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DeKalb teen charged with felony murder for shooting twin brother in face, police say
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - Police said a teenager faces a murder charge after shooting his twin brother in the face on Monday in a home in DeKalb County.
Police said 17-year-old Xavier Hayes was arrested and booked in DeKalb County Jail for felony murder and aggravated assault. His brother, 17-year-old Dimitri Hayes, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
At the scene, police described the shooting as "accidental."
Xavier Hayes
Three DeKalb County police patrol units were investigating at around 5 a.m. Monday in front of a home on Young Knoll Street.
Police initially said the 17-year-old boys were playing with a gun in their bedroom at around 3:30 a.m. on Monday, and the boys didn't realize the gun was loaded.
GUN ACCIDENTALLY FIRES INSIDE WALMART, INJURING 4 PEOPLE
It fired and hit one boy in the face, killing him.
Police investigating a shooting at a home in DeKalb County.
Police interviewed the surviving teen at DeKalb County police headquarters. It's not clear what evidence led to police filing a murder charge.
It's unclear who owns the gun.
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What does “Two chicken patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun” mean? If you’ve been around long enough to notice something very different about that phrase, we should grab lunch. But even if you have never heard the vintage McDonald’s commercial, putting the ingredients together gives you a pretty good hint about what’s coming to the fast-food restaurant’s menu. Yes, it’s a chicken version of the classic Big Mac.
Earlier this year, McDonald’s sold a limited edition version of the sandwich in the U.K. Restaurants were completely sold out within 10 days of the premier of the burger, which is a marriage of a McChicken and a traditional Big Mac.
To be clear, the Chicken Big Mac has three buns around and between two crispy chicken patties with all of the Big Mac toppings: cheese, lettuce, pickles and secret sauce.
They brought it back, as seen by this Twitter post.
“Well, that escalated quickly,” the McDonald’s UK Twitter account tweeted. “Your love for the limited edition Chicken Big Mac knew no bounds and it’s sold out almost everywhere. Thank you for lovin’ it even more than we thought you would, it’ll be back soon.”
Well, that escalated quickly. Your love for the limited edition Chicken Big Mac knew no bounds and it’s sold out almost everywhere. Thank you for lovin’ it even more than we thought you would, it’ll be back soon pic.twitter.com/8hEYNTF90R
— McDonald’s UK (@McDonaldsUK) February 11, 2022
McDonald’s confirmed it is offering the Chicken Big Mac for a limited time in Miami-area locations later this month.
“We’re always looking to give our fans more ways to enjoy the classic menu items they know and love,” a McDonald’s representative told Insider.
The company hinted that if it is popular enough, it could be launched at locations nationwide.
“While not everything we test makes it on our U.S. menus,” the McDonald’s spokesperson told Insider, “we’ll use this time to gather feedback from both customers and restaurant crew as we consider opportunities to offer more delicious options in the future.”
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Serious pregnancy complications are rare in the United States but they still affect thousands of women each year.
They may endanger the health of the mother, fetus or both. Many are more common in Black patients and contribute to their disproportionately high maternal mortality rate.
Severe cases may force patients and their physicians to consider abortions, but laws enacted or proposed since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June have limited that option.
At least 19 states with abortion restrictions allow exemptions if the mother develops a condition with severe or life-threatening health consequences, but determining whether either situation exists can be a challenging judgment call. Physicians have said they feel new abortion limits are forcing them to let patients with complications deteriorate.
Here’s a look at some of the most common pregnancy complications that could lead a doctor to recommend an abortion:
PREECLAMPSIA
A serious high blood pressure condition that can develop suddenly in pregnancy, typically during the second half, is called preeclampsia.
It develops in about 1 in 25 pregnancies. Symptoms include swollen limbs, headaches and blurred vision.
In addition to elevated blood pressure, patients may develop kidney problems. In severe cases, fluid in the lungs, seizures or strokes may occur.
Treatment may include hospitalization, along with medicines to lower blood pressure and promote fetal lung development. Ending the pregnancy by inducing delivery or with an abortion may be recommended when the mother’s life is in danger.
PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES
Membranes in the fluid-filled amniotic sac that surrounds the fetus often rupture or break at the start of childbirth — commonly called water breaking. In at least 3% of pregnancies, the sac ruptures too early, often leading to preterm birth.
The condition increases chances for a uterine infection. Doctors may recommend ending the pregnancy, especially if water breaks before 24 weeks, when infant survival chances are slim.
Instead of abortion, doctors could monitor the patients and closely watch for signs of infection. But risks of severe maternal complications are greatly increased and chances of a successful birth are small, recent studies have shown.
ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES
Ectopic pregnancies are when a fertilized egg grows outside the womb, often in a fallopian tube. It happens in about 2% of U.S. pregnancies.
There is no chance for the embryo to survive, but it can cause the tube to burst, leading to dangerous internal bleeding.
Treatment for less severe cases may include medication that stops the embryo from growing, ending the pregnancy. Otherwise surgery is done, sometimes requiring removing the affected tube.
Doctors emphasize that treatment for ectopic pregnancies is not the same as an abortion.
Some politicians who oppose abortions have suggested that ectopic pregnancies could be reimplanted in the uterus, sometimes citing two unsubstantiated case reports published decades apart in medical journals. Experts say any such attempts would damage the embryo and could not result in a successful pregnancy.
PLACENTA ABRUPTION
The placenta is a crucial structure that develops in pregnancy and attaches to the uterine wall, connecting with the umbilical cord to help nourish the fetus.
In about 1 in 100 pregnancies, the placenta separates prematurely from the womb, after about 20 weeks of pregnancy. That can pose a life-threatening risk to the fetus and can cause dangerous maternal bleeding.
Inducing childbirth or ending the pregnancy may be recommended.
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Follow AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner at @LindseyTanner.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Millions of students wearing face masks streamed back to primary and secondary schools across the Philippines on Monday for their first in-person classes after two years of coronavirus lockdowns that are feared to have worsened alarming illiteracy rates among children.
Officials grappled with daunting problems, including classroom shortages, lingering COVID-19 fears, an approaching storm and quake-damaged school buildings in the country’s north, to welcome back nearly 28 million students who enrolled for the school year.
In a grade school in San Juan city in the capital region, teachers checked the temperatures of students and sprayed alcohol on their hands before letting them into classrooms.
Renaline Pemapelis, 27, excitedly gave last-minute instructions to her son, who was going to school for the first time. “I have mixed feelings, worried and excited,” she told The Associated Press.
Only about 24,000 of the nation’s public schools, or about 46%, were able to begin in-person classes five times a week starting Monday, while the rest will resort to a mix of in-person and online classes until Nov. 2, when all public and private schools are required to bring all students back to classrooms, education officials said.
But about 1,000 schools will be unable to shift entirely to face-to-face classes during the transition period for various reasons, including damage to school building wrought by a powerful earthquake last month in the north, officials said.
The Department of Education said some schools will have to split classes into up to three shifts a day due to classroom shortages, a longstanding problem, and to avoid overcrowding that could turn schools into new centers of coronavirus outbreaks.
“We always say that our goal is a maximum of two shifts only but there will be areas that would have to resort to three shifts because they’re really overcrowded,” Education Department spokesperson Michael Poa said on Friday. Despite many concerns, education officials gave assurances that it’s “all-systems go” for Monday’s resumption of classes, he said.
Sen. Joel Villanueva, however, said such assurances have to be matched by real improvements on the ground.
“The era of missing classrooms, sharing tables and chairs and holding classes under the shade of trees must no longer happen,” said Villanueva, who filed two bills calling for additional grocery, transportation and medical allowances for public school teachers.
Among the worst-hit by the pandemic in Southeast Asia, the Philippines under then-President Rodrigo Duterte enforced one of the world’s longest coronavirus lockdowns and school closures. Duterte, whose six-year term ended June 30, rejected calls for a resumption of in-person classes due to fears it might ignite new outbreaks.
The prolonged school closures sparked fears that literacy rates among Filipino children — already at alarming levels before the pandemic — could worsen.
A World Bank study last year showed that about nine out of 10 children in the Philippines were suffering from “ learning poverty,” or the inability of children by age 10 to read and understand a simple story.
“Prolonged school closures, poor health risk mitigation, and household-income shocks had the biggest impact on learning poverty, resulting in many children in the Philippines failing to read and understand a simple text by age 10,” UNICEF Philippines said in a statement.
“Vulnerable children such as children with disabilities, children living in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, and children living in disaster and conflict zones fare far worse,” the U.N. agency for children said.
Poa said 325 temporary learning spaces were being constructed in northern Abra province and outlying regions to replace school buildings battered by a July 27 quake.
Education officials also scrambled to help more than 28,000 students look for new schools after at least 425 private schools closed permanently following the pandemic’s arrival in 2020, mainly due to financial losses. About 10,000 of the students have been enrolled in public schools, Poa said.
Poverty has also been a key hindrance to education. Crowds mobbed the Department of Social Welfare and Development offices on Saturday to claim cash aid for indigent students, resulting in the injury of at least 26 people who were pinned in entrance gates.
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WILLING - PLAY THIS TRULY BEACOU-Y GAME - ALL HISTICAN ACCESS\nDaily Hive Vancouver Continent Feeds - Continually fed, but there has to also occur a\nDifferent access in order there might to still occur an\nEvent as to be an\nAn example are shown as follow below where is still the Access Continuer by some means when still access all HISTEN (P2), so OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office is currently looking into a string of thefts, in which checks are swiped from commercial mailboxes and then cashed elsewhere.
In total, authorites say that the amount of the stolen checks have added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It's happened numerous times in the area of Jamestown, Georgetown, and Tallmadge Townships.
Authorities say that checks have been stolen out of mailboxes from area businesses, either from the outgoing or incoming mail.
Often, multiple checks are taken from each batch of mail, police say, meaning that multiple people are being defrauded.
Authorities say that whoever steals the checks then changes the payee and the original amount for the which the check was written.
These stolen checks are then cashed in other locations- usually in the state, but police say that checks have been cashed as far away as Arizona and Colorado.
The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office released photos of a suspected vehicle, as well as a female suspect who police say cashed one of the stolen checks.
Investigators are working with financial institutions, trying to stop payment on the checks and restore the stolen money. The United States Postal Inspection service has also been contacted.
The Sheriff's Office asks that the public be aware of strange vehicles attempting to access mailboxes and report any suspicious activity.
Additionally, businesses may want to avoid mailing checks with large dollar amounts or consider using a locked mailbox, Postal Service dropbox or delivering outgoing mail directly to the Post Office.
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One person has died following multiple shootings in Midtown Atlanta, police department officials said in a news release.
Police said a suspect is in custody after the shootings at two locations Monday afternoon.
Officers initially responded to West Peachtree Street at about 1:45 p.m. ET to a report of someone hit by gunfire.
"Upon arrival, officers located two individuals who appeared to have been shot. One of the victims has died and the second was taken to the hospital for treatment," officials said in the statement.
Authorities then received a call of a person shot on Peachtree Street. Atlanta Police said the last shot was apparently fired at 2:15 p.m..
The conditions of the wounded victims are unknown, police said.
Police officials said it "unclear what led to the shootings," and they are continuing to piece together "the connection between the locations."
Police are also working to determine whether the victims were targeted by the suspect or whether any of the victims were shot randomly, officials said.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor wanted to grab Gretchen Whitmer and hang her, prosecutors said during a stark closing argument Monday as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020.
The jury got the case around noon after a morning of final remarks, including a fiery challenge by defense lawyers who accused the FBI of manufacturing a scheme against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. Prosecutors, however, called that a phony narrative.
“These defendants were outside a woman’s house in the middle of the night with night-vision goggles and guns and a plan to kidnap her,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler said. “And they made a real bomb. That’s far enough, isn’t it?”
After a nine-day trial, Kessler repeatedly urged jurors to also focus on what Fox and Croft were saying months before the FBI placed undercover agents and informants inside the group that summer.
It was Kessler’s effort to get the jury to look past a constant defense argument that the men were entrapped by the government every step of the way.
“’Which governor is going to be dragged off and hung for treason first?’” Kessler said, quoting Croft’s own words.
“Any governor would do,” the prosecutor said. “By the end of June, he was telling people Michigan’s government is a target of opportunity, and God knows the governor needs to be hung. He didn’t just want to kidnap her. He wanted to have his own trial and execute her.”
The ultimate goal: a second American Revolution, “something called the boogaloo,” Kessler said.
Fox, 39, and Croft, 46, are on trial for a second time, after a different jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict but acquitted two other men.
The jury heard secretly recorded conversations and read violent social media posts. Two undercover agents and an informant testified for hours, explaining how the men trained in a “shoot house” in Wisconsin and Michigan and visited Elk Rapids to see Whitmer’s home and a nearby bridge that could be blown up.
Other critical witnesses: Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who pleaded guilty, and informant Dan Chappel, an Army veteran who said he went to the FBI after joining a Michigan paramilitary group and hearing plans to kill police.
There’s no dispute that Fox, Croft and their allies were furious about COVID-19 restrictions and generally disgusted by government.
“You remember (Fox) talking about his inspirations for his constitutional republic? Not George Washington. Not Abraham Lincoln. Timothy McVeigh, the people at Waco, Ruby Ridge — that’s what his inspiration was,” Kessler said, referring to the Oklahoma City bomber and the sites of deadly standoffs in Texas and Idaho, respectively, that involved the government.
Defense lawyers, however, have portrayed the men as “big talkers,” a bumbling, foul-mouthed, marijuana-smoking pair exercising free speech and incapable of leading anything as extraordinary as an abduction of a public official. They say FBI agents and informants fed their outrage and pulled them into their web.
“In America, the FBI is not supposed to create domestic terrorists so that the FBI can arrest them,” Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons told the jury. “The FBI isn’t supposed to create a conspiracy so the FBI can stand up and claim a disruption.”
Gibbons said there was “fantastical talk” by Fox and others — about storming Mackinac Island, getting helicopters and boats and maybe escaping through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
He said Fox was “isolated, broke, homeless,” living in the basement of a vacuum store in the Grand Rapids area.
“Somebody really cool is showing him attention, who wants to be his friend,” Gibbons said of Chappel.
Croft’s attorney, Joshua Blanchard, offered a similar assessment in a scathing attack on the FBI’s tactics. He reminded the jury that two more informants with recording devices were in the group but were never called as government witnesses, including a woman who shared a hotel room with Croft and traveled with him from the East Coast.
“You don’t have to agree with Barry’s politics. I surely don’t,” Blanchard said. “But we should all agree that the principles of truth and justice are the foundation that our country is built upon. The FBI has told us the truth doesn’t matter to them. … You have the power to put a stop to that today.”
Croft is a trucker from Bear, Delaware. The jury will resume deliberations Tuesday.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.
Over the weekend, she said she hasn’t been following the second trial but remains concerned about “violent rhetoric in this country.”
“This is a dangerous trend that is happening,” Whitmer said at the Michigan Democratic Party’s convention in Lansing. “We cannot let it become normalized and I do hope that anyone that’s out there plotting to hurt their fellow Americans is held accountable.”
Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
The Justice Department charged Croft, Fox and four other men while Trump was in office. The second trial occurred while the FBI has been under scrutiny by his right-wing supporters, especially after an extraordinary search for documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Law enforcement officials across the country are warning about an increase in threats and the potential for violence against agents or buildings.
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Find the AP’s full coverage of the kidnapping plot trial: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial
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White reported from Detroit.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor wanted to grab Gretchen Whitmer and hang her, prosecutors said during a stark closing argument Monday as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020.
The jury got the case around noon after a morning of final remarks, including a fiery challenge by defense lawyers who accused the FBI of manufacturing a scheme against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. Prosecutors, however, called that a phony narrative.
“These defendants were outside a woman’s house in the middle of the night with night-vision goggles and guns and a plan to kidnap her,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler said. “And they made a real bomb. That’s far enough, isn’t it?”
After a nine-day trial, Kessler repeatedly urged jurors to also focus on what Fox and Croft were saying months before the FBI placed undercover agents and informants inside the group that summer.
It was Kessler’s effort to get the jury to look past a constant defense argument that the men were entrapped by the government every step of the way.
“’Which governor is going to be dragged off and hung for treason first?’” Kessler said, quoting Croft’s own words.
“Any governor would do,” the prosecutor said. “By the end of June, he was telling people Michigan’s government is a target of opportunity, and God knows the governor needs to be hung. He didn’t just want to kidnap her. He wanted to have his own trial and execute her.”
The ultimate goal: a second American Revolution, “something called the boogaloo,” Kessler said.
Fox, 39, and Croft, 46, are on trial for a second time, after a different jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict but acquitted two other men.
The jury heard secretly recorded conversations and read violent social media posts. Two undercover agents and an informant testified for hours, explaining how the men trained in a “shoot house” in Wisconsin and Michigan and visited Elk Rapids to see Whitmer’s home and a nearby bridge that could be blown up.
Other critical witnesses: Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who pleaded guilty, and informant Dan Chappel, an Army veteran who said he went to the FBI after joining a Michigan paramilitary group and hearing plans to kill police.
There’s no dispute that Fox, Croft and their allies were furious about COVID-19 restrictions and generally disgusted by government.
“You remember (Fox) talking about his inspirations for his constitutional republic? Not George Washington. Not Abraham Lincoln. Timothy McVeigh, the people at Waco, Ruby Ridge — that’s what his inspiration was,” Kessler said, referring to the Oklahoma City bomber and the sites of deadly standoffs in Texas and Idaho, respectively, that involved the government.
Defense lawyers, however, have portrayed the men as “big talkers,” a bumbling, foul-mouthed, marijuana-smoking pair exercising free speech and incapable of leading anything as extraordinary as an abduction of a public official. They say FBI agents and informants fed their outrage and pulled them into their web.
“In America, the FBI is not supposed to create domestic terrorists so that the FBI can arrest them,” Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons told the jury. “The FBI isn’t supposed to create a conspiracy so the FBI can stand up and claim a disruption.”
Gibbons said there was “fantastical talk” by Fox and others — about storming Mackinac Island, getting helicopters and boats and maybe escaping through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
He said Fox was “isolated, broke, homeless,” living in the basement of a vacuum store in the Grand Rapids area.
“Somebody really cool is showing him attention, who wants to be his friend,” Gibbons said of Chappel.
Croft’s attorney, Joshua Blanchard, offered a similar assessment in a scathing attack on the FBI’s tactics. He reminded the jury that two more informants with recording devices were in the group but were never called as government witnesses, including a woman who shared a hotel room with Croft and traveled with him from the East Coast.
“You don’t have to agree with Barry’s politics. I surely don’t,” Blanchard said. “But we should all agree that the principles of truth and justice are the foundation that our country is built upon. The FBI has told us the truth doesn’t matter to them. … You have the power to put a stop to that today.”
Croft is a trucker from Bear, Delaware. The jury will resume deliberations Tuesday.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.
Over the weekend, she said she hasn’t been following the second trial but remains concerned about “violent rhetoric in this country.”
“This is a dangerous trend that is happening,” Whitmer said at the Michigan Democratic Party’s convention in Lansing. “We cannot let it become normalized and I do hope that anyone that’s out there plotting to hurt their fellow Americans is held accountable.”
Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
The Justice Department charged Croft, Fox and four other men while Trump was in office. The second trial occurred while the FBI has been under scrutiny by his right-wing supporters, especially after an extraordinary search for documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Law enforcement officials across the country are warning about an increase in threats and the potential for violence against agents or buildings.
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Find the AP’s full coverage of the kidnapping plot trial: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial
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White reported from Detroit.
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On this, the Democratic candidates for Florida governor agree: New restrictions on abortion in the Sunshine State and uncertainty about the future of women's health across America have reinvigorated their voters and elevated the urgency to their effort to knock off Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall.
But the question of who is best suited to take that fight to DeSantis -- seasoned Rep. Charlie Crist or Nikki Fried, the state agriculture commissioner vying to become Florida's first female governor -- has sparked a bitter war of words between the two candidates and fueled a pricey advertising battle that has shaped the closing weeks of their race for the party's nomination.
Democratic voters in Florida will be the final arbiters on Tuesday when the state holds its primary, one of the last of the 2022 midterm cycle. The race has come to exemplify how the changing abortion landscape following the fall of Roe v. Wade this summer is animating politics on the left and giving Democrats renewed optimism for their chances in key battlegrounds.
With a significant fundraising advantage and overwhelming support from elected Democrats, Crist seemed well positioned to capture the nomination a few months ago. Limited reliable polling has made it difficult to determine where the race stands heading into Election Day, or how much voter sentiment has shifted since the US Supreme Court determined in June that a woman's right to an abortion is not guaranteed by the US Constitution. But the dynamics of the race have changed considerably as voters and candidates have become clear-eyed about what is at stake in November.
"I sense Nikki Fried is gaining ground," said Brad Coker, a Florida-based pollster for Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy. "Don't count her out. I wouldn't bet my house on it, but if I had 100 bucks I found under a rock, I'd bet it on Nikki Fried."
For Fried, who stumbled out of the gates as a candidate and was slow to recover, the Dobbs decision brought new purpose to her campaign, and she has carried that momentum into the home stretch. She has hammered Crist, a former Republican governor before becoming an independent and then a Democrat, over his complicated record on abortion issues. She frequently reminds voters that Crist once considered himself "pro-life" and that he appointed a pair of justices who ruled to uphold abortion restrictions.
"I have been pro-choice my entire life," Fried said last month during the only debate of the race. "I have made sure that I've stood on the side of women. Charlie cannot say the same thing."
Whether Fried's push was too late remains to be seen. By Monday, 970,000 Democrats had already cast ballots by mail or at early voting sites (about 1.5 million Democrats voted in the 2018 primary). The barrage of criticisms, though, has penetrated enough that Crist felt the need to respond on the air. Throughout August, his campaign has spent valuable ad dollars on a defensive 15-second commercial to rebut Fried's attacks.
"I vetoed anti-abortion legislation to protect your right to choose, and I've got a perfect record from NARAL and Planned Parenthood," Crist says in the ad. "Nikki knows I fought for your right to choose. More importantly, now you do, too."
The fall of Roe, while maligned by Democrats, has nevertheless provided much-needed tailwinds here for a party that has been floundering ever since it lost the governor's race to DeSantis by 32,000 votes four years ago. They have watched as DeSantis has used the office to push through an aggressively conservative agenda and catapult himself into the upper stratosphere of GOP presidential contenders while amassing an unthinkable sum of money for his reelection — more than $132 million on hand as of Thursday. Along the way, Republicans for the first time surpassed Democrats in the state's registered voters and now boast a 200,000-voter advantage.
Democratic lawmakers, in the minority in both chambers, were powerless as the legislature passed and DeSantis signed a ban on abortion after 15 weeks with no exceptions for rape and incest. The new law took effect July 1 and it remains in place amid a legal challenge.
But after the Dobbs decision, Democrats saw a flood of money coming into their races and renewed energy that manifested itself in protests throughout the state. Outrage has continued as the fallout from life after Roe materializes. And last week, the ramifications of another DeSantis-backed anti-abortion law, this one requiring parental consent for a minor to obtain an abortion, played out in public. A court determined a 16-year-old Florida girl without parents was not mature enough to decide to end her pregnancy and denied her a waiver that would have allowed her to get an abortion.
To be clear, Democrats here care most about one thing: beating DeSantis and slowing his ascent to the national stage. The back and forth between Crist and Fried over abortion, though, has come to encapsulate the dueling arguments for each other's candidacy.
Fried's allies hope an upset over Crist may foreshadow the ground shifting in Florida, much as the country saw earlier this month when Kansas voters rejected an amendment to strip abortion rights from the state's constitution. They say Fried, as a woman who won four years ago when every other Democrat running statewide in Florida lost, is uniquely positioned to capture that energy.
The Dobbs decision "was definitely an inflection point," said Kevin Cate, a top strategist for Fried. "The intensity after that happened was huge and you have people looking for someone to be their champion. It's about meeting the moment."
Yet much of the Democratic establishment in Florida believes otherwise. Most elected Democrats are backing Crist, the candidate who brought them within 64,000 votes as the party's nominee for governor in 2014. The state's largest labor groups have supported Crist over Fried as well, as have Barbara Zdravecky, the former CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, and Alex Sink, the state's former elected chief financial officer who founded an organization that recruits and trains Democratic women who support abortion rights to run for office.
Most have said they are unbothered by Crist's complicated history on abortion rights, focusing instead on his reliable record during his three terms in the US House of Representatives while insisting his track record working from the middle will appeal to more swing voters.
"For me, it's not, 'You're a woman, you check that box, I'll support you,'" said state Rep. Fentrice Driskell, who will lead House Democrats in Tallahassee next year. "It's, 'What do you bring to the table holistically?' To me, Charlie Crist is the best person to meet the moment."
Perhaps most notable is that the major groups that mobilize around abortion rights have chosen to remain neutral in the race.
State Rep. Kristen Arrington, one of the few elected officials who endorsed Fried, said she will support Crist if he's the nominee, but her fellow Democrats are underestimating Fried's appeal as a fresher face.
"I don't want to poopoo them. Many of them made decisions before (Dobbs)," Arrington said. "But sometimes women can be their own worst enemy and not support each other. Nothing against the men candidates because they're great allies and we can't do it alone, but I think it's important to have women in leadership. For too long, we've had men making decisions about our bodies."
Crist and Fried have exhausted nearly all of their resources trying to win the primary, much of it spent persuading Democratic voters over abortion. Meanwhile, DeSantis and the Florida GOP have already spent more than $10 million on digital and television ads on the incumbent governor's reelection campaign, about twice as much as Fried and Crist have spent on airtime combined, according to an analysis of data collected by AdImpact.
Despite limited investments in Florida to date, Democrats remain hopeful that come Wednesday, regardless of the nominee, the party and its election backers will step up to help fund a campaign against DeSantis. A potentially motivating factor is that Florida, for now, remains one of the more permissive states to obtain an abortion in the South.
But some Crist supporters have privately expressed concern that the taxing fight over abortion in the primary has left the party fractured heading into a difficult general election.
"It's a shame that in an effort to win a political office, Nikki Fried would attempt to undermine a fellow Democrat," said Joshua Karp, a strategist for the Crist campaign. "Democrats are fired up to defend Roe at the ballot box. The only candidate who can build that coalition is Charlie Crist and that's why so many pro-choice leaders have endorsed him."
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The Pentagon rejected a second request from the mayor of Washington, DC, to help deal with migrants arriving in the city by bus from Texas and Arizona, according to a defense official.
The Pentagon, according to a copy of the rejection letter reviewed by CNN, said it "would not be appropriate" to use the DC National Guard and that the Defense Department "cannot fulfill your request."
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser had initially requested DC National Guard support in late-July when she said the city had reached a "tipping point" with the number of migrants. The governors of Texas and Arizona began busing migrants from the southern border to the capital starting in April in protest of President Joe Biden's immigration policy.
The Pentagon rejected the first request in early August, saying it would hurt the readiness of the DC National Guard and that the city had received grant funding through FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program.
But one week after that denial, Bowser resubmitted her request for National Guard support, trying to address some of the concerns raised by the Pentagon. Bowser said the request was for a period of 90 days instead of an open-ended request and that it would be limited to logistical support for sites such as "facility management, feeding, sanitation, and ground support."
The mayor reiterated the need for a government facility such as the DC Armory to be utilized as a "respite center" where migrants can stay until moving on. Her letter said that the secretary has "failed to demonstrate an understanding of the urgent staffing and logistical challenges that have led me to make this serious request of our National Guard resources."
The DC National Guard, Bowser said, was "uniquely resourced" to provide logistical support to the city.
Instead of approving the request, the Pentagon reiterated its previous stance and more thoroughly explained its reasons for the rejection.
The Pentagon said the use of the DC National Guard would impact the readiness of the unit and that the DC Armory was not an appropriate place to house migrants even temporarily, since it is not air conditioned and would have to go through "a substantial remediation for a number of issues," according to the copy of the letter. The Defense Department also pointed to the civilian agencies and NGOs assisting with the migrants.
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Former President Donald Trump's legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a "special master" to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago.
Trump is asking for a special master -- a third-party attorney -- to oversee the review of evidence gathered from the beach club in the criminal probe, and for the judge to pause federal investigators' work related to the evidence until the review is done, according to a new court filing.
The new lawsuit marks the first legal filing by Trump's team after FBI agents carried out their search on August 8 and underscores how his legal team has struggled to coalesce around a singular strategy.
In the suit, Trump argues his constitutional rights were violated and that there may have been privileged materials seized.
Though the legal maneuver could slow down the Justice Department's ongoing criminal investigation, Trump's request to the federal court in South Florida could face an uphill legal battle after his team missed multiple opportunities to challenge the search.
The ex-President's lawyers declined to take a position in court in the immediate aftermath of the search warrant execution. They also did not weigh in on whether the search warrant affidavit should be made public before or during a court hearing last week in West Palm Beach, Florida, even though one of his attorneys was present.
Trump, in the new filing, also asks for a more detailed receipt of what was removed from Mar-a-Lago. That request, if granted, would add to the two receipts the FBI already provided to Trump's team describing 33 items seized, and which his attorney signed off on at the end of the search.
The Justice Department removed 11 sets of classified documents from Trump's home, according to documents unsealed by a judge last week. The inventory shows that some of the materials recovered were marked as "top secret/SCI," which is one of the highest levels of classification.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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BEIJING (AP) — Brush fires have forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people in southwest China and power rationing for factories has reportedly been extended as weeks of record heat and drought batter the region.
