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Winter Park wedding shooting: Video released from officers' body-worn cameras
WINTER PARK - Newly-released videos from officers' body-worn cameras show the chaotic moments leading up to – and after – a deadly shooting at a wedding reception in February in Winter Park, Florida. Winter Park police released new videos and documents related to their investigation on Wednesday.
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The police shooting happened on Feb. 19, 2022, at the Winter Park Events Center in Winter Park, Florida, which is located just outside of Orlando.
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According to police, officers responded to the events center after someone reported an "irate" and "violent" man who was being aggressive and "pushing people to the floor." Wedding guests were able to get the man and a woman away from the ballroom and outside of the venue before police arrived, police said.
Officers attempted to talk to the man and woman to deescalate the situation, according to their investigation, but initially, neither person would comply.
Warning: Winter Park police have released video from officers' body-worn cameras as they responded to a wedding reception in February, which ended in a shooting. Viewer discretion is advised. Here is a clip from the video worn by one of the officers.
Warning: Winter Park police have released video from officers' body-worn cameras as they responded to a wedding reception in February, which ended in a shooting. Viewer discretion is advised. Here is a clip from a second officer who responded.
"Step back. Step back," officers can be heard saying to the man, as other people seemingly attempt to talk or step in.
"Back up. Back up. Back up. Back up.," one of the officers repeatedly says.
The man, later identified as Daniel Knight, 39, is then seen holding onto this other woman, and appears to move her in front of him.
Moments later, Knight punches one of the officers, who falls to the ground, hits his head and becomes unconscious, according to police.
Someone begins screaming and others begin shouting.
Another officer uses his Taser in an attempt to stun on Knight, but police said it had no effect on him. Video then appears to show Knight punch the second officer, who falls to the ground, police said. That officer then raises his gun and shoots it at least seven times.
More screaming follows. Knight was taken to the hospital where he died.
Knight's family has disputed what police have said and accused Winter Park police of lying about what happened.
"He was killed… in front of me. His blood was all over my wedding dress. I had to stay there for hours with this on my dress," said bride Janisha Paul, who previously spoke to FOX 35 News. She said she was devastated over her uncle's death.
Knight was a father to four girls and worked for The Mosaic Company in their Polk County mines for many years, his family said.
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Nearly 70% of medical debt in collections will be removed from credit reports, bureaus say
Medical debt is a costly burden that weighs on millions of patients who seek life-saving care — it's the leading cause of bankruptcy in America and the largest source of personal debt among consumers.
In an effort to support those who are faced with unexpected hospital bills, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion will soon remove nearly 70% of medical debt in collections from credit reports.
"Medical collections debt often arises from unforeseen medical circumstances," credit bureau executives said in a joint statement. "These changes are another step we’re taking together to help people across the United States focus on their financial and personal wellbeing."
Keep reading to learn more about the agencies' new policy around medical debt reporting, as well as how to pay off unpaid hospital bills in collections. You can also enroll in free Experian credit monitoring services through Credible.
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Removing medical debt from reporting may boost consumer credit scores
Beginning in July, paid medical debt in collections will no longer be included in credit reporting. And in the first half of 2023, the credit bureaus will no longer include medical collections debt under $500 on credit reports.
The agencies are also increasing the time period before unpaid medical bills would appear on a consumers' credit history to one year, up from six months previously. They anticipate the combined measures will remove nearly 70% of existing medical debt tradelines.
The decision came shortly after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report finding that unpaid medical bills account for 58% of debt in collections.
"Even when a patient tries to battle to get an accurate bill or an insurance claim paid, medical debt collectors have a weapon that is hard to fight against: the credit report," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said.
While the credit bureaus have effectively dropped many types of medical bills from credit reporting, millions of consumers are still faced with debt in collections. If these bills remain unpaid, they could potentially result in negative credit score impacts after a one-year period. Third-party debt collectors may eventually pursue civil action to recuperate the costs, which can result in wage garnishment and attorney fees.
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How to pay off medical debt in collections
Although some medical collections debt will soon be dropped from credit reporting, consumers still owe the balance of their unpaid bills from prior health care services. Here are a few strategies for repaying medical debt in collections:
- Negotiate your medical bills with the provider or debt collector
- Utilize a medical financing card or 0% APR credit card
- Consolidate medical debts into a fixed-rate personal loan
Read more about each method in the sections below.
Negotiate your medical bills with the provider or debt collector
Patients may be able to settle their medical bills for less than they owe by negotiating with the collection agency that holds the debt. It may also be possible to enroll in an interest-free payment plan to spread your hospital bills into lower monthly installments. Here are a few negotiation tips from the CFPB:
- Ask the debt collector for a written notice about the origin of the debt and how much money is owed. You should also know the age of the debt, so you can see if it meets your state's statute of limitations.
- Propose a realistic debt settlement or repayment proposal. Calculate how much you can afford to pay each month, or see if you have enough money to settle the debt in a smaller lump-sum.
- Be honest about your situation, as you may have more room to ask for a discount if you have a long-term health condition or other financial burden. Take notes of your conversation with the creditor.
You can use a cost comparison tool like Healthcare Bluebook to research the average price of the service you received in your area, which may be used as leverage while you negotiate the balance in your collection account. And if you aren't confident in your own negotiation skills, you may consider enlisting the help of a nonprofit credit counselor to speak with your creditors on your behalf.
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Utilize a medical financing card or 0% APR credit card
Some medical providers offer low-interest and no-interest financing options through a medical credit card like CareCredit. Keep in mind that these payment plans are typically offered through the original health care provider, not debt collectors. They also typically come with a high purchase APR if you don't adhere to the payment agreement.
Alternatively, you could consider opening a new credit card with a 0% APR purchase period. This may allow you to repay your medical expenses without paying interest for a period of up to 21 months. It's important to note that these offers are generally reserved for applicants with very good or excellent credit, defined by the FICO model as 740 or higher.
You can visit Credible to compare credit cards with 0% APR introductory offers.
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Consolidate medical debts into a fixed-rate personal loan
One common way to repay debt is with an unsecured personal loan that you repay in fixed monthly payments over a set period of months or years. Since personal loans have fixed interest rates, they may offer more favorable repayment terms than variable-rate credit cards.
Personal loan lenders determine interest rates and eligibility based on a borrower's credit score. Applicants with excellent credit will qualify for the lowest rates possible, while those with bad credit may not be eligible at all.
To see if you're a good candidate, you can get prequalified for a debt consolidation loan with a soft credit check. You can also browse current interest rates in the table below, and use Credible's personal loan calculator to estimate your monthly payments.
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Personal loan rates edge up: Still lower than same time last year
Our goal here at Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS Number 1681276, referred to as "Credible" below, is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we do promote products from our partner lenders, all opinions are our own.
The latest trends in interest rates for personal loans from the Credible marketplace, updated weekly. (iStock)
Borrowers with good credit seeking personal loans during the past seven days prequalified for rates that were slightly higher for 3-year and for 5-year fixed rates compared to the previous seven days.
For borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher who used the Credible marketplace to select a lender between Mar. 10 and Mar. 16:
- Rates on 3-year fixed-rate loans averaged 10.48%, slightly up from 10.43% the seven days before, and down from 11.16% a year ago.
- Rates on 5-year fixed-rate loans averaged 13.07%, slightly up from 13.01% the previous seven days, and down from 13.73% a year ago.
Personal loans have become a popular way to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and other loans. They can also be used to cover unexpected expenses like medical bills, take care of a major purchase or fund home improvement projects.
Rates for 3-year and 5-year fixed personal loans rose slightly over the past seven days. Rates for 3-year terms went up a slight 0.05%, while rates for 5-year terms increased by 0.06%. But rates for both terms remain well below average credit card interest rates, giving borrowers an opportunity to save on interest costs by refinancing credit card debt into a lower-interest personal loan.
Whether a personal loan is right for you often depends on multiple factors, including what rate you can qualify for. Comparing multiple lenders and their rates could help ensure you get the best possible personal loan for your needs.
It's always a good idea to comparison shop on sites like Credible to understand how much you qualify for and choose the best option for you.
Here are the latest trends in personal loan interest rates from the Credible marketplace, updated monthly.
Personal loan weekly rates trends
The chart above shows average prequalified rates for borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher who used the Credible marketplace to select a lender.
For the month of February 2022:
- Rates on 3-year personal loans averaged 10.52%, down from 11.09% in January.
- Rates on 5-year personal loans averaged 12.99%, down from 13.40% in January.
Rates on personal loans vary considerably by credit score and loan term. If you're curious about what kind of personal loan rates you may qualify for, you can use an online tool like Credible to compare options from different private lenders. Checking your rates won't affect your credit score.
All Credible marketplace lenders offer fixed-rate loans at competitive rates. Because lenders use different methods to evaluate borrowers, it’s a good idea to request personal loan rates from multiple lenders so you can compare your options.
Current personal loan rates by credit score
In February, the average prequalified rate selected by borrowers was:
- 8.32% for borrowers with credit scores of 780 or above choosing a 3-year loan
- 29.42% for borrowers with credit scores below 600 choosing a 5-year loan
Depending on factors such as your credit score, which type of personal loan you’re seeking and the loan repayment term, the interest rate can differ.
As shown in the chart above, a good credit score can mean a lower interest rate, and rates tend to be higher on loans with fixed interest rates and longer repayment terms.
How to get a lower interest rate
Many factors influence the interest rate a lender might offer you on a personal loan. But you can take some steps to boost your chances of getting a lower interest rate. Here are some tactics to try.
Increase credit score
Generally, people with higher credit scores qualify for lower interest rates. Steps that can help you improve your credit score over time include:
- Pay bills on time. Payment history is the most important factor in your credit score. Pay all your bills on time for the amount due.
- Check your credit report. Look at your credit report to ensure there are no errors on it. If you find errors, dispute them with the credit bureau.
- Lower your credit utilization ratio. Paying down credit card debt can improve this important credit scoring factor.
- Avoid opening new credit accounts. Only apply for and open credit accounts you actually need. Too many hard inquiries on your credit report in a short amount of time could lower your credit score.
Choose a shorter loan term
Personal loan repayment terms can vary from one to several years. Generally, shorter terms come with lower interest rates, since the lender’s money is at risk for a shorter period of time.
If your financial situation allows, applying for a shorter term could help you score a lower interest rate. Keep in mind the shorter term doesn’t just benefit the lender — by choosing a shorter repayment term, you’ll pay less interest over the life of the loan.
Get a cosigner
You may be familiar with the concept of a cosigner if you have student loans. If your credit isn’t good enough to qualify for the best personal loan interest rates, finding a cosigner with good credit could help you secure a lower interest rate.
Just remember, if you default on the loan, your cosigner will be on the hook to repay it. And cosigning for a loan could also affect their credit score.
Compare rates from different lenders
Before applying for a personal loan, it’s a good idea to shop around and compare offers from several different lenders to get the lowest rates. Online lenders typically offer the most competitive rates – and can be quicker to disburse your loan than a brick-and-mortar establishment.
But don’t worry, comparing rates and terms doesn’t have to be a time-consuming process.
Credible makes it easy. Just enter how much you want to borrow and you’ll be able to compare multiple lenders to choose the one that makes the most sense for you.
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1 in 20 New Jersey heart attacks caused by noise pollution, study says
A recent study presented to the American College of Cardiology concludes that living next to train tracks, airports and noisy highways is more than a mere annoyance: It could also cause a heart attack.
The study, presented at the American College of Cardiology's 71st Annual Scientific Session, looked at heart attack rates among nearly 16,000 New Jersey residents hospitalized for a heart attack in 2018, according to the ACC. Researchers used a database that records all cardiovascular hospitalizations in the state, as well as data from the state's Bureau of Transportation Statistics to calculate noise levels.
Patients were divided into two groups: those who experienced noise levels of 65 decibels or higher (equivalent to a loud conversation or laughter) and those with low noise exposure (less than 50 decibels a day).
Dr. Abel Moreyra, a cardiology professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the study’s lead author, said the heart attack rate was 72% higher in places with high levels of noise pollution. Researchers later concluded that high noise exposure was responsible for about 1 in 20 heart attacks in New Jersey.
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"As cardiologists, we are used to thinking about many traditional risk factors such as smoking, hypertension or diabetes," Moreyra said in a news release. "This study and others suggest maybe we should start thinking about air pollution and noise pollution as additional risk factors for cardiovascular disease."
The study is one of the first to look at the link between noise and heart disease in America, but researchers said it aligns with other studies done in Europe.
Moreyra said other dense urban areas would likely see a similar pattern.
The study didn’t examine the biology behind the link, but noise can cause chronic stress, sleep loss, anxiety and depression, all of which can impact heart health, Moreyra said. Living near transportation infrastructure also brings more exposure to vehicle exhaust and other pollution that increase rates of heart disease.
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"Air pollution and noise go hand-in-hand," Moreyra said. "The question is: how much of this effect is due to particle pollution, and how much is noise?"
There is a caveat in the findings: Researchers didn’t account for demographic, socioeconomic or other health risk factors. They also didn’t look for noise exposure at work or other places.
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Arson investigation: El Mirage Police arrest man in connection with domestic violence incident
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. - Officials with the El Mirage Police Department say they have arrested a man in connection with a domestic violence incident that allegedly escalated to arson.
According to a spokesperson with El Mirage Police, 30-year-old Jajuann Ernest Robert Jones has been booked into Maricopa County Jail, and is accused of committing multiple offenses, including attempted first degree murder, arson of occupied structure, and reckless endangerment.
Investigators allege Jones is connected with various incidents, the first of which happened on March 14, when El Mirage Police officers responded to an aggravated assault call at a home near Grand Avenue and Acoma Drive. Officers later learned that the suspect, since identified as Jones, pointed a gun at a woman, identified as Jones' estranged wife, in front of her kids in this particular incident, and fled.
On the night of March 28, officers were called back to the house due to harassing calls Jones allegedly made to the victim. The calls included threats on the woman's life, and threats of physical harm. Hours later, during the early morning hours of March 29, crews responded to a fire call at the house. The fire, which was extinguished by neighbors, involved the home's front door, as well as a garage door. Officers who responded to the fire smelled a strong odor of gasoline, according to a statement released by police.
No one was injured, according to investigators, and fire officials conducted an arson investigation. Jones was later found at a Scottsdale hotel on March 30, and arrested on the afternoon of March 31.
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Lowering gas prices: President Biden releases 180M barrels of oil from strategic reserve
PHOENIX - Are Arizona gas prices about to go down? President Joe Biden is releasing 180 million barrels of oil over the next six months in hopes of making that happen. It's the largest release since America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in 1974.
Experts say one million barrels a day will fill the gap created during the COVID-19 pandemic when supply and demand both went down, but you may want to pump the brakes before getting too excited about better prices at the pump.
$60, $80, $100 to fill up your tank? Arizonans have had enough.
"Before I used to put 11 gallons in my car, it was like, $30. That's a $25 difference now," said Sarhaa Azima, an Uber driver.
SUV driver Sammy Black says, "We need to get them lower than that. I don't know who we got to talk to… President Biden, what's up? Help us drop these prices, Biden."
"..the bottom line is if we want lower gas prices, we need to have more oil supply right now," said President Biden. He hears the cries for help, promising to flood the market by releasing one million barrels a day from the nation's strategic supply.
One Arizona State University economics professor calls it a good start, but a temporary fix.
"About adding one million barrels a day from the reserve. So that I can help a little bit in terms of oil prices and gasoline prices at the park," said Professor Lee McPheters.
McPheters says the U.S. uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day, but the global market is five times that at 100 million barrels a day.
