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WATCH: Man pulled from raging river after attempted rescue of dog caught in current
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) – A good Samaritan is recounting his attempt to rescue a stranger’s dog from a river in California.
Dustin Leming, an iron worker, dropped 14 feet into the Los Angeles River to rescue a dog trapped in the raging current during a rain storm.
He risked his own life to save a stranger’s dog.
“Oh, that dog was scared,” he said.
The heroic effort left Leming in need of his own rescue.
“They did have to rescue me, and thank God they did,” he said.
As rescue helicopters circled above his home last week, Leming and his mom ran to the river out back and saw Scooby struggling to keep his furry head above the water.
When Leming saw the canine, he couldn’t help himself. He said he wanted to be a veterinarian so it was second nature to help an animal in need.
“I told her, I said ‘Look mom, that dog’s in the river. I’m going to the river. I’m gonna save that dog,’” he said. “And she goes, ‘You better not Dustin’ and I told her, ‘Look, I’m going in.”
But first, Leming had to run ahead of the dog.
“I think it was about a mile and a half down where I finally caught up to him,” Leming said.
When he finally got into the waist high water and got his arms around Scooby, the terrified German Shepherd sunk its teeth into his arms.
“That current, that current is stronger than you think,” Leming said.
He said it became too hard to hold on to the dog, and Scooby wiggled out of his arms and was eventually carried away by the current.
“I was like ‘Oh man, if that dog dies, I’m gonna be so sad,’” Leming said.
It was fortunately not a lost cause, and Scooby survived. The dog floated down the river to a shallow spot where rescue crews eventually got him to safety.
The next day, Scooby’s owner got to thank Leming for his attempted rescue.
“Thank you so much for all the love out there and support,” she said.
Leming said he’s just glad Scooby made it back home. He said there was no way the dog was going to drown on his watch.
“Everybody got their phones out and wanted to take videos but not take action,” Leming said. “I tried to help him out.”
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The Chicago Cubs game Friday against the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field was postponed because of rain.
The game is scheduled to be made up May 30 as the second half of a split doubleheader. The originally scheduled game now will begin at 12:05 p.m. with the makeup game beginning at 6:40 p.m. Separate tickets will be required for each.
“Everybody’s trying to look out for the health of the players and if we stop-go-stop-go, the pitching is what’s not all the way stretched out yet for a lot of teams,” manager David Ross said. “So with the conditions, with the elements and not being able to be on the field — we all want to play, but postponing is probably the smart thing to do.”
The Cubs are keeping the rotation in order and bumping their starters back a day for the rest of the series. Left-hander Justin Steele will start Saturday while right-hander Marcus Stroman will make his Cubs debut Sunday in the series finale.
Left-hander Drew Smyly originally was set to start Sunday. Ross indicated Smyly will pitch in Pittsburgh, but it is unclear which game.
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A man crossing Highway 65 in Columbia Heights was critically injured Saturday night when he was hit by an SUV, according to the Anoka County sheriff’s office.
The man was not crossing at a crosswalk or signal when he was struck at 9:08 p.m. Saturday near Central Avenue N.E. and 45th Avenue N.E., authorities said.
The driver stopped and cooperated with authorities.
The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
No further details were available Sunday.
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Beyond the positions of a handful of players, there were few surprises in the Orioles’ lineup for Friday’s season opener against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Facing Baltimore-born left-hander Shane McClanahan, center fielder Cedric Mullins begins the year in the leadoff spot he occupied for all of his 149 starts during his 30-30 season. After setting the franchise’s rookie home run record in 2021, first baseman Ryan Mountcastle is listed second, with designated hitter Trey Mancini behind him.
Outfielders Austin Hays and Anthony Santander are next, respectively, in the lineup, with Orioles manager Brandon Hyde putting Hays in right and Santander in left — the opposite of what was expected.Hyde said he went with that alignment because Hays has been the better thrower of late, but the pair will switch off throughout the year, with Hays primarily playing left at Camden Yards with the ballpark’s fence moving back and creating more playing area.
In Santander’s case, Hyde said he was pleased with the state of his health, given he spent much of 2021 battling a left ankle sprain after being Most Valuable Oriole in 2020.
“There was a couple of times this spring where he had to score from first on a double or score from second on a hit and you saw him move, you saw him go,” Hyde said. “I didn’t see that last year.”
Most of the uncertainty about Hyde’s starting lineup centered on the infield combination, and opposite McClanahan, he went with three right-handed bats. Second baseman Ramón Urías hits sixth, shortstop Jorge Mateo will bat seventh and third baseman Kelvin Gutiérrez is in the ninth spot. Making his Orioles debut, Robinson Chirinos, eighth in the order, will catch left-hander John Means, making his second straight season-opening start for the Orioles.
Infielders Rougned Odor and Chris Owings, outfielders DJ Stewart and Ryan McKenna, and catcher Anthony Bemboom are available off Hyde’s bench. Gutiérrez, McKenna and Bemboom are among eight Orioles on their first opening day roster. Like Chirinos, Odor, Owings and Bemboom have yet to appear in a game for Baltimore after signing as free agents between seasons.
Hyde put this lineup together a week later than once expected, with the Orioles’ season opener delayed a week amid Major League Baseball’s lockout. Once that was lifted, a rapid spring followed, but it got the Orioles to opening day.
“It was a very unusual offseason, didn’t know what was going to happen,” Hyde said. “Fortunate we got spring training in. It was a real short spring training, but I feel really good about the work that we put in. Give a lot of credit to a lot of people, our medical guys, [head athletic trainer] Brian Ebel and his staff, our strength coaches Trey [Wiedman] and [Justin] Bucko, and our coaches for collaborating and really keeping these guys on the field, having them healthy. Our guys are ready to go and we’re excited for today.”
Zimmermann ‘lost for words’ to start home opener
Bruce Zimmermann grew up watching Orioles’ home openers on TV, occasionally attending in person to see players jog down the orange carpet in center field. When Baltimore acquired the Loyola Blakefield graduate in 2018, he almost immediately began to imagine what it would be like to start the first game of the season at Camden Yards.
On Monday, Zimmermann will get to do just that, with the 27-year-old left-hander lined up to face the Milwaukee Brewers in the first home game of Oriole Park’s 30th anniversary season.
“It’s a dream come true, to be honest,” Zimmermann said. “I’m honestly dreaming — it’ll probably be better than my debut, honestly, with the amount of fans that usually show up for Opening Day in Baltimore and the orange carpet being back and all the fanfare that comes with Opening Day. I can’t really put into words how excited I am for the opportunity.”
Zimmermann is the first Maryland native to be the starting pitcher in the Orioles’ home opener since Dave Johnson in 1990. He said he was “kind of lost for words” when Hyde first delivered the news Wednesday. He then went out for a team practice, during which the Orioles announced the assignment, and he returned to a bevy of texts and calls. Zimmermann said he’ll take care of tickets for about a dozen family members, friends, and former teammates and coaches. He made his major league debut in 2020, when fans weren’t allowed into the ballpark because of the coronavirus pandemic, and although he got a second debut of sorts in 2021, it still came with limited capacity at the ballpark.
Monday, Opening Day at Camden Yards will come with all the fanfare he grew up watching.
“When I got traded to the Orioles, it was definitely kind of a bucket list thing to hopefully be able to accomplish,” Zimmermann said. “The fact that it happened so quickly, I’m very, very excited and blessed and just ready to go out there and get the Orioles faithful a W on Opening Day.”
Around the horn
>> Outfield prospect Heston Kjerstad has been assigned to Low-A Delmarva and placed on the injured list. Kjerstad, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 draft who missed all of last season recovering from myocarditis, pulled his hamstring early in training camp. He’s yet to make his professional debut.
>> The Orioles passed right-hander Isaac Mattson through waivers before the game, opening a 40-man roster spot. Mattson, 26, was one of four pitchers the club acquired from the Los Angeles Angels for starter Dylan Bundy in December 2019. He’s been assigned to Triple-A Norfolk.
>> Right-hander Spenser Watkins and catcher Beau Taylor are on the Orioles’ taxi squad.
>> Families of Baltimore police officer Keona Holley — who died Dec. 23 after being shot while on duty — and Baltimore firefighters Paul Butrim, Kenneth Lacayo and Kelsey Sadler — who died battling a fire Jan. 24 — will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the home opener, the team announced. Firefighter John McMaster, who the fire left in critical condition, will also participate.
>> Orioles broadcaster Melanie Newman has joined MLB Network, adding the station to her work with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network and Orioles Radio Network.
Orioles opening day lineup
Behind starting pitcher John Means
1. Cedric Mullins, CF
2. Ryan Mountcastle, 1B
3. Trey Mancini, DH
4. Austin Hays, RF
5. Anthony Santander, LF
6. Ramón Urías, 2B
7. Jorge Mateo, SS
8. Robinson Chirinos, C
9. Kelvin Gutiérrez, 3B
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Seiya Suzuki was one of the top free agents on the market.
His 5-year, $85 million deal with the Chicago Cubs is the largest in Major League Baseball history for a Japanese position player and is surpassed only by pitcher Masahiro Tanaka’s seven-year, $155 million contract with the New York Yankees in 2014.
The right-handed-hitting Suzuki, 27, starred in Nippon Professional Baseball, hitting .309 with a .402 on-base percentage and .943 OPS in nine seasons with the Hiroshima Carp. He posted a hefty .433 OBP while slugging 38 home runs and 26 doubles in 132 games (533 plate appearances) last season.
Get to know the new Cubs outfielder, whose first name is pronounced “Say-yah.”
How the Cubs landed Seiya Suzuki: Team pitch in LA, secret Wrigley Field tour and a connection with Yu Darvish
The Cubs waited 99 days for the lockout to end to present its case to Seiya Suzuki for why he should pick the Cubs. What followed over a five-day stretch last week landed the Cubs their star target, giving Suzuki the biggest contract for a Japanese position player in baseball history.
“We did a five-year deal for a reason. This is an investment in him and his future,” president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said. “If there are some growing pains or some assimilation challenges, that’s fine with us because we believe that once he gets used to it, we’re really excited about what we’ll get. We will have to be a little bit patient.”
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Kosuke Fukudome — still playing in Japan at age 44 — says Cubs fans ‘will love to see’ Seiya Suzuki play
If anyone understands what awaits Japanese star Seiya Suzuki at Wrigley Field, it’s his countryman Kosuke Fukudome.
Fourteen years after Fukudome became the first Japanese player to play for the Cubs, the 44-year-old’s career continues where it started, in Nippon Professional Baseball, now playing for the Chunichi Dragons.
His fond memories of Chicago haven’t diminished in the years since returning to Japan. Fukudome spoke to the Tribune with Japanese reporter Naoko Sato serving as an interpreter.
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Seiya Suzuki shows humor and dedication with all eyes on his Cubs spring debut: ‘He’s not afraid of a challenge’
A golf cart rumbled past the entrance to the Cubs clubhouse, making a beeline for the complex’s indoor batting cages.
Seiya Suzuki had just completed three innings in his first spring game in front of a lawn-packed crowd of 10,595 at Sloan Park. His first two plate appearances weren’t exactly memorable: two strikeouts looking, including a couple of borderline calls.
Suzuki, accompanied in the golf cart by assistant hitting coach Johnny Washington and interpreter Toy Matsushita, then headed to the cages. His postgame media sessions would have to wait.
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Mike Trout’s influence on Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki goes beyond that viral moment: ‘You know you’re making an impact’
A bashful smile crossed Seiya Suzuki’s face at the mention of his viral moment.
During his introduction as the Cubs’ new right fielder, Suzuki revealed his admiration for Angels superstar outfielder Mike Trout. When asked why he chose to wear No. 27, Suzuki replied in English: “I love you, Mike Trout.”
When the topic is broached after a workout at Sloan Park, Suzuki couldn’t help but momentarily cover his face with his hands, a modest grin still peeking through.
“I don’t like to be trending a lot,” Suzuki told the Tribune through interpreter Toy Matsushita. “I don’t like to be well known.”
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Seiya Suzuki ends a spring 0-fer with a home run in front of Cubs fans: ‘It felt really good’
Seiya Suzuki’s final at-bat became his most memorable of the spring.
Suzuki was 0-for-8 when he stepped to the plate in the fourth inning against Seattle Mariners left-hander Marco Gonzales. He quickly ended the hitless stretch, though it wasn’t a good start to the at-bat.
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Seiya Suzuki’s plate discipline sets up success in Cubs’ win on opening day
Seiya Suzuki thought he would be nervous going into his major-league debut, but the Japanese star wasn’t, noting “it was actually really fun.”
“In all my at-bats I was able to be myself and enjoy the game today,” Suzuki said through interpreter Toy Matsushita.
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By ROBERT BURNS and HOPE YEN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has tapped a new Ukraine war commander to take centralized control of the next phase of battle after its costly failures in the opening campaign and carnage for Ukrainian civilians. U.S. officials don’t see one man making a difference in Moscow’s prospects.
Russia turned to Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, 60, one of Russia’s most experienced military officers and — according to U.S. officials — a general with a record of brutality against civilians in Syria and other war theaters. Up to now, Russia had no central war commander on the ground.
The general’s appointment was confirmed by a senior U.S. official who not authorized to be identified and spoke on condition of anonymity.
But the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said “no appointment of any general can erase the fact that Russia has already faced a strategic failure in Ukraine.”
“This general will just be another author of crimes and brutality against Ukrainian civilians,” Sullivan said. “And the United States, as I said before, is determined to do all that we can to support Ukrainians as they resist him and they resist the forces that he commands.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki echoed that thought. “The reports we’re seeing of a change in military leadership and putting a general in charge who was responsible for the brutality and the atrocities we saw in Syria shows that there’s going to be a continuation of what we’ve already seen on the ground in Ukraine and that’s what we are expecting,” she said.
The decision to establish new battlefield leadership comes as Russia gears up for what is expected to be a large and more focused push to expand Russian control in Ukraine’s east and south, including the Donbas, and follows a failed opening bid in the north to conquer Kyiv, the capital.
Dvornikov gained prominence while leading the Russian group of forces in Syria, where Moscow has waged a military campaign to shore up President Bashar Assad’s regime during a devastating civil war.
Dvornikov is a career military officer and has steadily risen through the ranks after starting as a platoon commander in 1982. He fought during the second war in Chechnya and took several top positions before being placed in charge of the Russian troops in Syria in 2015.
Under Dvornikov’s command, Russian forces in Syria were known for crushing dissent in part by destroying cities, lobbing artillery and dropping what were often crudely made barrel bombs in sustained attacks that have displaced millions of Syrian civilians. The United Nations says the more than decade-long war has killed more than 350,000 people.
In 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Dvornikov the Hero of Russia medal, one of the country’s highest awards. Dvornikov has served as the commander of the Southern Military District since 2016.
Lt. Col. Fares al-Bayoush, a Syrian army defector, said Sunday that while the situation in Syria is different than in Ukraine because the Russian military was fighting insurgent groups and not Ukraine’s professional army, he expects a similar “scorched-earth” strategy.
Al-Bayoush said he believes the aim of naming Dvornikov as Ukraine war commander is to turn the war into “rapid battles” in several places at the same time.
“I expected him to use the scorched earth policy that was used in Syria,” al-Bayoush said, referring to Russian-backed attacks in Syria in which cities and towns were put under long sieges while being subjected to intense bombardment that left many people dead and caused wide destruction to infrastructure and residential areas. “He has very good experience in this policy.”
“This commander is a war criminal,” al-Bayoush said by telephone from Turkey.
Since Russia joined the war in Syria in September 2015, Assad’s forces have taken control of most of the country after being on the verge of collapse. The Russian air force carried out thousands of airstrikes since, helping Russian-backed Syrian troops take areas after fighters were forced to choose between an amnesty in return for dropping their arms or being taken by buses into rebel-held areas.
The last major Russian-backed offensive in Syria lasted several months, until March 2020, when a truce was reached between Russia and Turkey, which supported rival sides.
Sullivan on Sunday said the Russian general has a record of brutality against civilians in Syria and “we can expect more of the same” in Ukraine. But he stressed that the U.S. strategy remains the same in supporting Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Our policy is unequivocal — that we will do whatever we can to help Ukraine succeed,” Sullivan said. “Which means that we need to keep giving them weapons so that they can make progress on the battlefield. And we need to keep giving them military support and strong economic sanctions to improve their position, their posture at the negotiating table.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, meanwhile, spoke by video conference Sunday to a small number of Ukrainian troops in the U.S. who are now returning to their country. The group has been in the U.S. since last fall for military schooling and were given training on new drones the U.S. sent to Ukraine last week for the war with Russia.
Austin thanked the Ukrainian troop members for their courage and service and pledged continued U.S. support and security aid, according to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. Kirby said the small group was given some advanced tactical training, including on the Switchblade armed “kamakazi” drones, as well as instruction on patrol craft operations, communications and maintenance.
In an interview Saturday with The Associated Press, Zelenskyy acknowledged that despite his hopes for peace, he must be “realistic” about the prospects for a swift resolution given that negotiations have so far been limited to low-level talks that do not include Putin.
Zelenskyy renewed his plea for more weapons before an expected surge in fighting in the country’s east. He said, with frustration in regards to supplies of weapons from the U.S. and other Western nations, “of course it’s not enough.”
Sullivan spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union” and NBC’s “Meet the Press. Psaki spoke on ”Fox News Sunday.”
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Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue in Beirut and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington contributed to this report.
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The arbitrator assigned to the Buffalo case in which two police officers shoved a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020 has cleared the cops of wrongdoing.
The ruling comes more than a year after charges were dropped against Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski, who were captured on video shoving longtime activist Martin Gugino to the ground.
Arbitrator Jeffrey Selchick found no evidence McCabe and Torgalski intended to injure Gugino, who he said "was definitely not an innocent bystander," according to WGRZ.
"Gugino, after the force was applied to him, appears to have not been able to keep his balance for reasons that might well have had as much to do with the fact that he was holding objects in each hand or his advanced age," the ruling reads.
A news crew covering protests in downtown Buffalo over Floyd's death in Minneapolis captured video of the officers shoving Gugino in front of city hall as crowd control officers in riot gear cleared demonstrators from the area for an 8 p.m. curfew.
Gugino, pushed backward, started bleeding after hitting his head on the pavement and spent about a month in the hospital with a fractured skull and brain injury.
McCabe and Torgalski were suspended without pay and arrested within days. They pleaded not guilty and were released without bail. A grand jury declined to indict the pair in Feb. 2021.
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"Two good cops who initially got thrown under the bus are back to the profession they love and they're doing it with a clean slate. No criminal charges, nothing administratively. They're ready to hit the streets and go back to work for the citizens of Buffalo," Thomas Burton, attorney for the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association, told WGRZ.
A spokesperson for the City of Buffalo said the officers are expected to return to duty next week.
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Connecticut's Sales Tax Free Week begins today and residents are preparing for a little bit of relief at checkout lines.
Through next Saturday, the sales tax on footwear and clothing items costing less than $100 per item will be dropped.
"It's a lot we can save on right now. For people that are struggling, especially a little bit goes a long way," said Andrea Wallen-Chandler, of Bloomfield.
Experts say it isn't just about getting a discount, but is also an incentive for people to get out.
“I think during the last two years, people have just been sick and tired of staying inside, they want to go out and if there is a tax holiday, there a reason for people to go out,” said Quinnipiac University International Business professor Mohammad Elahee.
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“This tax-holiday will definitely help consumers, and I think more than consumers, retailers, and by retailers, I mean, the brick & mortar retailers, they will benefit," Elahee added.
For some people, every penny counts.
"It makes a big difference. Every penny counts. Everything counts to something because what you save here, you’re going to spend somewhere so why not take every bit of savings you can get," said Wallen-Chandler.
"I'm a college student and it's nice to have extra money in my pocket," said Jackie Kelly, of New York.
"I actually appreciate any cut in taxes, I think helps," Renato Cayuela, of Orange added.
In addition to sales tax free week, fares on public busses statewide are suspended temporarily.
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Genetic material will be needed to positively identify the six people killed during an 80-vehicle pileup on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall last month, authorities said.
Dr. David Moylan III, the Schuylkill County coroner, told The (Pottsville) Republican-Herald on Friday that “we need to get some DNA samples" from relatives of the four men and two women killed in the March 28 crash on I-81.
Officials said earlier that the victims of the March 28 crash near the Minersville exit of I-81 were all between 40 to 70 years old and all burned beyond recognition. “All of the decedents were found in the group of vehicles that were on fire,” Deputy Coroner Albert Barnes said.
Two were found in a box truck that was one of the first vehicles involved in the crash. They are believed to be from Montgomery County in Pennsylvania. Also killed was a man in a tractor-trailer, a man and woman in a car and another man in a car, all believed to have been from out of state.
Moylan said the coroner's office is working with out-of-state law enforcement to get DNA samples to be sent to a national lab for testing against material recovered from crash victims. He said it will take “at least a week and maybe another week to get the results.”
Moylan said earlier that officials were “99.8 percent sure" about the identity of the victims “but we want to be 100 percent sure.”
State police in Frackville said the crash occurred during “an active snow squall” and involved 39 commercial vehicles and 41 passenger vehicles. Two dozen people injured were taken to four hospitals.
The crash was captured in videos posted on social media that showed drivers and passengers lining the snowy road and jumping out of the way as the cascade of crashes unfolded. Some vehicles were mostly burned and others melted onto the highway, hampering efforts to clear the scene.
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A Metro-North train fatally struck a pedestrian in Greenwich on Sunday, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
MTA police said a westbound Metro-North train fatally hit an unauthorized pedestrian on the tracks at the Greenwich Metro-North Station around 10:15 a.m.
Authorities said the person who was hit appears to be a man who is approximately 25 years old. His identity has not been released.
New Haven Line trains experienced delays of up to 10 to 15 minutes as a result of the incident. The train involved was the 9:59 a.m. local train from Stamford to Grand Central and was delayed for 45 minutes, according to Metro North.
MTA police are continuing to investigate the incident.
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Embiid locks up NBA scoring title, the Sixers' first since Iverson originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
Joel Embiid secured the 2021-22 NBA scoring title Sunday.
The Bucks ruled Giannis Antetokounmpo out with right knee soreness for their Sunday afternoon game against the Cavs. That decision meant, barring the most improbable event in sporting history — something along the lines of a 250-point game by Luka Doncic — Embiid will be the first Sixer to lead the league in scoring since Allen Iverson in the 2004-05 season.
He’ll be the first center scoring champion since Shaquille O’Neal in 1999-2000.
Embiid, who is the first to win the accolade as an international player, averaged 30.6 points over the Sixers’ first 81 games and appeared in a career-high 68 of those contests.
Embiid's closest contender in the competition was Lebron James (30.3 PPG), who was eliminated from the scoring title after suffering an ankle sprain that sidelined him in the final games of the Lakers' regular season.
Malone on his mind
Until Embiid, the last center to average over 30 points in a season was Moses Malone.
The late Hall of Famer posted 31.1 points per game with the Rockets (and a league-high 14.7 rebounds per contest) in the 1981-82 season. The next year, he helped the Sixers win their last NBA title.
“Well, that’s a challenge for next year. So next year I’ve got to come out and average more than him,” Embiid said with a smile after a 41-point, 20-rebound game in the Sixers’ win Saturday over the Pacers. “Obviously he’s a legend, and it’s great. Especially as a big in this era, it’s hard — it’s been a long time. It’s been, what, 40 years? It hasn’t been done, so that’s something that I think is great. I hope guys coming up, especially bigs coming up, are able to do even more.
“I think the biggest thing with me is that I feel comfortable with it, because I feel like I didn’t force anything. I felt like I just played within the flow of the offense. Before we had James (Harden), obviously I had a much larger role in the offense, whether it was playmaking or scoring. … We added him to try to share the load and all that, which has been great. Great stats, and I guess I’m happy about it.”
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Tiger Woods finishes 2022 Masters 13-over-par originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
Tiger Woods wrapped up his 2022 Masters Tournament by shooting a second consecutive 6-over 78 at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday, giving him a total score of 13-over-par.
At the time he finished his round, he was tied for 47th place.
Woods' +13 is the worst score of his professional career at the Masters, topping the +5 he shot in 2012. His lowest finish on the Masters leaderboard as a professional was also in 2012, when he tied for 40th. As a 20-year-old amateur at the 1996 Masters, Woods shot +6 and missed the cut, the only time he's done so in 24 tournament appearances.
This was Woods' first official PGA Tour event since the 2020 Masters, as the 15-time major champion was sidelined due to serious leg injuries he suffered in a February 2021 car crash. Woods, 46, did get off to an encouraging start in his return at Augusta, shooting a 1-under 71 in the first round. He then made his 22nd consecutive cut at the Masters, which is the third-longest streak in tournament history, after recording a 2-over 74 in Round 2.
Entering the weekend tied for 19th place at +1, things fell apart for Woods in the third round. The five-time green jacket winner turned in his worst-ever round at the Masters with a 6-over 78 on Saturday, which dropped him down to a tie for 41st at +7.
Woods then shot another 6-over 78 on the final day of the tournament, tallying five bogeys and one double-bogey compared to just one birdie.
As he approached the green on the 18th hole, Woods was met with a rousing ovation from the crowd.
Woods closed out his comeback to competitive golf with a par putt on the 18th and left to another loud ovation.
"I wasn't exactly playing my best out there, but just to have the support and appreciation from all the fans, I don't think words can really describe that given where I was a little over a year ago and what my prospects were at that time," Woods told CBS' Amanda Renner. "To end up here and be able to play all four rounds, even a month ago I didn't know if I could pull this off.
"So I think it was a positive. I've got some work to do and I'm looking forward to it."
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In an interview with Sky Sports, Woods said he plans to play in The Open Championship at St Andrews in July. Woods is a three-time winner at The Open, with two of his victories coming at St Andrews.
Woods is unsure if he'll participate in the PGA Championship in May.
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What's next for Tiger Woods?
After completing his final round at The Masters, Woods said he plans to play at The Open Championship at St Andrews this July.
The 46-year-old Woods stated that he is unsure if he'll be able to play at the PGA Championship in May, but he will be competing in The Open.
Woods returned to professional golf at The Masters, just under 14 months after a gruesome car accident that left him with multiple significant injuries. He shot a -1 in the first round and finished the tournament at +13 after making the cut, good for 47th place.
Since suffering the injuries in the car crash, Woods has said that he only plans to play in big events -- and he'll never return to a full-time schedule. He has three career victories at The Open (2000, 2005, 2006), including two at St Andrews (2000, 2005).
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Completion of the rule comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.
The White House has also been weighing naming Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the people said. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
For nearly a year, the rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
The exact timing of the announcement hasn't been set, the people said. They could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. The White House declined to comment.
On Sunday, the Senate's top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, implored the administration to move faster.
“It’s high time for a ghost gun exorcism before the proliferation peaks, and before more people get hurt — or worse,” Schumer said in a statement. “My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules." Ghost guns are "too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore.”
Justice Department statistics show that nearly 24,000 ghost guns were recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes and reported to the government from 2016 to 2020. It is hard to say how many are circulating on the streets, in part because in many cases police departments don’t contact the government about the guns because they can’t be traced.
The rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.
In its proposed rule released last May, the ATF said it was also seeking to require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.
The rule would also require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.
For years, federal officials have been sounding the alarm about an increasing black market for homemade, military-style semi-automatic rifles and handguns. As well as turning up more frequently at crime scenes, ghost guns have been increasingly encountered when federal agents buy guns in undercover operations from gang members and other criminals.
Some states, like California, have enacted laws in recent years to require serial numbers to be stamped on ghost guns.
The critical component in building an untraceable gun is what is known as the lower receiver, a part typically made of metal or polymer. An unfinished receiver — sometimes referred to as an “80-percent receiver” — can be legally bought online with no serial numbers or other markings on it, no license required.
Police across the country have been reporting spikes in ghost guns being recovered by officers. The New York Police Department, for example, said officers found 131 unserialized firearms since January.
A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 had been prohibited from owning firearms, but he built his own to skirt the court order before his rampage. And in 2019, a teenager used a homemade handgun to fatally shoot two classmates and wound three others at a school in suburban Los Angeles.
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NEW YORK — “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” sped to the top of the charts in its opening weekend, earning an impressive $71 million according to studio estimates Sunday. Paramount’s PG-rated sequel easily bested the weekend’s other major newcomer, Michael Bay's “Ambulance,” which faltered in theaters.
“Sonic 2,” which brings back the first film’s director, writers and cast, including James Marsden, Jim Carrey and Ben Schwartz, who voices the blue video game character, opened in 4,234 locations and actually surpassed its predecessor’s opening weekend. The first “Sonic the Hedgehog” opened over the Presidents Day holiday weekend in February 2020, earning $58 million in its first three days.
“The normal pattern domestically is that sequels slide a little bit," said Chris Aronson, the president of domestic distribution for Paramount. “But we certainly bucked that trend.”
For a sequel to open 22% above the first, Aronson added, is “quite remarkable.”
“Sonic 2” got mixed to positive reviews from critics and audiences were even more enthusiastic. They gave the CG/live-action hybrid a strong “A” CinemaScore.
“The filmmakers did a great job of being in service of not only the general audience but Sonic fans themselves,” Aronson said. “Many feel it's a bigger, better film than the first one.”
Big weekend for family films, Paramount
It's an important weekend not just for the “Sonic” franchise, but for PG-rated family films too. Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian said that one of the big questions of the pandemic was whether families would return to movie theaters with seemingly limitless viewing options available at home. According to exit polls, families made up 58% of the “Sonic 2” audience.
“There’s been some indication that they wanted to go back with movies like 'Sing 2,' but it's moved in fits and starts," said Dergarabedian. “This says once and for all that families want to go back. It's a really good indicator of things to come for family films in 2022 with ‘Lightyear’ and the next ‘Minions’ movie.”
“Sonic 2” is also the latest in a string of theatrical hits for Paramount in 2022, including “Scream,” “Jackass Forever” and “The Lost City,” which is still in the top five.