Some shopping malls in the megacity of Chongqing have been ordered closed for most of the day to reduce electricity demand, state broadcaster CCTV said, limiting opening hours to 4 to 9 p.m.
The drought and heat have wilted crops and caused rivers including the giant Yangtze to shrink, disrupting cargo traffic and reducing power supply from hydroelectric dams at a time of soaring demand for air conditioning. State media say the government will try to protect the autumn grain harvest, which is 75% of China’s annual total, by shooting chemicals into clouds to try to generate rain.
The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth before a meeting this fall at which President Xi Jinping is expected to be given a third five-year term as party leader.
There was no public announcement of the extension of power rationing in Sichuan province into a second week, but it was detailed in a company statement and a government notice to companies that was reported by Chinese news outlets.
The “tense situation” of power supplies in Sichuan province “has further intensified,” Tencent News said Monday in a report that included a photo of the government notice.
LIER Chemical Co. said in an announcement through the stock exchange in the southern city of Shenzhen that its facilities in the cities of Jinyang and Guang’an in Sichuan received an order extending power rationing through Thursday.
Factories in Sichuan that make processor chips, solar panels, auto components and other industrial goods were required to shut down or reduce activity last week to conserve power for homes as air conditioning demand surged in temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Air conditioning, elevators and lights were shut off in offices and shopping malls.
In Shanghai, a factory and shipping hub on China’s east coast, Tesla Ltd. and a major state-owned automaker suspended production last week due to disruption in supplies of components from Sichuan, the Shanghai city government said.
Sichuan, with 94 million people, is especially hard-hit because it gets 80% of its power from hydroelectric dams. Other provinces rely more on coal-fired power, which isn’t affected.
Economists say if Sichuan reopens relatively soon, the national impact should be limited because the province accounts for only 4% of China’s industrial output.
The Chinese government says this summer is China’s hottest and driest since it began keeping temperature and rainfall records in 1961. Temperatures have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the past week and longer.
Brush fires in outlying areas of Chongqing, which borders Sichuan, are the latest scourge resulting from the heat and drought.
More than 1,500 residents had been moved to shelters, while around 5,000 civilian and military personnel had been mobilized to put out the blazes, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
Helicopters have been sent to drop water on the fires, supporting crews on the ground who have in the past been left to their own resources.
In 2019, a wildfire in the mountains of Sichuan province killed 30 firefighters and volunteers.
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DETROIT (AP) — About 3,000 white-collar workers at Ford Motor Co. will lose their jobs as the company cuts costs to help make the long transition from internal combustion vehicles to those powered by batteries.
Leaders of the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker made the announcement Monday in a companywide email, saying that 2,000 full-time salaried workers would be let go along with another 1,000 contract workers.
The cuts represent about 6% of the 31,000 full-time salaried work force in the the U.S. and Canada. Ford’s 56,000 union factory workers are not affected. Some workers also will lose jobs in India.
The job losses come at a time of unprecedented change in the auto industry that for more than 100 years has made a living by selling petroleum-powered vehicles. Governments across the globe are pushing to eliminate combustion automobiles to mitigate the impact of climate change. Companies like Ford are orchestrating the wind-down of their combustion businesses over multiple years, even though they are still generating the cash to fund electric vehicle development.
Ford has said it plans for half of its global production to be electric vehicles by 2030.
Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley said in the email to employees that Ford will provide severance benefits and significant help for the workers to find new jobs. They wrote that Ford has a chance to lead in the new era of connected and electric vehicles.
“Building on this future requires changing and reshaping virtually all aspects of the way we have operated for more than a century,” the email said. “It means redeploying resources and addressing our cost structure, which is uncompetitive versus traditional and new companies.”
Farley and Ford wrote that the company examined each team’s shifting work to decide where cuts would be made. The company determined that its cost structure wasn’t competitive with General Motors, Stellantis and Tesla. Ford has said previously that it has a target of cutting $3 billion in annual internal combustion vehicle structural costs by 2026.
“We are eliminating work, as well as reorganizing and simplifying functions throughout the business,” they wrote in the email.
Farley has said repeatedly that the company’s global work force of 182,000 is too large, and it needs to trim costs and simplify processes so it can move faster as it transitions to electric vehicles.
The company already has restructured in Europe, Asia and India.
The cuts may not be over. Company spokesman T.R. Reid said Ford will continue to change with the industry and more job losses are possible. He said it’s common for companies to continually add people where they need them and trim where fewer jobs are needed. “With the fast pace of this industry, we’re going to manage the business smartly for these rapidly evolving priorities,” he said.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government has ordered an investigation of domestic low-cost carrier Wizz Air over what it calls possible breaches of consumer protection laws, the second such investigation it has launched against an airline since June.
The probe, ordered by Hungary’s Ministry of Justice comes after the ministry said it received an increase in complaints against the Budapest-based airline over its failure to provide information and assistance to customers whose flights are delayed or cancelled, according to Hungary’s state news agency MTI.
Other complaints included Wizz Air failing to provide accommodation and rebooking for affected passengers, failure to respond to consumer complaints within 30 days and operating a paid customer service line, which violates Hungarian law and consumer rights, the ministry said in a statement.
It is the second investigation against an airline launched by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s nationalist government since June, when it announced it would impose windfall taxes on industries from banking to insurance to airlines that have enjoyed “extra profits” arising from soaring demand after the pandemic — a claim some companies have contested.
Earlier this month, Hungary accused budget carrier Ryanair of consumer protection violations and fined it more than three-quarters of a million euros after the company raised ticket prices to cope with the new tax, which Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called “highway robbery” and “idiotic.”
The government hopes to raise 815 billion forints ($2.1 billion) from the tax policy to see the country through a period of soaring inflation and energy prices, and budget shortfalls from pre-election handouts earlier this year in which Orban won a fourth consecutive term.
Wizz Air didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Weary of Venezuela’s autocratic government and the pittance he earned in the military, Dario Maldonado deserted and fled with his family to neighboring Colombia.
But life remained hard — money was tight and expenses mounted. So he set off for the United States, an odyssey that required him to travel by foot through Central American jungle infested with venomous snakes and gun-toting bandits, sometimes sidestepping the corpses of people who died on the same journey.
Now Maldonado and thousands of other asylum seekers from across Latin America and the Caribbean are caught in the political battle over U.S. immigration policy after two Republican governors started sending busloads of migrants to New York City and Washington.
Border cities such as San Diego have long wrestled with influxes of asylum-seekers and created well-oiled machines to respond, but the nation’s largest city and its capital were caught flat-footed. That created an opening for Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona to exploit what they consider failed Democratic leadership.
Nearly 8,000 migrants have arrived on the state-sponsored bus trips, straining the resources and humanitarian services of both cities, which have also sought assistance from the federal government.
“This can be chaotic. But we want to send a message: We’re here to help, and we want to put politics aside,” said New York City’s immigration commissioner, Manuel Castro, as he greeted arriving migrants on a recent morning.
Abbott started the practice in April with Washington, and Doug Ducey followed suit in May. Abbott also recently began sending buses to New York.
For migrants, the politics are only dimly understood — and far less relevant than finding temporary shelter, jobs and a long-term home in America.
“I have heard that the Texas governor is anti-immigrant,” Maldonado said outside a New York shelter. “It is like a war between the party of the governor of Texas and the party of Biden.”
A voluntary consent form for free transportation from Texas tells migrants that Washington is where the president and members of Congress “are more immediately able to help address the needs of migrants.”
Migrants who sign a consent form for a free trip to New York are told that the city has designated itself a “sanctuary” for migrants, who are provided with food and shelter.
U.S. authorities stopped migrants 1.43 million times at the Mexican border from January through July, up 28% from the same period last year. Many are released on humanitarian parole or with notices to appear in immigration court.
The sight of both cities scrambling to cope with the influx drew undisguised schadenfreude from Abbott, who called New York City “the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city.”
In both cities, social service charities and churches have mobilized to support new arrivals, offering temporary shelter, medical attention and often a ticket to their next destination as they await a date in immigration court.
“Many are fleeing persecution and other very severe circumstances. They’re confused. And we want to make sure that we support them as much as possible and make sure that they’re not being used as political pawns,” Castro said.
On a recent August day, a bus of 41 migrants from Arizona arrived at a church in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, where they were greeted by workers from SAMU First Response, an international relief agency.
Within minutes the group was enjoying a hot meal inside the church and filling out arrival forms.
Texas buses arrive haphazardly, said Tatiana Laborde, the agency’s managing director. They only hear from charitable groups that a bus carrying a certain number of people has departed. At some point about 48 hours later, that bus drops off riders at Washington’s Union Station.
Arizona provides detailed manifests of passengers and their nationalities, coordination on arrival times and has medical personnel aboard each bus.
“They don’t want to just dump people here,” Laborde said.
Many of those who arrive in Washington don’t stay long. Mayor Muriel Bowser, in her second request for National Guard support, told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week that most migrants stay up to 72 hours before moving on to their final destinations.
“They don’t know much about D.C. other than the president is here,” Laborde said.
Kelin Enriquez, another Venezuelan, was among them. She and and her children first arrived in Washington and later found themselves at a family center in the Bronx to plan the family’s next steps.
“No one leaves their land because they want to. We want to work. We want a better opportunity,” said Enriquez, who helped care for Alzheimer’s patients in her native country.
Some migrants see a free ticket from the border as the best of bad options.
For Eduardo Garcia, the top priorities were finding a job and a place to live and starting life anew.
It was an agonizing journey, even if he hadn’t broken his left ankle while trying to keep his wife from falling along the perilous trail. He limped in pain for more than 1,000 miles.
“I didn’t care because I cared more about getting here,” he said.
He told no one about his fractured limb until he arrived in New York, where he got medical attention, a cast and crutches.
In New York, many of the migrants make their way to the offices of Catholic Charities. Officials in Texas — it is unclear who — listed the office as the migrants’ address, which perplexed church officials at the New York Diocese. The diocese has now received more than 1,300 court notices on behalf of migrants.
“I think we were maybe caught off guard, a little bit disappointed by the governments in Texas and Arizona just putting individuals on buses to D.C. without any plan at the other end,” said Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, executive director of migrant services for Catholic Charities in New York.
In the last two months, the procession of Venezuelans seeking refuge in the United States has grown dramatically. In July, Border Patrol agents stopped Venezuelans 17,603 times — up 34% from June and nearly triple from July 2021.
The United States does not recognize the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro because of allegations that the country’s 2018 election was a sham. The lack of official recognition complicates the country’s ability to take back asylum-seekers. The Mexican government also refuses to accept the migrants, which gives the U.S. few options in handling Venezuelans.
At a New York City shelter, brothers Leonardo Oviedo, 22, and Angel Mota, 19, seemed giddy shortly after arriving in New York. They had plans to reconnect with an acquaintance in New Jersey.
Big plans lie ahead. Oviedo wants to land a job. Mota wants to attend school. How they will accomplish their dreams was still uncertain as the pair swiped through photos of relatives they left behind in Venezuela, including their mother, grandmother, brother and sister.
For now, neither brother is especially concerned about the politics that brought them here.
“We had nowhere to go,” Mota said outside a shelter on a sweltering summer morning. “This is where they would welcome us.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office deputy was shot and killed and a second deputy wounded while the two were serving eviction papers at a home on the southwest side of Oklahoma City, authorities said.
Both deputies were transported to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, where one deputy died and the other was in stable condition, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Aaron Brilbeck said.
The two deputies were not immediately identified while their family members were being notified, Brilbeck said.
Sheriff Tommie Johnson said the two deputies were serving “lock-out papers,” which is part of the eviction process, when one of the deputies went to the back door of the home and was shot. The second deputy was shot as he attempted to pull the first deputy to safety, Johnson said.
A suspect in the shooting was taken into custody following a vehicle chase across the city, said Oklahoma City police Sgt. Dillon Quirk. The suspect’s name was not immediately released.
“During that pursuit, the suspect was firing rounds at officers, and we had officers as well returning fire at the suspect,” said Oklahoma City Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn. She said neither the suspect nor the pursuing officers were hit by gunfire during the exchanges.
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(The Hill) – In Congress, where legislation is drafted, debated and enacted, clear and concise definitions are of paramount importance. As military aircrews increasingly encounter unidentified flying objects (UFOs), lawmakers recently made several striking revisions to the definition of “UFO.” Key among them: The explosive implication that some UFOs have non-human origins.
As first reported by researcher Douglas Johnson, a draft bill approved unanimously by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence rebrands UFOs as “unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.” Expanding the definition to include objects in space and under the oceans significantly broadens the scope of a muscular new office tasked by Congress with investigating UFOs.
The revised definition of “UFO” also includes “transmedium” objects which, according to lawmakers, “transition between space and the atmosphere, or between the atmosphere and bodies of water.”
In short, members of a key national security-focused committee believe that objects of unknown origin are demonstrating remarkably advanced technology by moving seamlessly between space, air and water. A report accompanying the legislation notes that “transmedium threats to United States national security are expanding exponentially.”
It strains credulity to believe that lawmakers would include such extraordinary language in public legislation without compelling evidence. Perhaps members have seen the classified sensor data that prompted former President Trump’s director of national intelligence to state that UFOs exhibit “technologies that we don’t have [and] that we are not capable of defending against” (among several other eyebrow-raising comments).
Most strikingly, Congress’s new definition of “UFO” excludes “man-made” objects.
Over the last seven decades, most UFO sightings involved “man-made” objects, such as misidentified aircraft, balloons, satellites or drones. Yet now, according to Congress, “man-made” objects “should not be considered under the definition as unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.”
Moreover, in a congressional directive, objects identified by the new UFO office “as man-made…will be passed to appropriate [Department of Defense and Intelligence Community] offices” for further analysis.
Congress, in short, is forcing the government to focus on objects that are not “man-made.”
Imagine that the new UFO office identifies a highly advanced drone flying in sensitive airspace. Under the draft legislation, regardless of the drone’s origin – be it Chinese, Russian or otherwise – the UFO office must immediately stop investigating and hand the case over to another government entity.
This implies that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee believe (on a unanimous, bipartisan basis) that some UFOs have non-human origins. After all, why would Congress establish and task a powerful new office with investigating non-“man-made” UFOs if such objects did not exist?
Make no mistake: One branch of the American government implying that UFOs have non-human origins is an explosive development.
It is also part of a remarkable shift in official attitudes towards UFOs.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, many senior government officials believed that UFOs had “interplanetary” origins. But a series of still-unexplained encounters in the summer of 1952 sparked Cold War national security fears among defense and intelligence agencies. As a result, the U.S. government initiated a campaign to “debunk” and discredit all UFO sightings, no matter how credible. For decades, officials mocked any suggestion that UFOs had extraterrestrial origins.
Not anymore.
In discussions and interviews, NASA administrator Bill Nelson suggested that UFOs encountered by military aircrews in recent years have otherworldly origins. (NASA, it should be noted, is proceeding “full force” on an unprecedented scientific study of UFOs.)
Former CIA Director John Brennan stated that UFOs might “constitute a different form of life.” According to James Woolsey, a fellow ex-CIA director, “something is going on that is surprising to…experienced pilots.”
As Top Gun-trained aviators remain convinced that they observed objects “not of this world,” director of national intelligence Avril Haines – America’s top spy – has not ruled out extraterrestrial origins for UFOs.
Moreover, former President Clinton refers reflexively to the high likelihood of otherworldly life in the universe when asked about UFOs. For his part, former President Obama speculated openly about contact with extraterrestrial life when asked about recent military UFO encounters.
After the customary giggles and smirks that still accompany any mention of “UFO” died down, both Clinton and Obama adopted a serious, matter-of-fact demeanor when discussing the topic. Clinton, in particular, scolded a television audience for laughing when a host asked him about UFOs. Of note, former presidents continue receiving the government’s most sensitive intelligence briefings.
Unsurprisingly, this remarkable shift in attitudes towards UFOs is fostering a broader, richer discussion of the phenomenon.
Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher, for example, recently theorized that UFOs are intentionally revealing themselves to fighter pilots.
He may be on to something. The geometrically reconstructed flight path of a well-known 2015 UFO encounter off the U.S. East Coast indicates that the object reacted as a Navy fighter jet attempted to sneak up behind it. Importantly, the object’s movement did not suggest hostility as much as a desire to be observed by the aircrew, which ultimately “flew right up to the thing.”
A UFO involved in the now famous 2004 “Tic Tac” incidents appeared on radar at the precise location of a rendezvous point known only to a small group of aviators and radar operators. Ten years later, two fighter jets nearly collided with a UFO hovering at the exact location and altitude of an entrance point to a military training range.
To Maher’s point, some UFOs appear to move and position themselves in ways that make their presence obvious to nearby military aircrews.
With Congress openly suggesting that UFOs have non-human origins, this behavior is particularly intriguing.
Marik von Rennenkampff is an Opinion contributor for The Hill. The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the views of Hill or Nexstar. He served as an analyst with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, as well as an Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense. Follow him on Twitter @MvonRen. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/opinion-congress-implies-ufos-have-non-human-origins/ | 2022-08-22T21:39:02Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/opinion-congress-implies-ufos-have-non-human-origins/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will leave the federal government in December after more than five decades.
Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and also leads a lab studying the immune system.
While the COVID-19 pandemic introduced him to millions of Americans, he’s given straight-talk to the nation about numerous outbreaks including HIV/AIDS, SARS, pandemic flu, Ebola and the 2001 anthrax attacks.
“I’ve gone into this campus and into the labs and into the hospital every day, including most weekends, for 54 years. The idea of walking away from it obviously is bittersweet,” Fauci told The Associated Press.
In announcing his departure, the 81-year-old Fauci called his roles “the honor of a lifetime” but said it was time “to pursue the next chapter of my career.”
Known for his candor and for the ability to translate complex medical information into everyday language, Fauci has been a key adviser to seven presidents starting with Ronald Reagan.
Fauci became the face of the government response to COVID-19 as it hit in early 2020, with frequent appearances on television news and at daily press conferences with White House officials, including then-President Donald Trump. But as the pandemic deepened, Fauci fell out of favor with Trump when his urgings of continued public caution clashed with the former president’s desire to return to normalcy and to promote unproven treatments for the virus.
Fauci found himself marginalized by the Trump administration, but he continued to speak out publicly in media interviews, advocating social distancing and masks in public settings before the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines.
He was also the subject of political attacks and death threats and was given a security detail for his protection.
When Biden won the White House, he asked Fauci to stay on in his administration in an elevated capacity.
“I’ve been able to call him at any hour of the day for his advice,” Biden said in a statement. “Whether you’ve met him personally or not, he has touched all Americans’ lives with his work. I extend my deepest thanks for his public service. The United States of America is stronger, more resilient, and healthier because of him.”
Fauci said he planned to continue working after leaving the government, saying he wants to use his experience “to hopefully inspire the younger generation of scientists and would-be scientists” to consider a career in public service.
For all the rancor of the coronavirus pandemic, it wasn’t Fauci’s first run-in with an angry public. He became head of the infectious diseases branch of the National Institutes of Health in 1984 when the nation was in the throes of the AIDS crisis. Activists protested what they saw as government indifference and Fauci, frustrated at being unable to save dying patients in the NIH’s hospital, brought them to the table in the hunt for treatments.
Later, under President George W. Bush, Fauci helped develop PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to bring life-saving HIV treatments to developing countries. In 2008, Bush awarded Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Fauci said Monday he’d hoped there would be a successful HIV vaccine before he retired but “it wasn’t for lack of trying” to overcome extraordinary scientific challenges posed by that virus.
Fast forward to COVID-19, and for many Americans, Fauci has remained a trusted voice even as scientists were surprised again and again by a fast-evolving new virus. The NIH had laid the scientific groundwork for the speedy development of powerful coronavirus vaccines that, while not perfect, are highly effective at preventing serious illness and death.
Fauci told the AP that he remains frustrated at the country’s divisions over how to handle the pandemic.
“If ever there was a situation where you wanted a unified approach and everybody pulling together for the common good, it would be when you’re in the middle of a public health crisis,” he said. “As a physician and a scientist, I and my colleagues have the responsibility to do what’s correct, what is science-based.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday’s primary elections feature two top Florida Democrats squaring off for the chance to face Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a rising conservative star frequently mentioned as a top alternative to Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential contest.
In New York, redistricting has left two longtime House Democratic colleagues competing for the same seat, while the head of the party’s campaign arm in the chamber is running in new territory and faces a challenge from the left.
Oklahoma Republicans will choose between two Trump loyalists competing in a runoff to be their party’s nominee to finish the term of retiring GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe. The 87-year-old is stepping down at the end of the year, with more than four years left in his term.
What to watch:
FLORIDA
Once the nation’s largest swing state, Florida has trended more Republican in recent years. Trump won it twice, and the GOP’s domination of the Legislature has given DeSantis a national platform to carry out a brash brand of culture war politics that’s delighted big GOP donors and sparked speculation he’ll run for president.
State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, who was once governor himself as a Republican, are vying for the Democratic nomination to compete against DeSantis in November. Fried, the only statewide-elected Democrat, has sought to portray Crist as a Democrat in name only. She’s highlighted Crist’s former anti-abortion stance and his appointment of conservative state Supreme Court justices. Crist has dismissed Fried’s criticisms as last-ditch efforts to counter his stouter fundraising and high-profile endorsements.
In the U.S. Senate race, Tuesday’s primary is expected to cement a general election matchup between incumbent Republican Marco Rubio and Democratic congresswoman Val Demings, who is giving up her Orlando-based seat.
Meanwhile, hotly contested primaries stem from the departure of four House members, the acquisition of a new congressional district thanks to Florida’s booming population, and new maps drawn by DeSantis’ office that could boost Republicans even further.
One of the House’s most controversial members, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, is facing a strong primary challenge from Mark Lombardo, a former Marine and former FedEx executive who has run a series of ads attacking Gaetz for being under federal investigation in a sex trafficking case. Gaetz has not been charged and denies wrongdoing.
Running for the Democratic nomination for Gaetz’s seat is Rebekah Jones, a former Department of Health employee who received national attention after she questioned the state’s COVID-19 dashboard and claimed Florida wasn’t reporting accurate numbers — an allegation that an inspector general’s report said was unfounded. Jones is facing Peggy Schiller, a local Democratic Party activist.
NEW YORK
New York is holding its second round of primary elections after voting in June for statewide races. Tuesday will cover the state’s 26 U.S. House seats, a delayed date after a judge ordered a redrawing of political maps.
The new congressional districts have caused Democratic consternation, especially a new Manhattan-area seat that has turned two incumbents into rivals. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who has represented New York City’s Upper East Side for three decades, is facing Rep. Jerry Nadler, who has represented the Upper West Side for just as long.
Maloney, 76, and Nadler, 75, each chair powerful committees. Running in the same primary is Suraj Patel, a 38-year-old attorney who says it’s time for a new generation of leaders.
Nadler has been endorsed by The New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. But turnout could be low since many district residents have left for summer vacations, especially wealthy voters who have second homes elsewhere, making predicting the winner difficult.
Unpredictable turnout could also decide a primary in an ultraliberal district in southern Manhattan and Brooklyn. Competing there is progressive Rep. Mondaire Jones, who represents a Hudson Valley seat but is running further south to avoid another incumbent-on-incumbent challenge.
Other candidates for the seat include Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou, New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman. Also running is Daniel Goldman, the former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to House Democrats in Trump’s first impeachment inquiry.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who heads the House Democratic campaign organization, is running in a new suburban district north of New York City. He swapped districts without consulting Jones, who currently represents most of the area. The move rankled the left and led state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi to challenge him for the seat.
A top Republican primary race is unfolding near Buffalo, where Republican Rep. Chris Jacobs opted not to seek reelection after facing backlash for voicing support for gun safety measures following a racist mass shooting in his district last May. New York Republican Party Chair Nick Langworthy and businessman Carl Paladino are running to replace him.
Paladino is a former gubernatorial candidate with a long history of offensive comments, including his suggestion that Adolf Hitler was “the kind of leader we need today” because of his ability to rally crowds. More recently, he said in a radio interview that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “should be executed” for authorizing a search of Trump’s home. He said later in the show that he was being facetious.
OKLAHOMA
Two Trump supporters are competing in the GOP primary runoff for the remainder of Inhofe’s term, which expires in January 2027.
Rep. Markwayne Mullin, a plumbing company owner who won his eastern Oklahoma House seat in 2012, finished atop a 13-candidate GOP field in June but came up short of the 50% threshold he needed to clinch the primary outright. He was endorsed by Trump, but only after finishing first in the primary.
Mullin faces former Oklahoma Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon, a bank executive who ran unsuccessfully for an open U.S. Senate seat in 2014. The winner will be heavily favored in November against former Democratic Rep. Kendra Horn.
In a state where nearly 10% of the population identifies as American Indian, both Mullin and Shannon are members of Native American tribes. Mullin is a Cherokee citizen, and Shannon, who is also African American, is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
In Oklahoma’s other Senate race, Jason Bollinger, an Oklahoma City attorney, and Madison Horn, a cybersecurity expert, are competing in the Democratic primary runoff to face incumbent Republican Sen. James Lankford in November. Lankford will be the strong favorite in November.
Mullin’s Senate bid left open House seat that drew 14 GOP challengers. Former state Sen. Josh Brecheen and current state lawmaker Avery Frix advanced to a runoff.
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Associated Press writers Michelle Price in New York, Anthony Izaguirre and Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee, Fla., and Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President Joe Biden’s administration has not yet made a decision about extending the pause on federal student loan debt nor about whether some of that debt will be canceled, but his education secretary is promising some sort of action before the end of the month.
“The American people will hear directly from us because we recognize this is an important issue across the country,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said.
He appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CBS’s “Face the Nation” to discuss the matter. He said his team is in daily talks with the White House.
“We’re not slowing down,” Cardona said. “We want to make sure that college is more accessible and more affordable for Americans across the country.”
The White House has said it is considering canceling up to $10,000 per borrower, but progressives are pressuring Biden for more — $50,000. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, tweeted Monday that it would be a “great day to cancel student loan debt and deliver relief for millions of borrowers across the country.”
Many Republicans are opposed to the idea.
“I think it just seems inherently unfair,” Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., said, saying canceling debt now after many have already paid off their loans is wrong and won’t fix the underlying problem of the cost of education. “I think the better thing would be to look at why is college tuition over the last several decades increased at twice the rate of inflation? Why is that? Why is college education far more expensive than buying a car on an annual basis for a four-year education?”
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Arkansas police video sparks investigation into incident. Here's what we know
Video footage showing a South Carolina man being beaten by three Arkansas law enforcement officers surfaced on social media. It has resulted in two Crawford County Sheriff's deputies being suspended and a Mulberry police officer placed on leave, the sheriff and Mulberry police chief reported.
The incident occurred outside an Arkansas convenience store around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. According to police, a report indicated that a man was making threats to a convenience store employee in Mulberry, Arkansas.
The Arkansas State Police are investigating the incident after the video was widely circulated on social media.
Video of police brutality
The 35-second video of three Arkansas law enforcement officers appearing to beat a person appeared on Reddit not too long after the incident, according to the time stamp on the post.
In the video, three law enforcement officers are seen on top of a man under arrest punching him in the head and kneeing him several times. An officer points at the person recording the video, ordering her to stop videotaping.
Since then, more the 9,000 comments have been made on the video.
Who is the man in the Arkansas police video?
The man, identified as Randall Worcester, 27, of Goose Creek, South Carolina, is seen in the video on the ground under two Crawford County deputies and a Mulberry police officer outside of a Georgia Ridge Drive gas station.
A news release from the Arkansas State Police Sunday night stated:
"The Arkansas State Police has opened an investigation into the use of force by two Crawford County sheriff’s deputies and a Mulberry police officer in the arrest of a South Carolina man."
Worcester was taken to an area hospital for examination and treatment. He was later booked at the Crawford County Jail in Van Buren, state police said.
Who are the Arkansas police involved?
On Monday, the Crawford County Sheriff's Office released the names of the two deputies and the Mulberry police officer in a Facebook post.
Zack King and Levi White were identified as the deputies in the video and Thell Riddle was identified as the officer from Mulberry.
The Facebook post also referred to an comment with an address for a Zack King, "this is a civilian and is NOT the Crawford County Deputy or associated with the Crawford County Sheriff's Office," the post read.
Where is Mulberry, Arkansas?
Mulberry is located about 137 miles northwest of Little Rock. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 1,655, as of the 2010 Census.
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NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers since it began nearly six months ago, a general said, and the fighting Monday showed no signs that the war is abating.
At a veteran’s event, Ukraine’s military chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said many of Ukraine’s children need to be taken care of because “their father went to the front line and, perhaps, is one of those almost 9,000 heroes who died.”
In Nikopol, across the river from Ukraine’s main nuclear power plant, Russian shelling wounded four people Monday, an official said. The city on the Dnieper River has faced relentless pounding since July 12 that has damaged 850 buildings and sent about half its population of 100,000 fleeing.
“I feel hate towards Russians,” said 74-year-old Liudmyla Shyshkina, standing on the edge of her destroyed fourth-floor apartment in Nikopol that no longer has walls. She is still injured from the Aug. 10 blast that killed her 81-year-old husband, Anatoliy.
“The Second World War didn’t take away my father, but the Russian war did,” noted Pavlo Shyshkin, his son.