"That’s gonna be a drop in the bucket for the global supply. Therefore, I would expect we’re looking at something on the range of a few cents at best."
Arizona drivers are currently paying the seventh-highest prices in the nation at $4.67 a gallon. And a price drop that's only a drop in the bucket isn't what they want to hear.
"I would like to see gas prices drop as soon as possible. Then we can get life back to normal. Because this is getting ridiculous," said Black.
There are a lot of factors in play from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine and it's unclear if domestic oil producers will ramp up production – afraid of prices dropping again, and they'll be stuck with the bill.
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Parent of transgender child speaks out after Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signs anti-trans bills
PHOENIX - Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has signed bills banning transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams and prohibiting gender reassignment surgeries for minors.
The governor described Senate bills 1138 and 1165 as legislation to "protect female athletes" and "to ensure that individuals undergoing irreversible gender reassignment surgery are of adult age."
"This legislation is common-sense and narrowly-targeted to address these two specific issues — while ensuring that transgender individuals continue to receive the same dignity, respect and kindness as every individual in our society," Ducey said in a Twitter thread.
Two GOP governors last week bucked conservatives in their party and vetoed bills in Indiana and Utah requiring trans girls to play on boys sports teams.
Republicans have said blocking transgender players from girls sports teams would protect the integrity of women’s sports, fearing that trans athletes would have an advantage.
Many point to the transgender collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, who won an individual title at the NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championship last week.
But there are few trans athletes in Arizona schools. Since 2017, about 16 trans athletes have received waivers to play on teams that align with their gender identities out of about 170,000 school-based athletes in the state, according to the Arizona Interscholastic Association.
"This bill to me is all about biology," said Republican Rep. Shawnna Bolick, who said she played on a coed team in the 1980s but could not have made the high school boys team. "In my opinion, its unfair to allow biological males to compete with biological girls sports."
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Critics said the legislation dehumanizes trans youth to address an issue that hasn’t been a problem.
"We’re talking about legislating bullying against children who are already struggling just to get by," said Democratic Rep. Kelli Butler. fighting back tears.
Until two years ago, no state had passed a law regulating gender-designated youth sports. But the issue has become front-and-center in Republican-led statehouses since Idaho lawmakers passed the nation’s first sports participation law in 2020. It’s now blocked in court, along with another in West Virginia.
"This bill is creating a pointless and harmful solution to a non-existent issue," Skyler Morrison, a 13-year-old transgender girl, told lawmakers during a committee hearing earlier this month. "It’s obvious this bill is just an excuse to discriminate against transgender girls."
Republicans around the country have leaned into culture war issues including transgender rights. The debate and vote on the transgender sports legislation came the same morning the House considered and passed a ban on abortions after 15-week gestation. Republicans said little during debates on all three bills.
‘It is irreversible’
Arizona is one of 20 states that have considered legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care. The bill originally would have banned all such care for minors but was scaled back to restrict only irreversible procedures, such as surgeries related to gender reassignment.
Similar legislation passed the Idaho House earlier this month but it died in the Senate amid concerns from some Republicans about restricting parental rights.
Supporters of the Arizona bill said it would prevent children from making permanent decisions that they might later come to regret. Republican Rep. John Kavanagh compared the vote to the Legislature’s unanimous decision in years past to ban genital mutilation.
"We should stand the same way today because this is mutilation of children," Kavanagh said. "It is irreversible. It is horrific."
Critics said the decision should be left to parents, their children and the health care team caring for them. They said surgeries are only performed after extensive care and therapy.
"We’re talking about our kids, who are already going to be taking the proper steps with their parents to be able to be who they are," said Democratic Rep. Andres Cano.
The bill originally would have banned all gender-affirming care, including hormone therapies and puberty blockers but was scaled back in the Senate.
Similar legislation passed the Idaho House earlier this month but died in the Senate, where some Republicans said they were concerned about restricting parental rights.
Parents, advocates speak out
On March 30, a day after the bills were signed into law by Gov. Ducey, parents and advocates expressed their devastation.
"It was a punch," said Ai Binh Ho. "It takes away our rights to make decisions together with our children."
Ho's four-year-old daughter is transgender.
"For me to say ‘you’ll never be part of a team,' I just don’t even know what to say, how to tell her that," said Ho. "It takes away that hope that we have for her."
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, promised his administration will stand up for the transgender community.
"The onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong," said the President.
On March 30, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to states, warning it will go after states that practice unlawful discrimination based on gender identity. In response, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich tweeted ‘See you in court (again).'
In the meantime, some parents are now thinking about leaving Arizona, for the sake of their kids.
"You know when she reaches the age where she wants the surgery, and is ready for the surgery -- we know that the surgery decreases suicide, it is a lifeline for her -- I think we will have to move," said Ho.
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Police chase suspect in custody after leading CHP on high-speed pursuit
LOS ANGELES - A police chase suspect is in custody after leading authorities on a pursuit across parts of Los Angeles County.
Prior to the arrest, SkyFOX was over the chase scene in Whittier as a black Honda minivan led the California Highway Patrol on a high-speed chase.
The suspect led CHP on a chase across parts of San Gabriel Valley before the Honda minivan drove towards Pasadena.
The suspect eventually stopped the Honda minivan in Pasadena shortly before officers arrested him on foot.
Officials did not say if the suspect was wanted for other crimes leading up to the chase.
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Vandals damage van belonging to Phoenix animal rescue; act discovered as crews get ready to head to Mexico
PHOENIX - A Phoenix area animal rescue was vandalized, and officials with the organization say it was their cars that were targeted.
The act was discovered after crews noticed their transport vans were leaking fuel. Staff members say someone drilled holes in their gas tank, and also caused damage to one of the mirrors
"You know, we really want to focus on rescuing and not having to deal with, you know, calling the police and dealing with insurance and being down a vehicle, just all of the juggling that goes along with it and the feeling of being violated," said Heather Allen, President and CEO of HALO Animal Rescue.
HALO Animal Rescue's transport team in north Phoenix was just leaving for a trip to pick up 35 rescue dogs in Rocky Point, Mexico when they noticed something wasn’t quite right.
"Stopped at the gas station to fill up, and as we were pumping the gas, we noticed that it was just landing onto the ground," said Allen.
After taking it to a repair shop, they learned someone had drilled holes into their van's gas tank, and also caused damage to the drivers side mirror…
"I suspect that somebody did it because they feel very desperate," said Allen. "Gas prices are pretty high. It's not really an excuse. I mean, I feel like people need to, you know, find a legitimate way to get what they need, and it is very sad."
The incident that was discovered on March 31 was not the first time HALO Animal Rescue was targeted. About a week ago, their security footage picked up someone detaching a hose from their gas tank to siphon gas. Officials with the animal rescue are now worried it could happen again.
For now, however, the non-profit is forced to delay their trip to Mexico to deal with the huge repair bill.
"We work very hard to raise the money that we have, and we want the money to go towards saving the animals, and you know, this gas tank has to be purchased from a dealership. They don't make aftermarket gas tanks. So, it's $2,500 to repair it, and it's just sad," said Allen
The rescue team is hoping to take another vehicle to Tocky Point on April 1 to pick up the dogs.
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COVID-19 relief fraud case: Nearly 20 Arizonans accused of engaging in $3.5M scheme
PHOENIX - A crackdown on fraudsters who swooped in on billions of COVID-19 relief funding is underway in the United States, as well as in the Phoenix area.
The fraud happened early on in the pandemic, and we're looking at a federal case rooted in the Phoenix area after a grand jury indictment of 20 defendants was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.
The defendants are accused of using fraudulent applications to obtain millions of dollars in Small Businesses Administration (SBA) loans.
It's still an active case, but the U.S. Secret Service spoke exclusively to FOX 10, and say the leaders of this group are facing federal charges after they allegedly targeted the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs within a span of four months.
The defendants reportedly racked up at least $3.5 million.
"This is a great thing. A great victory that's going to save companies that are incredible companies that are going to need some help because of what happened," said former President Donald Trump when the programs were announced. The programs were much-needed financial relief at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On March 27, 2020, Trump signed the CARES Act. The emergency bill provided more than $2 billion to individual citizens, healthcare facilities and businesses facing uncharted territory at the time.
Two years later, the Department of Justice is now taking action on alleged fraud linked to more than $8 billion in pandemic relief across the nation.
"Each case is different but all of them involve either some type of wire fraud, some type of bank fraud, some type of identity theft or identity fraud, some type of money laundering," explained Frank Boudreaux Jr., special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service at the Phoenix Field Division.
He says his office is investigating several active cases related to COVID-19 relief fraud.
"All these funds come from taxpayer money, so we’ve all worked hard, and we’ve all contributed to this, and we all have to pay higher taxes or more taxes than we want to because there has been a big criminal element involved in this," Boudreaux Jr. said.
An alleged organized operation takes millions
This is a major case unfolding in the U.S. District Court of Arizona as 20 people are accused of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering. Most of them living across the Phoenix area, and were indicted in December 2021.
According to prosecutors, the main players in this case are brothers Nino Mihilli and Nikolas Mihilli, along with Ernest Lerma, Gerald Blaise and Devonte Stanton, who recruited co-conspirators to submit false applications for COVID-19 relief loans.
The others prosecutors say are involved are Veno Kassab, Antonio Herrera, Kenneth Herrera, Dhivakar Krishnan Veeraragavan, Daniel Ortiz, Stephen Dison, Vanessa Ortiz, Brandon Scott Hearvey, Robert Scott Adams III, Ariana Elizabeth Vazquez, Marquon Germain Watson, Maly Virginia Bahena Galiz, Jordan Nathaniel Poland, Zonnie Elton Collum, Renyeh Catherine Carter.
What the indictment says is false are the claims in gross earnings, cost of goods sold and the number of employees.
The scheme allegedly involves the dependents getting "kickbacks" after funding, and Boudreaux Jr. says there are so many cases like this throughout the Phoenix-area.
"They’re recruiting people because they may have an existing name, a bank account that they use, but they’re basically coaching them on how to get the loan and taking the percentage of the amount on the loan that they get," Boudreaux Jr. said.
Documents show the money would come from the SBA, Wells Fargo and Kabbage, an authorized SBA lender. This comes after defendants electronically submit applications using the names of their LLC's, or limited liability companies.
"A lot of these companies were created during the pandemic," Boudreaux Jr. said. "They were created to get the pandemic relief."
We learned some defendants formed 11 new LLC's during the beginning of the pandemic, and there's a common theme between the applications.
Nearly all of them were submitted through an internet provider address registered to "Mak Wireless" a company registered to Nino Mihilli. Investigators say he's the main recruiter in the alleged conspiracy.
Court documents show wire transactions from the SBA to defendants ranged from $10,000 to $150,000.
Nino and Nikolas Mihilli received more than a million dollars in funds from the SBA, cashier check deposits, or transfers from alleged co-conspirators.
This reportedly all happened from May to September 2020 as federal agencies pumped out relief money in the early stages of the pandemic.
Appearing in federal court regarding the conditions of his release, 28-year-old Devonte Stanton is one of the accused recruiters in the COVID relief scheme. Documents show his accounts received a total of $230,000 from other defendants.
Law enforcement sources say Stanton was seen in a rap music video flaunting stacks of cash. The song titled, "In Scam We Trust."
When asked if Stanton would like to comment on the allegations, he said he declined to comment.
He was then asked if he recruited people to fraudulently apply for SBA loans. His response, "Why would I do something like that?"
'Don’t think that there’s not a trail'
As for the scheme costing American taxpayers billions of dollars, Boudreaux Jr. warns Arizonans to stay away from social media scams.
"If someone approaches you with the idea that you can take out one of these loans to make money, you’re at risk of putting yourself in jail. It’s a crime. So don’t think it’s a victimless crime, don’t think that you’re not gonna get caught, don’t think that there’s not a trail," he warned.
The trial for this large fraud case is set for May 2023.
In early March 2022, the DOJ announced that Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers will serve as director for COVID-19 fraud enforcement. He says he wants to focus on high-scale criminal enterprises and foreign actors who tried to profit from the pandemic.
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Phoenix area commuters looking at vanpool as a way to save money amid high gas prices
PHOENIX - As gas prices remain high in the Phoenix area, those who commute to work are definitely feeling the strain.
Some, however, are working to keep cost low by using vanpool services, with officials from Valley Metro saying they have had several more people who have expressed interest in its vanpool in recent weeks.
Vanpool is a transit option that allows groups to commute to work together, and companies in the Phoenix area are giving commuters a way to save.
"They're very fuel efficient. You get to use the HOV lane legally, and your commute time is very structured," said Frank Kehlenbach, who coordinates the vanpool for county employees going from a designated pool area in Chandler to the Phoenix offices.
It is a daily commute that only sets its riders back $50 a month. The cost for vanpool rose recently, for the same reason why commuters are paying more for their individual commutes.
"I drive a Tahoe privately, and you don't wanna know what it costs to fill that up," said Kehlenbach. "Even a fuel efficient car, I don't know of many people that can drive a gas powered vehicle 27 to 30 miles one-way, and get away with only spending $50 per month for fuel."
Amy Jones has been catching rides with vanpool for the last 18 years.
"The pick-up point where I'm at is a mile from where I live, and it just makes it super easy to get to work," said Jones. "It's faster, and the savings in gas money, aren't too bad either. I would say I've saved, over 18 years, thousands of dollars in gas money, and more importantly, my wellbeing."
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Suspect in Pinal County deputy-involved shooting is affiliated with neo-Nazi group, officials say
DUDLEYVILLE, Ariz. - Officials with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office have released new details surrounding a shooting that left a sheriff's deputy and the suspect injured on March 30.
In a statement released on March 30, officials say a PCSO deputy responded to a trespassing call in the Dudleyville area at around 7:00 p.m., and the shooting followed thereafter.
"Turned out the subject had a warrant. At one point, that subject pulled a gun and shot our deputy. Our deputy returned fire, striking the suspect," Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said in a video tweeted out by the department Thursday.
The sheriff's office said the deputy "is out of surgery, alert and in good spirits."
Suspect identified
Jason Forrester (Courtesy: Pinal County Sheriff's Office)
On the night of March 31, officials released new information surrounding the suspect in the shooting.
In a statement, officials identified the suspect as 39-year-old Jason Forrester.
"He has previously served multiple sentences with [the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry] for burglary, weapons offenses, aggravated assault, and drug violations. He is also an affiliate of the [Aryan Brotherhood] group," read a portion of the statement.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Aryan Brotherhood is "the oldest and most notorious racist prison gang in the United States."
According to information we obtained from the ADCRR, Forrester has been in prison on multiple occasions for various criminal offenses, including burglary, escape, assault, and other weapons and drug-related offenses. He remains hospitalized in stable condition.
An investigation is underway after a Pinal County deputy was shot.
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1 officer killed, 2 others shot in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
LEBANON, Pa. - A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two others injured Thursday during a shooting that occurred while responding to a domestic disturbance call, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
"This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone," Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
"As one can imagine, it's clearly a traumatic event," Breiner said. "Our guys are strong, but we're human and we have families."
The slain officer's name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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Betty Reid Soskin, nation's oldest park ranger, retires at 100 years old
RICHMOND, Calif. - Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest active National Park Service ranger, retired Thursday following more than 15 years sharing stories of her life and those of other working women during World War II at Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond.
Soskin, who turned 100 years old in September, provided an interpretive program to park visitors Thursday and visited with co-workers. A public celebration for her is scheduled for April 16.
Soskin's work as a ranger has influenced the way the park service across the U.S. conveys history.
"To be a part of helping to mark the place where that dramatic trajectory of my own life, combined with others of my generation, will influence the future by the footprints we've left behind has been incredible," Soskin said in a statement.
