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Vaxxed Illinois teachers to get paid COVID-19 leave under bill Pritzker plans to sign
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Handing a win to the Chicago Teachers Union, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday is planning to sign into law a measure that will allow fully vaccinated teachers and other school employees to take COVID-19 related paid time off without burning up sick days.
Pritzker vetoed a similar version of the bill shortly after the January standoff between the CTU and Chicago Public Schools, saying then that he needed revised language to ensure the agreement would only apply to vaccinated employees.
The compromise bill that passed the Legislature last week will also return COVID-19 related sick days to vaccinated employees who had to use them earlier in the school year.
The governor’s office issued an advisory late Monday saying he would sign the "legislation cementing COVID-19 sick leave protections for vaccinated school staff" at a ceremony Tuesday morning at the Illinois State Capitol.
Once the bill is signed, the law is effective immediately.
It applies to all fully vaccinated employees of Illinois public school districts, universities and community colleges. The paid administrative leave will also apply to employees who have children who are required to stay home from school for COVID-19-related reasons, and it provides wage protections for all hourly school employees such as janitors or bus drivers who must miss school during a school closure or e-learning day.
The Illinois Education Association, which worked with the Illinois Federation of Teachers on the compromise, said some of its support staff and teachers have exhausted their sick and personal days because of the pandemic and have been using unpaid time off to quarantine or for other COVID-related reasons.
"We have educators who saved their sick time to take after the birth of a child, who have since run out of days and are forced with a very difficult decision — to take unpaid time off or to cut precious bonding time with their newborn short and return to work early," Illinois Education Association president Kathi Griffin told the Sun-Times in a statement.
In addition to the teachers’ unions, the measure is also supported by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the AFL-CIO.
CPS was among the opponents of the initial measure, fearing it would strain school districts already dealing with staff shortages. But on Monday, CPS officials said they appreciated the compromise bill "as it gives further incentive for school employees to be vaccinated."
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The CTU walkout in January stemmed from disagreements with the city about coronavirus testing and when to close schools amid a COVID-19 surge. The two sides came to an agreement of sorts after five missed school days.
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali’s army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men — some of them suspected Islamic extremist fighters but most civilians — in Moura in central Mali, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
It is the worst single atrocity reported in Mali’s 10-year armed conflict against Islamic extremists, according to the rights group which said it interviewed several witnesses about the killings.
Russian fighters are believed to have shot dead most of those killed in Moura in late March, according to witnesses who identified the killers as white soldiers who did not speak French. Several hundred Russian mercenaries have been deployed in Mali to help fight the extremist rebels, the U.S. military confirmed in January.
In the Moura incident, Malian army troops and foreign soldiers in late March rounded up several hundred men and shot dead about 300 of them, burying many in mass graves and burning others, according to Human Rights Watch.
Mali’s defense ministry reported a similar incident, saying that in the last week of March it had killed 203 “terrorists” and arrested 51 others, acting on intelligence that armed extremists were meeting in Moura.
“Abuses by armed Islamist groups is no justification at all for the military’s deliberate slaughter of people in custody,” said Corinne Dufka, Sahel director at Human Rights Watch. “The Malian government is responsible for this atrocity, the worst in Mali in a decade, whether carried about by Malian forces or associated foreign soldiers.”
Most of those killed in Moura were from the Peul ethnic group, according to the rights group. Moura had been largely controlled by extremists linked to al-Qaida who taxed villagers and imposed strict Shariah law, according to residents.
“The Malian government should urgently and impartially investigate these mass killings, including the role of foreign soldiers,” Dufka said. “For such investigations to be sufficiently independent and credible, the authorities should seek assistance from the African Union and the United Nations.”
In its investigation of the killings in Moura, Human Rights Watch said its researchers spoke with 27 people including witnesses, traders, community leaders, foreign diplomats and security analysts.
Moura, a town of about 10,000 residents in the Djenné administrative area of central Mali, has since 2015 been at the center of the conflict with extremist rebels and has seen widespread violence, abuses by all sides and the displacement of large numbers of civilians.
The killings in Moura are part of a spike in violence in recent months by extremists linked to Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and by Malian government security forces. Extremists have also killed scores of Malian security force personnel since the beginning of 2022.
Extremists from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara are alleged to have killed hundreds of civilians in March in Mali’s eastern Menaka region, which Human Rights Watch said it is investigating separately.
Since January, residents of central Mali have seen scores of foreign soldiers working with Mali’s military. The foreign fighters are believed to be Russian as they do not speak French, according to several witnesses who spoke to Human Rights Watch. Mali’s ruling junta announced in December that Russian trainers had arrived as part of a bilateral agreement with Russia. Shortly after Mali’s junta expelled French and other European soldiers who had been assisting the battle against extremists.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An alleged leader of a Sudanese militia known as “devils on horseback” took a “strange glee” in his ruthless reputation during the Darfur conflict, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Tuesday as the suspect’s trial opened.
The 72-year-old defendant, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, pleaded innocent to all 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“I reject all of these charges,” he told the court in the first ICC trial to deal with atrocities by Sudanese government-backed forces in the Darfur province nearly two decades ago.
The trial opened amid global condemnation of atrocities blamed on Russian forces in the Ukraine war and is a reminder that international courts can and do bring alleged perpetrators of crimes to justice, even if the painstaking process can be long and slow.
Prosecutor Karim Khan called the trial “an important moment in trying to wake peace from its slumber and try to move it, mobilize it, into action.”
He noted that Russia voted for a United Nations Security Council mandate in 2005 that sought an ICC investigation in Darfur.
Prosecutors say al-Rahman was a senior commander in the janjaweed militias during the Darfur conflict that erupted when rebels from the territory’s ethnic central and sub-Saharan African community launched an insurgency in 2003, complaining of oppression by the Arab-dominated government in the capital, Khartoum.
Then-President Omar al-Bashir’s government responded with a scorched-earth campaign of aerial bombings and raids by the janjaweed, who often attacked at dawn, sweeping into villages on horseback or camelback.
The campaign included mass killings and rapes, torture and persecution. Up to 300,000 people were killed and 2.7 million were driven from their homes in Darfur over the years.
Khan said that al-Rahman was a “a willing and knowing participant in crimes” and “one of the key senior janjaweed militia leaders” who worked “hand-in-glove” with the Sudanese government.
“You will see that he took pride in the power that he thought he exerted and the authority that he had,” Khan said. “And … strange glee in a feared reputation. You’ll hear evidence … that his forces and himself rampaged across different parts of Darfur.”
He said witnesses will tell the three-judge trial panel about attacks, murders and rapes and describe the horrors inflicted on villages considered rebel supporters and the enduring consequences of the attacks.
“In my community, a girl who has been raped has no value,” Khan cited one Darfuri as saying.
One witness quoted by Khan in his opening statement to the trial described seeing an infant breast feeding from its dead mother in the aftermath of an attack.
Prosecutors rejected al-Rahman’s defense that they have the wrong man.
“The evidence will show that it is Ali Kushayb in the courtroom, finally facing justice,” senior trial lawyer Julian Nicholls told the court.
Al-Bashir, who has been in prison in Khartoum since he was ousted from power in 2019, also faces ICC charges of genocide and crimes against humanity related to the Darfur conflict.
Al-Rahman is suspected of crimes allegedly committed between August 2003 and at least April 2004 in Darfur including murder, torture, rape, persecution and attacking civilians.
Khan told judges they would hear many chilling accounts of violence by al-Rahman himself during the trial that is expected to last many months.
“There’s so many examples of abuse, not just using his axe, not just killing people or ordering the execution of children or men, allowing rapes and participating in all of the allegations that are charged and are before you,” he said. “But just really beastly abuse.”
Zuhal Ahmed, a Sudanese-American activist and head of the Darfur Community in Arizona, lauded the trial as “the beginning of victory” for the people of Darfur.
“To see Ali Kushayb standing before court after all those years, is (a) really big victory and we hope he gets the maximum penalty,” she said.
She called for international pressure on the Sudanese military to hand over other suspects wanted by the court including al-Bashir.
“The people of Darfur and all Sudanese consider the ICC the only hope of justice and we can’t wait to see the rest who were involved to be arrested and handed over the ICC,” she said.
The trial opens amid a recent rise in violence in Darfur, which has seen deadly clashes between rival tribes in recent months as the country remains mired in a wider crisis following last year’s coup, when top generals overthrew a civilian-led government.
At least 45 people were killed last week in the latest bout of fighting between Arab and non-Arab tribes in South Darfur.
Khan said he hoped that by the end of the trial “the first drops of justice will land on what has hitherto been a desert of impunity in Darfur.”
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Associated Press writer Sam Magdy in Cairo contributed.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A top official in the global campaign against the use of land mines urged Russia on Monday to stop its troops in Ukraine from laying the weapons that too often kill and maim civilians.
Alicia Arango Olmos, Colombia’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and this year’s president of the state parties to the 1997 convention banning the production and use of land mines, expressed deep concern at media reports that Russia is using land mines in its war in Ukraine.
She pointed to Human Rights Watch, which said on March 29 that Ukrainian explosive ordnance disposal technicians located banned anti-personnel mines in the eastern Kharkiv region a day earlier. The rights group said Russia is known to possess the type of mines that were discovered, but Ukraine doesn’t have them.
Arango Olmos said at a news conference Monday — the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action — that Ukraine is one of the 164 state parties to the convention, but Russia is not.
She said her appeal to Russia is: “Anti-personnel mines only cause victims, they don’t resolve any type of problem.”
“So please, Russians, please stop using it, because many of the people that are victims of land mines have nothing to do with what’s happening between Ukraine and Russia,” Arango Olmos said.
Prince Mired of Jordan, the special envoy trying to make the land-mine convention universal, said about 80% of the world’s nations are parties to the convention. He said 33 countries have not joined, among them some that may collectively hold tens of millions of anti-personnel mines in military warehouses and unfortunately have buried millions more in the ground.
Some countries that are not parties have “the power to significantly turn the tide and eliminate this horrendous weapon such as China, India, Pakistan, Russia and the United States,” he said. “A coordinated and concerted effort is needed at the highest level in order to achieve further accessions. This will not be easy, but it’s possible.”
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A train derailed and overturned after striking a vehicle in southern Hungary early Tuesday, leaving five people dead and others injured, police said.
The accident occurred just before 7 a.m. in the town of Mindszent. Police said a flatbed truck carrying workers drove onto the train tracks and was struck by a train, which derailed from the force of the collision.
Seven men were traveling in the truck at the time of the collision, according to Hungarian state news agency MTI. Five of them were killed and two others taken to hospital with serious head and limb injuries, the police said.
In a statement, Hungarian state railways indicated that all those killed had been traveling in the truck. It said that 22 people were on the train at the time of the collision. Two passengers were seriously hurt and eight others suffered mild injuries.
Ten ambulances and a helicopter were dispatched to the scene, according to a spokesperson for the National Ambulance Service.
The Csongrad-Csanad county police said they had closed the entire width of the road during the on-site inspection and rescue. Traffic was diverted to surrounding streets.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A father of four. A best friend with a positive personality. A vivacious partygoer. The six people who were killed during a mass shooting in California’s capital city were remembered by their friends and family Monday as police worked to piece together what happened.
Dozens of rapid-fire gunshots rang out early Sunday in the crowded streets of Sacramento, leaving three women and three men dead and another 12 people wounded.On Monday, small memorials with candles, balloons and flowers had been placed near the crime scene.
Investigators were searching for at least two shooters who were responsible for the violence on the outskirts of the city’s main entertainment district that occurred as bars and nightclubs were closing. Sacramento police said Monday that they booked Dandrae Martin, 26, as a “related suspect” on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and being a convict carrying a loaded gun. Jail records said he was held without bail and was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether Martin had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Few details have been made public as investigators comb through evidence gathered from what Police Chief Kathy Lester called a complex crime scene. Witnesses have submitted more than 100 videos and photos taken during and shortly after the shooting.
The Sacramento County coroner released the identities of the six people killed. They were Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21; Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; and De’vazia Turner, 29.
DE’VAZIA TURNER
De’vazia Turner had four young children, including a 3-year-old daughter named Penelope with sticky fingers. But his bright yellow Mercedes CLS was always clean.
Born and raised in Sacramento, Turner played football from a young age until a knee injury slowed him down. He worked as a manager for an inventory company, keeping a close eye on things his mother might like and letting her know when they would go on sale.
“He was a protector,” his mother, Penelope Scott, said. “Raising him as a single mom, you know, he took the role of being the man of the house. He took care of everything.”
He worked out with his dad, Frank Turner, five days a week. When they weren’t pumping iron, they were probably talking about cars. They both had old Buicks – Turner’s was a 1973 while his dad’s was a 1970 – and Turner had big plans for his. He had just ordered a new stereo and a steering wheel with a cherrywood finish.
Frank Turner said he plans to finish his son’s car, including painting it to include images of De’vazia’s face for his kids to see.
“I want them to see their daddy when they see that car,” Frank Turner said.
De’vazia visited his mother on Saturday, eating leftover pork chops and taking a shower before briefly falling asleep on her couch. When he woke up, he said he was going out – a rarity for him, because he works so much, Scott said.
Scott woke up at around 1 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep. She was looking at her phone when she got a call that her son had been killed.
“Your kids are supposed to bury you. You’re not supposed to do that,” she said. “I’m grateful that he has a legacy with his children. However, you know, he’s 29. He didn’t make it to 30.”
The last time Frank Turner saw his son was at the auto shop where they were working on their cars. After his son’s death, a friend called Frank Turner and told him the shop’s security cameras had picked up their conversation.
He watched the video — a father and son spending time together on something they loved — and he cried.
JOHNTAYA ALEXANDER
Alexander was just shy of turning 22 when she was killed, her father told the Los Angeles Times. Her birthday was at the end of the month.
She hoped to become a social worker who worked with children and was a doting aunt to her nieces and nephews, John Alexander told the newspaper.
His daughter’s name was a combination of his own and his older sister’s, he told the Times.
“She was just beginning her life,” he told the newspaper, sobbing. “Stop all this senseless shooting.”
MELINDA DAVIS
Davis was a “very sassy lady” who lived on the streets of Sacramento near the shooting site, The Sacramento Bee reported.
Shawn Peter, a guide with the Downtown Sacramento Partnership who had known Davis for 15 years, told the newspaper that she had been homeless and lived in the area on and off for a decade.
Officials had helped her find housing before the pandemic began but she had returned to the downtown business district in recent months, Peter said. A small bouquet of purple roses with a note saying “Melinda Rest In Peace” was left on the street in her memory.
“Melinda was a very eccentric individual, a very sassy lady,” he told the newspaper. “This was her world, 24/7.”
Davis was a periodic guest at Maryhouse, a daytime center for women and children experiencing homelessness, from 2016 to 2018, director Shannon Stevens said in an email to The Associated Press. Stevens recalled her as kind but someone who did not do well in crowds. She was seeking housing services at the time.
“This was a space she came to find respite from the trauma of living on the streets of our city,” Sacramento Loaves & Fishes, which runs the Maryhouse program, said in a statement.
SERGIO HARRIS
Described by family members as the life of the party, Harris was a frequent presence at the London nightclub which is near the shooting scene.
“My son was a very vivacious young man,” his mother, Pamela Harris, told KCRA-TV. “Fun to be around, liked to party, smiling all the time. Don’t bother people. For this to happen is crazy. I’m just to the point right now, I don’t know what to do. I don’t even feel like this is real. I feel like this is a dream.”
His family members congregated at the crime scene Sunday after they hadn’t heard from him for hours. Later that day, Harris was the first victim publicly identified by the coroner.
“This is a sad and terrible act of violence that took the lives of many,” his wife, Leticia Harris, told KCRA-TV. “I want answers so I can have closure for my children.”
YAMILE MARTINEZ-ANDRADE
Martinez-Andrade was killed in front of her best friend, according to KXTV-TV.
She was described as someone who “brought light to the room,” the station reported, and had a positive outlook.
“There was never a dull moment with her. She has a beautiful heart and a beautiful mind. Everyone misses her so much,” her best friend, who was not named, told KXTV-TV.
JOSHUA HOYE-LUCCHESI
A memorial with white and blue balloons, candles and two empty bottles of Hennessy was left a block from the shooting in honor of Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi. On the ground, someone wrote “Josh” in what appeared to be blue paint.
“I love and miss you. Foreva n my heart!” someone wrote in black marker on a white balloon shaped like a star. “Things will never be the same,” read another balloon.
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BBC's EastEnders star Rose Ayling-Ellis is reportedly to be honoured with an MBE by Her Majesty, The Queen. It is believed the Hythe-born actress is going to be credited for her hard work in raising awareness for the deaf community.
Rose, 27, is best recognised for playing Frankie Lewis on the BBC soap since 2020. However, more recently, she has become a household name as the latest Strictly Come Dancing winner after lifting the 'Glitterball trophy' with pro-dancer Giovanni Pernice, 33, the Mirror reports.
The British actress made history for appearing as the first-ever deaf contestant on the show. In week eight, the pair's couple's choice dance paid tribute to the deaf community, and it was described by judge Anton Du Beke as "the greatest thing I've ever seen on the show".
Read More: Camilla reveals she's 'sure' Queen watched Strictly Come Dancing finale
The memorable moment even earned them the 2021 Heat Unmissables Award, for TV Moment of the Year. Rose is now expected to be named as a recipient of a Member of the Order of the British Empire in The Queen’s birthday honours list.
The Sun on Sunday reports: “She is now in the frame for a gong for services to the deaf community, thanks to her ballroom triumph on the BBC’s Strictly. Her performances – including one with a silent section – sent enrolments for sign-language courses soaring.” And a source told the publication: “Her success on Strictly shone a light on the deaf community in a way that surpassed everyone’s expectations.
“Not only did she raise awareness about the challenges deaf people face, she was a true inspiration for them – particularly young people. She really did break down boundaries.” Iis perhaps not a surprise that Rose caught the attention of Her Majesty, The Queen, as it was revealed at the end of last week that the Monarch is a fan of Strictly.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was visiting the set of EastEnders with Prince Charles on Friday when she came face-to-face with Rose and told her how much the Royal Family enjoyed watching her perform on the BBC show. The Duchess gasped: “Rose, the Strictly star. I said we were all voting for Rose, I don't know how you did all those dances.”
Rose then plucked up the courage to ask: “Can I ask you, does the Queen watch Strictly Come Dancing?” Camilla confirmed that the Monarch does, saying: “I think she does. She probably watched you.”
Speaking after meeting the Duchess of Cornwall, Rose said: “It was really funny because she's a huge fan of Strictly Come Dancing and she mentioned that she voted for me which is so lovely, and her grandchildren watch it. It is amazing, so lovely. I mean come on, its the Royal Family voting for me, sometimes you forget how many people watch the show, I am mind-blown.”
The next season of Strictly is expected to begin airing around August – with fans due to see Anton Du Beke returning to the judging panel once again after impressing bosses first with a brief appearance in the hot seat in 2020, and then as a full judge last year. Fellow judge Craig Revel Horwood confirmed that Anton has effectively replaced Bruno Tonioli – who has not appeared on the show full time since 2019 as Covid and commitments to Dancing With The Stars in the USA kept him away form the UK.
Craig said: "I really love Anton. I think he is fantastic. I think last year he did a great job on Strictly as a judge. And we have just found out he is going to do it again this year." The choreographer reportedly admitted he misses Bruno's "energy" on the panel.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A second suspect was arrested Tuesday in connection to the mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six people and wounded 12 in California’s capital, and police said he is the brother of the first suspect.
Smiley Martin, 27, was arrested while hospitalized with serious injuries from the gunfire, making him one of the wounded. When he is fit for jail, he will be booked for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun, a police statement said.
More than 100 shots were fired early Sunday in downtown Sacramento, creating a chaotic scene with hundreds of people trying desperately to get to safety. A day later police announced the arrest of Dandrae Martin, 26, as a “related suspect” on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and being a convict carrying a loaded gun. His first court appearance was set for Tuesday.
Detectives and SWAT team members found one handgun during searches of three area homes. Smiley Martin was located at the scene and taken to a hospital, police said.
“Smiley Martin was quickly identified as a person of interest and has remained under the supervision of an officer at the hospital while his treatment continues. Based on information developed during this investigation, Smiley Martin was taken into custody by Sacramento Police Department detectives on April 5, 2022,” the statement said.
The arrests came as the three women and three men killed were identified. The shooting occurred at about 2 a.m. Sunday as bars were closing and patrons filled the streets near the state Capitol. The fallen included a father of four, a young woman who wanted to be a social worker, a man described as the life of the party, and a woman who lived on the streets nearby and was looking for housing.
The Sacramento County coroner identified the women killed as Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21. The three men were Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; and De’vazia Turner, 29.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg read their names during a vigil Monday evening attended by grieving relatives, friends and community members.
“So we gather here to remember the victims and to commit ourselves to doing all we can to ending the stain of violence, not only in our community but throughout the state, throughout the country, and throughout the world,” Steinberg said.
Turner, who had three daughters and a son, was a “protector” who worked as the night manager at an inventory company, his mother, Penelope Scott, told The Associated Press. He rarely went out, and she had no reason to believe he would be in harm’s way when he left her house after he visited Saturday night.
“My son was walking down the street and somebody started shooting, and he got shot. Why is that to happen?” Scott said. “I feel like I’ve got a hole in my heart.”
The burst of gunshots sent people running in terror in the neighborhood just a few blocks from the arena where the NBA’s Sacramento Kings play.
Police were investigating whether the shooting was connected with a street fight that broke out just before gunfire erupted. Several people could be seen in videos scrapping on a street lined with an upscale hotel, nightclubs and bars when gunshots sent people scattering.
Detectives also were trying to determine if a stolen handgun found at the crime scene was connected to the shooting, Police Chief Kathy Lester said. Witnesses answered her plea for help by providing more than 100 videos and photos of evidence.
District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert noted that Dandrae Martin was not arrested on suspicion of homicide, but suggested investigators were making progress.
“The investigation is highly complex involving many witnesses, videos of numerous types and significant physical evidence,” Schubert said in a statement. “This is an ongoing investigation and we anticipate more arrests in this case.”
Dandrae Martin, who was held without bail, was freed from an Arizona prison in 2020 after serving just over 1 1/2 years for violating probation in separate cases involving a felony conviction for aggravated assault in 2016 and a conviction on a marijuana charge in 2018. Court records show he pleaded guilty to punching, kicking and choking a woman in a hotel room when she refused to work for him as a prostitute.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday whether the Martins had attorneys who could speak on their behalf.
Four of those wounded suffered critical injuries, the Sacramento Fire Department has said. At least seven of the victims had been released from hospitals by Monday.
At the scene where the chaos erupted, memorials with candles and flowers grew on the same sidewalks where video showed people screaming and running for shelter as others lay on the ground writhing in pain.
A small bouquet of purple roses was dedicated to Melinda Davis, who lived on the streets for years, with a note saying “Melinda Rest In Peace.”
Politicians decried the shooting, and some Democrats, including President Joe Biden, called for tougher action against gun violence.
California has some of the nation’s toughest restrictions on firearms, requiring background checks to buy guns and ammunition, limiting magazines to 10 bullets, and banning firearms that fall into its definition of assault weapons.
But state lawmakers plan to go further. A bill getting its first hearing Tuesday would allow citizens to sue those who possess illegal weapons, a measure patterned after a controversial Texas bill aimed at abortions.
Other proposed California legislation this year would make it easier for people to sue gun companies and target unregistered “ghost guns,” firearms made from build-it-yourself kits.
The California Assembly held a moment of silence Monday in honor of the victims. Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat who represents Sacramento, noted lawmakers could see the crime scene from the building’s balcony.
“Tragic is too small of a word to describe what occurred just two nights ago as a devastating loss for our city,” McCarty said.
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Associated Press writers Stefanie Dazio, Brian Melley and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Don Thompson in Sacramento, Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York City contributed to this story.
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The M20 is facing more closures as a result of contraflow system, Operation Brock. The coastbound carriageway between junctions 8 and 9 of the M20 at Ashford and Maidstone has been closed to allow for lorries to queue for cross-Channel services.
This has caused delays to build on the M20 while traffic is being diverted around the road. All non-freight traffic is currently being told to avoid the road whilst the closure remains in place.
Traffic site Inrix said: "M20 coastbound closed due to the motorway being used to hold lorries heading for the channel crossings between J8 (Leeds Castle / Maidstone Services) and J9 (Ashford). Congestion to J7 (Maidstone / Detling Hill).
READ MORE: Operation Brock: Dramatic photos show extent of M20 traffic chaos as Dover brought to a standstill
"The road is closed to all non-freight traffic heading coastbound. The London bound side of the road remains open to all traffic." Updates will be provided as and when we receive them. Information on diversions around the closed section of the M20 will also be provided.
Follow live updates on this incident in our live blog below.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said Monday that judges are not deciding cases to impose a “policy result,” but are making their best effort to determine what the law and the Constitution require.
In a nation splintered by partisanship and wracked by incivility, Barrett in remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library appeared to acknowledge that expected court decisions on reproductive rights and gun control would be seen through a political lens and lead to division. She urged Americans to “read the opinion” and consider the court’s reasoning before making judgments about the outcome.
“Does (the decision) read like something that was purely results driven and designed to impose the policy preferences of the majority, or does this read like it actually is an honest effort and persuasive effort, even if one you ultimately don’t agree with, to determine what the Constitution and precedent requires?” she asked.
Americans should judge the court — or any federal court — by its reasoning, she said. “Is its reasoning that of a political or legislative body, or is its reasoning judicial?” she asked.
The program was briefly interrupted by a heckler. Barrett said afterward, “As a mother of seven, I am used to distractions and sometimes even outbursts,” which elicited a round of applause from the capacity crowd.
In a wide-ranging, 45-minute interview at the hilltop library, Barrett also spoke dubiously of introducing cameras to the high court, defended free speech rights and admitted she is a lousy basketball shot.
While she said she was not expressing an opinion on cameras in the courtroom, she added “people don’t behave the same when they know that there’s a camera there.”
Barrett’s appearance at the library — in Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles — came on the same day that Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney said they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, bolstering bipartisan support for the first Black woman to be nominated.
Barrett was asked what advice she would have for a new justice.
“I think one of the difficult things that I experienced that I wasn’t really fully prepared for, was the shift into being a public figure,” she said. “Also, security is much different now. … We all have security details and that’s different.”
Barrett was nominated by then-President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy after the death of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was confirmed without Democratic support in late October 2020 – just days before the election — in a deeply divided Senate, 52-48. Her approval by the Senate’s Republican majority cemented conservative control of the court.
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A planning application to convert a business centre into four flats is among the new proposals submitted to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. Here is an at-a-glance list to keep up to date with what's new from across the Tunbridge Wells borough.
Many new planning applications have been lodged with the council. You can see what's new at the council and what applications will be considered by the planning teams.
Applications can make fascinating reading, as they contain letters of objection, comments from departments such as highways or conservation. They also give context, including the history of the site in terms of planning application or issues such as contamination or the archaeological significance of the site.
Read more: 285 bus saved after Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark MP negotiates subsidies
Redhouse Barn Goddards Green Road Benenden Cranbrook Kent Proposal: Conversion and extension of rural barn and its curtilage to residential use; demolition of three existing outbuildings and erection of new garage/stable building
Longwood The Midway Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN4 8NJ Proposal: Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) Erection of outbuilding within rear residential curtilage.
The Star Inn Maidstone Road Matfield Tonbridge TN12 7JR Proposal: Advertisement Consent - Replacing the existing signage with new in the same locations but with a new design.
OS Plot 6860 West Side Of Maidstone Road Matfield Tonbridge Kent Proposal: Outline Planning Permission (Access Not Reserved) - Erection of 15 No. residential dwellings, including affordable housing provision, additional car parking for Matfield Village Hall, the provision of open and children's play space, sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDs), new vehicular access and associated works.
1-4 Crockhurst Street Cottages Crockhurst Street Tudeley Tonbridge Kent, TN11 0NT Listed building consent: Chimney repairs
Glebelands Five Oak Green Road Tudeley Tonbridge Kent Proposal: Submission of details in relation to condition 4 (contamination). With application 21/01303/FULL
23 Mount Pleasant Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent, TN1 1NT Proposal: Change of use from shop to sui generis hot food takeaway, plus installation of vent system to the rear
6 Grosvenor Park Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 2BD Proposal: Erection of a single storey side return extension, alterations to rear elevation, removal of chimney and a loft conversion with rooflights to the front and dormer window to the rear
Mayhouse Farm Camden Hill Sissinghurst Cranbrook Kent Proposal: Removal of old outbuilding, erection of replacement
Spray Hill Farm Spray Hill Lamberhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent, TN3 8JB Proposal: Demolition of double garage with store and the erection of a combined garage, cart lodge, store and office
Byways Curtisden Green Lane Goudhurst Cranbrook Kent Proposal: Erection of infill extension to the rear of the property and provision of a roof dormer to rear elevation. Rear ground floor extension, additin of dormer to rear of property, addition of sky lights to roof of property, door added to side of property
4 Clay Cottages Clayhill Goudhurst Cranbrook TN17 1BE Proposal: Demolition of existing garage and construction of 1no dwelling with associated parking and landscaping
Peachtree Cottage Hastings Road Lamberhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent Proposal: Two storey side extension and single storey rear extension
Nursery Farm Oast London Road Flimwell Wadhurst Kent Proposal: Erection of three bay cart style garage/implement store and log store
Little Grange Cottage Perch Lane Lamberhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent Proposal: Replacement of conservatory roof,
High Views Ballards Hill Goudhurst Cranbrook Kent Proposal: Proposed swimming pool, addtional landscaping around proposed works,
2 Jasmine Cottages Talbot Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent Proposal: To install a sump pump, chamber and drainage gullies to the existing cellar floor.
Victoria House Rural Business Centre The Moor Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent Change of use from commercial to four flats
Field Green Lodge Field Green Sandhurst Cranbrook Kent Proposal: Electricity Notification: The upgrading of 1 span of 2 wire Low Voltage Overhead Line between points A to B with PVC bundled conductor. The removal of 2 spans of Low Voltage overhead line between points B to C. These spans to be replaced with underground cable.
Brook House Cranbrook Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent Proposal: Approval of Reserved Matters (Appearance, Landscaping, Layout, Scale) - Erection of 25 apartments including details of the layout, scale, appearance, internal access roads and landscaping of the development and associated infrastructure and earthworks
33 Western Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 2JQ Proposal: Demolition of lean-to rear extension and erection of single storey rear extension
10 Fairfield Avenue Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 3SD Proposal: Proposed dropped kerb and all associated works
107 Stephens Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN4 9QB Proposal: Erection of rear extension, reduction of garage footprint to form single parking bay at the front of the house, new rear roof dormer,
56 Newlands Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN4 9AU Proposal: Prior notification for a proposed single storey rear extension which: A) Extends by 4.00 metres beyond the rear wall of the original dwelling; B) Has a maximum height of 4.00 metres from the natural ground level; C) Has a height of 3.00 metres at the eaves from the natural ground level.
Cobden House 25 London Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1DA Proposal: First floor extension to to rear of RTW skin Medical Centre to enlarge existing administration office, Change use of clinic treatment rooms & office to Dental Practice. Various internal and external alterations , erection of new waiting room structure to serve Medical Centre and ancillary Dental Practice. Internal & external alterations to enable works.
17 Farmcombe Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5DE Proposal: Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) Proposed hip-to-gable roof conversion plus rear dormer plus rooflights.
18 Cavendish Drive Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5DX Proposal: Proposed dormer extensions to side elevations with hip-to-gable roof to rear elevation
Beale House 187 Forest Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5JA Proposal: Submission of Details in relation to condtion 11 ( Biodiversity Enhancement Scheme ). With application 21/02313/FULL
Claremont County Primary School Banner Farm Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5EB Proposal: Trees in a Conservation Area Notification: SYCAMORE (1542) - Re-pollard to a height of 5m; OAK (1543) - Reduce crown by approximately 4 metres (30%) and reduce crown width proportionately Fern Lodge 46 Frant Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5LJ Proposal: Trees in a Conservation Area Notification: CONIFER (T1) - Fell; CONIFER (T2) - Fell; CONIFER (T3) - Fell.
