-lose-customers-and-crops-through-heat-drought-and-haze-in-iowa/ | 2023-07-31T00:25:38 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-you-pick-farms-lose-customers-and-crops-through-heat-drought-and-haze-in-iowa/ |
(KRON) — All lanes are back open on Highway 13 in Oakland following a fatal car crash Sunday morning.
The California Highway Patrol responded to reports of a man near the Park Boulevard on-ramp around 1 a.m. Officers believe he may have been involved in a collision with another car.
The cause of the man’s death is currently being investigated.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Fighting raged Sunday in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon, killing at least five people and wounding seven, Palestinian officials said.
UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, put the death toll at six, and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said two children were among those wounded.
The Palestinian officials, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the fighting broke out after an unknown gunman tried to kill Islamist militant Mahmoud Khalil, killing a companion of his instead.
Later, Islamist militants shot and killed a Palestinian military general from the Fatah group and three escorts as they were walking through a parking lot, another Palestinian official told AP.
Ein el-Hilweh is notorious for its lawlessness and violence is not uncommon. The U.N. says about 55,000 people live in the camp, which was established in 1948 to house Palestinians displaced by Israeli forces during the establishment of Israel.
On Sunday, factions blazed away with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers and lobbed hand grenades in the camp as ambulances zoomed through its narrow streets to take the wounded to the hospital.
The fighting stopped for several hours in the morning, though state media said there was still sporadic sniper fire, but fighting erupted again after the killing of the Palestinian general and his escorts.
Some residents in Sidon neighborhoods near the camp fled their homes as stray bullets hit buildings and shattered windows and storefronts. The public Sidon General Hospital evacuated its staff and patients.
The Lebanese army said in a statement that a mortar shell hit a military barracks outside the camp and wounded one soldier, whose condition is stable. Military commandos deployed near the camp’s entrances as clashes continued into the night.
UNRWA said two of its schools that serve some 2,000 students were damaged in the fighting. It said it suspended all its operations in Ein el-Hilweh.
Fatah in a statement condemned the killing of its security official, saying the attack was part of a “bloody scheme that targets the security and stability of our camps.” It vowed to hold the “perpetrators accountable.”
In Ramallah, the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement decrying violence in a camp for Palestinian refugees.
“No one is allowed to intimidate our people and tamper with their security,” it said. “We support what the Lebanese government is doing to impose law and order, and we affirm our commitment to Lebanon’s sovereignty, including the Palestinian refugee camps, and maintaining security and the rule of law.”
Late in the day, the factions said in a joint statement that they had agreed to a ceasefire during a mediation meeting hosted by the Lebanese Shiite Amal movement and militant Hezbollah group in Sidon. But local media said fighting continued. A spokesperson from the Palestinian militant group Hamas told AP that the groups were working to implement the truce.
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned the clashes. “We call on the Palestinian leadership to cooperate with the army to control the security situation and hand over those meddling with security to the Lebanese authorities,” Mikati said in his statement.
Palestinian factions in the camp for years have cracked down on militant Islamist groups and fugitives seeking shelter in the camp’s overcrowded neighborhoods. In 2017, Palestinian factions engaged in almost a week of fierce clashes with a militant organization affiliated with the extremist Islamic State group.
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Associated Press writer Abby Sewell in Beirut contributed to this report. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-1-killed-6-wounded-in-overnight-clashes-in-crowded-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-lebanon/ | 2023-07-31T00:25:44 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-1-killed-6-wounded-in-overnight-clashes-in-crowded-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-lebanon/ |
WATERLOO – The Waterloo Bucks won their third straight contest with a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Mud Puppies on Friday.
The Bucks (31-26, 17-6) sit one and a half games back of the La Crosse Loggers (31-25, 18-4) in the Great Plains East division with 11 games left in the regular season.
On Friday, the Bucks trailed 3-2 after five and a half innings of action, but took their first lead in the bottom of the sixth.
Kainoa Torres singled, driving in Cole Hill and Michael Lippe to give Waterloo a 4-3 lead.