Soskin worked as a file clerk in a segregated Union hall during World War II. Later, she and her husband Mel Reid founded a record store called Reid's Records, which closed in 2019.
Soskin became a permanent National Park Service employee in 2011. Since then, she has led public programs and recounted her memories and thoughts at the park visitor center.
"Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission," said NPS Director Chuck Sams in a statement. "Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation."
Soskin participated in meetings with the National Park Service and the city of Richmond to prepare the general management plan for Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park.
She worked on a park service grant to tell yet untold stories of Black Americans who worked in the U.S. during the war. That led to a temporary job with the park service when she was 84 years old.
"Being a primary source in the sharing of that history - my history - and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling," Soskin said. "It has proven to bring meaning to my final years."
Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park was established in 2000.
"The National Park Service is grateful to Ranger Betty for sharing her thoughts and first-person accounts in ways that span across generations," said Naomi Torres, acting superintendent of Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, in a statement.
"She has used stories of her life on the Home Front, drawing meaning from those experiences in ways that make that history truly impactful for those of us living today," Torres said.
A free ceremony to recognize Soskin has been scheduled for Saturday, April 16 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Craneway Pavilion at 1414 Harbour Way South in Richmond. All ages are invited, and reservations are not required.
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Water contaminant linked to infant brain damage won't be regulated by EPA
WASHINGTON - Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.
The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the "best available peer reviewed science." The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.
At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation. The decision was one of many Trump-era rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections. The Biden administration ordered a review of that decision at the start of his term.
EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox said the agency was "applying the right tools to support public health protections."
Environmental groups slammed the Biden administration’s decision.
"The Trump EPA gave perchlorate a pass; it was a bad decision then, and it’s a bad decision now," said Erik Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group. "Tap water across America will remain contaminated by this toxic chemical."
Perchlorate from runoff contaminates the drinking water of as many as 16 million Americans, the Obama administration said in 2011 when it announced the EPA would for the first time set maximum limits for the chemical compound. It has been used in the U.S. for decades, particularly by the military and defense industries, and is commonly found in munitions, fireworks, matches and signal flares.
Exposure to the compound can damage the development of fetuses and children and cause measurable drops in IQ in newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2019, when it called for stringent federal limits. It damages human development by disrupting the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In its 2020 review, the EPA said state-level regulations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites had lowered the health risks posed by the compound. Massachusetts and California, for example, limit perchlorate in drinking water to 2 parts per billion and 6 parts per billion, respectively.
"But the problem is that for the rest of the country the states have not set standards," said Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In the Southwest, perchlorate has been detected in groundwater that entered Lake Mead in Nevada. Manufacturing activities in Henderson, Nevada, were thought to be the source of the chemical. The EPA said cleanup activities at two industrial sites near Las Vegas between 2002 and 2006 resulted in reduced levels of perchlorate in samples provided since then by Nevada environmental and water agencies.
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites of waste explosives, where severe perchlorate contamination is known to exist.
But environmental advocates said such measures fall short of what's needed.
"Simply put, toxic chemicals used in rocket fuel do not belong in our drinking water," said John Rumpler, senior attorney with Environment America.
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Gov. DeSantis broaches repeal of Disney World's decades-old self-governing status in Florida
Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed on Thursday the suggestion of repealing a 55-year-old state law that allows Disney to effectively govern itself on the grounds of Walt Disney World, following the company’s public opposition to a controversial parental rights law in Florida.
"What I would say as a matter of first principle is I don’t support special privileges in law just because a company is powerful, and they’ve been able to wield a lot of power," DeSantis said during a press conference in West Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday.
Disney has been engaged in a war of words with Republicans in Florida leading up to Monday’s signing of the controversial bill, which prohibits classroom instruction on "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" with children in third grade or younger "or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."
DeSantis referenced a bill reining in big tech that Republicans were working through the legislature last year when Disney added a "carve out" at the "11th hour" for theme parks.
"I’m thinking to myself, ‘This is ridiculous,’" DeSantis said. "Honestly, it was embarrassing."
DeSantis continued, "I think what has happened is there’s a lot of these special privileges that are not justifiable, but because Disney had held so much sway, they were able to sustain a lot of special treatment over the years."
DeSantis said that Disney has "lost a lot of the pull that they used to have" over the company's reaction to the parental rights law and said he thinks that’s a "good thing for our state because the state should be governed by the best interest of the people."
"I would say any special privileges that are in law I would like to get rid of generally," DeSantis added. "I think in this particular case with Disney, I just don’t think you have very many people in the legislature anymore who are going to be able to defend a lot of what has been done over many years to really have them almost govern themselves in some of these things. That was probably never appropriate to start, but is certainly not appropriate now at this point."
Cinderella Castle under construction (Photo from DisneyParks Blog)
"Yesterday was the 2nd meeting in a week w/fellow legislators to discuss a repeal of the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which allows Disney to act as its own government," Roach tweeted. "If Disney wants to embrace woke ideology, it seems fitting that they should be regulated by Orange County."
After DeSantis signed the school-related bill this week, Disney released a statement slamming the legislation.
"Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law," Disney said. "Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country."
The bill has been dubbed the "Don’t Say Gay" bill by Democrats and media outlets, though it does not ban mention of the word.
DeSantis responded to Disney’s Monday criticism and said the company "crossed the line."
"This state is governed by the interest of the people of the state of Florida. It is not based on the demands of California corporate executives," DeSantis said. "They do not run this state. They do not control this state."
Recent polling has shown that the bill is popular among Florida voters, including 52% of likely voters in the Democratic primary who say that they oppose the kind of teaching that the bill prohibits.
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Texas teen arrested after posing on Instagram with drugs, money, guns
BEXAR COUNTY, Texas - Two people have been arrested after one of them posted photos of himself with drugs, weapons and cash on Instagram, says the Bexar County Sheriff's Office (BCSO).
BCSO says that on March 29, it received information that 17-year-old David Anakin Guerra was posting on social media photos of himself in possession of what looked like THC cartridges, weapons and cash.
David Anakin Guerra, 17, allegedly posted images of himself with weapons, drugs and cash on Instagram. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office)
BCSO Covert, Intel, and Street Crimes Units began their investigation into the posts and then located David Guerra and conducted a traffic stop on his vehicle. During the stop, deputies reportedly found hash oil, a loaded handgun, and cash.
Guerra and his passenger, 21-year-old Ezra Sebastian Guerra, were then detained following the execution of a search warrant of their home in the 8900 block of Raywood Street in San Antonio. Deputies found more hash oil, two handguns, a high-powered pistol, cocaine, marijuana and $15,000 in cash, says BCSO.
Ezra Guerra was charged with second-degree felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver 1-4 grams and state-jail felony possession of marijuana 4 oz-5 lbs. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office)
Both were booked into the Bexar County jail.
David Guerra, 17, was booked on charges of third-degree felony Possession of a Controlled Substance1-4 grams, Reckless Conduct-Traffic, a Class B Misdemeanor, and Unlawfully Carrying of a Weapon, a Class A Misdemeanor, says BCSO.
Ezra Sebastian Guerra, 21, was booked on charges of second-degree felony Possession of a Controlled Substance With Intent to Deliver 1-4 grams and state-jail felony Possession of Marijuana 4 oz- 5 lbs- State Jail Felony.
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7 memorable weather events that took place on April Fools' Day
Each year jokers around the world get the day of April 1 to play tricks on unsuspecting victims, but as the flowers are blooming and air masses clash, Mother Nature never seems to take a day off to play pranks on the unsuspecting.
The Farmers' Almanac says April Fools’ Day is thought to have originated in Europe during the 1500s but has grown into a worldwide phenomenon.
Because the date coincides with the annual change of season from winter to spring, a range of weather events are possible on April 1.
From snowstorms to tornadoes and even earthquakes, April Fools’ Day has seen it all.
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1) 1875: First daily newspaper weather map
The first newspaper to include a daily weather section was The London Times, which debuted its revamped looked on April 1, 1875.
The daily weather map was a unique feature that wasn’t part of any other previous publication.
The National Weather Service said the first U.S. newspaper with a weather map didn’t debut until about a year later and did not become a regular feature until 1879.
Of course, nowadays, instead of getting your weather forecast only one time a day, you can get updates around the clock and track storms in 3D on the FOX Weather app.
2) 1946: Aleutian Islands Earthquake
One of the largest earthquakes to impact the United States happened on April 1, 1946.
The 8.6 magnitude earthquake was centered along the Alaskan coast, but the waves produced by the tremor did the most damage.
The United States Geological Survey reports the earthquake sent a tsunami around the Pacific, killing more than 100 people and causing millions of dollars in damage.
The wreckage of a political party clubhouse on Kamehameha Avenue, Hilo, Hawaii after the Tsunami generated by the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake of April 1, 1946. (Photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
3) 1960: First weather satellite sends imagery back to Earth
The Television InfraRed Observational Satellite, or TIROS 1, became the first object in space to beam back images for meteorologists on April 1, 1960.
The satellite monitored cloud cover and other weather dynamics, but NASA says TIROS 1 was only in operation for 78 days.
Despite the satellite’s short lifespan, scientists deemed the program a success, which paved the way for future missions.
The TIROS Program was designed to determine if satellites could be useful to study weather. (NASA)
4) 1974: Tornado outbreak
The tornado outbreak of April 1, 1974, was caused by a low-pressure system exiting the Plains which produced severe thunderstorms from the Gulf Coast into the Ohio Valley.
The Storm Prediction Center reports at least 23 tornadoes formed with three that were rated F-3 on the Fujita scale.
Despite the system being well forecasted, four people were killed, and dozens were injured during the outbreak.
Meteorologists credit this severe weather event for getting the eastern third of the nation ready for a much larger outbreak just a few days later.
The storm system that produced the severe weather on April 1 was featured on National Weather Service maps moving offshore on April 2, 1974. (National Weather Service)
5) 1997: April Fool’s Day blizzard
Before the blizzard on April 1, 1997, mild weather fooled some New Englanders into thinking that winter weather was over.
To their surprise, on April Fool’s Day morning, feet of snow covered the ground in parts of the region.
An early spring blizzard brought feet of snow to parts of New England. (FOX Weather)
Snow was reported from West Virginia through Maine, with areas in and around Massachusetts receiving the heaviest snowfall.
The National Weather Service said Boston’s Logan International Airport received 25.4 inches of snow, making the event the fourth-biggest snowstorm in the city’s history.
Thousands of people were reported to be stranded in the springtime storm, and it took road crews several days to clear roadways.
FILE IMAGE - A person sleds down Garden Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, free from automobiles after a blizzard on April 2, 1997, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
6) 2021: record heat in Arizona
Around 120 miles southwest of Phoenix, the town of Tacna, Arizona, holds the record for having the warmest April Fool’s Day during the last decade.
The temperature on April 1, 2021, reached a blistering 99 °F.
Average highs this time of year only reach the mid-80s.
Climatologists say the lack of cloud cover, associated moisture and dry winds usually helps the desert rank as one of the warmest places in the nation.
FILE IMAGE - A solar eclipse is pictured in the desert of southwest Arizona. (Photo by © Richard Cummins/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
7) 2021: -14 °F in Utah
The coldest temperature recorded on April Fools’ Day during the last decade in the U.S. happened in 2021 in Peter Sinks, Utah.
The mercury dropped to 14 degrees below zero at the mountain site.
Peter Sinks continuously sets records for being one of the coldest locations in the lower 48.
Experts say the area’s topography, high elevation and dry climate contribute to Old Man Winter sticking around longer than in other parts of the country.
Peter Sinks, Utah is one of the coldest places in the lower 48. (Utah Geological Survey)
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Gov. Ducey: Arizona sending surplus military equipment to Ukraine
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced on March 31 that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bulletproof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag.
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House poised to pass federal marijuana legalization, MORE Act — what you need to know
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to pass legislation on Friday to legalize marijuana nationwide.
The bill, titled the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, would essentially remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act list and decriminalize it.
Marijuana is currently a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning that it is labeled as having a high potential for abuse and currently has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, on par with heroin and LSD.
The final rule for the process to consider the MORE Act was approved by the House Rules Committee last Wednesday. This followed a nearly 500-page report on what the legislation would accomplish.
The Committee on the Judiciary wrote that the bill would decriminalize cannabis, provide for reinvestment in certain people and communities negatively impacted by the war on drugs, and provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses.
The bill is likely to pass along party lines — with most democrats expected to approve it and most Republicans expected to oppose the bill.
"In my view, criminal penalties for marijuana offenses, and the resulting collateral consequences, are unjust and harmful to our society. The MORE Act comprehensively addresses this injustice, and I urge all my colleagues to support this bill today," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, who authored the MORE Act, said in a September 2021 statement about the bill.
If passed, the bill would also need approval in the Senate before it can head to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
But this isn’t the first time in congressional history that a chamber of Congress will be taking the bill up on the floor.
The bill passed the House in 2020 but saw no action in the Senate. Then, in September, it again cleared the sponsor’s panel for the current session.
Senate passes marijuana research bill
The vote comes just a week after the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill that would streamline efforts for the medical and scientific research of marijuana.
RELATED: Senate unanimously passes marijuana research bill
The bill was sponsored by Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, according to a news release from Feinstein’s official website.
"Current rules and regulations make it hard for researchers to study how marijuana and marijuana-derived medications can best be used to treat various conditions," said Feinstein. "This important legislation will cut the red tape around the research process, helping get FDA-approved, marijuana-derived medications safely to patients."
The bill would also encourage the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to create cannabis-based medicines and greenlight physicians to discuss both the known harmful and beneficial impacts of using marijuana products such as CBD, according to the bill.
"This bipartisan bill is critical to better understanding the marijuana plant and its potential benefits and side effects," Grassley said in a statement. "It will empower the FDA to analyze CBD and medical marijuana products in a safe and responsible way so that the American public can decide whether to utilize them in the future based on sound scientific data. Researching marijuana is widely supported by my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and it’s a smart step forward in addressing this current schedule I drug."
Cannabis becomes fast-growing industry
Currently, 18 states, along with Guam and Washington D.C. have legalized marijuana for adult use.
In a 2021 Gallup poll, the support for marijuana legalization reached a record high, with 68% of participants supporting it.
Meanwhile, cannabis is one of the fastest-growing industries in the nation. Sales of adult-use and medical marijuana hit $25 billion in 2021, according to a report by Leafly, that was created in partnership with the cannabis economic analysis firm Whitney Economics. Researchers also found last year was the first time that job creation in the marijuana industry exceeded six figures, with 107,059 new jobs created, compared to 32,700 in 2019.
FILE IMAGE - A customer prepares marijuana at a cannabis lounge in West Hollywood, California, U.S., on Oct. 1, 2019. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Last year, Amazon said that it will stop testing job seekers for marijuana.
The company, the second-largest private employer in the U.S. behind Walmart, made the change as states continue to legalize cannabis or introduce laws banning employers from testing for it.
RELATED: Amazon says it will no longer test jobseekers for marijuana use
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This story was reported from Los Angeles. Catherine Stoddard contributed.
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March jobs report 2022: US added 431,000 jobs in sign of economic health
WASHINGTON - America’s employers extended a streak of robust hiring in March, adding 431,000 jobs in a sign of the economy’s resilience in the face of a still-destructive pandemic and the highest inflation in 40 years.
The Labor Department’s report Friday showed that last month’s job growth helped reduce the unemployment rate to 3.6%, the lowest level since the pandemic erupted two years ago.
Despite the inflation surge, persistent supply bottlenecks, the damaging effects of COVID-19 and now a war in Europe, employers have added at least 400,000 jobs for 11 straight months.