33 The Coppice Pembury Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4EY Proposal: Two storey extension to side of property, Single storey extension to rear of property, New lean to roof on front of property, Removal of Front lawn replaced with hard standing car parking spaces.
11-12 Priplan House Crescent Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent, TN1 2LU Proposal: Installation of double glazing to western flank; installation of signage and cladding; erection of cycle store and bin store in car park; associated landscaping works;
Hawkenbury Farm Hawkenbury Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 9AD Proposal: Submission of Details in Relation to condition 7 (Contamination verification reports). With application 20/01306/FULL
7A Sandrock Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 3PX Replacement car port (part retrospective)
1 Farrance Court The Ferns Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 2JL Proposal: Trees in a Conservation Area Notification: 2x SYCAMORE - Reduce crowns by 20%; ALDER - Reduce crown by 20%; 5x CYPRESS - Reduce height by 30%; OAK - Reduce crown by 20%; LIME - Reduce crown by 20%.
The Brackens Queen Street Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent Proposal: 1200mm window to replaced by 3570mm x 2100mm folding sliding door on the side elevation.
48 Church Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent TN12 6HE Proposal: Proposed rear extension, part over two floors, loft conversion and alterations to front porch.
Orange Communication Station Transfesa Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Proposal: Telecommunication Notification -Alteration to existing sharer TEF/02 apparatus
Paddock Wood Memorial Recreation Ground Maidstone Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent Proposal: Submission of Details in relation to condition 18 (Crime Prevention). With Application 20/03848/FULL
Paddock Wood Memorial Recreation Ground Maidstone Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent Proposal: Submission of Details in relation to condition 12 (External Lighting). With application 20/03848/FULL.
Land At Mascalls Farm Badsell Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Proposal: Non material amendment in relation to application 19/03349/FULL (Phase 2 - house changes)
Police Office 136 - 138 Maidstone Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent Proposal: Submission of Details in relation to condition 16 (Refuse Storage and Screening), and 17 (External Lighting). With application 19/02999/FULL
33 Clover Way Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent TN12 6BQ Proposal: Single storey rear extension to replace conservatory
71 Erskine Park Road Rusthall Tunbridge Wells Kent TN4 8UP Proposal: Prior notification for a proposed single storey rear extension which: A) Extends by 5.00 metres beyond the rear wall of the original dwelling; B) Has a maximum height of 3.50 metres from the natural ground level; C) Has a height of 3.50 metres at the eaves from the natural ground level.
48 Bounds Oak Way Southborough Tunbridge Wells Kent TN4 0TN Proposal: Single storey rear extension, front second storey extension to create gable, single storey front extension. Loft conversion with replacement roof and rear dormer, changes to fenestration and materiality.
Grey Lodge 1 Pennington Road Southborough Tunbridge Wells Kent Proposal: Trees in a Conservation Area Notification: SILVER BIRCH (T1) - Remove
Forge Farm Slaughter House Powder Mill Lane Southborough Tunbridge Wells TN4 9EG Proposal: Relocation of a new lairage building and the installation of a new access track previously approved under TW/17/03380/FULL, the replacement of two existing rural worker's mobile homes with a permanent dwelling and all associated engineering operations
Land Between Blackthorn Avenue And Aspen Way Southborough Tunbridge Wells Kent Proposal: Pruning back of two Oaks (T17 &18)
4 Speeds Farm Place Langton Green Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0BQ Proposal: Single storey side extension to western elevation of property
The Lantern House Penshurst Road Speldhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent Proposal: Submission of Details in realtion to condition 5 (Tree Protection). With application 21/03467/FULL
9 Upton Quarry Langton Green Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0HA Proposal: Demolition of single storey porch and erection of two storey front extension
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Chennai: Actor Ajmal, who impressed audiences with his stellar performances in superhits like 'Ko' and 'Anjaathey', is now playing the lead in a Tamil film titled 'Theerkadarishi'.
Directed by P G Mohan and L R Sundarapandi, the film is being produced by B Sathish Kumar of Sri Saravanaa films (OPC) Pvt Ltd.
Sources close to the actor say that the film went on the floors recently in Chennai.
Another interesting fact about the film is that it will also feature Dushyanth, the grandson of legendary Tamil film actor Sivaji Ganesan, and actor Jaiwanth, who won praises for his stellar performances in films like 'Madhya Chennai' and 'Kaatu Paiyya Sir Indha Kaali' alongside Ajmal.
Music for the film is to be scored by Balasubramaniam G and cinematography is by J Lakshman(M.F.I).
C K Ranjith Kumar will be the editor of the film, while the lyrics for the songs of the film are to be penned by Viveka, Vivek.
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Chennai: Actor Ajmal, who impressed audiences with his stellar performances in superhits like 'Ko' and 'Anjaathey', is now playing the lead in a Tamil film titled 'Theerkadarishi'.
Directed by P G Mohan and L R Sundarapandi, the film is being produced by B Sathish Kumar of Sri Saravanaa films (OPC) Pvt Ltd.
Sources close to the actor say that the film went on the floors recently in Chennai.
Another interesting fact about the film is that it will also feature Dushyanth, the grandson of legendary Tamil film actor Sivaji Ganesan, and actor Jaiwanth, who won praises for his stellar performances in films like 'Madhya Chennai' and 'Kaatu Paiyya Sir Indha Kaali' alongside Ajmal.
Music for the film is to be scored by Balasubramaniam G and cinematography is by J Lakshman(M.F.I).
C K Ranjith Kumar will be the editor of the film, while the lyrics for the songs of the film are to be penned by Viveka, Vivek.
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There she is! The little girl smelling a rose on the cover page of the first edition of Balarama. Meet 56-year-old Anila Baby John, a resident of Kaloor who lives at Green city Orchid flat.
She is the daughter of Kottayam Karapuzha Kanjiraparambil Thomas Raju and Daisy. She also has a twin sister. The photographer was AK John.
Her mother had already informed her about the republishing of her Balarama cover photo in the Sunday edition of the newspaper. Her uncle KT John was the Printing division head of Malayala Manorama for the last 56 years. His son, Thomas Raju used to work at MRF.
When the twin sisters married twin brothers, Manorama published it as a news item. Anila got married to Jose (Karthikapalli Pushpavilasam) and her twin Anitha married his brother Benny.
When both brothers went to Bahrain to work, some English and Arab newspapers had also made their unusual match into a news item. The twin sisters had also appeared in films like ‘Thrisandhya’ and ‘Sandhyakenthinu Sindooram.’
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South Indian actor Rashmika Mandanna who has won a million hearts through her performance as Srivalli in Telugu movie 'Pushpa: The Rise' is celebrating her 26th birthday on Tuesday.
A video of the young actor who can be seen wearing a red-coloured hijab and a striped shrug, was released by the makers of her upcoming movie on the day, with a 'Happy Birthday Afreen' tag in the end.
The movie directed by Telugu director Hanu Raghavapudi is yet to get a title and stars Malayalam actor Dulquer Salmaan in the lead.
'Meet our rebellious #Afreen as she unravels one of the most beautiful tales ever', the makers described under the video.
The movie is produced by Swapna Cinema and presented by Vyjayanthi Movies. Vishal Chandrasekhar is the music composer.
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South Indian actor Rashmika Mandanna who has won a million hearts through her performance as Srivalli in Telugu movie 'Pushpa: The Rise' is celebrating her 26th birthday on Tuesday.
A video of the young actor who can be seen wearing a red-coloured hijab and a striped shrug, was released by the makers of her upcoming movie on the day, with a 'Happy Birthday Afreen' tag in the end.
The movie directed by Telugu director Hanu Raghavapudi is yet to get a title and stars Malayalam actor Dulquer Salmaan in the lead.
'Meet our rebellious #Afreen as she unravels one of the most beautiful tales ever', the makers described under the video.
The movie is produced by Swapna Cinema and presented by Vyjayanthi Movies. Vishal Chandrasekhar is the music composer.
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It was a moment of pride for India at the Grammys as two Indian-origin musicians took home the prestigious awards for their work on Monday.
US-born music composer Ricky Kej, who is known for his international collaborations and music promoting environmental sustainability, shared the Grammys with Stewart Copeland for 'Divine Tides' which was nominated as the 'Best New Age Album'.
The album features artists from across the globe. The award is Bangalore native Kej's second after 'Winds of Samsara' in 2015.
New York-based Falguni Shah, won the Best Children's Music Album for her work 'A Colourful World'. Most of her songs are a blend of ancient classical melodies and western contemporary music. The singer who has roots in Mumbai, is known by her stage name 'Falu'.
Meanwhile, violinist and music conductor Manoj George, from Thrissur, who is also a strings arranger, worked with Ricky Kej in both the award-winning albums. Manoj is the son of George Chittilapilli and Rosy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated both the musicians in two separate tweets.
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Charles Barkley guaranteed a Kansas victory over North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament championship game – and made sure Kenny Smith felt the Tar Heels loss.
After the Jayhawks beat the Tar Heels, 72-69 — and pulled off the biggest comeback in men’s NCAA Final history Monday night — Barkley taunted his “Inside the NBA” co-host, who was an All-American at North Carolina from 1983-87.
During the post-game broadcast, Smith appeared unamused while Barkley sang in his ear, and danced to “YMCA.”
Barkley continuously poked Smith and grabbed his shoulders while he sat in a sorrow over the loss.
Just two nights prior, Smith was whistling a much different tune when his Tar Heels eliminated their rival Duke from the Final Four in a 81-77 win last Saturday.
Barkley, in the postgame TBS show on Saturday, guaranteed a Jayhawks national title.
“Not only are they going to play for a national championship on Monday, they are going to win the national championship Monday,” Barkley said at the time.
It was all in good fun between the TNT hosts after Kansas’ historic comeback to win the Jayhawks their fourth NCAA title.
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NEW YORK — Most U.S. gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones, surveys show. But a study published Monday suggests people who live with handgun owners are shot to death at a higher rate than those who don’t have such weapons at home.
“We found zero evidence of any kind of protective effects” from living in a home with a handgun, said David Studdert, a Stanford University researcher who was the lead author of the Annals of Internal Medicine study.
The study has several shortcomings. For example, the researchers said they could not determine which victims were killed by the handgun owners or with the in-home weapons. They couldn’t account for illegal guns and looked only at handguns, not rifles or other firearms.
The dataset also was limited to registered voters in California who were 21 and older. It’s not clear that the findings are generalizable to the whole state, let alone to the rest of the country, the authors acknowledged.
But some outside experts said the work was well done, important and the largest research of its kind.
“I would call this a landmark study,” said Cassandra Crifasi, a gun violence policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University. “This contributes to our understanding of the potential causal relationship between guns in the home and homicides,” she said.
California is unusual in that it offers gun ownership data and other information not obtainable in almost any other state. That allowed the researchers to follow millions of people over many years to try to better establish what happens when a person begins living in a home with handgun, they said.
The study focused on nearly 600,000 Californians who did not own handguns but began living in homes with handguns between October 2004 and December 2016 — either because they started living with someone who owned one or because someone in their household bought one.
The researchers calculated that for every 100,000 people in that situation, 12 will be shot to death by someone else over five years. In comparison, eight out of 100,000 who live in gun-free homes will be killed that way over the same time span.
“The rates are low” and the absolute risk is small, but it’s important to consider the increase in a person’s risk of being killed, Studdert said.
Those numbers suggest the risk rises 50%, but Studdert said it’s actually higher: In a separate calculation designed to better account for where people live and other factors, the researchers estimated the risk was actually more than twice as high.
Separately, the researchers found that those who lived with handgun owners had a much higher rate of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner. The vast majority of such victims — 84% — were women, they said.
The study was confined to California, but the risk is likely even greater in states with less stringent gun laws and where gun ownership is more common, Crifasi said.
Previous research estimated that nearly 3% of U.S. adults became new gun owners between January 2019 and April 2021, which translates to about 7.5 million Americans. Of those, about 5.4 million previously lived in a home with no guns.
For decades, studies have shown guns in the home raise the risk of a violent death. Much of that work, including an earlier study by Studdert and his colleagues, focused on suicide.
The new study goes further in addressing the perception that handguns are still worthwhile because of the safety they provide against being murdered, some experts said.
“The reason people have guns in their home is for protection from strangers,” said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard University’s Injury Control Research Center. “But what this is showing that having a gun in the home is bad for people in the home.”
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Master-at-Arms 1st Class April Carmickle joined the Navy 8 years ago at the age of 23 after earning two college degrees.
The Rocky Mount, N.C., native currently serves with the Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola Security Department and was recently selected to become a limited duty officer (LDO).
Carmickle, who was a veterinary technician before joining the Navy, said she always desired to serve, and enlisting in the Navy was an avenue for her to accomplish her personal and professional goals.
“I felt an overwhelming calling to serve and protect,” she said. “God thankfully placed people in my life who guided me to join the Navy.”
Carmickle studied criminal justice in college, sparking an interest in Navy law enforcement.
“I wanted a career field that would allow me to use what I have already learned and gain more experience towards what I am working on,” Carmickle said.
Carmickle said as a master-at-arms with the Security Department she enjoys “helping people through some of their worst life experiences.”
“Usually if you’re interacting with me, you’re not having a good day,” she said.
It’s important to show people love, empathy, patience and grace through that experience, she explained.
“MA1 Carmickle is a very talented self-starter — she is very organized,” said Master-at-Arms Senior Chief Petty Officer Christopher Upton, senior enlisted leader, NAS Pensacola Security Department. “Her ability to learn quickly makes her stand out as a first class petty officer. She is focused on ensuring the Sailors under her have everything they need to be successful.”
Upton said Carmickle leads by example and makes herself available for junior Sailors.
“She mentors her Sailors and pushes them to do well — as evident by the number of Sailors the Security Department advances through the Meritorious Advancement Program and the Navy Advancement Cycle,” Upton said. “She works to better herself by completing college classes and educating herself on Navy policies and instructions.”
Upton said Carmickle has volunteered to serve in several critical roles while assigned to NAS Pensacola.
“MA1 Carmickle was assigned to be the Command Management Equal Opportunity Program manager after being onboard a short time,” he said. “Without hesitation, she took ownership of the program and has performed admirably.”
She also assumed the position of Installation Physical Security Officer with zero knowledge or experience, Upton said.
“She educated herself on the Physical Security Program policies and instructions,” he said. “She improved the program’s inspections scores from a 43 percent to a 93 percent within one year with very little oversight. The Physical Security Plan she wrote is used by Commander, Navy Region Southeast (CNRSE) as the template for all installations in the region to use.”
Carmickle, who enjoys hiking, kayaking, paddle boarding, swimming and exploring caves and waterfalls, said she is nervous and excited about her new journey to become a limited duty officer.
She said the love of her professional community and a calling from God motivated her to submit an LDO package.
Carmickle, who is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in emergency management, said the LDO selection process has been very intense, but is confident her hard work will pay off.
“Since I am an E-6, first I had to pass the Chief exam,” she said. “Then I had to put together a package summarizing my career, ensure all of my electronic records were good and nothing was missing, and complete three appraisal boards — those were the hardest. They usually lasted a few hours, and you were asked a wide range of questions that you needed to answer confidently.”
Carmickle said she recommends fellow Sailors stay on top of professional military education in order to progress in the Navy.
“When you work on a Navy Personnel Qualification Standard (PQS), complete each line item on your fundamentals by reading the references and writing notes,” she said. “That is how you learn your job and study for advancement simultaneously.”
Upton said Carmickle will definitely be a success in the Navy’s officer community.
“The Navy certainly got this one right,” Upton said. “I have told her and only one other first class petty officer in my 26 year career that I would be happy to serve under them as my Security Officer. MA1 Carmickle has documented sustained superior performance as a first class petty officer. She will make a fine Naval officer.”
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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- During the months of April and May, Civilian Health Promotion Services is encouraging the workforce to take 10-minute breaks during the workday to participate in its physical activity challenge: RECESS.
Remember recess? During our youth, recess was a scheduled period in the school day for physical activity and play. As adults, many of us have sedentary jobs where we sit for hours working with rare pauses for a walk down the hall. Too much sitting time can be harmful.
Research has linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of health concerns. They include obesity and a cluster of conditions — increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol levels - that make up metabolic syndrome. Sitting for long periods of time can also result in tight hip flexor and hamstring muscles that may contribute to lower back and knee stiffness, making activities like walking harder.
Sitting less and moving more will contribute to overall better health. The impact of movement can be profound. You’ll burn more calories which may lead to weight loss and increased energy. Also, physical activity helps maintain muscle tone and your ability to move.
Here are some quick ways to get your body moving during the day:
-Take a break from sitting every 30 minutes- walk around or do a few stretching exercises.
-When watching television, take walking breaks during commercials.
-Run errands-or walk- during your lunch break.
-Maintain the homestead yourself instead of paying someone to do it. Yard work and house work can get the blood flowing.
So get more active – and start feeling better today.
To participate in the RECESS Physical Activity Challenge:
1. Visit USAFwellness.com to enroll from April 1 - 13, 2022.
2. Print your RECESS confirmation email and complete an in-person initial check-in with CHPS between April 4-15 to receive the Cooler Bag enrollment award.
3. Perform and log at least 750 minutes (12.50 hours) of physical activity from April 14 - May 25 on the USAFwellness.com Activity Log.
4. Attend the RECESS class with CHPS titled, “Fitness at Home: No Gym, No Problem” from April 14 - May 25. In-person and virtual sessions available.
5. Attend an in-person check-out event with CHPS from May 31 - June 10 to receive your Yoga Mat completion award.
For more information on weight management, healthy lifestyles, and physical activity programs, visit USAFwellness.com or visit your local CHPS office.
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The Hexa, an electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, lifts off for its first test flight April 4 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The Hexa team completed the aircraft’s first unmanned flight test via remote control. The aircraft, which used 18 motors and propellors, flew for approximately 10 minutes and reached a height of about 50 feet. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
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In this lesson, you'll have to be the most powerful of beeps, Boo bo! As your BEE PACK budgit and the magnik Bee-sicles try again theater in İstanbuu is reache a deal…you. This cocoon of lı̻fe’s hard life as long enough to build up some ghe͆st is very importı͌t Is it possible to reverse the biological signs and physical symptoms of aging? Skin Envy Non-Surgical Weight Loss Center says yes, with help from something called Sermorelin.
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Listen to these testimonials from sermorelin users on how Skin Envy Non-Surgical Weight Loss Center has helped improve the quality of their lives.
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If you are retired or nearing retirement, you may be hesitant to keep or put your hard-earned dollars into a market that sometimes resembles a casino. If you'd rather keep your money safe in a place where it can grow, Jacobs Financial Services is there to help.
Tom Jacobs from Jacobs Financial Services shares alternate ways people can invest their money so they can save for a happy retirement.
Jacobs Financial Services has locations in Grandville, Norton Shores, and Kalamazoo.
Learn more or schedule an appointment by calling 616-622-4654 or visiting jacobsfs.com.
This segment is sponsored by Jacobs Financial Services.
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There are so many before and afters on social media of people getting rid of eye bags in just minutes. The transformations are incredible and almost unbelievable, but what product could produce such drastic results?
Plexaderm claims to work in just minutes to reduce some of the key signs of aging like wrinkles, crow's feet, under-eye bags, and more.
Lifestyle expert Annette Figueroa explains the science behind Plexaderm, and how it works.
Plexaderm is giving Fox 17 Morning Mix viewers a special deal on their product. Mention seeing Plexaderm on the show, and receive a six-day six application trial pack for $14.94 with free shipping.
To order, call 1-800-923-8973 or visit plexaderm.com.
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To have an appointment to meet our Director / Principa to enrol. You won’ t get lost here, no hidden fees - No commissio. Gp ess test answers pdf free torrent link for the new free driver. If he had asked “ is this one big happy funky family. Please complete and file your test fee wwa/ ess registration ”. The EMPRIS online- testing- system makes available many testing functions online available for registration/ can- Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the bill that guarantees abortion access and other reproductive rights in state statute on Monday.
HB22-1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, says that state and local public entities are prohibited from interfering with a person’s right to continue a pregnancy, give birth, or have an abortion. It also calls people’s access to contraception a “fundamental right.”
The bill passed the Senate on March 23 to head to Polis’ desk after more than 36 hours worth of public testimony in both chambers of the legislature.
Polis thanked the bill’s sponsors – Rep. Meg Froelich, House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar and Sen. Julie Gonzales – for sponsoring the legislation as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule this summer on a challenge regarding a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks, which the sponsors and other say is a direct challenge to the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.
“In the state of Colorado, the very serious decision to start a pregnancy or end a pregnancy with medical assistance remains between a person, their doctor and their faith,” Polis said in the bill signing news conference. “…As the federal legal landscape further evolves, Colorado can now continue to assure our residents that the very intimate right to choose how and whether to proceed with family planning and pregnancy can continue as it has been protected at the state level. Because in Colorado, we truly respect individual rights and freedom.”
Sponsors have pointed to Texas’ Senate Bill 8 took effect last September, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Colorado decriminalized abortion care in 1967 six years prior to the Roe v. Wade decision.
They have also said that Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada would likely be the only states in the Rocky Mountain region where people might have access to abortion care.
“We don’t ever want to see something that’s happening in Texas happen here in Colorado, and it’s too bad that we have to do this,” Esgar said. “But we’re seeing what’s happening on the federal level and we need to be making sure that we are doing our job as lawmakers here to protect the people of Colorado.”
Sponsors said earlier this month they will also prepare a statewide constitutional amendment ballot measure for 2024 to enshrine reproductive rights in the constitution as well.
“The people speaking unanimously through their democratic elected representatives in both chambers have affirmed that we should trust Coloradans to make their own reproductive health care decisions,” Gonzales said, also thanking the various groups that have supported their measure and other reproductive rights bills.
“This is about freedom and this is about power,” she added. “The freedom to decide when, whether, and how to become a parent. The power to make your own decision about your body and your health without having to ask permission of your local politician.”
This story was first reported by Blair Miller at KMGH in Denver.
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For sale- A few more weeks of storage after the bats end. I have an unloaded A470 bow press w an upgrad to Caldron (w coarsly groovy, tension and peizo pints all installed by JB Sight). The bow will do both drop/spoon as the draw is 8 in on low A 532 bow... 4 years in with a Tight S.G and a low G7, . Ivanka Trump will meet with the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, according to reports from ABC News and NBC News.
The committee sent a letter to the former president's daughter in January 2022— requesting that she voluntarily cooperate with the investigation.
The committee says it has evidence Ivanka was in the Oval Office when her father told Vice President Mike Pence that he should participate in his plan to stop the Electoral College count from being certified.
Ivanka will likely be asked about what other conversations she may have witnessed about the president's plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
According to NBC News, Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, testified virtually before the committee last week.
White House official Jared Kushner testified virtually last week before the committee for six hours.
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NEW YORK — A suspect in a series of attacks on Asian women in New York City has been indicted.
28-year-old Steven Zajonc now faces six felony counts of third-degree assault as a hate crime and seven counts of second-degree aggravated harassment.
The attacks happened in February on the east side of Manhattan, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
Police said Zajonc punched and hurt victims in other ways, without provocation.
The victims were between the ages of 19 and 57.
They were all assaulted within a three-hour time frame.
One victim was knocked unconscious and hospitalized. The others suffered bruises, bleeding and lacerations.
The Manhattan DA’s office said it is currently investigating 27 hate crime cases related to anti-Asian attacks.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 40 to 55 mph with gusts up to 80 mph
expected. Winds may locally exceed 90 MPH near the Sierra
Madre Range in the Upper North Platte River Valley.
* WHERE...Lower elevations of Carbon and Albany Counties
including Muddy Gap, Shirley Basin, Baggs, Rawlins, Saratoga,
and Laramie.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM MDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers. There will be an extreme risk for
vehicle blowovers! Winds of this magnitude may also lead to
tree, power line, and property damage. Secure loose items.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts
of 58 mph or more can lead to property damage.
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Looking east on Interstate 80 at mile marker 280 between Laramie and Rawlins, this screenshot of a Wyoming Department of Transportation webcam shows wet and slick roads at about 8:30 Tuesday morning. The interstate was closed to light, high-profile vehicles between exits 279 and 235 between Laramie and Rawlins because of an extreme blowover risk from high winds. Some sections also report being slick in spots with slush and blowing snow.
High winds, slick pavement and blowing snow have prompted the Wyoming Department of Transportation to close a section of Interstate 80 between Laramie and Rawlins to some vehicles.
As of 8:45 a.m., the interstate was closed to light, high-profile vehicles from exits 279 and 235 because of "extreme blow-over risk," according to the WYDOT online travel information tracker.
Conditions along the stretch of interstate include dangerous winds with some spots reportedly slick with snowfall, slush and blowing snow. The views from WYDOT webcams placed along I-80 show little snowfall, but enough to cause dangerous conditions.
A high wind watch for southern Wyoming remains in effect at least through 6 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service reports. As of the time of this report, it was 30 degrees in Laramie with winds blowing steady at 48 mph with gusts as high as 70 mph.
The forecast is for the temperature to come up slightly to about 35 with winds continuing throughout the day, decreasing to about 25-30 mph after midnight with gusts as high as 60 mph. For Wednesday, expect a high near 37 with winds gusting to about 45 mph.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West to northwest winds 40 to 50 MPH with gusts up to
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* WHERE...Southeast Wyoming along and east of the Laramie Range.
* WHEN...6 PM MDT this evening until 6 PM MDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds may be
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De Gringos y Gremmies perform live at the Wyoming Showcase at Treefort Music Festival in Boise. De Gringos y Gremmies were featured on the 2021 Summer Road Trip Playlist. Courtesy
The Wyoming Arts Council is seeking music from Wyoming musicians for the 2022 Summer Road Trip Playlist. This is a statewide call open to independent musicians of all genres.
The Summer Road Trip Playlist is an annual release hosted on Spotify and promoted at high tourism areas across the state, such as at state parks, historic sites and trails; Wyoming visitor centers; museums and festivals. In addition to the promotion of the playlist, artists will receive featured pieces on their music through Wyoming Arts Council media channels.
To apply for consideration, musicians must complete the interest form online by April 27. The form requires some general information about the artist's music as well as web links to up to two songs already listed on Spotify in order to be considered.
Songs will be juried by Kendall Smith, director or programming at The Arts Campus at Willits in Basalt, Colorado, based on the merit of the song and the quality of the recording. The playlist will then be curated to form a cohesive listening experience. There is no limit to the number of songs selected for the playlist.
The Summer Road Trip Playlist is an annual part of the Arts Council’s Wyoming Independent Music Initiative (WIMI), which is working to build a robust music scene in Wyoming.
For additional information, please contact Taylor Craig, taylor.craig@wyo.gov, or 307-274-6673.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle.
David won. And the stunning upset on Friday brought sudden exposure to the organizers and worker advocates who realized victory for the nascent Amazon Labor Union when so many other more established labor groups had failed before them, including most recently in Bessemer, Alabama.
Initial results in that election show the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer rejecting a bid to form a union. The final outcome is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots hanging in the balance. A hearing to review the ballots is expected to begin in the coming weeks.
Chris Smalls, a fired Amazon worker who heads the ALU, has been critical of the RWDSU’s campaign, saying it didn’t have enough local support. Instead, he chose an independent path, believing workers organizing themselves would be more effective and undercut Amazon’s narrative that “third party” groups were driving union efforts.
“They were not perceived as outsiders, so that’s important,” said Ruth Milkman, a sociologist of labor and labor movements at the City University of New York.
While the odds were stacked against both union drives, with organizers facing off against a deep-pocketed retailer with an uninterrupted track record of keeping unions out of its U.S. operations, ALU was decidedly underfunded and understaffed compared with the RWDSU. Smalls said as of early March, ALU had raised and spent about $100,000 and was operating on a week-to-week budget. The group doesn’t have its own office space, and was relying on community groups and two unions to lend a hand. Legal help came from a lawyer offering pro-bono assistance.
Meanwhile, Amazon exercised all its might to fend off the organizing efforts, routinely holding mandatory meetings with workers to argue why unions are a bad idea. In a filing released last week, the company disclosed it spent about $4.2 million last year on labor consultants, who organizers say Amazon hired to persuade workers not to unionize.
Outmatched financially, Smalls and others relied on their ability to reach workers more personally by making TikTok videos, giving out free marijuana and holding barbecues and cookouts. A few weeks before the election, Smalls’ aunt cooked up soul food for a union potluck, including macaroni and cheese, collard greens, ham and baked chicken. Another pro-union worker got her neighbor to prepare Jollof rice, a West African dish organizers believed would help them make inroads with immigrant employees at the warehouse.
Kate Andrias, professor of law at Columbia University and an expert in labor law, noted a successful union — whether it is local or national — always has to be built by the workers themselves.
“This was a clearer illustration of this," Andrias said. "The workers did this on their own.”
Amazon's own missteps may have also contributed to the election outcome on Staten Island. Bert Flickinger III, a managing director at the consulting firm Strategic Resource Group, said derogatory comments by a company executive leaked from an internal meeting calling Smalls “not smart or articulate” and wanting to make him “the face of the entire union/organizing movement” backfired.
“It came out as condescending and it helped to galvanize workers,” said Flickinger, who consults with big labor unions.
In another example, Smalls and two organizers were arrested in February after authorities got a complaint about him trespassing at the Staten Island warehouse. The ALU used the arrests to its advantage days before the union election, teaming up with an art collective to project “THEY ARRESTED YOUR CO-WORKERS” in white letters on top of the warehouse. “THEY FIRED SOMEONE YOU KNOW,” another projection said.
“A lot of workers that were on the fence, or even against the union, flipped because of that situation,” Smalls said.
Experts note it’s difficult to know how much of ALU’s grassroots nature contributed to its victory when compared with the RWDSU. Unlike New York, Alabama is a right-to-work state that prohibits a company and a union from signing a contract that requires workers to pay dues to the union that represents them.
There was also a grassroots element to the union drive in Bessemer, which began when a group of Amazon workers there approached the RWDSU about organizing.
At a virtual press conference Thursday held by the RWDSU following the preliminary results in Alabama, president Stuart Appelbaum said he believed the election in New York benefited because it was held in a union-friendly state and Amazon workers on Staten Island voted in person, not by mail as was done in Alabama.
Despite some friction between the two labor groups in the leadup to the elections, both have adopted a friendlier public relationship in the past few days. Appelbaum praised Smalls during Thursday's press conference, calling him a “charismatic, smart, dedicated leader.” Likewise, Smalls offered the RWDSU words of encouragement after their initial election loss.
For now, ALU is focusing on its win. Organizers say Amazon workers from more than 20 states have reached out to them to ask about organizing their warehouses. But they have their hands full with their own warehouse, and a neighboring facility slated to have a separate union election later this month.
Organizers are also preparing for a challenging negotiation process for a labor contract. The group has demanded Amazon officials to come to the table in early May. But experts say the retail giant, which has signaled plans to challenge the election results, will likely drag its feet.
“The number one thing is going to be fighting for the contract,” Smalls said. “We have to start that process right away because we know the longer drawn out the contract is, workers will lose hope and interest.”
Meanwhile, some workers are waiting to see what happens.
Tinea Greenway, a warehouse worker from Brooklyn, said before the election, she felt pressured by the messages she kept hearing both from Amazon and ALU organizers, and just wanted to make the decision herself. When the time came, she voted against the union because of a bad experience she’s had in the past with another union who she says didn’t fight for her.
“They won,” she said of the ALU. “So let’s see if they live up to the agreement of what they said they were going to do.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time President Barack Obama was in the White House was on Jan. 20, 2017, when he left to escort his successor — bent on overturning “Obamacare” — to the Capitol to be inaugurated.
Obama returns to the White House on Tuesday for a moment he can savor. His signature Affordable Care Act is now part of the fabric of the American health care system, and President Joe Biden is looking to extend its reach. Sign-ups under the health law have increased under Biden's stewardship, and more generous taxpayer subsidies have cut costs for enrollees, albeit temporarily.