The U.N. says 5,587 civilians have been killed and 7,890 wounded in the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24, although the estimate is likely an undercount. The U.N. children’s agency said Monday that at least 972 Ukrainian children have been killed or injured since Russia invaded. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said these are U.N.-verified figures but “we believe the number to be much higher.”
U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of Britain, France and Germany pleaded Sunday for Russia to end military operations so close to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant — Europe’s largest — but Nikopol came under fire three times overnight from rockets and mortar shells. Houses, a kindergarten, a bus station and stores were hit, authorities said.
There are widespread fears that continued shelling and fighting in the area could lead to a nuclear catastrophe. Russia has asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to discuss the situation — a move “the audacity” of which Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried in his evening video address.
“The total number of different Russian cruise missiles that Russia used against us is approaching 3,500. It is simply impossible to count the strikes of Russian artillery; there are so many of them, and they are so intense,” Zelensky said Monday.
Western nations had already scheduled a council meeting on Wednesday — the six-month anniversary of the Russian invasion — on its impact on Ukraine.
Vladimir Rogov, an official with the Russia-installed administration of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, claimed that because of shelling from Ukraine, staffing at the nuclear plant had been cut sharply. Ukrainians say Russia is storing weapons at the plant and has blocked off areas to Ukrainian nuclear workers.
Monday’s announcement of the scope of Ukraine’s military dead stands in sharp contrast to Russia’s military, which last gave an update on March 25 when it said 1,351 Russian troops were killed during the first month of fighting. U.S. military officials estimated two weeks ago that Russia has lost between 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers, both killed and wounded in action.
On Monday though, Moscow turned its attention to one specific civilian death.
Russia blamed Ukrainian spy agencies for the weekend car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow that killed the daughter of a far-right Russian nationalist who ardently supports the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to the KGB, said Monday the killing was “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.” It charged that the bombing that killed 29-year-old TV commentator Darya Dugina, whose father, political theorist Alexander Dugin, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain,” was carried out by a Ukrainian citizen who left Russia for Estonia quickly afterward.
Ukrainian officials have vehemently denied any involvement in the car bombing. Estonian officials say Russia has not asked them to look for the alleged bomber or even spoken to them about the bombing.
On the front lines, the Ukraine military said it carried out a strike on a key bridge over the Dnieper River in the Russian-occupied Kherson region. Local Russia-installed officials said the strike killed two people Monday and wounded 16 others.
Photos on social media showed thick plumes of smoke rising over the Antonivskiy Bridge, an important supply route for the Russian military in Kherson.
On the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, anxiety has been spreading following a spate of fires and explosions at Russian facilities over the past two weeks. The Russian-backed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, ordered that signs showing the location of bomb shelters be placed in the city, which had long seemed untouchable.
Razvozhaev said on Telegram the city is well-protected but “it is better to know where the shelters are.”
Sevastopol, the Crimean port that is the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, has seen a series of drone attacks. A drone exploded at the fleet’s headquarters on July 31, and another was shot down over it last week. Authorities said air-defense systems have shot down other drones as well.
On Monday evening, Sevastopol residents reported hearing loud explosions on social media. Razvozhaev said the air-defense system had shot down “an object … at high altitude.”
“Preliminary (conclusion) is that it is, again, a drone,” he wrote on Telegram.
Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t directly mention the war during a speech Monday marking National Flag Day but echoed some of the justifications cited for the invasion.
“We are firm in pursuing in the international arena only those policies that meet the fundamental interests of the motherland,” Putin said. He maintains that Russia sent troops into Ukraine to protect its people against the encroaching West.
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ACKLEY-Phyllis Schachterle, 93, of Ackley, passed away Monday, Aug. 22, 2022 at Grand JiVante in Ackley. Funeral services are pending with the Counsell Woodley Funeral Home of Iowa Falls.
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As new school year begins, Fort Smith schools remind drivers to slow down
Monday first day for classes in Fort Smith, Van Buren
Slow down in school zones. That was the message Monday from Fort Smith school officials.
Class is back for fall 2022. And Fort Smith school administrators will be out with the rest of their staff helping children safely reach the schools.
Fort Smith Public Schools will welcome about 14,300 students in grades kindergarten to 12, said Zena Marshall, the district's executive director of communication and business partnership. Classes also started Monday in Van Buren.
Marshall said the district had a successful professional development day before classes started. The annual launch day was at Northside High School on Aug. 16.
"Safety comes first. We want people always to be careful in school zones," Marshall said.
Fort Smith police will also enforce traffic laws and watch for those who fail to slow down.
She said staff members would work crossings before and after school.
The Fort Smith district restructured grades last year for kindergarten to fifth grades elementary, grades 6-8 middle school, and high school grades 9-12. Parents and students have adjusted.
"We expect people will have a better sense of what is happening in the second year," Marshall said.
School holiday
The first holiday for students will be Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5. Thanksgiving break is Nov. 21-25. Christmas break will be from Dec. 22 through Jan. 5.
School schedules
School hours are 8 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. Breakfast is served from 7:30-8 a.m.
Lunch is 10:55 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. for grades 2-4; 11:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. for grades 5-6; and 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. kindergarten and first grade.
School safety, new board members
More:'We have to be prepared': FSPS reviews active shooter training before start of classes
Preparing for shooters at school has been a priority for districts. Gov. Asa Hutchinson asked for $50 million for school safety. Resource officers are assigned to schools. Fort Smith police prepared for active shooters in exercises this summer.
More:Police train to handle shooters Saturday and Sunday at Woods Elementary
The Fort Smith Public district has a safe school helpline, 1-800-418-6423 ext. 359). This is a 24-hour-a-day service designed so callers, anonymously, can report concerns regarding student safety in the district, including reports of bullying.
The district has newly elected school board members for the new academic year.
More:Fort Smith School Board has new members, three incumbents elected
Fort Smith School Board elections were Tuesday, May 24, and the district has three new members and three incumbents re-elected, Dee Blackwell, Dalton Person, and Matt Blaylock.
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AGWSR Superintendent Erik Smith updated board members on the construction progress at both the Ackley and Wellsburg centers during last Monday’s meeting of the AGWSR school board.
Smith explained that brick work on the Ackley center district offices is essentially complete with exterior brickwork to begin shortly. Cement pouring was scheduled to take place in the latter half of last week while locker rooms had received a coat of primer. Trusses on the office project were also to be set in place last Tuesday.
In Wellsburg, a push forward by the construction company with progress made on the kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms and library, down to the daycare being essentially complete. On Wednesday, rooftop units were to be set so work on closing up the ceiling grid could be done.
“Smoke and fire sensors are in with duct work being finished,” Smith explained. Eight middle school rooms in the northeast corner of the building had units in place and electricity completed last week. Two sixth grade rooms are ready to go.
“They (construction company) have pushed more people there and the majority of the HVAC system is operational though the entire hallway north of the gym will be blocked off,” Smith told.
Smith also updated the board on demolition progress at the former Ackley elementary noting that old brick from the building located on the site prior to the one being torn down is currently being removed.
Final preparations for the start of the 2022-23 school year, including accepting milk and bread bids, as well as approving agreements with Eldora-New Providence for sharing teacher/librarian services, and with South Hardin to share the band program were approved.
Smith, explained that the band sharing would mean that South Hardin students would come to the school each Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The ENP district is, he said, continuing to search for a band instructor and could be back on their own by the second semester. Concern for the AGWSR band director, Jeremy Idler, was expressed by board member Lanae Metzgar, who indicated that she did not want to see added stress placed on Idler which might put AGWSR next on the list of those looking for band instructors.
Smith noted that he does envision problems in the future with more and more core classes as districts begin to struggle to find instructors.
The superintendent provided the board information on the districts’ financial standing, presenting two updates from June and July. In June, the district showed a cash and investment balance of just over $1.9 million, that figure had dropped to just under $1 million on the July summary.
“This reflects spending of ESSER 2 and ESSER 3 funds on the building project at Wellsburg. That money has to be spent out of the General Fund,” Smith explains. “It is reimbursed on a quarterly basis, and we have a $584,000 claim which we haven’t received yet.” Smith went on to explain that $350,000 spent in July, which will be claimed in September.
Payroll for July and August, Smith said is paid out of the 2022 budget, but is not yet posted. One payroll period for the district equals $165,000, with Smith suggesting the district will need to keep an eye on the balance to make sure they have enough cash for payroll if the ESSER claims are not received in time.
Member Steve Bartling noted that bills must be paid monthly while the reimbursement is quarterly, simplifying the issue.
“If we have to, we can borrow from PPEL for payroll,” Smith explained. “All project bills are being paid out of SILO and SAVE funds.”
Keith Reuter, new middle school principal, introduce ed himself to board members. He explained that he has already set various communication, discipline, and building goals for the coming school year.
The district has hired Ken Saul as bus driver and maintenance, and Justin Kerns as bus maintenance. Smith noted that Saul is making sure busses are cleaned and fueled. Maintenance has been moved to local mechanics – Shawn Rotgers will run through the fleet, as well as Eichmeier Motors, and Wellsburg Auto.
Smith noted that Infinite Campus is up and running with positive feedback already received.
There were four open enrollments accepted during the Consent Agenda. They include two to Aplington-Parkersburg and two into AGWSR (one from Iowa Falls, one from Grundy Center).
A proposal for tuckpointing the Wellsburg building was received. A cost of $22,494 was approved for repairs on the building. Smith was uncertain when the work would begin, though the project was approved.
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Arkansas high school football statewide rankings for Week Zero
The following are the overall top 10 high school football teams in Arkansas and the top five in Classes 7A, 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, and the top three in the two 8-man divisions as voted by a panel of the Arkansas sports media from around the state for the start of the 2022 season. The ranking is given with first-place votes received, records, total points, and last season's ranking:
Overall
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Bryant (14) 0-0 146 1
2. Conway 0-0 128 3
3. North Little Rock 0-0 92 5
4. Bentonville 0-0 87 6
5. Fayetteville (1) 0-0 85 2
6. Pulaski Academy 0-0 84 5
7. Greenwood 0-0 70 9
8. Cabot 0-0 38 10
9. Bentonville West 0-0 26 –
10. Benton 0-0 21 –
Others receiving votes: Little Rock Parkview 14, Little Rock Christian 13, Springdale Har-Ber 8, Fort Smith Northside 6, Joe T. Robinson 5, Shiloh Christian 1, Warren 1.
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CLASS 7A
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Bryant (14) 0-0 73 1
2. Conway 0-0 57 3
3. North Little Rock 0-0 33 4
4. Bentonville 0-0 30 5
5. Fayetteville (1) 0-0 24 2
Others receiving votes: Cabot 6, Bentonville West 2.
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CLASS 6A
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Pulaski Academy (10) 0-0 68 –
2. Greenwood (3) 0-0 63 2
3. Benton (2) 0-0 37 4
4. LR Christian 0-0 28 –
5. Lake Hamilton 0-0 14 5
Others receiving votes: El Dorado 11, Marion 4.
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CLASS 5A
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. LR Parkview (11) 0-0 67 –
2. Joe T. Robinson (3) 0-0 51 –
3. Shiloh Christian (1) 0-0 44 –
4. Camden Fairview 0-0 25 –
5. Wynne 0-0 16 –
Others receiving votes: Harrison 8, Farmington 7, Magnolia 7.
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CLASS 4A
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Arkadelphia (9) 0-0 67 3
2. Warren (5) 0-0 66 4
3. Stuttgart (1) 0-0 40 5
4. Ashdown 0-0 23 –
5. Ozark 0-0 9 –
Others receiving votes: Harding Academy 8, Pocahontas 4, Rivercrest 4, Malvern 3, Lonoke 1.
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CLASS 3A
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Prescott (12) 0-0 69 2
2. Booneville (3) 0-0 61 4
3. Charleston 0-0 33 –
4. Hoxie 0-0 24 5
5. Glen Rose 0-0 15 –
Others receiving votes: Rison 10, Newport 7, Melbourne 4, Camden Harmony Grove 1.
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CLASS 2A
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Hazen (10) 0-0 67 –
2. Des Arc (4) 0-0 58 4
3. Mount Ida 0-0 40 –
4. Hector 0-0 17 –
5. Poyen 0-0 15 5
(tie) East Poinsett Co. (1) 0-0 15 –
Others receiving votes: Bigelow 6, Dierks 3, McCrory 2, Clarendon 1, Marked Tree 1.
TEAMS SET FOR A TURNAROUND SEASON:Fort Smith area high school football teams best set for turnaround in 2022
8-MAN (4A-3A)
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Fountain Lake (9) 0-0 33 –
2. Subiaco Academy (4) 0-0 31 –
3. Mountain View (1) 0-0 14 –
Others receiving votes: Marshall 4, Cedar Ridge (1) 3, Parkers Chapel 2, Genoa Central 2, Rose Bud 1.
TOP D-LINE TO WATCH:Top Fort Smith area high school football defensive linemen to watch in 2022
8-MAN (2A-1A)
Record Points 2021 Ranking
1. Strong-Huttig (12) 0-0 42 –
2. Mountain Pine (3) 0-0 32 –
3. Rector 0-0 14 –
Others receiving votes: Brinkley 2.
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The Iowa Falls Police Department's K-9 fundraising has started off strong due the generosity of businesses and individuals in the community. Hadley Schoby (left) and Pailyn Price (right) set up a food and drink stand in front of Homestead Realty this week. As of Thursday, the kids had raised more than $1,600 that will be gifted to the IFPD.
The Iowa Falls Police Department has dropped out the Barlow Family Foundation Community Challenge due to a timing issue and the fact the fundraising for a K-9 officer will likely be complete before the challenge commences.
The Barlow Challenge, which is entering its tenth year is part of the Barlow Family Foundation which is the philanthropic arm of Iowa Falls State Bank, asks for applications to enter from non-profit organizations. When chosen those organizations solicit donations between $25 and $100 that are then matched up to the organization's goal. Six organizations entered last year raising a total of more than $148,000.
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Merle Hamilton, formerly of Iowa Falls, caught this walleye while on a trip with son Pat to Michigan. They used RTH Fishing, which is owned by Ackley-native Ryan Harrenstein. It was the biggest walleye Merle has ever caught. He just turned 90.
Pat and father Merle Hamilton try to take a fishing trip each year around Merle’s birthday on June 19. This year they went to Escanaba, Mich. and were guided by Ackley-native Ryan Harrenstein of RTH Fishing.
“My father Merle grew up in Iowa Falls and now lives in Webster City,” Pat said. “He turned 90 this year and I always try to take him fishing for his birthday. He read a Times Citizen article about Ryan Harrenstein on Feb. 24, 2021 and sent it to me. He said that was where he wanted to go fishing this year. We have fished Lake Ontario for salmon but Dad saw that article and wanted to try walleyes with Ryan.”
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At the season opening tournament, Ellsworth Community College got the chance to play extra volleyball. The Panthers went five sets in two matches and four in another – going 2-2 at the Rock Valley Tournament.
In the first match of the 2022 season, ECC defeated Elgin 3-2. The Panthers lost the first two sets 25-18 and 25-15 before bouncing back and winning the next three – 25-14, 25-19 and 15-8. They played again later that day and went five once again, this time falling to College of Lake County. The Lancers won the opener 25-17 before ECC won the second 25-21. Lake County took the lead 25-23 and the Panthers won the fourth 25-17. Tight until the end, it was the Lancers that won the fifth 15-11.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian hunger striker held by Israel is in critical condition and could die at any moment from a range of maladies, a doctor who has examined him said Monday, after the country’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal to release the man.
Khalil Awadeh, 40, has been on a hunger strike since March to protest his so-called administrative detention, an Israeli policy of holding Palestinians for alleged involvement in militant activity. Detainees can be held without charge or trial for months or years at a time, without seeing the purported evidence against them. Israel describes the policy as a necessary security measure, while critics say it is a violation of due process.
Awawdeh’s family says he has been on the hunger strike for 170 days, subsisting only on water. Photos of Awawdeh taken by his lawyer on Friday showed him emaciated and lying in a hospital bed.
Dr. Lina Qasem-Hassan, a doctor with Physicians for Human Rights who visited Awadeh earlier this month, said he was extremely thin and suffering from malnutrition.
She said there are signs of neurological damage, with symptoms like memory loss, an inability to concentrate, involuntary eye movement and a near loss in vision. She said there was a risk of heart failure or kidney failure at any time.
“There is no doubt there is a risk for his life,” she said.
His lawyer, Ahlam Haddad, appealed last week to the Supreme Court to release him due to his failing health. But on Sunday, the court rejected the appeal.
In its ruling, the court said it had examined classified security information about Awawdeh and determined there was “solid and strong justification for the decision of administrative detention.”
Haddad said she would file another request for his release as soon as his condition worsens. “This is the equation, a difficult equation,” she said.
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency did not respond to a message seeking comment.
The Israeli military arrested Awawdeh last December, claiming he was an operative for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group — an allegation that his lawyer has dismissed.
Awawdeh is one of several Palestinian prisoners who have gone on prolonged hunger strikes in recent years to protest their administrative detentions. Many continued to suffer permanent health problems after their release.
Israel says administrative detentions help keep dangerous militants off the streets and allow the government to hold suspects without divulging sensitive intelligence or evidence against the suspects. Critics say it denies prisoners due process and is aimed at quashing opposition to Israel’s 55-year occupation of territories the Palestinians seek for a future state.
Israel is currently holding some 4,400 Palestinian prisoners, including militants who have carried out deadly attacks, as well as people arrested at protests or for throwing stones.
Around 670 Palestinians are currently being held in administrative detention, a number that has jumped since March as Israel began near-nightly arrest raids in the occupied West Bank following a series of deadly attacks against Israelis.
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LONDON (AP) — British health authorities will begin offering eligible people just a fraction of the normal monkeypox vaccine dose to stretch supplies by about five times, in line with similar decisions to extend available doses in Europe and the U.S.
In a statement Monday, Britain’s Health Security Agency said patients at clinics in Manchester and London would soon get just one fifth the regular monkeypox vaccine dose as part of ongoing research, citing earlier work suggesting the smaller dose provided as effective an immune response as a full dose.
Last week, the European Medicines Agency authorized the move for its 27 members across the continent, echoing the decision made by U.S. regulators earlier this month.
“Adopting this tried and tested technique will help to maximize the reach of our remaining stock,” said Dr. Mary Ramsay, head of immunization at Britain’s Health Security Agency. She said the lowered doses would enable health workers to vaccinate “many more thousands of people.”
Last week, British officials said there were early signs the monkeypox outbreak is slowing and that case numbers are declining. Nearly 3,200 cases have been reported in the U.K. since May, with 99% of infections among men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with other men. About 70% of cases are in London.
As of last week, U.K. authorities said more than 35,000 vaccines had been administered primarily to men who have sex with men, their close contacts, and health workers.
Globally, the supply of monkeypox vaccines is extremely limited. There is only one supplier — Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic —and most doses have already been bought by the U.S., Canada, Europe and other rich countries.
Bavarian Nordic estimated its production capacity for this year was about 30 million doses. No monkeypox vaccines have so far been allotted to Africa, which has reported more than 70 suspected deaths, the highest number anywhere.
To date, more than 41,000 cases of monkeypox have appeared worldwide in 94 countries. The World Health Organization and other health agencies do not recommend mass vaccination, but have advised countries to improve their monkeypox surveillance, testing and encouraged other measures to slow the disease’s spread.
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Which Nike woven shorts are best?
Nike woven shorts are excellent if you want durable workout gear that keeps its shape over time. The best shorts have an inseam that gives you coverage, pockets for your essentials and built-in underwear for breathability.
A top pair is the Nike Men’s Flex Stride 5-Inch Brief Running Shorts. They have all those features and are made with Dri-Fit technology, which keeps you cool and dry.
What to know before you buy Nike woven shorts
What are Nike woven shorts?
Unlike a knit, Nike woven shorts are constructed by weaving several yarns together to create a fabric that retains its shape and does not usually stretch.
They are loose fitting, can be constructed for improved airflow to keep you cool and they do a better job keeping their shape than knit fabrics. Due to their rigidity, woven fabrics usually require elastic at the waist to keep them up.
Shorts inseam lengths
The inseam length of your Nike shorts can make a huge difference in how they make you feel while wearing them. Since woven fabrics do not give you the same stretch as a knit, shorter woven shorts with curved sides give you more freedom to move around than longer ones. However, if you prefer more coverage, consider mid-length shorts because longer shorts might be a bit too restricting.
The inseam is measured from the middle of the crotch to the bottom of the hemline, in standard ranges.
- Short: Sits high on your thighs with a 1- to 3-inch inseam.
- Medium-short: Rests at your mid-thighs with a 4- to 6-inch inseam.
- Medium-long: Lands on your low thighs with a 7- to 10-inch inseam.
- Long: Usually sits just above your knee or below it with an inseam of 11 inches or longer.
Woven shorts rise
The rise on your shorts is measured from the middle of the crotch to the top of the waistband. There are three common rises.
- Low-rise: Sits 2 inches below the navel and measures 8 inches or lower.
- Mid-rise: Rests just below the navel and is 9 to 10 inches long.
- High-rise: Lands at or above the navel at 11 inches or higher.
What to look for in quality Nike woven shorts
Built-in underwear
Built-in underwear is a huge bonus on Nike woven shorts. It’s typically made from thin, moisture-wicking material to prevent excess moisture from sticking around during your most strenuous workouts.
This layer also provides added coverage where you need it most and is designed to prevent other common issues runners experience, such as chafing and bunching.
Added airflow
Staying cool is essential when your body heats up and you need to keep moving. Woven shorts typically increase the airflow through the use of mesh panels along the sides and curved hemlines.
Since they are made from thicker materials, Nike woven shorts also implement advanced technology such as Dri-Fit fabrics that pull sweat away from your body to the surface of the material, where it quickly dries so you can keep going.
Pockets
Whether they are at your hips or hidden in your waistband, added pockets let you secure small items such as your house key while you work out. Since Nike woven shorts are made with stiffer fabrics, they are reasonably secure compared to the pockets on your knit shorts.
How much you can expect to spend on Nike woven shorts
Depending on the material, added features and design, you can expect to pay between $25-$120.
Nike woven shorts FAQ
What is the best underwear to wear under your woven shorts?
A. Consider getting breathable underwear made from natural materials that are moisture-wicking.
What is the best brief to wear under your woven shorts?
A. You can maintain the benefits of your shorts with a pair of Nike Dri-Fit briefs, built to keep you comfortable and dry.
What are the best Nike woven shorts to buy?
Top Nike woven shorts
Nike Men’s Flex Stride 5-Inch Brief Running Shorts
What you need to know: Nike has enhanced the breathability of these shorts in high-sweat areas to help regulate your temperature as you run.
What you’ll love: These lined shorts are made from lightweight, soft-woven Dri-Fit fabric to keep you comfortable. They have added ventilation in the back to keep you cool as you sweat. They also have pockets at the hips and a zippered pocket at the back to help you secure your workout essentials.
What you should consider: The 5-inch inseam might be a little short for some people’s taste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Backcountry and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Nike woven shorts for the money
Nike Women’s Dri-Fit Tempo Running Shorts
What you need to know: These breathable shorts are excellent for running.
What you’ll love: They are short with a 3-inch hemline and have mesh side panels for added airflow. The waistband secures with an internal drawstring, and they have interior briefs for comfort. They also use Dri-Fit technology to prevent excess moisture from sticking around.
What you should consider: Some might prefer a short with a higher rise or longer hemline.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Nike Women’s Dri-Fit Tempo Track 3.5 Shorts
What you need to know: These are mid-rise and built to keep you cool and dry during your most rigorous workouts.
What you’ll love: They have a curved 3-inch hemline at each side for improved range of motion, side mesh panels for added airflow and are made with Dri-Fit technology to keep you cool. They have built-in underwear for comfort and an added pocket in the waistband for small items.
What you should consider: Due to their mesh side panels, these shorts do not have pockets at the hips, which might be a deal breaker for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco BBVA Argentina S.A (NYSE; BYMA; MAE: BBAR; LATIBEX: XBBAR) announced today the approval of dividend payment
The Shareholders of Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. are hereby informed that in accordance with the decision taken by the Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting held on April 29, 2022, and the Meeting of the Board of Directors held on June 16, 2022, in relation to installment 9, from September 7, 2022 ("Payment Date"), a dividend in the amount of AR$ 1,097,100,750 (AR$ 1.7905707570 per share representing 179.0570757038 % of the capital stock of AR$ 612.710.079), corresponding to installment N° 9, shall be made available to the shareholders registered in the stock register of the Bank on September 6, 2022 ("Record Date").
In this regard, it is reported that:
i) The payment of the dividend to all Local Shareholders shall be made in Argentine Pesos through the Caja de Valores S.A located at 362, 25 de Mayo St., Buenos Aires City; on working days from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, where all requirements, formalities and settlements shall be met in accordance with the regulatory deadlines.
ii) The payment of the dividend to non-resident shareholders shall be made with securities, unless (a) they state their decision to receive it in Argentine pesos, or (b) they do not inform within the periods described below, the custodial accounts necessary to make the payment with movable securities, in which case they shall receive Argentine pesos.
a) Non-Resident Shareholders wishing to receive the following negotiable instrument: BOND TREASURY $ (Argentine currency) Adjustable by the Reference Stabilizing Ratio [AJ. CER ] 1,30% due 20/09/22 (ISIN ARARGE3209H9), shall send from 22 August to 6 September 2022 included, duly signed by the holder or custodian stating the name of the holder of those shares, for Shareholders who hold their shares through a depositor (Bank, Agent or Stock Exchange).
Such notice shall be served on working days within the aforementioned period, from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, to Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. Att. Ezequiel Serra - addressed to email (ezequiel.serra@bbva.com), at 111, Córdoba Av., 26th Floor, Buenos Aires City, stating beneficiary, number of principal and depositor of Caja de Valores S.A. or identification in the Register of Shareholders carried out by the Registration Agent: Caja de Valores S.A., bank abroad to transfer the securities, account number, reference and any other information necessary for the correct crediting of the net dividend.
It is hereby stated that in case of failure to receive the notification with the required information within the period informed, before September 6 , 2022 the Bank shall pay the dividend in Argentine pesos according to the procedure reported in point b) below.
b) On the other hand, non-resident shareholders who choose to receive Argentine pesos must send written notice to that effect from August 22 to September 6, 2022 included, on working days within that period, from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, addressed to Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. - Att. Ezequiel Serra addressed to email (ezequiel.serra@bbva.com), at 111, Córdoba Av., 26th Floor, Buenos Aires City, and the funds shall be credited through the Caja de Valores S.A located at 362, 25 de Mayo St,, Buenos Aires City; on working days from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, where all formalities and settlements shall be met in accordance with the regulatory deadlines.
Upon any inquiry or request address to: Caja de Valores S.A Phone: 0810-888-7323 or email registro@cajadevalores.com.ar.
Holders of American Depositary Shares (ADS) shall receive payment through the depositary bank, Bank of New York Mellon, as from the date determined by the rules governing the jurisdiction in which the Company's ADS is listed.
It is expressly established that the holdings of shares of the Shareholders registered at the Record Date shall be the only ones taken into account for the purpose of paying the declared dividend. Notices made by those who do not turn out to be holders of Bank shares at the Record Date shall be deemed not to have been filed and shall be null and void.
The distribution of dividends shall, in appropriate cases, be deducted from the sums duly paid by the Company, in its capacity as Substitute Tax Officer for Personal Property corresponding to the periods 2019 and 2020 of those Shareholders who have been reached by such tax, all in accordance with the terms of the last paragraph of the Section incorporated by Law N° 26.452 following Section 25 of Law N°23.966. It is also reported that, in accordance with the provisions of Law N° 27.430, amendment of Law N° 20.628 of Income Tax (third section without added number after section 90), no withholding tax is applicable since the dividends distributed correspond to accrued tax-free profits from periods prior to the beginning of January 1, 2018.
Contact: investorelations-arg@bbva.com
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Thousands of Manchester United fans angry at the direction of the club under its American owners took part in a protest ahead of the Premier League game against Liverpool on Monday.
The supporters chanted against the Glazer family — “We want Glazers out” — and held banners calling for the Americans to sell United as they walked from a nearby pub to the club’s storied Old Trafford stadium during the hour before kickoff of one of the biggest matches in English soccer.
Many supporters around the ground were wearing green-and-gold scarves — the colors of the club’s 1878 formation — and some also set off flares. There appeared to be a robust police presence on Sir Matt Busby Way at the entrance to the stadium forecourt.
The players from both teams, including United’s Cristiano Ronaldo, arrived at the ground before the protest started.
Discontent has soared following United’s poor start to the season, which has seen the team lose both of its games — 2-1 at home to Brighton and a 4-0 humiliation at Brentford.
The target of the majority of the anger is the Glazer family, which bought United in 2005 with a leveraged takeover that loaded debt onto a club which previously didn’t have any. Critics say the Glazers, who also own the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, have failed to invest enough of their own cash in the squad or facilities and have presided over years of failure by England’s biggest team.
Payments on interest, debt and dividends to the Glazers are estimated to have cost United more than 1 billion pounds.
“They are ruining the history, traditions and culture of our great club and (we) will not stand by and watch our club rot away any longer,” said The 1958, a fans’ group that arranged Monday’s protest.
Dissent toward the ownership, which has simmered since the 2005 takeover, erupted in May last year when a home league game against Liverpool had to be called off after the stadium — empty because of pandemic restrictions — was stormed before the game and thousands more supporters blocked access into Old Trafford. Two police officers were injured in clashes with fans.