Minnesota (8-28, 2-15) took back the lead with one run in the top of the seventh on a Isaac Nett sacrifice fly and one run in the top of the ninth on a bases-loaded hit by pitch.
Waterloo rallied in the bottom of the ninth to walk off the game on a pass ball and a wild pitch. Elliot Good scored to tie the game on the pass ball. Two at-bats later, Marus Heusohn scored on the wild pitch to earn the walk off win.
The Bucks round out July on the road against the Wilmar Stingers on Saturday at Sunday at 7:05 p.m. and 5:05 p.m., respectively.
Linescore Waterloo 6, Minnesota 5
MIN;120;000;101 – 5;6;2
WAT;010;101;002 – 6;4;2
Tate Marland, Konnor Kirchoffner (6), Terrence Moody (7), Teague Robertson (9) and Maddox Johnston. Aaron Savary, Ethan Alexander (5), Jakub Amado (7), Chaney Trout (8), Sam Skarich (9) and Kainoa Torres. WP - Skarich. LP - Robertson. 2B – MIN: Recchio, Larsen, Daymond.
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Waterloo Bucks centerfielder Christian Smith hauls in a fly ball during Monday's game at Riverfront Stadium with the Rochester Honkers.
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Waterloo Bucks pitcher Ethan Bell fires a pitch Monday during a Northwoods League game with the Rochester Honkers at Riverfront Stadium.
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Waterloo Bucks' second baseman Brodie Kresser fields a throw from home before tagging out Rochester Honkers Ian Daugherty Monday during a Northwoods League game at Riverfront Stadium.
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Waterloo Bucks' second baseman Brodie Kresser tags out Rochester Honkers Ian Daugherty Monday during a Northwoods League game at Riverfront Stadium.
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Waterloo Bucks shortstop Elliott Good fields a tough hop Monday during a Northwoods League game with the Rochester Honkers at Riverfront Stadium.
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Waterloo Bucks manager Darrell Handelsman talks with base runner Christian Smith during a Northwoods League game with Rochester on Monday at Riverfront Stadium.
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Waterloo Bucks manager Darrell Handelsman barks out instructions to a base runner Monday during a Northwoods League game with Rochester at Riverfront Stadium.
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Waterloo Bucks manager Darrell Handelsman barks out instructions to a base runner Monday during a Northwoods League game with Rochester at Riverfront Stadium.
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(KRON) — A man was arrested on DUI suspicion after a three-vehicle crash Saturday night, the Petaluma Police Department (PPD) said on social media. Around 11:23 p.m., officers responded to the collision near Lakeville Highway and Baywood Drive.
Miguel Cruz Lopez, 28, of Petaluma is accused of driving under the influence and rear-ending two vehicles. The first collision was at the intersection of Marina Avenue and Lakeville Highway, and the second was at Lakeville Highway and Baywood Drive.
The two drivers hit by Cruz Lopez both had complaints of pain from their respective crashes, police said.
Cruz Lopez showed “objective signs” of alcohol intoxication and impairment when officers performed field sobriety tests, according to PPD. It was discovered that the suspect had a blood alcohol content approximately three times the legal limit.
The suspect was booked into Sonoma County Jail. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/petaluma-man-arrested-on-dui-suspicion-after-3-car-crash/ | 2023-07-31T00:25:50 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/petaluma-man-arrested-on-dui-suspicion-after-3-car-crash/ |
This is the week where emotions run wild for the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier sports staff.
Last Friday the 2022-23 high school sports season ended, and that busy week brought relief of a long summer season being over.
It also brings the feeling of despair, quite frankly, because it is over. We love bringing to light the stories of our high school baseball and softball teams and when it is done, while yes, there is relief, there is also a feeling of we wish there were more games to still cover.
This past week is dead week or family week, whichever way you want to describe it, in Iowa high school sports, a week where the IHSAA and IGHSAU, don’t allow any contact between high school coaches and student-athletes.
The emotions also range to excitement for what is to come to next which also brings the feeling of being overwhelmed.
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Over the next few weeks, the Courier staff will be bringing our readers a lot of fresh content previewing the start of the fall 2023-24 seasons.