Biden and Obama are marking the 12th anniversary of the law that back in 2010 the then-vice president had memorably called a “big (expletive) deal.” Its staying power has been enhanced by three Supreme Court victories and an emphatic thumbs-down vote by the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., which took the wind out of President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal and replace it.
The law was such a bugaboo in 2010 that Democrats rarely invoked it as they went into a midterm election that turned out to be, in Obama's own words, a “shellacking." Now, Democrats are hoping the political equation will work to their advantage, and that a focus on shoring up the tween-age health law can help them avoid a debacle at the polls this November.
In addition to talking health care at the White House, Biden and Obama plan to meet for lunch, recalling their weekly ritual when Biden served as Obama’s vice president.
“They are real friends, not just Washington friends,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. She indicated that the two presidents would also discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other world events.
Obama likes to refer to his health care law as a “starter home” that Americans can build upon, gradually reducing the 9% share of the population that remains uninsured. The rate was nearly 15% in 2013, before the coverage provisions of the law took effect. Between the health law's Medicaid expansion and its health insurance markets, more than 30 million people are now estimated to be getting coverage.
Shortly after taking office, Biden opened up the health insurance markets to anyone seeking coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his coronavirus relief bill provided a significant, though temporary, increase in financial assistance. The result was a record 14.5 million people signed up for subsidized private coverage.
When it comes to how to keep that trend going, Obama and Biden have no shortage of options to discuss.
The Biden administration has been working on a fix to what's known as the law's family glitch, a quirk estimated to be keeping about 5 million people from getting coverage under the law. The White House announced the new policy proposal Tuesday.
People tripped up by the family glitch are dependents of workers who have an offer of employer coverage that the government interprets as being affordable. As a rule, people with affordable employer coverage are not eligible for taxpayer-subsidized ACA plans.
But the issue with the current interpretation is that affordability is determined by the cost for employee-only coverage, and not more expensive family policies. Workers able to afford their own share may not be able to cover premiums for the entire family. So the family is cut out of ACA coverage.
A Biden administration regulation addressing the issue recently cleared White House review. The intent of the original policy was to prevent people with employer coverage from going into the health law's subsidized markets, but advocates say it has proven too restrictive.
The White House estimates that the fix would help 200,000 people get insurance and bring costs down for nearly 1 million more.
There are more fundamental issues for the two presidents to consider as well, both policy-wise and politically.
Unless Democrats in Congress finally coalesce around a version of Biden's social legislation, his enhanced financial assistance for millions purchasing ACA plans will expire at the end of this year. A return to higher premiums would likely trigger an increase in the number of uninsured people, a political embarrassment for Democrats committed to expanding coverage.
The Biden legislation, which passed the House but sputtered in the Senate, also includes a mechanism for providing coverage to as many as 4 million uninsured low-income adults in states that have refused the health law's Medicaid expansion. It would deliver on Biden's campaign promise to build on existing government programs to move the U.S. closer to coverage for all.
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LONDON (AP) — Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.
The university said Tuesday that the manuscripts were left in the library inside a pink gift bag, along with a note wishing the librarian a Happy Easter.
The notebooks, which include the 19th-century scientist’s famous 1837 “Tree of Life” sketch, went missing in 2001 after being removed for photographing, though at the time staff believed they might have been misplaced. After searches of the library’s collection of 10 million books, maps and manuscripts failed to find them, they were reported stolen to police in October 2020.
Local detectives notified the global police organization Interpol and launched an international hunt for the notebooks, valued at millions of pounds (dollars).
On March 9 the books reappeared, left in a public area of the building, outside the librarian’s office, which is not covered by security cameras. The two notebooks were wrapped in clingfilm inside their archive box, and appeared undamaged. The accompanying note said: “Librarian Happy Easter X.”
Darwin filled the notebooks with ideas shortly after returning from his voyage around the world on HMS Beagle, developing ideas that would bloom into his landmark work on evolution, “On the Origin of Species.”
The university's director of library services Jessica Gardner said her feeling of relief at the books’ reappearance was “profound and almost impossible to adequately express.”
“The notebooks can now retake their rightful place alongside the rest of the Darwin Archive at Cambridge, at the heart of the nation’s cultural and scientific heritage, alongside the archives of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Stephen Hawking,” she said.
The notebooks are set to go on public display from July as part of a Darwin exhibition at the library.
Cambridgeshire Police said its investigation was continuing, “and we are following up some lines of inquiry."
“We also renew our appeal for anyone with information about the case to contact us,” the force said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Batiste wears so many hats he may need a closet for them all — recording artist, bandleader, musical director, film composer, museum creative director and scion of New Orleans musical royalty. The multi-instrumentalist won five Grammys on Sunday and despite being on TV all week, not many people may know fully.
HE'S GOT ‘SOUL’
Batiste composed music, consulted on and arranged songs for Pixar's animated film “Soul,” a mid-life crisis movie mixed with a New York jazz fantasia and a body-swap comedy. He won a Golden Globe for the music alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails; and the trio also earned the Academy Award for best original score. For their work on “Soul,” Batiste, Reznor and Ross won the Grammy on Sunday for best score soundtrack f or visual media.
AT THE PIANO NIGHTLY
Batiste has toured globally with his band Stay Human and made a memorable stop at Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” in 2014. When producers of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” were considering having a house band the following year, Batiste and Stay Human were a natural fit. The mutual respect Colbert and Batiste share is obvious. The bandleader often cheers the comedian's nightly monologue from the piano, appears in segments and accompanies the musical guests. Batiste stuck with the gig even during the pandemic, coming up with tunes, both original and covers, on the spot.
MAKING SWEET MUSIC
Recording since he was a teenager, Batiste's albums include “Hollywood Africans,” produced by T Bone Burnett, “Anatomy of Angels: Live at the Village Vanguard,” and “Meditations,” a collaboration with guitarist Cory Wong. His album “Social Music” spent over a month atop the Billboard and iTunes jazz charts, and he also put together the pandemic benefit album, “Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians Relief Fund.” His eighth album and the Grammy breakthrough was 2021’s “We Are,” a sonic blow-out blending R&B, jazz, hip-hop, marching bands and rock, sometimes in the same song. He earned nods in such various categories as R&B, jazz, American roots, classical, music video and album of the year. Batiste's “American Symphony” is set to premiere at Carnegie Hall in May.
THE BIG EASY
Batiste was born into a long lineage of New Orleans musicians, which includes the Batiste Brothers Band and brass band legends Milton and “Uncle” Lionel Batiste. He played drums as a child before switching to piano at age 11. He is a graduate of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and the prestigious The Juilliard School. The music and culture of New Orleans are highlighted in Batiste’s “Freedom” video, which features the band from St. Augustine High School, which Batiste attended, marching through the city’s streets. “Jon Batiste has been a tremendous ambassador for Louisiana, as an entertainer and as someone who truly cares about the people of our great state,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday.
SIDE HUSTLES
Batiste became the first musical director for The Atlantic magazine in 2017 and is co-creative director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. He has been featured in ad campaigns for Chase, Apple, Lincoln and numerous fashion brands including Ralph Lauren, Barney’s, Nordstrom and H&M. His song “Freedom” has been showcased across the NCAA Tournament and served as the face of New Orleans ahead of Saturday night’s Final Four at the Caesars Superdome. He also had a role in Spike Lee's 2012 film “Red Hook Summer” and appeared as himself on the HBO television series “Treme.” Batiste is literally the poster boy for the upcoming New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
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- The Fed is prepared to take stronger action if inflation and inflation expectations suggest the need
- Combined impact of rate hikes and balance sheet reduction will bring policy to a more-neutral position later this year
- After policy is more neutral, extent of additional tightening depends on the evolving outlook
- Fed will tighten 'methodically' through a series of rate hikes
- War and covid lockdowns in China likely to extend supply chain bottlenecks and hurt growth
- I am watching yield curve and other data for suggests of increased downside risks to economy
- I am carefully monitoring rotation from demand for goods back to services and whether that occurs without sparking inflation
- Expects balance sheet to shrink significantly faster than the last cycle
- Most low wage workers have seen wage growth that exceeds avg inflation
There's a dichotomy here between 'stronger action' and 'methodically'. The first sounds like 50 bps while the second sounds like steady 25 bps hikes.
The stock market has slumped and the US dollar climbed since these comments, with the market more focused on the talk of 'stronger action.' I'm not sure that's the right take but the Nasdaq was vulnerable. Yields in the belly of the US Treasury curve have also risen by a couple basis points.
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The US dollar turned around in a quick move after Fed vice-chair Lael Brainard hinted at a quicker pace of rate hikes.
Here is the full text of the most important part of her speech:
Looking forward, at every meeting, we will have the opportunity to calibrate the appropriate pace of firming through the policy rate to reflect what the incoming data tell us about the outlook and the balance of risks. For today, every indicator of longer-term inflation expectations lies within the range of historical values consistent with our 2 percent target. On the other side, I am attentive to signals from the yield curve at different horizons and from other data that might suggest increased downside risks to activity. Currently, inflation is much too high and is subject to upside risks. The Committee is prepared to take stronger action if indicators of inflation and inflation expectations indicate that such action is warranted. We are committed to bringing inflation back down to its 2 percent target, recognizing that stable low inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term is vital to maintaining a strong economy and a labor market that works for everyone. The market has pushed up pricing for a 50 bps hike to 81% from 72% on this.
The FX impact is clearest in USD/JPY, which is up to 123.29 from 122.90 beforehand. There are similar-sized 30 pip
Pip
In forex markets, a pip is a percentage in point or price interest point (pip), reflecting a unit of change in an exchange rate. Major currency pairs are traditionally priced to four decimal places – a pip is one unit of the fourth decimal point, or 1/100 of a cent. The exception in this case is the Japanese yen, in which a pip is one unit of the second decimal point. Pips adhere to a rate of change that may be related to a value change in a position of specific currency rates. Forex is traded often in a lot size of 100,000 units of a base currency. In this instance, a trading position of one lot experiencing a change of 1 pip would see a change in value by 10 units of currency. Understanding Pips in Forex Trading Pips can best be understood using an example of two currencies. For example, if the NZD/USD is trading at an exchange rate of 0.6800 and the rate changes to 0.6810, then the price ratio increases by 10 pips. By extending this example, if a forex trader buys 5 lots (i.e. 5 × 100,000 = 500,000) of NZD/USD, paying $650,000 and closes the position after the 10 pips' appreciation, the trader will receive $650,500 with a profit of $500 (i.e. 500,000 (5 standard lots) × 0.0010 = $500). Pips are highly relevant to forex traders given the use of leverage and trading that takes place in margin accounts, which require very small percentages of the actual purchase price as equity for a given transaction. Some retail brokers will quote currency pairs beyond the standard 4th or 2nd decimal place, instead to the 5th or 3rd decimal place. These are quoting fractional pips, known as pipettes.
In forex markets, a pip is a percentage in point or price interest point (pip), reflecting a unit of change in an exchange rate. Major currency pairs are traditionally priced to four decimal places – a pip is one unit of the fourth decimal point, or 1/100 of a cent. The exception in this case is the Japanese yen, in which a pip is one unit of the second decimal point. Pips adhere to a rate of change that may be related to a value change in a position of specific currency rates. Forex is traded often in a lot size of 100,000 units of a base currency. In this instance, a trading position of one lot experiencing a change of 1 pip would see a change in value by 10 units of currency. Understanding Pips in Forex Trading Pips can best be understood using an example of two currencies. For example, if the NZD/USD is trading at an exchange rate of 0.6800 and the rate changes to 0.6810, then the price ratio increases by 10 pips. By extending this example, if a forex trader buys 5 lots (i.e. 5 × 100,000 = 500,000) of NZD/USD, paying $650,000 and closes the position after the 10 pips' appreciation, the trader will receive $650,500 with a profit of $500 (i.e. 500,000 (5 standard lots) × 0.0010 = $500). Pips are highly relevant to forex traders given the use of leverage and trading that takes place in margin accounts, which require very small percentages of the actual purchase price as equity for a given transaction. Some retail brokers will quote currency pairs beyond the standard 4th or 2nd decimal place, instead to the 5th or 3rd decimal place. These are quoting fractional pips, known as pipettes.
Read this Term moves in the dollar across the board.
In bonds, US 2-year yields are up 7 bps at 2.499% while 10-year yields are up 11 bps to 2.52%.
What's most-notable about these comments are who said them, not the content. Brainard is a dove and her openness to hikes suggests that the more-hawkish FOMC members will be pushing hard.
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The more hawkish Brainard comments have the dollar moving to the upside, stocks lower and yields higher.
Yields: The US 2 year is now up 7.6 basis points to 2.50% while the 10 yield is up 12.2 basis points to 2.52%. The 2-10 year spread as moved to positive two basis points out of the inversion.
Stocks: The major US indices
Indices
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Stock market indices represents an index that measures a particular stock market or a segment of the stock market. These instruments are important investors as they help compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance.The main two parameters for indices are that they are both investable and transparent. For example, investors can invest in a stock market index by buying an index fund, which is structured as either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund, and track an index. The difference between an index fund's performance and the index, if any, is called tracking error. Most major countries boast multiple indices. Commonly traded indices include the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA), EURO STOXX 50, Hang Seng Index, and many more.Stock market indices can be characterized or segmented by the index coverage set of stocks. The overall coverage of an index constitutes an underlying group of stocks, most commonly grouped together by underlying investor demand.How to Trade IndicesRetail brokers offer indices exposure through the use of contracts-for-difference (CFDs) or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each are popular ways to trade specific markets and are almost always on offer at most brokers.Investors can choose between multiple types of indices that traditionally fall within several categories. This includes country coverage, regional coverage, global coverage, exchange-based coverage, and sector-based coverage.All indices are ultimately weighted in a number of different ways. The most common mechanisms include market-capitalization weighting, free-float adjusted market capitalization weighting, volatility weighting, price weighting, and others.
Read this Term are now all lower with the NASDAQ leading the way to the downside:
Dow industrial average -54 points or -0.15% at 34869.32 S&P -23 points or -0.50% 4559.72 NASDAQ index -191 points or -1.32% 14342 Russell 2000 down -27.19 points or -1.3% at 2068.38. Gold has moved back down toward unchanged on the day near $1933.13
Forex:
EURUSD is trading to a new session low and trades below the 61.8% at 1.09499. The lows from last week at 1.0944 has also been broken with the next target coming in at swing lows from March 15 at 1.09253 followed by swing lows from March 10 and 11th at 1.0899 (call it 1.0900) USDJPY: The USDJPY has now moved above the swing area between 123.02 and 123.188. The current price is trading at 123.27.
USDJPY moves above swing area
USDCHF: The USDCHF is spiking higher and looks toward its 200 hour moving average at 0.92805
USDCHF moved up to test its 200 hour moving average
USDCAD: The USDCAD
USD/CAD
The USD/CAD is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Canadian dollar of Canada (symbol $ code CAD). The pair’s exchange rate indicates how many Canadian dollars are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/CAD is trading at 1.3500, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 1.35 Canadian dollars. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Canadian dollar (CAD) is the world’s seventh most traded currency. The United States and Canada are geographical neighbors, and as a result there is a lot of trade between the two countries. Thus, there is often decent volatility and low spreads for the USD/CAD, typically between 1 and 3 pips on most foreign exchange brokers. Factors Influencing the USD/CADThere are a number of important economic or news releases that can affect the USD/CAD. This includes among others, Non-Farm Payroll data for the US that are released on the first Friday of each month. Such metrics tell us whether employment is rising or falling, while the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Canada or the US, measure the total value of all goods and services produced by the country. In addition, the USD/CAD is known as a “Commodity Pair”, as Canada possesses large amounts of natural resources, specifically oil, which is its most traded commodity. As a result, it’s important for long term speculators of USD/CAD to keep a close eye on crude oil developments due to the strong negative correlation.
The USD/CAD is the currency pair encompassing the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD), and the Canadian dollar of Canada (symbol $ code CAD). The pair’s exchange rate indicates how many Canadian dollars are needed in order to purchase one US dollar. For example, when the USD/CAD is trading at 1.3500, it means 1 US dollar is equivalent to 1.35 Canadian dollars. The US dollar (USD) is the world’s most traded currency, whilst the Canadian dollar (CAD) is the world’s seventh most traded currency. The United States and Canada are geographical neighbors, and as a result there is a lot of trade between the two countries. Thus, there is often decent volatility and low spreads for the USD/CAD, typically between 1 and 3 pips on most foreign exchange brokers. Factors Influencing the USD/CADThere are a number of important economic or news releases that can affect the USD/CAD. This includes among others, Non-Farm Payroll data for the US that are released on the first Friday of each month. Such metrics tell us whether employment is rising or falling, while the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Canada or the US, measure the total value of all goods and services produced by the country. In addition, the USD/CAD is known as a “Commodity Pair”, as Canada possesses large amounts of natural resources, specifically oil, which is its most traded commodity. As a result, it’s important for long term speculators of USD/CAD to keep a close eye on crude oil developments due to the strong negative correlation.
Read this Term has moved back above its swing low from the end of March at 1.24286 after trading to the lowest level since November 10. The pair is now back between the swing lows from January and March between 1.24286 and 1.24476.
USDCAD has moved back into the swing area on the daily
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GBPUSD erases gains on the day
The GBPUSD
GBP/USD
The GBP/USD is the currency pair encompassing the United Kingdom’s currency, the British pound sterling (symbol £, code GBP), and the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD). The pair’s rate indicates how many US dollars are needed in order to purchase one British pound. For example, when the GBP/USD is trading at 1.5000, it means 1 pound is equivalent to 1.5 dollars. The GBP/USD is the fourth most traded currency pair on the forex exchange market, giving it ample liquidity and a low spread. Whilst the spreads of currency pairs vary from broker to broker, generally speaking, the GBP/USD often stays within the 1 pip to 3 pip spread range, making it a decent candidate for scalping. The GBP/USD pair, also informally known as “cable” (due to transatlantic cables being used to transmit its exchange rate via telegraph back in the 19th century) has a positive correlation with the EUR/USD, and a negative correlation with the USD/CHF. Trading the GBP/USDWhilst a lot of traders and even brokers will assert that the best time to trade the GBP/USD is during its most active hours during London and New York, doing so can be a double-edged sword due to the often-unpredictable nature of the pair. Its volatility also fluctuates often, and so what could be a profitable looking strategy one month, may not be so productive in later months. In addition, purely technical traders can really struggle to be consistent with this pair, (i.e. by ignoring fundamentals), due to the unique political nature of the United Kingdom. The recent drama surrounding Brexit has added another layer of uncertainty to this currency pair. With a smooth resolution not in the cards for the foreseeable future, it is clear the GBP/USD will be influenced by any developments and negotiations with the European Union.
The GBP/USD is the currency pair encompassing the United Kingdom’s currency, the British pound sterling (symbol £, code GBP), and the dollar of the United States of America (symbol $, code USD). The pair’s rate indicates how many US dollars are needed in order to purchase one British pound. For example, when the GBP/USD is trading at 1.5000, it means 1 pound is equivalent to 1.5 dollars. The GBP/USD is the fourth most traded currency pair on the forex exchange market, giving it ample liquidity and a low spread. Whilst the spreads of currency pairs vary from broker to broker, generally speaking, the GBP/USD often stays within the 1 pip to 3 pip spread range, making it a decent candidate for scalping. The GBP/USD pair, also informally known as “cable” (due to transatlantic cables being used to transmit its exchange rate via telegraph back in the 19th century) has a positive correlation with the EUR/USD, and a negative correlation with the USD/CHF. Trading the GBP/USDWhilst a lot of traders and even brokers will assert that the best time to trade the GBP/USD is during its most active hours during London and New York, doing so can be a double-edged sword due to the often-unpredictable nature of the pair. Its volatility also fluctuates often, and so what could be a profitable looking strategy one month, may not be so productive in later months. In addition, purely technical traders can really struggle to be consistent with this pair, (i.e. by ignoring fundamentals), due to the unique political nature of the United Kingdom. The recent drama surrounding Brexit has added another layer of uncertainty to this currency pair. With a smooth resolution not in the cards for the foreseeable future, it is clear the GBP/USD will be influenced by any developments and negotiations with the European Union.
Read this Term traded higher in the early NA session and in doing so moved away from it's 200 hour MA at 1.31342. The high price reached 1.3166. That got with 6 or so pips of the swing high from March 31 at 1.31689.
The Brainard more hawkish comments stalled that rise and sent the GBPUSD price lower (higher USD). The pair erased the gains for the day (the close yesterday was at 1.31123). The low on the reversal reached 1.31111.
The price has seen a rebound and now trades between the 200 hour MA at 1.31134 and 100 hour MA at 1.31256. The current price is at 1.3130. A move back above the MAs would muddy the waters again. Move below the lower 100 hour MA now (and stay below) would give the sellers more control.
Needless, to say the volatility
Volatility
In terms of trading, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of an index or asset, such as forex, commodities, stocks, over a given time period. Trading volatility can be a means of describing an instrument’s fluctuation. For example, a highly volatile stock equates to large fluctuations in price, whereas a low volatile stock equates to tepid fluctuations in price. Overall, volatility is an important statistical indicator used by many parties, including financial traders, analysts, and brokers. Volatility can be an important determinant in developing trading systems, protocols, or regulations.In the retail space, traders can be successful in both low and high volatile environments, however the strategies employed are often different depending upon volatility. Is Volatility Good or Bad? In the forex space, lower levels of volatile across currency pairs offer less surprises, movements, and are suited to certain types of individuals such as position traders.By extension, high volatile pairs are attractive for many day traders. This is due to rapid and strong movements, which collectively offer the potential for higher profits.However, the risk associated with such volatile pairs are manifold. Of note, volatility with instruments or indices can and do change over time. There can be periods when even highly volatile instruments show signs of flatness, with price not really making headway in either direction. For example, certain months in the summer are associated with low trading volatility.Too little volatility is just as problematic for markets as too much. Too much volatility can instill panic and create its own issues, such as liquidity constraints.A famous example of this are considered Black Swan events, which have historically roiled currency and equity markets.
In terms of trading, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of an index or asset, such as forex, commodities, stocks, over a given time period. Trading volatility can be a means of describing an instrument’s fluctuation. For example, a highly volatile stock equates to large fluctuations in price, whereas a low volatile stock equates to tepid fluctuations in price. Overall, volatility is an important statistical indicator used by many parties, including financial traders, analysts, and brokers. Volatility can be an important determinant in developing trading systems, protocols, or regulations.In the retail space, traders can be successful in both low and high volatile environments, however the strategies employed are often different depending upon volatility. Is Volatility Good or Bad? In the forex space, lower levels of volatile across currency pairs offer less surprises, movements, and are suited to certain types of individuals such as position traders.By extension, high volatile pairs are attractive for many day traders. This is due to rapid and strong movements, which collectively offer the potential for higher profits.However, the risk associated with such volatile pairs are manifold. Of note, volatility with instruments or indices can and do change over time. There can be periods when even highly volatile instruments show signs of flatness, with price not really making headway in either direction. For example, certain months in the summer are associated with low trading volatility.Too little volatility is just as problematic for markets as too much. Too much volatility can instill panic and create its own issues, such as liquidity constraints.A famous example of this are considered Black Swan events, which have historically roiled currency and equity markets.
Read this Term is elevated as the markets react.
A quick look around other markets:
US stocks are mostly lower
Dow industrial average is trading marginally lower by five point -0.01% S&P index is -16.5 points or -0.36% at 4566.50 NASDAQ index is down -187 points or -1.3% at 14344 Russell 2000 is down -24 point and points or -1.19% at 2070.55 In the US debt market, yields are surging to the upside:
two year 2.516% +9 point to two basis points 10 year 2.545%, +14.8 basis points 30 year, 2.578%, +12.0 basis points The 10 yield is looking to test the high from last week at 2.557%
US 10 year yield is trading near highs from last week
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Utility-scale solar tracker technology provider Array Technologies (NASDAQ: ARRY) recently revealed that it has entered into an agreement with the Gemini Solar project to supply nearly 1GW of DuraTrack HZ v3 single-axis solar trackers.
Following the news, shares of the company rose more than 9% to close at $12 on Monday.
The project, which will be located at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Overton, NV, will store over 1.4 GWh of solar power and is estimated to be worth more than $1 billion.
The Gemini Solar project will use an energy management system to operate intelligently and discharge energy only when demand is high and supply is low, making it operationally efficient.
Management Commentary
The Chief Revenue Officer at Array Technologies, Travis Rose, said, “Project Gemini is historic for its size and scale, and we are well-positioned to optimize it for maximum energy generation while limiting installation time, LCOE and maintenance requirements.”
Stock Rating
Rcently, Colliers Securities analyst Donovan Schafer CFA reiterated a Buy rating on the stock with a price target of $23, which implies upside potential of 93% from current levels.
The Wall Street community is cautiously optimistic about the stock and has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on four Buys and four Holds. ARRY’s average price target of $21.43 implies that the stock has upside potential of 79.8% from current levels. Shares have declined 57.8% over the past year.
News Sentiment
News Sentiment for ARRY is Neutral based on three articles over the past seven days. 50% of the articles have Bullish sentiment, compared to the sector average of 64%.
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TipRanks’ website traffic tool has clearly shown that website traffic and stock prices often exhibit correlations.
Although stock analysis should always be a multifactorial process, website traffic data provides a valid premise on which to base your initial judgment. Here are three stocks with surging website clicks that also hold strong prospects.
New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) has provided news to Americans since 1851, but has seldom experienced the level of interest it currently has.
The company’s website clicks have surged by a staggering 97.43% year-to-date amid various high magnitude events such as the war in Ukraine and an abrupt stock market sell-off. I am bullish on the stock due to the rising consumer interest and its firm fundamentals.
The firm recently beat its fourth-quarter earnings estimates by 8 cents per share, and also exceeded its revenue target by $14.22 million. The key drivers behind the firm’s blockbuster quarter were 375 000 new digital subscriptions, and a 26.9% increase in advertising revenue.
The company is well poised for further growth as its CEO, Meredith Kopit Levien, claims that the media giant has a larger addressable market than in the past.
According to Kopit: “Our latest audience research suggests there are now at least 135 million adults worldwide who are paying or willing to pay for one or more subscriptions to English-language news, sports coverage, puzzles, recipes, or expert shopping advice.”
Furthermore, New York Times is undervalued relative to its five-year average price multiples. New York Times stock is trading at a 69.7% price to earnings discount with a PEG ratio of only 0.30, meaning that we’re looking at a stock with value in abundance.
Turning to Wall Street, New York Times stock earns a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on two Buys assigned in the past three months. The average New York Times price target of $55 implies 17.5% upside potential.
GXO Logistics
GXO Logistics (GXO) provides over 900 supply-chain facilities worldwide with a presence in matters such as warehousing, distribution, and order fulfillment, to name a few. I am bullish on the stock amid its surging traction in recent months; GXO’s website clicks have surged by an unbelievable 153,107.44% since the start of the year, leaving few doubting the company’s recent successes.
GXO’s operating activities are a force to be reckoned with. The company posted $2.3 billion in organic revenue during its fourth quarter, amounting to outstanding adjusted earnings per share growth of 70%.
Additionally, GXO has been one of the few supply-chain companies that have scaled its operations during a period of supply-chain bottlenecks, which is reflected in its impressive quarterly EBITDA of $167 million.
The stock is good value for money. It’s trading at a price-to-sales of exactly 1x and a price-to-book of 3.38x, meaning that there’s value in abundance for investors, especially when considering the stock is still in its growth phase.
Turning to Wall Street, GXO stock holds a Strong Buy consensus rating based on seven Buys and one Hold assigned in the past three months. The average GXO Logistics price target of $103.14 implies 50.6% upside potential.
AutoHome
AutoHome (ATHM) is an online autobody retail6% year-over-year increase in monthly website visits, suggesting a change in consumer sentiment after the company’s clicks were trending downwards for most of last year.
It’s not just because of Autohome’s website data that I’m bullish on the stock, but a variety of macroeconomic and internal matters makes this stock a big attraction.
There’s been systemic support behind AutoHome as the Chinese Communist Party pledged its support to the Chinese economy last month, after a prolonged period of contractionary rhetoric coming from Beijing.
According to the CCP’s central committee, it will expand its economy: “Regarding macroeconomic operation, we must implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, effectively invigorate the economy in the first quarter, proactively respond to monetary policy, and maintain moderate growth in new loans.”
The aftereffect of this statement has bolstered consumer discretionary and industrial companies such as AutoHome as it will now be catering to a higher-spending economy.
From an internal vantage point, AutoHome has experienced robust growth by beating its fourth-quarter earnings estimates by three cents per share. Furthermore, AutoHome holds a mammoth $3.25 billion in cash on its balance sheet, which has been partially distributed in dividends at a forward yield of 0.49%.
An alternative for AutoHome bolstering its future dividend payments could be to re-invest the capital, thus expanding the entity’s intrinsic value. Regardless of the route the company follows, it’s a win-win for its investors.
AutoHome stock is trading at a bargain price. The stock’s price-to-earnings ratio is trading at a 77.5% discount relative to its five-year average, suggesting that the company’s earnings per share are yet to be priced in by the market.
Additionally, AutoHome’s price-to-sales ratio is trading at a discount worth 53.6%, conveying the fact that the company’s top-line revenue justifies a higher stock price.
Turning to Wall Street, AutoHome stock has a Hold consensus rating based on two Buys, three Holds, and two Sells assigned in the past three months. The average AutoHome price target of $32.16 implies 3.9% downside potential.
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Investors are gearing up for the first-quarter 2022 earnings season, which will be in full swing starting mid-April. The corporate results will reflect the direct and indirect impacts of the Ukraine-Russia war.
This ongoing war is believed to be the primary reason why the major U.S. stock indexes are in red territory year to date. While NYSE is down 2.3%, the NASDAQ and S&P 500 have declined 8.2% and 4.5%, respectively, so far in 2022.
Various other factors that might get reflected in the first-quarter results include supply chain constraints, cost inflation, volatility in oil & gas market, and the Federal Reserve’s hike in interest rates. Meanwhile, new jobs additions and a fall in the unemployment rate are also likely to influence the results.
Industrial Goods is one sector that is highly correlated to the above-mentioned macro factors. Improvement in industrial production, up 7.5% year-over-year in February and 4.1% in January, is a good sign for the sector.
It will interest investors to know how the top three industrial companies, by market capitalization, are placed for the first-quarter earnings season.
United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS)
The package delivery company operates through its headquarters in Atlanta, GA. It also provides solutions related to supply-chain management worldwide. Shares of this $178.7 billion company have declined 3.9% since the beginning of 2022.
UPS delivered better-than-expected in all the quarters of 2021. The company is expected to release its first-quarter results on April 26, 2022.
The consensus estimate is pegged at $2.87 per share for earnings and $23.82 billion for revenues. The bottom-line estimate reflects an improvement of 3.6% from the year-ago adjusted earnings and a fall of 20.1% sequentially.
In the first quarter, factors like improving global economy, hike in planning volume, growth in revenue per piece, and enhanced productivity might have positively impacted the results. However, woes related to the supply chain, cost inflation, labor, and COVID-19 might have played spoilsports.
Recently, Duane Pfennigwerth, an analyst at Evercore ISI, maintained a Buy rating on United Parcel with a price target of $255 (24.26% upside potential).
Based on 11 Buys, eight Holds, and one Sell, the company has a Moderate Buy consensus rating. United Parcel’s average price target of $241.35 reflects 17.61% upside potential from current levels. It scores a 9 out of 10 on Tipranks’ Smart Score rating system.
Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP)
The $162-billion company provides railroad transportation services for multiple items, including grains, construction products, and industrial chemicals. It is headquartered in Omaha, NE. Shares of Union Pacific are up 4% so far this year.
The railroad company posted weaker-than-expected earnings in three quarters of 2021 but surpassed the consensus estimate in one.
It is slated to release the first-quarter results on April 21, 2022. The consensus estimate for earnings is at $2.52 per share, suggesting an increase of 26% from the year-ago reported figure and a decline of 5.3% from the previous quarter’s earnings. The consensus estimate for revenues stands at $5.61 billion.