“A lot of credit goes to our marketing and distribution teams," Aronson said. “We’ve been judicious about picking our dates and knowing who our audience was for each.”
And their next release could be their biggest yet. “Top Gun: Maverick” opens on May 27.
Slow start for 'Ambulance'
Meanwhile, “Ambulance” got off to a bumpy start in its first weekend. With an estimated $8.7 million in grosses, it opened behind Sony’s “Morbius" and “The Lost City.” Bay’s nail-biter about a botched bank robbery was released by Universal and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza González.
Its tepid launch proved a head-scratcher for many. Reviews weren’t terrible (it’s at a 69% on Rotten Tomatoes versus “Sonic 2’s” 67%) and on paper “Ambulance” appears to be the kind of throwback, big screen blockbuster spectacle that would draw significant crowds to the theaters.
“This is a filmmaker who will forever be looked at as a blockbuster director, whether you like his movies or not. The bar is always raised for someone like that,” Dergarabedian said. “But this is a different kind of movie and I think that’s why we’re seeing these numbers. It’s not trying to be ‘Transformers.’ If Bay’s name wasn’t on it, expectations wouldn’t be as high.”
“Sonic 2” wasn’t the only success of the weekend. A24’s critical darling “Everything Everywhere All At Once” expanded nationwide in its third weekend in theaters and earned $6.1 million from only 1,250 screens.
“A24 has done a spectacular job of rolling it out on a platform release and building buzz,” Dergarabedian said.
The film, directed by the Daniels and starring Michelle Yeoh, will expand to more theaters in the coming weeks.
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SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office was called to investigate a body that was found floating near a line of mangrove trees in Vamo, Sarasota.
In an email obtained by 8 On Your Side, deputies said a citizen found the person floating face up in the Intracoastal waterways in approximately two feet of water. The victim’s identity has yet to be determined.
News Channel 8 is working to gather additional information. An investigation is ongoing.
This is a developing story. Stay up to date on the latest from News Channel 8 on-air and on the go with the free WFLA News Channel 8 mobile app.
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(NEXSTAR) – After taking the ice for the U.S. during the Beijing Winter Olympics just months ago, figure skater Alysa Liu is hanging up her skates at the age of 16.
Liu announced the decision on Instagram Saturday, saying she feels “so satisfied with how my skating career had gone.”
The Richmond, California, native was the youngest of Team USA’s individual skaters in Beijing. She finished eighth after the short program but reached seventh after her long program. Liu is also a world championship bronze medalist.
“I started skating when I was 5 so that’s about 11 years on the ice and it’s been an insane 11 years,” Liu wrote. “I honestly never thought I would’ve accomplished as much as I did … now that I’m finally done with my goals in skating I’m going to be moving on with my life.”
In 2019, Liu became the youngest American champion in history at the age of 13. She’s now a two-time U.S. champion – and she might have become a three-time champion if it weren’t for the COVID-19 pandemic. Liu tested positive for the virus at the U.S. championships in January and was forced to withdraw.
Still, Liu was named to the 2022 U.S. Olympic team.
“It doesn’t matter what happens in the Olympic games, and what she wants to do in her life, in the rest of her life. I’m super proud of her,” Liu’s father Arthur said before the Winter Games.
Liu and her father, a former political refugee, were among those targeted in a spying operation that the Justice Department alleges was ordered by the Chinese government, the elder Liu says.
Arthur Liu told The Associated Press he had been contacted by the FBI last October, and warned about the scheme just as his 16-year-old daughter was preparing for the Winter Olympics that took place in Beijing in February. The father said he did not tell his daughter about the issue so as not to scare her or distract her from the competition.
The Justice Department announced charges against five men accused of acting on behalf of the Chinese government in a series of brazen and wide-ranging schemes to stalk and harass Chinese dissidents in the United States.
Arthur Liu said he and his daughter were included in the criminal complaint as “Dissident 3” and “family member,” respectively.
The Associated Press and KSEE’s Andrew Marden contributed to this report.
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WATCH: Man pulled from raging river after attempted rescue of dog caught in current
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) – A good Samaritan is recounting his attempt to rescue a stranger’s dog from a river in California.
Dustin Leming, an iron worker, dropped 14 feet into the Los Angeles River to rescue a dog trapped in the raging current during a rain storm.
He risked his own life to save a stranger’s dog.
“Oh, that dog was scared,” he said.
The heroic effort left Leming in need of his own rescue.
“They did have to rescue me, and thank God they did,” he said.
As rescue helicopters circled above his home last week, Leming and his mom ran to the river out back and saw Scooby struggling to keep his furry head above the water.
When Leming saw the canine, he couldn’t help himself. He said he wanted to be a veterinarian so it was second nature to help an animal in need.
“I told her, I said ‘Look mom, that dog’s in the river. I’m going to the river. I’m gonna save that dog,’” he said. “And she goes, ‘You better not Dustin’ and I told her, ‘Look, I’m going in.”
But first, Leming had to run ahead of the dog.
“I think it was about a mile and a half down where I finally caught up to him,” Leming said.
When he finally got into the waist high water and got his arms around Scooby, the terrified German Shepherd sunk its teeth into his arms.
“That current, that current is stronger than you think,” Leming said.
He said it became too hard to hold on to the dog, and Scooby wiggled out of his arms and was eventually carried away by the current.
“I was like ‘Oh man, if that dog dies, I’m gonna be so sad,’” Leming said.
It was fortunately not a lost cause, and Scooby survived. The dog floated down the river to a shallow spot where rescue crews eventually got him to safety.
The next day, Scooby’s owner got to thank Leming for his attempted rescue.
“Thank you so much for all the love out there and support,” she said.
Leming said he’s just glad Scooby made it back home. He said there was no way the dog was going to drown on his watch.
“Everybody got their phones out and wanted to take videos but not take action,” Leming said. “I tried to help him out.”
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Cardinals attend the Palm Sunday Mass led by Pope Francis at Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 10, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Cardinals attend the Palm Sunday Mass led by Pope Francis at Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 10, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Pope Francis greets people after leading the Palm Sunday Mass at Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, April 10, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis on Sunday called for an Easter truce in Ukraine, and in an apparent reference to Russia, questioned the value of planting a victory flag "on a heap of rubble."
Francis spoke at the end of a Palm Sunday service for about 50,000 people in St. Peter's Square, the first time since 2019 that the public was allowed to attend following two years of scaled back services because of COVID-19 restrictions.
"Put the weapons down! Let An Easter truce start. But not to re-arm and resume combat but a truce to reach peace through real negotiations open to some sacrifices for the good of the people," he said.
"In an apparent reference to Russia, he said: In fact, what kind of victory would be one that plants a flag on a heap of rubble?"
A flare-up of pain in his knee forced Francis, 85, to skip the traditional procession from the obelisk at the center of the square to the altar on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica.
He watched instead while seated at the altar and later limped as he said the Mass.
Francis earlier evoked the horrors of war in his homily, speaking of "mothers who mourn the unjust death of husbands and sons ... refugees who flee from bombs with children in their arms ... young people deprived of a future .... soldiers sent to kill their brothers and sisters."
Since the war began in Ukraine, Francis has only mentioned Russia specifically in prayers, such as during a special global event for peace on March 25. But he has referred to Russia by using terms such as invasion and aggression.
Moscow describes the action it launched on Feb. 24 a "special military operation." Francis has already rejected that terminology, calling it a war.
Some people in the crowd put small Ukrainian flags at the tip of their olive branches and a woman who read one of the prayers near the altar was dressed in the flag's blue and yellow colors.
Palm Sunday commemorates the day the Gospel says Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was hailed by the people, only to be crucified five days later.
It marks the start of Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church on April 17 this year. Its numerous events will test the pope's stamina.
Ukraine is predominantly Orthodox. Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter a week later, on April 24.
At the end of the service, Francis was driven around the crowd while seated in a open white "popemobile," something he had not done for three years on Palm Sunday because of the pandemic.
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KYIV/BUZOVA, Ukraine -- Russian forces continued shelling targets in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, as Washington said it would meet Kyiv's request for more military aid by providing "the weapons it needs" to defend itself against Russia.
Russia has failed to take any major cities since it launched its invasion on Feb. 24, but Ukraine says it has been gathering its forces in the east for a major assault and has urged people to flee.
Russian forces fired rockets into Ukraine's Luhansk and Dnipropetrovsk regions on Sunday, officials said. Missiles completely destroyed the airport in the city of Dnipro, said Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russia's defense ministry said that high-precision missiles had destroyed the headquarters of Ukraine's Dnipro battalion in the town of Zvonetsky.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the reports.
Since Russia invaded, Zelensky has appealed to Western powers to provide more defense help, and to punish Moscow with tough sanctions.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan told ABC News:
"We're going to get Ukraine the weapons it needs to beat back the Russians to stop them from taking more cities and towns."
In extracts from an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" Zelensky said he had confidence in his own armed forces but "unfortunately I don't have the confidence that we will be receiving everything we need" from the United States.
Zelensky said earlier on Twitter he had spoken on the phone with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about additional sanctions, as well as more defense and financial support for his country. Zelensky also discussed with Ukrainian officials Kyiv's proposals for a new package of EU sanctions, his office said.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met Zelensky in Kyiv on Saturday, will travel to Russia to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the Austrian government said. He will be the first European Union leader to have a face-to-face meeting with Putin since the invasion.
In a video address late on Saturday, Zelensky renewed his appeal for a total ban on Russian energy products and more weapons for Ukraine.
The EU on Friday banned Russian coal imports among other products, but has yet to touch oil and gas imports from Russia.
New sanctions
Mounting civilian casualties have triggered widespread international condemnation and new sanctions.
A grave with at least two civilian bodies has been found in Buzova village near Kyiv, said Taras Didych, head of the Dmytrivka community that includes Buzova, the latest such reported discovery since Russian forces withdrew from areas north of the capital to focus on the east of the country.
Sullivan said on Sunday he expected Russia's newly appointed general overseeing Ukraine, Aleksandr Dvornikov, to authorize more brutality against the Ukrainian civilian population. He did not cite any evidence.
Moscow has rejected accusations of war crimes by Ukraine and Western countries.
Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in what it calls a "special operation" to demilitarize and "denazify" its southern neighbor. Ukraine and Western nations have dismissed this as a baseless pretext for war.
Russia's invasion has forced about a quarter of Ukraine's 44 million people from their homes, turned cities into rubble and killed or injured thousands.
Heavy shelling
Some cities in the east were under heavy shelling, with tens of thousands of people unable to evacuate.
Calls by Ukrainian officials for civilians to flee gained more urgency after a missile strike hit a train station on Friday in the city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, that was full of people trying to leave.
Ukrainian officials said more than 50 people were killed. Russia has denied responsibility, saying the missiles used in the attack were only used by Ukraine's military.
Reuters was unable to verify the details of attack.
Residents of the region of Luhansk would have nine trains on Sunday to get out on, the region's governor, Serhiy Gaidai, wrote on the Telegram message service.
In a Palm Sunday homily, Pope Francis called for an Easter truce in Ukraine and, in an apparent reference to Russia, questioned the value of planting a victory flag "on a heap of rubble."
At a sermon in Moscow, Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia's Orthodox Church and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, called on people to rally around the authorities.
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A mother reacts as police members exhume the body of her son, who according to the head of the village was killed by Russian soldiers, from a well at a fuel station in Buzova, Kyiv region, Ukraine April 10, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
A mother reacts as police members exhume the body of her son, who according to the head of the village was killed by Russian soldiers, from a well at a fuel station in Buzova, Kyiv region, Ukraine April 10, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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A woman holds a Russian flag as pro-Russia supporters gather to take part in a motorcade in Hanover, Germany, April 10, 2022. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova confirmed Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday.
Moskalkova said that among those returned to Russia were four employees of state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, soldiers and some other civilians.
"Early this morning they landed on Russian soil," Moskalkova said in an online post.
On Saturday an exchange of truck drivers between Russia and Ukraine was also conducted, Moskalkova said, with 32 Russian truck drivers, 20 Ukrainians and a number of Belarus nationals exchanged.
Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk had said on Saturday that 12 of its soldiers were being returned after a prisoner exchange with Russia, the third such swap since the start of the conflict.
Vereshchuk said that 14 civilians were also returning to Ukraine as part of the deal.
Moscow has denied targeting civilians in what it calls a "special military operation" aimed at demilitarizing its neighbor. Ukraine and its Western allies call this a baseless pretext for war.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States is committed to providing Ukraine with “the weapons it needs” to defend itself against Russia, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday as Ukraine seeks more military aid from the West.
Sullivan said the Biden administration will send more weapons to Ukraine to prevent Russia from seizing more territory and targeting civilians, attacks that Washington has labeled war crimes.
“We’re going to get Ukraine the weapons it needs to beat back the Russians to stop them from taking more cities and towns where they commit these crimes,” Sullivan said on ABC News’ “This Week”.
Moscow has rejected accusations of war crimes by Ukraine and Western countries.
Speaking later on NBC News’ “Meet the Press," Sullivan said the United States was “working around the clock to deliver our own weapons . . . and organizing and coordinating the delivery of weapons from many other countries.”
“Weapons are arriving every day,” Sullivan said, “including today.”
The United States has sent $1.7 billion in military assistance to Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion on Feb. 24, the White House said last week.
Weapons shipments have included defensive anti-aircraft Stinger and anti-tank Javelin missiles, as well as ammunition and body armor. But U.S. and European leaders are being pressed by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to provide heavier arms and equipment to engage Russia in the eastern region of the country, where Russia is expected to intensify its military efforts.
In excerpts of an interview with CBS News' "60 Minutes" that will air later on Sunday, Zelenskiy expressed skepticism that the United States would deliver the weapons he said are needed.
Whether Ukraine can beat back the Russian incursion "depends on how fast we will be helped by the United States. To be honest, whether we will be able to survive depends on this," Zelensky said.
"I have 100% confidence in our people and in our armed forces, but unfortunately I don't have the confidence that we will be receiving everything we need."
On Friday, Ukrainian officials said more than 50 people were killed in a missile strike on a train station in city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, where thousands of people had gathered to evacuate.
Russia's invasion has forced around a quarter of the population of 44 million to leave their homes, turned cities into rubble and killed or injured thousands.
Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in what it calls a "special operation" to demilitarize and "denazify" its southern neighbor. Ukraine and Western nations have dismissed this as a baseless pretext for war.
Russia on Saturday appointed a new general to lead its forces in Ukraine, Aleksandr Dvornikov, who had significant military experience in Syria.
With that background, Sullivan said he expects Dvornikov to authorize more brutality against the Ukrainian civilian population.
Republican U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Nation," urged the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with both offensive weapons such as tanks and planes and defensive systems like anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.
"I think we need to do everything that Zelensky says he needs at this point, given the just unbelievable battle that they have put up," she said.
A CBS News poll released on Sunday showed widespread support among Americans for sending more weapons to Ukraine.
According to the poll, which was conducted last week as news of Russian attacks on civilians unfolded, 72% of those surveyed favor sending more weapons, while 78% support economic sanctions on Russia.
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CROYDON -- Croydon School Board members said at a public hearing Friday night that there is room to cut the original $1.7 million budget that is up for a revote May 7.
“There are a lot of voices in town that would like to see this budget reduced,” Croydon School Board member Kevin Morris said.
Chairwoman Jody Underwood agreed, saying there is a lot of “padding” in the budget that could be removed to bring it down.
Board member Aaron McKeon said after spending the past few weeks working with the $800,000 budget voters approved at March's Town Meeting he knows the school district can provide a good education with less than $1.7 million. He added that he believes the current $800,000 will not be enough.
“I’m very convinced now that we could certainly spend a lot less and still have the quality education that we’re providing,” McKeon said “I still won’t support a $1.7 million budget. … I feel a lot more confident at a $1 million or $1.1, but I’m confident we can do a lot less than $1.7 million.”
Friday night’s public hearing is a prelude to the upcoming special school district meeting residents petitioned to have after voters slashed the proposed budget in March from $1.7 million to $800,000.
The school district has about 24 students in kindergarten through fourth grade who attend the one school in town, the Croydon Village School. The remainder of students are tuitioned out to a mix of public and private schools in the area.
Under the reduced $800,000 budget, the school district would educate the Croydon Village School students, who range from kindergarten through fourth grade, using a state-sponsored microschool vendor, Prenda.
Switching Croydon Village School to a microschool would mean the dismissal of the school’s staff.
Microschools, Prenda and KaiPod, will also be an option for fifth through 12th grade students.
Underwood tried to allay concerns from residents Friday night by saying that the microschool for the Croydon Village School would not be entirely online and would have a certified teacher. She also said Prenda will be making a presentation to the town before the special meeting to explain how it would work.
Many residents spoke against the microshool idea, some saying it is a for-profit business.
“It would be a district school using a private curriculum,” Underwood said.
Many opposed the online component of the microschools, saying the online learning during the pandemic was a failure.
“We don’t want what you are selling so I don’t know why you are pushing it,” former school board member and current school district parent Angi Beaulieu said about the microschool plan.
Retired teacher Jill Janice said after the hearing the students have been through enough with the pandemic for the past two years and need to stay in the classroom with certified teachers.
“The kids have been through enough for the past few years. This is ridiculous, just ridiculous, to think that they might have to do more online learning just breaks my heart. I can’t believe it can happen to them,” Janice said.
In order for the special school meeting to take a revote of the $1.7 million budget half of the town’s 565 registered voters will have to be in attendance, which is 283 Croydon voters. Only 6% of voters attended the March 12 Annual School Meeting at which the budget was cut.
The special school district meeting is Saturday, May 7, at 9 a.m. at Camp Coniston.
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HANOVER -- A warrant article that would have the town of Hanover adopt a leash law was pulled from the ballot by the Select Board at its deliberative session.
Last month, at the behest of a resident whose children are often frightened by unleashed dogs encountered on the town’s vast trail system, selectmen placed a proposed dog leash ordinance on the May Town Meeting warrant.
The warrant article asked voters to adopt the state statute (RSA 466:30-a) which gives towns the authority to establish leash requirements for all dogs while not on their owners’ property. Warnings and fines could be issued and would be based on the nuisance dog state statute.
However, voters at the deliberative session on April 4 said the proposed ordinance would cause more confusion than good and likely lead to a lengthy Town Meeting debate over its meaning.
“The challenge that we recognized … is that the state law is sort of ambiguous on the definition of leashing and under what circumstances leashing is required,” Town Manager Julia Griffin said Friday.
Griffin said one voter suggested a committee, which after discussing, Selectmen agreed would be the best path forward.
“Otherwise you are going to have a very long argument at Town Meeting, which is ‘define leashing,'" she said.
The state law has several “loopholes,” she said, which make it hard for the town to enforce, including if the “dog is hunting, where training is being conducted, where trials are being held, or where the dog is guarding, working, or herding livestock,” according to the RSA.
Another issue with the ordinance, Griffin said, is that the town police force would not have time to patrol for violations, which means it would only be enforced on a complaint basis.
In her research, Griffin said the town had adopted a dog ordinance with a leash requirement several decades ago, but that ordinance was rescinded in the spring of 1996 because the town had never sought Town Meeting authorization to implement a dog leashing requirement.
Griffin said the committee will likely form in the fall to draft a proposed ordinance that could come before voters at May Town Meeting 2023.
“This is going to take some time,” Griffin said. “The board agreed to taking a slightly slower path to approaching this question.”
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A community task force reviewing the death of a Black teenager who was restrained for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas juvenile detention center found that an officer changed his answers on a form that otherwise would have led police to take the teen to a hospital instead of booking him into the detention center.
An official who oversees admissions to the Sedgwick County Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center, Jodi Tronsgard, told the task force last month that the officer initially reported that there were signs that 17-year-old Cedric Lofton needed medical attention before the officer changed his answers, The Wichita Eagle reported.
“What I learned after the intake is that the officer had presented this form and initially said yes, that there were signs of acute illness that appear to need immediate medical care. Yes, there were signs of intoxication with significant impairment in functioning,” Tronsgard told the task force on March 7. “…So, he was informed that if you answer ‘yes’ to these questions, you have to leave and take the youth for a medical or mental health release. And then, hearing that, he goes and then responds ‘no’ to these questions.”
Interim police Chief Lem Moore said he wasn’t aware that the officer had changed his answers on the form until the newspaper asked about it. He said he has ordered a preliminary review of the case to determine if it’s possible the officer falsified information. “If issues are found, a full investigation will be conducted,” he said.
Lofton’s foster father called authorities in September seeking help because the teenager was hallucinating. Police initially tried to persuade him to go to a mental health facility, but body camera video shows him refusing to go and then resisting when officers tried to force him.
Lofton then was taken to the detention center, where he was restrained after a struggle with staff members. He had to be resuscitated after he was held facedown, and he died two days later.
Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett declined to charge the detention center workers in January, citing the state’s stand-your-ground self-defense law.
He said told the newspaper for Sunday’s story that he also didn’t have enough evidence when he reviewed the case to charge the officer with falsifying information on the form, but that he would be willing to examine any new information.
Emails obtained by the newspaper show that Bennett raised concerns that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who was investigating Lofton’s death had a pro-police bias, and the agent was later removed from the case. The agent did not ask the police officers who took Lofton to the detention center about the changed answers on the admission form.
Lofton’s family’s lawyer, Steven Hart, said the changed answers on the form raise additional questions about how police handled the case.
“That is the most disgusting display of a lack of professionalism — or care,” Hart said. “Essentially, it was easier for them to drop him off than do what they knew was necessary and right.”
County officials have said the FBI is reviewing Lofton’s death.
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Timing is everything in comedy. As “Live From the Masters” showcased Justin Thomas at the tournament practice area, host Rich Lerner mused on a possible Sunday 65 for JT.
Thomas then appeared to top his tee shot.
That would have been perfect comedic timing. Upon closer inspection, however, Thomas smashed his tee ball, but also clipped a nearby ball from the practice bag.
Still worth a chuckle, even from Thomas.
He begins the final round at Augusta National, eight shots off the lead, held by Scottie Scheffler.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Fire Department is investigating why an abandoned house caught on fire Sunday afternoon.
FWFD units were dispatched to a 2-story home at 416 Third Street on reports of smoke showing from the vacant house, which is being remodeled and has three separate apartments. When crews arrived on scene around 1:41 p.m., smoke was visible from the attic space and some of the windows.
Firefighters went inside and found fire in the walls and attic space. Those areas were opened up and the fire was extinguished in about 20 minutes. Moderate fire, water and smoke damage was reported.
Fire investigators found the smoke detector was not working, and said they are determining the cause of the fire.
No injuries were reported.
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RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (AP) — A Texas district attorney said Sunday that he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman who allegedly gave herself an abortion.
Lizelle Herrera was arrested Thursday in Rio Grande City, a community of about 14,000 people along the Mexico border, after a Starr County grand jury indicted her on March 30 for murder for causing the death of a fetus or embryo through a self-induced abortion.
District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said Sunday that his office would move to dismiss the charge Monday.
“In reviewing this case, it is clear that Ms. Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her,” Ramirez said in a statement.
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CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline dropped 10 cents over the past two weeks to $4.27 per gallon as oil prices continue to “yo-yo,” industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday.
The price at the pump was $1.32 above what it was one year ago, according to the Lundberg Survey taken Friday.
Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas was in Los Angeles, at $5.85 per gallon. The lowest average was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at $3.52 per gallon.
According to the survey, the average price of diesel was $5.13 per gallon, down 10 cents over two weeks.
Lundberg said prices dropped dramatically in the past two weeks, in part because higher prices reduced demand during the second half of March.
However, the drop isn’t predictive of further declines because among other things, the global oil supply is tight due to a dip in output last month by OPEC, Lundberg said.
The war in Ukraine also has sparked global uncertainty. The U.S. has banned all Russian energy supplies but Lundberg said sanctioned Russian oil is still finding “big buyers like India and China happy to pay discount prices.”
In a bid to reduce spiking energy prices, President Joe Biden last month ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months.
On Thursday, the International Energy Agency said that its member countries are releasing 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves on top of previous United States pledges.
The Paris-based organization says the new commitments made by its 31 member nations, which include the U.S. and much of Europe, amount to a total of 120 million barrels over six months, the largest release in the group’s history.
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FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
FOR RELEASE: MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2022
DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren
SUPPORT EXISTS FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY SEX ADDICTION
DEAR ABBY: I'm writing regarding "Broken-Hearted in Oregon" (Jan. 13), whose partner is pursuing recovery from porn addiction, and "Fading in Washington" (Feb. 1), whose husband is likely watching porn, is displaying narcissistic tendencies and belittling his wife's appearance and age. Please suggest these women seek appropriate support to deal with it. If either of the men were abusing drugs or alcohol or gambling excessively, you would have told the spouse to seek out a 12-step group like Al-Anon. Well, there are support groups for sex and porn addicts, as well as their partners.
My ex-husband kept his sex and porn addictions from me during our marriage. But after one affair (that I knew of) and twice discovering his constant use of the internet to view porn and enter chat rooms, I realized the man I thought I knew had a secret life that did not include intimacy with me. It left me shattered, disillusioned and horrified.
There is great shame associated with this "disease." I was fortunate to find two 12-step programs for co-dependents of sex addicts -- S-Anon and COSA, a group in which I continue to engage although my marriage is over.
There is help out there for partners like me. I have learned a great deal about the conditions that set the stage for future addiction, and also my own co-dependency that led me into that relationship and caused me to turn a blind eye to what was happening.
The abuse of pornography is a crisis in our society. Please encourage your readers to seek information about porn and sex addiction by Googling "Is my partner a sex addict?" and learning more about COSA and S-Anon, as well as consult a therapist who recognizes and understands this problem. -- RECOVERING IN CONNECTICUT
DEAR RECOVERING: Thank you for writing. I'm pleased the support groups you cited helped you. Readers, COSA (cosa-recovery.org) is a 12-step program for people whose lives have been affected by compulsive sexual behavior. S-Anon (sanon.org) helps individuals connect with others who have also experienced the effects of someone's sex addiction and found a way forward. If you find yourself in the kind of situation "Recovering" has described, I urge you to seek support.
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DEAR ABBY: I have been with a divorced man for almost two years now. He has told me several times he will always be there for his ex-wife regardless of what she may need. He often reminisces about his life and is constantly telling me about places he has been and things he has done which include her.
I have talked to him about how it makes me feel, and his answer is, "That's life." He says he is who he is and will never change. He swears he is no longer in love with his ex-wife. I wish I could believe it. What should I do? -- OTHER WOMAN IN OREGON
DEAR OTHER WOMAN: Understand that you are involved with a man who loves reliving his past, regardless of how it affects you. What a bore he must be. Since you asked, I'm suggesting you find someone who prefers looking forward rather than looking backward and who is more stimulating company. This person is too dismissive of your feelings for my taste.
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BYLINE: By Keith Roach, M.D.
TITLE: The heart doesn't explode, but it can rupture
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DEAR DR. ROACH: What causes heart explosion? I heard that it can relate to a heart attack. I knew of two people who had it. How often does it happen? -- L.B.
ANSWER: The heart doesn't actually explode, so I suspect you are talking about rupture of the wall of the left ventricle, which fortunately is a rare complication of a large heart attack. Back when I was in medical school, one of my professors noted that people seldom survive it. The mortality rate at that time was about 95%. The most recent study showed 75% of people with a wall rupture will die. Immediate surgery is the only hope, and even that has a high risk.
A heart attack is death of heart muscle cells, and after a heart attack, there is a period where the body absorbs the dead muscle cells and makes a scar. But before the scar is fully formed (almost always within two weeks of the heart attack), the dead muscle is weak and can potentially rupture under the ceaseless work and constant pressure of the heart. In the era where most heart attacks are treated by getting blood flow back to the damaged area, the incidence of wall rupture is very small, about 0.01%.
DEAR DR. ROACH: My father is 67 and has had keratoconus for approximately 40 years. He wears special contact lenses and is fully functional with them, but his eye doctor has recommended a corneal transplant. First they want to do his left eye because of the scarring and limited vision. Later, they will perform a transplant on the right, which is also scarred but very thin and conical. The doctor recommended the left eye first so that he would have some vision during the process. How successful are corneal transplants in someone his age? What is the risk of total vision loss in one or both eyes? -- C.J.B.
ANSWER: Keratoconus is a thinning of the cornea with a protruding cone shape, exactly as you described. Since the cornea is responsible for much of the eye's ability to focus, progressive visual impairment is universal. The change can be slow or sudden. The condition is not rare, perhaps two people per thousand will develop it, and there is a slight family association. Most people can get good vision correction with glasses, but contact lenses usually become necessary. Regular contact lenses are used at first, but scleral lenses, which are larger diameter so they rest on the sclerae (whites of the eye), are more comfortable and have less risk of scar formation or worsening of the keratoconus. These can be customized to provide better results.
When contact lenses are not helpful -- or are uncomfortable due to scarring, which happens 10% to 15% of the time -- a full-thickness corneal transplant, also called a penetrating keratoplasty, is recommended. The success rate is reported to be greater than 90%. Rejection of the graft is a serious complication, usually treated by steroid drops. Astigmatism -- a cause of blurry vision -- is another complication, usually treated by contact lenses or additional surgical procedures.
Another treatment that is sometimes used is called collagen cross-linking, which uses the vitamin riboflavin along with ultraviolet light to strengthen the corneal tissue. This is often used in people with progressive keratoconus, but cannot be used if the cornea is too thin, as might be the case in your father.
Permanent vision loss after surgery is uncommon.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- More women in tech are talking about their salaries in an effort to close the wage gap.
When former Apple software engineering author Kate Rotondo negotiated to work from home one to two days a week before the pandemic and an offer for more money than she'd made previously, she thought she was in a pretty good place.
"That had felt like a huge win," said Rotondo.
Until Rotondo said she discovered three men on her team worked remotely full time. She later learned a man joining the team after her would be making more.
"When we compared numbers of his salary and my offer, he was offered a lot more money than I was making and he was offered a higher level than I was leveled at, and we were doing comparable work," said Rotondo.