There are going to be multiple stories from Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa football media days, and we won’t forget season previews and profiles on Panther women’s soccer, volleyball and cross country.
We are also going to make a visit to Wartburg College to see how the Knights are feeing after making a run to the Division III football semifinals in 2022.
We are also going to start rolling out tons of high school football, volleyball, golf, girls’ swimming and cross-country previews and area athletes to watch lists.
This is where the overwhelmed sensation comes to us because our plans are ambitious for our mighty three-person staff.
You will be able to not only find our stuff in print and online at wcfcourier.com but on our newly created Instagram (Courier Sports) and Twitter (@wcfcsports) accounts where we are going to share even more content.
I’m going to get more into this later in August with a new column, but how we approach and cover game nights will be looking different in 2023-24. One of the exciting things we are going to bring to life, in addition to an expanded Preps to Watch column, is our readers will now be able to vote on our high school football game of the week. The ambition is also to have a vote on a high school volleyball game of the week to vote on.
But, let’s get back to where I started with this column…man, what a year in sports for us at the Courier.
Our final nod to the 2022-23 season will come out next Saturday when we announce our Courier Female and Male High School Athletes of the Year.
This is a labor of love for our staff, and it is our third year of working on this project.
If we could name all 12 of our finalists’ athlete of the year (six male and six female) we would because all of them are deserving and have the accolades to back up such distinction.
But in addition to ourselves – Ethan Petrik, Don Promnitz and I – we reached out to five other area media representatives who cover northeast Iowa athletics in either print, digital or radio capacities to help us select our two winners.
And let me inform you, it was a tight vote for both winners as we all struggled to find small differentiations between our worthy candidates.
I’ve read the profiles on both winners, and they are great reads, and we hope you will enjoy them next Saturday, too, in their print and online versions.
Finally, like I teased earlier in this column we are going to have a poll for our readers to participate in over the month of August.
The high school football season begins Aug. 25 and which game should be our Game of the Week.
What should be the Courier's First High School Game of the Week on Aug. 25? .
Your votes will determine the Courier Game of the Week. Here are the five games to select from: App users: If you do not see the poll, click on the table shown above.
- The 111th meeting of Waterloo East and Waterloo West
- Grundy Center at Dike-New Hartford
- Cedar Rapids Xavier at Waverly-Shell Rock
- Waterloo Christian at Springville
- Don Bosco at Gladbrook-Reinbeck
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MOSCOW (AP) — Ten people — including three children — died after high winds tore through central Russia, emergency services and a local official reported Sunday.
Eight of the dead were part of a group of tourists camping close to Lake Yalchik in the Mari-El region when the storm hit Saturday, Russia’s emergencies ministry said.
The strong winds caused a large number of trees to fall in the area, including where the group’s tents had been pitched on a stretch of wild beach inside the Mariy Chodra National Park, regional leader Yuri Zaitsev wrote on social media. He said that three children were among the dead. Russia’s investigative committee has opened a criminal case to determine whether unsafe or sub-standard services provided by the park’s management company contributed to the deaths.
Across the wider Volga Federal District, 76 people were injured in the storm, with thousands of households losing power, emergency services said. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-9-die-including-3-children-as-strong-winds-hit-tourist-camp-in-central-russia-officials-say/ | 2023-07-31T00:25:50 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-9-die-including-3-children-as-strong-winds-hit-tourist-camp-in-central-russia-officials-say/ |
(KRON) — The Fremont Police Department located a possible pipe bomb at a business in the area of Industrial Place and Industrial Drive around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the department said.
Officers evacuated nearby industrial businesses in the area and contacted the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squad around 3:45 p.m., police said.
No injuries have been reported. The area is still active with police and the investigation is ongoing, according to FPD.
This is developing news. Stick with us for updates. | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/possible-pipe-bomb-found-at-fremont-business-police/ | 2023-07-31T00:25:56 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/possible-pipe-bomb-found-at-fremont-business-police/ |
WATERLOO – No one was more surprised by the news than Dan Schuler was when he was inducted in the Iowa State Bowling Association Hall of Fame on June 24.
“It was a big surprise because there’s a couple of other very prominent Iowa bowlers that didn’t get in and so I was actually very surprised,” Schuler said.