Inflation may be starting to weaken consumer spending, the main driver of the economy. Americans increased their spending by just 0.2% in February, down from a much larger gain in January.
Still, the job market has continued to rebound with unexpected speed from the coronavirus recession. Job openings are at a near-record level, and applications for unemployment benefits have dropped to near their lowest point since 1969.
The still-solid U.S. job market reflects a robust rebound from the brief but devastating coronavirus recession, which wiped out 22 million jobs in March and April 2020 as businesses shut down or cut hours and Americans stayed home to avoid infection.
But the recovery has been swift. Fueled by generous federal aid, savings amassed during the pandemic and ultra-low borrowing rates engineered by the Federal Reserve, U.S. consumers have spent so fast that many factories, warehouses, shipping companies and ports have failed to keep pace with their customer demand. Supply chains have snarled, forcing up prices.
As the pandemic has eased, consumers have been broadening their spending beyond goods to services, such as health care, travel and entertainment, which they had long avoided during the worst of the pandemic. The result: Chronically high inflation is causing hardships for many lower-income households that face sharp price increases for such necessities as food, gasoline and rent.
It’s unclear whether the economy can maintain its momentum of the past year. The government relief checks are gone. The Fed raised its benchmark short-term interest rate two weeks ago and will likely keep raising it well into next year. Those rate hikes will result in more expensive loans for many consumers and businesses.
Inflation has also eroded consumers’ spending power: Hourly pay, adjusted for higher consumer prices, fell 2.6% in February from a year earlier — the 11th straight month in which inflation has outpaced year-over-year wage growth. According to AAA, average gasoline prices, at $4.23 a gallon, are up a dizzying 47% from a year ago.
Squeezed by inflation, some consumers are paring their spending. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that consumer spending rose just 0.2%% in February — and fell 0.4% when adjusted for inflation — down from a 2.7% increase in January.
Still, the job market has kept hurtling ahead. Employers posted a near-record 11.3 million positions in February. Nearly 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs, a sign of confidence that they could find something better.
Even so, so many jobs were lost in 2020 that the economy still remains more than 2 million shy of the number it had just before the pandemic struck. Over the past year, employers have added an average of 556,000 jobs a month. At that pace — no guarantee to continue — the nation would recover all the jobs lost to the pandemic by June. (That still wouldn’t include all the additional hiring that would have been done over the past two years under normal circumstances.)
Brighter job prospects are beginning to draw back into the labor force people who had remained on the sidelines because of health concerns, difficulty finding or affording daycare, generous unemployment benefits that have now expired or other reasons.
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Over the past year, 3.6 million people have joined the U.S. labor force, meaning they now either have a job or are looking for one. But their ranks are still nearly 600,000 short of where they stood in February 2020, just before the pandemic slammed into the economy.
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Orlando FreeFall death: New details expected Friday after teen's deadly fall from ride
ORLANDO, Fla. - More details are expected to be released on Friday about what happened when a 14-year-old fell to his death from the Orlando FreeFall ride at ICON Park.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. to talk about the horrible accident that has captivated the nation as the state continues to investigate.
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A memorial for Tyre Sampson continues to grow just over one week since it happened.
According to the ride manufacturer’s manual, the maximum weight limit for riders on the Orlando FreeFall is 287 pounds. Sampson’s father told FOX 35 News that the teen weighed 340 pounds, which would be 53 pounds over the weight limit.
A police vehicle drives past ICON Park following the death of a teenager on March 24, 2022. Credit: FOX 35 Orlando
State Senator Linda Stewart says she is in disbelief about the tragic accident.
"It is just really drove a stake in my heart," Stewart said. "We have to do something."
She’s read through documents released this week by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Now she’s waiting for their official investigative reports to see what went wrong.
"That will give us direction on where we need to go," Senator Stewart said.
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"I don’t see how anyone visually can look at a person and determine how much they weigh. So I think that’s one thing we need to look into, if there’s some kind of pad or weight thing they can step on. It's a green light if they’re under. Red light if they’re not and they’re not able to get on the ride."
Earlier this week, Brian Avery, an independent ride consultant and lecturer at the University of Florida told FOX 35 News there’s a loophole in Florida code where venues do not have to post weight requirements on signs outside the ride unless the ride manufacturer say in their manual that it needs to be done. Stewart said requiring weight limits to be put on signage at all amusement rides could be something to look into as well.
"I think a sign is helpful. I think a lot of people will look at that and if you’re over the limit you won’t want to risk your life," Senator Stewart said.
RELATED: Teen falls from Florida ride: Video shows moments leading up to deadly plunge
Another item that’s caught her attention, a letter from Funtime, the ride’s manufacturer to the state of Florida that read, in part, "It is no need for an extra safety or seat belt because the seat and restraint system fulfill more than the requirements."
If the Florida Department of Agriculture doesn’t make a change here, Stewart said she will work to get one.
"No matter what the manufacturer’s say, they could say in Florida you’re going to have a seatbelt. Just because the manufacturer says you don’t need one doesn’t mean we can’t require one," Stewart said.
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Unilever recalls certain Suave antiperspirant products due to elevated levels of benzene
Unilever U.S. is recalling certain Suave aerosol antiperspirants after some samples were found to have "slightly elevated levels" of benzene.
According to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an internal review of two Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirants "showed that unexpected levels of benzene came from the propellant that sprays the product out of the can."
It's the same issue that prompted the recall of certain Sure and Brut-branded deodorant and antiperspirant aerosol sprays last month and led Procter & Gamble to recall more than 30 of its aerosol spray products from various brands in December.
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Unilever's recall includes all lots of the Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirant Powder and Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirant Fresh, which have expiration dates through September 2023.
Unilever said its Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirant product line had already been discontinued in October "for business reasons" and that the "affected products were in limited distribution at U.S. retail stores and online."
Officials say retailers have already been notified to remove the recalled products from store shelves.
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Benzene is a chemical that can cause cancer with repeated exposure at high enough levels. It also can damage the immune system and prevent cells from functioning properly, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However, "based on an independent health hazard evaluation, daily exposure to benzene in the recalled products at the levels detected in testing would not be expected to cause adverse health consequences," according to the recall.
Still, consumers are told to throw out the affected products. No other Unilever or Suave products are included in this recall.
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Video shows Jada Pinkett Smith laughing at Chris Rock joke immediately after Will Smith's slap at Oscars
LOS ANGELES - A new video angle from Sunday night's Oscars ceremony shows Jada Pinkett Smith laughing at Chris Rock's comment immediately after Will Smith slapped him.
Smith stormed the Oscars stage and slapped Rock after he made a joke about Pinkett Smith's bald head while presenting an award.
"Will Smith just smacked the s--- out of me," Rock said as Smith walked off the stage.
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The new video angle, which features a shot of Pinkett Smith from behind, shows the actress laughing at Rock's comment.
Rock's remark came before Smith began yelling at the comedian from his seat.
"Keep my wife's name out your f---ing mouth," Smith could be heard yelling at Rock.
"Leave my wife's name out your f---ing mouth," he repeated.
RELATED: Will Smith's son Jaden responds to his dad's viral smackdown with Chris Rock
The video prompted actor Michael Rapaport to question Pinkett Smith via Twitter on Thursday morning.
"People saying Will Smith was protecting Jada, Why wasn’t JADA protecting Will from literally ruining his entire career? My Wife would’ve been fighting me before I sat down for making an a--hole of myself & our family," he wrote.
HOLLYWOOD, CA - March 27, 2022. Chris Rock and Will Smith onstage during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Less than an hour after slapping Rock on stage at the Academy Awards, Smith accepted the best actor award for his role in "King Richard."
After a board of governors meeting, the Academy revealed it had "initiated disciplinary proceedings" against Smith. The actor has 15 days to submit a written response to be considered by the Academy.
The next board meeting will take place on April 18 and the Academy has said at that meeting it may take "any disciplinary action," including expulsion or suspension.
Rock finally addressed the slap Wednesday night at his first comedy show since Sunday's Oscars.
RELATED: Video of Chris Rock recalling childhood abuse resurfaces after Oscars slap
"How was your weekend?" Rock asked the sold-out crowd at the Wilbur, a theater of 1,200 seats in Boston. "I had a whole list of jokes. I had a whole show I wrote before this weekend, and I'm still kind of processing what happened."
"At some point I'll talk about that s---, and it will be serious, and it will be funny," Rock continued.
Audience members yelled, "F--- Will Smith!" during Rock's opening statements.
After his initial comments, Rock continued with his planned show.
Smith publicly apologized to Rock via Instagram.
MARCH 27: Will Smith appears to slap Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
"My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally."
"I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness."
Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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Arizona governor won’t say transgender people exist
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey refused to say Thursday if transgender people actually exist, twice dodging direct questions on the subject just a day after he signed legislation limiting transgender rights.
The Republican worked instead to defend his signatures on bills that bar transgender girls and women from playing on girls high school and women’s college sports teams and barring gender affirming surgery for anyone under age 18.
When specifically asked if he believed that there "are really transgender people," the governor paused for several seconds before answering.
"I’m going to ask you to read the legislation and to see that the legislation that we passed was in the spirit of fairness to protect girls sports in competitive situations," Ducey said, referring to the new law that targets transgender girls who want to play on girls sports teams. "That’s what the legislation is intended to do, and that’s what it does."
Asked again if he believed there are "actual transgender people," he again answered slowly and carefully.
"I ... am going to respect everyone, and I’m going to respect everyone’s rights. And I’m going to protect female sports. And that’s what the legislation does," Ducey said.
Ducey’s response was "appalling," according to the Arizona director of the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights group that advocates for equality for LGBTQ people. The organization worked to ensure families and transgender young people came to the Capitol to testify against the bills as the Republican-led House and Senate considered them this session.
"It’s quite shocking that he can’t even address trans people or even say that he thinks they exist," Bridget Sharpe said.
Wednesday’s signing of the two transgender bills and a third that bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and is currently unconstitutional put Ducey right in the middle of two top issues national Republicans are highlighting in the runup to November’s midterm elections.
Ducey also signed election legislation that minority Democrats said amounted to voter suppression by requiring longtime Arizonans to be thrown off the voter rolls if they did not prove their citizenship and residence location.
The governor leads the Republican Governors Association, which is charged with helping elect GOP chief executives in U.S. states. He in is the last year of his second term as Arizona governor and term limits bar him from seeking reelection.
The top Democrat in the state House, Rep. Reginald Bolding, called Wednesday "probably one of the darkest days we’ve seen in the history of Arizona."
"With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Ducey has hurled Arizona backwards to its ugliest past," Bolding said Wednesday. "And today, he put in jeopardy pregnant people, transgender youth in danger and curtailed voting rights for people of color."
Social conservative groups and the Arizona Republican Party praised Ducey’s action. The Center for Arizona Policy, whose president shepherded the abortion and women’s sports bills through the Legislature, called it a victory.
"Thank you, Governor Ducey, for taking a bold stand for women athletes, vulnerable children, and the unborn by putting your signature on (the bills) in the face of intense opposition from activists," Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod said in a news release she posted on Twitter.
She said the legislation protects the unborn, ensures a level playing field for female athletes and shows that "Arizona will do everything it can to protect vulnerable children struggling with gender confusion" by enacting the surgery ban.
Ducey said the surgery ban protects children from irreversible decisions.
"These are permanent surgeries of reassignment that are irreversible, and those discussions can happen once adulthood is reached," he said.
The American Civil Liberties Association has vowed to sue over the surgery ban. U.S. Supreme Court precedent currently says women have a constitutional right to abortion until about 24 weeks of pregnancy, although it is considering whether to uphold a 15-week ban enacted in Mississippi and may overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision enshrining a woman’s right to choose.
Arizona joins 13 other states in enacting laws preventing transgender girls and women from playing on girls teams. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a transgender sports ban in his state, saying it would harm transgender girls, but the Legislature overrode the veto. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb also vetoed a sports bill, but lawmakers hope to override his action as well.
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- Parent of transgender child speaks out after Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signs anti-trans bills
- Arizona Gov. Ducey ends 2-year-old coronavirus state of emergency
- Arizona will require voters to prove citizenship and residency after Governor Doug Ducey signs election bill
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Dozens of Alaska Airlines flights canceled at Sea-Tac Airport; connected to pilot shortage
SEATAC, Wash. - Dozens of Alaska Airlines flights at Sea-Tac International Airport were canceled Friday morning.
According to FlightAware, there were 68 flights canceled as of 7:00 a.m. Sixty-four of the flights are through Alaska Airlines.
Officials with Alaska Airlines said the flight cancelations are "connected to a shortage of pilots, which has created operational challenges."
Pilots with Alaska Airlines will be picketing across the country, including Seattle, over contract negotiations on Friday afternoon.
Organizers say it's been nearly three years since the pilots began contract negotiations. They said they are underpaid and overworked compared to pilots at United, Delta and American. Their goal is to get a contract similar to their peers.
The group is set to picket from noon to 2 p.m. at the Hilton near Sea-Tac Airport.
"We notified our guests whose flights have been impacted and apologize for the inconvenience. We’re working as quickly as possible to make things right and get them to their destinations," Alaska Airlines officials said.
This is a developing story, and will be updated.
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Ford recalls 737K vehicles to fix oil leaks, trailer brakes
DETROIT - Ford is issuing two recalls covering over 737,000 vehicles to fix oil leaks and trailer braking systems that won't work.
The oil leak recall includes the 2020 through 2022 Ford Escape SUV and the 2021 and 2022 Bronco Sport SUV with 1.5-Liter engines. A housing can crack and oil can leak onto engine parts, which can create a fire hazard.
RELATED: Ford recalls heavy-duty pickups; drive shafts can fracture
Dealers will replace the housing if needed. Owners will be notified starting April 18.
The trailer braking recall includes F-150 pickups from 2021 and 2022, as well as the 2022 F-250, 350, 450 and 550. Also covered are the 2022 Maverick pickup, and Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.
RELATED: Ford recalls 330,000 Mustangs over rear camera troubles
A software error can stop trailers from braking, increasing the risk of a crash.
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Dealers will update brake control software. Owners will be notified starting April 18.
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GM recalls nearly 682,000 SUVs; windshield wipers can fail
DETROIT - General Motors is recalling nearly 682,000 compact SUVs because the windshield wipers can fail.
The recall covers the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain from the 2014 and 2015 model years.
RELATED: General Motors recalls 740K SUVs over headlights being too bright
Ball joints in the wiper module can rust, causing one or both wipers to fail, increasing the risk of a crash.
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Dealers will inspect the module and repair or replace it if needed. Owners will be notified by letter starting May 2.
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Man tried to kidnap 8-year-old girl at west Phoenix apartment parking lot, police say
PHOENIX - Police have arrested a man accused of trying to kidnap an 8-year-old girl in west Phoenix in broad daylight earlier this week.
Oscar Ramirez Estrella, 25, reportedly tried to pull the little girl out of her mother's car while she was parking at their apartment complex near 71st Avenue and Indian School on March 29.
Police say the mother called a neighbor for help and Estrella took off running without the girl.
Neighbors chased after him until officers arrived and took him into custody.
According to court documents, the man said "Biblical scriptures" told him to take the victim's car and said to detectives that he grabbed the little girl out of confusion.
"He then fled the area because he was anxious, stating that this [was] his first time doing this," documents read.
The mother told police that she had never seen Estrella in that area before and that he was a stranger.
He faces a robbery and kidnapping charge.
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Mobster convicted of killing 3 people escapes federal custody in Florida
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody in Florida after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Dominic Taddeo, a hit man from a Rochester-area crime family, escaped on March 28, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.