That protest was sparked by the club’s involvement in the failed European Super League breakaway that collapsed amid a groundswell of condemnation from fans and the British government.
The Glazers pledged to rebuild trust with United fans in the wake of that protest but there has been little evidence of that. Joel Glazer, a co-chairman, met in person with United fans in June 2021 and outlined his intentions to invest heavily in all aspects of the club and strengthen fan representation in the decision-making process.
Last week, Jim Ratcliffe, the majority shareholder of chemical group Ineos and one of Britain’s richest people, expressed an interest in buying United, soon after Elon Musk tweeted — jokingly, as it turned out — that he wanted to do the same.
United won the last of its record 20 English league titles in 2013, the year managerial great Alex Ferguson retired. In recent years, two of United’s biggest rivals, Manchester City and Liverpool, have dominated the domestic game.
United hasn’t won a major trophy in five seasons, its worst run since the early 1980s, despite the club having spent $1.5 billion on players since 2013.
United’s latest signing, Brazil midfielder Casemiro, arrived at Old Trafford earlier Monday ahead of the Liverpool match and was introduced to fans on the field before kickoff as his transfer was being confirmed by the club. He is reportedly costing $60 million, with the club scrambling to bring in players in the final days of the transfer window.
This season has started badly, too, under Erik ten Hag, its fifth manager since Ferguson. There are already question marks over the Dutch coach’s tactics and team selection.
The future of star striker Ronaldo is also uncertain after he pushed to leave during the offseason because United didn’t qualify for the Champions League.
Ronaldo was dropped to the bench against Liverpool, along with club captain Harry Maguire.
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LONDON (AP) — Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone on Monday denied a fraud charge over his alleged failure to declare millions of pounds (dollars) in overseas assets.
Ecclestone, 91, entered a not guilty plea as he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London for a brief hearing.
Prosecutors issued a charge of fraud by false representation between July 2013 and October 2016 after British tax officials carried out a worldwide investigation into Ecclestone’s finances.
Prosecutor Robert Simpson told the court that Ecclestone did not declare a trust in Singapore with a bank account containing about $650 million when he was asked about any trusts abroad that he was involved in.
The business magnate, dressed in a three-piece suit, was escorted into the court building’s exit by security guards and his legal team. He was granted unconditional bail ahead of his next appearance at Southwark Crown Court on Sept. 19.
Ecclestone headed Formula One racing and controlled the sport for for four decades from the 1970s to 2017, when he stepped down as chief executive and Liberty Media took over the series.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Baker Mayfield will start the Carolina Panthers’ Sept. 11 regular-season opener against his former team, the Cleveland Browns.
Panthers coach Matt Rhule made the announcement on the team’s website Monday.
Mayfield, acquired in a trade with the Browns earlier this offseason, beat out incumbent starter Sam Darnold for the job. The news was expected as Mayfield had outperformed Darnold during most of training camp.
“When we started this process, we were looking at three things,” Rhule said. “Number one, mastery of the offense, number two, situational football excellence, and number three, moving the ball and getting guys involved. That’s been our focus all along. Baker has made a lot of improvement, a lot of growth in all three areas in a short amount of time.”
Both Mayfield and Darnold are expected to play in the team’s preseason finale on Friday night against the Buffalo Bills. Neither Mayfield nor Darnold has seen much action in the preseason and both were held out of last week’s game against the New England Patriots.
Rhule originally said the Panthers would keep three quarterbacks on the roster, but that was before rookie third-round draft pick Matt Corral suffered a Lisfranc ligament tear in his foot.
“All along, we’ve felt like we need to have a really strong quarterback room, and have every quarterback ready to play,” Rhule said. “The reality of this league is most teams will play multiple quarterbacks. Sam has worked incredibly hard, played really well for us during training camp, and will be ready to go if and when it’s needed.”
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco BBVA Argentina S.A (NYSE; BYMA; MAE: BBAR; LATIBEX: XBBAR) announced today the approval of dividend payment
The Shareholders of Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. are hereby informed that in accordance with the decision taken by the Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting held on April 29, 2022, and the Meeting of the Board of Directors held on June 16, 2022, in relation to installment 9, from September 7, 2022 ("Payment Date"), a dividend in the amount of AR$ 1,097,100,750 (AR$ 1.7905707570 per share representing 179.0570757038 % of the capital stock of AR$ 612.710.079), corresponding to installment N° 9, shall be made available to the shareholders registered in the stock register of the Bank on September 6, 2022 ("Record Date").
In this regard, it is reported that:
i) The payment of the dividend to all Local Shareholders shall be made in Argentine Pesos through the Caja de Valores S.A located at 362, 25 de Mayo St., Buenos Aires City; on working days from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, where all requirements, formalities and settlements shall be met in accordance with the regulatory deadlines.
ii) The payment of the dividend to non-resident shareholders shall be made with securities, unless (a) they state their decision to receive it in Argentine pesos, or (b) they do not inform within the periods described below, the custodial accounts necessary to make the payment with movable securities, in which case they shall receive Argentine pesos.
a) Non-Resident Shareholders wishing to receive the following negotiable instrument: BOND TREASURY $ (Argentine currency) Adjustable by the Reference Stabilizing Ratio [AJ. CER ] 1,30% due 20/09/22 (ISIN ARARGE3209H9), shall send from 22 August to 6 September 2022 included, duly signed by the holder or custodian stating the name of the holder of those shares, for Shareholders who hold their shares through a depositor (Bank, Agent or Stock Exchange).
Such notice shall be served on working days within the aforementioned period, from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, to Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. Att. Ezequiel Serra - addressed to email (ezequiel.serra@bbva.com), at 111, Córdoba Av., 26th Floor, Buenos Aires City, stating beneficiary, number of principal and depositor of Caja de Valores S.A. or identification in the Register of Shareholders carried out by the Registration Agent: Caja de Valores S.A., bank abroad to transfer the securities, account number, reference and any other information necessary for the correct crediting of the net dividend.
It is hereby stated that in case of failure to receive the notification with the required information within the period informed, before September 6 , 2022 the Bank shall pay the dividend in Argentine pesos according to the procedure reported in point b) below.
b) On the other hand, non-resident shareholders who choose to receive Argentine pesos must send written notice to that effect from August 22 to September 6, 2022 included, on working days within that period, from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, addressed to Banco BBVA Argentina S.A. - Att. Ezequiel Serra addressed to email (ezequiel.serra@bbva.com), at 111, Córdoba Av., 26th Floor, Buenos Aires City, and the funds shall be credited through the Caja de Valores S.A located at 362, 25 de Mayo St,, Buenos Aires City; on working days from 10:00 to 15:00 hours, where all formalities and settlements shall be met in accordance with the regulatory deadlines.
Upon any inquiry or request address to: Caja de Valores S.A Phone: 0810-888-7323 or email registro@cajadevalores.com.ar.
Holders of American Depositary Shares (ADS) shall receive payment through the depositary bank, Bank of New York Mellon, as from the date determined by the rules governing the jurisdiction in which the Company's ADS is listed.
It is expressly established that the holdings of shares of the Shareholders registered at the Record Date shall be the only ones taken into account for the purpose of paying the declared dividend. Notices made by those who do not turn out to be holders of Bank shares at the Record Date shall be deemed not to have been filed and shall be null and void.
The distribution of dividends shall, in appropriate cases, be deducted from the sums duly paid by the Company, in its capacity as Substitute Tax Officer for Personal Property corresponding to the periods 2019 and 2020 of those Shareholders who have been reached by such tax, all in accordance with the terms of the last paragraph of the Section incorporated by Law N° 26.452 following Section 25 of Law N°23.966. It is also reported that, in accordance with the provisions of Law N° 27.430, amendment of Law N° 20.628 of Income Tax (third section without added number after section 90), no withholding tax is applicable since the dividends distributed correspond to accrued tax-free profits from periods prior to the beginning of January 1, 2018.
Contact: investorelations-arg@bbva.com
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EDEN, Md. - The Worcester County Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating an early Monday morning fire that left an Eden home in ruins.
It happened shortly after 2 a.m. at the home, located at 1035 McGrath Road.
The Snow Hill Volunteer Fire Company and surrounding fire departments from both Worcester and Wicomico counties assisted with the fire. First arriving firefighters experienced fire conditions that had spread throughout the structure with a partial building collapse. The home, built in 1930 is owned by McGrath Land Holdings LLC, and was occupied at the time of the fire.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Anyone with any additional information is asked to call the Fire Marshal’s Office at 410-632-5666. Callers can remain anonymous. | https://www.wboc.com/news/fire-destroys-home-in-eden/article_fa2aa38e-2242-11ed-ba34-af45e11b784c.html | 2022-08-22T21:45:43Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/fire-destroys-home-in-eden/article_fa2aa38e-2242-11ed-ba34-af45e11b784c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Forecast updated on Monday, August 22, 2022, at 4:15 PM by WBOC Meteorologist Dan Satterfield (AMS-CBM).
DELMARVA FORECAST
Tonight: Fair to partly cloudy and humid. Isolated evening showers. Low 69°. Wind: SW 1-5 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny and quite warm. A little less humid PM. High 88° inland with temps. near 77° on the beaches PM. Wind: W 5-11 mph. Winds E 5-11 mph PM on the beaches.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, and humid. Low 68°. Wind: SW 1-6 mph.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny and very warm. High 89° inland with temps. near 80° on the beaches. Wind: NW 1-7 mph. Winds NE 5-10 mph PM on the beaches.
Forecast Discussion:
A few isolated showers will dissipate tonight, as a weak cool front pushes through Delmarva. Winds will be light with lows near 68-70 degrees. It will stay rather muggy.
Tuesday will be warm and sunny with little or no rain expected behind the weak cool front. Look for afternoon temps. near 88 degrees with slightly lower humidity. Th beaches will see a weak sea breeze and drop to the upper 70's in the afternoon hours. Winds will be light from the west inland.
Wednesday looks much the same as afternoon temps. approach 90° over inland areas with light winds. Only some very isolated showers are expected in the afternoon hours. A weak sea breeze will cool the beaches to the upper 70's in the afternoon as winds turn to the east. Our average high is now 85 degrees, so temps. will run about 4-5 degrees above normal. High pressure aloft will build over the area and this means above normal temperatures will continue into the weekend.
In the long-range, it will stay quite warm and humid into the weekend. Look for only some isolated pop up showers in the afternoon with rather light winds. Inland temperatures will top out near 87-90° from Wednesday through Sunday. A weak sea breeze will drop coastal temperatures to the mid to upper 70's in the afternoon hours. Lows will stay near 68-70 but closer to the mid 70's near the Chesapeake Bay.
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KRMA rolls out its offering to Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurs focused on making a difference in the world
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KRMA is the latest venture launched by Los Angeles based entrepreneur Morgan Harris. The KRMA agency division is built to be a best in class software development and creative powerhouse. With a specific emphasis on delivering high-impact campaigns underpinned by data science, the team at KRMA is taking their deep expertise to the start-up world by helping young entrepreneurs turn their digital dreams into reality. "After 3 successful exits, I know how challenging it can be for an entrepreneur to get out of the gate quickly. The reality is if they aren't able to move fast, there is a chance someone else gets to market first. KRMA Labs is designed to supercharge the gap that exists between product ideation and reality through mentorship, rapid prototyping and software development," says Morgan Harris, CEO of KRMA.
The brainchild of Morgan Harris and Shaun Collins, both formerly of award-winning digital creative agency HYFN, and most recently AI powered Video Intelligence Platform TONIK+, KRMA Labs focuses on software development for cause-based initiatives. "The team is passionate about using decades of combined experience to make a difference in the lives of up and coming entrepreneurs and also the world. We have a chance to do something amazing for humankind with our collective abilities and we are incredibly excited to have it all come together," says KRMA Chief Technology Officer, Shaun Collins.
Also joining the executive team at KRMA are industry veterans and former HYFN colleagues Kim Howe and Scott Mallone. Kim brings over 20 years of digital delivery experience to the team and will serve as Chief Operating Officer of KRMA. Mallone currently serves as head of Venice based content studio Durable Connect and will act as Chief Creative Officer at KRMA. "We are putting the band back together and finishing what we started years ago at HYFN. The digital ecosystem needs an injection of good and KRMA is here to deliver. I couldn't ask for a better founding team." says Harris.
The team at KRMA have defined their careers executing digital campaigns for some of the largest brands in the world, including Nike, Coca-Cola, and Disney. KRMA delivers Creative and Technology at the highest level, underpinned by Data Science for maximum performance.
Beautiful product design and rapid prototyping. Sophisticated software and application development. AI/ML and the latest Web3 technologies. Full-scale content production and media execution. The storied team at KRMA has done it all in digital and we are proud to call our clients lifelong partners.
KRMA Labs works with a select group of entrepreneurs who are focused on cause-based tech initiatives. We use our deep creative and software expertise to turn dreams into reality.
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The Texas-based jeweler is known for its memorable silver charms, rings and more
KERRVILLE, Texas, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- James Avery Artisan Jewelry announced today that it is partnering with Von Maur, a family-owned, Midwestern department store, to offer a selection of its jewelry. The partnership will launch both online and, in phases from August to October, to 37 Von Maur locations across 15 states.
"We are thrilled to partner with Von Maur. Since both James Avery Artisan Jewelry and Von Maur are family-owned companies, we both share the similar values and strive for integrity in how we treat our Associates and Customers," says John McCullough, CEO of James Avery. "Dedication, hard work and the hands of many are involved in the creation of every design, from the concept and production to finishing."
Von Maur, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, will introduce James Avery to its loyal customer base, offering meaningful jewelry designed to connect people, their life events and celebrations.
"Von Maur looks forward to being able to service our customers with the best of James Avery," says Joy Place, Vice President of Merchandising at Von Maur. "Both of our companies put the customer first and share many similarities in our family-owned businesses. We know this brand is a perfect fit for our stores and can't wait to see where this partnership takes us."
Born in Milwaukee and raised in the Chicago area, James Avery (the company's founder) was first introduced to the scenic Texas Hill Country by way of the U.S. Army Air Corps. From the beginning, James Avery's goal was to create jewelry with special meaning for his customers. It was also important that his designs had lasting appeal, a timelessness that would endure from one generation to the next. Artisanship has always been paramount to James Avery Artisan Jewelry because it expresses the true meaning behind each design.
"We want every customer at Von Maur to experience the handcrafted artistry and integrity that Mr. Avery brought to his original designs and his legacy that continues to live on in our collections today," says Rob Mitchell, Director of Wholesale Business development at James Avery.
About James Avery Artisan Jewelry®– James Avery is a vertically integrated, family-owned company located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, offering finely crafted jewelry designs for men and women in sterling silver, 14K and 18K gold, bronze and gemstones. James Avery jewelry is designed in the Texas Hill Country, with more than 98 percent of our pieces crafted in Kerrville, Comfort, Hondo, and Corpus Christi, Texas, using the finest materials sourced worldwide. We are a multi-channel retailer with over 110 James Avery stores in four states and our jewelry is also available at JamesAvery.com, more over 220 Dillard's locations and more.
About Von Maur – Von Maur is a Midwestern department store chain with 37 locations in 15 states, specializing in clothing, accessories, shoes, beauty products, home decor and more.
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Pound for pound, perhaps no piece of equipment is more valuable on the Ukrainian battlefield than lightweight, remote-controlled drones, which volunteers are bringing to the frontlines in the east.
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Fighting in Gaza shows fractures among militant groups, as Israel targeted Islamic Jihad, while Hamas held off. Civilians are upset at the low quality of life and these groups' lack of public service.
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When children in the Columbus, Ohio, education system start their school year this Wednesday, they will likely be doing so online, as the school district's nearly 4,500 teachers hit the picket lines.
For the first time in nearly 50 years, the district's unionized teachers are striking, the Columbus Education Association (CEA) announced.
On Sunday, the union voted to go on strike after weeks of negotiations over new contract language with Columbus City Schools went nowhere. The union says it was pushing for guaranteed air conditioning, "appropriate class sizes" and full-time art, music and physical education teachers in the city's elementary schools.
Jennifer Adair, the Board of Education president, said in a statement that the decision by the union to strike is an "unfortunate situation" for families, the community and children.
"Our offer to CEA put children first and prioritized their education and their growth. We offered a generous compensation package for teachers and provisions that would have a positive impact on classrooms," Adair said in the statement. "Our offer was also responsive to the concerns that have been raised by CEA during the negotiations process. Our community's children are the Board's priority, and our offer reflected that fact."
The fact that students will be starting the new year with online schooling "is not ideal," Adair said. "But," she added, "we have an obligation to continue educating and supporting students despite the current circumstances."
This strike comes as schools across the U.S. are scrambling to fill vacancies brought on by a teacher shortage. The country is facing a shortage of 300,000 teachers, according to the National Education Association.
After dealing with two years of illness and disruption brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns about school safety and a feeling of lack of respect, teachers have reported being burned out, demoralized and fed up.
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Three local municipalities will receive $50,000 to help lower and reduce climate-change impact
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced the application opening period for the Climate Adaptation & Resiliency Grant program, designed to assist local cities in becoming more resilient and address climate vulnerability, adaptation, resiliency and hazard mitigation plans with an emphasis on supporting underserved communities. The grant program will provide $50,000 each to three municipalities within SoCalGas' service territory. The funds will be used to help local cities and counties prepare for and recover from climate risks, such as extreme heat, wildfires, drought, subsidence, sea level rise and flooding.
An advisory panel of planning and sustainability experts from the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC) and the American Planning Association-California Chapter (APA-California) will select the 2022 winning applications from across Southern and Central California.
"The City is very excited to get started on the very important work of developing a Climate Action and Resiliency Plan for our underserved community. Strengthening climate resilience and focusing on issues of environmental justice are critical to our community and are at the core of many of our strategic goals over the next five years," said San Fernando Mayor Mary Mendoza. "The City of San Fernando is very honored to receive these funds and so appreciative to the Southern California Gas Company for recognizing our efforts with this generous grant."
"The Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Grant program is one of many initiatives that SoCalGas is promoting to lower climate change impacts and help California reach its sustainability goals. We're committed to help alleviating these impacts through our investment in different strategies to help us all recover, adapt and plan ahead," said Jawaad Malik, vice president of strategy, suitability and chief environmental officer at SoCalGas. "Restoring the health of our communities and lowering our environmental impact is key to a sustainable future. We are proud to collaborate with different municipalities for a stronger future."
"Climate adaptation and resilience planning is a crucial part of helping our communities stay strong in the face of unprecedented changes," said Ashley Atkinson, president of the American Planning Association's California Chapter. "This program allows recipient cities to prioritize resilience planning and address these changes with urgency."
Municipalities embarking on Hazard Mitigation Plan updates, Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Plans, or are incorporating climate change impacts into the Safety Element of their General Plan are eligible to apply. Grant proposals will be assessed according to the following criteria:
- DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES: SoCalGas encourages applicants to address climate vulnerabilities in disadvantaged communities.
- COLLABORATION: the extent to which the grant proposal reflects coordination and partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders (energy/water utilities, transportation, housing, etc.).
- CO-BENEFITS: identify potential co-benefits of the adaptation work, such as benefits to public health, air quality, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and the economy.
The application submission period ends on October 14, 2022, at 5 p.m.
Last year, the City of Maywood, the City of San Fernando, and the City of Pico Rivera were each awarded $50,000 for winning adaptation and resiliency grants from SoCalGas.
For more information about SoCalGas' environmental initiatives, visit socalgas.com/sustainability.
About SoCalGas
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and to replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy services holding company based in San Diego.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 11th, 2022, an album almost 4 years in the making, James A. Norkawich's Sophomore album (part 2 of 2 in a series) from the great American songbook is scheduled to be released. The album "Today", a follow up to his first album "Yesterday - Songs from the Great American Songbook, showcases music from the 40's to present. His new album features songs from different styles, including original material never heard before. A special composition, "The Things You Are – Peter's Song", pays homage to his cousin who remains a major inspiration in James' career. The album "Today" takes the listener through a more colorful, introspective look into the many styles that have been James' influence. "It is quite colorful in terms of the direction the album takes you. It brings the listener from a musical story to a canvas that the ear can translate" "Yesterday" is a collaboration of music that made this country great. "Today" answers that call and shows the music of the 50's to today, where its roots lie and I suppose where we are going."
James' hope for this album, for the younger generation, is to open their minds and explore how music in the different genres was created, how it impacts us today and why it is considered so immortal and pivotal to one's palette. "Music has become stale", James said in a recent interview, "and we need to re-examine what makes us happy, sad, what got us through the good times and the bad. Music is now trending to more classic and revised sounds since the pandemic. People are examining music on all sorts of media platforms, and they are now listening to music they never listened to before. From a heavy blues lick on the guitar or to lyrics to a song they loved but never really knew what the song was about, to a new spin on an old classic, James said what is old is new again and that is what the album "Today" is all about."
Yesterday can be found on all streaming media, and today will also be available on Sept 11, 2022
The Debut for the video The Things You Are will be available on YouTube on Sept 11,2022, 2PM EST as well.
This September 11 remembers those who lost their lives for our country and remember the sacrifices made by those who served as well.
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Company increases coverage options to add value to benefits portfolio
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses seek to provide greater protection for employees in the form of voluntary benefits, accident insurance is high on the list. Unum offers expanded coverage and more value for individuals if they have an injury that requires medical attention. Additional covered accident* benefits, including pet boarding, childcare, alternative therapies such as acupuncture and visits to see a behavioral health therapist, may be included to support overall employee health and wellness.
According to the National Safety Council, every 10 minutes 1,054 people have a preventable injury that is severe enough to require medical attention. Katherine Thompson, assistant vice president of Product & Market Development at Unum said, "The accident enhancements expand our ability to support customers during life's unforeseen moments. It's part of helping the working world thrive; to provide solutions, security and protection so they can manage out of pocket expenses and focus on recovery."
Unum's Accident benefit helps cover some of the following medical costs:
Broaden Family Coverage
- Family Care & Pet Boarding – Assistance taking care of two-and four-legged family members while a worker recovers after a surgical procedure and/or an injury.
- Organized Sports - The plan now includes treatment when an accident occurs while playing organized sports.
Treatment Beyond Physical Injuries
- Behavioral Health Therapy – Provides coverage for therapy visits.
- Alternative Therapy – Includes acupuncture treatment.
- Personal Safety – Benefits payable if a safety program is completed. This includes CPR or first aid certification, swim lessons, self-defense course or defensive driving.
- Healthcare Employee Coverage – Additional benefits payable to employees when they seek treatment in a facility owned or operated by the employer.
- Policy Value Increases – Financial value of the policy increases the longer a person maintains coverage.
Covered individuals may also receive treatment due to an injury as a victim of a felony or sexual assault. Other accident benefits may include coverage while making home renovations, automobile modifications and loss of hearing.
This enhanced product is one of many additional employee benefit solutions from Unum that supports time away from work, technology integration with HR systems, and administrative assistance.
Workers can enroll in Unum's Accident Insurance during annual benefits enrollment, which typically takes place in the fall. Benefits will start January 1, 2023.
*State variations apply
About Unum Group
Unum (NYSE: UNM), an international provider of workplace benefits and services, has been helping workers and their families for more than 170 years. Through its Unum and Colonial Life brands, the company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental, vision and stop-loss insurance; leave and absence management support and behavioral health services. In 2021, Unum reported revenues of $12.0 billion and paid $8.2 billion in benefits. The Fortune 500 company is one of the 2022 World's Most Ethical Companies, recognized by the Ethisphere®.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President Joe Biden’s administration has not yet made a decision about extending the pause on federal student loan debt nor about whether some of that debt will be canceled, but his education secretary is promising some sort of action before the end of the month.
“The American people will hear directly from us because we recognize this is an important issue across the country,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said.
He appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CBS’s “Face the Nation” to discuss the matter. He said his team is in daily talks with the White House.
“We’re not slowing down,” Cardona said. “We want to make sure that college is more accessible and more affordable for Americans across the country.”
The White House has said it is considering canceling up to $10,000 per borrower, but progressives are pressuring Biden for more — $50,000. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, tweeted Monday that it would be a “great day to cancel student loan debt and deliver relief for millions of borrowers across the country.”
Many Republicans are opposed to the idea.
“I think it just seems inherently unfair,” Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., said, saying canceling debt now after many have already paid off their loans is wrong and won’t fix the underlying problem of the cost of education. “I think the better thing would be to look at why is college tuition over the last several decades increased at twice the rate of inflation? Why is that? Why is college education far more expensive than buying a car on an annual basis for a four-year education?”
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Bauchi gov employs 310 new teachers to boost manpower in education sector, primary education
A total of 310 teachers have been engaged and issued letters of engagement by the Bauchi State Government under the Federal Teachers Scheme (FTS) and the Federal Female Teachers Scheme (FTTS).
The Commissioner of Education, Dr Aliyu Usman Tilde, said that the approval for the engagement was given by the State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir, in his determination to ensure the availability of enough manpower for the schools.
Speaking at the presentation of the appointment letters to the employed teachers on Monday held at the TSC complex in Bauchi, the Commissioner said that Bauchi State is among the few states in the federation that complied with the conditions of the teachers’ scheme.
Aliyu Tilde explained that the employed teachers were recruited based on merit, warning that, any one of them found wanting in the discharge of the responsibilities would be dealt with in accordance with public service rules.
According to him, “I congratulate you for scaling through the very rigorous selection processes and for being able to be employed among many other qualified applicants who also applied for the same job. I am very happy and very lucky to see very passionate individuals as applicants for the teaching job.”
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The Commissioner added that “Our message to you is that as you are aware, Bauchi State under Governor Bala Mohammed is committed to the recruitment of qualified teachers and we are going to monitor the conduct of all of you as our new teachers for us to achieve our aim desire of providing qualitative education to our children.”
The Commissioner pointed out that, the present administration in the state has done a lot to advance education, said on staff welfare, in particular, the ministry of education last year promoted half of its workforce based on performance basis.
In a keynote address, the Chairman, Bauchi State Teacher’s Service Commission (TSC), Musa Wadata implored the employed teachers to always put the interest of the state first in the discharge of their duties and see themselves as indispensable partners in the task of repositioning Bauchi State education sector.
Musa Wadata noted that the current approval for the recruitment of the 310 teachers to schools in Bauchi State is the highest ever in more than 2 decades, as no such employment was made in the state.
The TSC Chairman added that “This presentation of appointment is a clear testimony of the state government’s commitment towards uplifting the quality of teaching and learning and to address the teacher shortage in the State. This is indeed a milestone achievement in the history of Bauchi State Teachers’ Service Commission by extension the State Ministry of Education.”
According to him, “I would like to felicitate our amiable, industrious, quintessential, digital Commissioner, and Teacher General, Dr Aliyu Usman Tilde for showing dynamism, focus, efficiency and candour in the way he is piloting the affairs of Bauchi State education sector.”
Musa Wadata added that “His purposeful leadership, steadfastness, ingenuity and genuine commitment to re-engineer Bauchi State education sector have made the state a model and a reference point in the Country.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/bauchi-gov-employs-310-new-teachers-to-boost-manpower-in-education-sector-primary-education/ | 2022-08-22T22:00:26Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/bauchi-gov-employs-310-new-teachers-to-boost-manpower-in-education-sector-primary-education/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Members of the House of Representatives on Monday expressed displeasure over the alleged breach of contract agreement signed by officials of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), Azura power purchase agreement for which the contractor is paid the sum of $33 million monthly over the past 56 months, totalling $1.848 billion for the supply of 450MW.
The lawmakers expressed the concerns during the ongoing investigative hearing into the alleged breaches of the agreement and perennial power failure in the sector held at the instance of the House Committee on Finance, chaired by Hon. Abiodun James Faleke.
While addressing some of the questions from the lawmakers, TCN’s Executive Director for Transmission Service Provider, Mr Victor Adewumi, affirmed that there was a ‘Take and Pay Agreement with the contractor.
He however noted that Azura Power Plant is “supposed to generate 450 megawatts, but sometimes, they generate less than that generation is a function of consumption.”
After thorough scrutiny of the documents submitted to the Committee, Hon. Faleke said: “what that means is that whether the power is available or not, we pay $33 million.
“What I am asking you is to show us the document of your evacuation. You gave us a list of figures. We want to be on the same page with you and with Nigerians who are not here.”
In his remarks on the 450MW power generation provided, the TCN Chief Market Operator, Mr Edmond Eje said the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) manages the power purchase agreement and is in a better position to explain that.
“But we will give an explanation as much as we know it. We have an agreement with Azura for 450 megawatts. The document before us says 1,755.
“What we look at as market operators is the availability, not the capacity. It depends on the condition of the grid and what is available at every particular time.
“In Nigeria today, the demand depends on the load that the generation companies take. The generation of Azura depends on the load demand. There is no particular load demand from Azura.”
In her remarks, Hon. Taiwo Oluga who expressed concern over the conflicting presentation made by the TCN delegation said: “If it is your document and we are arguing on it, whether it is megawatts or it is in kilowatts, and agreement has been signed on behalf of Nigerians in megawatts. Now you are presenting documents to the House in kilowatts per hour.
“So, Mr Chairman, I will want to say that maybe these documents, they should be re-presented while we expect the chief executive to come and explain to Nigerians why $33 million will be paid (to Azura) every month, yet we are not getting results – we are not getting power, and that is the root of all the problems in Nigeria as of today.