Rotondo said she ultimately spoke with eight men, who all confirmed making more money than her. She took her concerns up the chain of command.
"After several months, they came back to me saying they would make a zero-dollar adjustment, and that's when I gave my notice," said Rotondo.
Apple tells ABC7 News, "Since 2017, Apple has achieved and maintained gender pay equity for our employees worldwide. In the U.S., we have also achieved pay equity with respect to race and ethnicity - as well as pay equity at the intersections of race and ethnicity with gender. We don't ask for salary history during the recruiting process. Our recruiters base offers on Apple employees in similar roles. And every year, we examine the compensation employees receive and make adjustments to ensure that we maintain pay equity."
According to an ABC7 News Data Analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data averaged between 2018 and 2020, in California, women make $0.88 for every dollar a man makes.
The wage gap differs by industry from 2019 through 2021, with some of the greatest disparities seen in legal occupations. Tech-related industries make the top 10 list for wage gap disparities.
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Software engineer Cadran Cowansage's own experience with being underpaid led her to create Elpha in 2019, a professional network for women.
Elpha recently asked people to voluntarily submit salary data.
"I think it's traditionally a pretty taboo topic, but that's really changing and changing rapidly," said Cowansage.
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Cowansage said they've analyzed thousands of responses and found not only are women paid less than men, but how much less depends on their race and ethnicity.
"When they did negotiate, Black and Latina women ended up achieving salaries that were on the level of white and Asian women who didn't negotiate at all," said Cowansage.
"Negotiation is important, but there's a lot of work that companies also need to do in order to make sure that pay equity is happening on their teams and a lot of that work is about pay transparency," she continued.
Cowansage and Rotondo are proponents of transparency around salary bands, and pay ranges established by companies for specific roles.
The Institute for Women's Policy Research projects the wage gap in California could close by 2043.
"Fighting your employer over fair pay is brutal, so part of why I left tech was to heal," said Rotondo.
Rotondo is now a potter. Her business "Equal Clay" sells mugs that say "pay her more" and "fix systems not women."
Her message is so popular, that there's currently a waitlist.
Former Apple engineer shares struggles with gender wage gap, why she ultimately left industry
Recent data shows tech-related industries make the top 10 list for wage gap disparities.
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Not now. Maybe not ever again.
The magic the five-time Masters champion summoned so easily for so long was nowhere to be found during another labored four-plus hour journey underneath the Georgia pines on Saturday. His 6-over 78 marked his worst in 93 career rounds at the tournament he has come to define and left him at 7-over.
The limp from his surgically repaired right leg growing more pronounced with each deliberate, cautious step, the 46-year-old slipped further down the leaderboard to end whatever chance - however unlikely - of being a factor come late Sunday afternoon.
There was no familiar charge in the early April chill. Just the reality that 14 months removed from a serious car accident that threatened to end his career, Woods can still play golf. He just can't do it - at least not at the moment - at the level needed to compete in a field consisting of younger players, many who grew up idolizing him but have long outgrown standing in awe of him.
Following a gritty back-nine push on Friday that helped him stay on the fringe of contention, Woods walked to the first tee Saturday two hours before the leaders. Looking to send a jolt through the gallery that stood five-deep in places hoping for a glimpse and a chance to roar, Woods instead spent most of the afternoon silently glaring at the hole or his putter - or both.
He three-putted the par-4 first from 54 feet for a bogey, a sign of things to come. On the par-4 fifth, he slung his club in disgust after his approach drifted to the right, far away from a back left hole location. His lag attempt from 60-feet over a ridge was well short. His 9-foot par putt rolled his 3-feet by and his comebacker for bogey hit the hole and bounced out. It was Woods' first four-putt at the Masters - ever.
Things never really got better. Three more three-putts followed on an afternoon where nothing really felt right. And it wasn't just his leg. It was his back. His hands. His posture. Everything.
Even worse, there seemed to be no way to compensate. He tinkered, the kind of searching usually reserved for the practice range, not in the middle of a major.
"As many putts as I had, you'd think I'd have figured it out somewhere along the line, but it just didn't happen," he said.
While Woods was slowly making his way up the 18th fairway, leader Scottie Scheffler - just 25 and the world's top-ranked golfer - was making the turn doing at the Masters what Woods has done so often over the last quarter-century: imposing his will on the course and the tournament.
"We all wish we had that two, three-month window when we get hot, and hopefully majors fall somewhere along in that window," Woods said. "We take care of it in those windows. Scottie seems to be in that window right now."
A window that is currently closed for Woods. While it would be easy to call his mere presence in northeast Georgia this weekend a victory in itself considering last fall he wondered if he'd ever play competitively again, Woods isn't in this to be a feel-good story. He has no interest in being a ceremonial field filler.
His steely 1-under 71 during the first round on Thursday only seemed to embolden him. Following a shaky front-nine 39 on Friday, he recovered to shoot 74 and easily get in under the cutline.
He opened with another sloppy 39 on the front Saturday. And for a few fleeting minutes shortly after he made the turn, it appeared another rally was in store.
A crisp iron to 14 feet on No. 12 and a two-putt birdie at the par-5 13th provided a spark that never became a flame. He bogeyed the 16th and 17th and his approach up the hill to the 18th sailed into the gallery. His bump-and-run caught the slope and kept rolling, with Woods gingerly chasing after it long before it came to a stop nearly 60 feet away from the pin.
Three more putts and his worst round at Augusta was finally over. His 78 was one more than the 77 he put together in the third round of his first trip to Augusta in 1995.
He was an amateur back then, a 19-year-old phenom. Two years later, he was a champion. Two-plus decades later, he is a Hall of Famer and one of the greatest in the history of his sport. He's also a middle-aged father of two trying to recapture something far more elusive than it used to be.
"Each and every day is a challenge," he said. "Each and every day presents its own different challenges for all of us. I wake up and start the fight all over again."
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A powerful tool against COVID-19 is finally getting the attention it deserves, experts say
Two-plus years into the COVID-19 pandemic, you probably know the basics of protection: Vaccines, boosters, proper handwashing and masks. But one of the most powerful tools against the coronavirus is one that experts believe is just starting to get the attention it deserves: Ventilation.
Respiratory backwash
"The challenge for organizations that improve air quality is that it's invisible," said Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
It's true: Other COVID-19 tools are more tangible. But visualizing how the virus might behave in poorly ventilated spaces can help people better understand this mitigation measure.
Allen likens it to cigarette smoke. "If I'm smoking in the corner of a classroom and you have low ventilation/filtration, that room is going to fill up with smoke, and everyone is breathing that same air."
Then apply that to the outdoors.
"I could be smoking a cigarette, you could be a couple of feet from me, depending which way the wind was blowing, you may not even know I'm smoking."
If you're indoors, you could be breathing in less fresh air than you think.
"Everybody in a room together is constantly breathing air that just came out of the lungs of other people in that room. And depending on the ventilation rate, it could be as much as 3% or 4% of the air you're breathing just came out of the lungs of other people in that room," Allen said.
He describes this as respiratory backwash.
"Normally, that's not a problem, right? We do this all the time. We're always exchanging our respiratory microbiomes with each other. But if someone's sick and infectious ... those aerosols can carry the virus. That's a problem."
It's airborne
"We've known for decades how to keep people safe in buildings from infection, from airborne infectious diseases like this one," Allen said.
From the beginning of the pandemic, Allen and other experts have waved red flags, saying that the way we were thinking about transmission of COVID-19 — surfaces, large respiratory droplets — was missing the point.
"Hand washing and social distancing are appropriate but, in our view, insufficient to provide protection from virus-carrying respiratory microdroplets released into the air by infected people. This problem is especially acute in indoor or enclosed environments, particularly those that are crowded and have inadequate ventilation," hundreds of scientists stated in an open letter in July 2020.
Eventually, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged what the experts had been saying all along: That COVID-19 could also spread by small aerosolized particles that can travel more than 6 feet.
The coronavirus itself is very small — about 0.1 microns — but that doesn't affect how far it can travel.
"The size of the virus itself doesn't matter because, as we say, the virus is never naked in air. In other words, the virus is always traveling in respiratory particles that develop in our lungs. And those are all different sizes," Allen said.
Singing or coughing can emit particles as large as 100 microns (almost the width of a human hair), he said, but the virus tends to travel in smaller particles — between 1 and 5 microns.
The size of these particles affects not only how far it can travel but how deeply we can breathe it into our lungs, and how we should approach protecting ourselves from this virus.
"When you're talking about an airborne disease, there's the what's right around you, you know, the sort of the people who you know can cough in your face, the 6 feet thing, and then there's the broader indoor air, because indoor air is recirculated," said Max Sherman, a leader on the Epidemic Task Force for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
Dilute and clean
"Outdoors is safer than indoors" has become an accepted mantra with COVID-19. Allen points out that protecting ourselves indoors is where our focus should always be, even beyond the pandemic.
"We're [an] indoors species. We spend 90% of our time indoors. The air we breathe indoors has a massive impact on our health, whether you think about infectious disease or anything else, but it just has escaped the public consciousness for a long time," he said.
Making sure our indoor air is healthy is not that complicated, Sherman said. "You just want to reduce the number of particles that might be carrying COVID or any other nasty [virus]."
The way you do that is through ventilation and filtration.
Filtration — just like it sounds — is filtering or cleaning the air, removing the infected particles. But think of ventilation as diluting the air. You're bringing more fresh air in to reduce the concentration of those particles.
Dilution is exactly why we haven't seen superspreader events outdoors, Allen says.
"We have hardly any transmission outdoors. Why is that? Unlimited dilution, because you have unlimited ventilation. And so, even in crowded protests or outdoor sporting events like the Super Bowl, we just don't see superspreading happening. But if we did, we'd have the signal be loud and clear. We just don't see it. It's all indoors in these underperforming, unhealthy spaces."
Healthy spaces
Even before the advent of HVAC systems, ventilation was integrated into many building designs.
The 1901 Tenement Housing Act of New York required every tenement building — a building with multifamily households — to have ventilation, running water and gas light.
Builders added ventilation to many of these buildings with a shaft in the middle that runs from the roof to the ground, allowing more airflow.
"In the late 19th century, people are finally starting to understand how disease spreads. So airshafts and the accompanying ventilation were seen as a solution to the public health crises that were happening in tenement buildings," said Katheryn Lloyd, director of programming at the Tenement Museum. "There were high cases of tuberculosis, diphtheria and other diseases that spread. Now we know that spread sort of through the air."
Today, we're facing the same challenge.
"Getting basic ventilation in your home is important, full stop," Sherman said.
One of the easiest, cheapest ways to do that is to open your windows.
Open doors or windows at opposite ends of your home to create cross-ventilation, the Environmental Protection Agency advises. Opening the highest and lowest windows — especially if on different floors — of a home can also increase ventilation. Adding an indoor fan can take it even further.
"If a single fan is used, it should be facing (and blowing air) in the same direction the air is naturally moving. You can determine the direction the air is naturally moving by observing the movement of drapes or by holding a light fabric or dropping paper clippings and noting which direction they move," the EPA says.
Just cracking a window can help a lot, Allen says: "Even propping a window open a couple inches to really facilitate higher air changes, especially if you do it in multiple places in the house, so you can create some pressure differentials."
It's important to note that if you have an HVAC system, it must be running to actually circulate or filter the air. The EPA says that these systems run less than 25% of the time during heating and cooling seasons.
"Most of the controls these days have a setting where you can run the fan on low all the time. And that's usually the best thing to do because that makes sure you're getting you're pushing air through the filter all the time and mixing the air up in your in your home," Sherman advised.
This could be something to keep in mind if you're going to have visitors or if someone in the household is at higher risk for severe illness.
Choose the most efficient filter your HVAC system can handle, and make sure you routinely change the filters.
Filters have a minimum efficiency reporting value, or MERV, rating that indicates how well they capture small particles. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers recommends using at least a MERV-13 filter, which it says is at least 85% efficient at capturing particles from 1 to 3 microns.
If that's not an option, portable air filters can also work well, but the EPA says to use one that is made for the intended room size and meets at least one of these criteria:
- Designed as high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA)
- CADR rated
- Manufacturer says the device will remove most particles below 1 micron
Finding a safe space
When you walk into a space, there's no good rule of thumb to look around and gauge how well-ventilated it might be, and that can be a challenge when people have been tasked with assessing their own risk.
Allen suggests starting with the basics: Make sure you're up to date with vaccinations and aware of where COVID-19 numbers stand in your community.
But then it gets harder. Even the number of people in a space isn't a giveaway of a higher-risk situation.
"The more people in there could be higher-risk because you're more likely to have someone who's infectious, but if the ventilation is good, it really doesn't matter."
Ventilation standards are based on "an amount of fresh air per person, plus the amount of fresh air per square foot," Allen explained. "So if you have a good system, the more people that enter the room, the more ventilation is brought in to the room."
One tool that can help you assess ventilation in a room is a CO2 monitor, something Allen wishes he saw more in public spaces. He likes to carry a portable one, which you can order online for between $100 and $200.
"If you see under 1,000 parts per million, generally, you're hitting the ventilation targets that are the design standard. But remember, these are not health-based standards. So we want to see higher ventilation rates."
Allen prefers to see CO2 at or under 800 parts per million. He also notes that just because a space has low CO2 levels, it might not be unsafe if filtration is high, like on an airplane.
A gamechanger for schools
Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Lisa Herring says the installation of 5,000 air filtration units — enough for every classroom — in her school district is "a gamechanger."
The district had begun upgrading HVAC systems in several schools even before the pandemic, but federal funding allowed it to add filtration units during a crucial time when masks have become optional.
"It gives a greater level of confidence for us as a system to know that our air filtration systems are in place," Herring said.
School districts all over the country have been jumping at the opportunity for ventilation upgrades made possible by an influx of federal funding.
An analysis in February by FutureEd, a think tank at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, found that public schools had earmarked $4.4 billion for HVAC projects, which could grow to almost $10 billion if trends continued.
New Hampshire's Manchester School District is pouring almost $35 million into upgrading HVAC systems, and interim Superintendent Jennifer Gillis says federal funding is "absolutely key."
"You think about a district of our size with all the competing demands and the need to be fiscally responsible, a $35 million project, that's a large project to introduce to our budget. Having those funds available to us lets us do 19 projects -- and 19 projects in a very short span of time."
For Gillis, ventilation has been an important mitigation strategy and an unobtrusive way to keep people safe.
"It's something that most in the building don't think about, but it's a very passive way for us to create safety within the schools. Since the beginning, the goal was always 'let's get our kids in, let's get our staff in, but let's do it in a way that's safe for all of them.' "
Good ventilation isn't only about keeping students safe from COVID-19, Sherman says. It can also improve their performance in school.
"They're going to learn better; they're going to be awake more; they're going to be more receptive. They're going to be healthier if they've got good indoor air quality," he said.
Finally front and center
Helping solidify ventilation's role in the COVID-19 battle, the Biden administration announced a Clean Air in Buildings Challenge last month.
The challenge calls on building operators and owners to improve ventilation by following guidelines laid out by the EPA.
The main actions include creating a clean indoor air action plan, optimizing fresh air ventilation, enhancing air filtration and cleaning, and engaging the building community by communicating with occupants to increase awareness, commitment and participation.
The message may seem overdue, but it's one that Allen enthusiastically welcomed.
"The White House used its pulpit to say unequivocally that clean air and buildings matter. That's massive. Regardless of what you think about what will happen next with implementation or what happens with the funding. That is a crystal-clear message that is already being heard by businesses, nonprofits, universities and state leaders. I see these changes happening already."
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Why is the Parkland shooter facing a jury even though he already entered a guilty plea?
Jury selection began this past week in the penalty phase of Nikolas Cruz's trial, the part of his court case that will determine whether he is sentenced to death or life in prison for the 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Cruz has already pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder for the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The jury now being impaneled will be tasked with helping decide his fate.
Selecting the jury is expected to be a lengthy process that could last through May, according to discussions between the judge, the state and the defense in pretrial hearings. Once the jury is seated, the trial could last between 4 and 6 months.
Here we're going to break down the penalty phase of Cruz's case — what it is and what it might look like, as well as the possible outcomes and the jury's role.
The penalty phase
Every jurisdiction that still has capital punishment divides death penalty cases into two separate phases: the "guilt" phase and the "penalty," or "sentencing," phase.
In the guilt phase, a defendant is deemed innocent or guilty. This is done either by a jury or by a defendant pleading guilty, as Cruz did last October.
Once a determination of guilt has been made, the trial moves to the penalty phase, in which the court reviews the case and the defendant's history to decide whether he or she deserves death or a lesser sentence like life in prison.
This process is a "virtual constitutional necessity," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, thanks to a combination of Supreme Court rulings that, in part, upheld the sentencing guidelines of states that had these bifurcated proceedings.
The goal is to ensure that only the "worst of the worst" are executed for their crimes, said Teresa Reid, legal skills professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law.
"The old adage that is quoted is, death is different," she said, pointing to the finality of a death sentence. "There's no appeal from that final act of execution."
Aggravating factors vs. mitigating circumstances
During the sentencing phase, the court will generally hear reasons why the defendant should or should not be put to death. These are known as aggravating factors and mitigating circumstances, respectively.
Prosecutors will present the aggravating factors, which Dunham described as facts of the case that make the defendant "death-eligible." Florida's statute lists at least 16 such factors, among them:
- Whether the defendant was previously convicted of a felony
- Whether the defendant "knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons"
- Whether the capital crime was committed while the defendant was in the commission of another felony, like robbery or kidnapping
- Whether the victim was under 12 years old, a law enforcement officer or an elected or appointed official performing official duties
Defendants, however, have a chance to present mitigating circumstances; that is, anything that might convince the court he or she does not deserve death. These factors -- many of which are irrelevant to the question of guilt or innocence -- would be seen as "not enough to excuse the crime," Dunham said, "but enough to call for leniency."
In Florida's statute, mitigating circumstances include:
- Whether the defendant has no significant criminal history
- Whether the defendant was severely mentally or emotionally disturbed at the time of the crime
- The defendant acted under extreme duress or the "substantial domination" of another person
- The defendant did not have the capacity to appreciate the criminal nature of his or her conduct
In Florida, however, where the statute also allows for the presentation of the "existence of any other factors in the defendant's background that would mitigate against imposition of the death penalty," the defendant can go far beyond that.
"That's why this trial could take a long time, this phase could take a long time," Reid said, adding she knew of a case where a defendant's first-grade teacher was brought in as a mitigating witness. "When the law allows for the existence of any other factors in the defendants' background, you can imagine what could be brought in."
Survivors and members of the victims' families are also expected to provide victim impact statements, sharing with the court how the defendants' actions have affected them. This gives the victims the chance to be heard, Reid said, and finally have their day in court.
"What if your loved one was gunned down? Four years is nothing," Reid said, referring to the time that has elapsed since the shooting. "And you haven't had a chance to face the person and the decision-makers and say what an incredible loss (you've suffered)."
"We don't have a system where it's the victims' families that get to decide whether you live or die if you kill their family members. We don't have revenge," she said. "And so this is the mechanism that the family has."
The jury's role
Once aggravating and mitigating circumstances have been heard, the jury or judge, whoever is responsible for sentencing, will weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine the sentence.
In Cruz's case, the jury must be unanimous in finding beyond a reasonable doubt that at least one aggravating factor exists. If that happens, jurors must then be unanimous in recommending the defendant be put to death, or his sentence would default to life in prison without the possibility of parole. If they recommend death, the judge could choose to follow that recommendation or sentence Cruz to life instead.
Generally, the jury represents "the conscience of the community," said Dunham, and by participating, it can reflect the feelings of the wider community where the crime occurred and where the defendant is being tried.
At the same time, for states like Florida where a judge makes the final decision on capital punishment, a judge can act as a "backstop," Dunham said, in case the conscience of the community is overborne by "impermissible factors" like racism, for example.
Choosing a jury in a capital case can be hard due to potential jurors' views on capital punishment: A jury seated in a death penalty case must be willing to impose the death penalty. But they also need to be willing to weigh the mitigating circumstances, said Dunham, and consider the lesser sentence.
"You don't want jurors who are substantially impaired in their ability to follow the law," Dunham said. That means "they must be willing to honestly consider the aggravating circumstances and give them some weight as a reason to take the defendant's life," he said, "and they (also) must be willing to consider the mitigating circumstances and give them some weight as a reason to spare the defendant's life."
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Louisville Cardinals baseball game suspended due to bomb threat, stadium evacuated
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Louisville Cardinals baseball game suspended due to bomb threat, stadium evacuated
The Louisville Cardinals baseball game scheduled for Sunday afternoon has been suspended due to a bomb threat, according to the University of Louisville police.University police said a bomb threat was called in and that the stadium was evacuated. K-9 units are on the scene for bomb detection and fans said they were not initially told the reason for the forced evacuation of the stadium.A fan who was among those evacuated sent sister station WLKY the following photos of the crowd having to leave the stadium. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
The Louisville Cardinals baseball game scheduled for Sunday afternoon has been suspended due to a bomb threat, according to the University of Louisville police.
University police said a bomb threat was called in and that the stadium was evacuated.
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K-9 units are on the scene for bomb detection and fans said they were not initially told the reason for the forced evacuation of the stadium.
A fan who was among those evacuated sent sister station WLKY the following photos of the crowd having to leave the stadium.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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‘The Simpsons’ to feature deaf character, use sign language for first time
(CNN) – For the first time in the show’s 33-year history, a deaf actor will be featured on “The Simpsons.”
The focus of the episode is on Lisa Simpson, who discovers her role model, late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy, has a son who is deaf and needs a cochlear implant.
Deaf actor John Autry II plays the role of Monk Murphy on the episode, calling it “life-changing.”
The show’s characters use American sign language throughout the groundbreaking episode.
Even though “Simpsons” characters only have four fingers, the show consulted with sign language specialists to make sure visuals conveyed words correctly.
The storyline is loosely based on the life of the episode’s main writer, who says her brother is hearing impaired within a family that loves jazz music.
The episode was written before the film “Coda” won the Oscar for Best Picture two weekends ago.
The episode airs Sunday night.
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WATCH: Man pulled from raging river after attempted rescue of dog caught in current
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) – A good Samaritan is recounting his attempt to rescue a stranger’s dog from a river in California.
Dustin Leming, an iron worker, dropped 14 feet into the Los Angeles River to rescue a dog trapped in the raging current during a rain storm.
He risked his own life to save a stranger’s dog.
“Oh, that dog was scared,” he said.
The heroic effort left Leming in need of his own rescue.
“They did have to rescue me, and thank God they did,” he said.
As rescue helicopters circled above his home last week, Leming and his mom ran to the river out back and saw Scooby struggling to keep his furry head above the water.
When Leming saw the canine, he couldn’t help himself. He said he wanted to be a veterinarian so it was second nature to help an animal in need.
“I told her, I said ‘Look mom, that dog’s in the river. I’m going to the river. I’m gonna save that dog,’” he said. “And she goes, ‘You better not Dustin’ and I told her, ‘Look, I’m going in.”
But first, Leming had to run ahead of the dog.
“I think it was about a mile and a half down where I finally caught up to him,” Leming said.
When he finally got into the waist high water and got his arms around Scooby, the terrified German Shepherd sunk its teeth into his arms.
“That current, that current is stronger than you think,” Leming said.
He said it became too hard to hold on to the dog, and Scooby wiggled out of his arms and was eventually carried away by the current.
“I was like ‘Oh man, if that dog dies, I’m gonna be so sad,’” Leming said.
It was fortunately not a lost cause, and Scooby survived. The dog floated down the river to a shallow spot where rescue crews eventually got him to safety.
The next day, Scooby’s owner got to thank Leming for his attempted rescue.
“Thank you so much for all the love out there and support,” she said.
Leming said he’s just glad Scooby made it back home. He said there was no way the dog was going to drown on his watch.
“Everybody got their phones out and wanted to take videos but not take action,” Leming said. “I tried to help him out.”
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President Biden, Indian Prime Minister scheduled to speak as US presses for hard line on Russia
Video above: Biden calls for war crimes trial against Putin
President Joe Biden is set to speak with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday as he presses world leaders to take a hard line against Russia's Ukraine invasion.
India's neutral stance in the war has raised concerns in Washington and earned praise from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who lauded India this month for judging “the situation in its entirety, not just in a one-sided way.”
Most recently, India abstained when the U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council over allegations that Russian soldiers in Ukraine engaged in rights violations that the U.S. and Ukraine have called war crimes.
The vote was 93-24 with 58 abstentions.
In the virtual meeting, Biden will talk about the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine “and mitigating its destabilizing impact on global food supply and commodity markets,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday.
They'll discuss “strengthening the global economy, and upholding a free, open, rules-based international order to bolster security, democracy, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific," she said.
India continues to purchase Russian energy supplies, despite pressure from Western countries to avoid buying Russian oil and gas. The U.S. has also considered sanctions on India for its recent purchase of advanced Russian air defense systems.
Last month, the state-run Indian Oil Corp. bought 3 million barrels of crude from Russia to secure its needs, resisting entreaties from the West to avoid such purchases. India isn’t alone in buying Russian energy, however. Several European allies such as Germany have continued to do so, despite public pressure to end these contracts.
Indian media reports said Russia was offering a discount on oil purchases of 20% below global benchmark prices.
Iraq is India’s top supplier, with a 27% share. Saudi Arabia is second at around 17%, followed by the United Arab Emirates with 13% and the U.S. at 9%, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Biden and Modi last spoke in March.
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NEW ORLEANS (NEXSTAR) — A federal appeals court has upheld President Joe Biden’s requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19.
In a 2-1 ruling Thursday, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court and ordered dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the mandate.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown of Texas had issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January.
Brown said at the time that the question was whether the president could “require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment. That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.”
A different 5th Circuit panel had refused to block it on appeal.
But Thursday’s ruling said the federal judge didn’t have jurisdiction in the case because employees challenging the requirement could have pursued administrative remedies under Civil Service law.
In September, 2021 Biden issued an executive order mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for federal employees to battle deaths and hospitalizations from the spread of the delta variant, the predominant coronavirus strain at the time.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, his 100th day in office, according to a spokesperson.
The first-term Democrat woke up with a raspy voice Sunday and took a PCR test that came back positive, spokesperson Fabien Levy said in a statement. Earlier Sunday, Levy had tweeted that Adams had taken a rapid test that came back negative but took the additional test out of an abundance of caution.
Adams has no other symptoms but has canceled all public events for the week and will be taking antiviral medications and working remotely, Levy said.
New York City has been experiencing a steady resurgence in virus cases over the past month. It’s now averaging around 1,800 new cases per day — not counting the many home tests that go unreported to health officials. That’s triple the number in early March, when the city began relaxing masking and vaccination rules.
Adams’ past week was busy: The mayor attended the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington last Saturday, after which dozens of attendees tested positive. He also delivered remarks at the National Action Network convention on Wednesday and attended that night’s gala, appeared in-studio on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday before joining Robert De Niro at the ReelAbilities Film Festival, went to the New York Yankees’ opening day Friday and was in Albany on Saturday.
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ELLABELL, Ga. (WSAV) – A devastating tornado in Bryan County, southwest of Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday has left one family without a home and a woman they love.
Belinda Thompson, 66, died during the storm, according to the Bryan County Coroner’s Office. Eight others were injured.
Calvin Thompson, Belinda’s husband, describes her as precious, loving, caring and someone who loved God and her family.
The Thompsons hid in a closet as the storm made its way through. The family said the tornado flipped the house over a tree, leaving behind a misconfigured pile of debris.
“I don’t know how I lived through it but my wife didn’t,” Calvin said. “I’m going to miss her a whole lot. She was my everything. We just left the funeral home and I got to see my baby once more, you know, before all this goes over. And it was tough, I ain’t going to lie to you.”
One of the couple’s dogs made it out, but the other was found dead. Calvin’s stucco business, which he ran out of the house, was also destroyed.
The outpouring of support from people near and far has been helping Calvin get through this challenging time.
“If it weren’t for the outreach and love from everyone in this community, man, I’m just overwhelmed with love from people and I’m very fortunate – all my friends, people I don’t know,” he said. “It’s just unreal.”
Calvin’s big toe was cut off by a piece of debris on top of him, but he was able to get it sewn back on. He said he also has some bruises and scratches on his back but, even when that all heals, there will still be a hole in his heart forever.
“God put me here for something,” he said. “He left me here. I don’t know why, but I know why he took her. Because she was ready. Maybe I wasn’t ready. But I’m ready now. She was a Christian lady. No doubt that she’s with God. And one day I’ll be there to see her.”
To help cover funeral expenses and to support Calvin, family members have organized a GoFundMe. You can find the link here.
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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — The remains of a soldier killed during World War II have been returned to his Mississippi community after nearly 80 years.
Pvt. Andrew Ladner was laid to rest Saturday at Wolf River Cemetery in Gulfport. Ladner was killed in November 1942 in New Guinea.
The 30-year-old was part of the 126th infantry regiment that was assigned to cut off Japanese supply and communication lines. He was initially buried by his unit.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says Ladner’s remains were identified in July 2021. His name is on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery. A rosette will be put there to indicate he was found.
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(NEXSTAR) — Introduced in 1953, Peeps are the polarizing Easter candy that keep coming back year after year.
A tongue-in-cheek 1999 study at Emory University set out to prove or disprove a pervasive rumor about the candy: that the marshmallow confections cannot be destroyed.
The study tested the candy under four conditions:
- Reaction to cold – After being squashed with a hammer, a Peep was placed in a bucket of liquid nitrogen — it was submerged in the -210°C nitrogen for about a minute — the candy was removed and squashed again with a hammer. This time, the candy (now hardened) cracked and broke apart. Conclusion: Not easily broken.
- Reaction to heat – The Peep was placed in an autoclave (a refrigerator-sized pressure cooker that can kill any living bacteria or fungi) for 15 minutes. The candy was exposed to 10 atmospheres of pressure at 350° Fahrenheit. By the end of the 15 minutes, the Peep softened into a “fluff” — still together, but gooier. Conclusion: Can take the heat.