For the first quarter, the company expects carload volumes to be impacted by soft intermodal volumes (international) and a hike in COVID infections. Industrial and bulk businesses are likely to be strong. Effective pricing actions are expected to play a key role in dealing with the adverse impacts of inflation.
A few days ago, Walter Spracklin, an analyst at RBC Capital, downgraded Union Pacific to Hold from Buy. The analyst also lowered the price target to $258 (0.10% upside potential) from $271.
The company carries a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 14 Buys and three Holds. Union Pacific’s average price target is at $272.53, mirroring a 5.74% upside from current levels. It scores a ‘Perfect 10’ on Tipranks’ Smart Score rating system.
Honeywell International Inc. (NASDAQ: HON)
Based in Charlotte, NC, Honeywell is a manufacturing and technology company with expertise in safety and productivity, building, and performance material technologies. Its stock has declined 5.2% year to date.
The $134-billion company reported upbeat earnings in three quarters of 2021, while lagged estimates in one.
It is expected to release first-quarter results on May 5, 2022. The consensus estimate for earnings is at $1.86 per share, down 3.1% and 11% from the year-ago and sequential adjusted earnings, respectively. The estimate for revenues is $8.41 billion.
For the first quarter, the company anticipates sales to be in the range of $8.1-$8.4 billion. Organically, sales growth is expected to be within the (1%)-2% range. Further, Honeywell expects its pricing actions to boost revenues by 4% while forex woes to lower sales by 2%. A fall in COVID-induced mask sales is also expected to hurt its sales by 2%. Supply-chain woes are to hurt.
Adjusted earnings at $1.80-$1.90 per share in the quarter are expected to reflect a year-over-year change of (6%) to (1%).
Recently, Gautam Khanna, an analyst at Cowen, reiterated a Buy rating on Honeywell with a price target of $230 (17.31% upside potential). Khanna expects the company’s sales to lag the consensus estimate for revenues.
HON has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys and seven Holds. Honeywell’s average price target of $225.67 suggests 15.10% upside potential. It scores an 8 out of 10 on TipRanks.
Conclusion
With Strong or Moderate Buy consensus ratings and impressive scores on TipRanks, each of the aforementioned stocks are a worthy medium to long-term investment option. For the near term, a wait and watch approach is preferred until the companies release their Q1 results.
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Shares of industrial equipment kingpin Caterpillar (CAT) has seen its relief rally stagnate in recent weeks, with the growth trade now overtaking value in this sudden ricochet off the market bottom.
Although it’s tempting to reach for risk again, I think the cooling-off of value plays like Caterpillar may offer a better entry point for those who doubt the sustainability of the recent relief rally. In any case, CAT stock seems like it could hold more of its value if the current rally proves nothing more than a dead cat bounce (forgive the pun, please).
Indeed, not much has changed at the macro level over the past three weeks. Arguably, all that’s changed is the share price and the inversion of the yield curve.
So, why are investors reaching for growth again? Were they simply oversold?
That could be the case, but regardless, it would only be prudent to stick with a game plan rather than shifting back and forth between risk-on and risk-off after a rotation has already occurred.
While a year-ahead recession does not bode well for some of the more cyclical value plays out there, I think there’s a lot to gain by giving a blue-chip behemoth like Caterpillar the benefit of the doubt.
It’s a Bill Gates favorite for a reason. Like the signature yellow equipment it manufactures, CAT stock may be more durable than meets the eye, given trends working in its favor.
I remain bullish on Caterpillar stock despite the yield curve’s ominous inversion.
Caterpillar Stock: Real Value Hiding in Plain Sight
The cyclical discount on shares of CAT seems implied at these levels. With some of the longer-term catalysts (think longer-term growth in China, the electrification and automation opportunity) still in play, I find it will be hard to keep the firm down for a prolonged period, even if inflationary pressures weigh on Caterpillar’s margins over the near term.
In a rising-rate environment, it’s names like Caterpillar that should be enjoying the most from this recent rally. At around ~$220 per share, the stock trades at 18.6 times trailing earnings and just 2.4 times sales. The company generates actual earnings, and although sales could be choppy, given its greater degree of economic sensitivity, longer-term trends are unlikely to vanish overnight.
Now, buying cyclical stocks can hurt if you get the timing wrong. After a brief plunge into bear market territory from a high of ~$244 per share to a low of ~$187, I think most of the recession jitters are already baked in. Construction equipment demand is really coming back online after waning during the worst of the coronavirus crisis.
Although another recession could push out a big chunk of the demand even further out, it’s hard to ignore management’s ability to swim forward as the tides turn against it. Additionally, there’s a 2%-yielding dividend to collect as you wait for the turbulent macro world to normalize and world economies to get back up and running at full speed.
The China Tailwind is Still in Play
China’s appetite for big-ticket infrastructure purchases could be one of the biggest tailwinds to power CAT stock higher long-term. With the Chinese economy taking another hit from COVID-induced lockdowns and its zero-COVID measures, investors buying Caterpillar for the Chinese tailwind may have to wait a while longer.
The tailwind is still in play, but it’s unclear when fixed-asset growth will power higher again. The coronavirus remains an unpredictable beast, even over two years into this pandemic.
Oil Boom Could Boost Caterpillar’s Energy and Transportation Segment
For now, tailwinds in the oil and gas (O&G) industry could pave the way for increased spending on energy-related offerings. The longer the Ukraine-Russia crisis drags on, the more incentive energy firms will have to ramp up production to capitalize on higher prices.
Although such tailwinds are unlikely to offset the significant slowdown in the Asian region, I don’t think a lot of optimism is baked into shares these days. The China slowdown and the rising risk of recession likely have many weighing the potential downside risks with a name like Caterpillar, even though the firm has already demonstrated its staying power.
Wall Street’s Take
Turning to Wall Street, CAT stock comes in as a Moderate Buy. Out of 14 analyst ratings, there are nine Buy recommendations and five Hold recommendations.
The average Caterpillar price target is $247, implying an upside potential of 14%. Analyst price targets range from a low of $215.00 per share to a high of $290.00 per share.
The Bottom Line on Caterpillar Stock
Cyclical stocks can be quite the rollercoaster ride. Buy them too late in the market cycle, and you could face steep losses.
Still, Caterpillar stock seems too cheap given its resilience through pandemic headwinds thus far. I don’t think it will take much to propel shares towards all-time highs, just shy of the $250 per-share range, if a recession is ultimately avoided or if a “soft landing” is put in place by the Fed amid its tightening cycle.
With a brilliant management team and a powerful longer-term opportunity at hand, it’s wise to look beyond today’s slate of headwinds. Whether it’s China’s economic slowdown, supply chain constraints, or the risk of recession or stagflation, CAT stock seems priced as though a storm is coming when the worst of the storm may already be in the rear-view mirror.
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The U.S. Fed’s hike in interest rates has led to Wall Street analysts expecting higher net interest income (NII) for the banking sector. With the Fed signaling more rate hikes to come, investors’ attention has turned to bank stocks. This has led to soaring share prices for stocks in the banking sector.
While the Nasdaq Bank Index has gone up by only 1.4% in the past year, shares of Wells Fargo (WFC), Bank of America (BAC), and Morgan Stanley (MS) have gone up by 22.8%, 2.6%, and 11.9%, respectively.
Wedbush analyst Peter Winter expects that this trend of rising NII, increasing loan growth, and “shifting record levels of excess cash into higher yielding securities” could play out in the banking sector’s Q1 earnings.
However, the analyst also cautioned that Russia’s war on Ukraine could lead to inflationary pressures and “a higher risk of a recession as the Fed combats inflation.”
In this scenario, Winter expects regional and mid-cap banks to benefit. Last week, we looked at Winter’s top regional banking stock picks. This week, let us look at the top-rated analyst’s mid-cap top banking stock picks.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE: CUBI)
Customers Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in West Reading, Pennsylvania whose bank subsidiary, Customers Bank, is a full-service bank. The bank had assets worth $19.6 billion as of December 31.
Investors are bullish about CUBI as the stock has soared 56.2% in the past year. Last week, even S&P Global Market Intelligence ranked CUBI third in a list of the best performing publicly traded U.S. public banks having assets worth more than $10 billion at the end of 2021.
Winter is also optimistic about the bank and believes there are a number of key positives for the stock. This includes plenty of diversity when it comes to the bank’s revenue sources and opportunity for growth over the next two years which is “not reflected in valuation, in our view.”
As a result, the analyst has forecasted “above average” growth in earnings per share (EPS), excluding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) over the next two years. Winter is also upbeat about the bank’s “strengthening deposit franchise,” and its “transition from a community bank to digital first company.”
The analyst anticipates that this year CUBI could very well register a loan growth in “low double digit[s].”
This has resulted in Winter being bullish on the stock with a Buy rating and a price target of $76 on the stock, implying an upside potential of 52.9% to early trading levels on Tuesday.
Other analysts on Wall Street side with Winter and are upbeat about the stock with a Strong Buy consensus rating based on four Buys and one Hold. The average CUBI stock prediction is $76.30, implying 53.5% upside potential to early morning trading levels on Tuesday.
Silvergate Capital Corp. (NYSE: SI)
Silvergate Capital is the parent company of Silvergate Bank and is a chartered bank in the State of California with its headquarters in San Diego. According to the company website, the bank provides “financial infrastructure solutions and services to participants in the nascent and expanding digital currency industry.”
It is this digital or cryptocurrency industry that could benefit Silvergate, according to Wedbush analyst David Chiaverini. The analyst believes that as more financial institutions adopt cryptocurrencies, SI could be “well positioned for continued growth.”
The analyst is of the view that for SI, the purchase of intellectual property and other technology assets from the Diem Group is a “significant positive.” In this past January, Silvergate purchased these assets from Diem related to “running a blockchain-based payment network.”
Chiaverini believes that this could result in SI partnering with “Diem Association members as well as potentially with money service businesses such as Coinbase, Robinhood, Paypal, and/or Square.” However, in such partnerships, SI could have an upper hand as it would control “the payment network.”
SI is the most “asset sensitive bank” in the analyst’s coverage universe with its NII expected to benefit by 60% if the interest rates go up by around 100 basis points.
Giving his rationale for a Buy rating on the stock, Chiaverini stated that this rating was “based on Silvergate’s very strong deposit and transaction growth, strong network effects that discourage new entrants, significant revenue opportunity from its stablecoin initiative [and] the vast potential stemming from the rapidly expanding digital currency market.”
The analyst has a price target of $200, closer to the Street high target of $260 on the stock, implying an upside potential of 30.5% to early morning trading levels on Tuesday.
The rest of the covering analysts on Wall Street are bullish on the stock with a Strong Buy consensus rating based on an unanimous eight Buys. The average Silvergate Capital stock forecast is $195.63, implying a 27.6% upside potential to early morning trading levels on Tuesday.
Wintrust Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: WTFC)
Wintrust Financial is a financial holding company based out of Illinois and provides personal and commercial banking services to customers located in southern Wisconsin, Chicago metropolitan area, and northwest Indiana. The bank had assets worth $50.1 billion as of December 31, 2021.
The company’s three business segments include community banking, specialty finance, and wealth management.
According to Wedbush analyst David Chiaverini, WTFC’s loans and deposits through Q4 grew at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.7% and 18.2%, respectively, higher than its mid-cap peer group of 5.2% and 16.6%.
The analyst expects “annual growth to remain above the industry average given its strong loan pipeline and unique community banking business model.” What’s more, this year, the analyst anticipates WTFC to be at the “high end or above” its guidance of loan growth in “mid-to-high single digits,” with one caveat.
Chiaverini has projected this loan growth only if geopolitical risks ease up and “business confidence remains healthy.”
The analyst continues to remain optimistic with a Buy rating and a price target of $115 on the stock, implying an upside potential of 24.7% to early morning trading levels on Tuesday.
Other analysts on Wall Street are also bullish on the stock with a Strong Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys and one Hold. The average WTFC stock forecast is $117, implying 26.8% upside potential to early morning trading levels on Tuesday.
Bottom Line
Analysts from Wedbush expect these mid-cap banks to sizably benefit from the rising interest rates and better growth rate for loans this year.
However, the analysts have cautioned that they remain concerned that “ongoing global unrest could unnerve consumers and businesses, prompting them to cut back on investments and lending needs.”
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Though Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) has no company-specific news, investors seem to be anxious about the expectation of strong first-quarter earnings to be reported soon. They are optimistic about the company’s business trends and profitability.
Last quarter, Diamondback returned to profitability on a year-over-year basis. The Street estimates EPS of $4.71 on revenues of 1.87 billion for the first quarter of 2022.
Shares of the oil and natural gas company recorded gains of 0.83% at Monday’s close, outperforming the S&P 500 Index (SPX) gain of 0.81% and some of its peers as well. The company is engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration, and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil, and natural gas reserves.
After recording decent price gains in the past few days, Diamondback was up yet again in the first few minutes of trading on Tuesday.
Investors Remain Bullish
The Street is overall bullish on FANG stock with a Strong Buy consensus rating. That’s based on 17 Buys and two Holds. The average Diamondback price target of $168.11 implies 20.43% upside potential to levels seen before Tuesday’s market open. Shares have decreased about 88% over the past year.
Also, according to TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool, investors have a bullish opinion on Diamondback shares. Per the tool, 8.3% of investors holding portfolios on TipRanks have increased their stake in FANG stock over the last 30 days.
Bloggers also seem enthused by the company’s prospects. TipRanks data shows that financial blogger opinions are 100% Bullish on FANG, compared to a sector average of 75%.
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With Q1 behind us, it’s time to sit back and evaluate our situation. First off, the obvious – volatility ran higher in the first quarter of the year, fueled by multiple conflicting headwinds. Those include inflation, which is still rising; a global supply chain plagued with snarls; resurgent COVID outbreaks flaring up around the world; and Russia’s war against Ukraine, that is both Europe’s largest land conflict in three generations and a major disruptor of global food and oil markets (which brings us full circle back to inflation and supply chains).
But is the picture as grim as all that? Oil prices have pulled back somewhat from the peaks they hit shortly after the Russian assault on Ukraine, and American consumers are starting to react to inflation by reducing purchase sizes. The first point may ease inflationary pressures, if only slightly; the second will not, but it might ease pressure on delivery chains as manufacturers scale back in response. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” as Yogi Berra put it, and he was right; but there may still be some light at the horizon.
In the meantime, for investors, there may also be plenty of opportunity. CNBC’s Jim Cramer has noticed the possibility of positive economic indicators, and that has him looking at the stocks which lost out big during Q1’s market correction. Plenty of those stocks are still facing depressed prices, even though they have sound business models and prospects. Cramer believes that this is where investors should start looking during Q2.
“If we get more signs that inflation is cooling on its own, like the pullback in oil, then some of the hardest hit stocks might end up looking pretty enticing,” Cramer opined.
We’re going to follow up this line of thought, using the TipRanks database to find three stocks that are down but not out – beaten down coming out of Q1, and also carrying Strong Buy consensus ratings and strong upside potential from the analyst community. Let’s take a closer look.
Olaplex Holdings (OLPX)
Let’s start in the health and beauty sector. Olaplex offers a range of products for women’s hair care, to treat, maintain, and protect hair from the vicissitudes of modern life. The company bills itself as ‘science-enabled and technology-driven,’ and promotes itself and its products globally through an omni-channel platform. Olaplex boasts 100 patents on its products, which it markets to professional hair stylists, specialty retailers, and directly to consumers.
This company went public on the NASDAQ on September 30 of last year in an IPO that was significantly upsized. The company had originally planned to put 67 million shares for sale at a price range of $17 to $19; in the event, it sold 73.7 million shares with an opening price of $21. Olaplex’s IPO raised over $1.5 billion in new capital.
Since becoming a public entity, Olaplex has released two quarterly earnings reports, and showed a modest 2.4% sequential revenue gain from Q3 to Q4. The Q4 top line of $166.5 million was up 79% year-over-year; for the full year 2021, Olaplex’s revenue of $598 million was up 112% y/y. The company’s Q4 EPS of 10 cents was double the year-ago result, and the full-year EPS of 40 cents was almost double the 2020 value of 21 cents.
During 1Q22, Olaplex shares lost heavily. The stock is down approximately 44% since the start of the year. However, Raymond James analyst Olivia Tong believes that the stock still has plenty of good days ahead.
“OLPX continues to show strong sales momentum, group-leading margins and reported a sizable Q4 beat with a FY22 outlook that was well ahead of consensus expectations. Despite this, share underperformance has continued. Clearly the market’s view on growth companies, particularly those relatively new to public markets, has soured… OLPX is of course not immune to challenges, but at current levels, we believe there is a significant disconnect between share performance and the company’s opportunities,” Tong wrote.
“We continue to believe that OLPX presents a rare opportunity in a fast-growing, highly profitable market with significant consumer penetration opportunity, evidenced by the U.S. prestige hair care market growing 47% at retail in 2021,” the analyst summed up.
In line with these bullish comments, Tong rates OLPX a Strong Buy, and her $28 price target implies a one-year upside of ~77%. (To watch Tong’s track record, click here)
Tong’s view is bullish – and well within the Street’s consensus. OLPX shares have 7 positive reviews on record, for a unanimous Strong Buy rating, and the $28.57 average price target indicates room for ~80% upside from the current trading price of $15.85. (See OLPX stock forecast on TipRanks)
Global-e Online (GLBE)
For our second stock, we’ll stick with e-commerce but with a twist. Global-e is a tech company that facilitates international e-commerce. The company operates a platform designed to enable and accelerate cross-border direct-to-consumer online commercial activity. Global-e allows retailers and brands to streamline their customers’ shopping experience in more than 200 local markets.
Getting into some specifics, Global-e handles the language and currency differences between customers and merchants, and smooths out issues of taxes, shipping, and returns. Global-e deals with merchants across the US, Europe, and Asia.
With the explosion in online activity, especially e-commerce, during the COVID pandemic, Global-e had a clear path forward. The company took advantage of its unique position to go public in May of last year. The stock started trading on the NASDAQ on May 12, with 17.25 million shares put up for sale. The price opened at $25 per share, and Global-e raised over $431 million gross proceeds.
One month earlier, in April 2021, the company scored a major coup when it entered a partnership with Shopify. The partnership starts with a three-year term, making Global-e the exclusive provider of end-to-end cross-border solutions for the e-commerce platform. The partnership terms will automatically renew annually starting in April of 2024.
Even with all of that, Global-e’s stock fell 47% in 1Q22. The company faced headwinds at least in part from its unique position in the e-commerce realm. COVID resurgences and the war in Ukraine have impacted international global commerce and travel, hitting Global-e exactly where it works. In addition, the company’s European markets have been disproportionately hurt by the Ukraine situation, making it difficult for Global-e to recover.
After noting these particular headwinds, 5-star analyst Patrick Walravens comes down on the bullish side. In his coverage for JMP Securities, Walravens does not hide his enthusiasm for Global-e.
“We view Global-e as an excellent opportunity for long-term capital appreciation for several reasons, including: 1) a strong value proposition as Global-e helps ecommerce vendors solve the tricky problems that make cross-border commerce so difficult, including handling payment collection, taxes, and import duties; 2) the company is addressing a large TAM, estimated at $736B… 4) the company should begin to benefit more from its partnership with Shopify in 2022 as it moves from pilot to general availability; and 5) we think the growth of this business is significantly more durable than many investors realize due to the replacement cycle for cross-border solutions,” Walravens wrote.
Given all of the above, investors has high hopes. Along with an Outperform rating, he keeps a $80 price target on the stock. This target puts the upside potential at 128%. (To watch Walravens’ track record, click here)
Overall, Wall Street’s analysts have given GLBE 8 positive reviews lately, adding up to a Strong Buy consensus rating. The stock is selling for $35.07 and its $68.63 average price target indicates ~96% upside for the coming year. (See GLBE stock forecast on TipRanks)
monday.com (MNDY)
Last up is monday.com, a cloud platform company in the work management software niche. The company’s products allow users to customize their systems, allowing for increased work flow efficiency and higher productivity. monday.com’s range of products are designed to streamline the back office of any business.
The company went public last year, debuting its MNDY ticker on the NASDAQ on June 10. In the IPO, the company put 3.7 million shares on the market, at $155 each, and the underwriters purchased their option of 370K shares. In all, the event raised over $630 million in gross proceeds for monday.com, which entered the ranks of the market’s billion-dollar unicorns.
This past February, monday reported its financial results for 4Q21 and the full fiscal year. The results showed the company’s strength – full year revenue grew 91% year-over-year, to reach $308.2 million. For the fourth quarter, the top line reached $95.5 million, also a 91% y/y gain. The company finished 2021 with $9.9 million in free cash flow, compared to a $40.7 million fcf loss in 2020.
Looking ahead, monday is guiding toward a slowdown in growth this year, although with still-substantial gains. In 1Q22, the company expects revenue of $100 million to $102 million, for a y/y gain of 70% to 73%. For the full year, monday is guiding toward $470 million to $475 million at the top line, which would translate to 53% to 54% y/y growth.
Since going public, MNDY stock has proven highly volatile, ranging between $444 and $120 per share. The stock is currently down 46% year-to-date.
Oppenheimer analyst Ittai Kidron, who holds a 5-star rating on TipRanks, takes a long-term upbeat stance on this stock. He writes, “monday.com’s strong quarter/outlook and execution reinforces our belief that it can successfully move upmarket and expand usage over time. While the current market environment could still pressure the shares given its high growth/ high investment profile, we’re comfortable buying with a long-term focus given the large TAM and multiple growth levers in place.”
In line with his bullish stance, Kidron rates MNDY a Buy, and his $280 price target implies room for ~68% upside potential in the next 12 months. (To watch Kidron’s track record, click here)
All in all, MNDY’s 11 recent analyst reviews include 9 Buys against just 2 Holds, for Strong Buy consensus. Shares are selling for $166.5 and their $284.50 average price target suggests ~71% upside from that level. (See MNDY stock forecast on TipRanks)
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Production issues due to industry-wide supply-chain disruptions and a slowdown in the Chinese economy took a toll on Nio’s (NYSE:NIO) ADR (American Depositary Receipt). Further, regulatory concerns and negative investor sentiment on Chinese stocks played spoilsport.
Given the challenges, Nio stock is down about 57% from its 52-week high. Further, it has decreased by about 25% this year.
Now What?
A series of positive developments, including strong Q1 delivery numbers, the launch of new models, a planned geographic expansion, and the expected easing of the regulatory environment post Chinese vice-premier Liu He’s positive commentary indicates that better days are ahead for Nio.
Notably, Nio delivered 25,768 vehicles in Q1, up 28.5% year-over-year. Moreover, Nio began delivering the ET7 in March. Furthermore, the company plans to launch the ES7, its first SUV model, in the second half of the year and start delivery in Q3 of 2022.
Besides new model launches, Nio plans to enter Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands in 2022, which is positive. Further, during the Q4 conference call, Nio’s CEO, William Li, stated that the “mass-market brand has been progressing according to plan.”
Highlighting the recent decline in price and improving prospects (including new model launches), UBS analyst Paul Gong upgraded Nio stock to a Buy. Along with Gong, Mizuho Securities’ Vijay Rakesh is also bullish on NIO.
Rakesh stated that Nio’s global expansion and “mass market launch ahead” will support its long-term growth. However, Rakesh lowered his price target to $60 from $65 due to the near-term headwinds.
Final Thoughts
Nio’s multiple growth vectors (new model launches and expansion into newer markets) and ongoing electrification wave in the automotive industry position it well to deliver strong financials. However, supply-chain volatility remains a drag in the short term.
Nevertheless, Wall Street is Bullish on NIO stock. It has received 17 Buy and two Hold recommendations for a Strong Buy consensus rating. Moreover, NIO has a maximum Smart Score rating of 10 out of 10, per the TipRanks’ data-driven stock score.
Further, due to the recent correction in its price, Nio’s stock price forecast on TipRanks shows stellar upside potential. The average Nio price target of $44.06 implies 84.7% upside potential to current levels.
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Like the famous Nitro Cold Brew it serves up, Starbucks (SBUX) stock has been ice cold amid a lingering number of issues weighing down its stock.
Unionization efforts, the slowdown in China, store closures, and management uncertainties are just a number of reasons investors have cooled on the stock amid its painful slump.
Shares of Starbucks have already endured about a 40% decline from peak to trough. Now at $84 and change per share, SBUX trades at a reasonable 24.7 times trailing earnings multiple, given its longer-term growth potential.
Although there are no easy solutions to the coffee giant’s issues, I think Howard Schultz’s return will ultimately pay off, as the man looks to steer the ship back in the right direction amid incredibly choppy waters.
This isn’t the first time Schultz came out of retirement to right the course. For that reason, I remain incredibly bullish on Starbucks.
Schultz’s Buyback Halt Leaves Bad Taste
Schultz’ first big move was not met with applause; it was met with a big thumbs down from investors who ditched the stock on news of a pause in share repurchases.
I’ll admit I was not a fan of the news either. Stock buybacks only make sense with the stock as depressed as it is. Could the halt of buybacks be a sign that Schultz does not see SBUX stock as undervalued? Or is the man freeing up the financial flexibility to propel the company out of the gutter?
While it’s never encouraging to see a share buyback plan be paused, I think the response was overblown beyond proportion.
The company is in good hands with Schultz. Although the hunt for a full-time CEO is underway, I don’t expect the man will hand over the reins with the company in the shape it’s currently in.
Although a share buyback halt is never a good thing, at the very least, the dividend (yielding a bountiful 2.q%) remains intact and as healthy as ever. If there’s a man who can pull off a turnaround, it’s Schultz.
Freeing Cash to Make Investments
Starbucks spent around $12 billion over the last two fiscal years to repurchase its shares. With billions freed up, Schultz is ready to get to work, investing in areas where the firm has fallen short.
Employees aren’t happy, given their unionization efforts, and as a result, customers are not feeling great, as the price of their daily lattés grows to become even more expensive.
Starbucks is a powerful brand, and it has the pricing power to make it through the COVID-plagued inflationary storm. With billions to be put to work on various initiatives, the company may have enough to sweeten up the pot for baristas as it looks to fight off unions.
Still, I think the biggest growth initiative lies in automation, and that could be the key area of growth under this third era of Schultz. Indeed, automating a larger portion of the drink-making process could be where the real long-term opportunity lies.
The company’s innovative ordering app and Deep Brew technology seem to suggest that Starbucks is more of a technology company that just happens to serve up coffee and tea.
The company’s partnership with Amazon (AMZN) on its futuristic Starbucks-Amazon convenience store may be just the start of what to expect from the Starbucks of the future.
While it’s unlikely that baristas will be replaced by robots anytime soon, I think the firm’s dealings with automation-centric Amazon could bring forth a wave of autonomy that could help propel the stock out of the gutter.
Wall Street’s Take
According to TipRanks’ rating consensus, SBUX stock comes in as a Moderate Buy. Out of 23 analyst ratings, there are 13 Buy recommendations, and 10 Hold recommendations.
The average Starbucks price target is $114.05, implying 34.5% upside potential. Analyst price targets range from a low of $95 per share to a high of $135 per share.
Bottom Line on Starbucks Stock
It’s really hard to love what Starbucks is serving up these days. It’s been the perfect storm of headwinds, and the share buyback pause is just another reason to take a raincheck on the name as unionization attempts spook investors.
With Schultz already making moves to return the company to its former glory, I think there’s a lot of reason to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Also, let’s not forget about the long-term growth potential of the Chinese market. American brands are a big deal in China, and with its fast-growing middle class, Starbucks has an opportunity to flex its muscles.
The recent slowdown in China’s growth won’t last forever, and when it ends, perhaps Starbucks will be ready with even more compelling technologies.
As much as I hate stock buyback pauses, I have to say it was the right move. Schultz can do a lot to reinvent the company, and it’ll be interesting to see what initiatives the firm pursues over the next year.
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced casinos to temporarily shut down their operations and lay off workers. However, the rapid roll-out of vaccines and pent-up demand following the easing of restrictions has helped them bounce back strongly, though business continues to be below pre-pandemic levels.
While uncertainty related to COVID-19 and labor challenges prevail, several casino owners are better positioned than last year to streamline their operations and focus on lucrative avenues like sports betting and online gaming.
We used the TipRanks stock comparison tool for casino stocks to compare MGM Resorts, Wynn Resorts, and Caesars Entertainment. This tool allows us to compare and analyze up to ten stocks across various performance metrics, including technical indicators, analyst estimates, price targets, earning data, and more.
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM)
MGM Resorts’ portfolio includes 32 hotels and gaming destinations in the U.S. and Macau, including popular resort brands like Bellagio, MGM Grand, ARIA, and Park MGM.
MGM has also emerged as one of the key players in the sports betting and online gaming market through BetMGM, a joint venture with Entain Plc, launched in 2018. On April 4, BetMGM launched its online sports betting and iGaming platforms in Ontario, Canada, thus making its international debut. Including Ontario, BetMGM now has a presence in 23 markets.
With more U.S. states legalizing sports betting, MGM sees BetMGM as a vital growth driver. MGM and Entain plan to invest $450 million in BetMGM this year. The company expects BetMGM operations to deliver net revenue of over $1.3 billion in 2022, up from $850 million in 2021.
Aside from BetMGM, the company is also investing in its digital capabilities and in developing an integrated casino resort in Japan.
Meanwhile, MGM reported stellar results for Q421 and posted adjusted EPS of $0.12 compared to a loss per share of $0.90 in Q420, driven by a 105% year-over-year growth in revenue to $3.1 billion. The company’s Las Vegas Strip Resorts and Regional Operations delivered year-over-year revenue growth of 277% and 51%, respectively, and were also above pre-pandemic levels.
However, revenue from MGM China grew by a modest 3% year-over-year and was down 57% compared to Q419. The company cited travel and entry restrictions associated with COVID-19 as the reason for its subdued performance in China.
Following the Q4 results, Citigroup analyst George Choi upgraded MGM stock to a Buy from a Hold and increased the price target to $57 from $43. Choi feels that MGM is a major beneficiary of the solid recovery in Las Vegas and the rest of the country.
The analyst added, “We also like the casino operator for its leaner cost structure and its improved gearing (after a series of asset monetization transactions). The latest update from management on BetMGM also points to encouraging market share trends (and the JV is expected to be EBITDA-positive by 2023E).”
Meanwhile, the Street seems divided about MGM stock, with a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on six Buys and six Holds. The average MGM Resorts price target of $56.75 implies 33.53% upside potential from current levels.
Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN)
Wynn Resorts operates Wynn Las Vegas, Encore Boston Harbor, Wynn Macau, and Wynn Palace. Also, the company has a nearly 74% interest in Wynn Interactive, which operates the company’s digital sports betting and casino gaming business.
In February, Wynn announced an agreement to sell all of the land and real estate assets of Encore Boston Harbor to Realty Income for $1.7 billion in cash under a sale-leaseback transaction. The company believes that the proceeds from the deal will provide it with liquidity for several upcoming projects and the potential to retire some of its debt.
Meanwhile, China’s stringent restrictions amid rising COVID-19 cases continue to hurt Macau’s gaming business. Wynn has higher exposure to Macau than rival MGM.
In Q421, Wynn’s operating revenues increased 53.5% year-over-year to $1.05 billion, ahead of analyst forecasts of $994.1 million. Adjusted net loss per share narrowed to $1.37 from a loss of $2.45 in Q420, but was worse than analysts’ loss per share estimate of $1.25.
A strong recovery in the company’s Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor operations was offset by the weakness in its Macau operations (which includes Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace). That said, Wynn remains confident that the Macau market will benefit from increased travel over the coming quarters.
However, citing the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, a Bloomberg report disclosed that Macau’s gross gaming revenue in March 2022 sank 53% from the previous month (and 86% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019) to 3.67 billion patacas ($455 million), the lowest since September 2020.
Regarding casinos with exposure to Macau, Choi recently commented, “For most of 2020-21, share prices of the Macau casino operators were driven by border re-opening expectations (and, unfortunately, the resetting of such expectations).”