“And I want to say in developed countries, can we go into such an agreement and on behalf of Nigerians without signing it? Even while signing it, we are not getting the power that is signed (for). I put it to you: you are travelling all over the world.”
In his remarks, Hon. Faleke observed that the non-availability of power has discouraged many Nigerians who are willing to set up industries in the country, “but there is no power, yet we are paying huge sum of money. This is not about TCN but about Nigerians.
“Whatever position we find ourselves; we are just opportunity to find ourselves there.”
He said: “The issue of $33 million is just for one power company. Why the House has an interest in this, TCN, is because we have concession other power stations. Egbin power station is the largest with 1,320 megawatts. It is private. We did not sign take-or-pay with them.
“This is where I am going. If we have an Egbin power station that is generating the highest into the national grid – 1,320, and we also have Transcorp with about 650 megawatts and we did not sign take-or-pay with Transcorp, and I am sure we have others.
“What we are trying to bring out is that what is so special about Azura? Not only that it is special, but just two or three people sat down and committed Nigerians to it. We will get there.”
On his part, Hon. John Dyegh said: “I agree that we are more confused but more than that is that between this Azuragate and the Fuel Subsidygate, Nigeria is bleeding badly. I want to suggest that we submit this to a Consultant who will do a proper analysis and get it back to us. And then, there is no point arguing and arguing because you are getting us more confused.
“So honourable Chair, may I move that you please put an end to this session to an end so that we won’t get more confused.”
While ruling, Hon. Faleke who expressed displeasure over the disposition of the TCN delegation to the lingering crisis in the power sector said: “Transmission Company of Nigeria, first your MD took permission, according to you, to see the Minister rather than coming to explain to Nigerians and to clarify issues.
“Market Operator, if I understood your earlier statement that they have not been producing up to the 450 megawatts that were signed and they have justification for not producing up to that; in that case, will you say as a Nigerian that they have violated the agreement they signed?
“What you are telling Nigerians generally is that from the position you hold and being paid by taxpayers, you are not representing Nigerians and that your seat is already in danger. That is what you are telling Nigerians because you cannot even take an informed decision when it is necessary to take decisions on behalf of Nigerians. That is exactly what you have just exhibited.
“Why you are here before us was because you evacuate the power produced by Generating Companies, not only Azura. NBET was here on Friday and they will still be here tomorrow or so. So, it is not closed. We are only asking you from your own function as an evacuator of power, what power you have been evacuating from a 450megawwats generation company. We have not gone into other power generation companies.
“We have just picked one – not one. And do you know why we are concerned? We are concerned that Nigerians are willing to set up industries but there is no power, yet we are paying huge sums of money. This is just the issue, nothing more; not witch hunting. It is not about TCN, it is about Nigeria.
“So, all the questions that I have for TCN, I have to reserve them until your MD is here. There are other vital questions that this committee will want to ask. When the MD is seated, we will ask. Whatever position we have found ourselves, we are just opportune amongst 200 million people.”
To this end, Hon. Faleke issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the TCN Managing Director, Mr Sule Abdulaziz to appear before the Committee with relevant documents that would aid the ongoing investigative hearing.
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Outgoing CNN anchor Brian Stelter began the final episode of his Sunday show, Reliable Sources, by suggesting the gloves were off. “No one from CNN management has reviewed my script ahead of time. They have no idea what I’m gonna say,” he said at the top of the episode, a swan song that Stelter had hyped ever since the news broke last week that CNN had decided to cancel the 30-year-old media affairs show—its longest-running program—and that Stelter, the company man who’d hosted it for the past nine years, would be departing the network as a result. As Columbia Journalism Review's Jon Allsop noted, at points, it was unclear whether Stelter himself knew why his show was being axed—even, during a panel discussion, asking one of his guests, Insider media correspondent Claire Atkinson, if she had any intel on the matter. Ultimately, Stelter's sign off was sentimental and thankful for the opportunities CNN (and its former leader, Jeff Zucker) afforded him. But he did close with what appeared to be somewhat veiled criticism of the company's new corporate overlords, namely of CNN’s new leader Chris Licht's mandate to make the outlet more neutral: “It is not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue. It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues. It’s required. It’s patriotic,” he said, adding “I believe America needs CNN to be strong.”
For those who haven’t followed the reporting around Stelter’s departure and, more broadly, CNN's new leadership, this may sounds like a general comment on the role of the press today. But Stelter's comment takes on new meaning with speculation that John Malone—the billionaire media mogul and key shareholder in Warner Bros. Discovery (CNN’s parent company) who has suggested he wants CNN to be less liberal—played a role in Stelter’s ouster. In an email to the New York Times, Malone said he had “nothing to do with” the cancellation of Reliable Sources, though added that he wants “the ‘news’ portion of CNN to be more centrist, but I am not in control or directly involved.” Malone doubled down on that stance in an interview—published the same day as Stelter’s final show—with the Times’ Ben Mullin, in which the 81-year-old libertarian cable magnate talked about the need for news channels, including CNN, to better distinguish between news and opinion programming. He pointed to Fox News host Bret Baier as his ideal anchor. Puck on Monday framed Stelter's departure as an apparent “blood sacrifice.”
It’s not the first time Malone has cited Baier, who has shown a slight willingness to push back against Donald Trump, and Fox News in his vision for CNN. As a CNN employee told Vox’s Peter Kafka last week, “John Malone doesn’t watch CNN. John Malone only watches CNN via Fox News. If I watched CNN via Fox News, I would hate CNN too.” Back in February, Stelter himself questioned what Malone criticizing CNN for “too much advocacy, too much commentary, too little reporting from the world” meant for the future of the network. According to Deadline, Licht only bolstered anxiety inside CNN on Friday when, at Friday’s editorial meeting, he said more changes are on the way. “There will be moves you may not agree with or understand,” CNN’s chairman and CEO said.
CNN pushed back against the idea that Malone factored into the decision, instead framing Stelter’s departure to the Times as part of a reimagining of the network’s Sunday lineup. Notably, that lineup will include an interview show helmed by veteran Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who left a gaping hole in Fox’s news division as he departed for CNN+. (Wallace’s interview show was originally scheduled to air on Sundays, until the much-hyped streaming service became the first victim of the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger weeks after its launch.) Stelter, too, had a show on CNN+—Reliable Sources Daily, a weekday edition of the Sunday show. “We have been building upon the Reliable television brand with newsletters and podcasts in recent years, and now Reliable Sources Daily is the ultimate expansion,” Stelter said at the time.
That was in February. Six months later, appearing for the final time on his Sunday show, “at least a hint of bemusement cut through his typical sunny demeanor,” Allsop wrote. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/its-not-partisan-to-stand-up-to-demagogues-brian-stelters-sign-off-hints-at-cnns-uncertain-future | 2022-08-22T22:01:50Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/its-not-partisan-to-stand-up-to-demagogues-brian-stelters-sign-off-hints-at-cnns-uncertain-future | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In the immediate aftermath of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s eldest sons and their better halves came out in full force against the search, raging against the government for treating Trump like a criminal. On Twitter, Donald Trump Jr. hysterically tweeted: “Biden’s out of control DOJ is ripping this country apart with how they’re openly targeting their political enemies. This is what you see happen in 3rd World Banana Republics!!!” His fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, chimed in, writing: “The FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago is a continuation of the left’s endless & unlawful persecution of President Trump. The failed Biden Regime will do anything to try to distract the American people from the fact that their policies are DESTROYING our nation.” On Fox News, Eric Trump whined to Sean Hannity: “Sean, my father never got so much as a speeding ticket in his life, you know, until he made one decision, and that’s to go down the escalators of Mar-a-Lago and spend a lot of money and go and actually fight for this country for the first time, and he did a better job than anybody has ever done. And they started coming after him.” The same night, Lara Trump made the bold claim that her father-in-law has a well-known (but entirely innocent) habit of saving “newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, photographs, [and] documents,” adding that he had “every right” to take whatever he wanted from the White House.
Since the raid took place, however, two individuals have been conspicuously missing from Trump’s chorus of defenders: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who have a long history of fleeing the scene when Trump has done something extra bad in the hopes that people will forget that they were high-level advisers to the worst president in U.S. history. But unfortunately for the Boy Prince of New Jersey, he currently has a book to promote and doesn’t have the option of riding out this latest scandal zipped into a garment bag in the back of Ivanka’s closet.
Speaking with Fox News host Mark Levin on Sunday, Kushner was asked to comment on the FBI’s “despicable attack” against Donald Trump (i.e., the lawfully executed search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, which a federal judge authorized based on finding probable cause that the former president may have committed multiple crimes. The Washington Post reported that this included the possible mishandling of nuclear documents, which Trump later denied.) Given the narrative Kushner and Ivanka have attempted to spin over the last two years, which is that they’ve effectively washed their hands of the 45th president (and in fact did so months before Trump left office and incited an insurrection), you might have thought Kushner would attempt to sidestep the issue, or, at the very least, not go to bat for his father-in-law. But now facing suspicions that he might’ve tipped off the FBI, that is not the path Kushner went down.
“President Trump is a fighter, he’s always been a fighter,” Kushner told Levin. “Ivanka and I were playing golf with him a couple days ago and I was joking with him about how, in the way that he drives his enemies so crazy, they always over-pursue him and make mistakes in trying to get him, and that’s basically what happened here…. [It’s] the same thing being done by the same people in the same way: They’re leaking to the same sources, they’re manufacturing fabulous claims that then get debunked shortly thereafter.” He added: “It is giving a lot of people who want to believe in the fairness of the judicial system and our democracy a lot of pause and concern.”
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Kushner, of course, has long thought that the “judicial system” is unfair because his own father, Charles Kushner, was prosecuted and found guilty of tax fraud and witness tampering, the latter of which involved hiring a prostitute to seduce with his brother-in-law, filming the encounter, and then mailing it to his sister as retaliation against his brother-in-law for cooperating with the Feds. (According to Chris Christie, the then U.S. attorney who prosecuted Kushner the Elder, Jared believed such things were “family matter[s],” suggesting they were none of the government’s business. Which sounds similar to how the mafia views these things.) Charles Kushner was subsequently pardoned by the 45th president.
One of the biggest concerns around Trump’s possession of classified documents is that the former president might have given top secret information to foreign adversaries, especially given his reported habit of doing so while in office. But to no great surprise, none of that came up during Kushner’s Fox News interview. Levin also did not ask Kushner why he was reportedly denied a top secret security clearance as a presidential adviser over concerns about potential foreign influence on him. (Naturally, those fears were reportedly overridden by his father-in-law.) And Levin neglected to mention that Kushner recently received $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund for his new private equity firm, despite the fund’s due diligence panel reportedly concluding no one should give the company a dime. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/jared-kushner-donald-trump-fbi-raid | 2022-08-22T22:01:56Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/jared-kushner-donald-trump-fbi-raid | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a modern wedding doubles as a statement about who a couple is together. And Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s second ceremony—the one for friends and family, held nearly 20 years after the pair broke off their original engagement—certainly followed the dictum. Lopez and Affleck are A+ celebrities, so they hosted a three-day celebration in a remote-ish location to their largely Los Angeles-based or New York-based guest list (Georgia, United States). One of them is a platinum-grade musician and one of them is a movie star, so they wore white and asked the wedding party and guests to do the same. And there were apparently some high-Pinterest-core “live, laugh, love”–type signs around the place confirming what we already know: These two are sweet, sweet corny people.
One shocking thing to note: The presence of New England’s finest coffee purveyor, Dunkin’, has not yet drifted up from the flotsam of details out of the weekend. It’s strange considering Affleck is its biggest fan; Dunkin’ is such a big part of his typical day that one would expect it to be a huge part of his very special day. Maybe the news just hasn’t made it out of the weekend yet; there is already a lot to chew on. So while we wait to hear whether guests enjoyed Sunday brunch Munchkins, here are the best details that have come out of the romantic weekend:
His and Hers Looks
Affleck’s look wasn’t so far off from his Las Vegas ’fit. He wore a Hollywood classic: the white tuxedo jacket and black bow tie. Very Humphrey Bogart. Very (young) Sean Connery. Very on theme (“Old Hollywood”).
For her third wedding dress (the other two were worn during their Vegas wedding), Lopez wore a mock-neck, short-sleeve mermaid dress that flared ever outward at the bottom. There was a cutout around the back. The rumor was that the dress would be designed by Ralph Lauren and made in Italy.
And then…
The Veil
It was big. Huge. There was a real sweeping quality to this truly enormous veil. For photos, she draped it over a bridge and spread it out across a lawn. It was really quite a veil.
The Children—All the Same but Different
The family all donned white for the occasion (or black and white). Violet, Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s eldest, wore a white tulle ball gown. Seraphina, their middle child, and Max, one of Lopez and Marc Anthony’s twins, wore white suits with black ties. Max topped his off with a straw hat. Samuel, Affleck and Garner’s youngest, mirrored his father with a white tuxedo jacket, bow tie, and black pants, while Lopez’s other twin, Emme, wore a double-breasted suit (no tie).
The Guests
These two got Kevin Smith into a three-piece shorts suit. “This is as formal as I’ve been dressed since maybe my First Communion when I was 7,” the director said. Affleck’s Boston bosom buddy Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, was there, as was top Hollywood talent agent Patrick Whitesell and his wife, Pia.
As expected, the podcaster and “purpose coach” Jay Shetty officiated the ceremony, and his wife, Radhi, also attended.
The Setting
Arrangements of white flowers supplemented the natural beauty of Riceboro, Georgia, trees during the ceremony. A long white carpet led guests from the ceremony, held on an assembled platform with chairs, to the main house where the reception was held on Saturday. There was an all-white piano and a fireworks display, per People.
Affleck had tried to sell this property as recently as 2019, before he and Lopez had rekindled their love. It was where they had intended to hold their wedding nearly 20 years ago, before they broke off their engagement, went their separate ways, married other people, had children, enjoyed successes, and endured failures. And now on the other side of all that, there they were at the house Affleck couldn’t manage to off-load, finishing the job. There’s a sweetness to the symmetry, and you know those two live-laugh-lovers found meaning in this spot. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-afflecks-wedding-so-far | 2022-08-22T22:02:02Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-afflecks-wedding-so-far | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – Democrats’ campaign arms in the House and Senate have outpaced that of their Republican counterparts for the month of July, according to recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
While the House Republicans’ campaign arm said in filings last week they had raised $9.8 million last month, their Democratic counterpart said they had raised $13.5 million in July.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said in filings that they had raised $10.1 million in contrast to the $8.1 million that was raised by the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm.
The development comes as Senate Republicans’ campaign arm reportedly slashed millions of dollars in spending for advertising in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin since Aug. 1. An NRSC spokesperson told The Washington Post that ad buys being shared with campaigns were being given more priority, arguing that they were not leaving those states.
Still, post-fundraising hauls in the last fundraising quarter showed a number of Democratic challengers in competitive Senate races posting better figures than their Republican contenders. Some Republicans have acknowledged that control of the Senate could prove tighter for Republicans, in what should be a more favorable environment for them, than previously thought.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week.
But other Republican groups are posting better numbers than Democrats, including the Republican National Committee (RNC), which said it has raised $11.8 million for the month of July while $10.7 million had been raised by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/democratic-house-senate-campaign-committees-outpace-republicans-in-july/ | 2022-08-22T22:04:22Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/democratic-house-senate-campaign-committees-outpace-republicans-in-july/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) — Roughly six in 10 Americans — 59 percent — say they are worried that forgiving student loan debt could make inflation worse, according to a new CNBC poll.
The survey also found that 34 percent of respondents say only those in need should have debt forgiven, 32 percent say all of those with student loan debt should be forgiven and 30 percent say no debt should be forgiven.
The news comes a day after Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said an announcement from the Biden administration is coming soon regarding student loan debt, just ahead of an Aug. 31 expiration date for a temporary pause on loan payments.
It’s unclear if officials will announce another extension of the student loan freeze or reveal the administration’s intent to cancel some debt per borrower.
President Joe Biden has faced calls to cancel up to $50,000 per borrower, although he has reportedly settled on a goal of forgiving $10,000 per borrower. Biden has previously said he would make a final decision by the end of August.
Just more than half of adults polled by CNBC — 53 percent — said any extra money from student loan forgiveness would go toward paying off other loans. Forty-five percent, meanwhile, said they would save the fund for retirement instead.
Any announcement of student loan forgiveness could come amid a period of economic uncertainty.
The inflation rate has reached a 40-year high and the economy shrank for two consecutive quarters, usually an indicator a country is in a recession.
Republicans have called canceling student debt “wildly inflationary” and have said it would benefit higher-income Americans who don’t need the relief.
GOP lawmakers have even introduced bills intended to curb any plan that would forgive student loan debt, although legislation faces an uphill battle in the Democrat-controlled Congress.
Laura Beamer, a lead researcher for higher education finance at the Jain Family Institute, told The Hill this month that forgiving $10,000 in student debt would have a “minimal” impact on inflation.
Beamer also noted it would assist Americans with “higher debt to income ratios.”
“Those people are disproportionately hailing from disadvantaged groups and low socioeconomic status groups,” Beamer said.
More than 44 million Americans collectively owe $1.7 trillion through student loans.
The Biden administration has already canceled $32 billion in student loan relief for more than 1.6 million borrowers, mostly among students who were defrauded or misled by schools.
Around $10 billion of that was forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which forgives debt for those who work in public service and other qualifying jobs after a certain amount of time.
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U.S. Navy Cmrd. Peter Hammes, a dentist with Navy Reserve Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth, speaks with Virginia Senator Mark R. Warner during his visit to Appalachian Care Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) 2022 at Wise, Va., Aug. 22, 2022. IRT is a Department of Defense (DoD) military training opportunity, exclusive to the United States and its territories, that delivers joint training opportunities to increase deployment readiness. Simultaneously, IRT provides key services (health care, construction, transportation, and cybersecurity) with lasting benefits for our American communities.
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For those in need for a back to school and/or sports physical,
Naval Hospital Bremerton staff like Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (Fleet
Marine Force) David R. Withrow, Immunization Clinic leading petty officer,
stand ready to provide such services as eye exam, height/weight, vital signs
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care at Naval Hospital Bremerton. Appointments can be made with TRICARE
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during regular clinic hours from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
For patients receiving immunizations: Mon-Wed-Thurs-Fri: 8 a.m. to 11:45
a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and on Tuesdays: 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 1
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Staff Sgt. Jessica Foster, a geospatial intelligence Observer, Coach, Trainer (OC/T) assigned to 3-364th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 189th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division West provides an overview of OC/T uniform standards for brigade personnel during Cold Steel Academy at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington August 16, 2022.
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Crews enter final work stage of replacing massive Louisville water main installed in 1877
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Ulysses S. Grant was President when the Louisville Water Company installed a massive water main under Frankfort Avenue.
Almost a century and a half later, it is about to be replaced.
“It was put in the ground in 1877 and it lived a great life,” Louisville Water Communications VP Kelley Dearing Smith said. “144 years. But we needed to upgrade the water main to really help with the growing demands on our system.”
The year-long project is scheduled to come to an end in October.
Traffic on Frankfort Avenue, rerouted for months, reopened lanes in both directions 11 days earlier than expected.
Dan DeGeorge, owner of DeGeorge Guitars on Frankfort said he’s ready for the change after a long year of disruption.
”Tough for people to get here, no parking in front of our shop,” DeGeorge said. “For a while, there was a big wall in between there.”
While Frankfort Avenue may be open, down the street at the Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant, the sounds of construction are still going strong.
”I still try to avoid it just because they’re changing things,” resident Mark Overdyk said. “And I never quite know what’s open or not.”
But the end is in sight for the $16 million year-long project to replace critical water mains near the Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant. New 60-inch and 42-inch water mains will provide additional supply lines to move and reroute water.
One thing not disrupted during the project was the flow of water.
Crews managed to replace the massive pipe without the customers missing a drop.
”So while the old pipe had been in the ground for a long time a worked really well, it had broken,” Smith said. “And we know after a hundred, hundred and fifty years we had to replace the pipe. So it was time to upgrade the pipe.”
The final stages of construction will bring the installation of sidewalks and the planting of trees.
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A judge in the U.S. refused to halt Unilever, the parent company for Ben & Jerry's, from continuing sales of its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Ben & Jerry's has said that the occupation undermines the company's values, Reuters reported.
New York Judge Andrew Carter said in the ruling that Ben & Jerry's didn't offer enough evidence on their side of the case.
Earlier this month, the independent board for the iconic ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's said their parent company Unilever Plc, froze the salaries of its directors in July as a way to put pressure on the company as it entered into mediation regarding a dispute over the sale of the company's Israeli business.
As Reuters reported, the company has shown great success with Ben & Jerry's managing to become one of Unilever's top 13 brands that surpassed the $1 billion sales mark last year.
Last year, leadership at Ben & Jerry's said the company did not want to sell its products in the occupied West Bank, citing inconsistencies with the company's values which led to the decision by Unilever to sell that portion of the business.
Anuradha Mittal, a board chairperson, said, "This decision for us to go to court is because of Unilever's (UL) sale without our input, which is a clear violation of the letter and the spirit of our original acquisition agreement with Unilever,"
Mittal said, "If Unilever is willing to so blatantly violate the agreement that has governed the parties' conduct for over two decades, then we believe it won't stop with this issue," Reuters and CNN reported. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ben-jerrys-looses-bid-to-stop-ice-cream-sales-in-israeli-occupied-west-bank | 2022-08-22T22:18:10Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/ben-jerrys-looses-bid-to-stop-ice-cream-sales-in-israeli-occupied-west-bank | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DENVER, Colo. — In a time where almost everything costs more, it's easy to feel overwhelmed thinking about saving for the future. For many people, that feeling is changing the way they spend money.
Fidelity published a new report on the state of retirement that found 55% of adults between 18-35 years old put their retirement planning on hold during the pandemic, and 45% say they don't see a point in saving for retirement until the economy gets back to normal. Thirty-nine percent of young respondents said they expect to retire later than normal.
Whether it's spending on travel or purchasing big ticket items, more millennials and Gen Z are focusing on shorter-term spending than on saving for retirement. The report credits the pandemic with shifting young people's priorities. While there is some general pessimism about the future of the economy, the report did find that 79% of Americans of all ages are confident they will be able to retire how and when they want.
Diddiery Santana isn't currently worried about retirement. She's spending three months living abroad as a college senior.
"I'm currently in Spain doing an internship with the Institute of Film Madrid," she said.
It's a trip she never would've taken without living through the pandemic.
"My family, they are workaholics. It's in our blood. It just it is how it is," Santana said.
Santana said her family didn't take a lot of vacations growing up. They were too busy building their American dream. Her parents immigrated from Mexico and saved up to open a restaurant.
"I would spend more days at the restaurant than probably in my own house, and it's always been us four always together, just trying to push each other through," Santana said.
Pushing through meant saving every penny to keep the restaurant running. They also taught Santana how to pay her way through college.
"I knew that they, personally, were not going to be able to pay for my college, you know, like other classmates were like, 'Don't worry about it.' No, I did have to worry about it. So, I've always had the mentality of needing to save," she said.
The pandemic flipped that mindset upside down.
"So many of us have lost so much, you know, and besides losing loved ones, we lost so much time, you know, and it hurts. And it's so sad just to realize how drained we are," said Santana. So, she decided to stop losing time. She took her entire rainy-day fund and cashed it in for a summer interning and traveling in Europe.
"Life doesn't stop. So I'm like, if I had the opportunity to do it now, I'm going to do it," said Santana.
"Since the pandemic, we've noticed a surge of younger clientele with more of a focus on work-life balance," said Steven Harp, CEO and founder of the Colorado Wealth Group. "So what we are doing in the last couple of years is helping people create a plan to kind of hit a couple of different marks. So we've got to hit these short-term goals of travel and new homes and different spending patterns, as well as not forgetting about the long-term goals as well."
Harp said he was comforted by the Fidelity report that found many Americans do have a plan or will plan for retirement eventually. He claims sentiment is less negative than in other times of turmoil.
"I didn't catch that 'everyone's panicking.' You know, this is very different than, you know, back in 2008, 2009, 2010," Harp said.
He's teaching his clients that, with a financial plan, they can save for retirement and do small things to enjoy life in the present—no matter their budget.
"There's room for the savings, and there's still room for the entertainment or the enjoyment, and there might be a couple of small sacrifices along the way, but you just kind of put everything in the scale and take your choices along the way," said Harp.
"It doesn't take a big trip. It does not need to be, 'Go across the country.' But, go to that concert, you know, that baking class, whatever it is. Find your happiness in anything around you," said Santana.
Santana decided saving for retirement is not her number one priority right now, but that could change in the future.
"You know, some of us are being irresponsible, have no idea how to handle their money. And that's just the way they do it. But then, there are some of us where, you know, this is this is the moment that we've been waiting for for so long, and retirement's going to come when it needs to come," said Santana.
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They are the bane of summertime existence: Mosquitoes, eager to bite anytime. Not only are they an itchy nuisance — they carry diseases.
In 2020, the CDC reported “dramatic” increases in illnesses spread by mosquitoes and other blood feeders. Scientists are finding malaria and dengue emerging in previously unaffected areas.
Climate change has extended the mosquito season in some areas, and that’s factoring into surging demand for professional yard spraying.
But there’s a potential downside to yard-wide treatments.
According to the journal Biological Conservation, more than 40% of insect species worldwide are threatened with extinction. That includes pollinator bees and butterflies.
"If you're using a toxic chemical that's toxic to certain types of species like insects, you might expect to see some collateral damage," said John Meeker, an environmental health sciences professor at University of Michigan.
There’s also been a decrease of predators. Three billion North American birds have been lost in recent decades, mostly consisting of insect eaters.
Some companies offer natural alternatives for mosquito control, like water mixed with essential oils from plants like lemongrass, garlic and peppermint.
"One of our dogs likes to eat wood chips from the landscaping," said Marty Marino, who is trying natural mosquito repellents. "I haven't figured out how to stop that yet, but if he's going to do that and there's the synthetic insecticide on it, that's a great concern."
Experts say homeowners can also avoid the unwanted effects of chemicals by using simpler solutions, like emptying stagnant water sources and using electric fans to keep the pests away.
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NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers since it began nearly six months ago, a general said, and the fighting Monday showed no signs that the war is abating.
At a veteran's event, Ukraine's military chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said many of Ukraine's children need to be taken care of because "their father went to the front line and, perhaps, is one of those almost 9,000 heroes who died."
In Nikopol, across the river from Ukraine's main nuclear power plant, Russian shelling wounded four people Monday, an official said. The city on the Dnieper River has faced relentless pounding since July 12 that has damaged 850 buildings and sent about half its population of 100,000 fleeing.
"I feel hate towards Russians," said 74-year-old Liudmyla Shyshkina, standing on the edge of her destroyed fourth-floor apartment in Nikopol that no longer has walls. She is still injured from the Aug. 10 blast that killed her 81-year-old husband, Anatoliy.
"The Second World War didn't take away my father, but the Russian war did," noted Pavlo Shyshkin, his son.
The U.N. says 5,587 civilians have been killed and 7,890 wounded in the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24, although the estimate is likely an undercount. The U.N. children's agency said Monday that at least 972 Ukrainian children have been killed or injured since Russia invaded. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said these are U.N.-verified figures but "we believe the number to be much higher."
U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of Britain, France and Germany pleaded Sunday for Russia to end military operations so close to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant — Europe's largest — but Nikopol came under fire three times overnight from rockets and mortar shells. Houses, a kindergarten, a bus station and stores were hit, authorities said.
There are widespread fears that continued shelling and fighting in the area could lead to a nuclear catastrophe. Russia has asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to discuss the situation.
Vladimir Rogov, an official with the Russia-installed administration of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, said Monday that because of the shelling, staffing at the nuclear plant has been cut, with only skeletal personnel remaining to maintain its operations.
Monday's announcement of the scope of Ukraine's military dead stands in contrast to estimates given by Russia's military, which last gave an update on March 25 when it said 1,351 Russian troops were killed during the first month of fighting. U.S. military officials estimated two weeks ago that Russia has lost between 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers, both killed and wounded in action.
On Monday though, Moscow turned its attention to one specific civilian death.
Russia blamed Ukrainian spy agencies for the weekend car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow that killed the daughter of a far-right Russian nationalist who ardently supports the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's Federal Security Service, the main successor to the KGB, said Monday the killing was "prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services." It charged that the bombing that killed 29-year-old TV commentator Darya Dugina, whose father, political theorist Alexander Dugin, is often referred to as "Putin's brain," was carried out by a Ukrainian citizen who left Russia for Estonia quickly afterward.
Ukrainian officials have vehemently denied any involvement in the car bombing. Estonian officials say Russia has not asked them to look for the alleged bomber or even spoken to them about the bombing.
On the front lines, the Ukraine military said it carried out a strike on a key bridge over the Dnieper River in the Russian-occupied Kherson region. Local Russia-installed officials said the strike killed two people Monday and wounded 16 others.
Photos on social media showed thick plumes of smoke rising over the Antonivskiy Bridge, an important supply route for the Russian military in Kherson.
On the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, anxiety has been spreading following a spate of fires and explosions at Russian facilities over the past two weeks. The Russian-backed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, ordered that signs showing the location of bomb shelters be placed in the city, which had long seemed untouchable.
Razvozhaev said on Telegram that the city is well-protected but "it is better to know where the shelters are."