- Solubility testing – Four individual Peeps were put into four separate beakers. One beaker containing water, one containing acetone, one containing sulfuric acid and one containing sodium hydroxide. The candies were observed for an hour and at the end, the most dramatic development was that the acetone turned purple as some sugar dissolved. Conclusion: Not easily dissolved.
- “Nastier solvent” – Dissatisfied with the solubility testing, researchers decided to drop the candy in a meaner chemical concoction. They immersed a Peep into Phenol — a protein-breaking chemical that can cause paralysis or death if swallowed or even put in contact with skin. After an hour, the Peep had mostly dissolved into purple goo. But one part was not easily killed: the chick’s little black eyes were still intact, completely unharmed by the chemical. Conclusion: Peeps are always watching.
- Low-pressure environments – A Peep was put into a vacuum. Once the air began being sucked out of the container, the candy started to expand to a much larger size. When the vacuum was turned off, however, the Peep lost air and folded in on itself to resemble chewing gum. But it only lost its shape as it retained edibility (researchers ate it afterward). Conclusion: Shapeshifter.
Final conclusion: You decide!
Peeps are owned by the Pennsylvania-based Just Born Inc., which also makes Hot Tamales and Mike and Ike. Despite their association with Easter, Peeps pop up at many holidays, including Halloween, Valentine’s Day and Christmas.
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(iSeeCars) – People commonly fantasize about owning a fast car. But given the price tag and limited utility of most sports cars, many choose to own a more practical vehicle instead. However, there are many new and used sports cars that can help you live life in the fast lane for under $30,000. That’s less than the average one- to five-year-old used car, which costs $35,020.
Here are the sports cars that provide an adrenaline rush without the high price tag.
Fastest New Sports Cars Under $30k
These new sports cars all have starting prices of under $30,000 and are ranked in ascending order of the 0-60 time for their starting trim levels.
1. Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang earns the top spot as the fastest new sports car for under $30,000. It’s also the sports car with the highest iSeeCars Quality Score of 8.4 out of 10 for its coupe version, and also ranks high on our list of best sports cars. The Mustang comes standard with a 2.3-liter turbo four-cylinder engine with 310-horsepower and a six-speed manual transmission. Its entry-level engine in the Ford Mustang EcoBoost model can go from zero to 60 mph in 5.1 seconds when equipped with the optional 10-speed automatic transmission and reaches a top speed of 121 mph. Higher trims with the 5.0-liter V8 engine have even faster acceleration and higher top speeds, like the Ford Mustang GT, which reaches 60 mph in 4.2 seconds and reaches a top speed of 180 mph. A number of performance packages are available, which take the price well above $30,000. The High-Performance package boosts the EcoBoost engine to 330-horsepower, and adds a larger radiator, larger brakes, heavy-duty front springs, a strut tower brace, a larger rear sway bar, a limited-slip rear differential, an active exhaust, and summer-only tires.
2. Dodge Challenger
An American muscle car ranks second, the Dodge Challenger two-door coupe. It is among the best sports cars on the market with an iSeeCars Quality Score of 8.0. The brawny Challenger comes standard with a powerful 3.6-liter six-cylinder engine making 303 horsepower. The base Challenger goes from zero to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds and reaches a maximum speed of 156 mph. While the base V6 offers ample power and acceleration, higher SRT trims offer more powerful V8 engines, including a 5.7-liter Hemi V8 with 375 horsepower, a 6.4-liter Hemi V8 with 485 horsepower, or the 717-horsepower supercharged 6.2-liter V8. These more powerful engines can go from 0-60 in less than 3.5 seconds.
3. Chevrolet Camaro
The “everyman’s sports car,” the Chevrolet Camaro ranks third. The Chevy Camaro’s standard turbocharged 2.0 liter four-cylinder engine with 275 horsepower goes from zero to 60 in 5.4 seconds and reaches a max speed of 155 mph. More powerful engines with quicker acceleration are also available, including a 3.6 liter V6 with 335 horsepower that does zero to 60 in five seconds, a 355 horsepower 6.2-liter V8 that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds, and the most powerful 6.2-liter V8 with 650 horsepower that can go from zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds.
4. Subaru WRX
The Subaru WRX sports sedan ranks fourth. Redesigned for 2022, the all-wheel drive (AWD) WRX comes standard with a 271-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder engine that puts out 258 lb-ft of torque paired with a six-speed manual transmission. The base model WRX comes standard with a six-speaker stereo, Bluetooth, USB ports, Android Auto, and Apple CarPlay. The 2022 Subaru WRX comes in five trims: base, Premium, Limited, GT, and STI.
5. Mazda MX-5 Miata
Earning the fifth spot is the Mazda MX-5 Miata two-seat roadster. The Miata can go from zero to 60 in 5.7 seconds and reaches a maximum speed of 135 mph with its softtop convertible roof. Models with the hardtop roof in RF form have a slightly slower time of 5.8 seconds. The Miata has one engine choice, a 2.0-liter four-cylinder with 181 horsepower and 151 pound-feet of torque. It also returns excellent fuel economy at 26 mpg in the city and 35 mpg on the highway, an excellent rating for the sports car class. The Miata also comes standard with safety features including automatic emergency braking with forward-collision warning, blindspot monitoring with rear-cross traffic alert, and lane departure warning.
6. Subaru BRZ
The Subaru BRZ ranks sixth. After a hiatus for the 2021 model year, the BRZ re-emerged in 2022 with a full redesign. The BRZ has a 2.4-liter four-cylinder boxer engine with 228 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque. A six-speed manual transmission and rear-wheel drive come standard, and a six-speed automatic transmission is optional. The BRZ can go from 0-60 in 5.8 seconds with its manual transmission, while the automatic transmission lags behind at 7.0 seconds.
7. Toyota GR 86
The Toyota GR86, which is nearly mechanically identical to the sixth-ranked Subaru BRZ, ranks seventh. Just like the BRZ, the GR86 was redesigned for the 2022 model year and has a new name after being formerly known as the Toyota 86. The Toyota GR86 and the Subaru BRZ have some minor differences, including their exterior styling, interior materials, pricing, and some minor suspension tuning variations. As such, the Toyota GR86 has a slightly slower 0-60 time at 6.1 seconds and a maximum speed of 140 mph.
8. Volkswagen GTI
The Volkswagen GTI rounds out the list in the eighth position. Formerly known as the Volkswagen Golf GTI, the Volkswagen GTI is the sportier, hot-hatch version of the Volkswagen Golf, and is the only version remaining in the U.S. market after the Golf’s discontinuation. It has a 228-horsepower turbocharged engine and a six-speed manual transmission. Standard features include forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, and rain-sensing windshield wipers.
Refer to the full article for the fastest used cars under $30,000.
Bottom Line
All sports cars are fun to drive, but the ones topping this list offer a fast-yet-practical option for those who want a thrilling driving experience at a reasonable price. Be sure to also check out our guide on the best sports cars under $30,000 for additional practical sports cars as well as our companion lists for the fastest cars under $50k and the fastest cars under $40k.
If you’re in the market for a new or used sports car, you can search over 4 million used and new cars with iSeeCars’ award-winning car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check and Best Cars rankings. Whether you want a coupe, convertible, sporty sedan, or hatchback, car buying has never been so easy.
This article originally appeared on iSeeCars.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – After taking the ice for the U.S. during the Beijing Winter Olympics just months ago, figure skater Alysa Liu is hanging up her skates at the age of 16.
Liu announced the decision on Instagram Saturday, saying she feels “so satisfied with how my skating career had gone.”
The Richmond, California, native was the youngest of Team USA’s individual skaters in Beijing. She finished eighth after the short program but reached seventh after her long program. Liu is also a world championship bronze medalist.
“I started skating when I was 5 so that’s about 11 years on the ice and it’s been an insane 11 years,” Liu wrote. “I honestly never thought I would’ve accomplished as much as I did … now that I’m finally done with my goals in skating I’m going to be moving on with my life.”
In 2019, Liu became the youngest American champion in history at the age of 13. She’s now a two-time U.S. champion – and she might have become a three-time champion if it weren’t for the COVID-19 pandemic. Liu tested positive for the virus at the U.S. championships in January and was forced to withdraw.
Still, Liu was named to the 2022 U.S. Olympic team.
“It doesn’t matter what happens in the Olympic games, and what she wants to do in her life, in the rest of her life. I’m super proud of her,” Liu’s father Arthur said before the Winter Games.
Liu and her father, a former political refugee, were among those targeted in a spying operation that the Justice Department alleges was ordered by the Chinese government, the elder Liu says.
Arthur Liu told The Associated Press he had been contacted by the FBI last October, and warned about the scheme just as his 16-year-old daughter was preparing for the Winter Olympics that took place in Beijing in February. The father said he did not tell his daughter about the issue so as not to scare her or distract her from the competition.
The Justice Department announced charges against five men accused of acting on behalf of the Chinese government in a series of brazen and wide-ranging schemes to stalk and harass Chinese dissidents in the United States.
Arthur Liu said he and his daughter were included in the criminal complaint as “Dissident 3” and “family member,” respectively.
The Associated Press and KSEE’s Andrew Marden contributed to this report.
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LIMA, Ohio (WANE) Early Sunday morning, 3 teenagers and a 20-year-old were driving on Interstate 75 when they drove off the left side of the roadway, struck a drainage culvert, and overturned.
According to Ohio State Highway Patrol, 15 year-old Cameron Streibel was driving the GMC Terrain and Colton Bonen, 17, was in the passengers seat. Harley Sharp, 19, and William Morgan, 20, were in the backseat.
Streibel and 2 of the 3 passengers were ejected from the car when it crashed. Colton Bonen was pronounced dead at the scene.
Streibel was brought to a hospital for life-threatening injuries. Sharp and Morgan were hospitalized for serious injuries.
Ohio State Highway Patrol say alcohol and drugs are a suspected factor in the crash. None of the people in the car were wearing seatbelts.
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Mid-Michigan student creates closet for the needy
BEAL CITY, Mich. (WNEM) - A mid-Michigan student is stepping up to help her community.
Rylee Sisco took the money she won from a statewide essay contest and turned it into Rylee’s Closet, a give and take space for Beal City students.
“Unfortunately, there are quite a few people in our county that are living below the poverty line and so just to be able to have this money is very, very helpful,” Sisco said. “We went on a field trip recently for band and when we came back, we stopped to get food, except there were a couple of kids that couldn’t really afford it, and so they didn’t get food. And that just, it made me very sad, because you know, it’s not their fault.”
The closet was up and running in September of last year, it has everything from clothes and shoes to shampoo and soap; all free.
“While it is confidential, you know, there’s always that ‘oh no, I need help, but I’m really embarrassed about it. But I think we need to push the idea that there’s no shame in getting help, and it’s okay to reach out and be like ‘I’m, I’m struggling, I need, I need something,” Sisco said. “The support from our community is just, it’s overwhelming the amount of people we’ve had, just giving to us, and everything like that. And we’re actually getting our room now. So, we’ll have a ‘Rylee’s Room,’ maybe we can upgrade the title.”
Sisco recently won $5,000 from United Way’s ‘Pitch-er this’ contest and put all of it toward her closet and a care fund at the school.
“It’s super important, because it feels like we’re going to the next step, and now kids won’t be, won’t have to like go to this little, little corner in this room in a random hallway. Like, it’s right there and they can go find it and it’s, it’s super convenient,” Sisco said.
When Sisco, a junior, graduates, student council will take over the closet, ensuring students for years to come have a place to get the necessities.
If you’d like to financially support Rylee’s closet, you can give cash or checks made out to Beal City Public Schools or Beal City High School.
If you have items to donate, you can take them to the high school or ship them there as well.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Deputies with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a man they say shot a loose dog in the face in early April.
Deputies said they were called to a Jupiter neighborhood on Saturday, April 2 for a shooting of a dog. When they arrived, deputies found a 1-year-old chocolate lab mix named “Boots” with a gunshot wound to the snout.
Authorities said a four-door Honda Accord with three people inside drove into a nearby park when a man, only described as an unknown black male, jumped out of the car and fired one round into the snout of the loose dog.
“After shooting the dog, the suspect entered the Honda Accord and fled towards Indiantown Road,” a news release from the sheriff’s office stated.
Boots suffered a fractured lower right jaw bone causing several teeth to be knocked out. He was taken to an emergency vet where he is recovering.
Deputies said the suspect is approximately 6 feet tall, thin build, with short dreadlocked hair and red highlighted tips, wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt and black pants.
Anyone with information on the shooting or can identify the vehicle is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.
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Protesters seek video release from Michigan police shooting
Hundreds of people joined a protest march during which family members of a man fatally shot by a western Michigan police officer called for public release of video from the confrontation
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of people joined a protest march during which family members of a man fatally shot by a western Michigan police officer called for public release of video from the confrontation.
The mile-long march in Grand Rapids on Saturday followed Monday’s shooting death of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya, who police said fought with the officer after his vehicle was stopped over a license plate issue.
Marchers chanted “show the video!” and “we want the world to know!” in pushing for Grand Rapids police to release body and dash camera video of the shooting.
Lyoya’s father, Peter Lyoya, said the family immigrated from the African country of Congo in search of a better life.
“The world needs to know the truth. People need to fight for justice for Patrick,” Lyoya said through an interpreter.
Grand Rapids Police Chief Chief Eric Winstrom said Friday that he intended to release the video in the coming week while “protecting the integrity of the investigation in the interests of justice and accountability.”
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(STACKER) — Since its establishment in 1789 by the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court has seen 17 chief justices, and 116 justices in total. Many landmark cases have passed through the Supreme Court of the U.S., having set precedents and changed the fabric of society.
Stacker compiled an account of the educational and professional history of each current Supreme Court justice, including Ketanji Brown Jackson, the newest member. Each justice’s background is divided into three sections: education, early career life, and professional life in the years leading up to their tenures on the Supreme Court.
The SCOTUS has been predominantly white and male since its founding. In fact, all but eight of the court’s 116 justices have been white men.
Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman to be confirmed to the Supreme Court in 1981; Thurgood Marshall was the first person of color to be appointed to the court in 1967; and Jackson became the first Black woman confirmed to the highest court in the nation on April 7, 2022.
The current Supreme Court justices took different paths to achieve their current esteemed positions. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in 2020, was appointed in 1993 and faced many challenges on her path to becoming a SCOTUS justice. She encountered sexism in her attempt to get clerkships as a female law graduate in the 1950s and received lower pay than her male colleagues when she taught at Rutgers Law School in the 1960s.
When Clarence Thomas was applying for jobs as a new law graduate, he found that some law firms did not take his Yale Juris doctorate degree seriously because the university had been trying to fulfill quotas of Black students at the time. Sonia Sotomayor spoke out in support of Hispanic rights as a student and as a judge, and experienced roadblocks when she was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals due to Republican beliefs that President Bill Clinton was trying to facilitate her nomination as the first Hispanic person in the Supreme Court. She was confirmed to the SCOTUS in 2009.
Clarence Thomas: Education
Clarence Thomas earned a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, where he helped create the Black Student Union. He obtained a J.D. from Yale in 1974, though law firms did not take his degree seriously when he was applying for jobs. He cited that law firms assumed that he got into the program because of the law school’s increase in its quota of Black students, and thus put less weight on LSAT scores and grades for those students.
Clarence Thomas: Early career life
After his admittance to the Missouri Bar in 1974, Thomas worked as assistant attorney general of Missouri under state Attorney General John Danforth and was the only African American on Danforth’s staff. After changing roles when Danforth was elected to the Senate in 1976, Thomas returned to work for him in the late ‘70s as a legislative assistant focusing on energy issues for the Senate Commerce Committee. Danforth would play an important role in endorsing Thomas as a Supreme Court justice.
In the early 1980s, Thomas took on the role of assistant secretary of education for the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education, and then as chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982 to 1990. In the latter role, Thomas sought cases of individual discrimination rather than adhere to the commission’s habitual method of filing class-action discrimination lawsuits. He opined that Black leaders were all talk and no action in terms of the Reagan administration’s shortcomings and that they should have collaborated with the federal government to improve issues such as illiteracy and teen pregnancy.
Clarence Thomas: Before the Supreme Court
President George H. W. Bush nominated Thomas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1989, despite Thomas having said he did not want to be a judge. Nevertheless, other African Americans working in government backed him, including Secretary of Transportation William Coleman. In 1991, shortly after Thurgood Marshall declared that he’d be retiring, President Bush nominated Thomas to replace him on the Supreme Court.
Some civil rights and feminist organizations were against Thomas’ appointment due in part to his condemnation of affirmative action, as well as apprehensions that he might have been against Roe v. Wade. After Thomas’ confirmation hearings ended, but before the Senate officially approved his nomination, Anita Hill accused Thomas of verbal sexual harassment in a leaked FBI interview. In reopened hearings, Thomas denied the allegations and maintained his right to privacy. The Judiciary Committee voted to send Thomas’ nomination to the Senate, and after further investigation with no substantial evidence of sexual harassment, the Senate confirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court in October 1991.
Stephen Breyer: Education
Before Stephen Breyer graduated from Harvard Law School with an LL.B. (a bachelor of laws degree) in 1964, he earned a bachelor of arts in philosophy from Stanford in ‘59 and studied philosophy, politics, and economics as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford’s Magdalen College. While at Harvard, Breyer worked as an editor for the Harvard Law Review and graduated with honors.
Stephen Breyer: Early career life
In 1964, Breyer clerked for Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg and later worked in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as a special assistant to the assistant attorney general. In 1967 he began teaching at his alma mater, Harvard Law School, and later worked as an assistant prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973.
He served as special counsel, and later as chief counsel, to the Administrative Practices Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He collaborated with the committee’s chairman Edward M. Kennedy to execute the Airline Deregulation Act.
Stephen Breyer: Before the Supreme Court
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Breyer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where he later served as chief judge from 1990 to 1994. As a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 1985 to 1989, Breyer played an instrumental part in reshaping criminal sentencing procedures on the federal level, as well as creating the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
Following the retirement of Harry Blackmun, President Bill Clinton nominated Breyer to the position of associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1994. He was confirmed the same year. As a Supreme Court judge, Breyer maintains a pragmatic approach to law and looks to “purpose and consequences” in interpreting laws. He has uniformly voted to support abortion rights and has largely deferred to Congress, hardly ever voting to reverse congressional legislation.
John Roberts: Education
Current Chief Justice John Roberts earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1976 and stayed on to obtain his J.D. in ‘79. In his undergraduate degree, he wrote a thesis paper on early 20th-century British liberalism. In law school, he worked as managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and as a law clerk.
John Roberts: Early career life
As a new law graduate, Roberts clerked for appellate Judge Henry Friendly and William Rehnquist, whom he succeeded on the Supreme Court. In the 1980s, Roberts served as special assistant to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, and then as associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan. While working for the law firm Hogan & Hartson in the mid-1980s, Roberts carried out pro bono work for LGBTQ+ rights activists and prepped arguments for the 1996 case Romer v. Evans, which involved sexual orientation as related to state law.
In 1989, Roberts took on the role of principal deputy solicitor general under President George H. W. Bush. After three years as solicitor general, he returned to practicing law privately and taught law at Georgetown University. He was part of the team of lawyers that advised Gov. Jeb Bush during the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida.
John Roberts: Before the Supreme Court
In 2001, Roberts was nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) but was not confirmed until 2003 due to disagreements between the Bush administration and the majority Democratic Senate. As a Supreme Court judge, Roberts ruled over several significant cases, including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was a question of the legal validity of military tribunals.
In 2005, President George W. Bush initially nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court to fill the shoes of Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who had retired. However, upon the death of William Rehnquist later that year, Bush renominated Roberts to the role of chief justice. Regarding his judicial philosophy, Roberts likened judges to baseball umpires, saying “it’s my job to call the balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.”
Samuel A. Alito Jr.: Education
Samuel Alito graduated from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1972. He then received his law degree from Yale in 1975, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. While at Princeton, Alito chaired a 1971 student conference called “The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society,” which, among other things, called for a statute and a court to govern national security surveillance, elimination of discrimination against gay people in hiring processes, and the decriminalization of sodomy. The extent to which the conference agenda mirrors Alito’s personal convictions is unknown.
Samuel A. Alito Jr.: Early career life
After graduating from law school, Alito clerked under Judge Leonard Garth in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. From the early to mid-1980s, he worked as Deputy Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee, under whom he argued 12 cases for the federal government in the Supreme Court. From 1987 to 1990, Alito served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, appointed by Ronald Reagan. In this role, he successfully prosecuted the 1988 case of an FBI agent who was shot in the field and prosecuted a sympathizer of the Japanese Red Army who was found with homemade bombs in his car at a New Jersey Turnpike service center.
Samuel A. Alito Jr.: Before the Supreme Court
From 1990 until his nomination to the Supreme Court, Alito worked as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Although broadly conservative in his judicial approach, he handled rulings on each case differently.
As the son of an Italian immigrant, Alito was understanding of the issues of people he found similar to himself, exemplified in the case of Fatin v. INS, in which an Iranian woman was seeking asylum. In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Alito to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, and he was confirmed the following year. Alito still rules based on the case at hand, though he frequently veers on the side of conservatism.
Sonia Sotomayor: Education
The first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton, where she co-chaired the Puerto Rican activist group Acción Puertorriqueña. As part of this group, she accused the Princeton administration of bias against Puerto Ricans in their hiring process. In the same vein of Puerto Rican rights, she also wrote a senior thesis on Puerto Rican journalist Luis Muñoz Marín. In pursuing her J.D. from Yale, she was editor of the Yale Law Review and published a notable article on how statehood would impact Puerto Rico’s mineral rights.
Sonia Sotomayor: Early career life
Freshly out of law school in 1979, Sotomayor landed a position as an assistant district attorney under New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. In the wake of rampant New York crime rates, she dealt with substantial caseloads including shoplifting, police brutality, and murder. In terms of serious felonies, Sotomayor said, “No matter how liberal I am, I am still outraged by crimes of violence,”, especially for violent crime within the Hispanic community.
In her role as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, she took anti-government stances in numerous cases and was known for administering heavy sentences in criminal cases. In the notable case Silverman v. Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee, Inc., Sotomayor’s preliminary injunction against Major League Baseball barred it from executing a new collective bargaining agreement, thus putting a stop to the months-long 1994 baseball strike.
Sonia Sotomayor: Before the Supreme Court
In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated Sotomayor to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. However, Senate Republicans delayed her confirmation process because they believed that Clinton had an ulterior motive of positioning her for a Supreme Court nomination as the first Hispanic judge. Sotomayor was confirmed to the Court of Appeals in 1998.
As a judge, she was described as a centrist by the ABA Journal. As a member of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts, Sotomayor presented the annual Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, in which she talked in part about the history of women and minorities who rose to become federal judges.
In the 2002 abortion case Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush, Sotomayor defended the Bush administration’s enactment of the Mexico City Policy, detailing that the U.S. would refrain from subsidizing nongovernmental organizations that perform or advocate for abortions in other countries. President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court in 2009, and she was confirmed the same year.
Elena Kagan: Education
Elena Kagan graduated from Princeton in 1981, received an M.Phil. from Oxford’s Worcester College as a Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow in ‘83, and earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in ‘86, graduating with honors. At Princeton, Kagan was the editorial chair of The Daily Princetonian, and in collaboration with several other students, wrote a Declaration of the Campaign for a Democratic University, which detailed a need to retool university governance on a core level.
At Worcester College, Kagan wrote a thesis on “The Development and Erosion of the American Exclusionary Rule: A Study in Judicial Method.” At Harvard, she worked as supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She was described as being good with people and gained the respect of everyone despite divisive political views on campus.
Elena Kagan: Early career life
In 1987 Kagan clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and a year later clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court. As a lawyer for the D.C. firm Williams & Connolly, Kagan worked on five lawsuits rooted in issues of the First Amendment and media law. In the early 1990s, she took a job as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where she published an influential law review article in which she argued that the SCOTUS should investigate governmental motives when dealing with cases concerning the First Amendment. Two years after she got her assistant professorship, Joe Biden appointed her as special counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she played a part in the confirmation hearings of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Elena Kagan: Before the Supreme Court
Prior to her nomination to the Supreme Court, Kagan worked as associate White House Counsel for President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1996, as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, and as deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. In the latter role, Kagan co-wrote a memo asking that Clinton back a ban on late-term abortions.
After returning to academia for a decade, Kagan was nominated to the position of solicitor general by Barack Obama, and became the first woman in the role. Though considered to be part of the liberal wing of the SCOTUS, Kagan veers on the moderate side. Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court in 2010, and she was confirmed the same year.
Neil Gorsuch: Education
Neil Gorsuch received his B.A. in political science from Columbia in 1988, followed by a J.D. from Harvard in 1991, and finally, a Ph.D. in law from Oxford in 2004. While at Columbia, he wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator and co-founded an alternative student newspaper called The Fed, as well as the magazine The Morningside Review. At Harvard, Gorsuch worked as an editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and was described as conservative amidst a student population of “ardent liberals,” according to the Boston Globe’s Michael Levenson.
Neil Gorsuch: Early career life
After completing a judicial clerkship for SCOTUS Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy, Gorsuch practiced commercial law at Kellogg Huber, where he worked on securities fraud, antitrust, and contracts cases. In the case of Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v Broudo, Gorsuch communicated that he believed that securities fraud litigation is burdensome to the economy.
He also worked as principal deputy to Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on civil litigation cases, as well as terror litigation related to President Bush’s War on Terror. Generally, Gorsuch is a constitutional originalist, which is to say that he believes that the constitution should be deciphered as it was originally written.
Neil Gorsuch: Before the Supreme Court
Before his confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, Gorsuch spent 11 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. In this role, in the case of Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius, Gorsuch wrote a concurrence—or an attempt to prove both guilty action and guilty mind—when the en banc circuit determined that the Affordable Care Act law requiring employers to provide their employees with health insurance that partially covers contraception violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Politically, Gorsuch supports a broad interpretation of freedom of religion. David Savage of the Los Angeles Times described him as “a libertarian who is quick to oppose unchecked government power.” President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in February 2017, and while the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination, Democrats filibustered until Republicans broke it with a simple majority vote and confirmed Gorsuch to the SCOTUS.
Brett Kavanaugh: Education
Brett Kavanaugh received both his B.A. and J.D. from Yale, the latter in 1990. During his time at Yale Law School, Kavanaugh was an editor for the Yale Law Journal. He reportedly said during his law school confirmation hearing testimony, “I got into Yale Law School. That’s the number-one law school in the country. I had no connections there. I got there by busting my tail in college.”
Brett Kavanaugh: Early career life
In his early years in law, Kavanaugh worked as a clerk for judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Third and Ninth Circuits. In the early 1990s, he completed a year-long fellowship with U.S. solicitor general at the time, Ken Starr, with whom he returned to work years later as an associate counselor in the Office of the Independent Counsel. In this role, Kavanaugh helmed the writing of the 1998 Starr Report to Congress, which detailed the scandal involving Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
In late 2000, Kavanaugh became part of George W. Bush’s legal team that strove to stop the recount of Florida ballots in the controversial 2000 presidential election between Bush and Al Gore. From 2003 to 06, he worked as an assistant to President George W. Bush and White House Staff Secretary.
Brett Kavanaugh: Before the Supreme Court
In 2003, President Bush nominated Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but his confirmation was delayed for three years because Senatorial Democrats believed him to be too biased. Kavanaugh asserted his conservative views on a host of important issues, including abortion and employment discrimination, throughout his 12 years as a judge on the appeals court.
Following President Trump’s nomination of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in July 2018, Christine Blasey Ford publicly stated that Kavanaugh had sexually molested her when they were in high school. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in September 2018, Kavanaugh vehemently denied the allegations. After an FBI investigation yielded no substantial evidence to validate Ford’s claim, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh in a 50-48 vote on Oct. 6, 2018.
Amy Coney Barrett: Education
Amy Coney Barrett attended Rhodes College, a liberal arts school in Memphis, Tennessee, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. She graduated in 1994 with a bachelor of arts in English; she also won the awards for “Most Outstanding English Major” and “Most Outstanding Senior Thesis.” Barrett went on to attend Notre Dame Law School. During her time there, she served as an executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. When she graduated in 1997, she was awarded the Hoynes Prize, which is given to the student with the “best record in scholarship, deportment, and achievement.”
Amy Coney Barrett: Early career life
After graduating from Notre Dame, Barrett clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and then for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia the following year. When that clerkship ended in 1999, Barrett went into private practice, joining the D.C. law firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin. In 2001, she joined George Washington University Law School as an adjunct professor, and then, in 2002, she returned to her alma mater Notre Dame where she was eventually named a Professor of Law in 2010.
Amy Coney Barrett: Before the Supreme Court
In 2017, President Trump nominated Barrett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. During the hearings on her nomination, Barrett was questioned about a 1998 law review article that she co-wrote arguing that Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death penalty cases in some instances due to their moral opposition to capital punishment. Democratic senators’ skepticism surrounding Barrett’s ability to separate her faith from legal decisions came under fire from religious conservatives, while LGBTQ+ civil rights organization Lambda Legal cosigned a letter opposing Barrett’s nomination, also concerned she wouldn’t be able to separate her religion from rulings on LGBTQ+ issues. Ultimately, Barrett was confirmed by the Senate.
While on the Seventh Circuit, Barrett dissented after the majority upheld the district court’s preliminary injunction against the “public charge” rule, an effort by the Trump administration to raise the standard for obtaining green cards and immigrant visas. She also dissented when the court upheld the federal law preventing felons from owning firearms.