Taddeo, 64, had been imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being transferred to a residential halfway house, also in Florida, in February.
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Taddeo pleaded guilty in 1992 to racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s.
A federal judge in western New York denied Taddeo's request for compassionate release last year, rejecting his claim that health problems including hypertension and obesity put him at risk for serious complications from COVID-19. Prosecutors said medical records did not show that Taddeo was particularly unhealthy.
A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson did not immediately return a call seeking information about the circumstances of Taddeo's escape.
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Federal government sets new 40 mpg fuel standard for all vehicles sold in U.S. beginning in 2026
DETROIT (AP) - New vehicles sold in the United States will have to travel an average of at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026 under new rules unveiled Friday by the government.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its fuel economy requirements will undo a rollback of standards enacted under President Donald Trump. The new requirements increase gas mileage by 8% per year for model years 2024 and 2025 and 10% in the 2026 model year.
For the current model year, standards enacted under Trump require the fleet of new vehicles to get just over 24 miles per gallon in real-world driving.
Agency officials say the requirements are the maximum that the industry can achieve over the time period and will reduce gasoline consumption by more than 220 billion gallons over the life of vehicles, compared with the Trump standards.
Trump’s administration rolled back fuel economy requirements so they rose 1.5% per year, which environmental groups said was inadequate to limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change.
But the new standards won’t immediately match those adopted through 2025 under President Barack Obama. NHTSA officials said they will equal the Obama standards by 2025 and slightly exceed them for the 2026 model year.
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The Obama-era standards automatically adjusted for changes in the type of vehicles people are buying. When they were enacted in 2012, 51% of new vehicle sales were cars and 49% SUVs and trucks. Last year, 77% of new vehicle sales were SUVs and trucks, which generally are less efficient than cars.
Some environmental groups said the new requirements from NHTSA under President Joe Biden don’t go far enough to fight global warming.
"Climate change has gotten much worse, but these rules only require automakers to reduce gas-guzzling slightly more than they agreed to cut nine years ago," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Transport Center at the Center for Biological Diversity.
He said the final rule is about 2 mpg short of the strongest alternative that NHTSA considered.
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Officials said that under the new standards, owners would save about $1,400 in gasoline costs during the lifetime of a 2029 model year vehicle. Carbon dioxide emissions would drop by 2.5 billion metric tons by 2050 under the standards, the NHTSA said.
The agency did not give figures for how much the standards would increase the cost of vehicles. Auto dealers say more stringent requirements drive up prices and push people out of an already expensive new-car market.
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The NHTSA sets fuel economy requirements, while the Environmental Protection Agency develops limits on greenhouse gas emissions. NHTSA officials said their requirements nearly match rules adopted in December by the EPA, so automakers don’t have to comply with two rules.
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Police offered to arrest Will Smith after slap, Oscars producer says
LOS ANGELES - Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
"They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment," Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to "Good Morning America." "They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options."
But Packer said Rock was "very dismissive" of the idea.
"He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine," Packer said. "And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no."
The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night's ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined to comment Thursday on Packer's interview.
Actor Will Smith (R) slaps US actor Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022. (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
In the longer version on "Good Morning America," Packer said he initially believed the slap was an orchestrated bit. "I thought it was part of something that Chris and Will were doing on their own. I thought it was a bit. I wasn’t concerned at all."
Packer said he went up to Rock after the incident. "I said, ‘Did he really hit you?’" the producer asked Rock. "And he looked at me and he goes, ‘Yeah, I just took a punch from Muhammad Ali,’ as only Chris can. He was immediately in joke mode, but you could tell that he was very much still in shock."
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
Will Smith attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. Picture date: Sunday March 27, 2022. (Photo by Doug Peters/PA Images via Getty Images)
The academy said in a statement that "Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television."
Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.
Smith strode from his front-row seat onto the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.
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Will Smith attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images)
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying "I was out of line and I was wrong."
The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said, "I’m still kind of processing what happened."
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Pope begs forgiveness of Indigenous for Canada school abuses
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the "deplorable" abuses they suffered in Canada’s Catholic-run residential schools and said he hoped to visit Canada in late July to deliver the apology in person to survivors of the church's misguided missionary zeal.
Francis begged forgiveness during an audience with dozens of members of the Metis, Inuit and First Nations communities who came to Rome seeking a papal apology and a commitment for the Catholic Church to repair the damage. The first pope from the Americas said he hoped to visit Canada around the Feast of St. Anna, which falls on July 26 and is dedicated to Christ's grandmother.
More than 150,000 native children in Canada were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools from the 19th century until the 1970s in an effort to isolate them from the influence of their homes and culture. The aim was to Christianize and assimilate them into mainstream society, which previous Canadian governments considered superior.
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - MARCH 28: Pope Francis poses with delegations of Canada’s Métis and Inuit peoples, members of the Métis Nation accompanied by several Bishops from the Canadian Catholic Bishops’ Conference during an audience at the Apostolic P
The Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse was rampant at the schools, with students beaten for speaking their native languages. That legacy of that abuse and isolation from family has been cited by Indigenous leaders as a root cause of the epidemic rates of alcohol and drug addiction now on Canadian reservations.
After hearing their stories all week, Francis told the Indigenous that the colonial project ripped children from their families, cutting off roots, traditions and culture and provoking inter-generational trauma that is still being felt today. He said it was a "counter-witness" to the same Gospel that the residential school system purported to uphold.
Canada's Metis National Council President, Cassidy Caron (C), escorted by delegations members, addresses the media on March 28, 2022 at St. Peter's square in The Vatican, following a meeting with the Pope, as part of a series of a week-long meetings
"For the deplorable conduct of those members of the Catholic Church, I ask forgiveness of the Lord," Francis said. "And I want to tell you from my heart, that I am greatly pained. And I unite myself with the Canadian bishops in apologizing."
The trip to Rome by the Indigenous was years in the making but gained momentum last year after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves outside some of the residential schools in Canada. The three groups of Indigenous met separately with Francis over several hours this week, telling him their stories, culminating with Friday's audience.
Francis spoke in Italian and the Indigenous read his remarks in English translations. The president of the Metis National Council, Cassidy Caron, said the Metis elder sitting next her burst into tears upon hearing what she said was a long-overdue apology.
"The pope's words today were historic, to be sure. They were necessary, and I appreciate them deeply," Caron told reporters in St. Peter's Square. "And I now look forward to the pope's visit to Canada, where he can offer those sincere words of apology directly to our survivors and their families, whose acceptance and healing ultimately matters most."
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The spiritual adviser of the Assembly of First Nations' delegation, Elder Fred Kelley, echoed the sentiment.
"Today is a day that we’ve been waiting for. And certainly one that will be uplifted in our history," he said. "It’s a historical first step, however, only a first step."
He and other Indigenous leaders said there was far more for the church to do on the path of reconciliation, but that for now Indigenous leaders insisted on being involved in organizing the papal visit to make sure Francis stops in places that hold spiritual importance to their people.
Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, thanked Francis for addressing all the issues the Indigenous had brought to him. "And he did so in a way that really showed his empathy towards the indigenous people of Canada," he said.
Nearly three-quarters of Canada’s 130 residential schools were run by Catholic missionary congregations.
People stand in front of a makeshift memorial to honor the children whose remains were found in a mass grave at The Mohawk Institute, a former residential school for First Nation kids, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada on May 31, 2021. (Photo by Cole BUR
Last May, the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Nation announced the discovery of 215 gravesites near Kamloops, British Columbia, that were found using ground-penetrating radar. It was Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school and the discovery of the graves was the first of numerous, similar grim sites across the country.
Francis said he felt shame for the role that Catholic educators had played in the harm, "in the abuse and disrespect for your identity, your culture and even your spiritual values," he said. "It is evident that the contents of the faith cannot be transmitted in a way that is extraneous to the faith itself."
"It is chilling to think of determined efforts to instill a sense of inferiority, to rob people of their cultural identity, to sever their roots, and to consider all the personal and social effects that this continues to entail: unresolved traumas that have become inter-generational traumas," he said.
After the papal apology, the audience continued with joyous performances of Indigenous prayers by drummers, dancers and fiddlers that Francis watched, applauded and gave a thumbs up to. The Indigenous then presented him with gifts, including snowshoes.
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Francis' apology went far beyond what Pope Benedict XVI had offered in 2009 when an Assembly of First Nations delegation visited. At the time, Benedict only expressed his "sorrow at the anguish caused by the deplorable conduct of some members of the church." But he did not apologize.
The Argentine pope is no stranger to offering apologies for his own errors and for what he himself has termed the "crimes" of the institutional church. Most significantly, during a 2015 visit to Bolivia, he apologized for the sins, crimes and offenses committed by the church against Indigenous Peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.
He made clear those same colonial crimes occurred far more recently in Canada at the Catholic-run residential schools.
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"Your identity and culture has been wounded, many families separated, many children have become victims of this homogenization action, supported by the idea that progress occurs through ideological colonization, according to programs studied at the table rather than respecting the lives of peoples," he said.
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Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainians brace for renewed attacks, await blocked supplies
KYIV, Ukraine - Russian troops left the heavily contaminated Chernobyl nuclear site early Friday after returning control to the Ukrainians, authorities said, as residents in parts of eastern Ukraine braced for renewed attacks and awaited blocked supplies of food and other humanitarian relief.
Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received "significant doses" of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it could not independently confirm the exposure claim.
In what would be the first attack of its kind, if confirmed, the governor of Russia's Belgorod region accused Ukraine of flying helicopter gunships across the border on Friday morning and striking an oil depot.
The depot run by Russian energy giant Rosneft is located about 35 kilometers (21 miles) north of the Ukraine-Russia border. The helicopter attack set the facility ablaze, and two people were injured, according to a Telegram post by Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
"The fire at the oil depot occurred as a result of an airstrike from two helicopters of the armed forces of Ukraine, which entered the territory of Russia at a low altitude," the governor wrote on the messaging app.
It was not immediately possible to verify the claim or images that were circulating on social media of the alleged attack. Russia has reported shelling from Ukraine before, including an incident last week that killed a military chaplain, but not an incursion of its airspace.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces have retaken the villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka, which are south of the besieged northern city of Chernihiv and located along one of the main supply routes between the city and Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, according to Britain's Defense Ministry.
Ukraine has also continued to make successful but limited counterattacks to the east and northeast of Kyiv, the ministry said.
Russian forces have subjected both Chernihiv and Kyiv to continued air and ground-launched missile strikes despite Moscow officials saying Tuesday they planned to reduce military activity in those areas.
Western officials said there were growing indications Russia was using its talk of de-escalation in Ukraine as cover to regroup, resupply its forces and redeploy them for a stepped-up offensive in the eastern part of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian withdrawals from the north and center of the country were just a military tactic to build up strength for new attacks in the southeast.
"We know their intentions," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation. "We know that they are moving away from those areas where we hit them in order to focus on other, very important ones where it may be difficult for us."
"There will be battles ahead," he added.
LVIV, UKRAINE- MARCH 31: Due to the Russian attack, Ukrainians wait to leave the city and the country at Lviv train station on March 31, 2022, in Lviv, Ukraine. (Photo by Cem Tekkesinoglu/ dia images via Getty Images)
Ukrainian and Russian negotiators planned to resume talks via video on Friday, five weeks into a conflict that has left thousands dead and driven more than 4 million refugees from Ukraine. There seemed little faith that the two sides would find agreement on their respective demands any time soon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said conditions weren’t yet "ripe" for a cease-fire and he wasn’t ready for a meeting with Zelenskyy until the negotiators do more work, Italian Premier Mario Draghi said after a Thursday telephone conversation with the Russian leader.
Following a plea from Zelenskyy when he addressed Australian Parliament on Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that his country would send mine-resistant armored personnel carriers to Ukraine.
He said Friday the four-wheel-drive Bushmaster vehicles, specifically requested by Zelenskyy, would be flown to Europe but did not say how many would be delivered or when.
"We’re not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we’re sending our munitions, we’re sending our humanitarian aid, we’re sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things, and we’re going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well," Morrison said.
In the encircled strategic port city of Mariupol, Russian forces on Thursday blocked a convoy of 45 buses attempting to evacuate people after the Russian military agreed to a limited cease-fire in the area. Only 631 people were able to get out of the city in private cars, according to the Ukrainian government.
Russian forces also seized 14 tons of food and medical supplies in a dozen buses that were trying to make it to Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.
The city has been the scene of some of the worst suffering of the war. Tens of thousands of residents managed to get out in the past few weeks by way of humanitarian corridors, reducing the population from a prewar 430,000 to an estimated 100,000 by last week. But continued Russian attacks have repeatedly thwarted aid and evacuation convoys.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had been informed by Ukraine that the Russians forces at Chernobyl had transferred control of the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster to the Ukrainians in writing. The last Russian troops left Chernobyl early Friday, the Ukrainian government agency responsible for the exclusion zone said.
Energoatom gave no details on the condition of the soldiers it said were exposed to radiation and did not say how many were affected. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the IAEA said it was seeking more information.
Russian forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation. The workforce at the site oversees the safe storage of spent fuel rods and the concrete-entombed ruins of the reactor that exploded in 1986.
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert with the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said it "seems unlikely" a large number of troops would develop severe radiation illness, but it was impossible to know for sure without more details.
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi was in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on Friday for talks with senior officials there about nuclear issues in Ukraine.
In addition to concerns about Chernobyl, nine of Ukraine's 15 operational reactors are currently in use, including two at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhya facility, the IAEA said.
Early this week, the Russians said they would significantly scale back military operations in areas around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv to increase trust between the two sides and help negotiations along.
But in the Kyiv suburbs, regional governor Oleksandr Palviuk said on social media Thursday that Russian forces shelled Irpin and Makariv and that there were battles around Hostomel. Pavliuk said there were Ukrainian counterattacks and some Russian withdrawals around the suburb of Brovary to the east.
At a Ukrainian military checkpoint outside Kyiv, soldiers and officers said they don’t believe Russian forces have given up on the capital.
"What does it mean, significantly scaling down combat actions in the Kyiv and Chernihiv areas?" asked Brig. Gen. Valeriy Embakov. "Does it mean there will be 100 missiles instead of 200 missiles launched on Kyiv or something else?"
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said intelligence indicates Russia is not scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead trying to regroup, resupply its forces and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas.
"Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions," Stoltenberg said. At the same time, he said, pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities, and "we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering."
The Donbas is the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial region where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014. In the past few days, the Kremlin, in a seeming shift in its war aims, said that its "main goal" now is gaining control of the Donbas, which consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including Mariupol.
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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These are the worst places to live with asthma in the US
An asthma attack can be terrifying for both the suffering and those around them – gasping for breath and scrambling for an inhaler. Over 25 million in the U.S. live with asthma and 10 Americans per day die from it, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.
Your best chances for survival and avoiding attacks may be geographic. The AAFA identified the worst cities for asthma sufferers. The Asthma Capitals Report rated the most populated 100 U.S. cities according to the highest asthma prevalence, emergency room visits and deaths.
7 most challenging places to live with asthma:
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Richmond, Virginia
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Right now, many afflicted with asthma are keeping a close eye on the high tree and grass pollen levels. Pollen is one of the top triggers of asthma.
HERE ARE THE 10 ‘ALLERGY CAPITALS’ OF AMERICA IN 2022
Chemical irritant, air pollution, extreme weather changes, smoke, dust mites, stress and exercise also are believed to trigger attacks.