Sevastopol, the Crimean port that is the home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, has seen a series of drone attacks. A drone exploded at the fleet's headquarters on July 31, and another was shot down over it last week. Authorities said air-defense systems have shot down other drones as well.
On Monday evening, Sevastopol residents reported hearing loud explosions on social media. Razvozhaev said the air-defense system had shot down "an object ... at high altitude, that's why the sound was heard in different parts of the cities."
"Preliminary (conclusion) is that it is, again, a drone," he wrote on Telegram.
Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't directly mention the war during a speech Monday marking National Flag Day but echoed some of the justifications cited for the invasion.
"We are firm in pursuing in the international arena only those policies that meet the fundamental interests of the motherland," Putin said. He maintains that Russia sent troops into Ukraine to protect its people against the encroaching West.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Various zones of unsettled conditions are in the eastern side of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. One tropical wave west of the Cape Verde Islands is battling against nearby dry air, which is affecting its development efforts. In the long-term, there's a modest chance for it to emerge from the dry environment and gather some strength toward the end of the week as it continues its west movement over open waters.
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Moscow: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it has detained an Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber who was plotting a terror attack in India.
In a statement, the FSB said that the IS terrorist was plotting the "attack against a member of India's elite leadership", reports Sputnik News Agency.
It further said the alleged suicide bomber was identified as "a native of a country in the Central Asian region, who planned to commit a terrorist act by blowing himself up against one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India".
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Border Patrol officers discover 1.5 million fentanyl pills hidden in tractor trailer
NOGALEZ, Ariz. (AZFamily/Gray News) – Border Patrol agents at the border of Arizona and Mexico discovered hundreds of pounds of fentanyl and other drugs hidden in a tractor-trailer, attempting to make its way into the U.S. over the weekend.
Nogales Port Director Michael Humphries said in a tweet that the 18-wheeler trailer and the vehicle traveling with it held 1.57 million fentanyl pills altogether.
Additionally, 100 pounds of cocaine were found along with heroin and fentanyl powder.
Photos added to the tweet showed that the alleged smugglers attempted to hide the drugs from Border agents using metal boxes and trap doors in the vehicle.
This drug bust comes just days after the same port in Arizona intercepted about 15,000 brightly-colored “rainbow fentanyl” pills strapped to a person’s leg.
Many officials are seeing more of this colorful kind of fentanyl, according to a CNN report.
Authorities are worried this new “trend” could be a way of targeting children and teens into trying the drug.
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Amid a summer of sweeping travel-related chaos, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to launch a new website to better arm travelers with information on what they’re owed for flight cancellations and delays.
The DOT is expected to release an interactive dashboard on its Aviation Consumer Protection website by September 2, ahead of the historically busy Labor Day weekend.
The tool is meant to help travelers find easy-to-read, comparative information on what airlines provide to travelers when there is a cancellation or delay, due to circumstances within airlines’ control, per a letter Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sent to the 10 largest U.S. airlines. Disruptions within airlines’ control could include overbooking flights, consolidating or canceling flights with low passenger numbers, staff and flight crew availability, scheduled maintenance and repairs, and flight prep activities, such as cleaning, baggage loading, and fueling.
In the letter, Buttigieg called the level of disruption Americans have experienced this summer “unacceptable.” He also cited data for the first half of 2022, noting that 24 percent of flights originating in the United States had been delayed and another 3.2 percent had been canceled.
Current DOT rules require domestic airlines to offer customers refunds for canceled flights—although what customers are owed for delayed flights is harder to discern (even though the information is federally required to be a part of airlines’ Customer Service Plans).
“When passengers do experience cancellations and delays, they deserve clear and transparent information on the services that your airline will provide, to address the expenses and inconveniences resulting from these disruptions,” Buttigieg said.
At a minimum, the DOT asks that airlines provide meal vouchers for delays of more than three hours and lodging for passengers who have to wait overnight at an airport because of disruptions within a carrier’s control.
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Elliott Collects 2022 Win No. 5
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Kyle Larson edged past teammate Chase Elliott on a restart with five laps to go, held off road-racing ace AJ Allmendinger and went on to get the victory.
It was the Hendrick Motorsports driver’s second of the season.
Larson, the defending Cup champion, swept the weekend at the historic Watkins Glen road course as he also won Saturday’s Xfinity Series event.
He also won a year ago at The Glen.
Allmendinger finished second, .882 seconds back.
Joey Logano of Team Penske was third.
Fourth was Chase Elliott, who appeared to be driving to his fifth victory of the season when two late cautions cost him the win.
Elliott took the lead with 49 laps to go, recaptured it with 19 to go after pitting cycled through, but on the restart with five laps to go was edged out of the lead by Larson.
That was really my only opportunity (to go for the lead), I’m not proud of it,’’ Larson said, “But being in the inside lane, the right lane, being the leader, choosing the left lane, it definitely wins out. But when it gets late in the race, it’s definitely risky.
“I knew that was my only opportunity to get by him. I feel like our cars were pretty equal today. Had a lot of fun after rate green flag cycle trying to chase hi down. Kind of burned my stuff up a little bit.
“But the restarts kept me in it and kept our team in it. I’m proud of my guys. Good to get another win here at Watkins Glen and get some more bonus points going into the Playoffs, we haven’t had a lot here this year.’’
Elliott responded by congratulating Larson.
Daniel Suarez of Trackhouse Racing finished fifth.
The start of the race was pushed back about two hours because of rain and lightening in Upstate New York.
Once it did start, Elliott led the field into the first turn with cars running treaded rain tires. Elliott led the first three laps but surrendered the point to Michael McDowell on Lap 4.
Over the next several laps, the track began to dry and teams began to call their drivers into the pits to change to slick tires.
The first to put on slicks were Chase Briscoe and McDowell. Those two spent the rest of stage one battling for the lead. McDowell continued to contend and finished sixth, Briscoe did not as he finished 25th.
The final race of the regular season is scheduled for next weekend at Daytona International Speedway.
Sunday’s race featured a NASCAR record five foreign drivers. Included in that group was Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen of Finland. He won his F1 title in 2007 while driving for Ferrari.
Raikkonen ran top 10 for a while but was crashed out of the race early in Stage 3. Starting the wreck was Ross Chastain, who punted Austin Dillon.
Also driving Cup cars at The Glen were Kyle Tilley of England, Daniil Kvyat of Russia, Loris Hezemans of Holland and Mike Rockenfeller of Germany.
(This story will be updated shortly)
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NASCAR Cup Series Race – 36th Annual Go Bowling at The Glen
Watkins Glen International
Watkins Glen, New York
Sunday, August 21, 2022
- (2) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 90.
- (6) AJ Allmendinger(i), Chevrolet, 90.
- (20) Joey Logano, Ford, 90.
- (1) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 90.
- (9) Daniel Suarez, Chevrolet, 90.
- (3) Michael McDowell, Ford, 90.
- (5) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 90.
- (38) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 90.
- (7) Chris Buescher, Ford, 90.
- (31) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 90.
- (29) Cole Custer, Ford, 90.
- (24) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 90.
- (8) Austin Cindric #, Ford, 90.
- (11) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 90.
- (21) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet, 90.
- (28) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 90.
- (12) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 90.
- (13) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 90.
- (15) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 90.
- (22) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 90.
- (18) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 90.
- (4) William Byron, Chevrolet, 90.
- (25) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 90.
- (26) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 90.
- (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 90.
- (16) Ty Gibbs(i), Toyota, 90.
- (32) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 90.
- (30) Harrison Burton #, Ford, 90.
- (35) Aric Almirola, Ford, 90.
- (33) Mike Rockenfeller, Chevrolet, 90.
- (17) Joey Hand, Ford, 90.
- (10) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 89.
- (34) Loris Hezemans(i), Ford, 89.
- (39) Cody Ware, Ford, 88.
- (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, Suspension, 83.
- (36) Daniil Kvyat, Toyota, 58.
- (27) Kimi Raikkonen, Chevrolet, Accident, 44.
- (19) Todd Gilliland #, Ford, Rear End, 28.
- (37) Kyle Tilley, Ford, Steering, 15.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 95.962 mph.
Time of Race: 2 Hrs, 17 Mins, 52 Secs. Margin of Victory: .882 Seconds.
Caution Flags: 5 for 11 laps.
Lead Changes: 12 among 9 drivers.
Lap Leaders: C. Elliott 1-3;M. McDowell 4-11;T. Reddick 12-13;C. Elliott 14-15;C. Briscoe 16-22;T. Gilliland # 23-27;J. Logano 28-42;M. McDowell 43-48;C. Elliott 49-58;C. Custer 59-65;A. Dillon 66-71;C. Elliott 72-85;K. Larson 86-90.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Chase Elliott 4 times for 29 laps; Joey Logano 1 time for 15 laps; Michael McDowell 2 times for 14 laps; Chase Briscoe 1 time for 7 laps; Cole Custer 1 time for 7 laps; Austin Dillon 1 time for 6 laps; Todd Gilliland # 1 time for 5 laps; Kyle Larson 1 time for 5 laps; Tyler Reddick 1 time for 2 laps.
Stage #1 Top Ten: 14,8,99,38,1,22,42,34,18,16
Stage #2 Top Ten: 22,18,34,9,42,15,17,5,41,20
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‘Dinger After Great Run At The Glen: Today We Earned It
By Deb Williams | Senior Writer
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – For two straight days at Watkins Glen International, A.J. Allmendinger saw the same thing at the checkered flag – the rear of Kyle Larson’s Chevrolet.
He finished 0.882 second behind Larson’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen, a day after placing 0.273 second in arrears to the California native in Saturday’s Sunoco Go Rewards 200 NASCAR Xfinity event.
“Finishing second sucks,” Allmendinger said emphatically. “But when it’s Kyle Larson, if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, he’s the most bad ass driver on the planet now. I don’t care what you put him in. It’s tough finishing second to him, but we were there.
“Yesterday (Saturday) we kinda got gifted a second place. Today (Sunday) we earned it.”
Allmendinger didn’t become a victory contender until the final five laps in Sunday’s 90-lap race. A spin on lap 2 after a tag by Austin Cindric forced Allmendinger to play catchup the rest of the race.
“We had to fight hard and use all of the strategy,” said Allmendinger, who talked briefly with Cindric following the event. “Honestly, it was probably one of the most fun race cars I have ever driven in my life. The thing was hooked up.”
When the green flag waved on the final Stage, Allmendinger sat seventh. By the time the race’s fourth caution period began with 10 laps remaining, the masterful road racer sat fourth. Another yellow flag four laps later provided Allmendinger with the opportunity he needed to make a victory bid.
When the race restarted with five laps remaining, Chase Elliott led, Larson was second and Allmendinger possessed third. The field charged down the hill and into turn one. When Larson and Elliott collided, Larson grabbed the lead and Allmendinger charged into second. Larson never led by more than a second and with two laps remaining Allmendinger had cut the deficit to 0.489 second. However, he couldn’t move any closer and once again had to settle for the runner-up position.
“We were pretty equal, it was just on different parts of the race track,” Allmendinger said. “I could really get close to him kinda through the Bus Stop and then I was a little bit too loose the last half of the race track. I was pushing hard.
“These cars get aero sensitive and that’s why I thought if I could get in front of him, I would probably be good. I just got loose behind him. I got pretty close to him in the Carousel, and it got me really loose. He was really good the second half of the race track so we were just kinda stringing each other back and forth. He really doesn’t make mistakes, so I knew I was going to have to get to him to have a shot. Two really fast cars like that, it’s hard to get to the bumper. I did everything I could. I wouldn’t change anything I did.
“It is what it is. We had a shot to win a Cup race so you can’t be too pissed off about it.”
NASCAR’s Cup and Xfinity series move to Daytona Beach next weekend with the event concluding the Cup Series regular season.
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Kiely Rodni Case: Missing California 16-Year-Old Likely Found Dead by Volunteer Divers in Submerged Car
Kiely's car was discovered by civilian volunteers from a nationally renowned search team called Adventures with Purpose. They spoke to Inside Edition about their search efforts.
A body discovered by volunteer divers inside a submerged car is likely that of a 16-year-old northern California girl who went missing two weeks ago, authorities said Monday.
Kiely Rodni was last seen alive as she was leaving a campground party near Lake Tahoe, a few hundred yards from the reservoir where the body was found. The party was attended by an estimated 300 other young people.
“We have located a decedent inside the vehicle. We believe it’s our missing person," Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said at a press conference.
Law enforcement spent two weeks and 20,000 man hours searching in vain for the 16-year-old, including the use of police divers, who probed the very reservoir where the body was found.
But Kiely's car and the body were discovered by civilian volunteers from a nationally renowned search team called Adventures with Purpose.
“It's an honor to be able to provide answers for families and law enforcement agencies, and we couldn’t imagine doing anything else,” diver Doug Bishop said.
“It's not necessarily that our technology is better [than police], it's that we use it more often and that's literally what we specialize in,” diver Nick Rinn said.
Local police also addressed why they did not find Kiely’s body when they searched the reservoir the first time.
“How did we not find it when we were searching? The lake was extensively searched, with sight sonar, with an ROV, we had divers, we had swimmers,” Capt. Sam Brown said.
Adventures with Purpose says they have solved 23 cold cases since 2019 — mainly missing persons, finally bringing closure to families that have waited decades for a resolution.
Kiely's case received national attention after fears she'd been abducted. The teen texted her mom around 11:30 p.m. to say she was heading home from the campground party.
Moon said it was still a “very active investigation.”
It’s unclear whether foul play was involved or it was just a tragic accident.
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North Carolina Couple Charged With First-Degree Murder After Baby's Remains Are Found Buried In Backyard
After a family member provided a tip to the police, Dustin Vandyke, 28, and Gracie Riddle, 18, have been charged in the murder of their child, who authorities suspect has been dead since November of last year.
A North Carolina couple is being charged in connection to the murder of their baby after the child was found buried in their backyard, according to local reports.
According to local outlet CBS 11, Dustin Vandyke, 28, and Gracie Riddle, 18, have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of their child.
Local police received a tip on Friday night from a family member of the couple about an unreported death on Moulton Spring Road in Erwin, North Carolina, according to local outlet WRAL.
According to the outlet, authorities believe this person knew about the incident prior to calling it in, but is just now coming forward.
“This person, and I’m sure there’s other people with knowledge of the incident through word of mouth or whatever, I think this person just finally got to a point where their conscious got to them and they decided they needed to talk about it and tell someone. And that’s how we initially got the report,” Johnson said to the outlet.
According to CBS 11, that night authorities obtained a warrant, interviewed several people in the area, and searched Vandyke and Riddle’s home.
A cadaver dog was used to aid in their investigation, and the K-9s helped find the remains of the baby’s decomposed body in the couple's backyard, according to ABC 11.
According to outlet WRAL, authorities believe the baby died around Thanksgiving of 2021 when he or she was a newborn.
“Anytime you’re dealing with a death or homicide, it’s sad for everyone involved,” Erwin Police Chief Jonathan Johnson said to CBS 11.
According to the outlet, the sex of the baby is currently known and the death does not appear to be accidental.
“You just never know what somebody is going through or why somebody would do the things they do. You just have to be vigilant and report anything suspicious.”
A neighbor spoke with WTDV and said, "Where the child was buried, there was a lawn mower that sat there for a long time. And it was a nice lawn mower, but it never moved. We just figured that something was wrong with it. And it was just sitting there. Now the lawn mower moved in the last month, so now this child is uncovered.”
According to the outlet, Vandyke and Riddle saw a judge on Monday. The couple will be appointed a public defender, and their next court appearance is scheduled for September 6, and they will remain in jail without bond.
Local reports say officials are waiting on autopsy results for an official cause of death.
According to KKTV, Johnson says this is an isolated incident and there is no danger to the public.
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Pilot Crashes Into Florida Neighborhood After Running Out of Fuel
“It was pilot error. Just trying to do too much, rushing, a big mistake. I have more than 10,000 hours, and I’ve never run out of fuel, so I’m embarrassed,” Remy Colin says. The pilot only suffered minor scratching and bruising, and no one else was hurt.
A pilot says he’s “embarrassed,” but lucky to be alive after running out of fuel and crash-landing into a Florida neighborhood.
Shocking video shows the single engine Cessna skidding and slamming into a driveway in Orlando.
“It was pilot error. Just trying to do too much, rushing, a big mistake. I have more than 10,000 hours, and I’ve never run out of fuel, so I’m embarrassed,” Remy Colin told Inside Edition.
“I said, ‘Mayday, mayday, I’m going down.’ I said, ‘I’m probably going to die,’ so the best solution there was to let the plane stall. It slowed my fall enough that I didn’t die, and I was able to bounce to put in the trees and not hurt anyone else,” Colin said.
Colin only suffered minor scratches and bruises. He says he’s ready to get back in the sky.
“Maybe I became a little complacent, so it was a big eye opener for me. Trust me, I learned a lot from that mistake,” Colin said.
The FAA and NTSB are investigating the crash.
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U.S. Coast Guard Rescues 19 Migrants From Boat in Distress off Los Angeles Coast
“This case highlights the inherent risks posed to migrants attempting to enter the United States by sea and the dynamic nature of our operations,” Capt. Ryan Manning said in a statement.
A rescue crew saved 19 migrants from a boat off the Los Angeles coast, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Aug. 20.
The Los Angeles-Long Beach Coast Guard received a call from a good Samaritan reporting a disabled panga-style vessel in distress off the coast of Redondo Beach, the Boast Guard said in a press release.
A helicopter rescue crew from Air Station San Diego was able to locate the boat 18 miles west of Redondo Beach, according to the Coast Guard.
The 19 migrants on the boat were rescued and transferred to safety, the Coast Guard said.
The disable vessel was towed to the Los Angeles-Long Beach Coast Guard Base where Customs and Border Protection agents will process the people on board and Air and Marine Operations seize the vessel, the Coast Guard said.
“This case highlights the inherent risks posed to migrants attempting to enter the United States by sea and the dynamic nature of our operations,” Capt. Ryan Manning, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach, said in the statement.
“The Coast Guard and our local partners responded to a report of a vessel in distress and, after ensuring the safety of everyone involved, shifted to enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. The Coast Guard routinely patrols the California coastline to combat illegal migration and ensure the safety of all people on the water.”
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Complaint Seeks Various Forms of Relief to Prevent Ms. Bryant from Continuing to Cause Harm to the Organization
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC, Inc. (d/b/a Black Girls CODE) ("BGC") today brought a legal action against its former Chief Executive Officer, Kimberly Bryant (the "Complaint") in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The filing of the Complaint follows the decision by the BGC Board of Directors on August 12 to terminate Ms. Bryant from her role as CEO and remove her as a member of the Board.
The Complaint alleges that Ms. Bryant took a series of inappropriate actions following her termination, including the unlawful hijacking of the BGC website and redirecting site visitors to her own website, which makes several false and misleading statements. BGC is currently taking action to restore its web presence and, in the meantime, is providing information to interested parties via its Twitter account, @BlackGirlsCODE. The Complaint seeks various forms of relief to prevent Ms. Bryant from continuing to cause harm to the organization.
Notwithstanding these distractions, BGC has never been in a stronger position. The organization has served more girls this summer than ever before, with several two-week summer camp programs for girls across the country, including in New York City, Oakland, Detroit, and Atlanta. In addition to learning to code, students learned important leadership and teamwork skills through group activities such as coding challenges and explored Black artists and other important representative figures of inspiration. BGC continues to thrive and remains focused on delivering on its mission for the girls it was founded to serve.
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Since 2011, BGC has been committed to providing girls from underrepresented communities access to technology and the 21st century skills necessary to become tech leaders. BGC's organizational vision is to increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology.
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- EBITDA OF $5.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- ADJUSTED EBITDA OF $9.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- NET LOSS OF $19.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- EBITDA OF $29.7 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- ADJUSTED EBITDA OF $33.6 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- NET INCOME OF $2.1 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- COMPANY REITERATES THAT IT EXPECTS TO OPEN 20 NEW FACILITIES BY THE END OF 2024
HOUSTON, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutex Health Inc. ("Nutex Health" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NUTX), a physician-led, technology-enabled integrated healthcare delivery system comprised of 21 state-of-the-art micro hospitals in 8 states and primary care-centric, risk-bearing physician networks, today announced fiscal year 2022 2nd Quarter financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and the filing of its current report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022 ("10-Q") with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited):
- Net revenue of $58.0 million.
- Net loss attributable to Nutex Health of $19.4 million. In Q2, the Company recognized a one-time non-cash charge of $18.4 million, net to income tax expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 for the change in tax status of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and release of acquired valuation allowance of Clinigence. Additionally, the Company recognized one-time acquisition expenses of $3.9 million related to the merger of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and Clinigence Holdings, Inc. Please read "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our 10-Q.
- EBITDA of $5.4 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $9.4 million.
- As of June 30, 2022, the Company had total assets of $871.8 million, including cash and cash equivalents of $47.6 million.
Financial Highlights for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited):
- Net revenue of $137.2 million.
- Net income attributable to Nutex Health of $2.1 million.
- EBITDA of $29.7 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $33.6 million.
Note: EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial metrics. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures is included below in this earnings release.
Notes to the Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2022:
- Clinigence Holdings, Inc. and Nutex Health Holdco LLC completed their merger on April 1, 2022. Therefore, the Second Quarter 2022 financial results reflect the consolidated financial results of post-merger Clinigence Holdings, Inc. and Nutex Health Holdco LLC.
- The Company recognized a one-time non-cash charge of $18.4 million, net to income tax expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 for the change in tax status of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and release of acquired valuation allowance for Clinigence. Prior to the merger with Clinigence, Nutex Health Holdco LLC and the Nutex Subsidiaries were pass-through entities treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes. No provision for federal income taxes was provided for these periods as federal taxes were obligations of these companies' members. After the merger, Nutex Health Holdco LLC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clinigence and will be included in its future consolidated corporate tax filings.
- The Company anticipates opening 20 new facilities by the end of 2024. These facilities are either under construction or in advanced planning stages. Three are expected to open in late 2022, with another 17 expected to open in 2023 and 2024. There can be no assurance that these new facilities will open in the anticipated timeframes or that they will open at all.
"In the second quarter, our management team focused on integrating our two companies post-merger," stated Jon Bates, Chief Financial Officer of Nutex Health. "We believe this integration has now been substantially completed."
"We are very proud of the hard work of our physicians, nurses, hospital staff and corporate staff to get to this stage. We continue our efforts to grow the Company while providing the best patient care possible. This philosophy dictates all of our decision making as an organization," stated Tom Vo, M.D., MBA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nutex Health. "We are also excited about our pipeline of new facilities which are either under construction or in advanced planning stages throughout the country."
"The Company has formed two new independent practice associations (IPAs), one in Houston and one in South Florida. We are actively working on contracting with primary care physicians as well as specialists. Once this phase is completed, the Company expects to contract with health insurance plans and start enrolling patients in 2023," stated Warren Hosseinion, M.D., President of Nutex Health. "We believe that our unique integrated model which combines our cloud-based data analytics platform, micro hospitals and IPAs will create long-term value for our shareholders."
For more details on the Company's Second Quarter 2022 financial results, please refer to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and accessible at www.sec.gov.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are used as supplemental non-GAAP financial measures by management and external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies. We believe EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful because these measures allow us to more effectively evaluate our operating performance.
We define EBITDA as net income plus net interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and Adjusted EBITDA is further adjusted for stock-based compensation and any acquisition related costs. A reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is included below. Neither EBITDA nor Adjusted EBITDA is intended to serve as an alternative to U.S. GAAP measures of performance and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies.
About Nutex Health Inc.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded in 2011, Nutex Health Inc. is a physician-led, technology-enabled healthcare services company with approximately 1500 employees nationwide and is partnered with over 800 physicians. The Company has two divisions: a Hospital division and a Population Health Management division. The Hospital division currently owns and operates 21 facilities in eight different states. The division implements and operates different innovative health care models, including micro hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). The Population Health Management division owns and operates provider networks such as Independent Physician Associations (IPAs). Through our Management Services Organizations (MSOs), we provide management, administrative and other support services to our affiliated hospitals and physician groups. Our cloud-based proprietary technology platform aggregates clinical and claims data across multiple settings, information systems and sources to create a holistic view of patients and providers, allowing us to deliver greater quality care more efficiently.
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New Series FAST: HOME RESCUE Follows Disaster-Relief Organization, Reach Out Worldwide Founded by the Late Paul Walker, FAST & FURIOUS Franchise Star
ATLANTA, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Weather Channel television network announced a brand new rescue and recovery series, FAST: HOME RESCUE. The show follows families whose lives have been devastated by severe weather and natural disasters, and helps them rebuild stronger than before. In partnership with Reach Out Worldwide (ROWW) – a disaster relief organization founded by the late Paul Walker, star of the Fast & Furious franchise – The Weather Channel works with Cody and Felicia Walker – Paul's brother and sister-in-law and the current leaders of ROWW – to rebuild homes in the most devastated communities.
In FAST: HOME RESCUE, married couple Cody and Felicia Walker lead a team of first-responders, military veterans and construction and design professionals who augment local expertise to accelerate relief efforts. Each episode features a different deserving family and each build happens in just five days. FAST: HOME RESCUE premieres, Saturday, September 17 at 8 p.m. ET on The Weather Channel.
"The new series, FAST: HOME RESCUE is at the intersection of extreme weather events and home renovation. This transformative show reveals the destructive nature of tornadoes, fires and floods, while highlighting the powerful recovery stories of each family," said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group, parent company of The Weather Channel/Weather Group. "Viewers will experience many emotions during the 1-hour episodes, from heartbreak, to surprise, to heart-warming moments of triumph. There's no network better equipped to tell these survivors' stories than The Weather Channel."
This new series, FAST: HOME RESCUE will feature marquee advertising sponsors, including P&G brands Tide and Charmin as well as Ford and Allstate. Tide Loads of Hope initiative, which helps communities wash and get clean clothes after natural disasters, is featured as well as Charmin's Sustainability initiative Protect, Grow and Restore forests. Within an episode, Charmin highlights the restore pillar focusing on their partnership with Arbor Day Foundation to restore 1 million trees in areas that have been devastated by natural disasters by 2025. Ford will debut their new F-150 Lightning throughout the series, highlighting the Lightning's charging features that can assist homeowners affected by power outages during extreme weather events. Allstate will educate homeowners on the best ways to protect their home against the threat of extreme weather and natural disasters before and after the storm through branded content segments that align to their new brand creative.
FAST: HOME RESCUE is produced by Fight or Flight Studios and is executive produced by Rob Hill, Noah Mark and Sam Wasserman. Noah Mark also serves as showrunner. Episodes of FAST: HOME RESCUE will be available to watch on-demand after airing on broadcast via The Weather Channel's Connected Television (CTV) app. The Weather Channel CTV app is available on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Roku, Samsung, and Xfinity Flex.
Since its launch 40 years ago, The Weather Channel television network has become the top-rated and most widely distributed weather network in America. The Weather Channel television network has been the leader in severe weather coverage, providing the most comprehensive analysis of any media outlet and serving as the nation's only 24-hour source of national storm coverage. With trusted meteorologists who analyze, forecast and report the weather, its expertise is unrivaled. In 2021 and 2019, The Weather Channel won Emmy Awards for its innovative Immersive Mixed Reality technology which is changing the standard in weather presentation. The Weather Channel CTV app is available on Amazon Fire TV and Android TV and will be coming soon to Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Vizio, and Xfinity Flex. For more information visit: www.weathergroup.com.
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KENNEWICK, Wash.-
Around 10:25 a.m. Kennewick Police Officers responded to a person slumped over in a car at the Circle K on Deschutes Boulevard.
Officers checked the individual and saw a gun.
When police attempted to remove the individual from the car they fled towards the Village at Grandridge Apartments at 425 N. Columbia Center Boulevard.
According to Lieutenant Jason Erickson with the Benton County Sheriff's Office, shots were fired and the individual who ran from the police is currently in the hospital.
It is unclear who fired first. The Special Investigative Unit (SIU) has been called in to investigate. The Citizens Review Board will assist in the investigation.
This is a developing story. We will have updates as more information becomes available. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/bcso-investigating-officer-involved-shooting/article_a24cefb6-224f-11ed-82ab-f73d9854337e.html | 2022-08-22T22:47:02Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/bcso-investigating-officer-involved-shooting/article_a24cefb6-224f-11ed-82ab-f73d9854337e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jesse Love won a chaotic-ending Atlas 100 at Illinois State Fairgrounds on Sunday afternoon. The event featured only a practice session prior to the race as crews worked the one-mile dirt oval all morning due to overnight rains. The lineup of 21 cars was set based on 2022 owner points.
Love, piloting the No. 20 JBL Toyota, led all 73 of the completed laps to score his second career ARCA Menards Series victory. In nine races the 17-year-old has 12 top five and seven top 10 finishes in ARCA’s premiere series.
Love, while concerned about the conditions of Kofoid and Haugeberg, mentioned he always looked up to Kofoid growing up and mentioned how it was an honor to beat him on track.
“I’m really grateful that Buddy is alright,” Love said. “That was wicked, and I don’t think any of us saw the lapped car [of Haugeberg], but thankfully he is alright [as well]. Buddy was my favorite dirt driver growing up, and I’ve always looked up to him, so it’s an honor to beat him today.”
Buddy Kofoid was credited with the runner-up despite being involved in a scary crash with Bryce Haugeberg on what was eventually the final lap. Both Kofoid and Haugeberg walked away.