In September 2020, Trump nominated Barrett to the Supreme Court. While largely supported by Republicans, Democrats opposed Barrett’s nomination on the grounds that they’d be filling a seat on the bench while an election was underway in many U.S. states. The nomination was especially contested because, in 2016, the Senate Republican majority refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland more than 10 months before the end of Obama’s presidency. By comparison, when Trump nominated Barrett, only four months remained in his term. The confirmation hearings went on, however, and Barrett was confirmed as an associate justice of the SCOTUS on Oct. 27, 2020.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: Education
As a high school senior in Miami, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s guidance counselor reportedly told her to set her sights a bit lower when she expressed interest in applying to Harvard University. She rejected that advice and was accepted into Harvard. There, Jackson studied government and the decorated high-school orator also pursued the arts. She was a member of the student improv group On Thin Ice and took drama classes, once working with fellow student Matt Damon as his scene partner. In 1992, Jackson graduated from Harvard with a bachelor of arts degree.
After a year-long stint as a reporter and researcher at Time, Jackson returned to Cambridge to attend Harvard Law School. She served as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated with her J.D. in 1996.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: Early career life
Fresh out of Harvard Law School, Jackson held three clerkships: one for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, another for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then—after a year in private practice (at the same private law firm where Barrett worked)—for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she is filling.
Jackson then returned to private practice from 2000 to 2003, working at Goodwin Procter in Boston and at what is now known as Feinberg Rozen in New York. In the two years that followed, she became an assistant special counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and then, from 2005 to 2007, a federal public defender in Washington D.C., handling cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. From 2007 to 2010, Jackson worked as an appellate specialist at Morrison & Foerster in Washington D.C.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: Before the Supreme Court
Jackson left Morrison & Foerster in 2010 to become vice-chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, nominated by Obama in 2009. During her time in the position, which she held until 2014, she reduced sentences for drug-related offenses. In 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; she was confirmed in 2013. In one of her most high-profile cases, Jackson ruled against the Trump administration’s challenge to subpoena former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify in the impeachment inquiry against the president. One portion of Jackson’s opinion made headlines: “Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings,” she wrote. “This means that they do not have subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control.”
Jackson moved one step closer to the SCOTUS in 2021 when President Joe Biden nominated her to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Less than a year later, Biden announced that Jackson was his nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. After contentious hearings, Jackson was confirmed by the Senate on April 7, 2022. She is the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court as well as the high court’s first former public defender.
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‘The Simpsons’ to feature deaf character, use sign language for first time
(CNN) – For the first time in the show’s 33-year history, a deaf actor will be featured on “The Simpsons.”
The focus of the episode is on Lisa Simpson, who discovers her role model, late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy, has a son who is deaf and needs a cochlear implant.
Deaf actor John Autry II plays the role of Monk Murphy on the episode, calling it “life-changing.”
The show’s characters use American sign language throughout the groundbreaking episode.
Even though “Simpsons” characters only have four fingers, the show consulted with sign language specialists to make sure visuals conveyed words correctly.
The storyline is loosely based on the life of the episode’s main writer, who says her brother is hearing impaired within a family that loves jazz music.
The episode was written before the film “Coda” won the Oscar for Best Picture two weekends ago.
The episode airs Sunday night.
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WATCH: Man pulled from raging river after attempted rescue of dog caught in current
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) – A good Samaritan is recounting his attempt to rescue a stranger’s dog from a river in California.
Dustin Leming, an iron worker, dropped 14 feet into the Los Angeles River to rescue a dog trapped in the raging current during a rain storm.
He risked his own life to save a stranger’s dog.
“Oh, that dog was scared,” he said.
The heroic effort left Leming in need of his own rescue.
“They did have to rescue me, and thank God they did,” he said.
As rescue helicopters circled above his home last week, Leming and his mom ran to the river out back and saw Scooby struggling to keep his furry head above the water.
When Leming saw the canine, he couldn’t help himself. He said he wanted to be a veterinarian so it was second nature to help an animal in need.
“I told her, I said ‘Look mom, that dog’s in the river. I’m going to the river. I’m gonna save that dog,’” he said. “And she goes, ‘You better not Dustin’ and I told her, ‘Look, I’m going in.”
But first, Leming had to run ahead of the dog.
“I think it was about a mile and a half down where I finally caught up to him,” Leming said.
When he finally got into the waist high water and got his arms around Scooby, the terrified German Shepherd sunk its teeth into his arms.
“That current, that current is stronger than you think,” Leming said.
He said it became too hard to hold on to the dog, and Scooby wiggled out of his arms and was eventually carried away by the current.
“I was like ‘Oh man, if that dog dies, I’m gonna be so sad,’” Leming said.
It was fortunately not a lost cause, and Scooby survived. The dog floated down the river to a shallow spot where rescue crews eventually got him to safety.
The next day, Scooby’s owner got to thank Leming for his attempted rescue.
“Thank you so much for all the love out there and support,” she said.
Leming said he’s just glad Scooby made it back home. He said there was no way the dog was going to drown on his watch.
“Everybody got their phones out and wanted to take videos but not take action,” Leming said. “I tried to help him out.”
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Police in Raleigh are investigating after a crash involving a Go Raleigh Bus.
The crash happened after 11 a.m. Sunday in front of the Christ Our King Community Church on Garner Road.
According to Raleigh city officials, early investigations suggested the bus was making a left turn onto Garner Road when it was hit on its left side by an oncoming vehicle.
The force of the impact caused one passenger in the car to be partially ejected, and rescue crews had to slice through the roof of the car to get a second person inside.
Both people in the car were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. Four others from the bus went to the hospital to be checked out.
The victims' identities have not been given at this time.
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Inside the Plan to Bring New Energy to the PECO Power Station on the Waterfront
A long-dormant power station on the Delaware — a tattered icon of our industrial past — is being reborn as luxury apartments. Are we finally figuring out how to embrace, rather than knock down, our architectural heritage?
They’re keeping the smokestacks.
The eight 167-foot-high chimneys of the former PECO Delaware Generating Station haven’t barfed out noxious exhaust from coal that’s burning to make electricity since the place was switched off around 1975. The stacks have long been a Philadelphia landmark along the Delaware River — originally a statement of power and progress, then a resilient monument to urban decay, burned-out candles on a concrete cake. Now they’re painted up real nice so renters can live amid them.
“They look pret-ty great,” says Kevin Kozlik, director of field operations for the power plant’s redevelopment, as we stand on the roof admiring the workmanship. They’re painted pale gray, not too dark, because there might be plans to dramatically light them at night, but not white, because “we didn’t want it to look like a cruise ship.”
“We had to bring in people who paint bridges,” says Leonard Klehr, who’s with project financier Lubert-Adler. “They were hanging from … ”
“Air-hoist cables,” Kozlik helps.
The power station opened in 1923, maybe two miles from where Ben Franklin first tried downloading electricity for Philadelphia. It soon became the biggest generator of juice for a booming city. In the 1920s, America went from most people not having electricity at home to most people having it. Buildings like this transformed the world. As it turns out, coal-burning over the past century is believed to have been the biggest human contribution to climate change, which, worst-case, could wipe out humanity. A hefty share of that carbon emission came from right here in Fishtown, from this magnificent Beaux Arts building designed by John T. Windrim, the same architect who did the Franklin Institute.
Electricity eventually became a little cleaner, and cheaper to get in other ways. But it took decades of deterioration and graffiti, and the filming of steampunk Bruce Willis scenes for the 12 Monkeys movie, for anybody to figure out what to do with this 223,000-square-foot building. Now, as soon as this summer, it will become luxury apartments with eye-popping city views, co-working and cafe space (smoke-free!), and wedding ballrooms, with picturesque Penn Treaty Park next door and new public access to the riverfront that could eventually include a floating concert barge. So let’s live it up while we can.
The development, christened the Battery, is part of a waterfront revival that over the past decade has reconnected residents to the city’s two rivers, with attractions like Spruce Street Harbor Park, Cherry Street Pier and Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk. It’s also the latest relic of Philly’s more formidable days to get an expensive makeover (projected at $153.6 million) and a new life in a new century.
These days, our culture sometimes seems split between folks eager to obliterate the past in favor of progress and others who imagine making things “great again” by turning the clock backward and retreating to yesterday. Restoration projects like this — and the Divine Lorraine Hotel and Metropolitan Opera House on North Broad Street, South Philly’s Bok Building, the Navy Yard — may imperfectly symbolize a middle ground. They’re ways to revive pieces of the past as part of moving forward. The old days weren’t all roses and chardonnay. There’s plenty we’ve needed to demolish. Coal-burning electric plants, your dirty days are numbered. But these sturdy, pretty buildings still have possibilities.
Leonard Klehr meets me in the parking lot alongside the power plant for my walk-through of the construction. For a while, there was a smaller, secondary generation plant on this lot, but it was ugly and was razed in 2008. Fancy extra buildings may eventually replace these parking spaces if the market stays hot.
Klehr, a Philadelphia attorney, first introduced two of his clients, Ira Lubert and Dean Adler, to each other in 1997. They started Lubert-Adler to manage real estate investment funds, buying, fixing, operating and selling properties for investors. Projects that qualify as historic buildings, like this PECO plant, get a federal tax credit of 20 percent of money spent on restoration — a nice return for Lubert-Adler’s investors even before the building opens for business. Renovated properties also qualify for a 10-year city tax abatement. (This year, the abatement for brand-new construction falls from 10 to five years, potentially incentivizing more adaptive reuses like this.)
In 2006, Klehr resigned from his own law firm to join Lubert-Adler. Now he’s executive vice chairman — and unofficial tour guide. Standing in the parking lot, he waves a hand along the north side of the building.
“This will all be opened up. We’re bringing Palmer Street straight down to the river,” he says.
Well, kind of. This side of the building, historically gated off, will become a public segment of Palmer Street, a landscaped promenade where pedestrians and cyclists can frolic together. Like much of the waterfront, it will still be cut off from the city by Delaware Avenue and I-95. “But there’s been a lot of talk about opening up those streets to allow flow back and forth to the riverfront,” Klehr says hopefully.
We stroll to the city-facing west side of the building. Along Beach Street, there’s a spiky wrought-iron fence to keep people out. “For many years, there was barbed wire on top of it,” Klehr says. “This was a dangerous building, a coal-fired power plant. For 100 years until now, these 11 acres were sealed off.”
We meet up with Kozlik, from general contractor Fastrack Construction, and head to the waterfront side of the building. Jutting into the river here is Pier 61, the coal pier. Barges from Petty’s Island, the company’s primary coal yard, on the Jersey side of the river, would dock here.
“They would clamshell the coal with a crane, put it into a hopper, and it would go into a crusher that would make it the right diameter,” Kozlik explains. Now, the developers might connect the coal pier with a 195-foot floating bandstand designed by Louis I. Kahn, itself a clamshell, that Lubert-Adler bought and needs a place to park.
In the old days, a conveyor belt moved the pulverized coal from the pier to the first section of the plant, the Boiler House, where three-story-high bins dumped it into roaring furnaces that boiled river water into steam. The steam was piped to the middle part of the building, massive Turbine Hall, where it spun rotors inside six long turbines that looked like Harkonnen spaceships from Dune, to create electrical current. The current then passed to the third section, the Switch House along Beach Street, where transformer units resembling long aisles of metal lockers streamed electrons into the city’s wires. The entire building was filled with industrial-era pipes, valves, switches, platforms and gangways, but it also had arched doorways and vaulted ceilings with skylights.
Philadelphia Electric Company built three of these monumental stations along the Delaware. The first and most ornate was down in Chester. It’s beautifully redone as offices now — owned, inhabited and leased by the Philadelphia Union soccer team. This Delaware Generating Station came next. The Richmond station, farther upriver, remains an urban wreck between a city sanitation center and the Betsy Ross Bridge.
In a 2008 exhibition at Philadelphia’s Athenaeum and a 2016 book, photographer Joseph E.B. Elliott and University of Pennsylvania historic preservation and landscape architecture professor Aaron Wunsch called these buildings “Palazzos of Power.” Elliott had won a grant to take pictures inside the buildings, and he told me he encountered the Delaware station “as this kind of lost ruin, like a sort of pyramid in the jungle.”
In fact, the power plants were meant to seem ancient when they were new. The neoclassical Beaux Arts style borrows from Roman, Greek and Renaissance architecture. It’s known for grand scale and flourishes we don’t talk about much anymore, like cornices, quoins and dentils. At a time when the whole idea of an electric company was novel and there was a debate over whether this vital utility should be run privately or by the government, Philadelphia Electric Company used its majestic buildings to pass itself off as a civic institution. These buildings were purposely built to inspire awe from afar, implying both tradition and progress.
“Why the hell does this power plant in this industrial neighborhood look like a Roman bath?” Wunsch asks. “All these big companies wanted to project the image of permanence — that these are institutions you should trust and want to invest in because they are so damn substantial. That tends to play out in classical terms. I consider them artifacts of public relations, actually. You can go back and forth on whether they’re great architecture. But they were meant to have a kind of civic presence, and lo and behold, they kind of do.”
We enter the building, which has been mostly gutted, and head for the money shot, the vast Turbine Hall, its skylights 90 feet above the floor. This is a large room.
“It makes 30th Street Station look puny,” Robert Powers, whose firm wrote the nomination that got the building on the National Register of Historic Places, warned me. Lubert-Adler hasn’t figured out what to do with it yet and is waiting for COVID’s dust to settle to see what people still want to congregate for. “Office space, event space. We think it’ll be market-driven, as opposed to somebody’s dream or vision,” Klehr says. It’s not unusual for adaptive reuse projects with oddball spaces to evolve in phases.
Developers reimagining turbine halls elsewhere have tried various ideas. In 2000, London’s former Bankside Power Station became the Tate Modern, a gorgeous art museum on the Thames River. Its cavernous turbine hall is for extra-gigantic sculptures. Baltimore’s former Pratt Street Power Plant briefly became an indoor Six Flags amusement park. (Now, it’s a mall.) In Chester, they built a partial mezzanine within the turbine hall, creating a sort of upstairs platform. A software company had offices there but is gone now. It looks like a desolate Grand Central Station inside.
One encouraging sign for our long-term comfort on the planet is just how many of these coal-burning plants are becoming something else. Their closures reflect an evolution in how we extract megawatts from nature, and their reopenings reveal what we want city buildings to do today. The old L Street Power Plant in South Boston is becoming an office/retail complex. The Greenidge power plant in upstate New York now does Bitcoin mining. Even London’s iconic Battersea Power Station, the one on the cover of the 1977 Pink Floyd album Animals with the helium-filled pig, is being prepped for reopening this year as a high-end residential and retail megaplex. Its control room will be a ritzy bar; residents will include Sting, and Apple will have its U.K. campus there, with iPhone-shaped elevators. London has given the building its own tube station. But alas, no dice getting a SEPTA train stop at the restored PECO plant. Klehr says a private shuttle is under discussion.
My guides and I head to the Switch House, the section of the Battery closest to city streets. A long room that once contained transformers will be skylit space for weddings, operated by Joe Volpe’s Cescaphe Event Group.
“All of our venues have been something else in the past,” Volpe tells me later. “Cescaphe Ballroom was an old movie theater. Vie on Broad Street was a car dealer. Tendenza was a brewery. So here was this mysterious, giant building. I fell in love with the scale of it.”
Volpe isn’t merely operating the weddings concession; for a while, he owned the building. He and developer Bart Blatstein bought it from Exelon in 2015, for a reported $3 million. They planned to make it into an event space with restaurants, a banquet hall and guest rooms. Blatstein soon sold his share to Volpe. The big plan didn’t materialize.
“As I started to dig in, I realized it was just out of my league. It was just bigger than me,” Volpe says. He was able to unload the place to Lubert-Adler in 2019 while remaining an investor. The wedding venue will open in the fall, with its own elegant name, to be determined. “Definitely not the Battery,” Volpe says.
There was a time when the transformers here were Philly’s prime electricity source. These days, we’re on a 13-state network called the PJM Interconnection. Our mix of fuel is the same as everybody else’s on this regional grid: at press time, roughly 38 percent natural gas, 33 percent nuclear, 22 percent coal, and six percent renewables.
As part of our planet’s desperate attempt to survive, the City of Philadelphia wants to be carbon-neutral by 2050 and released a Climate Action Playbook in 2021. There will be obstacles. One challenge is that the city owns Philadelphia Gas Works, so it’s launched a study to explore how to achieve carbon neutrality with America’s largest municipally owned natural gas utility. When I speak about this with Christine Knapp, director of the city’s Office of Sustainability, I suggest it’s as if the Eagles decided to become a baseball team but had to keep a lot of the football players.
“Yeah, but then imagine the stadium has to be converted and all the infrastructure has to change, too,” she says.
But electricity is bigger than ever. In the recent book Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future, author Saul Griffith suggests we electrify everything, including heating and vehicles, and move toward 100 percent renewable sources. His energy future involves a lot of high-capacity batteries.
Will this transformed electric plant have batteries? It’s literally called the Battery. I knew the name wasn’t meant to honor Philly sport fans chucking D-cells at J.D. Drew. Historically, buildings called “batteries” along the Delaware River had guns aimed at the British.
“We think it connotes ‘new energy,’” Klehr emails me. “Our premise is that in an ESG world, the preservation of an old building like the Battery is the starting point for sustainability.” I had to google ESG. It stands for “environmental, social and governance” — corporate-citizenship factors that guide some investors. Adaptive reuse for sure is more eco-friendly than raze-and-rebuild, but the Battery isn’t doing anything especially green for its energy. There won’t be solar panels or offshore windmills. “There are no plans to push the envelope. It’s gonna be energy-efficient,” Klehr says.
Finally, our tour hits the Boiler House section on the river, where the deluxe apartments will be. It’s all rentals. The first two floors will accommodate commercial spaces as well as a central area called the Hub, essentially a co-working space. Floors three through eight will be strictly residential. “They’ll have an apartment, and then they’ll have a little space here where they can work on their craft,” Kozlik says.
We climb temporary staircases to higher floors — six stories in the building plus two newly added atop the roof. “We keep going up and it only gets better,” Kozlik says. It really is a million-dollar view from this location, a panorama of the Ben Franklin Bridge spanning the river, then the entire city skyline. The south side overlooks one of the city’s prettiest parks, the legendary spot where William Penn officially grabbed all this land from the Lenape in 1683. As we approach the location of the swanky corner penthouse, Kozlik jokes: “Eleven hundred a month!”
Ha, not likely. Prices aren’t set, but this isn’t an “affordable housing” development. In some ways, the ritzy building will remain as locked away from uninvited guests as when it was swathed in barbed wire. This is land-use change, not social change. But it’s a kind of progress, re-beautifying the sort of post-industrial eyesore the mayor of Detroit recently called “ruin porn.”
“There’s no playbook for this,” Klehr says. “We’ve done adaptive reuse projects — office to apartments, warehouse to apartments, warehouse to office. But this place didn’t have any real estate purpose. This was a machine that they built this beautiful Beaux Arts envelope around.”
“We had to find a purpose for it,” Kozlik says. Of course, in a residential market as hot as today’s, anything can have real estate purpose. Up on top, just outside one of the rooftop apartments, Kozlik points to a doorway-shaped cutout in one of the smokestacks. A floor has been installed in the stack so you can stand inside and see the sky. It’s not a big enough space for somebody to live in, but a renter could go in there to have a beer or grill a burger. Hey, when you want to reuse things that have lost their use, you need to get creative.
“This unit is going to have a walkout patio that’s inside the smokestack,” says Kozlik. “How cool is that?”
Published as “Electric Avenue” in the April issue of Philadelphia magazine.
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In the wake of a shooting that took the life of a 16-year-old honor student in the Bronx, top lawmakers are looking at strengthening rules of so-called ghost guns which could include the implementation of background checks.
Detectives investigating Friday's shooting of three teens that killed Angellyh Yambo suspect the 17-year-old gunman, since charged with murder, used a ghost gun — homemade firearms that can be built with parts bought online and lack serial numbers normally used to trace them.
The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
On Sunday, the Senate's top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, implored the administration to move faster.
“It’s high time for a ghost gun exorcism before the proliferation peaks, and before more people get hurt — or worse,” Schumer said in a statement. “My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules." Ghost guns are "too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore.”
The New York lawmaker cited NYPD data at a press conference, showing ghost gun recoveries are up more than 350%. Schumer wants the federal government to push rules that treats such guns and their kits "like any other weapon each part with a serial number and requiring a background check."
The long-awaited rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.
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In its proposed rule released last May, the ATF said it was also seeking to require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.
The rule would also require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.
Police across the country have been reporting spikes in ghost guns being recovered by officers. The New York Police Department, for example, said officers found 131 unserialized firearms since January.
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A Texas district attorney said Sunday that he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a self-induced abortion.
Lizelle Herrera was arrested Thursday in Rio Grande City, a community of about 14,000 people along the Mexico border, after a Starr County grand jury indicted her on March 30 for murder for allegedly causing “the death of an individual ... by self-induced abortion."
District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said Sunday that his office would move to dismiss the charge on Monday.
“In reviewing this case, it is clear that Ms. Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her,” Ramirez said in a statement.
Ramirez went on to say, “It is my hope that with the dismissal of this case it is made clear that Ms. Herrera did not commit a criminal act under the laws of the State of Texas."
Authorities haven't released details about what Herrera allegedly did, and Ramirez didn't immediately respond to an email Sunday seeking further information about the case. From his statement Sunday and a previous statement put out by a Starr County Sheriff's Office official, it wasn't clear if Herrera was accused of giving herself an abortion or assisting in someone else's self-induced abortion.
In a tweet Sunday, Planned Parenthood called the decision “Such NEEDED news."
“While the charges against Lizelle have been dismissed, we know the fight against the criminalization of pregnancy outcomes has only just begun,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood's president and CEO.
A leading Texas anti-abortion group said it understood the decision, saying that state law provides only civil remedies, not criminal ones.
“The Texas Heartbeat Act and other Pro-Life policies in the state clearly prohibit criminal charges for pregnant women. Texas Right to Life opposes public prosecutors going outside of the bounds of Texas’ prudent and carefully crafted policies,” said Texas Right to Life spokeswoman Kimberlyn Schwartz.
Herrera was released Saturday from the Starr County jail after posting a $500,000 bond.
The indictment alleged that Herrera, on Jan. 7, “did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual ... by self-induced abortion.”
In confirming the indictment Saturday, sheriff's Maj. Carlos Delgado said no further information would be released until Monday because the case was still under investigation.
Texas law would exempt Herrera from a criminal homicide charge for aborting her own pregnancy, University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck said.
“(Homicide) doesn’t apply to the murder of an unborn child if the conduct charged is ‘conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child,’” Vladeck said.
A 2021 state law that bans abortions in Texas for women who are as early as six weeks pregnant has sharply curtailed the number of abortions in the state. The law leaves enforcement to private citizens who can sue doctors or anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
The woman receiving the abortion is exempted from the law.
Another Texas law prohibits doctors and clinics from prescribing abortion-inducing medications after the seventh week of pregnancy and prohibits the delivery of the pills by mail.
Medication abortions are not considered self-induced under federal Food and Drug Administration regulations, Vladeck said.
“You can only receive the medication under medical supervision,” according to Vladeck. “I realize this sounds weird because you are taking the pill yourself, but it is under a providers’ at least theoretical care.”
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Elon Musk suggests Twitter changes, including accepting Dogecoin
(AP) - As Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Elon Musk is already floating suggestions for changes he’d like to see on the social media platform.
In a series of tweets late Saturday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said that the company should include an “authentication checkmark” as a feature of its Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which costs $3 a month.
Twitter adds a checkmark logo next to a user name when the account has been verified “authentic, notable and active.”
Musk also suggested Twitter make the authentication checkmarks of premium subscriber accounts different than those granted to official accounts belonging to public figures, for example.
Such a move, Musk said, would “massively expand” the pool of verified user accounts and discourage the proliferation of spam “bot” accounts, making them too expensive to maintain.
Musk also shared ideas for how Twitter should charge for its subscription membership, saying the fee “should be proportionate to affordability and in local currency,” and adding: “Maybe even an option to pay in Doge?” referring to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.
“And no ads,” Musk tweeted. “The power of corporations to dictate policy is greatly enhanced if Twitter depends on advertising money to survive.”
Musk’s latest tweets about Twitter, including posting polls asking his 81 million followers whether Twitter is “dying” and whether the company’s San Francisco headquarters should be converted into a homeless shelter “since no one shows up anyway,” followed a tweet earlier in the week asking if he should add an edit button on the platform.
Last week, Twitter disclosed in a regulatory filing that it entered into an agreement with Musk giving the billionaire a seat on the company’s board, with the term expiring at its 2024 annual shareholders meeting. The move came a day after it was disclosed that Musk took a 9% stake in the company.
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Josh Fights to return to Lincoln in May
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -Next month, the Josh’s are getting back together in the Capital City. You might remember the Josh Fight that made national headlines when it was held in Lincoln last spring.
Josh Swain is from Arizona. He holds a decree from Mayor Lerion Gaylor Baird as an honorary Lincoln citizen. A random post of his during the pandemic went viral, creating last year’s Josh Fight.
Swain is bringing it back next month all for charity. Thousands gathering, many named Josh, fighting with pool noodles to be the rightful owner of the name Josh.
“Great time last year,” Swain said. “The people of Lincoln are awesome.”
Josh Swain never thought his social media post would create an unofficial tradition. Now the Josh Fight is coming back.
“Should we do it again?” Swain said. “Should we preserve the sanctity that is the original Josh Fight, or use that momentum to raise as much money as we can for children’s hospitals, and people in need, as well?”
This year’s event looks a little different.
“Last year was awesome,” Swain said. “It was this incredible, spontaneous event that all plans were worked out for it the week before, but from an event planner or risk management stand point.. that’s an absolute nightmare.”
The fight is going down at Bowling Lake Park by the Lincoln Airport. Tickets must be purchased, with all proceeds of admission going to Children’s Hospital of Nebraska.
“We wanted to make it more structured,” Swain said. “Give people more things to do. We were there for 15 minutes for the fight and then there was 2 hours of just hanging out and people grilling hot dogs.”
This year, the fight will feature food trucks, photo opportunities, merchandise stands and even a costume contest.
“Just for transparency I’m not getting a single cent from this event,” Swain said. “It’s just to prove that you can do stuff in the world without necessarily needing an incentive like that.”
Last year’s Josh Fight raised $14,000 with Josh Wine tripling the donation to $44,000. The goal this year is $15,000.
The event will be May 21 at 11 a.m. Tickets cost $10 for an attendee-only pass, and $11 for a participation pass.
For more information on tickets and how to join, click here.
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‘The Simpsons’ to feature deaf character, use sign language for first time
(CNN) – For the first time in the show’s 33-year history, a deaf actor will be featured on “The Simpsons.”
The focus of the episode is on Lisa Simpson, who discovers her role model, late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy, has a son who is deaf and needs a cochlear implant.
Deaf actor John Autry II plays the role of Monk Murphy on the episode, calling it “life-changing.”
The show’s characters use American sign language throughout the groundbreaking episode.
Even though “Simpsons” characters only have four fingers, the show consulted with sign language specialists to make sure visuals conveyed words correctly.
The storyline is loosely based on the life of the episode’s main writer, who says her brother is hearing impaired within a family that loves jazz music.
The episode was written before the film “Coda” won the Oscar for Best Picture two weekends ago.
The episode airs Sunday night.
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Updated: April 10, 2022 03:59 PM
Created: April 10, 2022 10:32 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule - aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes - as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Completion of the rule comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.
The White House has also been weighing naming Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the people said. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
For nearly a year, the rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
The exact timing of the announcement hasn't been set, the people said. They could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. The White House declined to comment.
On Sunday, the Senate's top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, implored the administration to move faster.
"It's high time for a ghost gun exorcism before the proliferation peaks, and before more people get hurt - or worse," Schumer said in a statement. "My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules." Ghost guns are "too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore."
Justice Department statistics show that nearly 24,000 ghost guns were recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes and reported to the government from 2016 to 2020. It is hard to say how many are circulating on the streets, in part because in many cases police departments don't contact the government about the guns because they can't be traced.
The rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.
In its proposed rule released last May, the ATF said it was also seeking to require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.
The rule would also require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.
For years, federal officials have been sounding the alarm about an increasing black market for homemade, military-style semi-automatic rifles and handguns. As well as turning up more frequently at crime scenes, ghost guns have been increasingly encountered when federal agents buy guns in undercover operations from gang members and other criminals.
Some states, like California, have enacted laws in recent years to require serial numbers to be stamped on ghost guns.
The critical component in building an untraceable gun is what is known as the lower receiver, a part typically made of metal or polymer. An unfinished receiver - sometimes referred to as an "80-percent receiver" - can be legally bought online with no serial numbers or other markings on it, no license required.
Police across the country have been reporting spikes in ghost guns being recovered by officers. The New York Police Department, for example, said officers found 131 unserialized firearms since January.
A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 had been prohibited from owning firearms, but he built his own to skirt the court order before his rampage. And in 2019, a teenager used a homemade handgun to fatally shoot two classmates and wound three others at a school in suburban Los Angeles.
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(NEXSTAR) — Introduced in 1953, Peeps are the polarizing Easter candy that keep coming back year after year.
A tongue-in-cheek 1999 study at Emory University set out to prove or disprove a pervasive rumor about the candy: that the marshmallow confections cannot be destroyed.
The study tested the candy under four conditions:
- Reaction to cold – After being squashed with a hammer, a Peep was placed in a bucket of liquid nitrogen — it was submerged in the -210°C nitrogen for about a minute — the candy was removed and squashed again with a hammer. This time, the candy (now hardened) cracked and broke apart. Conclusion: Not easily broken.
- Reaction to heat – The Peep was placed in an autoclave (a refrigerator-sized pressure cooker that can kill any living bacteria or fungi) for 15 minutes. The candy was exposed to 10 atmospheres of pressure at 350° Fahrenheit. By the end of the 15 minutes, the Peep softened into a “fluff” — still together, but gooier. Conclusion: Can take the heat.