"Some of the most common risk factors for developing asthma are genetic, such as having a parent with asthma or having an allergic condition," Sanaz Efekhari, V.P. of Corporate Affairs and Research for AAFA, explained. "However, many risk factors are environmental, such as developing a severe respiratory infection as a child, exposure to smoke, exposure to certain chemical irritants or industrial dusts in the workplace, and exposure to air pollutants."
The CDC estimates that asthma accounts for 1.6 million visits to the emergency room and 200,000 hospitalizations yearly.
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"Asthma is a chronic disease that causes your airways to become inflamed, making it hard to breathe," Efekhari said. "When you are exposed to a trigger, symptoms may appear and cause airway swelling, mucus production and narrowing."
Emergency room visits and mortality numbers are also skewed by factors like poverty, lack of health insurance and smoking laws. Asthmatics in poverty and/or without insurance are less likely to have medicines and regular doctor visits.
The foundation’s research found that most of the cities designated as "worse than normal" were clustered in three major asthma belts; the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the Ohio Valley and the West.
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic belt
The study suggests urban populations and those near manufacturing, industrial businesses and high-traffic roadways are most at risk and see especially high rates of childhood asthma.
These include areas in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic.
Access to specialists was also a problem and experts said this was no truer in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The AAFA reports the city had fewer than 12 in the area.
Ohio Valley belt
The worst asthma cities across Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky all had a higher poverty rate than average, which the study points to as a key factor along with air pollution and low rates of asthma medicine use.
West belt
Lower on the list but still in the top 20 worst cities are Tuscon, Arizona and Fresno, California. Both cities had high rates of asthma related deaths.
Fresno has been hit hard by wildfires and is also plagued by poor air quality often over the winter during temperature inversions which keep pollutants at the surface (instead of mixing with higher elevation air.)
The American Lung Association gave Tuscon an "F" in their State of the Air report.
Other findings
The study also emphasized differences in asthma rates per gender, age, ethnicity and race.
- Black Americans are 1.5 times more likely and Puerto Ricans are 2 times more likely to have asthma than white Americans.
- The chance of dying of asthma increases with age. "Lifelong asthma can change the structure of your lungs, and your lungs also change as you get older," said Efekhari. "Asthma is often confused with other common diseases for this age group, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or congestive heart failure."
- In children the male deaths outpaced female deaths 2 to 1. Female deaths in adulthood though exceeded male deaths by a ratio around 3 to 2.
The foundation keeps a close eye on extreme weather and climate change factors like rising temperatures, increasing carbon dioxide levels and increased air pollution.
"Extreme weather events can cause flooding, which promotes heavy microbial and mold growth and makes allergies and asthma worse," said Efekhari. "Wildfires caused by warmer, drier conditions produce smoke and ash that can further complicate and worsen asthma and allergy symptoms."
"For those who are triggered by pollen, rising temperatures produce more ozone and air pollutants, which releases more carbon dioxide," Efekhari continued. "This causes the growing season of plants to start earlier in the year and end later, meaning more time for pollen production and longer, more severe pollen seasons."
The ‘perfect storm’ for asthma sufferers
"The seasonal peak, or "Asthma Peak Week" is a time when we tend to see increases in asthma episodes, attacks, and asthma hospitalizations. This usually happens the third week of September," said Efekhari. "This peak happens due to a perfect storm of asthma triggers: the peak of ragweed season, increased exposure to mold from leaves, increased exposure to respiratory illnesses from children returning to school, and the start of flu season."
The AAFA plans to release an updated report in September.
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TV recap: ‘Welcome to Flatch’ dances it out
CHICAGO - Welcome back to "Welcome to Flatch" recaps! In this week’s episode, "Dance It Out," Kelly and Sam stoke the fires of ambition by starting a ride-share service while Cheryl gets to call upon her journalistic expertise. Just starting the show?Here’s our recap of the premiere. Ready to binge? The first seven episodes are streaming on Hulu.
Three weeks in and "Welcome to Flatch" has settled into a comforting pattern with its mockumentary storytelling: Each week, small town cousins Kelly (Holmes) and Shrub Mallet (Sam Straley) dream up some sort of lofty goal they want to achieve. And each week, they come up with a dubious new entrepreneurial enterprise to make it happen.
In "Dance it Out," they set their eyes on a pair of Nike Vaporfly Elite Flyprint 3D sneakers (the kind Tony Hawk wears to walk his dogs, naturally). The shoes normally retail for $2,000 but accidentally ended up at Flatch Fleet for only $100. "Walking like the Hawking" for only $100? There’s no way Kelly and Shrub are going to pass that up — especially since they wear the same size shoe and can just trade off wearing them every other day.
To raise the hundred bucks, the Mallet cousins first decide to throw a garage sale. Then Shrub sets up a side business selling fake Flatch treasure maps to unsuspecting kids (he went through a big "Pirates of the Caribbean" phase back in high school). But it’s Kelly who stumbles upon the biggest scheme-of-the-week: Starting a hip-hop dance school called The Kelly Mallet Phresh Air School For Hip Hop.
Dance Dance Revolution
Okay, so Kelly’s motives aren’t solely driven by sneakers. She first gets the idea when she sees her nemesis Nadine (Taylor Ortega) teaching ballroom dances classes to senior citizens at the church community room. That brings back some rather painful memories of an elementary school ballet recital gone wrong: While little Nadine stole the spotlight with a flawless solo, little Kelly tried to top her and took a tumble off the stage instead.
That’s when hip-hop became Kelly’s preferred style of dance. And now she’s decided to share her skills for only $10 a pop.
Beth (Erin Bowles), Cheryl (Aya Cash), Mickey (Justin Linville) and June (Karen Huie) are among those who excitedly turn up for Kelly’s first class. Only it quickly becomes clear that Kelly’s questionable dance skills are rather more, er, intuitive than teachable.
WELCOME TO FLATCH: L-R: Holmes and Krystal Smith in the "Dance It Out" episode of WELCOME TO FLATCH airing Thursday, March 31 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. Cr: Fred Norris/FOX
In fact, Big Mandy (Krystal Smith) probably has the right idea here. Instead of paying to take the class, she decides to "audit" it from the sidelines during her lunchbreak. As Mandy explains to the camera, "I usually watch something funny when I eat, because I read in this alternative medicine blog it creates enzymes which helps aid in my digestion. Now, I usually watch ‘The Simpsons’ when I eat my meals, but when I heard about this class I knew it was gonna be hilarious."
Smith is a delight as Mandy breaks down into gales of laughter at Kelly’s moves. "I’m about to digest like a [bleep]," she adds.
A dance off
WELCOME TO FLATCH: L-R: Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega and Holmes in the "Dance It Out" episode of WELCOME TO FLATCH airing Thursday, March 31 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. Cr: Brownie Harris/FOX
When Cheryl sprains her ankle during class (blame those darn treasure hunting holes), Kelly has to pivot to a new perspective with the help of some wise counsel from Father Joe (Seann William Scott) — who knows a little something about dance himself, thanks to his days in the Christian boy band A-Men (they were huge in Germany). Joe reminds Kelly that dance shouldn’t be a competition. It’s a sacred form of personal and spiritual expression that should be taught from the heart with pure motives.
So what does Kelly do when she discovers that Nadine is now teaching a hip-hop class too? Declare a dance off, naturally.
The big climatic dance battle set to "The Power" by Snap! is the standout showpiece of the episode, and Holmes and Ortega both go hilariously full-out with Kelly and Nadine’s absolutely ridiculous interpretations of hip-hop. (Shimmying and high kicks are involved.)
WELCOME TO FLATCH: L-R: Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega, guest star Kyle Selig , Holmes and Seann William Scott in the ìDance It Outî episode of WELCOME TO FLATCH airing Thursday, March 31 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. Cr: Brownie Ha
The real scene-stealer, however, is Nadine’s husband Dylan (Kyle Selig), who it turns out really can saut de basque, spin down sweep and monkey flip with the best of them. Selig is clearly an actual trained dancer, which makes it all the funnier when Dylan deadpans to the camera, "I have no idea what happened in there. I think I blacked out."
The power of Dylan’s moves inspires Kelly to declare herself the winner, misquote Father Joe’s big speech and announce to the room, "I hereby declare dance schools dumb!" Classic Kelly.
Love is in the air
WELCOME TO FLATCH: Aya Cash in the "Dance It Out" episode of WELCOME TO FLATCH airing Thursday, March 31 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. Cr: Brownie Harris/FOX
Dance isn’t the only thing on the move this week. We also get some new updates on the love front too. Yes, Shrub and Mickey are both still crushing on Beth, while Kelly thinks she has a "spark" with the married Dylan (they kissed back in grade school). Plus bisexual queen Big Mandy reveals she’d happily date either Nadine or Dylan if they ever broke up.
But it’s Cheryl who finds herself at the center of an honest-to-god love triangle. Turns out that when she visited Pockton last week, she did more than just recover the stolen "Welcome to Flatch" sign. She also caught the eye of "Pockton Gazette" editor Jimmy (Desmin Borges), who sends her get-well flowers for her sprained ankle.
He’s not the only one thinking of Cheryl, however. When her ex, Joe, stops by to bring her some comfort food, he and Cheryl almost share a kiss (!!!) before they stop themselves when they remember they’re being filmed by the documentary crew.
Even more intriguingly, Joe reveals to the camera that he only broke up with Cheryl because he figured she was so much smarter than him that she’d eventually get bored and have to break up with him anyway. "I just didn’t want her to have to go through that," he explains. So could love still be on the table for these two crazy kids? We’ll have to tune in next week to find out.
WELCOME TO FLATCH: Sean William Scott in the "Dance It Out" episode of WELCOME TO FLATCH airing Thursday, March 31 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. Cr: Brownie Harris/FOX
Oh and as for those sneakers? It turns out Father Joe bought them before Kelly and Shrub could — without having any idea how much they’re actually worth. As he puts it, "I thought they were pretty fly!"
"Welcome to Flatch" airs Thursdays on FOX. The first seven episodes are also currently available to stream on Hulu. Recaps run weekly.
About the writer: Caroline Siede is a film and TV critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, she lovingly dissects the romantic comedy genre one film at a time in her ongoing column When Romance Met Comedy at The A.V. Club. She also co-hosts the movie podcast, Role Calling, and shares her pop culture opinions on Twitter (@carolinesiede).
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Domingo (2020): From Mexican director Raúl López Echeverría, this feel-good comedy follows Domingo (Eduardo Covarrubias), a 55-year-old man living in a poor suburb near Guadalajara. When his wife abruptly leaves him, Domingo decides to do everything in his power to achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a professional soccer commentator. Soon enough, his impassioned weekly commentaries on local amateur matches are changing lives throughout his neighborhood. "Domingo" is a Tubi Original. Rated TV-MA. 95 minutes. Dir: Raúl López Echeverría. Language: Spanish. Also featuring: Martha Claudia Moreno, Jesus Hernandez.
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Wanted suspect in Chandler showed adult videos to kids, was involved in hit-and-run crash: police
CHANDLER, Ariz. - The search is on for a man suspected of showing adult videos to children before becoming involved in a hit-and-run crash in Chandler, police said.
Chandler investigators say the incidents happened near Alma School Road and Warner on March 17. The suspect showed an adult video to a group of kids and later "committed an act of public sexual indecency" while showing an inappropriate video to another child in the same area, according to police.
The suspect was described as a Hispanic male in his 20s or 30s with tattoos on both sides of his face. He was driving a white Hyundai Elantra, police said.
Police said the car has damage to the driver's side from a hit-and-run crash he was involved in shortly after the other crimes happened.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Chandler Police Department at 480-782-4130 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.
A composite sketch of the suspect and the suspect's car.
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Woman shot, killed near I-17 in Phoenix
PHOENIX - Phoenix investigators are looking for answers after a woman was shot and killed near Interstate 17 on Thursday.
Police responded to a shooting call near I-17 and McDowell Road and found a woman with a gunshot wound.
The victim, 40-year-old Maria Arballo, died from her injuries at the hospital.
Detectives are still trying to figure out what led up to the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to contact Phoenix Police or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.
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Rare upward lightning strike spotted over Kansas during severe thunderstorm
WICHITA, Kan. - Tuesday was indeed an electrifying night in Kansas as a photographer captured an incredible upward strike of lightning amid a raging thunderstorm.
Taylor Vonfeldt, who shot the video in slow motion on his phone, said it was the "most insane strike of lightning" he had ever caught on camera.
The bolt was a rare upward strike, where the bolt appears to begin at the ground and travels toward the cloud, as opposed to traditional lightning strikes that appear to go from cloud to ground.
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"Usually what happens when you have upward lightning is that you have a strong electric field go over the top of a tall object, like a skyscraper or radio tower, and upward leaders are initiated off the tower as a result," says meteorologist Chris Vagasky with Vaisala. "They connect with the electric field in the cloud and you get lightning."
The National Weather Service had issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area that night, with nickel-sized hail and damaging winds in the forecast.
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Buddy the cat heading to foster care after ‘miraculous’ recovery from dog attack
PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia cat is heading home from the vet on Friday after authorities say he was the victim of an intentional dog attack.
Officials are calling the recovery of Buddy the cat ‘miraculous’ as he heads to a foster home with a veterinarian where he’ll get continued care.
Last week, Buddy was on a front porch in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood. Video of the incident showed two suspects, ages 17 and 12, walking by the porch with their dogs.
When the suspects spotted the car, authorities say they dropped the dogs’ leashes, allowing their lunging dogs to attack a defenseless Buddy. The two suspects watched from the sidewalk until a homeowner opened the front door, scaring them off.
Buddy suffered serious injuries in the attack and required constant monitoring at the Pennsylvania SPCA’s headquarters.
Since the attack, Buddy has slowly been recovering after veterinarians initially held cautious optimism about his future. Video of Buddy's attack went viral as authoriities searched for attackers and also promoted donations to the SPCA from around the globe.
The suspects face several charges including felony animal cruelty.
Buddy won't be going up for adoption, but the SPCA says they hope folks will adopt other cats in need in Buddy's name.
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Corn could be the answer to high gas prices
In Midwest America, corn is still king – and lawmakers and farmers alike are pushing the federal government to expand its corn-based ethanol use gas prices continue to hit record highs.
"I think it's a win-win-win," Illinois corn farmer Brian Duncan told FOX Business’ Grady Trimble. "It's a win for agriculture, it's a win for the environment, and a win for America."
Under the Home Front Energy Independence Act, ethanol fuel E15 would be produced and sold year-round in the U.S. instead of only during the summer months. The proposal aims to further decrease dependence on Russian petroleum exports over its war on Ukraine.
Bipartisan lawmakers backing the bill include Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas.
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Even though E15 can be anywhere from 5 to 10 cents cheaper than regular unleaded natural gas, the American Petroleum Institute has pushed back against the use of E15 ethanol, claiming it emits more greenhouse gasses and gets fewer miles to the gallon than the comparable E10 fuel.
UNITED STATES - JUNE 20: A bottle of 200-proof ethanol, center, is surrounded by bottles containing corn, left, and corn ethanol production co-products at the Commonwealth Agri-Energy Ethanol plant in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, U.S., on Thursday, June 1
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that ethanol production from corn led to a decrease in water qualities and caused additive emissions through the production processes.
Researchers further said the combined sum of emissions from corn-based ethanol could be 24% more than the fuel they were designed to replace.
"I think they're dealing with a lot of outdated information to protect their market share," Duncan countered.
Farmers like Duncan believe ethanol can provide oil supply in emergency situations, pointing out that the crop’s purpose goes beyond food consumption.
"As far as food versus fuel, I think American farmers have the capacity to meet both markets," he said. "It's not either-or."
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According to Duncan, it remains less expensive to make, use and buy ethanol fuel despite a surge in global corn prices.