“I’ll probably be sore over the next few days,” Kofoid said. “Even when I was two [car-lengths] behind Jesse, I couldn’t see him. Having windshields makes [seeing] kind of tough, and the glare makes it 10 times worse. I’m glad [Haugeberg] is alright, and I can only assume what happened [with him], but it’s just unfortunate.”
Due to local restrictions with a nearby concert, ARCA had to conclude the race no later than 5:00 p.m. ET. Unfortunately given where the Kofoid and Haugeberg crash happened in the timing of things, it ultimately ended the race.
2020 race winner Ryan Unzicker took home the third position after starting 20th. The driver overcame a spin in turn four on lap 18.
Sammy Smith and Nick Sanchez rounded out the top five.
Rajah Caruth, Daniel Dye, Taylor Gray, Ken Schrader and Bryce Haugeberg took home top 10s.
Nick Sanchez leaves Illinois State Fairgrounds leading the driver points by 11 points over Daniel Dye. Caruth, Greg Van Alst, and Toni Breidinger sit top five in points.
The next race for the series will be August 28th at Milwaukee Mile for the Sprecher 150. Coverage of that event will air live on MAVTV and FloRacing. | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72267-arca-jesse-love-wins-chaotic-ending-atlas-100-at-illinois-state-fairgrounds | 2022-08-22T22:47:07Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/72267-arca-jesse-love-wins-chaotic-ending-atlas-100-at-illinois-state-fairgrounds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PASCO, Wash.-
The Downtown Pasco Authority (DPDA) is proud to announce that the Fiery Foods Festival will take place on Saturday, September, 10th, from 3-9 p.m.
The Fiery Foods Festival is a cross-cultural event featuring food, fun, music, and hot and spicy food from around the globe. It has been a Pasco tradition since 1989
The Fiery Foods Festival will be held at the Farmers Market Pavilion on the corner of 3rd and Lewis in downtown Pasco at 109 S. 4th Ave. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fiery-foods-festival-returns-to-downtown-pasco-in-september/article_aecef574-2257-11ed-8ef3-1fbec3f4547a.html | 2022-08-22T22:47:08Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/fiery-foods-festival-returns-to-downtown-pasco-in-september/article_aecef574-2257-11ed-8ef3-1fbec3f4547a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
State Department: Rodman's Russia plans could "hinder" Griner's release
The State Department said Monday that it is discouraging former NBA player Dennis Rodman from visiting Russia in a bid to help free WNBA star Brittney Griner.
Why it matters: Rodman has a history of conducting informal diplomacy on the U.S.'s behalf and said over the weekend that he "got permission to go to Russia" to help Griner, whom the U.S. has declared as wrongfully detained. She is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence after being convicted on drug charges.
- The State Department is warning that any such visit would only "complicate and hinder" the U.S.'s efforts to secure Griner's release.
What they're saying: "We put forward a substantial proposal to Russia to seek the freedom of Paul Whelan or Brittney Griner," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a press briefing Monday.
- "We believe that anything other than negotiating further through the established channel is likely to complicate and hinder those release efforts."
- Price, who emphasized that Rodman would not represent the U.S. government if he did go to Russia, noted that the administration continues to advise U.S. citizens against traveling to Russia due to concern about wrongful detentions and the country's invasion of Ukraine.
The big picture: Russia confirmed earlier this month that it is negotiating with the U.S. regarding a possible prisoner swap deal that would secure the freedom of Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan.
- Griner's legal team has also filed an appeal against the verdict reached this month by a Russian court. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/brittney-griner-dennis-rodman-russia | 2022-08-22T22:48:49Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/brittney-griner-dennis-rodman-russia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HBO Max crashes with "The House of the Dragon" release
Feverish interest in the first "Game of Thrones" spinoff "House of the Dragon" crashed the HBO Max app for thousands of people in the U.S. on Sunday night.
Why it matters: Downtime on series release days has become commonplace as people now spend more time streaming TV content than watching it through cable.
- Netflix crashed when the platform released the last two episodes of "Stranger Things 4" in July.
- HBO notably has experienced the issue in past years with "Game of Thrones" and "True Detective" on its HBO Go app.
Details: There were more than 3,300 reported outages at around 9 p.m. on the East Coast when "House of the Dragon" debuted, based on Downdetector data.
- On Twitter and Reddit, streamers mentioned having specific issues on Amazon's Fire TV platform and Fire Stick.
What they're saying: "'House of the Dragon' was successfully viewed by millions of HBO Max subscribers last night. A small portion of users attempting to connect via Fire TV devices had issues and we worked directly with impacted users to get them into the platform," HBO said in a statement.
- HBO Max also recently rolled out new versions of its apps as part of an upgrade to its tech platform.
- Axios has reached out to Amazon for comment.
Our thought bubble: There are many layers to the technology infrastructure of streaming services — which means there are many potential points of failure when a platform is strained by heavy demand, Axios technology editors Scott Rosenberg and Peter Allen Clark write.
- Many different companies — including cloud service providers, content delivery network providers, and smart-TV front-ends like Roku, Chromecast or Apple TV — are responsible for the chain that brings streaming content from its owner to your eyes. That means they can all point fingers at one another when there's a problem. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/hbo-max-crash-house-of-the-dragon-streaming | 2022-08-22T22:49:07Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/hbo-max-crash-house-of-the-dragon-streaming | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Meme stock lifelines show signs of fragility: AMC and Bed Bath & Beyond suddenly plunging
Companies that look like they had a new lease on life courtesy of the meme stock movement are suddenly being forced to ponder their prospects without retail traders backing them up.
Why it matters: The meme stock boom that started in early 2021 has bolstered struggling companies like AMC Entertainment, Bed Bath & Beyond and GameStop, boosting their stocks and giving them hope of a new tomorrow. But being a meme stock darling could be fickle business.
Driving the news: Shares of AMC and Bed Bath plummeted Monday as markets absorbed negative news related to each company.
- AMC closed down more than 41%, while Bed Bath fell over 16% in a continuation of a sharp downward slide that began last week.
- With the prospect of raising money from equity markets diminishing, Bed Bath is now reportedly under growing stress to find access to capital from already skeptical credit markets.
State of play: AMC's biggest competitor, Regal parent company Cineworld, confirmed that it could file for bankruptcy after the pandemic hammered movie ticket sales.
- Meanwhile, new "AMC preferred equity" shares (APE) were issued to existing shareholders Monday in a maneuver designed to bolster interest in the stock that could nonetheless have a dilutive effect on the movie theater chain's shares.
- "The special dividend seems to be in keeping with CEO Adam Aron’s aggressive marketing efforts to appeal to the retail investors who call themselves 'Apes' and have rallied around AMC over the past year and a half," CNBC reported.
Threat level: Plunging stock prices serve a reminder that nothing's changed about the underlying business model for AMC and Bed Bath, which face their own respective crises.
- While AMC has benefited from 2022 blockbuster hits like "Top Gun: Maverick," it's still grappling with the effects of the pandemic and facing stiff competition from movie streaming services like Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max.
- Bed Bath has been floundering for years, facing declining sales as the retailer struggles to prove why it's still a must-stop shop.
Of note: Even Jaime Rogozinski — founder of the WallStreetBets forum, which has fueled meme stock strategies — told Bloomberg Markets last week that he was surprised to see day traders targeting the same-old stocks.
The bottom line: If meme stock traders move on to something or someone else, companies that previously enjoyed their association with meme mania could be left at the altar grasping for momentum. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/meme-stock-ape-amc-bed-bath-beyond | 2022-08-22T22:49:14Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/meme-stock-ape-amc-bed-bath-beyond | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Sunday, Post reporters Susan Edelman and Mary Kay Linge revealed another instance of obscene cronyism at the city Department of Education: Rather than fire ex-principal Oneatha Swinton for what the Special Commissioner of Investigation called her “pattern of dishonesty,” the DOE rewarded her with a fat raise and a cushy $187,000 administrative post.
There’s something seriously amiss with a bureaucracy that refuses to part ways with a discredited educator — especially one who pled guilty to insurance fraud and who inappropriately directed $100,000 in school funds to a vendor (a partner in that insurance scam), among other issues.
The Post revealed Swinton’s insurance scam in November 2017; the DOE axed her as acting principal at Port Richmond HS the next June, five months before her guilty plea landed her three years’ probation.
The SCI flagged yet more rancid behavior. Yet then-Chancellor Richard Carranza ignored SCI’s dismissal recommendation, instead rewarding her with a raise and a plum assignment as a supervisor in the Office of Safety and Youth Development.
Carranza is history, but the insiders who likely sponsored this injustice likely remain. If new Chancellor David Banks is to make good on his pledge to put the kids first, not the adult special interests, he’ll need to find time to get to the bottom of this fetid insider favoritism. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/a-textbook-case-of-nyc-department-of-education-cronyism/ | 2022-08-22T22:50:54Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/a-textbook-case-of-nyc-department-of-education-cronyism/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An off-duty New York City correction officer accused of fatally shooting a Bronx teenager has been indicted on murder and manslaughter charges, officials announced Monday.
Dion Middleton, 45, allegedly fired at 18-year-old Raymond Chaluisant while the teen was sitting in the passenger seat of an Acura near the Cross Bronx Expressway and Morris Avenue on July 21.
An attorney for Middleton previously said the jail guard acted out of fear for his life after he felt a “stinging in his back” and saw a passenger in the car making a hand gesture.
Chaluisant, who was shot in the face, had an Orbeez water-pellet gun on him, police have said.
Middleton pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and first and second-degree manslaughter charges during his arraignment on the indictment in Bronx Supreme Court Monday.
He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted of murder, according to Attorney General Letitia James’ office, which is prosecuting the case.
Justice Denis Boyle continued the prior bail conditions set at $1 million bond or $500,000 cash or credit card. He added that Middleton must wear an ankle monitor if he does make bail, the AG’s office said.
Attorney Joey Jackson has claimed that Middleton opened fire in self-defense.
“Let’s call it what it is, a weapon. It looks real and it’s a weapon that shoots pellets which tend to hurt,” Jackson said of the water-pellet gun during a court hearing last month.
AG prosecutor Justin Siebel, responded at the time that Middleton had admitted that he didn’t see anyone holding a firearm and hadn’t heard shots fired.
“His actions show that he does not intend to and definitely did not intend to at the time take any responsibility for the fact that he had just fired a round,” Siebel said at the time.
Jackson did not immediately return a request for comment Monday. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/co-dion-middleton-indicted-on-murder-manslaughter-charges/ | 2022-08-22T22:51:18Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/co-dion-middleton-indicted-on-murder-manslaughter-charges/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Issue: Gov. Hochul’s order that alleged assaulter Bui Van Phu be arrested for violating parole.
Gov. Hochul’s opponent Rep. Lee Zeldin is closing in, so to trick us all into thinking she’s a law-and-order governor, she ordered Bui Van Phu to be arrested on a parole warrant after the Bronx criminal court released him (“Hochul punches up story,” Aug. 20).
In my day as a New York Parole Officer, this decision would be made at the office level in the region that covered the parolee’s residence by his parole officer, a senior parole officer and possibly a bureau chief — no red tape or fanfare.
The fact that it took a governor and not parole officials is actually a condemnation of the degradation of the criminal-justice system in our state.
John Urban
Howard Beach
So New York’s do-nothing, know-nothing, pathetic excuse for a governor wants credit for locking up the lowlife accused of putting a man into a coma.
How about every other punk who is being released because of this insane no-bail law? How about firing District Attorney Alvin Bragg?
She is by far the worst thing that has happened to the state. And she wasn’t even elected. She was placed in this position because the other idiot was pushed out. The people of New York can’t be this stupid.
Steven DelGaudio
Edgewater, NJ
Hochul is all of a sudden tough on crime? She couldn’t give herself enough accolades for speaking up and getting that violent, crazed sex offender arrested after he was initially allowed to take to the streets.
Hochul, who has done absolutely nothing other than follow the footsteps of New York’s liberal judges and politicians, finally did something that would not have been necessary if we had the right people in office.
She’s a day late and a dollar short of being a legitimate crime-buster.
Ron Zajicek
Cortlandt Manor
Someone explain to me how only Gov. Hochul figured out that this repeat-offender monster should be back in jail due to violating parole.
Putting aside the downgrading of the crime, you’re telling me that the District Attorney’s office didn’t understand or realize that a multiply-convicted sexual offender who was a lifetime parolee had violated his parole? It’s liberal ineptitude on a very grand scale.
Amy Hendel
Manhattan
The Issue: Douglas Murray’s piece on the Biden administration’s campaign for a nuclear deal with Iran.
In his column “Stop radical Iran strike force, Joe” (Aug. 19), Douglas Murray reveals the Biden administration’s commitment to appeasement by desperately trying to renegotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, despite evidence that the regime violated the prior agreement.
If such a deal is concluded, it would accelerate Iran’s development of nuclear weaponry and endanger the world.
Somehow, the true nature of the Iranian government eludes the Biden administration. The recent horrendous assassination attempt on Salmon Rushdie and threats on the lives of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Adviser John Bolton have not pushed the administration into changing its determined appeasement policy.
A. J. Linn
Manhattan
The Biden administration is demonstrating sheer idiocy by attempting a deal with Iran, the largest sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East.
Not only would a deal with such an unreliable nation destabilize the entire region, it would reverberate throughout the globe.
Let us not forget Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s threat to kill President Donald Trump. That threat remains.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
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It’s time for another round of The Bronx vs. Queens.
The Subway Series is back for a second time this season, with things looking a little different for the Yankees and Mets than their two-game set in late July.
The Mets have gone 20-7 since taking both games from their crosstown rivals July 26-27, finding ways to get on base and holding on to a four-game lead over the Braves in the NL East.
For the Yankees, things haven’t gone so smoothly. They’re 8-17 since dropping two in Queens, and hope the confines of Yankee Stadium will help them get some good mojo going against the Mets — though, it won’t be easy. The struggling Bombers sluggers will have to face Max Scherzer Monday night.
This two-game series could have bigger implications for both sides, but don’t discount the pride factor.
“Subway Series, got to beat them,” Mets outfielder Mark Canha said after Sunday’s win in Philadelphia. “Subway Series, it’s important.”
First pitch is at 7:05 p.m. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/mets-vs-yankees-subway-series-game-1-live-scores-updates/ | 2022-08-22T22:52:31Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/mets-vs-yankees-subway-series-game-1-live-scores-updates/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As students around the country begin heading back to school, they’re being told that this year will be “normal” again, referring to classes being in-person and likely mask-less.
But it won’t be normal for LGBTQ students. In fact, it will likely be one of the furthest from normal school years they’ve had. So far this year, there have been more than 300 bills introduced that target LGBTQ people, and more than half of those aim to restrict all aspects of transgender kids’ lives, from the bathrooms they use to the sports they play.
Specifically, 10 of these anti-LGBTQ bills target schools. A Florida law aims to ban discussions of gender and sexuality in classrooms. In Indiana, South Dakota, and Tennessee, there are now restrictions on sports teams that trans kids can play in. Alabama enacted similar legislation, but with the extension of preventing trans kids from using bathrooms and lockers that match their gender.
“Teachers are so nervous that if they see something, that they have to say something about it,” says Victoria Kirby York, the deputy executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition. But the laws vary state to state, she says, even though coverage tends to treat them all the same. “So you see teachers going past their duty and censoring conversations about anything related to LGBTQ people.”
“There’s definitely a need to make sure that educators really understand what they’re required to do and what goes beyond those requirements,” York says.
The Intersection of Being Black and LGBTQ
For those who live at the intersection of being Black and LGBTQ, it’s a particularly difficult time. As society and schools are trying to limit LGBTQ identities and how you can talk about them, the same is happening when it comes to the country’s history of racial injustice and white supremacy.
Geoffrey Winder, the co-executive director of Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network, says this strategy feels like “an overall attack on all aspects of your identity,” along with an attempt to erase or deny your ability to talk about them as part of “what’s acceptable in public discourse.”
“There’s this moment that particularly Black LGBTQ students are experiencing, which is their identity is up for public ideological debate,” Winder says.
"There’s definitely a need to make sure that educators really understand what they’re required to do and what goes beyond those requirements," said Victoria Kirby York, National Black Justice Coalition Director.
As we head into the midterm elections, we will “definitely witness further attacks and misinformation about LGBTQ+ children and educators,” GLSEN Executive Director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers wrote in a statement to Word In Black.
“Curriculum censorship bills only further harass Black queer students, who are already some of our most persecuted and disenfranchised youth,” Willingham-Jaggers wrote. “We must rise up for LGBTQ+ youth and keep advocating for inclusive education that promotes a safe and healthy environment for all of us.”
While support systems have been trying to help Black LGBTQ build an identity based around pride and a positive sense of their history, all of those things are coming under attack. That’s going to sit with this generation of students.
“Ultimately, it’s telling folks that they’re not welcome here,” Winder says, and “they’re being set up through the education system to experience that failure in a real moment or a real sense.”
Voters Are Against These Bills
Voter surveys show why it’s especially important to cast a ballot this year. Two separate polls show the majority of voters in Florida and Texas — the states leading anti-LGBTQ legislation — oppose these new restrictions.
In GLAAD’s August 2022 poll of Florida LGBTQ and ally voters, more than 70% of respondents said that laws like the Don’t Say Gay/Trans bill are designed to attack LGBTQ people, and 70% “strongly agree” the bills will be emotionally damaging to LGBTQ children and parents.
And a separate poll by The Trevor Project shows that most Florida voters are “generally opposed” to banning or limiting LGBTQ content in public schools. The largest margin was in response to the question of banning LGBTQ books in school libraries, with 52% totally opposing it and 32% totally supporting it.
Florida voters are generally opposed to banning or limiting LGBTQ topics in school, with the strongest opposition to banning books on these topics from school libraries.
Both polls found that voters in Texas and Florida generally believe transgender youth should have access to gender-affirming care, and that parents and pediatricians should not be charged with child abuse for providing this care.
For many Black LGBTQ youths, schools can provide a much-needed space of affirmation, a place where they can live as their full, authentic selves, Preston Mitchum, director of advocacy and government affairs at The Trevor Project, wrote in a statement to Word In Black.
“As anti-LGBTQ lawmakers continue to attack schools’ ability to foster LGBTQ-inclusive spaces, these critical and potentially life-saving environments are in jeopardy,” Mitchum wrote. “Our elected officials should be expanding opportunities and support services for LGBTQ students — and Black LGBTQ youth in particular — not sidelining a group of young people who already face disproportionate risk for suicide.”
‘We Are Going to See Kids Feeling Less Safe at School’
For many students — especially Black students — school is a building that houses so much more than education, like access to free meals, and physical and mental health resources. But for students that live at the intersection of Black and queer, these new legislation are going to start stripping away that sense of security.
“We are going to see kids feeling like they’re less safe at school, and less safe to be themselves at school,” York says.
In its 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, The Trevor Project found that LGBTQ youth who found school to be affirming reported lower rates of suicide attempts.
Both LGBTQ and trans and nonbinary youth found school to be a more affirming place in 2022 compared to 2021, according to survey results. In 2022, 55% of LGBTQ youth identified school as an affirming place, along with 51% of trans and nonbinary youth.
Both LGBTQ and trans/nonbinary students found school to be a more affirming place in 2022 than the year before.
“Given our findings,” Mitchum wrote, “providing a safe and welcoming space at school can be critical for their well-being. Conversely, if schools are forced to eliminate this type of affirming environment — something that can serve as a strong protective factor against suicide for these young people — due to anti-LGBTQ policies enacted in their state, that is definitely cause for concern.”
Though it’s not universal, educators in schools with predominantly white students were “significantly more likely” than educators in schools with predominantly students of color to report “intrusion of political issues and opinions” as job-related stressors, according to a new RAND study. Educators in predominantly white schools shared with RAND researchers how parents and school board members “expressed concern” with some of the content teachers chose, specifically when it came to books featuring people of color or LGBTQ people.
When it comes to confidence in navigating conversations about race, racism, and bias in their classrooms, a RAND study found that 47% of teachers reported having “sufficient” access to guidance and resources, compared to 14% who said they had “completely sufficient” access and 33% who said they had “somewhat sufficient” access.
“It’s important for educators to show support for LGBTQ+ students, and create a school environment where kids feel safe and comfortable sharing their identity,” Willingham-Jaggers wrote. “When students see their teachers as being supportive, it can significantly improve their academic performance, psychological well being, and long-term educational goals.”
When students see their teachers as being supportive, it can significantly improve their academic performance, psychological well being, and long-term educational goals.
MELANIE WILLINGHAM-JAGGERS, GLSEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
York grew up in Florida, which not only has the Don’t Say Gay bill, but also a bill that attempts to regulate and restrict how schools talk about race. Her nephews still live and attend school in the state, and York worries about them dealing with fear around their race and wanting to ask questions to get a better understanding of the “real history.”
“It’s a double whammy of them feeling like my family isn’t valued, it doesn’t matter,” York says, adding that self-confidence and self-image are important developments in preteen and teenage years. “We have to learn from it or risk repeating the things that we’re so embarrassed to talk about.”
Mental health is also Winder’s top concern for Black LGBTQ students returning to school. He describes a “double attack” of conversations around critical race theory and anti-LGBTQ legislation — on top of the pandemic — that will have an overall toll on students.
The Trevor Project survey found that 60% of LGBTQ youth who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it, which included nearly 3 in 5 transgender and nonbinary youth (58%). The top concerns among those who wanted care but didn’t get it were fear of discussing mental health concerns (48%), obtaining parent/caregiver permission (45%), and fear of not being taken seriously (43%).
Kids who are realizing they identify as transgender or nonbinary might have particular questions or concerns about using the bathroom or need to confide in a guidance counselor, and now they might be too scared to seek out that report in the school building.
“They shouldn’t have to question whether or not they can trust teachers,” York says. “And, more importantly, our teachers and administrators shouldn’t have to question whether they can intervene. That’s really terrifying.”
Health and History Lessons Are Changing
As these laws crack down on what students can be taught in school, the most obvious curriculum changes will come to health classes. Health education was already incomplete — with some states only teaching abstinence — and now, especially with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, it will take an even bigger hit. The states that are doubling down on conversations around gender, race, and sexuality are setting youths up for failure and misinformation.
“There’s going to be a lot more confusion and lack of information when it comes to LGBTQ sexual health,” York says, “which is particularly concerning because of the data we have around HIV/AIDS and how it’s continuing to have a disproportionate impact on Black youth.”
The 2022 legislative session saw record numbers anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in states across the country, a handful of which are aimed at censoring conversations in schools.
In a very real sense, it’s returned to a limited ability to show your support for LGBT students, and for LGBT students feeling like the rules are changing around you about what you can say or how you could act.
GEOFFREY WINDER, GSA NETWORK CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
“Regardless of whether these bills passed in state legislatures, the sheer number of debates surrounding them may cause confusion and put pressure on health educators to omit LGBTQ-inclusive content from their lesson plans,” Mitchum wrote, “denying LGBTQ students from receiving information that is critical to their health and well-being.”
But it’s not just health class where Black LGBTQ students will see themselves erased. They may no longer learn about historic LGBTQ figures, like Bayard Rustin, who helped organize the March on Washington, or Barbara Jordan, who was the first Black woman elected to the Texas Senate and the first Black Texan in Congress.
“You miss out on these opportunities to learn about courageous figures who could inspire a child’s career and life decisions,” York says. “These are all parts of a comprehensive education, and the impact makes students — and teachers, for that matter — who are part of the community feel as if their histories, voices, experiences, and realities don’t matter.”
Rainbows Are Coming Down
Across the country, Genders & Sexualities Alliances, or GSAs, allow LGBTQ students to build community through student-run groups. Though they are student-run, the groups need to have an advisor, usually an adult in the school. States where anti-LGBTQ bills have passed, like Florida, are already seeing an impact on GSAs.
“School districts that used to be on a very supportive, inclusive track have been asking folks to take down rainbows, rainbow stickers, safe space stickers — anything that has to do with the GSA in public visibility,” Winder says.
One route schools are taking is keeping their GSAs as online groups, the way they existed during the pandemic. And, in response, students — like those in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania — are using the Equal Access Act to demand that they can continue on with their club like any other extracurricular.
It’s important for students to be able to meet in person. Not only does it validate the GSA in the same way marching band or physics olympics are allowed to exist, but it makes it more accessible. As we saw during the peak of virtual learning, there are inequities when it comes to online learning and virtual experiences, which disproportionately impact students of color.
“In a very real sense, it’s returned to a limited ability to, as a school district, show your support for LGBT students,” Winder says, “and for LGBT students feeling like the rules are changing around you about what you can say or how you could act.”
The Broader Impact
Of course, these impacts will be felt beyond Black LGBTQ students, and even beyond the LGBTQ community as a whole. For one, GSA advisors are already being targeted, Winder says, which causes them and school administrators to hesitate toward continuing these supports for students. And, more relatably, it limits conversations students are having in the cafeteria or how they talk about their friends’ lives.
“The moment your friend shares what they did on their date the night before, the conversation has to get cut off. That has an impact on the dynamics between students,” York says, also extending it to the conversations teachers have in the break room. “That has a dynamic between teachers and conversations they can and can’t have, and then how that shows up and how they are able to work together well or not.”
Even if someone does not identify as part of the LGBTQ community, these new school climates will have drastic impacts on their friends’ identities as they’re erased from curriculum or seen as “other.”
“When people talk about allies, it’s often done in a way that’s distancing, like we’re over here,” York says. “But the reality is we’re family and we’re friends of each other.”
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Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty and are facing state and federal investigations, officials confirmed Monday, after bystander video captured at least two of them punching and kneeing a suspect during an arrest.
At one point in the 34-second video recorded Sunday, one of the officers also appears to lift the suspect's head and slam it into the pavement.
A Crawford County Sheriff's Department Facebook post identifies the law enforcement personnel involved in the arrest as sheriff's deputies Zack King and Levi White and officer Thell Riddle of the Mulberry Police Department. CNN has reached out to the deputies and officer.
The deputies are not rookies and have been in law enforcement "for some time," while the Mulberry officer has been in policing for "many years" and previously worked for the sheriff's department, Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante told reporters Monday. They are suspended with pay, he said.
State and federal investigations are underway, and the FBI is expected to arrive Monday, officials said.
The video, which was posted on social media, shows the officers restraining an individual -- identified by state police as Randal Worcester, 27, of Goose Creek, South Carolina -- near a curb outside a business. One officer throws punches at the person's face and slams his head to the ground, while another knees the individual in the side and back.
A woman who is not seen on the video says, "Don't beat him! He needs his medicine!" One officer responds, "Back the f**k up!" while another orders her to get in her car.
Damante declined to get into many specifics, emphasizing the case remains under investigation, but said the actions he saw on the video are "not indicative of the Crawford County Sheriff's Department or any law enforcement agency in this area."
None of the officers was wearing a body camera, but the Mulberry officer had a dashboard camera on his squad car, which provided details on how the scuffle began, the sheriff said, without elaborating.
Two CNN senior law enforcement analysts say, judging solely from the video footage, the use of force appears excessive.
Worcester is charged with second-degree battery, resisting arrest, possessing an instrument of crime, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, terroristic threatening and first- and second-degree assault, Arkansas State Police said.
Worcester allegedly threatened a gas station clerk in a neighboring town, Damante told CNN affiliate KHBS. When he was spotted in Mulberry, Worcester was initially cooperative, but then tried to attack the officers, leading to the confrontation seen in the video, Damante told the station.
The suspect told officers he had a weapon, but the sheriff believes Worcester handed it over before the fight ensued, he told reporters Monday.
It was unclear if Worcester suffered any serious injury. The suspect was examined at a hospital and booked into jail, while a deputy received minor head injuries during the altercation, the sheriff told KHBS.
Worcester was released on $15,000 bail, attorney David Powell said. He had his bicycle with him as attorneys escorted him out of the detention center, and he gave no audible response to a reporter's question. He will be staying with family, his lawyers said.
'It doesn't make sense'
For two CNN senior law enforcement analysts, there remain questions about what happened before and after the moment caught on video. Yet even if Worcester attacked the officers as alleged, the level of force with which they respond seems excessive, the analysts said.
"Especially the blows to the face and head," said former Philadelphia police Commissioner Charles Ramsey. "At one point in time, you see one of the officers actually lift the head and push it down into the pavement. Obviously, that raises the level of force considerably." It also heightens the risk of serious injury or death, he said.
Ramsey continued, "Certainly the blows to the head at the same time you're trying to get a person to put their hands behind their back -- think about it. It doesn't make sense. If you're getting hit in the face, you're going to lift your hands to try to protect your face."
Ramsey and fellow CNN analyst Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, say it's difficult to imagine what could necessitate the officers' violent response.
"It is important to remember that this video only catches a portion of the interaction between this individual who was arrested and the three officers," McCabe said. "Importantly, those officers maintain that before the video that he attacked one of them, punched him in the head, pushed him to the ground. So, there was obviously a scuffle here that led to the use of force.
"However, what we see on that video, it is very, very hard to argue that what you're seeing -- the sort of punches and the kneeing him in the back and slamming his head ... on the ground. That is not acceptable, normal, standard police use of force under really any circumstances."
It's important to consider there are three officers on a single suspect, McCabe said, and the lawmen do not appear to be using any accepted techniques for handcuffing a suspect.