- Solubility testing – Four individual Peeps were put into four separate beakers. One beaker containing water, one containing acetone, one containing sulfuric acid and one containing sodium hydroxide. The candies were observed for an hour and at the end, the most dramatic development was that the acetone turned purple as some sugar dissolved. Conclusion: Not easily dissolved.
- “Nastier solvent” – Dissatisfied with the solubility testing, researchers decided to drop the candy in a meaner chemical concoction. They immersed a Peep into Phenol — a protein-breaking chemical that can cause paralysis or death if swallowed or even put in contact with skin. After an hour, the Peep had mostly dissolved into purple goo. But one part was not easily killed: the chick’s little black eyes were still intact, completely unharmed by the chemical. Conclusion: Peeps are always watching.
- Low-pressure environments – A Peep was put into a vacuum. Once the air began being sucked out of the container, the candy started to expand to a much larger size. When the vacuum was turned off, however, the Peep lost air and folded in on itself to resemble chewing gum. But it only lost its shape as it retained edibility (researchers ate it afterward). Conclusion: Shapeshifter.
Final conclusion: You decide!
Peeps are owned by the Pennsylvania-based Just Born Inc., which also makes Hot Tamales and Mike and Ike. Despite their association with Easter, Peeps pop up at many holidays, including Halloween, Valentine’s Day and Christmas.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Biden administration is facing growing concerns from economists who fear rising inflation could spark a recession.
Americans continue to face rising prices, from the grocery store to the pump. U.S. inflation hit 7.9% in February, yet another 40-year high rate
Economists are split over whether the Biden administration can turn things around before it’s too late.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Americans may need to brace for a recession as early as next year.
“The painful fact is … that historically when we’ve had inflation above four … and we’ve had employment below four since World War Two that’s been followed by a recession,” he said on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Summers worked for Former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat. But Summers told NBC’s Meet the Press he agrees with Republicans, who blame Democrat’s multi-billion dollar spending bills for sky rocketing prices.
“We were injecting too much demand into the economy,” Summers said.
Summers said the only hope is if the Federal Reserve can find a way to raise interest rates and gently slow down business investment and consumer spending.
“It’s not going to be easy,” Summers said.
On CBS’ Face the Nation Loretta Mester, president of Cleveland’s Federal Reserve, said she’s confident consumers will get a break next year.
“I think inflation will remain above 2% this year and even next year, but the trajectory will then be moving down,” Mester said.
On Fox News Sunday White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration is working to combat historic inflation.
“(We’re) going to constantly monitor our economic data,” Psaki said.
But she said many Americans still need help recovering from the pandemic. The Biden administration extended the federal pause on student loan payments through August this past week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News delaying payments only adds more fuel to the fire.
“It’s exactly the wrong thing to do,” McConnell said. “This administration just can’t seem to get their act together on the economy.”
The federal government will release March inflation numbers on Tuesday.
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The number of attendees who have tested positive for covid after last weekend’s Gridiron dinner has risen to 67, organizers say, including Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who became the third member of Biden’s Cabinet in attendance who was infected.
The new figures, released Saturday evening by the organizers of the dinner, do not include the many staff members at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington who worked the event. Renaissance officials did not respond to repeated requests for information about the health status of workers or how many were assigned to the event.
Organizers said the annual white-tie marquee dinner, held in person on April 2 after a two-year hiatus, attracted 630 guests this year.
The latest tally means more than 10 percent of guests in attendance have tested positive in the aftermath of the event. Most of the employees who worked the dinner wore masks, but most of the attendees did not.
Vilsack disclosed via social media on Saturday that he tested positive, saying “thankfully my symptoms are mild.” Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo and Attorney General Merrick Garland also have announced positive tests in recent days.
Tom DeFrank, the president of the Gridiron Club, said in an email that so far he’s only heard of guests having “mild symptoms.” All guests had to show proof of vaccination before attending the event.
The district attorney’s office in a Texas border county said Sunday it would dismiss the case against Lizelle Herrera, a 26-year-old who was arrested on murder charges after what authorities said was a “self-induced abortion.”
WASHINGTON — The United States is committed to providing Ukraine with “the weapons it needs” to defend itself against Russia, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday as Ukraine seeks more military aid from the West.
Pope Francis on Sunday called for an Easter truce in Ukraine, and in an apparent reference to Russia, questioned the value of planting a victory flag “on a heap of rubble.”
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The district attorney’s office in a Texas border county said Sunday it would dismiss the case against Lizelle Herrera, a 26-year-old who was arrested on murder charges after what authorities said was a “self-induced abortion.”
The case had confounded activists on both sides of the abortion debate because, although Texas has taken measures to restrict access to abortion, it was not clear which legal statute Herrera was alleged to have violated. Texas law also explicitly exempts a woman from a criminal homicide charge for aborting her pregnancy.
In a statement made to the Associated Press last week, the Starr County Sheriff’s Office merely stated that Herrera was charged after “intentionally and knowingly causing the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”
On Sunday, the district attorney’s office stated that this was “not a criminal matter.”
“In reviewing applicable Texas law, it is clear that Ms. Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her,” District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez wrote.
The case was brought to the attention of the sheriff’s office by a hospital, according to Ramirez’s statement.
Calixtro Villarreal, Herrera’s attorney, declined to comment when reached by phone Sunday.
Texas enacted a law in September that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, using a novel legal strategy that empowers private citizens to enforce the law through civil litigation.
But that law does not appear to have applied in this case. Herrera faced a criminal charge, not a lawsuit. Additionally, that law does not allow lawsuits to be filed against the person who had an abortion, only those who helped facilitate it.
“If [prosecutors] are literally charging her with murder under Texas law, it’s likely they either forgot about the exception for murder or they have some other theory for why this could apply,” Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law who specializes in the federal courts and has closely followed the Texas abortion ban, said Saturday.
Abortion rights organizations quickly mobilized to support Herrera. The Frontera Fund, a group that raises money for Texas patients to access abortions, organized a rally Saturday morning outside the Starr County jail and raised awareness of the case on social media.
“This arrest is inhumane,” Rockie Gonzalez, founder of the Frontera Fund, said in a statement Saturday. “We stand in solidarity with you Lizelle, if you are reading this, and we will not stand down until you are free.”
Herrera’s arrest came as Republican-led states across the country pass a flurry of antiabortion legislation ahead of a Supreme Court decision this summer that could overturn or significantly weaken Roe v. Wade, the case that has protected the constitutional right to abortion for nearly 50 years.
Her case could be an early sign of what is to come if Roe is overturned, Vladeck said.
When prosecutors charged Herrera, they may have been thinking of a pre-Roe abortion ban that is still on the books in Texas, Vladeck added, but has not been in effect since 1973 because it is unconstitutional under Roe.
Nine states still have pre-Roe bans, which could come back to life depending on what the Supreme Court decides in June.
“We could see more of this,” Vladeck said.
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The Boston Bruins’ mounting issues with their power play short-circuited their chances of finishing off their four-game road trip on a happy note on Sunday in Washington D.C.
The B’s went 0-for-4 on the man-advantage and they dropped a 4-2 decision to Capitals in the matinee. They finished the trip 0-for-16 on the power-play. Linus Ullmark (27 saves) was again very good but he suffered his first loss in seven starts.
Lars Eller snapped a 2-2 tie off a fortunate bounce at 7:18 of the third period. Eller simply fired a puck toward the net from the left boards that deflected off Erik Haula and past Ullmark, which stood up as the winner.
The B’s pulled Ullmark for the extra skater late, but the 6-on-5 was no more effective than any of their power plays, and Alex Ovechkin added an empty-netter in the final seconds.
The team’s overall health took another hit. With Hampus Lindholm and David Pastrnak already out, the B’s were down to five defensemen from the first period on after Matt Grzelcyk was lost to an upper-body injury after just four shifts. Grzelcyk, who has been battling shoulder problems much of the season, appeared to be favoring his right shoulder after pinching down in the offensive zone on his last shift.
Both Ullmark and Vitek Vanecek flashed some leather in the first period, turning away a couple of excellent chances each. It appeared very briefly that the B’s had taken a first period lead when a rebound went off Trent Frederic and in but it was immediately waved for a distinct kicking motion, which was upheld by video review.
The shooters started to find the back of the net in a see-saw second period. When the dust settled, the teams were tied 2-2.
John Carlson gave the Caps the first lead of the game at 4:11 when he blasted a slap shot past Ullmark, who had lost his stick on incidental contact with Evgeny Kuznetsov.
But the B’s took the lead on pair of goals a minute apart.
The B’s evened it up on a fourth-line goal at 7:55. Nick Foligno circled through the slot, drawing Vanecek out of his net. From behind the net, Foligno pushed the puck through the empty crease and Curtis Lazar was there to score his eighth goal of the season.
The B’s then took the lead on Haula’s 14th goal of the season. Charlie McAvoy thwarted a Washington break-out play in the neutral zone and put Haula back on the attack. From the top of the left circle, Haula sizzled a perfectly-placed slapper off the post and in.
But the B’s couldn’t hold the lead. Ullmark made a stop on an Eller shot from the slot, but he could not locate the rebound. Tom Wilson beat Derek Forbort in the puck battle at the top of the crease and banged it home between Ullmark’s pads.
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Chevrolet driver William Byron became the NASCAR Cup Series’ first repeat winner of 2022 by capturing the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on Saturday.
After seven different drivers notched wins in the first seven races, Byron took the lead from polesitter Chase Elliott after the end of Stage 2 following service on pit road.
Byron, in the No. 24 Chevy, won a green-white-checker restart over Joey Logano and drove away from the No. 22 Ford for his first Martinsville win and fourth career NASCAR Cup Series victory.
“When that last caution came out, I thought everyone behind us would pit,” Byron said. “Luckily, we stayed out and were aggressive. We felt like we could re-fire on the tires and be OK. You’ve got one of the most aggressive guys behind you in Logano.
“I chattered the tires in (Turns) 3 and 4 and left the bottom open but was able to block my exits and get a good drive off.”
Byron, 24, led three times for 212 laps. Elliott led once for 185 laps. Byron’s margin of victory was 0.303 seconds. He also took the checkered flag at Atlanta on March 20.
Logano’s Ford shoved Byron in Turn 1 after the white flag, but Logano couldn’t get close on the final corner and finished second.
Austin Dillon came home third, followed by Ryan Blaney and Ross Chastain.
After last week’s opening short-track event in Richmond, the series returned to Virginia again for a 400-lapper on the flat, paper-clip-shaped speedway, celebrating its 75th anniversary of racing.
Winless through the first seven races but second in points, Elliott led all 80 circuits around the .526-mile speedway in a caution-free Stage 1, then the Hendrick Motorsports driver headed the 36-car field on the next 100 to claim Stage 2 — also without a yellow.
However, after Byron took the lead and Logano passed Elliott, too, Elliott slipped back to fifth with 115 laps to go and was losing distance to Byron. By the time green-flag pit stops had cycled around with 92 laps left, Byron had regained the lead with Logano and Dillon each more than 3.5 seconds in arrears.
The first non-stage-ending caution flew with inside 90 laps remaining. Byron then cruised through traffic around the tiny track after the restart and led second-place Dillon.
However, the fourth caution flag waved when Todd Gilliland’s No. 38 Ford struck the wall inside of 10 laps to go.
Kyle Busch, in ninth at the time, was the first to use the strategy of pitting for fresh tires, but Byron and the other leaders stayed out for track position to set up the overtime conclusion.
Logano said after his best finish of 2022, “Really hard to pass. That final restart there, it’s a front row, it’s what you could ask for. ... I hate being that close to winning and not making it happen.
“It just stinks. Second just sucks sometimes, that’s all.”
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The Red Sox have yet to get contract extensions done with big stars Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts, but released some surprise news on Sunday morning when they announced an extension with second-year big leaguer Garrett Whitlock.
A dazzling right-hander who came over from the Yankees in the Rule 5 Draft last year and posted a 1.96 ERA in his rookie season, Whitlock was already under team control for five more seasons. But the Sox bought out his three years of arbitration eligibility in 2024-2026, and included a pair of team-friendly options for 2027 and 2028.
For Whitlock, the deal guarantees him at least $18.75 million in total earnings after the 2022 season, according to an industry source.
He’ll make $1 million in ’23, his final year before arbitration, then $3.25 million in ’24, $5.25 million in ’25 and $7.25 million in ’26, when he would’ve entered his final year of arbitration eligibility. There’s also an $8.25 million club option with a $1 million buyout in ’27 and a $10.5 million club option with a $0.5 million in ’28.
The option years can escalate by $2.5 million each depending on innings totals in previous years and awards voting, with a max escalation of $4 million.
These deals to buy out arbitration years of promising young players early in their big league careers have been common in recent days, particularly among small- and mid-market teams trying to lock up potential stars before they become too costly.
The Sox haven’t executed a deal like this since 2018, when they extended Christian Vazquez and bought out his arbitration years while adding some team-friendly options.
Barnes battling injury
Matt Barnes wasn’t available again in the Red Sox’ 4-2 loss to the Yankees on Saturday, and there’s a chance the reliever misses extended time.
Barnes has missed the first two games of the season with back tightness after tweaking it during a workout earlier last week. The plan, Red Sox manager Alex Cora told reporters in New York, is for the veteran to pitch on a mound Sunday at Yankee Stadium to see how he feels. That will determine if he can pitch in games again starting with Monday’s series opener in Detroit.
“He’s going to get on the mound tomorrow and try it,” Cora told reporters. “Hopefully, he goes on the mound tomorrow, he’ll be ready for Detroit. But if that’s not the case, then we have to start talking about probably an (injured list) stint.”
Cora said before the season started that he’s hopeful Barnes can eventually reclaim his role as the Red Sox’ closer. An extended absence would only further complicate the team’s bullpen situation.
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The Portsmouth Public Library would like to recommend these book titles. Each title is available to borrow with your library card! For more book recommendations or information on applying for a library card go to www.yourppl.org or call 740-354-5688.
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle – When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone. But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother’s spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and, of course, delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life. And then Carol appears—in the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn’t understand what is happening, or how—all she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman before her. She is not exactly who Katy imagined she might be, however, and soon Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue. Readers might also enjoy Liar’s Bench by Kim Michele Richardson or The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle.
The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club by Wanda E. Brunstetter – Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoder’s quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preacher’s wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems begin to bind them together like the scraps of fabric stitched together in a quilt, they learn to open up and lend a helping hand. Is this what God had in mind to heal hurting hearts and create beauty from fragments? Readers might also enjoy The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club: The Tattered Quilt by Wanda E. Brunstetter or The Healing Quilt by Wanda E. Brunstetter.
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni – Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother’s devout faith, his father’s practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends. This story is very heart-warming and relatable on many levels. Readers might also like Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane or The Promise of Jesse Woods by Chris Fabry.
The Summer We Forgot, a new novel by Caroline George, introduces us to the two main characters, Darby and Morgan. They used to be friends until two years ago at a summer camp, and their friend group has remained splintered ever since. Recently, the body of their science teacher has been discovered at the same camp, and they decide to try and piece together what happened to them, and what exactly happened in the summer they don’t remember. Readers might also enjoy Broken Things by Lauren Oliver or Conversion by Katherine Howe.
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Valentine’s Day is an opportunity for people to share their love and affection and of course, sweet treats. Chocolate reigns supreme on this day devoted to sweethearts. While a heart-shaped box of chocolate certainly makes for a delicious gift, those looking to increase the wow factor can put together a trending assortment.
Charcuterie boards have become a staple when entertaining or dining out. Charcuterie boards traditionally feature a variety of cured meats, cheeses, bruschetta, and even olives. But boards can be adorned with any tasty morsel their creators desire. Borrowing from that idea, savvy home chefs can create a sweets-based charcuterie board that’s sure to amaze.
To start out, figure out which nibbles your love one will desire the most. The chocolate charcuterie board can be entirely sweet, or a mix of sweet, savory and even salty offerings. Some ideas for a chocolate charcuterie board include:
– chocolate truffles
– chocolate-dipped fruits
– chocolate-covered pretzels
– chocolate bark
– melted chocolate fondue and assorted dippers
– Classic chocolate candies
– Assorted nuts like almonds and cashews
– Fudge squares
– Homemade turtle candy
– Chocolate nut rolls
– Dried fruits, such as figs and dates
– Graham crackers or butter cookies
Just as you would for any charcuterie board, choose an attractive wood board large enough to hold all of the desserts. Arrange the chocolates and other foods with an eye for presentation. Use fresh berries or mint leaves to fill in any gaps and add a little extra flair to the arrangement. If desired, think about pairing chocolate and sweet elements with traditional charcuterie offerings like cured salami, brie cheese, hard cheeses, crackers, and chutneys.
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No one is immune to the occasional bad mood. A bad mood can make a difficult day feel even more so, and multiple-person households can become uncomfortable places to be if one person’s mood is less than welcoming.
Bad moods can be easy to shrug off, and that may not inspire people to wonder why their generally upbeat outlooks can suddenly take a turn for the worse. Each person is different, so what triggers a mood swing in some individuals may not necessarily do so in others. However, various factors can adversely affect mood. Taking steps to avoid or minimize such factors can reduce the number of days when you feel as though you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
– Lack of physical activity: A 2019 study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that running for 15 minutes a day or walking for an hour reduces the risk of major depression. That link is likely connected to the release of endorphins triggered by exercise. Endorphins are hormones that studies have shown contribute to a general feeling of well-being, which explains why a lack of physical activity can adversely affect mood.
– Chronic stress: Chronic stress has long been linked to a host of health problems. According to the Mayo Clinic, chronic stress puts individuals at increased risk for heart disease and weight gain but also issues that affect mood, including anxiety and depression. Individuals who find themselves routinely confronting bad moods may be dealing with chronic stress. Identifying the source of that stress and speaking with a health care professional about how to reduce and manage it may lead to improvements in mood.
– Hunger: A 2018 study from researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario found evidence that a change in glucose levels can have a lasting effect on mood. The study, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, found that rats injected with a glucose metabolism blocker experienced stress and depressed mood due to the resultant hypoglycemia. The study lends credence to the notion that many people have about feeling moody when they don’t eat.
– Weather: Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of depression that adversely affects certain individuals’ moods during winter, when hours of sunlight are fewer than during spring, summer and fall and when temperatures outside can sometimes be so cold as to keep people indoors for extended periods of time.
In addition, a 2013 study published in the journal Social Indicators Research found that individuals report greater life satisfaction on exceptionally sunny days than they did on days with ordinary weather.
Bad moods come and go for most people. Identifying common triggers for bad moods can help individuals prepare for potential mood swings and navigate them in healthy ways.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Wright has found his confidence, and the Atlanta Braves hope they have found renewed depth in their rotation.
Wright picked up a World Series ring along with many of his Atlanta teammates, then pitched two-hit ball over six scoreless innings to lead the Braves over the Cincinnati Reds 2-1 on Saturday night.
“I feel like I’m confident in myself,” said Wright, who spent most of the 2021 season at Triple-A Gwinnett before he was promoted to allow one run in 5 2/3 innings in two World Series appearances against Houston.
“Using the World Series is a great way to boost that confidence,” Wright said.
Atlanta won its second straight following an opening-day loss. Last year, the Braves didn’t have a winning record until they were 57-56 on Aug. 8. They sprinted to their first title since 1995, capped by a six-game Series victory over the Houston Astros.
Wright (1-0) struck out six and walked one. He retired 10 consecutive batters before walking Tommy Pham to open the seventh.
“He just pitched,” Reds manager David Bell said of Wright. “He has good stuff for sure, but he located his sinker, changed speeds and kept the ball down. Moved it all around. Really, he was in command and control of exactly what he wanted to do and executed a plan against us.”
A.J. Minter got three straight outs, Darren O’Day pitched a perfect eighth and Will Smith got the save, allowing Tommy Pham’s two-out walk and Joey Votto’s RBI single before Aristides Aquino popped out.
New closer Kenley Jansen gave up three runs Friday night while throwing 30 pitches in the ninth inning of a 7-6 win. Braves manager Brian Snitker said the 30 pitches was “absolutely” the reason Jansen wasn’t asked to pitch back-to-back games.
Wright, a 26-year-old right-hander, enjoyed a strong beginning to what he hopes is a fresh start to his career. The fifth overall pick by Atlanta in the 2017 amateur draft, Wright had a 6.56 ERA in his first four seasons.
Snitker said Wright “figured out who he was” last season in the minors.
“It’s great, kind of what you were looking for, what you thought he was capable of,” said Snitker of Wright’s performance against the Reds.
Reds right-hander Vladimir Gutierrez (0-1) allowed two runs and on six hits in 4 1/3 innings. Marcel Ozuna’s first-inning double drove in Matt Olson, who had singled, and Ozzie Albies’ sacrifice fly brought home Austin Riley.
755 DIAMONDS AND A PEARL
The Braves received their World Series rings in a pregame ceremony. The massive ring carries 755 diamonds, a tribute to Hall of Famer Hank Aaron’s home run total.
The ring also includes a white pearl on the right side, a nod to the pearl necklace Joc Pederson wore last season.
“When they showed it to me, my jaw dropped open,” Snitker said.
Former Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman, now with the Dodgers, will be presented his ring when Los Angeles visits Atlanta from June 24-26.
CHECK THAT SCOUTING REPORT
Olson was thrown out at the plate in the third and seventh innings. Shortstop Kyle Farmer’s relay from left fielder Jake Fraley to catcher Aramis Garcia caught Olson in the third. Aquino’s throw to the plate from left field nailed Olson, who tried to score from second on Ozuna’s single, his third hit of the game.
The Braves acquired Olson from Oakland after realizing they would not be able to re-sign Freeman.
“If anybody wrote in the scouting report from Oakland that I’m fast, they lied,” Olson said, smiling.
Aquino’s throw was clocked at 101.6 mph.
“That makes me feel a little better,” Olson said.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: RHP Lucas Sims could be ready to join the team within two weeks and allow another option as closer. Sims opened the season on the 10-day injured list after offseason health issues put him behind his normal spring training schedule. Sims is expected to start a rehab assignment with Triple-A Louisville next week. Bell said Sims could join the team as soon as April 20.
Braves: RHP Ian Anderson (9-5, 3.58 ERA in 2021) who left his last spring training start on Monday due to a blister on his right big toe, is not expected to have any limitations in his season debut on Sunday. … C Manny Piña (sore left wrist) took batting practice and was available off the bench.
UP NEXT
RHP Hunter Greene, the No. 2 overall selection in the 2017 draft by Cincinnati, will make his much-anticipated major league debut on Sunday when he faces Anderson in the series finale. The hard-throwing Greene, 22, was 10-8 with a 3.30 ERA last year at Double-A Chattanooga and Triple-A Louisville.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Dwayne Haskins was working on a second chapter for his young NFL career. The 24-year-old quarterback was spending time with some teammates with the Pittsburgh Steelers, getting ready to compete for a starting job.
That’s when his life was cut short.
Haskins was killed early Saturday morning when he was hit by a dump truck while he was walking on a South Florida highway. Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Lt. Indiana Miranda said Haskins was pronounced dead at the scene.
“He was attempting to cross the westbound lanes of Interstate 595 when there was oncoming traffic,” Miranda said in an emailed statement.
Miranda didn’t say why Haskins was on the highway at the time. The accident caused the highway to be shut down for several hours, and Miranda said it’s “an open traffic homicide investigation.”
A 2019 first-round draft pick by Washington, Haskins was released by the team after going 3-10 over two seasons. He was signed by Pittsburgh as a developmental QB, but he didn’t appear in a game last season.
Haskins appeared to be in South Florida this week with several teammates, including fellow quarterback Mitch Trubisky, running back Najee Harris and tight end Pat Freiermuth.
Haskins’ death sparked an outpouring of grief from multiple corners of the NFL, particularly from former teammates with the Steelers and Commanders.
“I am devastated and at a loss for words with the unfortunate passing of Dwayne Haskins,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “He quickly became part of our Steelers family upon his arrival in Pittsburgh and was one of our hardest workers, both on the field and in our community. Dwayne was a great teammate, but even more so a tremendous friend to so many. I am truly heartbroken.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Kalabrya, and his entire family during this difficult time.”
Washington coach Ron Rivera said he was “absolutely heartbroken” to learn of Haskins’ death.
“Dwayne was a talented young man who had a long life ahead of him,” Rivera said in a release. “This is a very sad time and I am honestly at a loss for words. I know I speak for the rest of our team in saying he will be sorely missed. Our entire team is sending our heartfelt condolences and thoughts and prayers to the Haskins family at this time.”
Ohio State posted a photo of Haskins on its Twitter feed, topped by the description “Leader. Legend. Forever a Buckeye.”
At Ohio State, Haskins set single-season records for touchdowns passing with 50 and yards passing with 4,831. He was the 2019 Rose Bowl MVP as the Buckeyes went 13-1.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day, who was the quarterbacks coach during Haskins’ final season at the school, called Haskins’ death “beyond tragic.”
“For those who knew him closely, he was much more than a great football player,” Day posted on Twitter. “He had a giant heart, old soul and an infectious smile. The Ohio State community and our entire football program are heartbroken.”
The Steelers gave Haskins a chance to resurrect his career in January 2021 when they signed him a month after being released by Washington. Humbled by the decision, Haskins stressed he was eager to work hard and absorb as much as he could from Ben Roethlisberger and Mason Rudolph.
Haskins made the roster as the third-stringer but only dressed once, serving as the backup in a tie with Detroit after Roethlisberger was placed into the COVID-19 protocol the night before the game.
“The world lost a great person today,” Steelers star T.J. Watt posted on Twitter. “When Dwayne first walked into the locker room I could tell he was an upbeat guy. He was always making people smile, never taking life for granted.”
Tomlin and general manager Kevin Colbert both praised Haskins for his improvement since joining the team, and the Steelers re-signed him to a one-year deal as a restricted free agent in March. He was expected to compete with Rudolph and Trubisky at training camp.
“Dwayne meant so much to so many people,” Steelers defensive lineman Cameron Heyward posted on Twitter. “His smile was infectious and he was a guy you wanted to be around. We are all in shock about losing him. We are going to miss the heck out of him as well. We lost you way too early. Luckily I got a chance to get to know you. RIP DH.”
ESPN was the first to report Haskins had died.
“Devastated,” Rudolph said on social media.
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The Miami Heat’s week ahead of next Sunday’s NBA playoff opener at FTX Arena grew a bit more complex Sunday, with the team announcing that center Bam Adebayo has entered the league’s health-and-safety protocols.
As a result, Adebayo likely will be away from the team for five days this week as the Heat prepare for the best-of-seven opening round.
The NBA has dropped mandatory COVID testing, but symptomatic players still are required to test for coronavirus.
Under league guidelines, players entering protocols must remain isolated for five days, unless they produce two negative tests in the interim.
Adebayo had been one of the few players on the Heat roster yet to enter protocols this season. Coach Erik Spoelstra returned from protocols Friday night, after being away from the team for two games.
Adebayo accompanied the team to Sunday night’s season finale against the Orlando Magic at the Amway Center, with the Heat announcing his entry into protocols 90 minutes prior to that tip-off.
The Heat also went into Sunday’s game without backup center Dewayne Dedmon, who is dealing with an ankle sprain.
Nearly dealt?
During an appearance on J.J. Redick’s Old Man and the Three podcast, Adebayo told former NBA 3-point specialist and current ESPN analyst J.J. Redick that one season into his Heat career he almost was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves for current Heat teammate Jimmy Butler at the start of 2018-19.
At the time, Butler had been pushing for his departure from the Timberwolves, eventually to be traded on Nov. 12, 2018 to the Philadelphia 76ers for Robert Covington and Dario Saric. The Heat had been pushing at the time with an offer of Josh Richardson, Dion Waiters and draft capital to the ‘Wolves. Richardson then would be dealt the following summer to Philadelphia in a sign-and-trade package for Butler.
“You heard the Minnesota situation,” Adebayo said on the recently released podcast. “And it’s crazy, because I almost got traded for Jimmy, to Minnesota.”
At the time, Adebayo was coming off an uneven rookie season after he was drafted No. 13 out of Kentucky by the Heat in 2017, playing his initial NBA season as Hassan Whiteside’s understudy.
That, Adebayo said, is when Heat president Pat Riley stepped in.
“But I almost got traded for Jimmy,” Adebayo continued. “Pat wouldn’t trade me. Like he was, ‘Nah, I see something good in this kid.’ Yadda, yadda, yadda.
“And, at that point, I’m sweating bullets. Like, I’m not trying to be traded. I like it in Miami. It’s warm. I kind of got my feet wet. I’m familiar with the place.”
Deeper appreciation
With almost the entire Heat roster at some point sidelined this season by NBA health-and-safety protocols, Spoelstra said his own absence last week for those reasons gave him a deeper appreciation for the predicament.
“The thing about it is we’ve all been in this situation now, where we’ve been a part of it,” Spoelstra said, “and we’ve also been a part of it where we’ve been on the outside looking in. And I felt like I was left out.
“So now I got to experience that, and it is just good to be back in the mix.”
Spoelstra tested positive last Sunday in Toronto, missing the Heat’s ensuing victories over the Raptors and Charlotte Hornets, before returning to coach Friday night’s victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Assistant Chris Quinn had coached in his place.
While the NBA no longer requires COVID testing, teams must produce negative tests in order to fly back into the United States. Toronto stands as a potential Heat second-round playoff opponent, which could put Spoelstra and his players in a similar testing situation in two weeks.
Lowry appreciation
Spoelstra said these past few weeks have been a study in veteran point guard Kyle Lowry moving into playoff mode.
“I’ve really enjoyed watching his entire process, for the regular season,” Spoelstra said. “He’s shifted. He’s been a chameleon into a lot of different roles: breathing life into guys, giving confidence to young guys, letting people get into a great rhythm, facilitating. You’ve seen times during the year, when we had injuries, when he was more assertive.
“But you can see in the last three weeks he’s really been focused on getting ready for the playoffs, and it’s a different level. Because he has all the skills, the shooting. But he knows to just manipulate and take advantage of different cracks and defenses.”