However, the analyst expects different catalysts to drive share prices this year, including the expected passing of Macau’s Gaming Law amendments and the license re-tendering process.
Choi believes that Wynn’s valuation is “undemanding” following the selloff in its shares and that the company should benefit from its increasing focus on the premium end of the mass market in Macau.
Based on his optimism, Choi upgraded Wynn to a Buy from a Hold but reduced the price target to $96.50 from $98.
All in all, Wynn stock has received five Buy and seven Hold recommendations for a cautiously optimistic Moderate Buy consensus rating. Further, the average Wynn Resorts price target of $107.54 puts its upside potential at 31.40%.
Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ: CZR)
Caesars Entertainment was formed by combining Caesars Entertainment Corp and Eldorado Resorts in 2020, with the combined company operating over 50 casinos worldwide. Further, the company’s sports wagering mobile app, Caesars Sportsbook, is live across 22 states and domestic jurisdictions, 16 of which offer mobile wagering.
Last month, Caesars Sportsbook partnered with NYRABets LLC, the official online wagering platform of the New York Racing Association, to launch a new horse racing account wagering app, Caesars Racebook.
Meanwhile, Caesars’ Q421 revenue grew 63.5% year-over-year to $2.59 billion, and net loss per share improved to $2.03 from $2.67 in Q420. However, analysts were expecting revenue of $2.63 billion and a lower net loss per share of $0.83. The company’s bottom line was impacted by the Omicron outbreak and investments in the digital business.
Despite the Q421 performance, Stifel analyst Steven Wieczynski believes that right now, the risk-reward scenario in Caesars’ stock is “too compelling to ignore.”
Wieczynski explained, “From here, we see five potential catalysts for the remainder of 2022 that should allow shares to return to triple-digit land. We believe CZR remains well-positioned long term as the world eventually recovers from this pandemic given their compelling asset mix (Vegas/regionals/sports betting/iGaming).”
Wieczynski continues to believe that the company has the best management team in gaming, capable of creating significant shareholder value in 2022 and beyond. The analyst expects multiples for Caesars’ brick and mortar business to drift back in line with historical ranges as free cash flow ramps up and the balance sheet improves.
Wieczynski reaffirmed a Buy rating on CZR stock and raised the price target to $127 from $120.
Other analysts on the Street echo Wieczynski’s bullish stance, with Caesars’ stock scoring a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 12 unanimous Buys. The average Caesars Entertainment price target of $120.08 implies 48.82% upside potential from current levels.
Conclusion
While all the three stocks are in the red year-to-date, analysts are more confident about Caesars Entertainment, with expectations of a strong recovery and higher upside potential over the next 12 months.
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Digital infrastructure company Equinix (EQIX) has completed the acquisition of MainOne, which provides data center and connectivity solutions in West Africa, at an enterprise value of $320 million. EQIX shares have climbed 8.7% over the past month.
The move bolsters Equinix’s strategy to become a major carrier-neutral digital infrastructure company in Africa that will provide a full range of technologies and connectivity in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cote d’Ivoire.
MainOne currently has three operational data centers and an additional facility is expected to begin operations in Lagos in April 2022. Recently, Equinix has also announced acquisitions in key geographies of South America, Canada, and India.
Hedge Fund Activity
TipRanks data points that Wall Street’s top hedge funds have decreased holdings in Equinix by 98,600 shares in the last quarter, indicating a very negative hedge fund confidence signal in the stock based on activities of 14 hedge funds.
Valuation Speaks
Now let’s have a look at some of the key metrics for Equinix and how it fares against the broader industry. The company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margin of 38.5% lags the industry median of 56.2%, implying that Equinix has legroom to streamline its costs. Additionally, a forward non-GAAP P/E multiple of 107.4 indicates the share price of the company is expensive, compared to the industry median multiple of 46.2.
Further, a return on common equity of 4.6% implies Equinix is less efficient at putting its funds to work than the broader industry, where the median figure is 5.3%.
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Shares of AGCO Corporation (AGCO) slipped 1.1% on Monday and a further 1.5% in Tuesday’s early trade on no company-specific news but a possibility that investors are wary of the rise in insider trading activities over the past month.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity, sentiments seem Negative about the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase in insiders selling their shares of AGCO.
Last month, AGCO’s VP & CAO Long Lara Thrush sold shares worth $105,795, while its SVP Chief HR Officer Harris Ivory Marie disposed of $74,246 worth of shares.
Nevertheless, the stock has been trading 22.3% higher so far this year, riding on its decent fundamentals and sound first quarter results.
In Q1, AGCO beat market expectations on both revenues and earnings fronts. The top line was up 23% year-over-year and earnings more than doubled from the year-ago period.
AGCO manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment and related replacement parts. Its products include tractors, combines, self-propelled sprayers, hay tools, forage equipment, seeding and tillage equipment, implements, and grain storage and protein production systems.
Stock Rating
Recently, JPMorgan analyst Tami Zakaria maintained a Buy rating on AGCO Corporation and raised the price target to $178 from $170. The new price target implies 24.4% upside potential from current levels.
The rest of the Street is cautiously optimistic about the stock and has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on four Buys and three Holds. AGCO’s average price target of $155.29 implies 8.5% upside potential to current levels.
According to TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool, investors seem bullish on AGCO. Per the tool, 36.2% of investors holding portfolios on TipRanks have increased their stake in AGCO stock over the last 30 days. Further, 2.3% of these individuals have raised their holdings in the recent week.
Also, AGCO currently scores a “Perfect 10” from TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, indicating that the stock has strong potential to outperform market expectations.
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SportsMLBLos Angeles AngelsNewsNews Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Los Angeles Angels | 2022 Angels regular-season schedule The Angels’ 2022 regular-season slate begins Thursday night with the home opener against the Houston AstrosShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) The Angels hope to see relief pitcher Raisel Iglesias closing out a lot of victories this season. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) By Kurt Snibbe | ksnibbe@scng.com | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: April 5, 2022 at 8:25 a.m. | UPDATED: April 5, 2022 at 8:26 a.m.
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors a day after revealing that he’d become the social media platform’s largest shareholder with a 9% stake.
The billionaire has criticized Twitter publicly about its commitment to free speech. He’s also run into trouble on the platform as the CEO of Tesla after financial regulators found he had posted inaccurate information about the company.
Musk is barred from owning more than 14.9% of Twitter’s outstanding stock while he sits on the board, Twitter Inc. said in a Tuesday regulatory filing.
Musk has been speaking with the company in recent weeks and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in a tweet that “it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.”
“He’s both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on @Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term,” Agrawal wrote.
Musk said he’s looking forward to working with Agrawal and the board “to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Musk wasted no time in weighing in on one of the biggest gripes Twitter users have about the platform late Tuesday, asking in a tweet if he should add an edit button.
“Now its time to get out the popcorn and watch the developments over the coming months with Musk on the board,” wrote Daniel Ives, who follows Twitter for Wedbush Securities.
Twitter’s board will have 12 members with Musk. Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter last and his term on the board expires at an upcoming stockholders’ meeting on May 25. Three other board members have terms that are set to expire but have been nominated to retain their seats.
Dorsey tweeted Tuesday that Musk and Agrawal “both lead with their hearts, and they will be an incredible team.”
“I’m really happy Elon is joining the Twitter board! He cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it,” Dorsey said.
After amassing 73.5 million Twitter shares worth a total of about $3 billion, Musk has not spoken specifically about any Twitter rule changes he might push.
In March, Musk told his 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought ” to creating his own social media platform.
Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with the SEC over his ability to post on Twitter. His lawyer has contended in court motions that the SEC is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
Shares of Twitter rose about 5% Tuesday.
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Matt O’Brien contributed from Providence, Rhode Island.
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Is all of California ready for an education shakeup? Will it follow Virginia and San Francisco?
The state superintendents of public instruction the past five decades have presided over the decline of California’s K-12 education system from one of the best in the nation, to among the worst. It’s a scandal because the kids are losing out. And Silicon Valley remains the high-tech center of the world and needs smart young graduates to fill its ranks.
Like all recent superintendents, incumbent Tony Thurmond is just a tool of the teachers’ unions, the most powerful political force in the state. Running for re-election, he is the most vulnerable incumbent on the November ballot. The reason: Parents across the nation are upset about what’s going on in the schools.
In Virgina last November, Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin defeated former Gov. Terry McAuliffe after the latter arrogantly asserted, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Even more shocking, in ultra-left-wing San Francisco, in February voters recalled three school board members who kept schools closed too long during COVID, sought to rename numerous schools and tried to gut the standards at the prestigious Lowell High School.
Thurmond won in 2018 with just 50.9% of the vote. He did nothing to resist Gov. Gavin Newsom’s excessive school lockdown mandates. Among other massive Thurmond failures, a recent report by World Population Review found California suffers the lowest literacy rate of any state. How can you have a democracy if voters can’t read?
Although officially a non-partisan post, everyone who looks into it knows the party of the candidates. The unions always back a Democrat, like Thurmond. Of the six candidates opposing him in the June primary, the top candidate to watch is Lance Christensen, a Republican.
Full disclosure: When I was state Sen. John Moorlach’s press secretary, 2017-20, Lance was the chief of staff. That means I can report on his efficiency in helping Moorlach run both the Sacramento and Costa Mesa offices. That included working with the majority Democrats who still will be in charge of the Legislature next year.
Lance is an expert on the state budget, of which 40% goes to K-12 education because of Proposition 98. That will be a whopping $115 billion for the 2022-23 budget, which begins on July 1. For that money, why isn’t California No. 1 instead of No. 50?
Lance also has five children in the public schools, so he personally knows what’s going on. I first met him two decades ago when he was working for state Sen. Tom McClintock, now a U.S. congressman. Lance was the state’s top expert on pension reform.
“Thurmond has been missing in action the past two years, while the teachers’ unions and the politicians they control have been trampling on every right kids have,” Lance told me. He lamented how his children lost two years of in-school education, including socialization, due to the excessive lockdowns.
He pointed out Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new budget proposal includes spending more than $20,000 per student, yet literacy remains among the lowest of the 50 states. “That’s $600,000 per classroom of 30 students. What could you do with that money if you were an independent school? You could take the students on numerous field trips, buy them gym memberships and serve the best food ever. You could attract the best teachers. You could take care of the special ed kids, language needs. Instead, the money is going to bureaucratic bloat.”
I’ve had the food at local public schools. Worse than Army food.
Recently, Lance has been vice president of Education Policy and Government Relations at the California Policy Center, which is working on a school choice initiative on the November ballot.
If he gets past the primary and faces Thurmond mano-a-mano in November, Lance expects a massive assault by the unions. “The teachers’ unions can come after me all they want,” he said, sounding like Gen. Patton. “I’ll just remind people I’m not protecting those who are driving the students to the bottom on every measure, including physical health during the shutdowns.”
I’ve been writing on education in California now for 35 years. More than ever, parents tell me, they’re ready for a change – a big one.
John Seiler writes at johnseiler.substack.com
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San Gabriel Valley Girls Athlete of the Week
Name: Joie Economides
School: South Hills
Sport: Softball
Year: Sophomore
Noteworthy: The Huskies’ super sophomore belted three home runs, including a grand slam in a 16-1 win over Diamond Bar. She finished with nine RBI’s to lead the area’s top softball team. She also had three hits, a double and three RBI’s in a 4-1 win over California in the first round of the La Mirada tournament. In the next game of the tournament, she had two hits, an RBI and double in a 9-0 win over Bishop Amat. On the season, she is batting .471 with six homers and 28 RBIs.
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STARTING ROTATION
The Angels are putting their faith in a six-man rotation with more upside than they’ve had in years, but with plenty of uncertainty. Right-hander Shohei Ohtani posted a 3.18 ERA in 23 starts and 130-1/3 innings last season. The Angels would be thrilled if he can repeat that, perhaps with a few more innings. Otherwise, none of the other five starters threw 100 innings last season. Right-hander Noah Syndergaard hasn’t done it since 2019 (before Tommy John surgery) and right-hander Michael Lorenzen hasn’t done it since 2015 (before moving to the bullpen). Lefties Patrick Sandoval, José Suarez and Reid Detmers have never reached the 100-inning threshold in the majors. The Angels are hoping that all of them, or at least some of them, can pitch to the level their careers suggested. Syndergaard was a top of the rotation starter before he was injured, and Sandoval (a 3.62 ERA last season) and Suarez (3.75) both enjoyed their first extended major-league success last season. Detmers, who was just drafted in 2020, struggled in five starts last season, but struck out 16 and walked none in the spring.
BULLPEN
The Angels hadn’t signed a pitcher to a multi-year deal since 2014, and then this winter they did it three times, all for relievers. They invested $58 million over four years to bring back closer Raisel Iglesias, who is one of the best in baseball in the ninth inning. The Angels also added left-hander Aaron Loup (two years, $17 million) and right-handers Ryan Tepera (two years, $14 million) and Archie Bradley. All three have career ERAs under 4.00 covering at least seven seasons. That moves right-hander Mike Mayers all the way down to the No. 5 spot in the bullpen pecking order, and he’s posted a 3.60 ERA in two seasons with the Angels. Righty Austin Warren and lefty José Quijada were impressive in small samples down the stretch last season. Righty Jaime Barria lost out on the Angels’ No. 6 rotation spot and will serve as the long man out of the bullpen.
INFIELD
Jared Walsh returns as the Angels’ first baseman after a breakout season that saw him make the All-Star team. Walsh hit 29 homers with an .850 OPS. He struggled against lefties, though, so the Angels might look to platoon him a little more this season if he doesn’t improve. Third baseman Anthony Rendon endured a lost season in 2021, with a hip injury sapping his performance and leading to other injuries. He had surgery last August and believes he’s back to 100 percent now. Rendon was an MVP-caliber player before he was hurt. The middle infield for the Angels has some questions, though. David Fletcher is moving from second base to shortstop, although he could bounce around depending on where they want to put their best defensive middle infielder. Tyler Wade, Matt Duffy and Jack Mayfield will all get some time sharing the middle infield with Fletcher, and Duffy and Mayfield could even play some first against lefties. The Angels might not get much offense out of any of their middle infielders, but they’ll be content if they can put the ball in play, run and play good defense.
DESIGNATED HITTER
The Angels will get a significant boost from the Ohtani Rule, which was approved last week. It allows a player to start at pitcher and DH and be treated as two different players. It means Ohtani can be the DH when he pitches, and remain in the game as a hitter when he’s done pitching. It should help Ohtani get another 25 to 40 at-bats, which would be a nice boost for the Angels if he comes anywhere close to the .965 OPS and 46 home runs he produced last year.
OUTFIELD
The Angels shook up their outfield with the surprising decision to unload Justin Upton last weekend. Angels general manager Perry Minasian said the move was made because they felt that young outfielders Jo Adell, Brandon Marsh and Taylor Ward were all ready to get significant playing time. Each of them is certainly better defensively and faster than Upton, at this point in his career. Marsh probably won’t start against many lefties, but otherwise, it remains to be seen how the Angels will divide the playing time in the two corner spots. They also might give the young players a few opportunities in center field to rest Mike Trout. The three-time MVP played just 36 games last season because of a strained calf. The Angels desperately want to keep him healthy for the entire season, because he is still the heart of the team.
CATCHER
Max Stassi has come a long way since he went 3 for 42 in the first two months after the Angels acquired him in July 2019. Over the past two seasons, he’s produced a .784 OPS, which is well above average for a catcher. He’s also been one of the better defensive catchers in the game, and the pitchers love working with him. That’s why the Angels inked him to a three-year, $17.5 million deal during spring training.
BENCH
On any given night, the Angels will have some useful pieces on the bench. Wade, Duffy, Mayfield, Adell, Marsh and Ward could each find themselves on the bench with backup catcher Kurt Suzuki. All of them figure to start enough that they should be fresh when called. Suzuki started 63 games behind the plate, which was probably too many, so the Angels will need to be more conservative with the 38-year-old to optimize his performance.
MANAGER
Most of the criticism of Joe Maddon in his first two seasons centered around his bullpen use, and the corps of relievers he has this year should certainly make him look “smarter” when he goes to the mound. Maddon will also again be tested by Ohtani. The Angels pushed him much harder in 2021 than they had before, so it might be tempting to ask for a little more. An injury to Ohtani would be crushing, though. Maddon will also need to find the right balance to juggle a four-man outfield and a four-man middle-infield. The Angels have an option on Maddon’s contract for 2023, so he’ll need to have a good season if he wants to stick around.
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By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the U.N. Security Council that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes.
In a video appearance Tuesday, Zelenskyy accused the Kremlin’s troops of the worst atrocities since World War II and said they are no different from other terrorists like the Islamic State extremist group.
The Ukrainian leader made his plea via video Tuesday as grisly evidence continued to emerge of civilian massacres carried out by Russian forces on the outskirts of Kyiv.
The images, particularly from the town of Bucha, have stirred global revulsion and led to demands for tougher sanctions and war crime prosecutions against Russia.
Zelenskyy showed the U.N.’s most powerful body brief video footage of bloody corpses that ended with the words “Stop Russian Aggression.”
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president planned to address the U.N.’s most powerful body on Tuesday after even more grisly evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian forces recently withdrew from. Western nations expelled dozens more of Moscow’s diplomats and proposed further sanctions as part of efforts to punish Russia for what they say are war crimes.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech to the Security Council will be rich with symbolism, but the invitation and other displays of Western support are unlikely to alter the situation on the ground. He says his forces desperately need more powerful weaponry, some of which the West has been reluctant to give. Russia’s veto guarantees the body will take no action, and it was unclear whether its representatives would even remain in the chamber for the video address.
The head of NATO, meanwhile, warned that Russia is regrouping its forces in order to deploy them to eastern and southern Ukraine for a “crucial phase of the war,” and said that more “atrocities” may come to light as Russian troops continue to pull back in the north.
“When and if they withdraw their troops and Ukrainian troops take over, I’m afraid they will see more mass graves, more atrocities and more examples of of war crimes,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces and that a “torture chamber” was discovered in the town of Bucha, from which some of the grimmest details have emerged.
Police and other investigators walked the silent streets of Bucha on Tuesday, taking notes on bodies that residents showed them. Survivors who hid in their homes during the monthlong Russian occupation of the town, many of them past middle age, wandered past charred tanks and jagged window panes with plastic bags of food and other humanitarian aid. Red Cross workers checked in on intact homes.
Associated Press journalists in the town have counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes. Many appeared to have been shot at close range, and some had their hands bound or their flesh burned. A mass grave in a churchyard held bodies wrapped in plastic.
High-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies, meanwhile, showed that many of the bodies had been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in the town. The New York Times first reported on the images showing the dead.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the images from Bucha revealed “a deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape, to commit atrocities.” He told journalists the reports were “more than credible” and reinforce the determination of countries around the world to hold those responsible to account and to support Ukraine.
“Only non-humans are capable of this,” said Angelica Chernomor, a refugee from Kyiv who crossed into Poland with her two children, and who had seen the photos from Bucha. “Even if people live under a totalitarian regime, they must retain feelings, dignity, but they do not.”
Chernomor is among the more than 4 million Ukrainians who have fled the country in the wake of the Feb. 24 invasion. More than 7 million more people have been displaced inside Ukraine, the U.N. migration agency estimates.
Russia has rejected allegations of atrocities, with officials repeatedly saying without evidence that the scenes were faked. Moscow said it would speak about Bucha at the U.N. on Tuesday, indicating its representatives will attend at least part of the meeting.
Russia has sought to refute similar accusations against its forces in the past by accusing its enemies of forging photos and video, and of using so-called crisis actors. Western officials and independent reporters say Russia spreads disinformation to mask its actions.
As Western leaders condemned the killings in Bucha, Italy, Spain and Denmark expelled dozens of Russian diplomats on Tuesday, following moves by Germany and France. Hundreds of Russian diplomats have been sent home since the start of the invasion, many accused of being spies.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the expulsions a “short-sighted” measure that would complicate communication and warned they would be met with “reciprocal steps.”
In another show of support, the European Union’s executive branch proposed a ban on coal imports from Russia, in what would be the first sanctions from the bloc targeting the country’s lucrative energy industry over the war. European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week, linked the ban on coal imports, worth 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) per year, to the “heinous crimes” around Kyiv.
The 27-nation EU has been a steadfast backer of Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24 and has already pushed through four rounds of sanctions — but Ukrainians officials have begged for more.
Just hours before the latest proposal was announced, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that to prevent “new Buchas” the West must impose the “mother of all sanctions” — on Russian oil and gas. “A few months of tightening your belts are worth thousands of saved lives,” he said.
But Western nations are divided over how far to go. Some are calling for a boycott of Russian oil and gas imports, while Germany and others fear that such a move could plunge the continent into a severe economic crisis. And countries from the NATO alliance have refused to hand over some of the most powerful weaponry Zelenskyy has asked for, like fighter jets.
Their provision of other weapons and equipment has been credited with helping Ukraine mount a stiffer than expected resistance to Russia’s overwhelming firepower. That resistance stopped Russian forces from overrunning the capital and other cities, and many troops have now withdrawn from areas around Kyiv.
But Western and Ukrainian officials say Russia is merely regrouping for another offensive.
“Moscow is not giving up its ambitions in Ukraine,” said Stoltenberg, the head of NATO. “We expect a further push in the eastern and southern Ukraine to try to take the entire Donbas and to create a land bridge” to the Crimea Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas have been fighting Ukrainian troops for the last eight years.
Stoltenberg insisted the alliance will stand ready to help Ukraine with military equipment, a day after Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry.
The Ukrainian military says that, in the Donbas, Russia is focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Azov Sea port of Mariupol, which has seen weeks of heavy fighting at a staggering cost to the city and its residents.
The Ukrainian governor of Luhansk on Tuesday urged residents to stay inside, shut windows and doors, and prepare wet face masks after a Russian strike hit a storage tank holding nitric acid near Rubizhne, which the Russians have been trying to seize. The Russian military has not commented on the alleged strike, and it could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, meanwhile, said seven humanitarian corridors will be open on Tuesday, including from besieged Mariupol, where 1,500 civilians were able to escape in private vehicles on Monday, as well as the Russian-controlled Berdyansk.
But it was not immediately clear whether Russia has agreed to halt the fighting along the corridors. Previous efforts to bring civilians to safety through humanitarian corridors have failed because of renewed fighting.
An international Red Cross team gave up on entering Mariupol at least for Tuesday, after several days of trying to deliver aid to the besieged city and help escort civilians out.
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This story has been updated to correct that Mariupol is on the Azov Sea, not the Black Sea.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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NBC News exec recounts disinformation crisis at start of Russia invasion
At the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, seven or eight out of the ten videos and images the company received were fake or doctored, Cesar Conde, the chair of NBCUniversal News, said at the Axios What's Next summit on Tuesday.
Driving the news: Though Russian state-media has faced widespread de-platforming, misinformation about the conflict has continued to spread easily, per Axios' Ina Fried and Sara Fischer.
- Conde said his organization was spending considerable resources to verify and confirm claims coming out of Ukraine, including with reporters on the ground who, Conde said, would be there "for the long haul."
- "In many ways, what we were receiving was was counterfeit news...And so you know, this topic is taking up much more bandwidth and resources from us than in an a regular situation."
Details: Conde explained that one of the challenges news organizations are facing is that people are getting more news faster, but that does not mean that news is better.
- Ensuring that the news people are receiving is real and accurate is "fundamental," for NBC.
- He also explained that the proliferation of misinformation means that trust in news institutions is at stake.
- A part of that mission is making sure that NBC's journalism remains free, so that it can reach a broader population.
What he's saying: Conde explained that if there journalism doesn't remain free "large portions of the population who may not be able to afford subscription services may be left with only what's out there in social media and worse, some of the misinformation and disinformation that's that's out there."
- "So for us at the News Group, what we're focused on is really taking the incredible work of our courageous journalists on the ground how do we decipher [fact from fiction] and then ensure we disseminated across all these emergent platforms," Conde added.
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The head of the CDC plans to review and revamp the country’s public health agency.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said an administrator with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Jim Macrae, will begin an assessment of the agency, starting April 11.
Macrae will report back to Walensky on how the CDC can improve its delivery of science and how it can strengthen its programs.
The CDC plans to develop new systems and a new structure plan.
This comes as the agency begins to transition some of its COVID-19 responses to other institutes and offices.
Dr. Walensky told CDC employees, “it is time to take a step back and strategically position C.D.C. to support the future of public health,” after receiving feedback during the pandemic, the New York Times reported.
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Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the bill that guarantees abortion access and other reproductive rights in state statute on Monday.
HB22-1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, says that state and local public entities are prohibited from interfering with a person’s right to continue a pregnancy, give birth, or have an abortion. It also calls people’s access to contraception a “fundamental right.”
The bill passed the Senate on March 23 to head to Polis’ desk after more than 36 hours worth of public testimony in both chambers of the legislature.
Polis thanked the bill’s sponsors – Rep. Meg Froelich, House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar and Sen. Julie Gonzales – for sponsoring the legislation as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule this summer on a challenge regarding a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks, which the sponsors and other say is a direct challenge to the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.
“In the state of Colorado, the very serious decision to start a pregnancy or end a pregnancy with medical assistance remains between a person, their doctor and their faith,” Polis said in the bill signing news conference. “…As the federal legal landscape further evolves, Colorado can now continue to assure our residents that the very intimate right to choose how and whether to proceed with family planning and pregnancy can continue as it has been protected at the state level. Because in Colorado, we truly respect individual rights and freedom.”
Sponsors have pointed to Texas’ Senate Bill 8 took effect last September, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Colorado decriminalized abortion care in 1967 six years prior to the Roe v. Wade decision.
They have also said that Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada would likely be the only states in the Rocky Mountain region where people might have access to abortion care.
“We don’t ever want to see something that’s happening in Texas happen here in Colorado, and it’s too bad that we have to do this,” Esgar said. “But we’re seeing what’s happening on the federal level and we need to be making sure that we are doing our job as lawmakers here to protect the people of Colorado.”
Sponsors said earlier this month they will also prepare a statewide constitutional amendment ballot measure for 2024 to enshrine reproductive rights in the constitution as well.
“The people speaking unanimously through their democratic elected representatives in both chambers have affirmed that we should trust Coloradans to make their own reproductive health care decisions,” Gonzales said, also thanking the various groups that have supported their measure and other reproductive rights bills.
“This is about freedom and this is about power,” she added. “The freedom to decide when, whether, and how to become a parent. The power to make your own decision about your body and your health without having to ask permission of your local politician.”
This story was first reported by Blair Miller at KMGH in Denver.
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How much have you thought about bottled water?
It’s a simple product — probably an afterthought in the fridge at the convenience store, in your fridge at home, or stockpiled in your trunk in case you get stuck on the side of the road.
But where did it come from? How did that water get from wherever it was to the inside of the bottle? And why are we paying several dollars at a time for something that comes at a fraction of the cost straight from the tap?
The answers to those questions reveal the true impact of bottled water, both environmentally and ethically, and that impact is worth considering the next time you buy a bottle.
It's important to note tap water is not a universal luxury. CDC estimates suggest that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the United States, cities have had to rely on bottled alternatives to tap water for weeks, months or even years at a time.
Cities like Jackson, Mississippi, and Newark, New Jersey, as well as both Flint and Benton Harbor in Michigan, have needed to rely on bottled water in recent years due to aging infrastructure or toxic chemicals in their water supply.
But if you’re just going to the supermarket and buying a water bottle, you’re getting a product that is far more expensive than what you can get via tap.
"When people are thirsty, it's a really appealing drink — that bottle of water that you buy in a cold case for $1.29," author Charles Fishman said. "It's cheap in terms of the fact that you can slide two dollar bills or six quarters on the counter and you're done. You could fill that bottle of water every day for 3,500 days, nine years from your tap before the tap water cost $1.29."
Fishman is a contributing editor for the business magazine Fast Company and wrote a book about the economics of bottled water called “The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.”
"It's not better than tap water," Fishman said. "It's not cleaner than tap water. In fact, tap water is much more tightly regulated than bottled water by state, local, the federal government."
That bottle also has more costs than just what you pay for it at the store. Bottled water has a huge environmental impact.
The water comes from a source — likely a lake, spring, or underground aquifer. On average, the manufacturer will have to use three liters of water just to produce one liter — roughly 34 fluid ounces — of water that can be bottled.
At the plant that makes plastic bottles for the water, they’ll have to use roughly 2,000 times the energy needed to produce tap water. Much of America’s plastic is made with energy from burned oil. Considering that bottled water is one of the most popular drinks in the U.S. and consumers drink tens of billions of bottles each year, we’re talking about tens of billions of gallons of oil used to just make water bottles each year.
The bottle may have to go hundreds or thousands of miles on planes, trucks, or ships to get to your local store, with brands like Evian and Fiji shipping their water from France and Fiji, respectively.
That bottle also usually just gets used once, with most of them not getting recycled after use. Michael O’Heaney, executive director at the environmental nonprofit the Story of Stuff Project, says it can get even more costly when you factor in how it got made.
"Plastics fundamentally are products derived from oil and gas," O'Heaney said. "So part of the reason you see this huge growth in single-use plastics is less about demand is less about consumers saying, 'I really want more single-use plastics in my life,' and more about the sort of glut of hydrocarbons, and most specifically, the glut of fracked natural gas available in the United States."
Put it all together, and your water has been through a lot before you drink it.
Peter Gleick is the co-Founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, an environmental nonprofit. He also wrote “Bottled and Sold,” a book about why we consume so much bottled water.
"Perhaps the biggest environmental challenge associated with bottled water, of course, is the plastics associated with the whole process, the making of the plastic bottle, which requires a huge amount of energy," Gleick said. "Fossil fuel energy plastics come from fossil fuels. Then, we buy the bottle after it's been moved to wherever we're picking it up, and there's an energy cost associated with that as well."
Gleick notes that despite people's suspicions about tap water, bottled water generally isn’t any safer than tap water.
"We have federal laws, the federal standard, the Safe Drinking Water Act, that defines standards for our tap water that protect our tap water to a very high degree that require that water agencies test tap water on a constant basis," Gleick said. "I wouldn't argue that tap water is safer necessarily than bottled water, but it's certainly not any less safe than bottled water, which also has standards to bring it up to about the standard that our tap water has to meet."
Then, there's the labeling of it all.
Two of the largest water bottle brands — the Coca-Cola-owned Dasani and the PepsiCo-owned Aquafina — bottle purified water using what’s called “reverse osmosis filtration.”
That’s one way of saying that they literally just use the same source as tap water.
The advocacy group Food and Water Watch estimates nearly two-thirds of bottled water sold in the United States comes from the same source as municipal tap water.
"The vast majority of bottled water, the water that people buy in the store and bring home or buy on the go, is just purified tap water, is municipal water that the companies buy typically from municipalities," O'Heaney said. "There's a variety of processes they use and then sell back to consumers in plastic packaging."
That’s gotten some folks really upset, and it’s led to efforts to block companies from taking water from the tap supply and bottling it for sale.
Legislation in Michigan and Maine proposed restricting the bottling of tap water or taxing companies that do it, but the most significant effort to address the issue came in Washington state.
Legislators proposed making it the first state to ban water bottlers from using water from springs and aquifers. The bill died in a state House committee, but legislators are hoping to address the issue in the future.
Democratic Sen. Reuven Carlyle introduced the bill.
"For me, introducing this legislation was to recognize that bottled water companies were buying the rights to water, which in the West are a big deal," Carlyle said. "Purchasing up those rights to water to basically get in front of the queue, in front of tribes, in front of agriculture, in front of regular neighborhoods, to be able to purchase that water right so they can bottle it and then, in effect, ship it around the world."
But there are criticisms of the idea of governing water too much or developing a free alternative. In Washington, a Republican legislator told residents that water law changes can take years to develop and should require broad discussions about the effects because of the potential for unintended consequences.
But Carlyle points to another source of political pressure — the bottled water industry.