"The market's been very volatile, but ethanol has been running about $1 per gallon cheaper for pure ethanol than gas," the corn farmer explained. "And so that cheapens up the price of the end product when you're able to blend that in."
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Florida hires forensic firm to investigate Tyre Sampson death from Orlando FreeFall ride
ORLANDO, Fla. - Commissioner Nikki Fried promised a "complete and thorough investigation" into how a 14-year-old teenager fell from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower last week at ICON Park, but also emphasized that her agency would not jump to any conclusions until that investigation was completed and the report is released.
She also said the agency hired Quest Engineering, a forensic engineering and analysis firm, to help with their investigation into how Tyre Sampson fell to his death while he was on the ride last Thursday, March 24, 2022.
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"We are fully committed to finding out what happened so we can better prevent such tragedies from happening in the future – and that’s why we will not be jumping to any conclusions before the information is provided to us and we know all the facts," she said at a Friday afternoon press conference, which came eight days after Sampson’s death.
Sampson was visiting Orlando with another family from St. Louis, Missouri, according to his family. Thursday night, he and friends went on Orlando FreeFall, a vertical ride that takes people some 400 feet into the air and then free-falls several hundred feet to the ground.
As the ride was in free-fall and after the magnets engaged, Sampson fell off the ride and onto the ground. He later died at the hospital.
"When you send your children away for Spring Break or from your hometown, you certainly want them to enjoy the area where they’re traveling and you expect them to return safely," said Florida Representative Geraldine Thompson, whose district includes Orlando.
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She said she’s been in talks with the family’s lawyer and said they are "not interested in so much fixing blame as to fixing the problem."
"I’ll be working with them to fix the problem," which could include legislative action to give the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services more power, she said. The agency is in charge of inspecting – and approving -- attractions and rides around the state.
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FreeFall and Orlando Slingshot, both owned by The Slingshot Group, opened at ICON Park in December 2021. Based on the operations manual that was provided to the state and its inspection, both rides passed their initial inspections with no deficiencies, Commissioner Fried said.
Both rides have been shut down since March 24. The Slingshot Group’s other rides around the state remain open.
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Missing Florida mom Cassie Carli felt 'extremely' unsafe around child's father before disappearance: sister
NAVARRE BEACH, Fla. - The young Florida mom who went missing earlier this week while picking up her daughter from the child’s father has previously felt "extremely" unsafe around the man, who allegedly told her family after the disappearance that she was acting unusual, her sister told Fox News Digital.
Raeann Carli said her older sister, Cassie, always kept close contact with their father, whom she lived with, and the rest of the family, and was "never one to just disappear." But on Sunday evening, she told her dad she was running out to pick up her four-year-old daughter, Saylor, from the child’s father’s custody and never returned, Carli said during a phone call with Fox News Digital on Thursday.
"When it came time to pick Saylor up, my dad was in his room about to rest and she just kind of popped in, 'Hey, dad, I'll be right back. I'm just running to grab Saylor,’" Raeann, 32, said. "She walked out the door like she would be right back."
Raeann said Cassie usually tried to meet her daughter's father, Marcus Spanevelo, at a public location – typically a Walmart parking lot – but that he had recently been changing the meet-up locations. This time, the pair scheduled to meet in the parking lot of nearby Juana’s Pagodas restaurant.
Cassie’s father then went to sleep, but awoke hours later to discover his daughter had not yet returned.
Image provided by Cassie Carli's family shows text message conversation between someone purporting to be Cassie and her father. (Photos courtesy Raeann Carli)
"Cassie, I’m trying to call you. What’s going on?" he wrote, in a series of text messages provided to Fox News Digital. His first message was sent at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. He then sent a second message that stated: "I’m freaking out case call me as soon as you get this message."
A response came shortly thereafter, and stated: "I’m sorry, car was acting up, and I broke my phone. Marcus is working on it. I will stay at his place tonight. He is paying me some money to do some stuff around his house."
A later message from Cassie’s phone stated, "Let me see if he can get this fixed and I’ll call you."
Image provided by Cassie Carli's family shows text message conversation between someone purporting to be Cassie and her father. (Photos courtesy Raeann Carli)
Cassie’s father then went to sleep for the night. After hearing nothing from his daughter the next morning, he contacted Spanevelo, Raeann Carli explained.
"No answer on the phone," Raeann said, of when her father tried to call Spanevelo. "But then he texted him a long paragraph and said, ‘Yeah, Cassie was having troubles. I was going to help her with her phone, but she ended up getting all upset and acting crazy,'" Raeann went on. Spanevelo did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request seeking comment and information.
Cassie Carli, 37, had just started a new job as lead server at a local restaurant, and was excited about returning early this week, Raeann said.
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On Thursday, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson called Carli's disappearance "very concerning" as he revealed that investigators who discovered her car behind Juana’s Pagodas restaurant also found her purse inside.
"There were things in the purse … we don’t think she would just up and leave," Johnson said during a Thursday press conference. He later added: "Usually you don’t go four days without hearing from them, or them using a credit card, cell phone…so yeah, we’re concerned."
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Johnson said investigators located Spanevolo – allegedly the last person the woman was with – in Birmingham, Alabama, where detectives questioned him and located Saylor safe.
When asked why Spanevelo would be there, Johnson said he had work in the area. Johnson added that the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office’s entire Major Crimes Unit, which consists of 10 detectives, is working the case.
"We are intent on speaking with him again," Johnson said. He would not discuss Spanevelo’s recollection of events.
Cassie Carli seen in this undated photo provided by the family (Photos courtesy Carli family)
The county's top cop said the search for Carli has expanded beyond the state of Florida and the FBI was now involved. The sheriff added that about five or six witnesses had come forward so far, and said investigators are still examining surveillance footage from the area.
A spokesperson for the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office previously said Cassie was last seen in the area of a restaurant called Juana’s Pagodas in Navarre Beach. Her car was located around 11 a.m. Sunday at a boat ramp in the Juana’s parking lot, Raeann Carli said. The family said Saylor remains with her father despite their urgent efforts to gain custody.
Carli is described as being 5-foot-5 inches tall and 150 pounds with blue eyes and blonde, shoulder-length hair. She has pierced ears and a mole on her right cheek.
Cassie Carli seen in this undated photo provided by the family (Photos courtesy Carli family)
But Raeann Carli said her sister had previously made a point of meeting Saylor’s father in a public place, and said Cassie had felt "extremely" unsafe around him in the past. At times, their father would accompany her to the custody switch meetings.
"She was very nervous," the concerned sister said.
In at least one instance, Carli said, the man never showed up with the young child and did not return her until two weeks later, after the police had allegedly gotten involved, Raeann recalled. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s office did not immediately provide Fox News Digital with related records to confirm the detail. Spokespersons for the office instructed Fox News Digital to submit a records request for any information regarding the case or Carli’s history with Spanevelo.
Image provided by Raeann Carli shows text Facebook Messenger exchange between Raeann Carli and her niece's father, Marcus Spanevelo. (Photos courtesy Raeann Carli)
Spanevelo told Raeann Carli he answered investigators’ questions and would continue to do so, according to a Facebook messenger conversation that was provided to Fox News Digital.
Loved ones and members of the community, including Whitney Sich of nonprofit A Voice for the Voiceless, began their third day of searching on Thursday morning and said they will continue to do so. Sich has since created a Facebook group for those who are interested in getting involved.
As the family continues to hunt for answers, Raeann Carli called it "amazing" to see the support the community has provided.
Cassie Carli seen in this undated photo provided by the family (Photos courtesy Carli family)
"I’m overwhelmed by the help and the response we're getting," she said, as she spoke of her sister’s closeness to the community. "I'm not surprised, though."
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The sheriff’s office has said the investigation remains "very active." They ask anyone with information to call their Major Crimes Unit at 859-983-1190.
Fox News' Sarah Rumpf contributed to this report.
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Harris County off-duty deputy killed in grocery store parking lot, 2 suspects detained
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - A deputy with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office has died following a shooting in a grocery store parking lot on Thursday night.
The sheriff’s office identified him as 51-year-old Deputy Darren Almendarez, a 23-year veteran of the department assigned to the auto theft division. He was off-duty at the time of the shooting.
According to HCSO Chief Deputy Edison Toquica, the shooting occurred around 8:40 p.m. in the parking lot at 2929 FM 1960.
Authorities said Deputy Almendarez was leaving the grocery store with his wife when he apparently spotted some suspects attempting to steal his truck’s catalytic converter.
Chief Deputy Toquica said Almendarez approached the suspects, gunfire was exchanged, and the deputy was shot. Two suspects were also wounded.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Almendarez did everything he could to protect his wife by telling her to run to safety when the shooting occurred.
Almendarez was taken to HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest, where he later died.
The two wounded suspects drove themselves to the hospital and are now detained. Both are said to be in stable condition.
Toquica said they believe there is a third suspect involved in the incident. That suspect remains at large and has not been identified.
During a news conference late Thursday night, Gonzalez spoke about Almendarez getting ready to host a birthday party for his sister. Gonzalez said he was going to prepare a meal on Friday for her and was cleaning up the house for the celebration.
"We lost another hero in our community," Gonzalez said after making the announcement. "We're tired of crime in this community."
A procession was held as his body was transported from the hospital to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
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"Today we've lost a great one, once again, and so our hearts are devastated," Gonzalez said.
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The splashiest movies out of this year’s SXSW festival, Vol. 2
CHICAGO - Three years after its last in-person gathering, the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival made a glorious return to in-person festivities this year. The hybrid music/film/tech festival and convention featured plenty of buzzy events, from concerts from Dolly Parton, Shawn Mendes and T-Pain to a keynote from Lizzo, an early screening of the third season of "Atlanta" and a ton of film premieres.
FOX film critics Allison Shoemaker and Caroline Siede were on the ground in Austin, TX keeping a particularly close eye on the film-centric part of the fest. Here’s part two of their round-up of the buzziest movies to premiere at SXSW — some of which are hitting theaters later this month and others of which you can expect later this year.
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
‘Nick Cage’ greets ‘Javi Gutierrez’ with a ‘Palm Hold Fist’ salute as he arrives in Mallorca, Spain. | Credit: Katalin Vermes
Here’s an except from Caroline Siede’s feature on attending the world premiere of "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent," the new meta action comedy from writer/director Tom Gormican in which Nicolas Cage plays a fictionalized version of himself.
In any setting, "The Unbearable Weight" will be a delightfully surreal ouroboros — as much a loving send-up of modern movie-making as it is an affectionate ribbing of Cage’s celebrity persona. But it was especially surreal to watch it knowing the man himself would be hearing us laugh at every self-effacing joke and loving homage to his 40-year career, which includes movies ranging from "Moonstruck," "Con-Air" and "Leaving Las Vegas" to "Guarding Tess" and "Croods 2" — all of which get explicit shout-outs in "The Unbearable Weight."
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I was sitting close enough to Cage that I couldn’t help but sneak an occasional peek at him throughout the film, just to watch him take it all in. From the outside, at least, he was the epitome of cool, calm and collected, even as the crowd responded to every self-referential joke with whoops and hollers so loud it was often hard to hear the dialogue for long stretches. (The line "‘Mandy’ is a masterpiece" earned the biggest applause of the night, but my personal favorite reference involved "Captain Corelli's Mandolin.")
On the back of his critically acclaimed turn in 2021’s "Pig" and ahead of his upcoming role as Count Dracula in "Renfield," "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" makes one thing clear: It’s Nic Cage’s world. We’re just living in it.
Read Caroline Siede’s full feature on the premiere of "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent."
Opens in theaters April 22. 107 minutes. Dir: Tom Gormican. Featuring: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Neil Patrick Harris.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
A still from "Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood"
Director Richard Linklater returns to his beloved rotoscoping animation format for this sweet nostalgia trip back to 1969. Inspired by his own childhood in Houston in the 1960s, "Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood" pairs a showy framing device about a kid astronaut with a slice-of-life look at suburbia on the edge of the Space Race. More narrated docudrama than narrative feature, "Apollo 10½" does at times feel like an older relative monologuing at you about every minute detail from their childhood — from what they ate for dinner to what they watched on TV. ("Let me tell you about life back then. It was a great time to be a kid," Jack Black's narrator explains early in the film.)
But that myopia is also part of its charm. "Apollo 10½" luxuriates in the details of childhood, some of which are universal (sibling rivalries, stressful playground games) and some of which are deeply tied to this particular place and time (riding in the back of a pickup truck down the highway, attending a school where everyone’s parents worked for NASA). Linklater and his collaborators clearly have an immense fondness for a time when science class felt like current events. And while "Apollo 10½" will perhaps play best for those who have nostalgia for their own Space Age childhoods, it’s also not a bad history lesson for a pivotal moment in American history, as remembered by a less-than-reliable narrator. [Caroline Siede]
Streaming on Netflix April 1. Rated PG-13. 98 minutes. Dir: Richard Linklater. Featuring the voices of: Milo Coy, Jack Black, Glen Powell, Zachary Levi, Josh Wiggins, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise.
Hypochondriac
Zach Villa in Hypochondriac | Credit: Dustin Supencheck
The creation of art can double as an act of therapy. For filmmakers, that sometimes means opening up wounds to audiences hungry for even a drop of catharsis. Enter writer/director Addison Heimann’s debut feature "Hypochondriac," a woozy, disturbing account of the artist’s issues with mental illness. (The film’s opening title card reads, "Based on a True Breakdown.") As is often the case with first films, this is far from a glossy blockbuster, but Heimann compensates for a modest budget with some strong performances and atmospheric editing.
Will (Zach Villa) is a young gay man haunted by the specter of his mother’s psychosis: as a child, he suffered under her delusional, occasionally violent impulses, until eventually he cut off all contact with her. As an adult, he’s got a sweet new boyfriend (Devon Graye) and a job as an assistant at a boutique pottery gallery. But soon enough, his mother once again insinuates herself in his life, leaving incoherent, babbling voice messages and dropping strange packages at his door that contain cryptic hints at a grander purpose for him. Soon after, he begins experiencing a series of strange physical symptoms that one doctor after another can’t explain. (He even starts seeing visions of a mysterious figure in a wolf costume with a spooky mask when he's alone, looking — perhaps intentionally — a bit like Frank the Bunny from "Donnie Darko".)
RELATED: The coolest, weirdest, best things at this year’s SXSW festival: Vol. 2
"Hypochondriac" isn’t a perfect movie. Very few are. Yet the few cracks in the movie’s gothic ceilings result from the low-budget nature of the filmmaking, give or take a few creaky lines of dialogue here and there. Those concerns are counter-balanced by the intimate, intensely personal nature of the storytelling. Heimann coaxes a wounded, dynamic performance out of Villa; together, the writer/director and actor paint a portrait of the acute personal pain mental illness can inflict upon an otherwise normal life. It occasionally stumbles when weaving its messaging in amongst the horrors, but it’s a promising debut. I'm curious to see what he does next. [Clint Worthington]
Distributed by XYZ Films; no set release date. Not yet rated. 96 minutes. Dir: Addison Heimann. Featuring Zach Villa, Devon Graye, Madeline Zima, Yumarie Morales, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster.
I Love My Dad
Featuring Patton Oswalt ("Chuck") and writer/director James Morosini ("Franklin"). | Credit: © I Love My Dad, LLC (Hantz Motion Pictures)
With a few little adjustments, "I Love My Dad" would make a potent horror movie. Like "Hypochondriac," it opens with a title card assuring its audience that what they’re about to see really happened to the filmmaker. The second card, however, makes the differences plain: "My dad asked me to tell you it didn’t."