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WASHINGTON — A couple of defensive slip-ups and a questionable relief option sealed the Amazin’s first loss of the year, a 4-2 defeat to the Nationals on Sunday at Nationals Park.
The Nationals erased the Mets’ 2-1 lead in the eighth inning after right-hander Trevor Williams came in to relieve southpaw Chasen Shreve with no outs and a runner on first in a one-run game.
The goal, which was not accomplished, for Williams was to retire the bottom of the Nationals lineup before it reached Juan Soto. Instead, Williams allowed a single to his first batter, Maikel Franco, to put runners on the corners with no outs.
Then came the defensive miscues, as the ball kept finding first baseman Pete Alonso.
Nationals shortstop Lucius Fox placed a sacrifice bunt right toward the charging Alonso, who hesitated on his throw to home plate. The speedy Dee Strange-Gordan beat the throw to the dish, and the Nats tied the game.
Moments later on a Cesar Hernandez ground ball, Alonso threw the ball wide to shortstop Francisco Lindor, and instead of a turning a double play, everybody was safe.
Nelson Cruz sealed the Mets’ loss after notching a two-run single against Williams, ripping a ball to left field.
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Ben Simmons could get back on the floor sooner than expected.
Or maybe that was the plan all along.
Ahead of tip-off in the Nets’ regular-season finale against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, Simmons participated in pregame warmups for the first time since arriving in Brooklyn. And there’s increased optimism Simmons could make his debut in the Nets’ first-round playoff series if his lower back continues to strengthen without a setback, The Athletic reported.
Simmons did some light running and went through a variety of shooting drills. In those drills, he used crossover combinations and got significant lift under his legs for pull-up jump shots.
Simmons, 25, the two-time All-Star the Nets acquired in the Feb. 10 James Harden trade with the Philadelphia 76ers, has not made his Nets debut because of a herniated disk in his lower back.
As a reminder, it was only a week ago that head coach Steve Nash said Simmons “isn’t running yet” and ruled him out for Tuesday’s upcoming Play-In Tournament game.
Simmons doesn’t look like he’ll be ready for Tuesday, but seeing him warmup was encouraging. He is still limited to individual work, but he previously was only getting rehab treatment.
“He’s doing a little bit of movement,” Nash said before Sunday’s game. “Still, one and 0 stuff. He still has a lot of milestones to reach. But it’s positive. At least he’s moving around a little bit.”
Simmons’ lower back issues started in February 2020, when a nerve impingement sidelined him for two weeks. The lower back pain resurfaced while he held out of Sixers training camp earlier this season. It flared up again as he began to ramp up his conditioning workload in Brooklyn.
An MRI revealed the herniated disk, and Simmons received an epidural to help alleviate the pain. The epidural appears to have worked. Simmons is back on the floor doing individual drills after weeks of being “the mystery guy” who gets treatment on his back while the team practices, starting center Andre Drummond explained.
Now Simmons looks bouncy. He moved around the court almost as if he was healthy, though he signaled to a team trainer that he wanted to continue some training with the resistance bands to build strength in his back and legs.
“He looks really positive and happy and encouraged and is just working away at his rehab,” Nash said.
A healthy Simmons could turn the Nets from championship contender into favorites once again. He has a career-average 16 points, eight rebounds, 7.7 assists and just under two steals.
Simmons is a perennial candidate for Defensive Player of the Year, someone who accepts the task of defending the other team’s best scorer. And alongside Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, he could be the third star this team needs to win big this season — provided he can stay healthy enough for their championship push.
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Throughout spring training and even Sunday morning leading into Tyler Wells’ first major league start, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said he would limit the 27-year-old right-hander to three or four innings throughout the year in his conversion back to starting.
Baltimore would have been fortunate to get that many frames out of Wells on Sunday. The Tampa Bay Rays knocked him around in the second inning, scoring all the runs they needed in what became an 8-0 victory to complete a season-opening sweep.
“He just didn’t have his command that he normally has today,” Hyde said. “A lot of deep counts.”
After an initial breaking-in period as a Rule 5 draftee, Wells dazzled in the Orioles’ bullpen last season to become the club’s closer, punctuating a rookie year spent in relief following two seasons in which he didn’t pitch because of Tommy John surgery and 2020′s canceled minor season. But he climbed the minors as a starter and the Orioles believe he can succeed as one in the majors, naming him the third member of their rotation despite the fact that his innings will be monitored throughout the season.
On Sunday, Wells needed 22 pitches to get through a scoreless first, but that was an efficient frame relative to what he faced in the second. After two walks, a comebacker ricocheted off his glove, a potential double-play ball turning into a bases-loading infield single. As they did all weekend, the Rays churned outs into runs, with a sacrifice fly and groundout giving them a 2-0 lead. Brandon Lowe (Maryland) doubled that advantage, hammering Wells’ 32nd pitch of the inning out to right field. With Wells on a 60-pitch limit, that home run ended his day.
“I ended up running out of gas,” Wells said. “There’s really nothing I could have done about it other than just make better quality pitches.”
The Orioles’ plan has been to have another stretched-out pitcher pair with Wells, and right-hander Dean Kremer was warming to take that role. But on one of his warmup pitches, he suffered what Hyde called a left oblique strain, likely taking him out of the running to start Tuesday and potentially prompting a stint on the injured list.
Hyde instead was forced into a bullpen game, and it went effectively until the Rays added another four runs in the seventh. But their first quartet was more than enough, with the Orioles unable to string together hits throughout the weekend. Baltimore batters went 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position Sunday, finishing 2-for-24 in those situations on the weekend. Their 37 strikeouts in the series were a franchise record for the first three games of the season. Outfielder DJ Stewart, responsible for two of those strikeouts in three at-bats, was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk after the game, leaving the Orioles with openings on both their major league and 40-man rosters.
Meanwhile, the Orioles are 0-3 for the first time since 2007 and have lost 15 straight games to Tampa Bay. Since sweeping the Rays in their first series of 2020, they are 2-27 in these matchups, their worst 29-game span against any opponent in franchise history.
“We didn’t swing the bat well this series,” Hyde said. “They have really good pitching. But we didn’t do a very good job swinging the bats. We didn’t make them work much. We can improve our two-strike hitting, put more pressure on their defense. We have some guys scuffling kind of early. I’d like to see them break out a little bit, but maybe we’re putting too much pressure on ourselves.”
Big Bautista — and a birthday
Wednesday morning, Hyde called Félix Bautista into his office and asked a straightforward question.
“Hey,” he recalled Hyde saying, “do you want to come with us to Tampa?”
The answer, of course, was an emphatic yes, with Bautista calling his mom, Polonia, to share the news that he was finally a major leaguer. Through team interpreter Brandon Quinones, he said she began “crying tears of joy.” The story got even better Sunday, with Bautista pitching 1 1/3 scoreless innings in his major league debut as Polonia celebrated her birthday in the Dominican Republic.
“I feel really blessed to be here today,” Bautista said. “This is a special moment for me, a special day. Just really happy to go out there and compete. It was a special outing for me.”
Bautista, a 26-year-old right-hander conservatively listed at 6-foot-5, had a long journey to Sunday. Signed out of the Dominican Republic as a teenager by the Miami Marlins, he battled control issues and was released, landing in the Orioles’ system in 2016. He opened last year as a 25-year-old in High-A, only to thrive as a reliever across three levels with his imposing build and stuff.
He showed off both Sunday. Entering in relief of Wells, Bautista began his major league career by striking out former No. 1 overall prospect Wander Franco, getting the young star to swing through two fastballs and flail at a changeup to close the second. He got the ball from that strikeout, planning to give it to his mom when he sees her next.
“I dedicated that strikeout to her and this performance to her,” Bautista said.
Back out for the third after Kremer’s injury, Bautista got reigning American League Rookie of the Year Randy Arozarena to chase a slider in the dirt. In all, Rays batters missed five of their 10 swings against Bautista, who got his fastball up to 99.1 mph, according to Statcast.
“It’s a 6-[foot]-8, high arm slot, 99 miles an hour,” Hyde said. “It’s a unique look and good stuff. That was the highlight of the day.”
Fry in the fray
Left-hander Paul Fry’s drastic troubles late in the year against the Rays led to him finishing the year at Triple-A. He perhaps seemed to shake them in Friday’s season opener, entering with the bases loaded and stranding three all three Tampa Bay runners.
But the Rays again pestered him Sunday. After Joey Krehbiel and Bryan Baker combined for three scoreless innings behind Bautista, Baker allowed an infield single to open the seventh, with second baseman Rougned Odor not charged with an error on a poor throw. Fry entered and allowed five of the next seven Rays to reach base as Tampa Bay doubled its lead.
Fry followed that stretch by retiring three of the next four batters. Sunday, he allowed three earned runs in two innings against the Rays. In his last five appearances against them in 2021, he surrendered 15 earned runs in 1 1/3 innings. Since the start of last season, Fry has a 27.00 ERA against Tampa Bay and a 2.95 ERA against everyone else.
Home opener
BREWERS@ORIOLES
Monday, 3:05 p.m.
TV: MASN Radio: 97.9 FM, 101.5 FM, 1090 AM
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Court vision for the Miami Heat for the next week will mean being glued to their television sets.
There, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights, the NBA Eastern Conference play-in round will set their menu for Easter Sunday.
A week out, Sunday’s close of the regular season set the table for how the Heat’s opening-round playoff opponent will be determined
While the Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, Charlotte Hornets and Cleveland Cavaliers previously had been locked into the play-in round, Sunday’s results finalized the seedings for the three-night schedule that will determine the conference’s Nos. 7-8 seeds.
As the No. 1 seed, the Heat, who closed out their schedule Sunday night against the Orlando Magic at the Amway Center, will face the team that emerges from the play-in round with the No. 8 seed.
Each of the East play-in teams won their season finales, leaving the play-in seedings in the same order as going into Sunday, with the Nets defeating the visiting Indiana Pacers 134-126, the Cavaliers defeating the visiting Milwaukee Bucks 133-115, the Atlanta Hawks winning on the road 130-114 against the Houston Rockets, and the Charlotte Hornets defeating the visiting Washington Wizards 124-108.
As a result, the East play-in tournament opens with the No. 7 Nets hosting the No. 8 Cavaliers at 7 p.m. Tuesday on TNT at Barclays Center, with the winner of that game receiving the No. 7 seed in the best-of-seven opening round.
The East play-in tournament continues with the No. 9 Hawks hosting the No. 10 Hornets at 7 p.m. Wednesday on ESPN at State Farm Arena, with the loser of that game eliminated from the playoffs.
Then, on Friday night, the loser of the Nos. 7-8 game (Nets or Cavaliers) will host the winner of the Nos. 9-10 game (Hawks or Hornets) on ESPN, with that winner to open the first round against the Heat on Sunday at FTX Arena.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said Sunday he appreciates what the league has created with the play-in round.
“I think it’ll be good entertainment,” Spoelstra said. “Our video room and scouting department will be watching with a different lens then I’ll be watching it. I don’t want to stress myself out on all the different possibilities before we actually get to know who we play.
“But we’re all fans of the game, and the playoff atmosphere. I think the play-in has created some really compelling matchups.”
The Heat swept their four-game season series from the Nets, but that was without Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving appearing together in any of those four games.
The Heat also swept the Hornets 4-0, although one of those games went double-overtime in Charlotte.
The Heat went 3-1 against the Hawks, including a 113-109 victory Friday in their regular-season home finale.
The Heat went 1-2 against the Cavaliers, although were considerably shorthanded in both of the losses.
For Spoelstra and his staff it will mean a quick, two-day game-planning turnaround before the playoff opener.
“This is our life in the NBA all season long,” Spoelstra said. “You know, you typically have a shootaround or maybe a day before to prepare for somebody. Whoever it’ll be in the East, we’ve played them three or four times already. That’ll be ample prep to be able to get a read for game one.
“And then once you get past game one, then it becomes much different, anyway. But this is what the six months of the regular season are there for, is to build all the appropriate habits, hopefully, to get ready for the second season.”
The matchups for the Western Conference play-in round had been locked in place ahead of Sunday’s regular-season finales.
On Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. on TNT, the Minnesota Timberwolves will host the Los Angeles Clippers at Target Center, with the winner receiving the No. 7 seed in the West.
On Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN, the New Orleans Pelicans will host the San Antonio Spurs at the Smoothie King Center, with the loser eliminated from the playoffs.
The, on Friday night, the loser of the Timberwolves-Clippers game will host the winner of the Pelicans-Spurs game for the No. 8 seed in the West.
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Ron Marinaccio found himself living a dream that was quickly turning into a nightmare. The first name called out of the bullpen Saturday evening, he made the sprint in from right field and was on the mound he dreamed about working as a kid growing up in Toms River, N.J. He was making his major league debut. He walked Trevor Story, the first hitter he faced in the big leagues and started Bobby Dalbec off with his fifth straight ball.
“A ton of adrenaline, definitely,” Marinacci said of the moment. “It’s as special of a moment as I could have come into and it’s Yankees-Red Sox, so I’m glad to have killed two birds with one stone and get that out of the way.”
Anthony Rizzo, sensing the moment getting to the 26-year old, went to the mound with a handful of cliches.
“Trust your stuff, you’re here for a reason, all the cliches,” Rizzo said he used to try and give the rookie a breather.
In the dugout, pitching coach Matt Blake was debating going out to settle Marinaccio down, but the Yankees staff had seen enough of his makeup over the spring to know he could handle it.
“I love his makeup so I knew he would get through it,” said manager Aaron Boone after the game. “That’s a big moment. I’m sure there were those nerves.”
He battled back to strike out Dalbec and coaxed a groundout out of Jackie Bradley, Jr. and struck out Christian Vazquez.
Marinaccio has the ball from his first strikeout in the big leagues, but it probably won’t be his last. The Yankees added him to the 28-man roster this spring knowing they needed pitching depth to get through this first month of the season after a lockout-shortened spring training.
“I think it could be in the ballpark of 25 to 30 (pitchers) I think we were closer to that number last year, and I think just being realistic that we’re gonna need a lot of depth throughout the year, whether it’s in the starting rotation or it’s off the 40-man in the bullpen,” Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake said. “I think what we’re really confident in and happy with is the quality of the depth of the pitching we have on the 40-man. We feel like we have young guys who have a pitch or two that can really help us.”
“And that’s why they are here.”
Marinaccio embodies that quality of depth of pitching that Blake and the Yankees are counting on to bolster a bullpen that is turning into their biggest weapon early in this season. Friday, the relievers had to throw seven innings after Gerrit Cole went just four innings. Saturday, the bullpen threw six hitless innings and in two games, the Yankees relievers have allowed one earned run in 13 innings pitched
The bullpen is largely why the Yankees are 2-0 heading into Sunday night’s series-finale against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
“It’s certainly been one of the overwhelming strengths that his team has had now for a while and we certainly feel like it has a chance to be that this year,” Boone said. “Obviously knowing in this month of April where you know, you’re going to have to lean on them for them to go out and pitch the way they have the first two nights here to kind of set the tone against a really good offensive team, you know, they’re capable of that. But it’s good to see them be as sharp as they have been.”
With the shortened spring training, MLB allowed teams to add two extra players to the active roster for the month of April. The Yankees used their spots to add two extra pitchers because of their concern about the starters not being built up. That may change, Boone said before Sunday night’s game, but knowing that they have quality depth of pitching available here—or in Scranton—like Marinaccio and lefty J.P. Sears will be their strength all year.
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The Twins are three games into their season and have scored just one run that hasn’t come via the longball. But when you hit enough of them, that doesn’t matter.
And the Twins sure did on Sunday, putting on a show that would make the Bomba Squad proud. The Twins hit six home runs on Sunday, beating the Mariners 10-4, picking up their first win of the season in the process.
And who other than Byron Buxton, whose moonshot Saturday gave the Twins a brief lead, to get the home run party started?
Four pitches into the game, Buxton sent a ball into the left field bleachers. An inning later, Buxton sent another ball to nearly the same spot, fist pumping as he rounded first and yelling out in jubilation as he took his trip around the bases.
In between Buxton’s two blasts, catcher Gary Sánchez, who just missed a walk-off home run on Opening Day, crushed a ball to the third deck, flipping his bat to punctuate a grand slam which put the Twins up five runs in the first inning.
Sanchez finished the day 2 for 4 with five RBIs in the win, the last coming on a double in the eighth inning to bring home Gio Urshela.
Max Kepler (third inning), Jorge Polanco (fourth) and Carlos Correa (sixth) also got in on the action, each hitting a solo home run as the Twins made a winner of starter Bailey Ober. Ober gave up four runs in his five innings pitched — all in the third inning and three on a Mitch Haniger home run — in his season debut.
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By ADAM SCHRECK and CARA ANNA
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces dug in while Russia lined up more firepower Sunday and tapped a decorated general to take centralized control of the war ahead of a potentially decisive showdown in eastern Ukraine that could start within days.
Experts said the next phase of the battle may begin with a full-scale offensive. The outcome could determine the course of the conflict, which has flattened cities, killed untold thousands and isolated Moscow economically and politically.
Questions remain about the ability of Russia’s depleted and demoralized forces to conquer much ground after their advance on the capital, Kyiv, was repelled by determined Ukrainian defenders. Britain’s Defense Ministry reported Sunday that the Russian forces were trying to compensate for mounting casualties by recalling veterans discharged in the past decade.
Meanwhile, a senior U.S. official said Russia appointed Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, one of its most seasoned military chiefs, to oversee the invasion. The official was not authorized to be identified and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Until now, Russia has had no central war commander on the ground.
The new battlefield leadership comes as the Russian military prepares for what is expected to be a large, focused push to expand control in the country’s east. Russia-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region since 2014 and declared some territory there as independent.
Dvornikov, 60, gained prominence as head of the Russian forces that were deployed to Syria in 2015 to shore up President Bashar Assad’s regime amid the country’s devastating civil war. U.S. officials say he has a record of brutality against civilians in Syria and other war theaters.
Russian authorities do not generally confirm such appointments and have said nothing about a new role for Dvornikov, who received the Hero of Russia medal, one of the country’s highest awards, from President Vladimir Putin in 2016.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan, speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” played down the significance of the appointment.
“What we have learned in the first several weeks of this war is that Ukraine will never be subjected to Russia,” Sullivan said. “It doesn’t matter which general President Putin tries to appoint.”
Western military analysts say Russia’s assault was increasingly focusing on a sickle-shaped arc of eastern Ukraine — from Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in the north to Kherson in the south.
The narrower effort could alleviate the Russian problem, earlier in the war, of spreading their offensive too widely over too great a geographic area.
“Just looking at it on a map, you can see that they will be able to bring to bear a lot more power in a lot more concentrated fashion,” by focusing mainly on eastern Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Friday.
Newly released Maxar Technologies satellite imagery showed an 8-mile (13-kilometer) convoy of military vehicles headed south through Ukraine to the Donbas, recalling images of a convoy that got stalled on roads to Kyiv for weeks before Russia gave up on trying to take the capital.
On Sunday, Russian forces shelled government-controlled Kharkiv and sent reinforcements toward Izyum to the southeast in a bid to break Ukraine’s defenses, the Ukrainian military command said. The Russians also kept up their siege of Mariupol, a key southern port that has been under attack and surrounded for nearly 1 ½ months.
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said Russia’s military used air-launched missiles to hit Ukraine’s S-300 air-defense missile systems in the southern Mykolaiv region and at an air base in Chuhuiv, a city not far from Kharkiv.
Sea-launched Russian cruise missiles destroyed the headquarters of a Ukrainian military unit stationed farther west in the Dnipro region, Konashenkov said. Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian military claims could be independently verified.
The airport in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, was also hit by missiles twice on Sunday, according to the regional governor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for stronger military and political support from the West, including NATO members that have funneled weapons and military equipment to Ukraine but denied some requests for fear of getting drawn into the war.
In a late-night video message, Zelenskyy argued that Russia’s aggression “was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone.” The “entire European project is a target,” he said.
“That is why it is not just the moral duty of all democracies, all the forces of Europe, to support Ukraine’s desire for peace,” Zelenskyy said. ”This is, in fact, a strategy of defense for every civilized state.”
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian forces of committing war crimes against civilians, including airstrikes on hospitals, a missile attack that killed at least 57 people at a train station and other violence that came to light as Russian soldiers withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv.
Zelenskyy said that when he and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke by phone Sunday, “we emphasized that all perpetrators of war crimes must be identified and punished.”
A day after meeting with Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced that he will meet Monday in Moscow with Putin. Austria, a member of the European Union, is militarily neutral and not a member of NATO.
Ukraine has blamed Russia for killing civilians in Bucha and other towns outside the capital where hundreds of bodies, many with their hands bound and signs of torture, were found after Russian troops retreated. Russia has denied the allegations and falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
Maria Vaselenko, 77, a resident of Borodyanka, said her daughter and son-in-law were killed, leaving her grandchildren orphaned.
“The Russians were shooting. And some people wanted to come and help, but they were shooting them. They were putting explosives under dead people,” Vaselenko said. “That’s why my children have been under the rubble for 36 days. It was not allowed” to remove bodies.
In Mariupol, Russia was deploying Chechen fighters, reputed to be particularly fierce. Capturing the city on the Sea of Azov would give Russia a land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukriane eight years ago.
Residents have lacked food, water and electricity since Russian forces surrounded the city and frustrated evacuation missions. Ukrainian authorities think an airstrike on a theater that was being used as a bomb shelter killed hundreds of civilians, and Zelenskyy has said he expects more evidence of atrocities to be found once Mariupol no longer is blockaded.
The Institute for the Study of War, an American think tank, predicted that Russian forces will “renew offensive operations in the coming days” from Izyum, a town southeast of Kharkiv, in the campaign to conquer the Donbas, which comprises Ukraine’s industrial heartland.
But in the view of the think tank’s analysts, “The outcome of forthcoming Russian operations in eastern Ukraine remains very much in question.”
Elsewhere, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Ukraine was able to rotate staff at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant for only the second time since Russian forces seized the facility early in the war.
The nuclear agency said the situation around Chernobyl, site of a 1986 nuclear disaster, “remained far from normal” after Russians departed at the end of March. Ukrainian officials told the agency Sunday that laboratories for radiation monitoring at the site were destroyed and instruments damaged or stolen.
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Anna reported from Bucha, Ukraine. Yesica Fisch in Borodyanko, Robert Burns and Calvin Woodward in Washington, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Thomas Derrick Pickens, 50, was born in Chickasaw County on July 19, 1971 to Thomas E. Pickens and Carolyn Jean Thompson Pickens. Derrick passed away on April 5, 2022. He was a graduate of Okolona High School and a member of New Hope U.M. Church. Derrick had a passion for race cars, cattle and farming, tractors, and talking on the phone with his friends at E-4 C cattle. Survivors include his companion, Michelle Gunn Pickens, son, Demarcus Pickens, child he helped to rear, Royal Armani Elliott, parents, Thomas E. Pickens and Carolyn Jean Pickens; siblings: Shondra Pickens and George Pickens (Maya); nephews: Braxton Pickens, Trejin Pickens, and Zachary Brooks; niece, Marcie Morris; aunt, Bernell Coleman of Memphis, TN; uncles, Rev. Kenny Thompson of Columbia, GA, Wayne Pickens and James W. Pickens, both of Okolona; two sisters-in-law and three brothers-in-law, several other relatives and friends. Visitation will be Sunday, April 10, 2022, 4-6 pm. at Bailey Funeral Home, 506 W. Monroe Ave., Okolona, MS 38860. Funeral Service will be held on Monday, April 11, 2022 at New Home U.M.Church, Van Vleet, MS at 1 pm. Face masks are required.
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STARKVILLE — A hush fell across the crowd on Masters Sunday, but this mass was assembled 400 miles west of August National Golf Club. This crowd was at Dudy Noble Field, a stadium prided on rich tradition and an environment unlike most in collegiate baseball.
But it was quiet Sunday with No. 19 LSU in town. A deafening silence.
The Tigers’ runs were piling on in the 13-3 win, and the Bulldogs’ opportunities were continuously slipping. The silver lining of “it’s still early” concerns were slipping away as Mississippi State fell to 4-8 in conference play following a weekend sweep.
The roar of crowds celebrating electric walk-offs against Alabama just two weeks ago was nowhere to be found. Instead, the soft echo of plastic seats folding back into position surrounded a disappointing performance.
“We’re just not playing a high-level brand of baseball right now,” MSU coach Chris Lemonis said.
The collapse Friday stunned the home crowd. MSU was a strike away from capitalizing on Preston Johnson’s best start of the season. Instead, LSU put together a four-run ninth to win.
Saturday didn’t have the same dramatics, but leaving 12 runners on base made it difficult for The Dude Effect to ever shine.
RJ Yeager tried to bring the maroon and white faithful into the game Sunday with a leadoff bomb for the second-consecutive game, but LSU didn’t take long to respond. And the Tigers didn’t wait much longer after that to score 12 runs in four innings and suck the life out of the stadium.
“You gotta put pressure on (LSU), get big hits,” Lemonis said. “We talk about it all the time. You get a big hit and put the crowd into it. We never got the big hit. What it does, is it builds confidence in that other dugout. Every time they get us out, every time they make a pitch, it makes it tougher. They get more comfortable in the environment.”
It was a crucial weekend series as Mississippi State and LSU entered with matching 4-5 conference records — tied with two other teams for fourth in the SEC West.
MSU hadn’t found its groove this season, but it was doing a successful job treading water. The patience needed to find a gameplan with Landon Sims and Stone Simmons sidelined was provided.
The struggles of the starters and relievers were ugly but not detrimental. State fell out of the D1Baseball rankings but did enough to remain a three-seed in NCAA postseason projections.
There will be some work to do moving forward to keep from drowning — if that point hasn’t been reached. But the path gets no easier.
Auburn comes to Starkville next weekend after winning a series against No. 16 Vanderbilt this weekend. Trips to No. 9 Ole Miss and Missouri follow before a return home to face Florida.
Following a trip to Texas A&M, Mississippi State closes its regular season against No. 1 Tennessee — a team undefeated through 12 games in SEC play.
There’s a lot of baseball to play, Lemonis says. But his team will need to spark some life inside Dudy Noble Field to dig the Bulldogs out of low places.
“We’ve had tough times here before and fought through it,” Lemonis said. “We’re just gonna have to fight through it.”
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Cade Smith had the Bulldogs locked in a 1-1 game in the fifth when LSU hit him for five runs on four hits and a walk. The Bulldogs never found the offense to be competitive the rest of the day.
STARKVILLE — No. 19 LSU has escaped Starkville with a series sweep against Mississippi State. The Tigers took the finale 13-3.
MSU fell to 18-15 overall and 4-8 in SEC play. LSU is 23-9 and 7-5, respectively. Mississippi State returns to play at 6 p.m. Tuesday against Birmingham.
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Below are our live updates from Sunday's game.
First inning
Smith retires the side in order to open things up.
RJ Yeager makes it back-to-back days with a leadoff home run.
Second inning
Another clean frame for Smith.
Nothing going for MSU's offense.
Third inning
LSU evens things up. A run scores on a double play with the bases loaded and nobody out. Smith limits the damage to one run allowed despite walking four hitters in the inning.
State can't score and leaves one on base.
Fourth inning
Smith settles in after a rough third for a clean frame.
Leadoff single for State, but the next three batters strike out.
Fifth inning
LSU has its first lead as an infield single brings in a leadoff triple. A single to right brings in another run to make it 3-1 for LSU. A two-out, three-run blast to right has LSU up 6-1.
No runs on one hit for MSU.
Sixth inning
Brooks Auger is in for relief. A two-out double brings in a run to make it 7-1.
Seventh inning
Solo blast makes it 8-1. Make that back-to-back bombs. It's now 9-1.
A two-run blast from Slate Alford makes it 9-3.
Eighth inning
Mikey Tepper is on the mound for MSU.
Another two runs for LSU to kill any small momentum MSU built in the seventh. The Tigers aren't letting up. It's now 13-3.
Ninth inning
Clean frame from Cam Tullar. Nothing going for MSU. LSU wins 13-3.
STEFAN KRAJISNIK is the Mississippi State athletics reporter for the Daily Journal. Contact him at stefan.krajisnik@djournal.com.
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OXFORD — No. 9 Ole Miss had just four hits Sunday afternoon against Alabama as the Crimson Tide finished off a three-game sweep of the Rebels with a 7-3 win.
Ole Miss (19-12, 4-8 SEC) has now lost six-straight home games and four-straight games overall. The Rebels were retired in order in the third, fourth and fifth innings.
Starter Jack Washburn surrendered three runs in three innings and was replaced by junior Derek Diamond, who retired the first nine batters he faced.
Ole Miss had just one hit through the first five innings but found life in the sixth when senior first baseman Tim Elko hit a two-run home run to left center to make it a one-run game.
The first batter to reach base against Diamond was a costly one, however, as Tommy Seidl hit a moonshot that nearly hit the scoreboard to make it a 4-2 game. Not to be outdone, sophomore designated hitter Kemp Alderman hit a 481-foot home run to the parking lot to cut the deficit to one again.
Diamond then gave up his second solo shot, this one to Andrew Pinckney, to double the Crimson Tide (21-12, 7-5) lead. In the eighth inning, Zane Denton launched a two-run home run off junior Dylan DeLucia.
Ole Miss hosts Murray State Tuesday at 11 a.m. before heading to South Carolina for a three-game series beginning Thursday.
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OXFORD — No. 9 Ole Miss will try to snap a three-game losing streak on Sunday, as the Rebels take on Alabama in the finale of their three-game series. The Crimson Tide have won the first two.
Follow along on our Facebook page and with beat reporter Michael Katz on Twitter.
Pregame:
Here is today's starting lineup. Junior Jack Washburn will start on the mound.