"I think that the industry reacted with such a vigorous lobbying opposition and such a fierce opposition because they saw this legislation as an existential threat to their ability to supersede and jump in front of the line and get access to these water systems in order to to bottle it up and resell it," Carlyle said.
There’s economic pressure, too. A lot of that comes down to what you’re actually buying when you buy a water bottle.
"Bottled water is a great convenience," Fishman said. "It's really appealing, you know when you've been on a run when you've been at the gym when you're really thirsty if you step into a convenience store and you look in the cold case and there's a bottle of water. They're sort of glistening. It's in its clear plastic bottle for $1.29. That seems really appealing."
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NEW YORK — A suspect in a series of attacks on Asian women in New York City has been indicted.
28-year-old Steven Zajonc now faces six felony counts of third-degree assault as a hate crime and seven counts of second-degree aggravated harassment.
The attacks happened in February on the east side of Manhattan, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
Police said Zajonc punched and hurt victims in other ways, without provocation.
The victims were between the ages of 19 and 57.
They were all assaulted within a three-hour time frame.
One victim was knocked unconscious and hospitalized. The others suffered bruises, bleeding and lacerations.
The Manhattan DA’s office said it is currently investigating 27 hate crime cases related to anti-Asian attacks.
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MUSKEGON, Mich. — You may have heard of the Island Boiz, but the Tiki Boiz in Muskegon are making a name for themselves along the Lakeshore.
Tiki Boiz started out in a tent in a parking lot, then a food truck.
Now, their first brick-and-mortar store is a place you'll pass on your way to the beach this summer. You'll find them at their hole-in-the-wall restaurant, just off Lakeshore Drive.
“We met in high school. At lunch,” recalls Co-Founder Maxx Archer. He and Shae Himber are no longer “tiki boiz” but tiki men.
“We were alternative kids,” says Maxx. “We were like, ‘Hey, we listen to the same music. We all like the same kinda stuff. We should hang out.’”
Ten years later, these best friends are serving lunch to a never-ending line of customers.
It’s a friendship-turned-business that happened a few years back with a food truck.
“Looking back now, it seemed well then,” says Shae. “Now we're like, ‘Whoa, this is well.’”
With their first brick-and-mortar store, they’re serving up Hawaiian food you won't find just anywhere.
“I lived in Hawaii for like six months," says Shae, who brought those flavors back to his hometown. On a daily drive, he found this place.
“We live right down the road from here,” says Shae “I drive by this place all the time because I go to the beach every morning. Just a morning routine: go to the beach, drive by, get the vibes. It's like, ‘Yes. Zen.’”
“I’ve had pizza here back in the day from the Old Hab’s,” Archer said.
Now, it’s furikiaki instead of red pepper flakes. But zen isn't how these two would describe opening a fast favorite in their town.
“We did a soft opening, which wasn't so soft," says Shae.
They sold out of food, which was a reoccurring problem. But it’s not one they're complaining about.
“We've had people in Grand Rapids post on our stuff. ‘Open one in Grand Rapids. Open one in Grand Rapids,'" says Shae.
To that, Maxx and Shae say you'll have to come check out their hometown — for now.
“I’ve seen the growth. And there's going to be more," says Shae.
If the food isn't enough to convince you, the vibes just might.
“Being on the way to the beach… like, we couldn't get better than that, I guess," says Shae.
See the items available on their menu here.
We’re told there is a secret menu too.
The Tiki Boiz say they've had to reduce their hours because of the demand they've gotten, saying it's all thanks to those who believe in them.
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It’s a simple product — probably an afterthought in the fridge at the convenience store, in your fridge at home, or stockpiled in your trunk in case you get stuck on the side of the road.
But where did it come from? How did that water get from wherever it was to the inside of the bottle? And why are we paying several dollars at a time for something that comes at a fraction of the cost straight from the tap?
The answers to those questions reveal the true impact of bottled water, both environmentally and ethically, and that impact is worth considering the next time you buy a bottle.
It's important to note tap water is not a universal luxury. CDC estimates suggest that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the United States, cities have had to rely on bottled alternatives to tap water for weeks, months or even years at a time.
Cities like Jackson, Mississippi, and Newark, New Jersey, as well as both Flint and Benton Harbor in Michigan, have needed to rely on bottled water in recent years due to aging infrastructure or toxic chemicals in their water supply.
But if you’re just going to the supermarket and buying a water bottle, you’re getting a product that is far more expensive than what you can get via tap.
"When people are thirsty, it's a really appealing drink — that bottle of water that you buy in a cold case for $1.29," author Charles Fishman said. "It's cheap in terms of the fact that you can slide two dollar bills or six quarters on the counter and you're done. You could fill that bottle of water every day for 3,500 days, nine years from your tap before the tap water cost $1.29."
Fishman is a contributing editor for the business magazine Fast Company and wrote a book about the economics of bottled water called “The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.”
"It's not better than tap water," Fishman said. "It's not cleaner than tap water. In fact, tap water is much more tightly regulated than bottled water by state, local, the federal government."
That bottle also has more costs than just what you pay for it at the store. Bottled water has a huge environmental impact.
The water comes from a source — likely a lake, spring, or underground aquifer. On average, the manufacturer will have to use three liters of water just to produce one liter — roughly 34 fluid ounces — of water that can be bottled.
At the plant that makes plastic bottles for the water, they’ll have to use roughly 2,000 times the energy needed to produce tap water. Much of America’s plastic is made with energy from burned oil. Considering that bottled water is one of the most popular drinks in the U.S. and consumers drink tens of billions of bottles each year, we’re talking about tens of billions of gallons of oil used to just make water bottles each year.
The bottle may have to go hundreds or thousands of miles on planes, trucks, or ships to get to your local store, with brands like Evian and Fiji shipping their water from France and Fiji, respectively.
That bottle also usually just gets used once, with most of them not getting recycled after use. Michael O’Heaney, executive director at the environmental nonprofit the Story of Stuff Project, says it can get even more costly when you factor in how it got made.
"Plastics fundamentally are products derived from oil and gas," O'Heaney said. "So part of the reason you see this huge growth in single-use plastics is less about demand is less about consumers saying, 'I really want more single-use plastics in my life,' and more about the sort of glut of hydrocarbons, and most specifically, the glut of fracked natural gas available in the United States."
Put it all together, and your water has been through a lot before you drink it.
Peter Gleick is the co-Founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, an environmental nonprofit. He also wrote “Bottled and Sold,” a book about why we consume so much bottled water.
"Perhaps the biggest environmental challenge associated with bottled water, of course, is the plastics associated with the whole process, the making of the plastic bottle, which requires a huge amount of energy," Gleick said. "Fossil fuel energy plastics come from fossil fuels. Then, we buy the bottle after it's been moved to wherever we're picking it up, and there's an energy cost associated with that as well."
Gleick notes that despite people's suspicions about tap water, bottled water generally isn’t any safer than tap water.
"We have federal laws, the federal standard, the Safe Drinking Water Act, that defines standards for our tap water that protect our tap water to a very high degree that require that water agencies test tap water on a constant basis," Gleick said. "I wouldn't argue that tap water is safer necessarily than bottled water, but it's certainly not any less safe than bottled water, which also has standards to bring it up to about the standard that our tap water has to meet."
Then, there's the labeling of it all.
Two of the largest water bottle brands — the Coca-Cola-owned Dasani and the PepsiCo-owned Aquafina — bottle purified water using what’s called “reverse osmosis filtration.”
That’s one way of saying that they literally just use the same source as tap water.
The advocacy group Food and Water Watch estimates nearly two-thirds of bottled water sold in the United States comes from the same source as municipal tap water.
"The vast majority of bottled water, the water that people buy in the store and bring home or buy on the go, is just purified tap water, is municipal water that the companies buy typically from municipalities," O'Heaney said. "There's a variety of processes they use and then sell back to consumers in plastic packaging."
That’s gotten some folks really upset, and it’s led to efforts to block companies from taking water from the tap supply and bottling it for sale.
Legislation in Michigan and Maine proposed restricting the bottling of tap water or taxing companies that do it, but the most significant effort to address the issue came in Washington state.
Legislators proposed making it the first state to ban water bottlers from using water from springs and aquifers. The bill died in a state House committee, but legislators are hoping to address the issue in the future.
Democratic Sen. Reuven Carlyle introduced the bill.
"For me, introducing this legislation was to recognize that bottled water companies were buying the rights to water, which in the West are a big deal," Carlyle said. "Purchasing up those rights to water to basically get in front of the queue, in front of tribes, in front of agriculture, in front of regular neighborhoods, to be able to purchase that water right so they can bottle it and then, in effect, ship it around the world."
But there are criticisms of the idea of governing water too much or developing a free alternative. In Washington, a Republican legislator told residents that water law changes can take years to develop and should require broad discussions about the effects because of the potential for unintended consequences.
But Carlyle points to another source of political pressure — the bottled water industry.
"I think that the industry reacted with such a vigorous lobbying opposition and such a fierce opposition because they saw this legislation as an existential threat to their ability to supersede and jump in front of the line and get access to these water systems in order to to bottle it up and resell it," Carlyle said.
There’s economic pressure, too. A lot of that comes down to what you’re actually buying when you buy a water bottle.
"Bottled water is a great convenience," Fishman said. "It's really appealing, you know when you've been on a run when you've been at the gym when you're really thirsty if you step into a convenience store and you look in the cold case and there's a bottle of water. They're sort of glistening. It's in its clear plastic bottle for $1.29. That seems really appealing."
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What are the top-rated false lashes on Sephora?
Whether you prefer soft, fluttery lashes or a bold, dramatic look that’s impossible to ignore, false lashes are usually the quickest, easiest way to get the look you want. And unlike with mascara, you don’t have to worry about smudging, flaking or running makeup during the day.
There’s definitely a learning curve when applying false lashes, particularly if you’re using traditional falsies requiring glue. Magnetic false lashes can be easier to use, but it all depends on finding a high-quality pair that can stay in place all day. No matter what type you decide on, though, you want to ensure that the lashes fit your eyes and are durable enough to hold up to repeated wear.
Looking for a beautiful pair of false lashes you can wear more than once? Check out these much-loved falsies you can find at Sephora to upgrade your lash game.
Most popular false lashes on Sephora for under $20
Sephora Collection Vegan False Eyelashes
These affordable vegan falsies don’t contain any animal hair but still provide volume, length and dimension for your lashes. They’re available in eight styles, so you can achieve the perfect look. They also have a flexible, lightweight design that makes them comfortable to wear.
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Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina False Lashes
These high-quality lashes are easy to wear but still provide a bold look. You can choose from seven styles, ranging from fluffy and soft to dense and dramatic. Best of all, each set can be worn between five and 20 times.
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Huda Beauty Hoodie False Lashes
With their fluffy, high-volume look, these false lashes can finish off any eye look perfectly. They work for all eye shapes, adding both length and volume. The synthetic materials and cotton band are lightweight, too, so they’re highly comfortable.
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Tarte Tarteist Pro Cruelty-Free Lashes
Another vegan option, these synthetic false lashes have a clear, comfort-fit strip that makes them easy to wear. They come in nine style options, including several 3D lashes that offer extreme length and/or volume. The lash band is latex-free, too.
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Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina False Bottom Lashes
Your top lashes don’t have to get all the attention with these bottom falsies that are available in two styles. They’re extremely lightweight, so they’re comfortable and won’t come loose during the day. They’re also easy to apply, adhering to your lash line in a matter of seconds.
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House of Lashes X Sephora Collection False Lash
These handcrafted lashes are 100% vegan and cruelty-free. They’re also incredibly lightweight, making all-day wear easy and comfortable. You can choose from four styles, with some offering multiple levels of fibers for maximum impact. Each pair can be worn up to 20 times, too.
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Most popular false lashes on Sephora for $20-$25
One/Size by Patrick Starrr Full-On Faux Lashes
If you’re looking for lashes that provide maximum glam, these cruelty-free falsies are for you. Featuring vegan materials, they come in two styles: a wispy, fluttery option for softer looks and a bold rockstar choice for major drama. You can wear each pair up to 15 times to really get your money’s worth.
Sold by Sephora
Huda Beauty Lottie Classic False Lashes
Consisting of super-soft silk fibers, these falsies are comfortable and easy to wear. They provide serious volume that adds drama without looking over the top. The discreet-looking band means you don’t need to wear eyeliner with them either.
Sold by Sephora
Lilly Lashes Lite Faux Mink Lashes
These vegan lashes offer a natural look while providing soft length, volume and curl. They have a lightweight design and a flexible band that makes them extremely comfortable to wear. They’re also easy to clean, so you can wear them multiple times.
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Huda Beauty Faux Mink Lash Collection
Designed to highlight your eye makeup, these falsies are handcrafted and triple stacked for bold volume. The tapered cut of the synthetic fibers mimics the look of real mink for a cruelty-free design. They’re highly durable, too, offering up to 15 uses per pair.
Sold by Sephora
Most popular false lashes for $25+
Velour Lashes Vegan Mink Luxe Lash
These luxurious vegan lashes are handmade with synthetic fibers that look just like mink. They’re perfectly curled to provide a beautifully wispy look. Best of all, each pair can be worn up to 25 times.
Sold by Sephora
Lilly Lashes 3D Faux Mink Lashes
These vegan lashes are bestsellers around the world because of the impressive length and volume they offer. They come in four styles that range from soft and fluttery to dramatically long and full. The lashes are light, too, so they’re comfortable to wear and stay in place all day.
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Velour Lashes Magnetic Effortless No Trim Natural Lash Collection
Stop struggling with messy lash glue with these award-winning magnetic false lashes. They feature a comfortable cotton band that contains eight lightweight magnets but is still flexible enough to be comfortable. They can be worn as many as 30 times, too.
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These trimmable, magnetic false lashes feature synthetic fibers that flatter all eye shapes. The magnetics in the band are lightweight and durable, providing a secure hold on the lashes. Best of all, they can be worn up to 60 times.
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Lilly Lashes x Sephora Collection Faux 3D Lashes
These 3D vegan faux mink falsies provide a dramatic multi-dimensional effect that’s sure to get you noticed. They come in four styles that can add length and volume while still being light enough for comfortable all-day wear.
Sold by Sephora
Velour Lashes Effortless No Trim Natural Lash Collection
Thanks to their black cotton thread construction, these lashes have an almost invisible band. They’re perfectly sized, so they don’t require any trimming to fit comfortably. Best of all, you can reuse them up to 20 times.
Sold by Sephora
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Which Jura espresso machine is best?
Investing in a Swiss-made Jura espresso machine lets coffee connoisseurs brew high-quality espresso with the industry’s most innovative technology from the comfort of their own kitchens.
These machines are easy for everyday consumers to use while still offering a wide variety of customizable settings.
For the best of Jura’s cutting-edge technology and its largest assortment of drink settings at a midrange price, the Jura WE8 Automatic is the best choice.
What to know before you buy a Jura espresso machine
Drink settings
When considering what Jura machine is best for your coffee habits, think about what types of drinks you enjoy and choose the best machine for the job. All Jura espresso machines can craft espresso, coffee and ristretto.
If you want more complex drinks like macchiatos or lattes, opt for one with more drink settings and a built-in milk frother.
Size
For the most part, the more features included in the espresso machine, the larger it is. Finding the right Jura espresso machine is a balance between how much space is on your kitchen counter and what features you want.
Smaller models fit in kitchens with limited space but likely won’t include settings for milk frothing, which is a staple feature for some.
If you’re shopping for a shared space or office use, you may have the room to opt for a larger machine that can store enough resources to brew fresh espresso for many different users.
Grinder type
The type of grinder you use with your espresso beans dictates how fine and consistent your grounds are, which creates a well-extracted espresso. Jura machines include one of the following types of grinders:
- Multilevel conical grinders
- Conical burr grinders
- Dual ceramic disc grinders
You can cut down on noise and grind time by finding a Jura model that uses their signature Aroma integrated grinder.
Maintenance
Jura espresso machines help you handle the hassle of cleanup with automatic cleaning settings. You can select the self-cleaning features from the menu and the machine takes care of rinsing, cleaning and descaling for you.
What to look for in a quality Jura espresso machine
Touchscreen controls
While all Jura machines allow you to customize your coffee settings to an extent, lower-end models only have push buttons and knobs. Midrange and higher-end machines offer crystal clear touchscreen controls for a better user experience. With a touchscreen, you can easily see every selection you make.
Coffee strength settings
Part of the allure of an espresso machine is being able to select your coffee strength preferences. With a Jura machine, you can choose up to five strength levels: extra-mild, mild, normal, strong and extra-strong.
Pulse extraction process
Jura’s patented extraction method cuts the brew time in half by pre-infusing the grounds in hot water. Machines featuring the pulse extraction process create the same quality espresso when you’re on a tight schedule.
Powder chute
Though all Jura machines feature an internal grinder, you may not want to wait around for beans to grind before brewing every cup. A powder chute allows you to add espresso grounds to the chamber instead, offering yet another way to customize your espresso experience.
Milk frother
If you’re a coffee aficionado who enjoys frothed milk in your drinks, a built-in milk frother is a welcome feature. Jura machines with a milk frother aerate the milk to add a rich and creamy layer to espresso drinks like mochas, cappuccinos and lattes.
Timer settings
Some Jura espresso machines offer the option to set delayed brewing schedules so you can plan your coffee breaks ahead of time. Depending on the model, you may even be able to set a schedule based on days of the week.
How much you can expect to spend on a Jura espresso machine
Jura espresso machines range in price from $750-$9,000, with their most common mid-range models costing $1,000-$3,199.
Jura espresso machine FAQ
How do you clean a Jura machine?
A. You can find a branded line of Jura cleaning products designed specifically for their espresso machines. The machine will alert you when it’s time for a clean. During the cleaning cycle, follow the instructions, which may prompt you to add certain cleaning products to the machine. These detergents work more effectively on the intricate parts than typical liquid dish detergents.
Do Jura espresso machines come with a warranty?
A. The Jura warranty applies for up to two years or 6,000 brewings, whichever comes first. Materials and workmanship defects are covered, but it doesn’t include damage caused by accidents or misuse.
What’s the best Jura espresso machine to buy?
Top Jura espresso machine
What you need to know: This one-touch machine crafts perfect barista-quality espresso drinks.
What you’ll love: The large 101-ounce water tank and 17.6-ounce bean container offer plenty of storage so you can brew often without having to replenish your stock. The conical burr grinder is fast and precise, creating even, fine grounds. A wide variety of settings offer a fully customizable espresso experience.
What you should consider: With all its capabilities, this high-tech kitchen gadget comes with a learning curve.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Jura espresso machine for the money
What you need to know: This slimmer Jura machine creates high-quality espresso and cappuccino for a fraction of the price of their other models.
What you’ll love: It brews a barista-quality cappuccino with the perfect milk foam in 60 seconds. Conical burr grinders create the most precise grounds possible. Personalized settings offer even more convenience. The Smart Connect App and slick design offer a high-tech look and feel.
What you should consider: Some functional quirks may be bothersome.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What you need to know: This Jura model excels at creating near-perfect specialty drinks like lattes, cappuccinos and macchiatos with just one touch.
What you’ll love: The automatic components craft ready-to-drink cafe favorites, brewed according to customizable settings. The conical burr grinder prepares the beans before using Jura’s Intelligent Water System and Pulse Extraction Process to brew the perfect cup. The Fine Foam Frother uses innovative technology to create the finest textured milk foam.
What you should consider: With smaller reservoirs, the water and bean containers may need more frequent refills.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Sur La Table
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Which smart pet feeder is best?
Most pets are creatures of habit, which means consistency is key. This extends not only to things like walking schedules and training, but also mealtimes. Of course, for people, life doesn’t always allow for that. Whether you periodically get asked to stay late at work, go to the gym certain days of the week or are involved in any other activity, there are many things that can interfere with getting home to feed your pets at the exact same time every day. Thankfully, technology has given us the answer in smart pet feeders.
Smart pet feeders allow you to schedule mealtimes so your furry family member can eat at the same time every day. Not only will they appreciate this, but it can also help them keep their weight under control. They’re less likely to overeat if they get fed multiple smaller meals a day rather than one or two large ones.
Some models, such as the Arf Pets Smart Automatic Pet Feeder with Wi-Fi, are also equipped with a camera and live audio communication.
What to know before you buy a smart pet feeder
Food compatibility
Before purchasing any smart pet feeder, check to make sure it’s compatible with the type of food you give to your pet. Many models are only intended for use with dry kibble. There are also restrictions on the size of the kibble they can accept.
Setup
Most smart pet feeders are designed to be easy to set up, even for those who describe themselves as technologically challenged. While every model has its own unique steps, they generally involve downloading an app to your mobile device and connecting the feeder to your home’s Wi-Fi network. After that, you go through the various options, selecting the portion size and feeding schedule, and then fill the storage container with your dog or cat food.
What to look for in a quality smart pet feeder
Meal settings
Smart pet feeders allow you to choose from several meal settings to customize the feeding to your pet’s needs. Depending on the model, you may be able to choose from anywhere from three to 15 meals per day. You can also adjust the portion size.
Storage capacity
While it doesn’t make much difference in day-to-day operation, the storage capacity dictates how often you’ll need to refill the feeder. Models with larger storage capacities can go longer before needing to be refilled. However, you’ll also need to take your space constraints into consideration.
Low-food indicator
The last thing you want is to forget to refill the storage container and end up leaving your pet without food for the day. To reduce the chances of this happening, some models feature a low-food indicator. This may be a notification sent via the associated app or simply a small indicator light on the feeder itself.
Camera
Some smart pet feeders are equipped with a camera that lets you check in on your pet whenever you feel the need. It’s best to choose a model with a wide field of view so there’s a better chance your pet will be in the frame when you check in.
Voice communication
Voice communication can mean different things depending on the model. On some models, this simply means you can record a certain amount of messages that it plays at set times throughout the day, generally before or during meals. More advanced models support real-time voice communication so you can speak to them anytime you want.
Power supply
Most smart pet feeders connect to wall power, either via a standard two- or three-prong plug or a USB charger. Ideally, any model you pick should also have a battery backup so your pet still gets fed, even if there’s a power outage.
How much you can expect to spend on a smart pet feeder
Smart pet feeders start at around $50. The most advanced models can cost up to $200.
Smart pet feeder FAQ
Can smart pet feeders be used for cats and dogs?
A. Smart pet feeders can technically be used for any kind of animal as long as the portion sizes and the size of the bowl are large enough for your pet.
Can I use a smart pet feeder if I have multiple pets?
A. You can use a smart pet feeder with multiple pets. However, unless you have a separate one for each pet and they’re trained not to eat out of the other’s bowls, there’s nothing to stop one pet from eating both pet’s meals.
What’s the best smart pet feeder to buy?
Top smart pet feeder
Arf Pets Smart Automatic Pet Feeder with Wi-Fi
What you need to know: The Arf Pets smart feeder is an advanced option that offers live video and audio communication with your pet.
What you’ll love: You can prerecord messages that automatically get played back at mealtimes, so your pet never feels lonely. The bowl and food storage container are removable and dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning.
What you should consider: Rambunctious pets can knock it over.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Top smart pet feeder for the money
Peteme Automatic Smart Pet Feeder
What you need to know: This affordable smart pet feeder allows anyone to feed their furry family member up to six times throughout the day.
What you’ll love: The food storage container is clear, so you can always tell at a glance how much is left. It supports up to 10 prerecorded messages, which lets your pet hear your voice several times throughout the day.
What you should consider: The maximum kibble size is just 10 millimeters.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
PetSafe Smart Feed Automatic Pet Feeder
What you need to know: The PetSafe Smart Feeder allows you to feed two animals at once — each in their own bowl — thanks to the inclusion of a split spout and small divider wall.
What you’ll love: You can connect it to Amazon Echo devices for voice control of manual feedings. It provides notifications on your phone when the food is running low.
What you should consider: The bowls aren’t attached to the feeder, which means unruly pets can knock them out of the way, resulting in food dispensing all over the floor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers are handing the decision of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to play high school sports to the state’s main athletic association. The last-minute move came minutes before the 2022 session ended. House Bill 1084 now says that the Georgia High School Association “may” ban transgender girls who play for public schools from competing against other girls.
House Speaker David Ralston says the association is the right body to make the decision. Democrats are reacting angrily to the legislation, which was pushed through without a full explanation of the changes. The measure was included in House Bill 1084, which also bans the teaching of “divisive concepts” on race.
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How much have you thought about bottled water?
It’s a simple product — probably an afterthought in the fridge at the convenience store, in your fridge at home, or stockpiled in your trunk in case you get stuck on the side of the road.
But where did it come from? How did that water get from wherever it was to the inside of the bottle? And why are we paying several dollars at a time for something that comes at a fraction of the cost straight from the tap?
The answers to those questions reveal the true impact of bottled water, both environmentally and ethically, and that impact is worth considering the next time you buy a bottle.
It's important to note tap water is not a universal luxury. CDC estimates suggest that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the United States, cities have had to rely on bottled alternatives to tap water for weeks, months or even years at a time.
Cities like Jackson, Mississippi, and Newark, New Jersey, as well as both Flint and Benton Harbor in Michigan, have needed to rely on bottled water in recent years due to aging infrastructure or toxic chemicals in their water supply.
But if you’re just going to the supermarket and buying a water bottle, you’re getting a product that is far more expensive than what you can get via tap.
"When people are thirsty, it's a really appealing drink — that bottle of water that you buy in a cold case for $1.29," author Charles Fishman said. "It's cheap in terms of the fact that you can slide two dollar bills or six quarters on the counter and you're done. You could fill that bottle of water every day for 3,500 days, nine years from your tap before the tap water cost $1.29."
Fishman is a contributing editor for the business magazine Fast Company and wrote a book about the economics of bottled water called “The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.”
"It's not better than tap water," Fishman said. "It's not cleaner than tap water. In fact, tap water is much more tightly regulated than bottled water by state, local, the federal government."
That bottle also has more costs than just what you pay for it at the store. Bottled water has a huge environmental impact.
The water comes from a source — likely a lake, spring, or underground aquifer. On average, the manufacturer will have to use three liters of water just to produce one liter — roughly 34 fluid ounces — of water that can be bottled.
At the plant that makes plastic bottles for the water, they’ll have to use roughly 2,000 times the energy needed to produce tap water. Much of America’s plastic is made with energy from burned oil. Considering that bottled water is one of the most popular drinks in the U.S. and consumers drink tens of billions of bottles each year, we’re talking about tens of billions of gallons of oil used to just make water bottles each year.
The bottle may have to go hundreds or thousands of miles on planes, trucks, or ships to get to your local store, with brands like Evian and Fiji shipping their water from France and Fiji, respectively.
That bottle also usually just gets used once, with most of them not getting recycled after use. Michael O’Heaney, executive director at the environmental nonprofit the Story of Stuff Project, says it can get even more costly when you factor in how it got made.
"Plastics fundamentally are products derived from oil and gas," O'Heaney said. "So part of the reason you see this huge growth in single-use plastics is less about demand is less about consumers saying, 'I really want more single-use plastics in my life,' and more about the sort of glut of hydrocarbons, and most specifically, the glut of fracked natural gas available in the United States."
Put it all together, and your water has been through a lot before you drink it.
Peter Gleick is the co-Founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, an environmental nonprofit. He also wrote “Bottled and Sold,” a book about why we consume so much bottled water.
"Perhaps the biggest environmental challenge associated with bottled water, of course, is the plastics associated with the whole process, the making of the plastic bottle, which requires a huge amount of energy," Gleick said. "Fossil fuel energy plastics come from fossil fuels. Then, we buy the bottle after it's been moved to wherever we're picking it up, and there's an energy cost associated with that as well."
Gleick notes that despite people's suspicions about tap water, bottled water generally isn’t any safer than tap water.
"We have federal laws, the federal standard, the Safe Drinking Water Act, that defines standards for our tap water that protect our tap water to a very high degree that require that water agencies test tap water on a constant basis," Gleick said. "I wouldn't argue that tap water is safer necessarily than bottled water, but it's certainly not any less safe than bottled water, which also has standards to bring it up to about the standard that our tap water has to meet."
Then, there's the labeling of it all.
Two of the largest water bottle brands — the Coca-Cola-owned Dasani and the PepsiCo-owned Aquafina — bottle purified water using what’s called “reverse osmosis filtration.”
That’s one way of saying that they literally just use the same source as tap water.
The advocacy group Food and Water Watch estimates nearly two-thirds of bottled water sold in the United States comes from the same source as municipal tap water.
"The vast majority of bottled water, the water that people buy in the store and bring home or buy on the go, is just purified tap water, is municipal water that the companies buy typically from municipalities," O'Heaney said. "There's a variety of processes they use and then sell back to consumers in plastic packaging."
That’s gotten some folks really upset, and it’s led to efforts to block companies from taking water from the tap supply and bottling it for sale.
Legislation in Michigan and Maine proposed restricting the bottling of tap water or taxing companies that do it, but the most significant effort to address the issue came in Washington state.
Legislators proposed making it the first state to ban water bottlers from using water from springs and aquifers. The bill died in a state House committee, but legislators are hoping to address the issue in the future.
Democratic Sen. Reuven Carlyle introduced the bill.
"For me, introducing this legislation was to recognize that bottled water companies were buying the rights to water, which in the West are a big deal," Carlyle said. "Purchasing up those rights to water to basically get in front of the queue, in front of tribes, in front of agriculture, in front of regular neighborhoods, to be able to purchase that water right so they can bottle it and then, in effect, ship it around the world."
But there are criticisms of the idea of governing water too much or developing a free alternative. In Washington, a Republican legislator told residents that water law changes can take years to develop and should require broad discussions about the effects because of the potential for unintended consequences.
But Carlyle points to another source of political pressure — the bottled water industry.
"I think that the industry reacted with such a vigorous lobbying opposition and such a fierce opposition because they saw this legislation as an existential threat to their ability to supersede and jump in front of the line and get access to these water systems in order to to bottle it up and resell it," Carlyle said.
There’s economic pressure, too. A lot of that comes down to what you’re actually buying when you buy a water bottle.
"Bottled water is a great convenience," Fishman said. "It's really appealing, you know when you've been on a run when you've been at the gym when you're really thirsty if you step into a convenience store and you look in the cold case and there's a bottle of water. They're sort of glistening. It's in its clear plastic bottle for $1.29. That seems really appealing."
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Ivanka Trump will meet with the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, according to reports from ABC News and NBC News.
The committee sent a letter to the former president's daughter in January 2022— requesting that she voluntarily cooperate with the investigation.
The committee says it has evidence Ivanka was in the Oval Office when her father told Vice President Mike Pence that he should participate in his plan to stop the Electoral College count from being certified.
Ivanka will likely be asked about what other conversations she may have witnessed about the president's plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
According to NBC News, Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, testified virtually before the committee last week.
White House official Jared Kushner testified virtually last week before the committee for six hours.
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NEW YORK — A suspect in a series of attacks on Asian women in New York City has been indicted.
28-year-old Steven Zajonc now faces six felony counts of third-degree assault as a hate crime and seven counts of second-degree aggravated harassment.
The attacks happened in February on the east side of Manhattan, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
Police said Zajonc punched and hurt victims in other ways, without provocation.
The victims were between the ages of 19 and 57.
They were all assaulted within a three-hour time frame.
One victim was knocked unconscious and hospitalized. The others suffered bruises, bleeding and lacerations.
The Manhattan DA’s office said it is currently investigating 27 hate crime cases related to anti-Asian attacks.
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The U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform March 26-27, 2022, during Tampa Bay AirFest 2022, at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. MacDill AFB hosted Tampa Bay AirFest for the first time since 2018. (U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Shannon Bowman)
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A 40-year-old Yakima man accused of voyeurism at a local store and threatening to kill officers with knives was arrested Friday night following several hours of negotiations by the SWAT team, according to Yakima police.
Police were first alerted by staff and customers that a man was taking photos or recording women inside dressing rooms at a store on Lincoln Avenue last week. When police confronted the suspect at the store around 1 p.m. Friday, he left in a car and failed to stop for officers, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Police tracked the man to an apartment in the 400 block of West D Street, the affidavit said. When he was asked to come out, he threatened officers with knives, and officers could see him holding several kitchen knives, the affidavit said. The Yakima SWAT team was called and the crisis response unit attempted to negotiate for several hours, police said. Police sought and received a search warrant to enter the home.