It is, in its own way, something of a spoiler: writer/director/star James Morosini still has a relationship with his father (played by Patton Oswalt in the film), despite the absolutely bonkers events chronicled in the film. It’s simple to summarize but brain-melting to consider: After a serious mental health incident, Franklin (Morosoni) decides that it’s time to establish strict boundaries, if not cut ties altogether, with his unreliable and sometimes deceitful father Chuck. Desperately worried about his son, Chuck takes a spectacularly bad piece of advice from a coworker (a game Lil Rel Howery) and begins communicating with Franklin on social media in the guise of Becca, a friendly waitress Chuck meets at a local diner (Claudia Sulewski). As "Becca," Chuck at last gives Franklin the empathy and support that the latter has clearly longed for. And thanks to that compassion (and some lovely selfies swiped from the real Becca’s social media accounts), Franklin falls hopelessly in love with "Becca" — his catfishing dad.
This is a cringe dramedy, operating in a similar vein to 2021’s excellent "Shiva Baby," and it earns each and every one of those cringes. Still, it’s hard to dismiss the sense that Morosini would have been better off picking one or two of the three massive responsibilities he’s shouldering here as writer, actor and director. As Franklin, he turns in a performance admirably lacking in vanity. As the film’s director, he makes some brilliant decisions (most notably dropping the audio from a few pivotal phone calls) and some questionable ones (there’s a tendency to prioritize cleverness over clarity when it comes to how "Becca" is portrayed).
Perhaps if he’d stuck to only one of those roles, he’d have had more success as a screenwriter. Oddly, the thing that holds the film together is also the thing that blunts its impact: the seemingly bottomless well of empathy it has for Chuck. Oswalt’s excellent work hinges on that empathy; it’s hard to think of an actor better equipped to play a deeply flawed, if well-intentioned man making a series of catastrophically bad decisions out of love and fear. But the film struggles to be clear-eyed about just how upsetting Chuck’s actions are. When "I Love My Dad" veers off into warm-fuzzy territory as it nears its conclusion, it’s only Oswalt’s work that refuses to lets things become that simple.
As an actor, Morosini pulls no punches. As a screenwriter, not so much. "I Love My Dad" gives Chuck plenty of room to be complex. If only that were true of the rest of the film. [Allison Shoemaker]
No distributor or release date. Not yet rated. 96 minutes. Dir: James Morosini. Featuring: Patton Oswalt, James Morosini, Claudia Sulewski, Rachel Dratch, Ricky Velez, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker.
About the writer: Allison Shoemaker is a Chicago-based pop-culture critic and journalist. She is the author of "How TV Can Make You Smarter," and a member of the Television Critics Association and the Chicago Film Critics Association. She is also a producer and co-host for the Podlander Presents network of podcasts. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @allisonshoe. Allison is a Tomatometer-approved Top Critic on Rotten Tomatoes.
About the writer: Caroline Siede is a film and TV critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, she lovingly dissects the romantic comedy genre one film at a time in her ongoing column When Romance Met Comedy at The A.V. Club. She also co-hosts the movie podcast, Role Calling, and shares her pop culture opinions on Twitter (@carolinesiede).
About the writer: Clint Worthington is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Spool, and a Senior Writer at Consequence. You can find his other work at Vulture, Nerdist, RogerEbert.com, and elsewhere.
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But I'm a Cheerleader (2000): For a romantic comedy that’s just a little bit off the beaten path, try this delightful cult classic starring a 19-year-old Natasha Lyonne. Lyonne plays Megan Bloomfield, an all-American cheerleader who’s sent away to a gay conversion camp when her parents and friends start to suspect that she’s secretly a lesbian. Ironically, it’s not until Megan is at the oppressive "True Directions" conversion program that she begins to realize she does actually like women — specifically Clea Duvall’s rebellious bad girl Graham Eaton. And while that sounds like the plot of a heavy drama, director Jamie Babbit takes a whimsical, satirical approach in a colorful rom-com that rejects repression and reclaims queer romantic joy. Rated R. 85 minutes. Dir: Jamie Babbit. Also featuring Cathy Moriarty, RuPaul Charles, Melanie Lynskey.
Domingo (2020): From Mexican director Raúl López Echeverría, this feel-good comedy follows Domingo (Eduardo Covarrubias), a 55-year-old man living in a poor suburb near Guadalajara. When his wife abruptly leaves him, Domingo decides to do everything in his power to achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a professional soccer commentator. Soon enough, his impassioned weekly commentaries on local amateur matches are changing lives throughout his neighborhood. "Domingo" is a Tubi Original. Rated TV-MA. 95 minutes. Dir: Raúl López Echeverría. Language: Spanish. Also featuring: Martha Claudia Moreno, Jesus Hernandez.
Jennifer’s Body (2009): Wrongly maligned in its time, Karyn Kusama’s inspired horror-comedy has undergone a bit of a cultural re-evaluation in recent years — or, put more plainly, everyone seems to finally be catching onto the fact that "Jennifer’s Body" rules. Megan Fox plays Jennifer, a cheerleader who finds herself in a classic high-school pickle: She’s possessed by a demon and fueled by a drive to feast upon her classmates’ flesh. Amanda Seyfried is her best friend Needy (yes, Needy) who senses that something’s not quite right. It’s a riot. Rated R. 102 minutes. Dir: Karyn Kusama. Also featuring Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons, Chris Pratt, J.K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris.
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Brazen armed robbery in Houston caught on camera
HOUSTON - Disturbing video shows the moment an armed robber pistol-whipped a tire shop employee and put the gun to a female employee’s head.
Myke Hastings, the owner of Entire-X, spoke with FOX 26 about the incident, who said the victims in the video were his wife and his brother.
On Tuesday afternoon, a man walked into Entire-X on Houston’s north side pretending to be a customer.
But moments later, he violently pistol-whipped the man behind the desk.
In the video, you can hear the panic in the victim’s voices as they realized what was happening.
"Give me all the ******* money, all the money, the register, everything. Everything, I don’t give a ****," the armed robber said in the video.
"I have an immense amount of anger inside of me. More than I’ve ever felt before," said Hastings.
Hastings said his brother, who was pistol-whipped, was injured in the incident.
"That split him open pretty good, and as he fell over, he hit him two more times breaking his finger."
Myke was nearby working on a vehicle when the robbery occurred.
"To feel like I was so close, but so far for so long, that breaks me."
After the robber got about $1,000 from the register he demanded the victims’ keys, phones, and wallets.
"When Steven got his wallets he also grabbed his gun, but he wanted to wait for his opportunity because my wife was in the crosshairs," Myke said. "Sometimes compliance is the best strategy, wait your turn. If you get one, great. If you don’t, give them what they want."
When the robber and the victims came back downstairs after getting their wallets, a real customer walked into the business. That’s when Hastings’ wife told him to run.
The armed robber walked out right after and get into a white pickup truck with two other men inside.
We asked Myke what he would say to the robber if he was watching.
"As angry as I am by what happened to my brother and wife, I hope his life gets better. And if he has family, if he has friends, I hope he understands that putting this kind of evil into the world is what’s going to bring it back around to him."
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COVID-19 asylum limits at US-Mexico border to end May 23
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control announced Friday that it is ending a policy that limited asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The use of public health powers had been widely criticized by Democrats and immigration advocates as an excuse for the United States to shirk its obligations to provide haven to people fleeing persecution. The policy went into effect under President Donald Trump in March 2020. Since then, migrants trying to enter the U.S. have been expelled more than 1.7 million times.
The policy, known as the Title 42 authority, named for a 1944 public health law to prevent communicable disease, will end on paper, but it will not take effect until May 23, to allow border officials time to prepare. The Associated Press first reported the change earlier this week.
The policy was increasingly hard to justify scientifically as restrictions ended across the U.S.
The federal order says efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to provide vaccines to migrants at the border will step up in the next two months.
"After considering current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight COVID-19 (such as highly effective vaccines and therapeutics), the CDC director has determined that an order suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States is no longer necessary," the CDC said in a statement.
The decision is expected to draw more migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border. Even before it was officially announced, more than a dozen migrants excitedly ran out of their dormitory at the Good Samaritan shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, asking about it.
DHS said this week that about 7,100 migrants were coming daily, compared with an average of about 5,900 a day in February — on pace to match or exceed highs from last year, 2019 and other peak periods. But border officials said they are planning for as many as 18,000 arrivals daily, and that seems certain to cause challenges for border-region Democrats in tight reelection races — with some warning that the Biden administration is unprepared to handle the situation.
Homeland Security said it created a Southwest Border Coordinating Center to respond to any sharp increases, with MaryAnn Tierney, a regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as interim leader and a Border Patrol official as deputy.
Officials also are working on additional ground and air transportation options and tents to house the expected influx, and the Border Patrol has already hired on civilians.
Instead of conducting patrols and uncovering smuggling activity, its agents spend about 40% of their time caring for people already in custody and administrative tasks that are unrelated to border security.
The agency hoped to free up agents to go back into the field by hiring civilians for jobs such as making sure that microwaved burritos are served properly, checking holding cells and the time-consuming work of collecting information for immigration court papers.
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Still, administration officials acknowledged the fixes are only temporary measures.
"The Biden-Harris administration is committed to pursuing every avenue within our authority to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stay true to our values," said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. "Yet a long-term solution can only come from comprehensive legislation that brings lasting reform to a fundamentally broken system."
The limits went into place in March 2020 under the Trump administration as coronavirus cases soared. While officials said at the time that it was a way to keep COVID-19 out of the United States, there always has been criticism that the restrictions were used as an excuse to seal the border to migrants unwanted by then-President Donald Trump. It was perhaps the broadest of Trump’s actions to restrict crossings and crack down on migrants.
CDC officials lifted part of the order last month, ending the limits for children traveling to the border alone. In August, U.S. border authorities began testing children traveling alone in their busiest areas: Positives fell to 6% in the first week of March from a high of nearly 20% in early February.
Asylum limits have been applied unevenly by nationality, depending largely on costs and diplomatic relations with home countries. Many migrants have been spared from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and, more recently, Ukraine. Homeland Security officials wrote border authorities this month that Ukrainians may be exempt, saying Russia’s invasion "created a humanitarian crisis."
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Eating 100g of cranberries a day may help keep heart disease away, study finds
LONDON - As the old saying goes: 100 grams of fresh cranberries a day may help keep the doctor away — or in this case, the heart doctor.
A new study led by researchers at King's College London found that daily consumption of cranberries for one month improved cardiovascular function in healthy men. The researchers examined 45 healthy men, who each consumed either two packets of whole cranberry freeze-dried powder — equivalent to 100 g of fresh cranberries — or a placebo.
The participants consumed these items daily for one month, according to the study.
Those consuming cranberry had "significant improvements" in flow-mediated dilation (FMD), which signals improvement of heart and blood vessel function, according to the study authors. FMD measures how blood vessels widen when blood flow increases, and it is considered a sensitive biomarker for the risk of cardiovascular disease, a university statement about the study further explains.
The team found significant improvements in FMD two hours after the participants’ first consumption, as well as after one month of daily consumption — suggesting both immediate and long-lasting benefits, according to the statement.
The research was supported in part by the Cranberry Institute, a nonprofit founded in support of cranberry growers.
The study was a double-blind randomized controlled trial, meaning neither the participants nor the researchers knew which intervention participants received before the end of the trial. These types of studies are often considered the "gold standard" for evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention and help to reduce bias.
Previous research has also shown health benefits linked to cranberries. The vitamins and minerals they contain help to boost the body's digestive health and antioxidant system and promote good heart health, potentially even improving blood pressure and cholesterol, according to the American Heart Association.
Another component of cranberries, called A-type proanthocyanidins, may help prevent the binding of E. coli in the bladder, which typically occurs before urinary tract infections (UTIs), according to the Cleveland Clinic. It also cites research showing how the same a-type proanthocyanidins may help prevent bacteria formation in the mouth, helping to keep away cavities, gum disease, tooth decay, and possibly even oral cancer.
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The findings of the latest study were published on March 22 in the journal Food & Function. The researchers said the findings provide "solid evidence" that cranberries can significantly affect heart health, even in people with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.
"The increases in polyphenols and metabolites in the bloodstream and the related improvements in flow-mediated dilation after cranberry consumption emphasise the important role cranberries may play in cardiovascular disease prevention," Dr. Ana Rodriguez-Mateos, study author and senior lecturer in nutrition at the Department of Nutritional Sciences of King's College London, said in the statement.
"The fact that these improvements in cardiovascular health were seen with an amount of cranberries that can be reasonably consumed daily makes cranberry an important fruit in the prevention of cardiovascular disease for the general public," Rodriguez-Mateos added.
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Former US soccer star Hope Solo arrested for DUI, child abuse, TMZ reports
WASHINGTON - Soccer legend Hope Solo was arrested Thursday in North Carolina for allegedly driving while intoxicated and resisting arrests, and police say Solo’s two children were in the car at the time of her arrest, TMZ reported Friday.
Rich Nichols, Solo's legal counsel, provided a statement to TMZ saying "On the advice of counsel, Hope can't speak about this situation, but she wants everyone to know that her kids are her life, that she was released immediately and is now at home with her family, that the story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest, and that she looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges."
FOX Television Stations has reached out to the Winston-Salem, North Carolina Police Department for more information Friday, but calls have not been returned at this time.
Solo, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup winner, was taken into custody by authorities in a Walmart parking lot in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
US women football team's goalkeeper Hope Solo blocks the ball during a training session in Chengdu, China's southwestern province of Sichuan. (LIU JIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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According to TMZ, officials told them that the 40-year-old was booked for impaired driving (DUI), resisting arrest, and misdemeanor child abuse.
The former soccer star has faced issues with the law before. In 2014, Solo tried to avoid a trial on misdemeanor domestic violence charges after an incident at her sister's home, when the was accused of being intoxicated and assaulting her sister and 17-year-old nephew. Solo said she was a victim in the altercation. In 2016, an appeals court in Washington state rejected Solo's request to avoid trial. But the charges were dropped in 2018 after a lengthy appeals process, according to FOX11 Los Angeles and FOX Business.
The United States' Hope Solo wearing a special pink Breast Cancer Awareness top during pregame warmups on Saturday, May 12th, 2007. (Photo by Andy. Mead/WireImage/Getty Images)
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IKEA will pay you to get its old furniture back, here’s how it works
WASHINGTON - IKEA is making upgrading your dining room table or dresser a little easier thanks to their program where they will take your used furniture off your hands.
How does IKEA’s Buy Back program work?
IKEA has a Buy Back and Resell program allowing customers to sell their used IKEA furniture.
The company has an online form you can fill out to get a quote listing the buy back value of the IKEA furniture item. You’ll have to bring the form to one of the store locations listed on their website.
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Who is eligible for IKEA’s Buy Back program?
The Buy Back and Resell service is available for IKEA customers at participating IKEA stores.
Which IKEA products are eligible?
IKEA furniture has to be assembled, owned by you, and in good condition to be eligible for the Buy Back service. Store credit will be provided to you and IKEA will resell the furniture.
Are there furniture items IKEA won’t accept?
The Swedish furniture and home goods retail chain’s program does not extend to non-IKEA furniture items. Recalled IKEA furniture is also not eligible for the service.
IKEA has a full list of these items on its website that are not eligible for the program. The items include home furnishing accessories, including lighting and textiles, mattresses, bed textiles (examples are blankets and mattress toppers), electrical appliances/products, and chests of drawers.
IKEA’s Buy Back & Resell program is part of an initiative that they began last year to become a more environmentally-friendly business by 2030. The company plans to make products using recycled and reused materials, according to their website.
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