In spite of his surprise, the Waterloo native’s resume should not leave doubt as to why he was selected for the honor.
In his four-decade professional career, he bowled 28 perfect games, nine 800 series, over 500 series at 700 and a lifetime high average of 230. He was also the 2009 Iowa State Open Division Singles Title winner and a three-time top-three finisher in the Iowa State Tournament.
He’s also competed at the national level, in the annual ABC/USBC Open Championships, which he’s been appearing since 1979. His highlights include 38 USBC Tournament appearances, a 299 game in 2003, and 189 lifetime average.
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Bowling started as a way to heal for Schuler.
He started in 1969 at age 9, going to Cadillac Lanes with his mother, Karen, after the death of his father, Ronnie, earlier that year.
“It gave me an activity to do because in summertime, I didn’t really play baseball,” Schuler said “I went up fishing every summer, so I wasn’t much of a baseball player. It was something … I started improving at and I enjoyed it. I’ve met so many people, made so many friends, it’s just been a very cool experience.”
He quickly found that he had a knack for it. He joined the adult league at 18 in 1978 and recorded his first 700 series that same year – a time when scoring that well was rare – as wooden lanes and plastic and rubber balls made it harder on bowlers.
“Scoring is a lot different nowadays,” Schuler said. “A lot of 300s a lot of 700s, about 800s, so at 18, that was pretty cool.”
His team and individual accomplishments at the state and national level led to Schuler’s recommendation for the Hall of Fame by the Greater Cedar Valley Bowling Association.
“Although Dan Schuler likes to put his team first, the Greater Cedar Valley Bowling Association feels that he is deserving of an individual honor, and that honor is election into the Iowa Bowling Hall of Fame,” his submission read. “The Greater Cedar Valley Bowling Association supports and endorses the candidacy of Dan Schuler for the Iowa Bowling Association Hall of Fame.”
Schuler was inducted into the Hall of Fame in June during a ceremony in Des Moines. Schuler described the ceremony as an emotional moment for him, as his sister, Kristi Nosbisch, passed away unexpectedly in September.
“I’m still in the shocked and grieving stage of my sister’s passing,” Schuler said. “So yeah, just very humbled, very honored.”
In addition to Schuler, Greater Cedar Valley Bowling Association member Maggie Mennenga also received election to the Iowa Bowling Hall of Fame posthumously.
A member since the 1950s, bowling served as a social outlet for Mennenga. She served numerous roles for the Waterloo Metro Women’s Association including director, 2nd Vice President and 1st Vice President as well as the association secretary.
“For 18 years Maggie was a driving force behind a very successful association,” her submission read. “While Maggie would consider herself an average bowler, she recorded a high series of 657 with a high game of 268 and captured the 1968 Waterloo Scratch Singles Championship. ... Maggie Mennega represents everything you would expect from a Hall of Fame member.”
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KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists.
The Bajur district near the Afghan border was a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban — a close ally of Afghanistan’s Taliban government — before the Pakistani army drove the militants out of the area. Supporters of hardline Pakistani cleric and political party leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam generally supports regional Islamists, were meeting in Bajur in a hall close to a market outside the district capital. Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally but organizers added tents because so many supporters showed up, and party volunteers with batons were helping control the crowd.
Officials were announcing the arrival of Abdul Rasheed, a leader of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party, when the bomb went off in one of Pakistan’s bloodiest attacks in recent years.
Provincial police said in a statement that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives vest close to the stage where several senior leaders of the party were sitting. It said initial investigations suggested the Islamic State group — which operates in Afghanistan and is an enemy of the Afghan Taliban — could be behind the attack, and officers were still investigating.
“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,” said Adam Khan, 45, who was knocked to the ground by the blast around 4 p.m. and hit by splinters in his leg and both hands.
The Pakistan Taliban, or TTP, said in a statement sent to The Associated Press that the bombing was aimed at setting Islamists against each other. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, said on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that “such crimes cannot be justified in any way.”
The Afghan Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021 emboldened the TTP. They unilaterally ended a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government in November, and have stepped up attacks across the country.