Around 7 p.m., officers deployed several “diversionary devices” before breaching the front door and using a chemical agent in the house, the affidavit said. The suspect charged out the door at the officers, and he was bitten by K-9 Zorro, a police dog, the affidavit said. Police discharged less-lethal 40 mm rounds, the affidavit said.
The suspect was taken to Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital for treatment and was arrested on suspicion of voyeurism, eluding, felony harassment and first-degree assault.
Yakima County Superior Court Judge Richard Bartheld ordered him held in lieu of $100,000 bail during a preliminary appearance hearing Monday.
During the hearing, the suspect said law enforcement officers used force to bring him in and he had injuries throughout his body.
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A worker at a subdivision under construction just south of Kennewick reported seeing a cougar about 12:15 p.m. Monday.
The cougar startled employees at the new subdivision at Clodfelter and Tripple Vista roads when it walked past a nearby scale house, according to the report received by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office.
The animal continued on its way, according to the report, and the sheriff’s office notified Washington state Fish and Wildlife agents. It was not immediately known if they were able to verify the sighting.
Last week there were two verified cougar sightings in the Tri-Cities. About 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, a cougar was spotted in a tree near the 200 block of East 41st Place in Kennewick.
It was seen three more times early in the morning before orchard workers discovered it on Game Farm Road before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. After law enforcement arrived, the mountain lion, which appeared to be injured, began to track Benton County Sheriff’s Office deputies. That behavior, plus concerns for orchard workers in the area, led to a sheriff’s office decision to shoot and kill the animal.
Early Thursday morning another cougar was spotted near Road 90 and Sandifur Parkway in Pasco.
Officers searched the area between Road 90 and Road 92 using a drone, but were not able to find it.
However, the sighting was verified with a video, and Fish and Wildlife again was notified. One official told the Herald that any cougar south of Kennewick was unlikely to be the same cougar seen in Pasco last week because it would have had to cross the Columbia River and an interstate. Cougar attacks on humans are extremely rare, the state’s cougar information website shows. In 94 years, as of 2018, there had been two encounters in which a person died.
People should still be cautious if they see one, and not approach it and not run away.
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The Maryland Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion hosts the first annual Raiders Challenge for JROTC cadets at Fairmont Heights High School in Landover, Maryland, on April 2, 2022. The cadets conducted a modified Army Physical Fitness Test and competed in events that measured their ability to work as a team. (U.S. Army National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Chazz Kibler)
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Piano drifts, lifts and flutters like leaves wet from spring rain — the notes float, but carry the weight of water. Musical figures feel familiar, but are never quite the same as they shift within the instrument's creaking wood and through the room's resonant body.
OHYUNG is better known as a producer of hyperactive hip-hop and pop music, but on a new double cassette, imagine naked!, plays with shapes of ambient sound. No two tracks explore the same mode, but there is a tether of tenderness throughout. The wandering, minimalist piano piece "yes my weeping frame!" carries a Harold Budd-like movement — romantic, bleary-eyed, a bit mournful — but always, always moving with a gentleness so desperately needed in a harsh world. The music video, featuring the dancers Kyoko Takenaka and Marie Lloyd Paspe in a single-take improvisation, reflects the same. This is music that caresses the corners, feels out the dust and fills the quiet, to paraphrase a line from the t. tran le poem ("Vegetalscape") that gives the album its song titles.
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Russia said last week that it wants the European countries that buy its natural gas to make their payments in rubles, rather than dollars or euros. A month ago that might have seemed like a pretty good deal: the ruble was down 40 percent, at 139 rubles to the dollar, in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Since that low point on March 7, however, the Russian ruble has staged a dramatic recovery. At the time of writing, it was trading at 84 to the dollar, which is right back where it was at the time of the invasion. And this is no dead cat bounce. It's a sharp and sustained recovery that made the ruble the top performing currency in the world in the month of March.
And yet, all of the sanctions imposed when the war began are still in place, and in some cases they're even more robust. So how have the Russians managed to revive their currency?
The Hole in the Wall Gang
There are several components to this recovery. The first is thanks to the enormous hole in the sanctions imposed by the coalition of countries allied with the United States: natural gas. The sanctions are designed to restrict Russia's ability to acquire foreign currency, and dollars and euros in particular. But several European countries continue to buy Russian gas, because they have become so dependent on it, and there are not enough alternative suppliers to meet demand.
Add to that the increase in oil and natural gas prices and the resilience of Russia's trading relations with other big economies like China and India, and the net result is that there is still a steady flow of foreign currency into Russia. That has eased concerns that Russia would become insolvent, and it has helped put a floor under the ruble.
There's another hole in the sanctions that's worth mentioning here: the sovereign debt carve out. One of the biggest and most impactful sanctions on Russia was the freezing of its foreign accounts. Russia holds about $640 billion worth of euros, dollars, yen and other foreign currencies in banks around the world. About half that amount is located in the US and Europe. The sanctions blocked Russia's access to that money ... except when it comes to making the interest payments on its sovereign debt. The US Treasury left a window open to allow financial intermediaries to process payments for Russia. That window is scheduled to close this month, but it has been a big help to Russia. Without it, Russia might have needed to raise dollars by selling rubles, which would have put downward pressure on the currency. And were it not able to raise those dollars, it would have defaulted.
Financial alchemy
Those are the tangible, external factors driving the ruble's recovery. The internal factors are somewhat less corporeal. On February 28, the Central Bank of Russia increased interest rates to 20 percent. Any Russian who might have been tempted to sell their rubles and buy dollars or euros now has a big incentive to save that money instead. The fewer rubles that go up for sale, the less downward pressure there is on the currency.
Next comes a government requirement on Russian businesses that 80 percent of any money that those businesses make overseas has to be swapped into rubles. This means that a Russian steelmaker that makes a hundred million euros selling steel to a company in France has to turn around and change 80 million of those euros into rubles, regardless of the exchange rate. There are a lot of Russian companies doing a lot of business with foreign companies, making a lot of euros and dollars and yen. The order to convert 80 percent of those revenues to rubles creates significant demand for the Russian currency, thus helping to prop it up.
The Kremlin also issued an edict banning Russian brokers from selling securities owned by foreigners. Many foreign investors own Russian corporate shares and government bonds, and they might understandably want to sell those securities. By banning those sales, the government is shoring up both the stock and bond markets, and keeping money inside the country, all of which helps keep the ruble from falling.
Russian citizens themselves have been targeted by the government, which has restricted them from transferring money abroad. The initial ban said all foreign exchange loans and transfers were to be suspended. This served to keep foreign currency in the country and discourage Russians from selling rubles for dollars or euros, which would put pressure on the currency. Those restrictions have been eased somewhat recently, to give breathing room to Russians who regularly send money abroad, but conversions of hard currency are limited to just $10,000 for individuals through the end of this year.
Perhaps the biggest factor juicing the ruble is a risky ploy by Vladimir Putin that we mentioned at the top of the newsletter: telling certain buyers of Russian natural gas that they must henceforth pay their gas bills in rubles. Natural gas contracts are usually written requiring payment in euros or dollars, and the countries who buy natural gas — the European Union, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan — tend not to have big reserves of rubles on hand. So if Putin is successful in forcing these countries to pay in rubles, they're going to have to go out and buy them. A lot of them. Demand for the currency will surge, and the price of the ruble will naturally rise. It's the anticipation of that rise that has helped drive the market value of the ruble higher.
A Potemkin Currency
You could say that these moves by the Russian government are just business as usual. After all, the Federal Reserve tweaks interest rates all the time. The U.S. Treasury has restrictions on remittances to certain countries. And why shouldn't a country be able to stipulate what currency it gets paid in? And don't governments have a responsibility to defend their currencies anyway? All fair points. What the Russian government is up to here, though, is more than defense of a currency: it is manipulating the market for rubles, and manufacturing demand that would not otherwise exist.
Some observers are saying that Russia has essentially created a Potemkin currency. This is a reference to Grigory Potemkin, who was appointed governor of Crimea after it was annexed by Catherine the Great in 1784. Eager to show Catherine how successful he had been in resettling Crimea with Russian villagers, Potemkin supposedly built and populated a mobile village which he assembled, disassembled and then reassembled along her route as she inspected the region. The governor of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, is essentially playing Potemkin to Putin's Catherine, using a range of tools to make the ruble look like a currency that has value, whilst in fact very few people outside of Russia want to buy a single ruble unless they absolutely have to, and many people inside Russia don't really want rubles either.
There are big risks to all this government intervention. The protectionist measures enacted by the CBR are effectively a kind of bridge for the ruble. If Russia manages to come to some kind of resolution over Ukraine that involves the withdrawal of sanctions and the reestablishment of trade relations with the West, then the ruble might hold its current value once the measures are withdrawn. If the measures are withdrawn without some kind of resolution, however, the ruble could collapse, hammering the economy, jacking up inflation and causing enormous pain to the Russian people. And the measures — some of them, at least — will have to be withdrawn eventually. Russian borrowers can't keep paying interest rates of more than 20 percent for long, if they can even conceive of borrowing at that price. Growth will be stifled — the Russian economy is already expected to contract by more than eight percent this year — and industry will slump.
Perhaps the greatest risks are those associated with Putin's natural gas ploy. As we said before, the natural gas contracts that buyers have signed with Russia all say that payment will be made in euros or dollars or other foreign currencies. Putin can't just cross out "dollars" or "euros" and write in "rubles" where those contracts stipulate how to pay. He has to renegotiate the terms of those contracts. And if he does so, it's likely that those countries will drastically reduce the amount of natural gas they buy from Russia.
Russia is the world's biggest producer of natural gas, and the biggest exporter, but it's not the only source out there, and buyers of Russian gas could pivot to new suppliers. The US is already sending shipments to Europe. There's talk about supply coming from the UK, Norway, Qatar and Azerbaijan. Israel is mulling the idea of a pipeline. The countries that buy large amounts of Russian gas probably couldn't all wean themselves off it overnight, but if Russia insists on making this move, it risks turning one of its biggest revenue streams into a trickle. In short, the problem with creating a facade — as Russia has done with its currency — is not just that it might collapse, it might also collapse on you.
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Updated April 5, 2022 at 10:40 AM ET
Police in Sacramento, Calif., have arrested a second man in connection with a weekend shooting downtown that killed six people and wounded 12 others. It is the deadliest mass shooting in the city's history.
The 27-year-old, identified by police as Smiley Martin, was found at the scene of the Sunday morning shooting with what police described as "serious injuries from gunfire."
While hospitalized, he remains under police supervision. He was taken into custody Tuesday morning and charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun.
The two suspects are related
A day earlier, police announced another arrest in the shooting — Martin's brother.
Dandrae Martin, 26, was charged with assault and illegal firearm possession.
Other than the two arrests, police have released only small details about what transpired early Sunday. Investigators are seeking information from the public on other suspects and what, exactly, happened.
The shooting followed a large fight
The gunfire erupted near the corner of 10th and K streets, close to the California State Capitol, around 2 a.m., police said.
Cellphone videos circulating online captured a fight among a large crowd of people on a sidewalk in the area of the shooting. The footage shows people running for their lives as the first shots ring out, followed by dozens more shots. It's not yet known how that fracas might be linked to the shooting.
The police have asked the public to submit any videos or photos through the department's evidence portal to help them find anyone who played a part in the shocking crime.
In a Tuesday morning update, Sacramento police said they were poring through 170 video and photo files that the public submitted.
Mourners hold vigils to honor the victims
At least two vigils were held several blocks apart in Sacramento on Monday, one day after the deadly shooting.
Mayor Darrell Steinberg, speaking at one of the remembrances, said the national spotlight was on Sacramento for the moment, according to Capital Public Radio.
"So if we can lift our voices as we have over these last couple of days to decry the senseless violence and the sickness that exists in our country around the proliferation of assault weapons... that indiscriminately kill and injure, we will lift our voices to do so," Steinberg said.
Mourners held photos of Melinda Davis, a 57-year-old unhoused woman who was killed in the shooting, and lit candles for Sergio Harris, a 38-year-old victim.
Jackie Henderson, who said he was Harris' cousin, criticized city and community leaders for not doing more to prevent gun violence, the station reported.
"The last time we had a mass shooting, you did the same thing, sat out here, held up our candles... How are you here for us if we're sitting here doing the same damn thing again?" he said.
The victims have been identified
Local authorities released the names of the six people killed in the melee. According to CapRadio, they are:
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Nancy Crampton-Brophy appeared in court on Monday for the first day of her trial. She is accused of shooting and killing her husband, Daniel Brophy, at his place of work, the Oregon Culinary Institute (OCI), in June 2018.
Court began with the judge ruling on a motion brought to him by Brophy’s defense attorneys. He agreed that the blog post Brophy wrote 11 years ago titled, “How to Murder Your Husband” would not be permitted as evidence. He noted that the post was old, it was written for a writing seminar and any value it might have to the case, he said, is outweighed by the prejudice it may cause in the jury.
The state prosecution gave its opening statements first. It painted Nancy Brophy as a woman who lied to police about her whereabouts on the day her husband was killed and who stood to gain a significant amount of money from his death.
The defense said that the state was going to present a circumstantial case while ignoring the largest fact of all: that Dan and Nancy Brophy were in love to the very end.
The prosecution then went on to outline how she visited “ghost gun” websites numerous times. Ghost guns are guns that do not contain a serial number, are unregistered and therefore untraceable. The prosecution claimed she bought a ghost gun kit that police found in a storage unit after Dan Brophy’s death. They went on to say she did not have the skills necessary to build that gun, so she went on to buy a Glock 17 9mm at the Portland Gun Expo and later she bought an aftermarket slide and barrel for it.
Brophy’s attorneys acknowledged that she visited the ghost gun sites and that she had purchased the two firearms. However, it said she was inspired by the crimes of Kevin Neal, a California man who killed five people and injured 10 others in 2017. Neal made a gun because he could not buy one. Brophy’s representation said she wanted to write a story that flipped the script on that idea with a woman who was in an abusive relationship and afraid to leave. According to Brophy’s lawyers, this protagonist would build a gun because she could not purchase one. In order to better relate to her protagonist, Brophy began doing research that led her to a “New York Times” article that had the links to the ghost gun websites she had visited.
Her representation said that Brophy bought the ghost gun kit in late 2017 and viewed it as a jigsaw puzzle. They alleged that she even asked her husband for help but realized she did not have the equipment or skill to put it together, so it sat without being used. Then, her lawyers claim that Dan Brophy knew that Nancy Brophy was going to buy a gun at the gun expo. Not only was she still working on her story, but given the number of mass shootings at the time and the recent Parkland shooting in Florida in February of 2018, they thought it might be good to have.
She purchased a slide and barrel because replacing some of the parts might be easier than building a whole gun, her attorney said. The defense said it would call to the stand at least two other writers who had also bought odd things to support their writing, including a large crossbow and a chastity belt. It also pointed out that Nancy Brophy had purchased other items to support her writing like night vision goggles, a telescope, handcuffs, glass doorknobs and many kinds of locks.
However, police never recovered the slide and barrel they know she purchased from eBay.
Surveillance video
Prosecutors detailed surveillance video that showed a van investigators believe to be Brophy’s seen in the area of the Oregon Culinary Institute before Dan Brophy arrived at work on June 2, 2018. The van is seen again, according to prosecutors, arriving at the culinary school after Dan Brophy had entered as the sole occupant of the building and turned off the alarm around 7:21 a.m.
The van, which investigators believed to be Nancy’s, was seen leaving the area around 7:28 a.m.
RELATED: Romance novelist drove by Oregon Culinary Institute shortly before husband's body was found, court docs say
“Dan was standing at a commercial sink,” said the prosecutor. “He was filling up the ice and water buckets as he did every day for the students. He would have had his back to the door Nancy likely came through.”
He alleged that Nancy Brophy shot him, “… first through the back, penetrating his spine, piercing his heart. As Dan fell onto his back, possibly paralyzed, Nancy shot him through the chest, also piercing his heart.”
When Nancy Brophy allegedly returned home, neighbors saw her looking distraught, according to the prosecution. She said she was looking for her dogs who had gotten out but the neighbors never saw any dogs. A friend called to tell her about the police presence at the culinary institute. She called this friend back and forth several times before calling Dan Brophy’s mom, who asked why she hadn’t gone to see what was going on at the institute. She replied that there was too much of a police presence.
Nancy Brophy did go to culinary institute and detectives spoke with her in a recorded conversation, the prosecution said. Upon being told it was likely Dan Brophy who had been killed she said, “Yeah, I got that when everyone gave me a sad sack look.”
The prosecution pointed out that 10 minutes into the conversation, Nancy Brophy finally asked what happened to her husband and 47 minutes into the conversation she asked where Dan Brophy was.
The defense said it will call two psychologists to the stand who will explain what happens to someone’s brain and memory when traumatic things happen.
Life insurance policies
Another key piece of the state’s case against Nancy Brophy is that she had many life insurance policies out on her husband. They reported that the Brophys were paying around $1,000 a month for a number of life insurance policies while sometimes not paying their mortgage. It also pointed out that Dan Brophy took out $35,000 as a loan against his retirement to help with paying their mortgage.
Brophy’s defense attorneys pointed to the reason for the numerous policies have to do with her working in life insurance for a number of years and making commissions off of the policies she sold, even the ones she sold to herself. It also pointed to Dan being four years younger than her, making him eligible for better and cheaper policies for longer than she was eligible. It said that Nancy and Dan Brophy had agreed to take out the loan as part of their retirement plan. They were using the money to pay credit card debt, get up to date on the mortgage and do yard work in preparation of selling the lot and home. It also pointed out that if Dan Brophy had died just a few months later than he did, they would have had a large payout from an insurance policy.
“I don’t want to be the stupid question of the day, I think I have to be the question of the day,” Nancy Brophy can be heard saying in a recorded phone call to a detective just four days after the death of her husband. She asks if law enforcement could write a letter exonerating her as a suspect so her insurance will payout a $40,000 life insurance policy.
RELATED: Court docs: Romance novelist accused of killing chef husband sought independent life, stood to gain $1.5M
The defense never addressed this directly, nor did it address what happened when Nancy Brophy was arrested in September 2018.
The state said when police came to arrest Brophy, who was 68 at the time and had never been arrested before, she said, “Oh, you must think I killed my husband.”
The defense did, however, paint a picture of the Brophys as a couple who were madly in love — An exemplary couple who others wanted to be like. Nancy Brophy’s attorney read text messages of the two keeping in contact, cheering one another on and checking in with one another.
The defense closed by addressing the jury and saying that after all the evidence is laid out, “We are certain you will understand Nancy Brophy did not kill her husband.”
Witness called to the stand
Two witnesses were called to the stand. One was Kathleen Dooley, a student at the culinary institute who called 911 when Dan Brophy’s body was found, and the only other employee in the building at the time, Dorothy Damon.
Both Dooley and Damon described the same scene at the student entrance of the building on June 2, 2018. The student entrance was locked, which was an uncommon occurrence. Damon let students in who were waiting around 8 a.m. and many students went into the student lounge, including Dooley, as Damon ran across the street to make photocopies for her class.
“I remember a fellow student yelling, ‘Call 911’,” Dooley recalled. Her 911 call was played for the court. She was on the phone as she ran to look for Damon, who had returned and was using the restroom when she heard commotion.
Dooley and Damon said they returned to the back of the kitchen where Dan Brophy’s body had been found. Another student was administering chest compressions and reported that he was bleeding from his chest. Dooley told the 911 operator that he was not conscious and not breathing.
“I went to Dan and I knelt down beside him and I didn‘t know what to do, so I held his hand,” said Damon. “I wanted to see if he would squeeze it back and he didn’t.”
Damon said she realized Brophy was no longer alive.
“When I realized Dan was gone, I told her [student doing compressions] she could stop. I didn’t want her to keep trying without being able to do anything to save him. She was wearing herself out.”
It wasn’t long after that when paramedics arrived and then police did. Neither witness called to the stand on Monday spoke of Nancy Brophy at all.
Witness testimony is expected to continue on Tuesday. KGW will have continuing coverage on air and online of the trial.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The brother of a man already in police custody has been announced as a second suspect in Sunday's mass shooting in downtown Sacramento.
The shooting along Sacramento's K Street Sunday morning left six people dead and 12 injured.
According to a press release from the Sacramento Police Department, Smiley Martin, brother to Dandrae Martin, was one of many taken to an area hospital with gunshot injuries following Sunday's shooting. However, he was "quickly identified as a person of interest and has remained under the supervision of an officer at the hospital while his treatment continues."
Smiley was taken into custody Tuesday morning. However, he's still in the hospital. Once he is healthy enough, police say he will be charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun.
Dandrae Martin, 26, was arrested on suspicion of assault and illegal firearm possession on Monday. Martin is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday. He is being held without bail.
Neither has been charged with homicide.
Police also note in the press release that so far during the investigation, three homes in the Sacramento area have been served search warrants, where one gun was seized. Police have received nearly 200 submissions of photos or videos, in relation to Sunday's shooting.
READ MORE ABOUT SUNDAY'S SHOOTING ON ABC10:
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- Remembering Melinda Davis: Sacramento shooting victim was unhoused
- Remembering De’vazia Turner: Sacramento shooting victim leaves 'legacy with his children'
- Playing for victims and his community, a K Street tuba player is using music to help his city heal
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BOISE, Idaho — This story originally ran in the Idaho Press.
Birth control and family planning are inextricably linked, but some Idahoans face obstacles accessing contraceptives.
Those obstacles were accentuated during the legislative session, when legislators killed a bill, SB 1260, that would have extended birth control prescription maximums to six months. The bill failed 24-44.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named family planning one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. However, some residents experience financial barriers, a lack of knowledge or transportation issues. This lack of access can have profound impacts on public health.
Contraceptives allow women to have the number of children they want when they’re ready, said Gina Pannell, Central District Health division administrator of family and clinic services.
For example, a lot of unintended pregnancies can happen to women who wanted a second child, but not as soon as it happened, she said.
“It has the ability to impact a family, right, if you’re already struggling to care for that one child and afford all the things that are related,” Pannell said. “Now you have a second one. ... Contraception allows the choice to create that reproductive life plan.”
But being ready can entail more than just being emotionally ready to have children. For example, women on birth control can wait to have children until they have their mental health in check or until they’ve stopped using tobacco.
Some women choose to wait until they can improve their physical health, Pannell said.
“Having a child without the means to be able to raise them or just have them as an addition to taking care of yourself is a big burden on individuals who are not ready,” Pannell said. “It has long-term impacts, as far as your ability to contribute to the economy.”
In addition, contraceptives have lowered maternal mortality, in part because prenatal care is not just for the infant. Women who are able to wait until they can afford the prenatal care will receive medical attention during checkups.
But contraceptive access can have benefits on more than just an individual level.
A child born on Medicaid will likely stay on Medicaid, Pannell said.
“It’s really hard to kind of get out of this cycle of poverty,” Pannell said.
Issues with access
A year’s supply of contraceptives is cost-effective and improves adherence and continuation rates, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. For example, in rural counties, people who can only get prescriptions for periods of time like three months can face obstacles with transportation or needing to see someone in person.
Most birth control users in Idaho have to refill their prescription monthly, said Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman, Idaho state director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates.
“So obviously having to refill every month or every two months, that’s a burden that makes perfect use challenging,” DelliCarpini-Tolman said. “Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, pharmacy wait times have skyrocketed. Even shipping delays are slowing down the delivery of mail order prescriptions.”
If used perfectly, the birth control pill is 99% effective in preventing pregnancy. However, with typical use, the pill is less effective.
Perfect use would include taking the pill at the same time each day and never missing a dose.
The American Civil Liberties Union previously supported a 2021 version of the bill that would have expanded access to 12 months.
“Meaningful access to contraception is integral to our vision of a world in which people are free to express their sexuality, form intimate relationships, lead healthy sexual lives and decide whether and when to have children,” the ACLU of Idaho wrote on its website.
Increasing the supply to six months would be "a good step in the right direction," ACLU of Idaho Policy Strategist Lauren Bramwell said.
In 2010, Gem State women had 12,000 unintended pregnancies, according to the CDC. Research shows more than 90% of abortions are in cases of unintended pregnancies.
"Legislators say time and time again that they want to decrease the number of abortions in our state," Bramwell said. "But when measures are introduced that would decrease the number of unintended pregnancies, those measures fail."
But there are other barriers to contraceptive access in the Treasure Valley, beyond the length of prescriptions.
Central District Health is a Title X recipient, which means it receives federal funds to support family planning. In practice, this means Central District Health can charge no fee to those whose income qualifies.
But Pannell said Central District Health is the only Title X provider in the Treasure Valley.
“Access has been an issue because if you can’t afford the birth control, then why would you go to an appointment?” Pannell said.
The Treasure Valley is a contraceptive desert, according to the nonprofit Power to Decide. Ada and Canyon counties have closer to one full-range clinic per 5,000 women, but ideally there would be one per 1,000 women.
This ability to access contraceptives can in some ways be a double standard, because male birth control does not serve a purpose beyond preventing birth and sexually transmitted diseases. However, the pill can treat things like painful period symptoms, migraines and endometriosis for women.
“Birth control is not just for contraceptive needs … it is also to address a host of medical issues,” said Tara Mancini, Power to Decide’s director of public policy. “It’s ridiculous in any scenario to not be able to access basic health care.”
Contraceptives are “an integral component of women’s health care,” according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Stigma is another barrier because people can feel uncomfortable purchasing or requesting contraceptives.
In addition to its clinic in the Treasure Valley, Central District Health has clinics in more remote places like McCall and Mountain Home.
“We’re only up there (in McCall) about once a month on average,” said Savannah Klinginsmith, nurse practitioner with Central District Health. “There can be financial barriers, maybe no insurance because most insurance will cover contraception.”
There’s also a knowledge barrier as far as clients knowing things like how contraception works and how pregnancy occurs, Klinginsmith said. Others don’t know about the services available.
Jassie Singh, nurse practitioner, demonstrates various types of contraceptives in the clinic at Central District Health in Boise on Tuesday.
Idaho access mirrors political trends
Although abortion rights have been longstanding political and ethical battles, recently state legislatures across the U.S. have taken to protesting contraceptive access, according to Vogue.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., last week railed against the Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court decision, which gave married women access to contraceptives.
And DelliCarpini-Tolman, with Planned Parenthood, said the decision to vote down the contraceptives bill was a byproduct of the Idaho legislature becoming more extreme.
Extremism and polarization are increasing in the Gem State, the Idaho Press previously reported.
Idaho Reps. Brent Crane and Heather Scott didn’t respond to requests for comment. Both spoke out against the bill during the March 14 Legislative debate.
Crane, R-Nampa, said during the debate that he was frantically communicating with pro-life groups that did not support the bill. He did not specify why.
“I can’t imagine that the pro-life groups are in favor of this bill,” Scott, R-Blanchard, said at the time.
Chelsea Gaona Lincoln, Idaho programs manager for Legal Voice, said she would love to see comprehensive reproductive education in the state as well as expanded access to birth control.
“I think it pairs along with the fact that reproductive and sexual health education has also been under attack in recent leg sessions,” Gaona Lincoln said. “It speaks to the fact that there are those in the state that would like to push their will or beliefs upon the larger population.”
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BOISE, Idaho —
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law on March 28 that would create a different type of missing person alert for the state of Idaho. The legislation was sparked by the disappearance of 5-year-old Michael Vaughan of Fruitland, who went missing from his home in July 2021.
Vaughan’s mother, Brandi Neal, said she began to tear up upon hearing the news that Little signed the bill.
“It’s absolutely amazing. I wish we would’ve had this when Michael went missing. It helps give a platform to what we want to do. Amber Alert reform in the state of Idaho needs to happen,” Neal said.
The bill that is now law, SB 1378, will create an Endangered Missing Person Alert (EMPA) to notify those in Idaho and surrounding states about a missing person. The alert would encompass all missing endangered adults and children, and would enable state police to communicate with surrounding states with the same alert system to notify them as well.
The alert would also help missing Indigenous populations, those with developmental disabilities, individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, domestic violence survivors and victims, and human trafficking survivors and victims.
Neal has been an outspoken voice to change Idaho’s Amber Alert criteria after Vaughan was never issued one, largely because he did not meet all of the criteria.
“This is huge to not only Michael, but to every other family if anything else happens to one of them,” she said.
The bill was sponsored by Sen. Abby Lee, R-Fruitland, and Rep. Ryan Kerby, R-New Plymouth.
Lee told the Senate on the floor in March that Vaughan’s disappearance “shook the community” and state.
Vaughan, known to his family as “monkey,” disappeared on July 27, 2021. Neal said in December that Michael’s father, Tyler Vaughan, went to check on the boy’s sister in her room while Michael was playing Nintendo in the family living room. When Tyler Vaughan came back, Neal said, Michael was gone. His scent was traced by police dogs to the end of the street, where it stopped abruptly.
“The No. 1 goal is getting Michael home,” Neal said.
Going forward, Neal wants to reform Amber Alert criteria so missing children like Vaughan may have a better chance of being found sooner than later.
In March, the Fruitland Police Department penned a Facebook post regarding SB 1378.
“We are happy to hear that SB 1378, the Endangered and Missing Person Alert passed both houses and feel that if signed into law will be a much needed tool moving forward for all Idaho Law Enforcement," the post read. "Mass exposure in these types of events will bring a higher probability of a successful recovery."
In the post, police said they believe they know who may be the owner of the white Honda Pilot, the vehicle that was spotted near Vaughan’s home during the time he disappeared.
Neal said that she knows the police are looking at many leads, and all of the leads take time to develop.
“The data looks promising. I believe they are going to find who took Michael,” Neal said. “I thank the governor for signing the bill. We need to take care of our families. If anybody has any information, please come forward. Even if you think it’s insignificant. We need that information. We need to get faster answers to who took Michael.”
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press. Read more at IdahoPress.com
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WASHINGTON — The last time President Barack Obama was in the White House was on Jan. 20, 2017, when he left to escort his successor — bent on overturning “Obamacare” — to the Capitol to be inaugurated.
Obama returns to the White House on Tuesday for a moment he can savor. His signature Affordable Care Act is now part of the fabric of the American health care system, and President Joe Biden is looking to extend its reach. Sign-ups under the health law have increased under Biden's stewardship, and more generous taxpayer subsidies have cut costs for enrollees, albeit temporarily.
Biden and Obama are marking the 12th anniversary of the law that back in 2010 the then-vice president had memorably called a “big (expletive) deal.” Its staying power has been enhanced by three Supreme Court victories and an emphatic thumbs-down vote by the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., which took the wind out of President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal and replace it.
The law was such a bugaboo in 2010 that Democrats rarely invoked it as they went into a midterm election that turned out to be, in Obama's own words, a “shellacking." Now, Democrats are hoping the political equation will work to their advantage, and that a focus on shoring up the tween-age health law can help them avoid a debacle at the polls this November.
In addition to talking health care at the White House, Biden and Obama plan to meet for lunch, recalling their weekly ritual when Biden served as Obama’s vice president.
“They are real friends, not just Washington friends,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. She indicated that the two presidents would also discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other world events.
Obama likes to refer to his health care law as a “starter home” that Americans can build upon, gradually reducing the 9% share of the population that remains uninsured. The rate was nearly 15% in 2013, before the coverage provisions of the law took effect. Between the health law's Medicaid expansion and its health insurance markets, more than 30 million people are now estimated to be getting coverage.
Shortly after taking office, Biden opened up the health insurance markets to anyone seeking coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his coronavirus relief bill provided a significant, though temporary, increase in financial assistance. The result was a record 14.5 million people signed up for subsidized private coverage.
When it comes to how to keep that trend going, Obama and Biden have no shortage of options to discuss.
The Biden administration has been working on a fix to what's known as the law's family glitch, a quirk estimated to be keeping about 5 million people from getting coverage under the law. The White House announced the new policy proposal Tuesday.