Rather, it appears to be an "incredibly violent assault seemingly on a person on the ground and under the control of three officers," he said. "I'm finding it impossible to justify what you're seeing on that video really in any way."
If attacked, police have a right to respond with necessary, proportionate and objectively reasonable force, Ramsey said, but the Arkansas officers' reactions seem neither proportionate nor reasonable. Being attacked "doesn't give you permission to then use excessive force when taking the individual into custody, period. It just doesn't," the former police chief said.
Suspect held on $15,000 bail
The person who posted the video online said her sister witnessed the altercation outside the Kountry Xpress in Mulberry.
"In reference to the video circulating on social media involving two Crawford County Deputies, we have requested that Arkansas State Police conduct the investigation and the Deputies have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation," the Crawford County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
The Mulberry police officer is on administrative leave pending the investigation's outcome, his department said.
"The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department takes these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions," a Mulberry police statement said.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson found the officers' actions to be "reprehensible conduct in which a suspect is beat in that fashion," but said the video shows only a "glimpse" of the encounter.
Without elaborating, he said Worcester "had a history of concern that was legitimate for the officers" but also said the officers' response was "not consistent" with their training. He confirmed the US Attorney's Office and civil rights division of the US Justice Department are conducting their own investigation.
"This is not what our law enforcement community represents. It's not the proper response, and they will be reviewed and appropriate action taken consistent with" the findings of the investigation, the governor said.
Arkansas State Police issued a statement saying its investigation "will be limited to the use of physical force by the deputies and the police officer," and its findings will be submitted to a local prosecutor who will decide if the use of force was consistent with state law. A spokesperson told CNN the statement was the office's only comment on the case.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST MONDAY FOR SOUTH
FACING SHORES OF ALL ISLANDS...
.A south swell (190 degrees) will continue to produce advisory
level surf for south facing shores. The large surf will continue
through the afternoon.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM HST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
difficult and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Police are still searching for the gunman who shot and killed a 24-year-old woman in Chinatown over the weekend.
The shooting happened around 11:20 p.m. near N. Hotel Street and Kekaulike Street on Friday, Aug. 19.
According to Honolulu Police (HPD) homicide investigators, the woman was with her husband at the time of the shooting. The couple got into an argument with a man when a third man approached and shot the woman in the head.
The victim was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday.
HPD says they now have “numerous” witnesses cooperating and providing statements on the investigation after initially reporting that some witnesses were uncooperative at the time of the shooting.
Detectives are still interviewing those witnesses, processing the scene, listening to 911 calls and checking surveillance footage in the area in an effort to identify the suspects. Authorities say they do not believe the shooting was a random act.
The victim has still not been identified and police said the Medical Examiner’s office will release that information at a later date.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call 911 or Honolulu CrimeStoppers at 808-935-8300.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/gunman-in-deadly-chinatown-shooting-still-at-large/article_fac6e8e4-225f-11ed-ac7b-c7d1bbba5e06.html | 2022-08-22T22:54:32Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/gunman-in-deadly-chinatown-shooting-still-at-large/article_fac6e8e4-225f-11ed-ac7b-c7d1bbba5e06.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST MONDAY FOR SOUTH
FACING SHORES OF ALL ISLANDS...
.A south swell (190 degrees) will continue to produce advisory
level surf for south facing shores. The large surf will continue
through the afternoon.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM HST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
difficult and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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Young adults were using marijuana and hallucinogens at record high rates in 2021, new data shows. Vaping also increased significantly among this age group last year, despite leveling off during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Young adults were using marijuana and hallucinogens at record high rates in 2021, new data shows. Vaping also increased significantly among this age group last year, despite leveling off during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
People ages 19 to 30 were surveyed as part of the Monitoring the Future study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan and funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1975.
"As the drug landscape shifts over time, this data provides a window into the substances and patterns of use favored by young adults," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Young adults are in a critical life stage and honing their ability to make informed choices. Understanding how substance use can impact the formative choices in young adulthood is critical to help position the new generations for success."
The survey found that more than one in 10 (11%) young adults reported using marijuana on a daily basis in 2021 and more than two in five (43%) had used it in the past year. Rates of daily marijuana use nearly doubled over the past 10 years for this age group and past-year use jumped nearly 50%.
Vaping prevalence is growing even faster among young adults and on a steady upward trend, according to the study. After slowing in 2020, rates of nicotine vaping in 2021 were nearly triple what they were five years ago and rates of marijuana vaping were about double.
About 16% of young adults reported vaping nicotine in the past month and 12% reported vaping marijuana in the past month, according to the study.
The latest survey was conducted online between April and October of last year. But in April 2022, a loophole that vaping companies have used to circumvent regulators and keep their products on shelves closed, enabling the US Food and Drug Administration to go after myriad products being marketed illegally and in a variety of flavors. And in June, the FDA ordered Juul products removed from the US market as the agency issued marketing denial orders for its vaping devices and pods. However, a US appeals court at least temporarily delayed the ban, as the company gears up to appeal the decision and defend the safety of its inventory.
Overall, young adults are less likely to use hallucinogens than marijuana. But after holding steady for decades, use of hallucinogens among young adults started to "increase dramatically" during the pandemic and reached a record-high in 2021. About 8% of young adults reported using substances such as LSD, PCP and psychedelic mushrooms in the past year, up from just 3% in 2011.
According to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdose deaths among people of all ages rose rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021, 108,886 people died of a drug overdose in the US, more than double the number of deaths in 2015.
The CDC data shows that the vast majority of recent overdose deaths have involved opioids, especially synthetic opioids including fentanyl. But according to the NIH study, non-medical use of opioids has been declining steadily among young adults for the past decade with "significant decreases" in the past year.
Cigarette use among this age group also decreased. But binge drinking returned to pre-pandemic levels and high-intensity drinking also reached record highs in 2021, with more than one in eight young adults reporting having 10 or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks.
"One of the best ways we can learn more about drug use and its impact on people is to observe which drugs are appearing, in which populations, for how long, and under which contexts," said Megan Patrick, a research professor at the University of Michigan and principal investigator of the study.
"Monitoring the Future and similar large-scale surveys on a consistent sample population allow us to assess the effects of 'natural experiments' like the pandemic. We can examine how and why drugs are used and highlight critical areas to guide where the research should go next and to inform public health interventions." | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/marijuana-hallucinogen-use-among-young-adults-jump-to-record-high-rates-in-2021/article_0d608306-d961-5e0d-822d-a42535656776.html | 2022-08-22T22:54:45Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/marijuana-hallucinogen-use-among-young-adults-jump-to-record-high-rates-in-2021/article_0d608306-d961-5e0d-822d-a42535656776.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST MONDAY FOR SOUTH
FACING SHORES OF ALL ISLANDS...
.A south swell (190 degrees) will continue to produce advisory
level surf for south facing shores. The large surf will continue
through the afternoon.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM HST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming
difficult and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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In a Webb NIRCam composite image, Jupiter's Great Red Spot (lower right) appears white.
Rainbow auroras, giant storms and far-off galaxies are all on display in the latest images of Jupiter from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
"We hadn't really expected it to be this good, to be honest," said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, in a news release.
De Pater and Thierry Fouchet, a professor at the Paris Observatory, led observations of the largest planet in our solar system using the Webb telescope -- which is itself an international endeavor by NASA with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency, NASA said.
Painting a picture that moves from orange and yellow at Jupiter's poles to blues and purples toward the center, several images from the telescope came together to form an overall composite and give Earth a look at the gas giant.
You can also see faint rings and far off galaxies "photobombing" in the background, according to NASA.
And Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot -- a storm big enough to engulf Earth -- appears white in these images.
"The numerous bright white 'spots' and 'streaks' are likely very high-altitude cloud tops of condensed convective storms," said Heidi Hammel, Webb interdisciplinary scientist for solar system observations and vice president for science at the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
Scientists collaborated with citizen scientist Judy Schmidt to translate data to form the composite images from the telescope, which help give a better look into Jupiter's life, NASA said.
Jupiter is hard to translate into images because of how quickly it rotates, said Schmidt, who's based in Modesto, California.
"This one image sums up the science of our Jupiter system program, which studies the dynamics and chemistry of Jupiter itself, its rings, and its satellite system," Fouchet said.
But Jupiter isn't Webb's only subject. The space telescope is using infrared light to reveal otherwise invisible aspects of the universe.
Development of the world's premier space observatory began in 2004, and after years of delays, the telescope and its massive gold mirror finally launched on December 25, 2021.
The telescope will look at every phase of cosmic history, including the first glows after the big bang that created our universe and the formation of the galaxies, stars and planets that fill it today.
The telescope is also discovering and observing exoplanetary systems, which each consist of a planet outside of our solar system and its host star.
Some of these exoplanets are potentially habitable, and peering into their atmosphere could uncover clues in the ongoing search for life outside of Earth. | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/see-jupiter-through-the-eyes-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-telescope/article_95f6153d-6539-55e1-b303-518b3b74dce7.html | 2022-08-22T22:54:51Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/see-jupiter-through-the-eyes-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-telescope/article_95f6153d-6539-55e1-b303-518b3b74dce7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former Senator Bob Corker put his name in front of a movement that would remove language in the state's constitution in order to prohibit slavery in all forms.
He told Local 3 News changing the wording of the slavery provision is long overdue.
The current wording of Article 1, Section 33 in the state's constitution is as follows:
"That slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, are forever prohibited in this state."
A campaign called "Yes on 3" included leaders like former Tennessee Senator Bob Corker and advocate Kathy Chambers who want to remove any exceptions and ban slavery in it's entirety.
It's a movement that has been six years in the making. We spoke with Senator Bo Watson who said he would be voting yes on the proposed amendment but did not want to comment further.
"I think 95 percent of the people in the state of Tennessee probably support it and I hope the constitution is updated as a result,' said Corker.
To update the constitution the proposed amendment will be on the November ballot for people to vote on.
"Words matter. What is in our constitution matters. It is our values document so we need to get it (slavery wording) out of there," said Kathy Chambers.
The slavery provision would be changed to read, "that slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited in this state. Nothing in this section shall prohibit an inmate from working when the inmate has been duly convicted of a crime."
The latter portion, according to lawmakers behind the movement, means people that are in prison have an opportunity to receive work training that they can get a release from. The Department of Corrections wanted to be sure folks who are in prison and want to access job training skills could still access them even if it's low pay. It ties into the involuntary servitude portion of the amendment.
"Reinforce the fact that slavery has no place at all in our state. It is something we can all agree on,' said Chambers.
The amendment passed in the Tennessee General Assembly with bi-partisan support and four senators voted against it last year.
The ask from advocates is for people to vote yes on passing the amendment come November 8th.
"I know it means a lot to many citizens across our state and we are very glad to lend my name for the effort," said Corker.
"If it's something that didn't pass then we are literally saying that no we don't want to remove completely remove slavery and involuntary servitude," said Chambers.
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The phones of several top Trump-era Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were deactivated when they left their positions and the data contained on them likely wiped, a court filing released late last week shows.
The revelation came in a public records dispute between ICE and watchdog group American Oversight, which has sought emails and text messages from former acting ICE directors Thomas Homan, Matthew Albence and Ronald Vitiello in a controversial immigration-related case. It follows recent controversies over wiped government phones and erased text messages, including the potential loss of information relevant to investigations into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
"We cannot stand by as agency after agency admits that it destroys public records," said Heather Sawyer, executive director at American Oversight, in a statement. "Text messages often contain crucial information on what federal employees are doing and why they are doing it. The obligation to retain these records is not optional — it is the law."
In the Friday filing, ICE Chief Technology Officer Richard Clark said the agency couldn't provide information sought by American Oversight, attested that the phones for most of the officials named in the lawsuit had been deactivated and noted that it indicated the mobile phone data has been wiped clean. American Oversight contends that many of the devices were wiped after the organization requested texts messages from the officials in 2019.
Under Trump-era rules, ICE instructed employees to erase data from their agency-issued mobile phones when they returned their devices or left the agency, according to the court filing.
That guidance, issued in November 2017, along with a subsequent 2018 memo, dictated that employees are responsible for wiping their phones and saving separate records if official business was conducted on the phone.
As CNN reported earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security said it would immediately stop wiping mobile devices of high-level officials and political appointees without backing them up, launching a 30-day review of policies and practices for retaining text messages and other electronic messages.
The review followed weeks of heavy criticism over lost text messages at the Secret Service and revelations that the phones of top former DHS officials Ken Cuccinelli and Chad Wolf were wiped after they left office.
It's unclear how the DHS review impacts the phone policy at ICE, which is part of the department. CNN has reached out to ICE and DHS.
In a separate case brought by American Oversight, it was discovered that the Defense Department wiped the phones of top departing Defense and Army officials at the end of the Trump administration. That meant any texts from a number of key witnesses to events surrounding January 6, 2021, were deleted.
The ICE filing released Friday is part of an American Oversight and ACLU of Massachusetts lawsuit seeking records regarding the federal criminal prosecution of Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, including the emails and text messages of senior agency officials.
The Massachusetts state judge and a court officer were charged in connection with a criminal defendant's exit through a rear door of a courthouse in April 2018, while an ICE agent waited at another entrance.
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A new group led by a prominent conservative lawyer has received $1.6 billion from one donor -- the largest single contribution to a politically focused nonprofit that's ever been made public, and a fortune that could be used to fuel right-wing interests.
The nonprofit, Marble Freedom Trust, received the contribution in the form of stock and then funneled more than $200 million to other conservative organizations last year, a tax form CNN obtained from the IRS shows.
Marble Freedom is led by Leonard Leo, the co-chairman of the conservative Federalist Society, who advised former President Donald Trump on his Supreme Court picks and runs a sprawling network of other right-wing nonprofits that don't disclose their donors, which are often referred to as dark money groups.
A CNN review of financial documents connected the donation to Barre Seid, a low-profile, 90-year-old Chicago electronics company executive and philanthropist who has previously been tied to smaller anonymous contributions to other right-wing groups. The New York Times, which first reported the contribution on Monday, also identified Seid as the donor.
The massive donation instantly makes the Utah-based group one of the most well-funded organizations bankrolling conservative causes in the US -- a staggering distinction for a group with zero public profile or even a website. In comparison, the single contribution is more than double the total amount raised by Trump's presidential campaign committee during the entire 2020 election cycle.
Robert Maguire, the research director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, called the donation "stupefying," and "by far" the largest known contribution to a dark money political group.
"I've never seen a group of this magnitude before," Maguire said. "This is the kind of money that can help these political operatives and their allies start to move the needle on issues like reshaping the federal judiciary, making it more difficult to vote, a state-by-state campaign to remake election laws and lay the groundwork for undermining future elections."
Leo said in a statement that "it's high time for the conservative movement to be among the ranks of George Soros, Hansjörg Wyss, Arabella Advisors and other left-wing philanthropists, going toe-to-toe in the fight to defend our Constitution and its ideals" -- referring to two liberal-leaning billionaires and a consulting firm that manages several smaller dark money groups on the left.
Seid did not respond to requests for comment left on phone numbers listed for him and his longtime assistant.
Huge anonymous donation has ties to Chicago executive
"Dark money" generally refers to nonprofits that get involved in politics but do not disclose their donors, a practice that significantly ramped up after the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010. Many dark money groups, like Marble Freedom, are 501(c)4 organizations -- nonprofits that are allowed to participate in politics as long as it is not their primary activity.
Groups on both sides of the political spectrum have increasingly turned to dark money in recent years to sway voters or push agendas without revealing their ultra-wealthy benefactors -- but the Marble Freedom donation dramatically eclipses even the largest of the previously known groups.
Marble Freedom's tax return covers its initial year of existence between May 2020 and April 2021. The gift of just over $1.6 billion came in the form of 100% of the stock of a privately held company, which Marble Freedom then sold to another company, according to the tax form.
The arrangement likely saved Seid a large amount of money in taxes, according to Marcus Owens, an attorney and former director of the IRS division on tax-exempt organizations, who reviewed the form for CNN. If Seid had personally sold the stock in the company, he would likely have had to pay capital gains tax on the proceeds of the sale. By donating the stock to Marble Freedom, he avoided having to pay that tax, and the nonprofit would be exempt from paying it.
Marble Freedom wrote that it was withholding information about which company was donated and who it sold to because "disclosing it would effectively disclose the identity of its donors."
But details about the donation connect it to the sale of the Chicago-based electrical device firm Tripp Lite, whose longtime chairman was Seid.
After receiving the donated stock, Marble Freedom sold the company on March 17, 2021, according to the tax form. The same day, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents, the American-Irish power company Eaton acquired Tripp Lite for $1.65 billion.
During the sale, "the sole shareholder of Tripp Lite" was represented by New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, Law360 reported at the time. Less than two weeks later, Marble Freedom paid Sullivan & Cromwell $940,000 in legal fees, the tax form shows. A spokesperson for Eaton said the company would not provide more details about the acquisition, and several lawyers involved in the transaction did not respond to requests for comment.
Seid served as chairman and CEO and listed himself as the "owner" of Tripp Lite in federal campaign donation records from 2008. He worked at the company, which produces power strips, surge protectors and other devices, for more than 50 years, according to a Facebook post from Tripp Lite. He grew up in Chicago, the son of immigrants from Russia, according to Census records, and graduated from the University of Chicago.
Seid has previously had a history of donating anonymously to conservative political groups and causes. An internal 2015 document from the Bradley Foundation, a right-wing nonprofit, stated that the conservative think tank Foundation for Government Accountability had received support from "Barre Seid (anonymously)." The document was part of a trove of records from Bradley that was hacked and released, and was later included as an exhibit in Senate testimony.
In addition, Salon reported in 2010 that "Barry Seid" was listed in tax documents as the identity of an anonymous donor who gave nearly $17 million to a group that produced an anti-Islam documentary and sent DVDs of the movie to millions of households during the 2008 election. An assistant for Seid told Salon that he did not contribute to the organization, although she didn't address whether he made the donation by routing it through another group.
And publicly released emails suggest that Seid may also be the anonymous donor who pledged $20 million over five years to George Mason University's law school in order to rename it for former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. The emails were obtained through a public records request and published by George Mason Law alum Allison Pienta in 2019. The school has refused to identify the donor but has said that Leo coordinated the gift.
Seid and his wife make public donations through another nonprofit, the Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation, which mostly funds Chicago-based cultural organizations and universities but has given to conservative and libertarian groups such as the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute. Seid also donated to various political campaigns in Illinois and elsewhere in the 1990s and 2000s.
Big spending and opaque groups
Even in its infancy, Marble Freedom Trust has already funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to other dark money groups.
Leo, Marble Freedom's chairman and trustee, is one of the most influential figures in the world of conservative dark money. A longtime executive at the Federalist Society, a national network of right-leaning lawyers, Leo has led or served on the board of more than a dozen different nonprofits. Several of his groups have been associated with political campaigns promoting conservative Supreme Court nominees, operating in complex networks of spending.
The new $1.6 billion donation "solidifies Leo as just an absolute gravitational force within the conservative political and legal world," Maguire said. "He was already the man behind the scenes raising money for reshaping the American judiciary, and this amount of money just takes it to a stratospheric level."
On the Marble Freedom tax form, Leo is listed as being paid a $350,000 annual salary for 25 hours a week of work for the group.
The form states that the group's mission is to "maintain and expand human freedom consistent with the values and ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." While politics can't be its primary focus, it can use at least some of its huge resources to influence this year's midterms or future elections.
"This is such a significant amount that it would be a game-changer if they do decide to devote even a portion of that to election-related spending," said Anna Massoglia, the Editorial and Investigations Manager at OpenSecrets, a group that researches campaign finance.
Marble Freedom reported making four donations to other nonprofits -- transactions that appear to have taken place between the sale of the stock in mid-March 2021 and the end of April 2021.
The largest contribution was a $153 million gift to the Rule of Law Trust, a dark money nonprofit led by Leo that has funded other conservative organizations. The group's tax returns show it received just under $80 million in donations in 2018 and no contributions in 2019 or 2020, so the gift from Marble Freedom represents a massive funding boost for the organization.
Marble Freedom contributed $41.1 million to Donors Trust, a nonprofit that distributes money to conservative and libertarian groups in addition to nonpolitical organizations. The group is a donor-advised fund, which means its contributors can recommend where their donations to the fund are sent.
In the past, Donors Trust has funneled millions of dollars to groups that have amplified false claims about election fraud and advocated for more restrictive voting rules. The group has previously said that its donations are intended to "serve the public good."
Marble Freedom also donated $16.5 million to The Concord Fund, a nonprofit that has advocated for conservative nominees to the Supreme Court and other judgeships and is associated with a group that has pushed restrictive voting laws. Concord, which was previously known as the Judicial Crisis Network, raised $20.4 million from July 2019 to June 2020, according to its most recent tax return.
In addition to the three groups with political connections, Marble Freedom gave $18 million to Schwab Charitable Fund, another donor-advised fund.
Marble Freedom lists two other board members in addition to Leo, both of whom are unpaid. One is Tyler Green, the former solicitor general of Utah, who has represented the Republican National Committee and other GOP groups in multiple voting-related lawsuits in recent years. Green, who is listed as Marble Freedom's administrative trustee, is also a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The trust's address is listed as a home in North Salt Lake, Utah, that Green owns.
The board's third member is Jonathan Bunch, a former Federalist Society vice president who has been involved with various groups led by Leo. Bunch is listed as Marble Freedom's successor trustee. Green and Bunch did not respond to requests for comment.
At the end of April 2021, Marble Freedom had more than $1.4 billion in assets -- positioning it to play a major role in conservative causes potentially for years to come.
"This group is emblematic of the corrosion and the breakdown of our campaign finance system," Maguire said -- and how it gives "wealthy donors, whether they be corporations or individuals, access and influence over the system far greater than any regular American can ever imagine."
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Two people have died following multiple shootings in Midtown Atlanta and a female suspect was detained at the airport, police department officials said Monday.
"The female suspect was located at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and taken into custody without incident," police said in a tweet.
Another victim who was wounded is hospitalized, police said.
Interim Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the shootings don't appear to be random acts.
"We do believe the individuals were likely targeted," he told reporters. He added that officers searching for the suspect had obtained information that the suspect had gone to the airport.
Police and federal agents searched the facility for the woman, who was detained about 4 p.m. ET.
Authorities recovered a handgun at the airport, the interim chief said. Mayor Andre Dickens said the suspect was apprehended before going through airport security.
"I want to say clearly that the security of the airport was never compromised," Dickens said.
Officers initially responded to a high-rise condominium on West Peachtree Street at about 1:45 p.m. ET to a report of someone hit by gunfire.
"Upon arrival, officers located two individuals who appeared to have been shot. One of the victims has died and the second was taken to the hospital for treatment," officials said in the statement.
About 15 minutes later, authorities received a call of a person shot on Peachtree Street.
The condition of the wounded victim is unknown, police said.
Schierbaum said he lives in the area. "I know this to be a safe neighborhood," he said.
Dickens sent his condolences to the families of the victims and the community should know that it is safe. He said that a vast camera network in the city helped to quickly track down the suspect.
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Former President Donald Trump's legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a "special master" to ensure the Justice Department returns any of his private documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago.
Trump is asking for a special master -- a third-party attorney -- to oversee the review of evidence gathered from the beach club in the criminal probe, and for the judge to pause federal investigators' work related to the evidence until the review is done, according to a new court filing.
The new lawsuit marks the first legal filing by Trump's team after FBI agents carried out their search on August 8 and underscores how his legal team has struggled to coalesce around a singular strategy. It has been assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020.
In the suit, Trump argues his constitutional rights were violated and that there may have been privileged materials seized.
Though the legal maneuver could slow down the Justice Department's ongoing criminal investigation, Trump's request to the federal court in South Florida could face an uphill legal battle after his team missed multiple opportunities to challenge the search.
"The Aug. 8 search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause. The Department is aware of this evening's motion. The United States will file its response in court," Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said in response to the new filing.
The ex-President's lawyers declined to take a position in court in the immediate aftermath of the search warrant execution. They also did not weigh in on whether the search warrant affidavit should be made public before or during a court hearing last week in West Palm Beach, Florida, even though one of his attorneys was present.
Trump, in the new filing, also asks for a more detailed receipt of what was removed from Mar-a-Lago. That request, if granted, would add to the two receipts the FBI already provided to Trump's team describing 33 items seized, and which his attorney signed off on at the end of the search.
The Justice Department removed 11 sets of classified documents from Trump's home, according to documents unsealed by a judge last week. The inventory shows that some of the materials recovered were marked as "top secret/SCI," which is one of the highest levels of classification.
The department has already signaled that it is using an internal filter team to review the seized items, to separate material that could be subject to privilege claims. For instance, investigators mentioned the work of a filter team when they returned to Trump private documents that wouldn't be part of the investigation, such as two expired passports and his diplomatic passport.
The Justice Department, in court documents, said it believed the evidence it collected at Mar-a-Lago will support its criminal investigation into the mishandling of federal records, including national defense material, after Trump's team took boxes of records to Florida when he left office. The investigation is also looking at potential obstruction of justice in the investigation.
The Justice Department has said it has concerns that further information becoming public or known by Trump's team could prompt witness or document tampering. And, according to CNN and New York Times reports, a lawyer for Trump told investigators in writing that no classified records were left at Mar-a-Lago after June. The FBI said in an inventory list at the end of its search that there were additional classified documents retrieved.
A federal magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida examined the DOJ's reasons for the search earlier this month and approved it. The judge is now weighing whether to make more details about the investigation public.
The three attorneys who signed the motion are Lindsey Halligan, Jim Trusty and Evan Corcoran. The filing included a line about politics not affecting the administration of justice.
Trump's team gives his version of the Mar-a-Lago search
In the filing, Trump's attorneys put forward the former President's narrative for how the search went down, the events leading up to it and the fallout from it.
The lawsuit also recounted a message for Attorney General Merrick Garland that Trump's lawyers gave to a top Justice Department official over the phone on August 11, a few days after the search.
"President Trump wants the Attorney General to know that he has been hearing from People all over the country about the raid," Trump's message said, according to the lawsuit. "If there was one word to describe their mood, it is 'angry.' The heat is building up. The pressure is building up. Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know."
The filing states that at 9:10 a.m. ET on the day of the search, that same top Justice Department official -- Jay Bratt, the head of the counterintelligence section in the Department of Justice's national security division -- telephoned Trump's lawyers to tell them a search warrant was being executed at Mar-a-Lago.
"Heated discussion ensued as to why the Government did not make a voluntary request to further explore the premises, given the expansive assistance that President Trump had provided to that point," the lawsuit said.
In Trump's telling, the search took nine hours and involved two dozen FBI agents.
The lawsuit recounted a request from Bratt that Mar-a-Lago's surveillance cameras be turned off -- a request that the filing said was declined. Bratt also asked for the names of the Trump attorneys who may have been arriving at the search. The new lawsuit claims that Bratt rebuffed a request from Trump's team that they be provided the affidavit.
"Among other actions taken after being notified of this unprecedented event, counsel for President Trump contacted three attorneys in the general area who agreed to go to Mar-a-Lago," the lawsuit said. "Once they arrived, they requested the ability to enter the mansion in order to observe what the FBl agents were doing, which the Government declined to permit."
June meeting between Trump and feds detailed
Trump's legal team also describes, for the first time, their version of what happened in the criminal records investigation prior to the search -- giving much agency to Trump himself.
At a June 3 meeting in which investigators visited Mar-a-Lago, Trump's team states "President Trump greeted them in the dining room," then left the agents with the parting words, "Whatever you need, just let us know."
The investigators then inspected a storage room, which Trump authorized his lawyer to do, the filing says.
Five days later, when the Justice Department wrote a letter asking for the storage room to be secured, "President Trump directed his staff to place a second lock on the door to the storage room, and one was added," his team writes.
Trump's lawyers also say the former President directed the acceptance of a Justice Department subpoena in late June that sought footage from Mar-a-Lago surveillance cameras.
This is the first time those investigative steps have been described in public in court.
Trump's disclosures could come into play as a federal magistrate judge considers transparency in the case. A lawyer for media organizations seeking access to the search warrant's affidavit argued last week that the Justice Department's version of events that Trump's team has described publicly should be unsealed.
The Justice Department has said it is investigating attempts to obstruct justice as part of the probe, and CNN and other outlets have reported a lawyer for Trump represented no more classified material existed at Mar-a-Lago, before the FBI search found several sets of documents marked as classified.
In addition to asking for a special master to be appointed, Trump and his lawyers used their lawsuit as a vehicle to re-air some of his years-old grievances about the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The suit blasted "biased FBI agents" and criticized key Russia probe figures -- including Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Christopher Steele and Bruce Ohr, who all played a role in the early FBI investigation into the web of connections between Trump's 2016 campaign and the Kremlin.
Trump brought this up in the suit as part of his argument that the Justice Department and FBI are biased against him and that the Mar-a-Lago search was meant to derail his political career.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
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Advocates say Kansas City's efforts to pass the Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan are urgent, as experts predict temperatures in the metro could soar as high as 125 degrees over the course of the next 30 years.
The city's plan focuses on mobility; energy supply; natural systems; homes and buildings; food; and waste and materials in an effort to make Kansas City carbon neutral by 2040.
Steve Mills, general manger of Spire in Kansas City, said the energy company supports most of the plan. However, he has concerns about limitations the plan could put on the future availability of natural gas and consumer choice.
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- Andy Savastino, chief environmental officer, Kansas City, Missouri
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