1. SS Jacob Gonzalez
2. CF Justin Bench
3. 1B Tim Elko
4. LF Kevin Graham
5. DH Kemp Alderman
6. RF T.J. McCants
7. 3B Reagan Burford
8. C Hayden Dunhurst
9. 2B Peyton Chatagnier
First inning:
Washburn walked the first batter of the game. The runner wound up on third following a stolen base and a wild pitch. Zane Denton then laced a double to left center to drive in the game's first run. The Crimson Tide then loaded the bases with two outs but got out of trouble with a fly out to left. Ole Miss was unable to score any runs. Rebels trail 1-0 heading to the second.
Second inning:
Sophomore designated hitter Kemp Alderman reached base via walk. Despite getting two runners on base, Ole Miss was unable to score. Rebels still trail 1-0, headed to the third.
Third inning:
A two-out double scored two more runs for the Crimson Tide, who now lead 3-0. Ole Miss went down in order.
Fourth inning:
Washburn allowed a hit and was taken out for junior Derek Diamond. He stranded a runner on second. Rebels went down in order again.
Fifth inning:
Diamond retired the side in order. The Rebels went down in order again.
Sixth inning:
Diamond has retired all nine batters he's faced. Senior first baseman Tim Elko hit a two-run home run to cut the deficit to a run.
Seventh inning:
Tommy Seidl hit a towering home run to left center field to make it a 4-2 game. Kemp Alderman then hit a ball into the parking lot to make it 4-3.
Eighth inning:
Andrew Pinckney hit a solo home run, doubling the Crimson Tide lead.
Ninth inning:
Junior Dylan DeLucia entered the game for Riley Maddox. DeLucia gave up a two-run home run to make it 7-3.
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The Black Keys | photo by Ben Wong for WXPN // Gary Clark Jr. | photo by Avi Warren for WXPN // Yola | photo by John Vettese for WXPN
The Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr., and Yola will play BB&T Pavilion in August
For the latest round of their monster ‘Let’s Rock’ tour, Akron outfit The Black Keys will play Camden, NJ’s BB&T Pavilion this August with a stellar lineup: blues-driven Austin rocker Gary Clark Jr., and Yola, a rootsy Americana singer-songwriter from Bristol, England.
All three artists are riding high on records released last year. The Black Keys — singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, and drummer Patrick Carney — returned with ‘Let’s Rock’, their first album in five years, and it was packed with instant arena rock classics. Clark’s third LP This Land dropped in February, and added fired-up political and social commentary to his fierce blues licks. Yola made a splash with her debut album Walk Through Fire, released on Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound records, and played impressive sets at Philly Folk Fest and a sold out World Cafe Live.
The Black Keys brings this lineup to BB&T Pavilion in Camden on August 22nd, and tickets go on sale this Friday, February 28th, at 10 a.m. More information can be found at the XPN Concert Calendar; listen to music from each of the artists and check out tour dates below.
Tour Dates
July 7 /// Seattle, WA /// White River Amphitheatre*
July 8 /// Portland, OR /// Sunlight Supply Amphitheater*
July 10 /// Berkeley, CA /// Greek Theatre%
July 11 /// Irvine, CA /// FivePoint Amphitheatre*
July 12 /// Chula Vista, CA /// North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre*
July 14 /// Salt Lake City, UT /// USANA Amphtiheatre^
July 15 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre^
July 17 /// Dallas, TX /// Dos Equis Pavilion^
July 18 /// Houston, TX /// The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion^
July 19 /// Austin, TX /// Germania Insurance Amphitheater^
July 21 /// St. Louis, MO /// Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – STL^
July 22 /// Cincinnati, OH /// Riverbend Music Center^
July 24 /// Indianapolis, IN /// Ruoff Music Center^
July 25 /// Chicago, IL /// Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – CHI^
July 26 /// Detroit, MI /// DTE Energy Music Theatre^
August 11 /// Cleveland, OH /// Blossom Music Center#
August 12 /// Toronto, ON /// Budweiser Stage#
August 14 /// Darien Center, NY /// Darien Lake Amphitheater#
August 15 /// Syracuse, NY /// St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview#
August 16 /// Saratoga Springs, NY /// Saratoga Performing Arts Center#
August 18 /// Bangor, ME /// Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion#
August 19 /// Hartford, CT /// XFINITY Theatre#
August 21 /// Boston, MA /// Xfinity Center#
August 22 /// Camden, NJ /// BB&T Pavilion#
August 23 /// Holmdel, NJ /// PNC Bank Arts Center#
August 25 /// Gilford, NH /// Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion#
August 26 /// Wantagh, NY /// Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater#
August 28 /// Columbia, MD /// Merriweather Post Pavilion#
August 29 /// Virginia Beach, VA /// Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater#
August 30 /// Raleigh, NC /// Coastal Credit Union Music Park#
September 1 /// Charlotte, NC /// PNC Music Pavilion#
September 2 /// Birmingham, AL /// Oak Mountain Amphitheatre#
September 4 /// Tampa, FL /// MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre#
September 5 /// West Palm Beach, FL /// iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre#
September 6 /// Jacksonville, FL /// Daily’s Place#
* w/ Gary Clark Jr and Jessy Wilson
% w/ Allah-Las and Jessy Wilson
^ w/ Gary Clark Jr and The Marcus King Band
# w/ Gary Clark Jr and Yola
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Jenny Lewis plays a Tiny Desk Concert | photo by Laura Beltran Villamizar for NPR
Watch Jenny Lewis play a stripped-down Tiny Desk Concert
It’s been almost a year since Jenny Lewis released her last album On the Line, and in a few months she’ll head out on tour with Harry Styles. But in the meantime, Lewis stopped by NPR Music to play a Tiny Desk Concert, performing stripped-down versions of three songs for the intimate crowd.
Lewis opened with two songs from On the Line, leading the audience in a sing-along during “Rabbit Hole” (“we whipped that up in the elevator,” she joked), and followed it with “Do Si Do.” She closed out the set with “Just One Of The Guys,” a favorite off of her 2014 album The Voyager, admitting that she may have ripped off the Hot Pockets theme song while writing it.
Performing as an acoustic trio with Emily Elbert on guitar and Anna Butterss on upright bass, Lewis allowed the bare bones of each song to shine through. NPR’s Bob Boilen notes the contrast to the “Las Vegas sparkle” of her usual concerts, and writes that, “Stripped of all the glitz, it was the words that found their way to my heart.”
Jenny Lewis will play the Wells Fargo Center on June 26 as part of Harry Styles’ Love On Tour. Find tickets and more information on the XPN Concert Calendar.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has called for a May 21 election that will be fought on issues including Chinese economic coercion, climate change and theCOVID-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday advised Governor-General David Hurley as representative of Australia’s head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, to set the election date.
Morrison’s conservative coalition is seeking a fourth three-year term. The date is the latest available to him.
He urged voters to stick with a government that delivered one of the lowest pandemic death tolls of any advanced economy rather than risk the opposition Labor Party.
“This election is a choice between a government that you know and that has been delivering and a Labor opposition that you don’t,” Morrison said.
Morrison led his government to a narrow victory at the last election in 2019 despite opinion polls consistently placing the center-left opposition Australian Labor Party ahead.
The Liberal Party-led coalition is again behind in most opinion polls, but many analysts predict a tight result.
The last election occurred in thehottest and driest year Australia had ever experienced. The year ended with devastating wildfires across Australia’s southeast that directly killed 33 people and more than 400 others through smoke.
The fires also destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed 19 million hectares (47 million acres) of farmland and forests during the Southern Hemisphere summer.
Morrison was widely criticized for taking a secret family vacation to Hawaii at the height of the crisis while his hometown Sydney was blanketed in toxic smoke.
He cut his vacation short due to the public backlash, but was further criticized over his explanation for his absence: “I don’t hold a hose.”
His government was criticized for its responses to the fires and also record flooding this year in some of the same areas in Australia’s southeast that were razed two years earlier.
Both the government and opposition have set a target of net zero carbon gas emissions by 2050.
Morrison was widely criticized at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in November for failing to set more ambitious targets for the end of the decade.
The government aims to reduce emissions by 26% to 28% below 2005 levels, while other countries have made steeper commitments.
The Australian Labor Party has promised to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030.
Australia was initially successful in containing the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic largely through restrictions on international travel.
But the more contagious delta and omicron variants have proved more difficult to contain.
The opposition criticized the government over the pace of Australia’s vaccine rollout, which was derided as a “stroll out,” as it fell months behind schedule. Australia’s population is now one of the most vaccinated in the world.
The government has defended its pandemic record and takes credit for Australia having the third-lowest death toll among the 38 Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation countries.
With China imposing official and unofficial trade sanctions against Australia in recent years, the government argues that Beijing wants Labor to win the election because the party was less likely to stand up to economic coercion.
Labor takes credit for thwarting the government’s plan in 2014 to sign an extradition treaty with China. Bilateral relations have since deteriorated, and the government now warns that Australians risk arbitrary detention if they visit China.
Several experts say both sides of politics are largely united on national security issues and that the government in confecting differences on China.
“The government is seeking to create the perception of a difference between it and the opposition on a critical national security issue, that is China, seeking to create the perception of a difference when none in practice exists,” said Dennis Richardson, a former head of Defense, Foreign Affairs and the spy agency Australian Security Intelligence Organization and the former Australian ambassador to the United States.
“That is not in the national interest. That only serves the interests of one country and that is China,” Richardson added.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — U.S. service members who are HIV-positive cannot be discharged or barred from becoming an officer solely because they’re infected with the virus, a federal judge in Virginia ruled. Advocates say it’s one of the strongest rulings in years for people living with HIV.
The cases involved two service members that the Air Force attempted to discharge, as well as Sgt. Nick Harrison of the D.C. Army National Guard, who was denied a position in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said in a written order dated April 6 that her ruling bars the military from taking those actions against the plaintiffs and any other asymptomatic HIV-positive service member with an undetectable viral load ”because they are classified as ineligible for worldwide deployment … due to their HIV-positive status.”
Peter Perkowski, an attorney for the plaintiffs, called it “a landmark victory — probably the biggest ruling in favor of people living with HIV in the last 20 years.”
“The military was the last employer in the country that had a policy against people living with HIV. Every other employer — including first responders — is subject to rules that prohibit discrimination based on HIV status,” he said.
The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to an emailed request seeking comment on the ruling or whether it intends to appeal.
The airmen, identified by pseudonyms in the 2018 lawsuit, argued that major advancements in treatment mean they can easily be given appropriate medical care and present no real risk of transmission to others.
In 2020, the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction barring the discharge of the airmen. In its ruling, the three-judge panel said the military’s rationale for prohibiting deployment of HIV-positive service members was “outmoded and at odds with current science.” The appeals court ruling left the injunction in place while their lawsuit was being heard.
The Department of Justice argued before the 4th Circuit that the Air Force determined the two airmen could no longer perform their duties because their career fields required them to deploy frequently and because their condition prevented them from deploying to the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility, where most airmen are expected to go. Central Command, which governs military operations in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, prohibits personnel with HIV from deploying without a waiver.
The DOJ acknowledged that treatment lowers the risk of transmitting HIV, but said the risk is amplified on the battlefield where soldiers can often come into contact with blood.
An attorney for the airmen argued during a 2019 hearing that the odds of transmitting HIV in combat are infinitesimal and should not limit their deployment or lead to their discharge.
In its written ruling, the 4th Circuit panel said a ban on deployment may have been justified at a time when HIV treatment was less effective at managing the virus and reducing the risk of transmission.
“But any understanding of HIV that could justify this ban is outmoded and at odds with current science. Such obsolete understandings cannot justify a ban, even under a deferential standard of review and even according appropriate deference to the military’s professional judgments,” Judge James Wynn Jr. wrote in the unanimous 2020 ruling.
Brinkema said in this month’s written order that she had temporarily sealed her ruling in the case to give both sides a chance to seek redactions within 14 days. The judge ordered the secretary of the Air Force to rescind the decision to discharge the two airmen and ordered the Army to rescind its decision denying Harrison’s application to commission into JAG, and to reevaluate those decisions in light of her ruling.
Kara Ingelhart, senior attorney at Lambda Legal, one of the groups that brought the lawsuits, said in a news release that the ruling knocks down a barrier to preventing people living with AIDS from becoming officers, and “brings an end to the military’s ongoing discrimination against the approximately 2,000 service members currently serving while living with HIV.”
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MARTINSVILLE — It was a show of small-town love on Sunday in Morgan County for a family of six.
Dozens came out to support the Grounds family as they cut the ribbon on their new home in Martinsville customized for Lucas Grounds.
“It's quite surreal, I must say,” Lucas said.
In December of 2020, Lucas, 17, was paralyzed from the waist down after a motorbike accident. At the time, Grounds just signed a deal to go pro. It was quickly realized his home at the time would not be accessible for him. That’s where the community stepped in.
Sunco Construction came after the accident to look at the Grounds’ old house and realized renovations to make it ADA accessible were not possible. Instead, the construction company offered to build the family a new home.
The new house broke ground last May and was made possible through Sunco Construction, donations from contractors in the community, and fundraising from neighbors and the racing community.
“One of his biggest challenges at the other house was getting dressed every day. As far as like, I'd have to get his clothes out for him because the closets up here, so now that the closets, as you'll see are all lower, he can roll up to them, slide open the door and pull out his clothes and so he doesn't need us for really anything,” said Justin Grounds, Lucas’ father.
Lucas helped design everything in the family’s new home from the cabinets to the floorboards.
“I'm pleased with how everything came out and I think it looks pretty good. And I don't think you can tell a 17-year-old designed it,” Lucas said.
The idea is for the house to become Lucas’ forever home.
“I've joked with him before you know about it. I was like, 'Hey, the only one that can mess this up is you,'” Justin Grounds said with a laugh. “And, 'Can we stay here until your younger sister graduates?'"
Lucas spent 61 days at Riley Hospital for Children working daily through therapy. It was there he worked with occupational therapist Whitney Kozlowski.
“I worked with Mr. Lucas while he was in the hospital, throughout his whole stay,” Kozlowski said. “So we got to know each other pretty good.”
On Sunday, Kozlowski was there for the ribbon-cutting. Every day, she worked with Lucas for about 90 minutes. She said his “athlete mindset” helped him through recovery. He has his driver’s license and is back racing.
“It’s great to have her because she taught everything I needed to know and she taught it so well I was able to pick it up within weeks,” Lucas said.
Lucas now helps as a peer mentor through Skills on Wheels, a research study through IU Health’s occupational therapy program. The teenager will be returning to the track for the first time in a Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) race since his accident on May 7.
“I still do just as much stuff as I did before. And I don't know, just having a good outlook on life and what’s to come — you can't look back. You have to always look at what's coming ahead of you,” Lucas said.
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Elon Musk suggests Twitter changes, including accepting Dogecoin
(AP) - As Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Elon Musk is already floating suggestions for changes he’d like to see on the social media platform.
In a series of tweets late Saturday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said that the company should include an “authentication checkmark” as a feature of its Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which costs $2.99 a month.
Twitter adds a checkmark logo next to a user name when the account has been verified “authentic, notable and active.”
Musk also suggested Twitter make the authentication checkmarks of premium subscriber accounts different than those granted to official accounts belonging to public figures, for example.
Such a move, Musk said, would “massively expand” the pool of verified user accounts and discourage the proliferation of spam “bot” accounts, making them too expensive to maintain.
Musk also shared ideas for how Twitter should charge for its subscription membership, saying the fee “should be proportionate to affordability and in local currency,” and adding: “Maybe even an option to pay in Doge?” referring to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.
“And no ads,” Musk tweeted. “The power of corporations to dictate policy is greatly enhanced if Twitter depends on advertising money to survive.”
Nearly 90% of Twitter’s revenue in 2021 came from advertising.
Musk’s latest tweets about Twitter, including posting polls asking his 81 million followers whether Twitter is “dying” and whether the company’s San Francisco headquarters should be converted into a homeless shelter “since no one shows up anyway,” followed a tweet earlier in the week asking if he should add an edit button on the platform.
Last week, Twitter disclosed in a regulatory filing that it entered into an agreement with Musk giving the billionaire a seat on the company’s board, with the term expiring at its 2024 annual shareholders meeting. The move came a day after it was disclosed that Musk took a 9% stake in the company.
Twitter did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Sunday.
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This story has been corrected to show a Twitter Blue subscription is $2.99 a month, not $3 a month.
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Tiger Woods concludes worst Masters of his career
Published: Apr. 10, 2022 at 6:16 PM EDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
Tiger Woods has closed out the worst Masters performance of his professional career.
His second straight 78 Sunday left him at 13-over for the tournament.
Still, Woods considers this one of his greatest achievements in golf.
He played in his first real tournament since a car wreck 14 months ago left him with horrific leg injuries.
RELATED: Tiger Woods timeline: From last Masters win to Masters comeback
Woods started out with an electrifying 71, but he had nothing left in the tank for the weekend.
Woods is looking forward to getting back in the gym and building strength in his shattered right leg.
He didn't say where he's planning to play next.
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Elon Musk suggests Twitter changes, including accepting Dogecoin
(AP) - As Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Elon Musk is already floating suggestions for changes he’d like to see on the social media platform.
In a series of tweets late Saturday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said that the company should include an “authentication checkmark” as a feature of its Twitter Blue premium subscription service, which costs $2.99 a month.
Twitter adds a checkmark logo next to a user name when the account has been verified “authentic, notable and active.”
Musk also suggested Twitter make the authentication checkmarks of premium subscriber accounts different than those granted to official accounts belonging to public figures, for example.
Such a move, Musk said, would “massively expand” the pool of verified user accounts and discourage the proliferation of spam “bot” accounts, making them too expensive to maintain.
Musk also shared ideas for how Twitter should charge for its subscription membership, saying the fee “should be proportionate to affordability and in local currency,” and adding: “Maybe even an option to pay in Doge?” referring to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.
“And no ads,” Musk tweeted. “The power of corporations to dictate policy is greatly enhanced if Twitter depends on advertising money to survive.”
Nearly 90% of Twitter’s revenue in 2021 came from advertising.
Musk’s latest tweets about Twitter, including posting polls asking his 81 million followers whether Twitter is “dying” and whether the company’s San Francisco headquarters should be converted into a homeless shelter “since no one shows up anyway,” followed a tweet earlier in the week asking if he should add an edit button on the platform.
Last week, Twitter disclosed in a regulatory filing that it entered into an agreement with Musk giving the billionaire a seat on the company’s board, with the term expiring at its 2024 annual shareholders meeting. The move came a day after it was disclosed that Musk took a 9% stake in the company.
Twitter did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Sunday.
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‘The Simpsons’ to feature deaf character, use sign language for first time
(CNN) – For the first time in the show’s 33-year history, a deaf actor will be featured on “The Simpsons.”
The focus of the episode is on Lisa Simpson, who discovers her role model, late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy, has a son who is deaf and needs a cochlear implant.
Deaf actor John Autry II plays the role of Monk Murphy on the episode, calling it “life-changing.”
The show’s characters use American sign language throughout the groundbreaking episode.
Even though “Simpsons” characters only have four fingers, the show consulted with sign language specialists to make sure visuals conveyed words correctly.
The storyline is loosely based on the life of the episode’s main writer, who says her brother is hearing impaired within a family that loves jazz music.
The episode was written before the film “Coda” won the Oscar for Best Picture two weekends ago.
The episode airs Sunday night.
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5K run in Brigantine, NJ to benefit Marine Mammal Stranding Center
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine is celebrating its 44th anniversary. It is credited with having responded to over 5,700 stranded whales, dolphins, seals, and sea turtles.
Now that COVID protocols have been lifted in New Jersey, MMSC has resumed holding much-needed fundraisers to help them out.
The Run for Animals will take place Saturday, May 21 starting at 8 a.m. at The Laguna Grill and Rum Bar in Brigantine.
Founding MMSC Director Bob Schoelkopf said the 5K run/walk attracts so many people each year. So far the turnout is good but he said there is still room for people to register.
The fee is $25 until May 1, $35 from May 2 until May 20, and $45 after 6 pm Friday, May 20 until race day.
Free breakfast will be served for the first 350 runners registered. The race is baby stroller friendly and dog friendly. Schoelkopf said people love to walk and run with their dogs on race day.
All proceeds from the "Run for Animals" will mostly go toward food and medicine at the stranding center.
Proceeds from the race will also help offset the cost of skyrocketing fuel prices. Members of MMSC are responsible for picking up animals across the state, up and down the coast and that's a lot of driving.
Schoelkopf said currently, the center is nursing 8 grey seal pups back to health. They are about two to three months old and they eat a lot of fish daily!
"They're eating about 9 to 10 pounds of fish per animal per day," he said.
One seal pup is a patient because of shark bites. Others suffered lacerations and scrapes just from being on the jetties. Schoelkopf said the rocks on the jetties are very sharp and they can cut the seals up pretty bad. They are tender animals at 3 months old. He said any little scrape can get infected quickly so they need to be cleaned up immediately.
Schoelkopf also warned beachgoers not to be so quick to rescue a beached seal. Not all seals on the beach are sick or injured.
He said it's very possible they are sleeping off a big meal. Seals feed at sea. Many times they come ashore to catch some sun, warm up and grab a nap, especially the pups.
It's always a good idea to keep your proper distance from the animals. Schoelkopf said there are about 150 signs on beaches up and down the coast indicating that there are seals on the beaches. Leave them alone and keep a 150-foot distance.
All race details and information about the stranding center and the seal pup patients can be found at www.mmsc.org.
Jen Ursillo is a reporter and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach her at jennifer.ursillo@townsquaremedia.com
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‘Great need for more organs’ — 2 stories from recipients of life-saving transplants in NJ
Lacey resident Eileen Tumminelli recently witnessed her daughter getting engaged in front of Cinderella's Castle at Disney World.
"Now I have a wedding to look forward to," Eileen told New Jersey 101.5. "I will do everything to stay healthy and be there and participate."
John Moran, who was born and raised in the Garden State, is feeling "like a million bucks," months after suffering a heart attack.
"I'm walking around like nothing happened. It's incredible," he said.
It's likely neither of those accomplishments would have been possible if Eilieen and John hadn't become the lucky recipients of organ transplantation. Both underwent life-saving procedures during the coronavirus pandemic at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility.
"I'll do anything I can to protect this gift," John said.
John received a new heart on Jan. 21 of this year, nearly six weeks after his heart attack. Eileen received a bilateral lung transplant in June 2020, following nearly 3 years on the waiting list.
"I'm able to do more; I'm back at the gym," Eileen said.
The majority of folks waiting to be the recipient of a critical organ, such as a heart, kidney or lung, do not get the chance. In honor of Donate Life Month, medical professionals are urging residents to become an organ donor so they can give the gift of life upon their passing.
"There is a real discrepancy between supply and demand," said Dr. Margarita Camacho, surgical director of cardiac transplantation at Newark Beth Israel. "There's a great need for more organs. Patients die on the waiting list every day."
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, nearly 4,000 New Jersey residents are waiting for a life-saving transplant. One donor can save eight lives and enhance the lives of over 75 people, NJ Sharing Network says.
"My husband and my children are all organ donors now," Eileen said. "Most of my extended family is, because of what's happened to me."
"I've always been a proponent of organ donation," John said. "They're not doing me any good when I'm gone."
A little more than a third of New Jerseyans with drivers licenses were registered as organ donors in 2019, according to Gift of Life Donor Program.
Individuals can register to donate their organs and tissues for transplant or medical research when applying for or renewing their New Jersey driver license or non-driver identification card. Individuals can also fill out the "binding, legal document of gift" at this link.
Dino Flammia is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dino.flammia@townsquaremedia.com
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NJ drivers behaving badly – and deadly crashes are soaring
If it seems to you that more people are driving like maniacs on New Jersey highways and byways these days, it turns out you’re right.
The latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds motor vehicle fatalities in the Garden State are spiking.
A statistical projection of traffic fatalities for the first nine months of 2021 shows that an estimated 496 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in New Jersey
This represents an increase of 19.2% as compared to 416 fatalities that were projected in the first nine months of 2020, according to NHTSA crash stats.
Tracy Noble, the manager of public and government affairs for AAA MidAtlantic, said the uptick in fatalities is hardly surprising.
“It’s simply because of the amount of reckless behavior that we have seen on our New Jersey roadways,” she said.
“We’ve seen traffic volume bounce back to pre-pandemic levels and now we’ve seen fatal crashes surpassing pre-pandemic levels, which is alarming and concerning.”
Why is this happening?
She said the reason this is happening is because of “distracted driving, driving while impaired — whether it be an illegal substance a legal substance or alcohol — and speeding.”
“As safe as today’s cars and trucks are they are not designed to withstand crash forces when people are traveling upwards of 80, 90, 100 miles per hour," she said.
She noted in order to understand why reckless driving has significantly increased since the start of the pandemic, “there’s going to have to be a deeper dive into the factors and behaviors we have seen taking place.”
What's the fix?
Noble said to begin to solve the problem we need to embrace a multi-facetted approach.
“That means education for all drivers, getting the enforcement campaigns out there and working and public safety campaigns,” she said.
“Just to increase motorists' awareness, and hopefully get them to pay attention that their safety really is in their own hands.”
According to NHTSA, the statistical projection of traffic fatalities nationwide for the first nine months of 2021 shows that an estimated 31,720 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. This represents an increase of about 12% as compared to 28,325 fatalities that were projected in the first nine months of 2020.
David Matthau is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at david.matthau@townsquaremedia.com
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NJ graduation rate dips in 2021; check out all high schools here
TRENTON – New Jersey’s four-year high school graduation rate declined slightly last year, from 91% to 90.6%, according to annual report cards issued by the state.
Assistant Education Commissioner Kathy Ehling told the State Board of Education last week that the dip is a common trend.
“About 26 states have announced their 2021 rates, and the majority of those states – there were only six that did not have a decrease,” Ehling said. “So, we do know coming out of the pandemic that many states are going to be reporting a decrease.”
Nearly one in five graduates in New Jersey high schools’ Class of 2021 qualified for diplomas without actually meeting the state’s graduation requirements, as Gov. Phil Murphy had waived them for the 2020 and 2021 graduating classes due to the pandemic.
Around 19% to 20% of students used the waiver to graduate in 2021, up from 7% to 9% in 2020. Far fewer qualified using substitute tests such as the SAT, ACT or Accuplacer, which had limited availability due to limitations on testing centers, or through a review of their high-school portfolio.
New Jersey now runs the math on its graduation rate two ways – including one required by the federal government that subtracts around 2,200 special education students the state exempts from attendance and coursework rules.
Its federal rate comes to 88.5%, which Ehling said on the 2018-19 chart would have ranked the state seventh nationally, rather than fourth.
New Jersey students with disabilities that result in complex needs can qualify for a diploma even if they don’t meet the typical attendance and coursework requirements, if the schools and the student’s family agree on that in developing his or her individualized education program.
But as a result of federal monitoring in 2018 for compliance with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the state can no longer count them in reporting graduation rates to Washington, Ehling said.
“For all students with disabilities, this change resulted in a federal graduation rate of 67%, compared to a state rate of 79%,” she said. “And the state rate, again, that’s the one that includes all students.”
For 63% of high schools, their federal graduation rate is lower than their state one.
Ehling said another important change will be made in the coming year, now that statewide graduation assessments are back. Students whose IEPs don’t require them to pass the graduation assessment to get a diploma will also be removed from the count for the graduation rate.
Ehling said the state will work closely with districts in determining what graduation path would be best for students – the state assessment, a substitute test or a portfolio appeal.
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Michael Symons is the Statehouse bureau chief for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at michael.symons@townsquaremedia.com
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NJ man charged with attempted murder, bias crimes after “anti-Semitic” Lakewood attacks
LAKEWOOD — A Manchester man is accused of going on a violent crime spree Friday that left four victims hospitalized, including an Orthodox Jewish man.
27-year-old Dion Marsh faces three counts each of attempted homicide and bias intimidation, among other charges. Marsh was arrested at his home Friday night.
The Anti-Defamation League condemned the attacks as at least one of the victims was Orthodox Jewish. Lakewood is one of New Jersey's fastest-growing communities thanks in large part to its rapidly expanding Orthodox Jewish population.
In a statement, the ADL noted the suspect "is said to have made antisemitic remarks upon arrest."
“I am personally horrified at the cruelty with which the suspect allegedly conducted himself," ADL NJ/NY Regional Director Scott Richman said. "More needs to be done proactively to prevent violence against the Jewish community, and in particular visibly identifiable Jews in Ocean County and across our region."
Rabbi David Levy, director of the American Jewish Committee's NJ office, also spoke out on the attacks. Levy called it "horrifying" to see Orthodox Jews again attacked for their faith.
We appreciate the swift response from law enforcement to bring the attacker to justice. At the same time, New Jersey recently reported a record-high number of bias incidents for the third straight year," Levy said. "Jews suffered the highest number of religiously biased attacks. This must stop. Jews in New Jersey should not have to live in fear."
The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said Marsh was "acting alone." A timeline from prosecutors showed the four attacks took place over an eight-hour period.
Lakewood police first responded to a carjacking at Martin Luther King Drive and Pine Street at around 1:15 p.m. Friday. They determined a man, later identified as Marsh, attacked the driver of a Toyota Camry and drove off with the car.
Prior reports said the victim was punched in his face and dragged from his car. The victim was taken to the hospital.
Several hours passed before the next call to the police.
Then at around 6 p.m., a pedestrian was struck near Central and Carlton Avenues. The investigation revealed Marsh hit this victim with the stolen car, prosecutors said. The victim was taken to a hospital in Neptune and was in stable condition.
Marsh is accused of hitting another pedestrian walking on Pine Circle Drive just an hour later. This time, Marsh got out of the car to stab the victim, according to prosecutors.
The Lakewood Scoop has identified the victim as Tzvi Aryeh. Marsh reportedly asked Aryeh if he was alright, then stabbed him in the chest with a serrated kitchen knife.
Aryeh was in critical condition, prosecutors said Saturday. His condition has since improved and he is reportedly awake and able to speak.
Prosecutors said Marsh ended his spree by using the stolen Camry to hit one more pedestrian on Galassi Court. The victim was also in critical but stable condition.
Marsh is currently being held at Ocean County Jail.
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