The bombing came hours before the arrival of Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Islamabad, where he was to participate in an event to mark a decade of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, a sprawling package under which Beijing has invested billions of dollars in Pakistan.
In recent months, China has helped Pakistan avoid a default on sovereign payments. However, some Chinese nationals have also been targeted by militants in northwestern Pakistan and elsewhere.
Feroz Jamal, the provincial information minister, told The Associated Press that so far 44 people had been “martyred” and nearly 200 wounded in the bombing.
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. n February, more than 100 people, mostly policemen, died in a bombing at a mosque inside a high-security compound housing Peshawar police headquarters.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Arif Alvi condemned the attack and asked officials to provide all possible assistance to the wounded and the bereaved families. Sharif later, in a phone call to Rehman, the head of the JUI, conveyed his condolences to him and assured him that those who orchestrated the attack would be punished.
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad also condemned the attack. In a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, it expressed its condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims killed in the attack..
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.
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. The bombing drew nationwide condemnation, with the ruling and opposition parties extending condolences to the families of those who died in the attack.
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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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar. Associated Press writer Munir Ahmad contributed from Islamabad. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-a-bomb-at-a-political-rally-in-northwest-pakistan-kills-10-people-and-wounds-more-than-50/ | 2023-07-31T00:25:57 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-a-bomb-at-a-political-rally-in-northwest-pakistan-kills-10-people-and-wounds-more-than-50/ |
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MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — A street party in Muncie, Indiana, turned into the scene of a deadly shooting early Sunday morning.
One man died and nearly two dozen others were injured. Of those wounded, 19 were treated at Ball Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, and four were taken to other hospitals. Thirteen victims remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon.
After the mass shooting, police announced that there was no further danger to the general public.
”Stranger comes up and decides to take it personal on somebody he knows in the crowd,” said one anonymous man who claimed his nephew was the block party’s disc jockey. “And you can’t fight against an AR. He let loose in the crowd. Everywhere in the crowd.”
The Delaware County coroner identified the deceased victim as 30-year-old Joseph Bonner. There’s no indication if Bonner played an active role in the shooting, whether any other victims are suspected of firing guns, or if any firearms were recovered.
A witness at IU/Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie described a scene of emergency department chaos with more than 100 people descending on the facility — many of whom were victims that were taken to the hospital by private vehicles.
Officers from several agencies — including a Muncie-based FBI agent — secured the crime scene and collected evidence while doctors and nurses treated the wounded from the mass casualty event.
By midday, detectives were still walking the debris-strewn street and parking lot with brown bags filled with collected evidence. A tow truck was also seen hauling away a bullet-riddled red Buick that appeared to have crashed during an attempt to leave the scene.
The Muncie Homecoming Festival committee said the street party where the shooting happened was not part of the official MHF celebration going on this week.
Muncie Parks Superintendent Carl Malone told Nexstar’s WXIN he chaired a neighborhood crime watch meeting last Thursday, and residents expressed fear that this weekend could turn volatile.
”We was a little concerned about violence that we thought might happen,” said Malone, who described Muncie Homecoming as a city-wide welcome home celebration held once every four years for former residents and family members to reconnect with their hometown. ”You had a lot of people congregating in one area, just hanging out and wanting to be part of the neighborhood activities. And then, at that point at time, it got into late night, and when you get into late nights, you usually have some sort of curfew violations, alcohol, guns and drugs seem to be a problem.”
Malone said Muncie has not had a community-wide gun violence initiative since 2015.
”We’ve always had concerns about this area and teenagers involved with handguns,” said Malone, whose niece attended the party. ”She just got out of surgery. She’s doing well. She’s whole. And then my godson was being treated out at Ball Hospital.”
Malone said he will meet with the city’s police leadership Monday morning to review the shooting and plans for keeping Muncie streets safe the rest of the summer.
”The mayor knows my push for gun violence, the lack of gun violence education, the lack of gun violence awareness, the lack of how to report gun violence in and out of our homes,” Malone said. “There’s a way to report crime, there’s a way to report guns, and we just have to report guns in and out of our backpacks and homes.”
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