People tripped up by the family glitch are dependents of workers who have an offer of employer coverage that the government interprets as being affordable. As a rule, people with affordable employer coverage are not eligible for taxpayer-subsidized ACA plans.
But the issue with the current interpretation is that affordability is determined by the cost for employee-only coverage, and not more expensive family policies. Workers able to afford their own share may not be able to cover premiums for the entire family. So the family is cut out of ACA coverage.
A Biden administration regulation addressing the issue recently cleared White House review. The intent of the original policy was to prevent people with employer coverage from going into the health law's subsidized markets, but advocates say it has proven too restrictive.
The White House estimates that the fix would help 200,000 people get insurance and bring costs down for nearly 1 million more.
There are more fundamental issues for the two presidents to consider as well, both policy-wise and politically.
Unless Democrats in Congress finally coalesce around a version of Biden's social legislation, his enhanced financial assistance for millions purchasing ACA plans will expire at the end of this year. A return to higher premiums would likely trigger an increase in the number of uninsured people, a political embarrassment for Democrats committed to expanding coverage.
The Biden legislation, which passed the House but sputtered in the Senate, also includes a mechanism for providing coverage to as many as 4 million uninsured low-income adults in states that have refused the health law's Medicaid expansion. It would deliver on Biden's campaign promise to build on existing government programs to move the U.S. closer to coverage for all.
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WASHINGTON — Four Burger King customers are suing the fast-food chain, alleging its advertisements exaggerate the size of the burgers it sells.
The 26-page class-action lawsuit claims the company has been advertising its signature Whoppers to make them appear "approximately 35% larger in size, and contain more than double the meat, than the actual burger."
The lawsuit also alleges the company only began to "materially overstate" the size of its burgers in ads starting in September 2017.
"Although the size of the Whopper increased materially in Burger King's advertisements, the recipe or the amount of beef or ingredients contained in Burger King's Whopper has never changed," the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida states.
While the lawsuit focuses on the Whopper, it also claims "Burger King materially overstates the size of nearly every menu item in its current advertisements."
In a statement to FOX Business, a Burger King spokesperson said the company doesn't comment on pending or potential litigations.
This isn't the first time Burger King has faced accusations about misleading advertisements. In 2010, Britain's advertising standards watchdog ruled a TV commercial for Burger King's Tendercrisp chicken burger misled viewers about the product's size and ingredients. According to the BBC, the Advertising Standards Authority found the burgers' thickness and overall height was "considerably less" than shown in the ad.
In 2020, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit that accused Burger King of deceiving customers into thinking its plant-based Impossible Whopper was cooked on different grills than those it used to cook beef and chicken items, Reuters reported.
The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages and an order to either block the fast food chain from selling the menu items or "to correct the deceptive behavior."
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Publishers Clearing House has become famous over the decades for its many sweepstakes in which company employees personally deliver massive checks to grand prize winners, as depicted in its familiar TV commercials.
But several viewers reached out with concerns that texts, emails or phone calls purportedly from Publishers Clearing House were scams. According to the viewers, the messages asked the person to send money to someone else to receive their prize.
THE QUESTION
Are messages asking for cash in exchange for Publishers Clearing House prizes scams?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, if a message asks for cash in exchange for a Publisher Clearing House prize, then it’s a scam from an imposter.
WHAT WE FOUND
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is a marketing company that has run monetary sweepstakes for more than 50 years.
According to PCH, it gives away between $3 million to $13 million each year, with individual prizes ranging from $1 Amazon gift cards to $10 million grand prizes.
The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) says PCH is a legitimate sweepstakes, but there are many scams that use the company’s name and logo in an attempt to take people’s money.
“If you are ever contacted by someone claiming to represent PCH, or claiming to be one of our employees, and asked to send or wire money (for any reason whatsoever, including taxes); or send a pre-paid gift card or Green Dot Moneypak card in order to claim a sweepstakes prize — DON’T! It’s a SCAM,” PCH warns on its fraud protection page. “If you are sent a check, told it’s a partial prize award, and asked to cash it and send a portion back to claim the full prize award, DON’T. The check is fake, but the SCAM is real!”
PCH says scammers will use the name of real employees to make their deception more believable. It says the company would never ask a person to pay to receive their cash prize, and it does not send emails requesting personal banking or financial information in connection with a prize. The Better Business Bureau warns that these scammers may try to get the victim to pay multiple times.
An important piece of PCH’s brand is that it surprises winners of large prizes by sending its “Prize Patrol” to meet the winners in person. When PCH does this, it does not give advance notice by phone or email.
PCH says it may notify winners of $10,000 or less by overnight express mail with UPS, FedEx or the postal service, and “occasionally” by email. But PCH stresses that “major prize award and SuperPrize winners are not notified via email.”
“You may be contacted by mail, but PCH never calls in advance,” USPIS says. “If you receive a call from someone claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House — just hang up! You haven’t heard from the real PCH.”
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says scammers typically ask victims to send money by Western Union or MoneyGram, or through reloadable debit cards or gift cards because it’s nearly impossible to trace the money this way.
Even when it comes to other prizes, sweepstakes and lotteries, the FTC says to never send money to claim a prize. “If you have to pay, it’s a scam,” the FTC says.
“Anyone who says, ‘You’ve won. Now pay us,’ is always [a] scammer. Period,” the FTC said in another warning.
More from VERIFY: 5 tips to spot scam text messages
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STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) — A 32-year rivalry between two Storm Lake newspapers has ended after the Storm Lake Times Company recently purchased the Pilot-Tribune from Hallmark II Publishing of Charles City.
The Times and Pilot-Tribune will be merged into a single, twice-a-week publication called The Storm Lake Times Pilot. The terms of the sale, announced Friday, were not disclosed, the newly named newspaper reported.
Times co-owner Art Cullen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 20Art17 for his work on water quality issues, will be editor and publisher of the merged publication. His brother, John, will be the president. The newspaper will be published on Wednesdays and Fridays, delivered by mail.
The sale marks the end of a rivalry between the two newspapers that began when John Cullen founded the Times in June 1990, after his offer to buy the Pilot-Tribune from then-owner Edwards Publishing was rebuffed. His brother, Art, moved home to Storm Lake to help.
“The launch of the weekly started a mini-newspaper war that escalated into both The Times and the Pilot-Tribune going to daily publication,” the Times reported, noting the papers later reverted to twice-weekly publication.
More recently, the Storm Lake Times was the subject of an award-winning documentary, called “Storm Lake,” which chronicled the day-to-day life of the publication’s struggles to stay afloat. In a column on Friday, Art Cullen wrote that the documentary prompted billionaire John Tu, co-owner of Kingston Technology in Fountain Valley, California, to make a donation to the Western Iowa Journalism Foundation that helped the Times to survive.
John Murphy contributed to this story.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney announced Monday night they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic elevation to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she’ll become the first Black female justice.
The senators from Alaska and Utah announced their decisions ahead of a procedural vote to advance the nomination and as Democrats pressed to confirm Jackson by the end of the week. GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine announced last week that she would back Jackson.
All three Republicans said they did not expect to agree with all of Jackson’s decisions, but that they found her well qualified. Romney said she “more than meets the standard of excellence and integrity.”
With three Republicans supporting her in the 50-50 split Senate, Jackson is on a glidepath to confirmation and on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Beyond the historic element, Democrats have cited her deep experience in nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
Both Collins and Murkowski said they believed that the Senate nomination process has become broken as it has become more partisan in the past several decades.
Murkowski said her decision partly rests “on my rejection of the corrosive politicization of the review process for Supreme Court nominees, which, on both sides of the aisle, is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year.”
Biden nominated Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Biden has sought bipartisan backing for his pick, making repeated calls to senators and inviting Republicans to the White House.
The Senate’s 53-47 vote Monday evening was to “discharge” Jackson’s nomination from the Senate Judiciary Committee after the panel deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send the nomination to the Senate floor.
The committee vote, split along party lines, was the first deadlock on a Supreme Court nomination in three decades.
“Judge Jackson will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record to the Supreme Court,” Biden tweeted earlier Monday. “She deserves to be confirmed as the next justice.”
The Judiciary committee’s top Republican, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, said he was opposing Jackson’s nomination because “she and I have fundamental, different views on the role of judges and the role that they should play in our system of government.”
The committee hadn’t deadlocked since 1991, when Biden was chairman and a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for most of his party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support Jackson, citing GOP concerns raised in hearings about her sentencing record and her backing from liberal advocacy groups.
Republicans on the Judiciary panel continued their push Monday to paint Jackson as soft on crime, defending their repeated questions about her sentencing on sex crimes.
“Questions are not attacks,” said Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, one of several GOP senators on the panel who hammered the point in the hearings two weeks ago.
Jackson pushed back on the GOP narrative, declaring that “nothing could be further from the truth.” Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions. And on Monday they criticized their GOP counterparts’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
The questioning was filled with “absurdities of disrespect,” said Booker, who also is Black, and he said he will “rejoice” when she is confirmed.
Derrick Johnson, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, expressed disappointment with the tie, even as he noted that Jackson had cleared an important hurdle. He said “history will be watching” during the full Senate vote later this week.
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Kaprece Ranshaw and Haley Rose join The Rhode Show to talk about the Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation.
The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Fundraiser supports trauma research, innovation, and injury prevention. The Brigham Trauma Center not only does trauma research for civilians but also for military heroes who endure traumatic injuries and events.
Learn how these two dedicated individuals are raising money for this special cause…and why they are looking forward to this year’s Boston Marathon.
You can help raise money by:
*Donate at their page: Steppingstrong.BWH.harvard.edu
*Send a check payable to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with KAPRECE in the memo line, to Kaprece Ranshaw at: 585 Kingstown Rd, Wakefield, RI 02879 (If you liked to mail a check please let her know and she will send a pre-stamped envelope)
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Tributes have been paid to a "beautiful, kind, and selfless" student who took her own life. Abi Ballard, 23, was found in the annex of her family home in Lyminge on January 3 this year.
The emergency services were called and Abi was given CPR at the scene before being taken to hospital. Following meetings with her family, the tragic decision was made to turn off life support on January 6.
Abi's family reported how she had been laughing and joking the night before the incident, and that there were "no signs anything was wrong." They described her death as "a huge shock".
READ MORE: Child dies after emergency services rush to cliffs near Dover
The inquest into Abi's death was concluded at Archbishop's Palace in Maidstone on Monday (April 4). The court heard Abi had first been diagnosed with depression in November of 2015, and reported increased anxiety and self-harm years later. In 2018, when Abi had recently broken up with her long-term boyfriend, she was referred to Kent and Medway Partnership Trust (KMPT) following suicidal ideation.
She reported "hearing voices" and was not acting on what they were saying due to fear. But she was later discharged from mental health services after staff noted that she was "coping well" and had "matured".
Abi attended Portsmouth University but she was said to have struggled with anxiety during her second year. She later attained a First Class Honours degree after completing the course through attending 'night school uni'.
The Coroner was then told how things "started to improve" in 2019 as Abi secured a teaching assistant role. She also moved to London to live with friends while she started a teacher placement as part of her new course at University College London.
Abi's mum, Helen McCrew, has set up a tribute page on GoFundMe that has already raised over £13,000 for mental health services. "Abi would have made the most amazing, kind and compassionate teacher," wrote Helen.
"Abi was surrounded by so many friends and family who adored her, she lived life to the full with so much confidence and fun, she sure loved a party and dancing! "Long-distance hiking became a big part of Abi's life in the past year, she knew that walking and talking was so fundamental for her mental health and well-being. In the last year Abi walked some admirable distances and saw some of the most beautiful sights in the UK, we were in awe of her."
Helen went on to discuss Abi's struggles with her mental health and is seeking to raise funds for Samaritans, which Abi had been in contact with before her death. She continued: "So although there is everything amazing and wonderful about Abi, there was suffering too, mental health is an invisible illness that can affect any one of us, and poor Abi was affected.
"Abi told me that on top of talking to us and friends, in her darkest times she had reached out to the Samaritans and had been listened to many a time in confidence and without being judged. "Instead of flowers for Abi's funeral, we would like to raise some much needed funds for the Folkestone Samaritans branch as fundraising has been difficult during the pandemic."
In her final concluding statement, Coroner Katrina Hepburn gave a short-form conclusion of suicide. She said: "I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that she did that act and did it with the intent of taking her own life.
"She had clearly been considering issues she didn't want to discuss with friends and family."
Press here to donate to the fundraiser set up in Abi's memory.
You don't have to suffer in silence if you're struggling with your mental health. Here are some groups you can contact when you need help:
Samaritans: Phone 116 123, 24 hours a day, or email jo@samaritans.org, in confidence
Childline: Phone 0800 1111. Calls are free and won't show up on your bill
PAPYRUS: A voluntary organisation supporting suicidal teens and young adults. Phone 0800 068 4141
Depression Alliance: A charity for people with depression. No helpline but offers useful resources and links to other information on its website
Students Against Depression: A website for students who are depressed, have low mood, or are suicidal. Click here to visit
Bullying UK: A website for both children and adults affected by bullying. Click here
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM): For young men who are feeling unhappy. Has a website here and a helpline: 0800 58 58 58
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Chaos in Dover caused by Operation Brock has affected businesses and residents alike. Last weekend saw misery on the M20 due to a culmination of events that made traffic come to a standstill.
Along with weather problems, there were ferry shortages caused by P&O suspending services, the ongoing red tape caused by Brexit and holidaymakers travelling due to schools being closed and the Easter holiday approaching. As a result, Operation Brock was implemented to deal with the huge volume of freight.
The system was originally developed for use of a no-deal Brexit and is used to supplement Operation Stack during cross-Channel traffic problems. One truck driver told Kent Live he was stuck in traffic jams for over 30 hours.
READ MORE: Dramatic photos show extent of M20 traffic chaos as Dover brought to a standstill
But Dover locals said the chaos has negatively affected them even when they weren't driving in the traffic jams. Susan Lockwood, 66, said she has lived in Dover all her life and that "last weekend was the worst traffic" she had ever seen. She added: "The traffic 100% affected me.
"My daughter has a sweet shop in Biggin Markets. She couldn't get into work last weekend and I had to walk to to work.
"Whenever anything in Dover we end up gridlocked. But last weekend was particularly bad."
Two women who wished to remain anonymous fumed: "The authorities knew something like this could happen so where were they? Who's going to actually take responsibility for this and sort it out?
"There is always traffic congestion in Dover. But with Brexit, and P&O acting like a bunch of b*******, bad weather, holidays, it was obvious the weekend would be bad but these systems they have in place don't seem to do anything to help."
Catherine Logan, 63, said: "We came back from Scotland last weekend and we had to take a massive detour. It was only 30 minutes but Dover is always congested.
"Something needs to be put in place to stop all this."
"Our business was 100% affected last weekend," said manager of the factory outlet shop in Bradelei Wharf, Sue Vokes, 62., "We have an older clientele and if there is any news that they might get stuck in traffic then they won't come.
"Last weekend we saw about a 40% drop in revenue. We have seen a bit of a fall in business after everything going on but last weekend was particularly bad."
But not everyone said there business has been affected. Emily Tomkinson works in accounts for Gateway Shipping CO in Dover.
"We weren't really hit by the traffic," she said, "but I know a lot of people and businesses around here are fed up with what's going on."
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Drivers hoping to use the M20 and surrounding roads are facing huge delays thanks to Operation Brock. As of 4pm today (April 5) the M20 is currently shut on the coast-bound carriageway of the road between J8 for Maidstone (Leeds Castle / Maidstone Services) and J9 for Ashford.
Congestion is affecting the M20 as far back as J7 for Detling and other local roads are seeing traffic building in the area. A diversion route has been put in place for all non-freight traffic hoping to use the M20.
Any non-freight traffic heading coast-bound is currently unable to use the M20. The London-bound side of the road appears to remain open for all traffic at this moment.
READ MORE: Live M20 Operation Brock traffic updates as coastbound carriageway closed to non-freight traffic
All non-freight traffic is being urged to use the A20 instead of the M20. On the other hand, freight traffic which comes off at J8 of the M20, is then sent back down into the holding areas as they await clearance to head to the Channel Crossings.
Traffic site Inrix have said: "The road is closed to all non-freight traffic heading coast-bound - the London-bound side of the road remains open to all traffic. Non-freight traffic uses the A20 instead and all freight comes off at J8 to then be sent back down into the holding areas."
Operation Brock has caused considerable delays over the past few days for travellers on the M20. One driver was stuck in traffic caused by Operation Brock for more than 32 hours as a result of the contraflow scheme.
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A new DWP rule change has come into force which will enable struggling claimants in need of additional financial support to get quicker access to benefits. The changes, which were introduced yesterday (April 4) mean people in their final year of life can receive Universal Credit and Employment and Support Allowance six months earlier than they were previously able to.
The Department for Work and Pensions announced that from Monday, regulations regarding 'Special Rules for End of Life' have been revamped. Someone could previously claim Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance if they had medical evidence they were in their final six months of life.
However, this can now be claimed for a longer period of 12 months. It means those who are eligible will not have to go through face-to-face assessments and will instead receive the highest rate of benefits in the majority of cases.
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Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Chloe Smith MP said: "Helping more people in the final year of their life get faster access to vital financial support is the right thing to do. I hope by extending this support it will alleviate the financial concerns of those nearing the end of their life and their families in the most challenging of times,” as BirminghamLive reports.
National Clinical Director for End of Life Care at NHS England, Professor Bee Wee said: "I am really pleased to see this change which will enable earlier and faster access to financial support for people who are likely to be in their last year of life. This additional support is of such vital importance to many people, and those important to them, during this difficult time."
Marie Curie chief executive Matthew Reed said: "We are delighted to see this important change come into force today for Universal Credit and ESA claimants, following years of campaigning. This will help ensure more dying people can concentrate on making the most of the limited time they have left, rather than worrying about their finances.
"Marie Curie look forward to continuing to work with the Department for Work and Pensions to communicate this important change and ensure everyone now eligible gets the support they need quickly and efficiently."
The CEO of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, Sally Light, said: "I am pleased that as of today long fought-for changes to the Special Rules for Terminal Illness will come into effect for Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit. We now hope that more people living with complex and unpredictable terminal illnesses like motor neurone disease will be able to access the support they need via those benefits swiftly and sensitively."
A person who makes a new claim for Universal Credit under the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL) could receive an additional £354.28 per month for having limited capability for work and work-related activity from day one of their claim. If eligible for New Style ESA, a person making a new claim could receive the highest rate of benefit of £117.60 per week from day one of their claim to support them in the last months of their life.
Clinicians still have discretion under the updated rules and will be supported by "a realistic and straightforward definition, which aligns with current NHS practice", the DWP added. The changes to SREL will later be extended to Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance as soon as Parliamentary time allows, the Government said.
The rule change comes after an earlier update that exempts people who are terminally ill from the requirement to accept a claimant commitment to be eligible for benefits. A claimant commitment is a set of conditions a person agrees to follow in order to get their state payments.
An individual's responsibilities vary according to their circumstances. For those able to work, it can include the requirement to look for a job.
There had previously been no general rule preventing a person from being asked to agree to strict conditions on their payments when they were in their final months or years of life. A blanket exemption has now been put in place and came into effect on February 15, 2022.
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NY mobster who escaped federal custody rearrested in Florida
Published: Apr. 5, 2022 at 11:01 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York mobster who escaped federal custody in Florida has been rearrested.
The U.S. Marshals Service says 64-year-old Dominic Taddeo was apprehended “without incident” in Hialeah on Monday.
Taddeo was in the final year of his sentence when he escaped from a federal halfway house in Orlando on March 28.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said he failed to return from an authorized appointment and “was placed on escape status.”
Taddeo pleaded guilty in 1992 to racketeering charges that included the killings of three other mobsters.
A federal judge denied Taddeo’s request for compassionate release last year.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors a day after revealing that he’d become the social media platform’s largest shareholder with a 9% stake.
The billionaire has criticized Twitter publicly about its commitment to free speech. He’s also run into trouble on the platform as the CEO of Tesla after financial regulators found he had posted inaccurate information about the company.
Musk is barred from owning more than 14.9% of Twitter’s outstanding stock while he sits on the board, Twitter Inc. said in a Tuesday regulatory filing.
Musk has been speaking with the company in recent weeks and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in a tweet that “it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.”
“He’s both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on @Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term,” Agrawal wrote.
Musk said he’s looking forward to working with Agrawal and the board “to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Musk wasted no time in weighing in on one of the biggest gripes Twitter users have about the platform late Tuesday, asking in a tweet if he should add an edit button.
“Now its time to get out the popcorn and watch the developments over the coming months with Musk on the board,” wrote Daniel Ives, who follows Twitter for Wedbush Securities.
Twitter’s board will have 12 members with Musk. Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter last and his term on the board expires at an upcoming stockholders’ meeting on May 25. Three other board members have terms that are set to expire but have been nominated to retain their seats.
Dorsey tweeted Tuesday that Musk and Agrawal “both lead with their hearts, and they will be an incredible team.”
“I’m really happy Elon is joining the Twitter board! He cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it,” Dorsey said.
After amassing 73.5 million Twitter shares worth a total of about $3 billion, Musk has not spoken specifically about any Twitter rule changes he might push.
In March, Musk told his 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought ” to creating his own social media platform.
Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with the SEC over his ability to post on Twitter. His lawyer has contended in court motions that the SEC is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
Shares of Twitter rose about 5% Tuesday.
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The plan seemed simple enough, filmmaker Ted Braun says of the start of his documentary about conductor Gustavo Dudamel, the music director of both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in his native Venezuela.
“We imagined we’d be making a film that explored and celebrated Gustavo’s relationship with two orchestras, the Bolívars and the L.A. Philharmonic,” says Braun of the documentary “¡Viva Maestro!” which arrives Friday, April 8.
“The timing was good because the L.A. Phil was celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2018-2019,” he says. “And the art of conducting was something of a mystery to most people. The joke was someone with magic hands who was able to make things happen with an orchestra.”
And at first, things unfolded as Braun envisioned. Financing for the start of the production came quickly.
By early 2017, shooting had started in Caracas, where Dudamel, 41, was prepping the orchestra in which he’d grown up for a European tour. Braun and his crew traveled with Dudamel and the Bolívars, as the orchestra is informally known, to Spain and Germany and Austria.
The months ahead seemed as clearly defined as the measures on a symphonic score. And then in 2017, all the notes tumbled off the pages in a jumble, forcing Braun to improvise.
“The day after the orchestra returned to Caracas after the European tour, Venezuela erupted in 100 days of massive street protests and violence,” he says. “As a consequence of that violence, tours that the Bolívar orchestra was planning were canceled, and Dudamel, as it turns out, has not been back.
“So we were suddenly looking at a situation where the main character of the film had no immediate plans to return to Venezuela and was dealing with a country in crisis and an orchestra that wasn’t being allowed to travel,” Braun says.
“We had a very different set of circumstances on our hands,” he says. “But what guides me, and I think other documentary filmmakers who make films in those situations, is the subject, and the subject’s values.
“In this case, Gustavo’s commitment to music’s transformative power. His commitment to the musicians that he grew up with. And to the mentor, who really made him who he is.”
These all were things Braun planned to include in the film anyway. Now they were being tested in unexpected ways.
“We obviously were going to watch and follow how he responded to those tests,” Braun says. “To pay attention to Gustavo, his values and his commitment to music’s transformative power. And that’s what we ended up doing.”
The first movement
For Braun, “¡Viva Maestro!” initially represented a break from such weighty topics as international fraud and genocide that he had explored in the documentaries “Betting On Zero” and “Darfur Now.”
“I was really looking to get away from the messy problems of the world and make a film in which audiences could really immerse themselves in a world of beauty,” says Braun, a professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts who teaches screenwriting and is the Joseph Campbell Endowed Chair in Cinematic Ethics.
Braun also had been a bassoon player in the Vermont Youth Orchestra and at Amherst College in Massachusetts, and at one point thought he would pursue that as his career.
He says Dudamel seemed such “a charismatic creative force, and one who’s rich enough and complex enough to sustain an audience’s attention for 90 minutes.”
Braun met with Dudamel’s management in the summer of 2016, to explain the kind of film he wanted to make.
“I said to them what a feature documentary would afford someone like Gustavo is a chance for him to not just be recognized, but to be known, and for the things that he values to be communicated in a way that would deepen, I think, the world’s understanding and appreciation,” Braun says.
An initial meeting with Dudamel got him on board. A second meeting provided an initial piece of the story.
“He said, ‘Well, we’re rehearsing the Beethoven cycle in Caracas, then we’re going off to Germany and Austria and Spain on a tour? Would that be a good place to start?’” Braun says. “I said that would be the perfect place to start, for all sorts of reasons
“They’d played around the world for many, many years, but this is the first time they were taking the nine Beethoven symphonies to Europe, which, in the world of classic music, that’s like going to Yankee Stadium to play baseball.”
Open doors and hearts
“¡Viva Maestro!” benefited throughout the shoot from Dudamel’s openness with Braun’s crew, the writer-director says.
“He was so generous,” Braun says. “We could stick our cameras and microphones where we wanted to, we could get right into the middle of that communication.
Doors opened wherever they followed him. The Venezuelan musicians, who were like brothers and sisters to him since adolescence, invited the cameras in. The same with the children and teachers in the nation’s youth music edition program, known as El Sistema, a creation of Dudamel’s mentor, José Antonio Abreu.
Braun, who does not speak Spanish, managed to capture Spanish speakers in the film with an intimacy that makes the translations invisible.
“We used to joke that there are three languages in the film: music, Spanish and English,” he says. “When we cut the film together, we sort of figured out that 44% is music, 22% English, 22% Spanish, and the rest is purely cinematic.”
All of those musical performances and rehearsals created challenges of their own, Braun says, especially because he wanted to capture a more fluid conversation between conductor and musicians than typical in films about an orchestra.
“Because we were telling Gustavo’s story, we wanted to get the audience into his shoes,” he says. “We wanted to try to get audiences to be hearing and experiencing it as though you’re inside of it, not outside looking in.
“Gustavo let us put the cameras wherever we wanted to, which was an extraordinary luxury,” Braun says. “So we were able to get one of the best verité documentary cinematographers on the planet right there in the orchestra.”
Braun says they also incorporated a technique used by director Martin Scorsese in “The Last Waltz,” a documentary about the final performances of the Band, using dolly tracks across the lip of the stage and a camera with a long zoom lens to glide from point to point, capturing closeups and wide shots as needed.
The camera operators instinctively gravitated to the sections of the orchestra that were playing until Braun coached them to try it differently.
“I said, ‘Guys, forget it. Beethoven is too clever at moving the tune around, you’ll be playing catch up the whole time,’” he says. “I said, ‘Trust your emotions. Trust that what you’re feeling and are curious about will guide you to the right spot.’
“The shorthand was, ‘We want you to be using the cameras with your heart, not your eyes or your ears.’ The solution ended up being really effective in the hands of some of the world’s greatest cinematographers.”
Music and man
After months as Dudamel’s shadow, and months more in editing, Braun says he came to a deeper understanding of both his brilliance as a conductor and his heart as a person.
“Two things about him as a conductor really struck me,” he says. “One was his ability to communicate a feeling to an orchestra.”
Most conductors don’t talk as much as Dudamel does to the musicians, but Dudamel in the film displays “an extraordinary gift for analogy,” Braun says.
“The really lovely one he says, ‘This needs more sparkle. More like champagne, less like moonshine,’” Braun says. “That’s not technical, but everybody, regardless of whether you’re playing a wind instrument or a string instrument or percussion, it’s like, ‘I get it. I can make sparkle. I can stay away from moonshine.’”
Dudamel also amazed Braun and his editors with his “uncanny sense of time.” At one point, while considering cutting back and forth between a rehearsal for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Caracas and a performance of it in Hamburg a month later, Braun asked one of the editors to check the difference in running time between them.
“It was less than a second,” he says. “It was a matter of a frame. We just couldn’t believe it. I mean, that kind of technical expertise is staggering.”
Even more than Dudamel’s skills with the baton in front of an orchestra, Braun says he finished the film completely impressed with the humanity and strength with which the conductor has gone through two of the most challenging years of his life.
“What I saw as we neared the very end was an openness and understanding about what he’d been through, and about how much clearer he sees what matters most to him,” Braun says. “Which is carrying forward the message of Maestro Abreu, which is that music can transform lives and build communities.
“He was able to share that with us, and I hope we’re able to share it with an audience. Because that’s a message for our times, I think.”
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San Gabriel Valley Boys Athlete of the Week
Name: Kerry Smith
School: Covina
Sport: Track
Year: Senior
Noteworthy: The Colts’ track star ran the two fastest times in the state this season at Saturday’s Covina Invitational in the 200 and 400 meters. Smith wont he 200 meters in 21.44 and won the 400 meters in 47.33, making him one to watch during this weekend’s Arcadia Invitational. Smith is expected to run in the 400 at Arcadia, along with several relays. He was also part of Covina’s 400 meter relay winning team at the Covina Invite.
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MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) – A small child was hit by a vehicle Tuesday morning in McDowell County.
According to the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded at 9:00 a.m. to an incident in Old Fort in reference to a child being hit by a vehicle.
Deputies said the child was taken to the hospital. The condition of the child is unknown at this time.
The incident is under investigation by the McDowell’s Sheriff’s Office and the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
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GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – Greenville County Schools released a summary of what happened during and after a school shooting Thurday at Tanglewood Middle School.
We previously reported that a 12-year-old shot and killed 12-year-old Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson at Tanglewood Middle School.
Jackson was shot at least one time and treated by the school resource officer and school staff before being taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Below is the entire statement released by Greenville County Schools:
The following is a summary of what happened at Tanglewood Middle School on Thursday, March 31, 2022. While we believe an accurate account of what happened is needed for our community, we also want readers to know what is described below since many are still processing the trauma of the event.
Student shot, killed at Tanglewood Middle, suspect charged
At approximately 12:26 pm on Thursday, March 31, 2022, Greenville County Schools received reports of shots fired inside the building at Tanglewood Middle School. At that point, the school resource officer had already responded and called for back-up, and the Tanglewood administration and staff had immediately activated the district’s emergency response plan. Multiple law enforcement agencies, along with the appropriate district personnel, responded at the scene. One student victim was transported to the hospital. Staff and students followed protocols of the district’s emergency response plan while law enforcement secured the building and the surrounding campus. Following the shooting, the student suspect immediately fled the school. Law enforcement found the suspect hiding outside of a nearby home, and a handgun was recovered.
While law enforcement and district personnel responded at the school, other district personnel responded to pre-determined sites in accord with the district’s emergency response plan including Brookwood Church, which was the designated reunification site. Once law enforcement determined it was safe to do so, the district transported all students and staff from Tanglewood to Brookwood Church, where parents could pick up their students. Any student who was not able to be picked up at Brookwood Church was taken directly home by the district on a school bus.
Deputies explain relocation of students following Tanglewood Middle School shooting
That evening, it was announced that the student victim, who was later confirmed to be Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson, had passed away. Greenville County Schools released statements of condolences for the family of the victim.
While the motive is still under investigation, law enforcement has confirmed that the victim and the suspect were familiar with one another, and they are confident that the incident was isolated.
What’s next for 12-year-old Tanglewood Middle shooting suspect
This is a horrific tragedy, and the Tanglewood school community and the entire Greenville County Schools community is still reeling from the shock and hurting from the trauma and loss that occurred. Tanglewood and the district have extended offers of support to the victim’s family. Greenville County Schools is providing multiple types of direct support to the Tanglewood students and staff, including counseling and other mental health services through the district’s After Care Team. The district is also supporting all of our schools and students as they process what happened and as they need to be reassured that our top priority is their safety each and every day.
We want to express our deepest appreciation to the administration, staff and students at Tanglewood, Sheriff Hobart Lewis, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, EMS, and the multiple local, state and federal law enforcement agencies who all responded rapidly in accord with our emergency response plan. We also thank Brookwood Church for their willingness to serve the community as the reunification site for students and their parents and their effectiveness at responding to this crisis.
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