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Deep in the eastern Ukrainian forest, this group of volunteers waits as Russia’s military creeps closer
By Mick Krever, Phil Black, Kostyantin Gak, and Richard Harlow, CNN
Maxym is waiting. For just over a month, he and his comrades have been sleeping in earthen dugouts, eating from cans warmed over campfires, and following news of the Russian military advancing just kilometers away.
“Of course they are coming,” Maxym says. “There are far more of them than us.”
They’re dug deep into this dense eastern Ukrainian forest, not far from Slovyansk, and are part of Ukraine’s territorial defense — non-professional soldiers, most of whom signed up in the opening days of Russia’s February invasion.
So far, they have avoided contact with the enemy, whiling away the days beneath camouflage nets, next to giant pyramids of bottled water. But every moment of every day they live with the thud of artillery. Their wooded encampment is regularly showered with cluster munitions. Soon after CNN’s visit, a cluster strike heavily wounded some of the soldiers.
And though they’re well supplied with the anti-tank weapons that proved so decisive in holding back Russia’s initial incursion, those are not the weapons they need at this phase of the war.
“You can hear it,” says Maxym’s comrade, Mykhailo, as heavy weapons thunder in the distance. Like others in this story, he asked to use only his first name out of privacy concerns.
“For every one of our heavy shots, they make 10 or 20. It’s because we lack artillery.”
Donbas is where the conflict with Russia started in 2014. And after Ukraine routed Russia’s attempt to decapitate the government in Kyiv earlier this year, Donbas is once again the center of the war.
Their enemy is advancing, albeit slowly. Further east, Russian forces captured the industrial city of Severodonetsk, and appear close to encircling Ukraine’s forces in neighboring Lysychansk.
That puts pressure on Ukraine’s most important remaining population centers in the Donbas — Bakhmut, Slovyansk and especially Kramatorsk. The territorial defense unit is just one in a network of corks that the Ukrainian military is using to plug gaps in its defense.
If and when they do have direct contact with the enemy, it will mean artillery has failed to hold back the Russian advance, and Slovyansk is in real danger.
Mykhailo peers over the edge of a trench to show why his unit has been placed here. He motions to the road. “If a convoy comes,” he says, “our task is to stop it.”
The civilians they hope to defend are already, and increasingly, suffering from Russia’s advance.
Rockets release their deadly cluster payloads over apartment blocks, supermarket parking lots and suburban homes. The bomblets rip through windows and doors and any human unlucky enough to be caught unaware.
Igor, in his late 30s, was one of them. He said goodbye to his wife on Monday and walked from their first-floor apartment in a Soviet-era building toward the taxi he drove for a living. He never made it.
“I was standing here crying,” said Valentina, 76, his neighbor. “He was such a good guy. His name was Igor. And my husband’s name is Igor too.”
The explosions scattered debris across her bed, and now her husband, a former builder, is sawing a piece of particle board to cover a broken window above their building’s door.
“It’s very scary,” she says. “At night, I cover myself with a pillow.”
Slovyansk bears the brunt of Russia’s advance from the north. To the south, Bakhmut has been paying an even heavier toll.
Marina stands in the yard of her building, scraping up glass that just hours before was shattered by a Russian bomb.
“We didn’t harm anyone,” she says with agony. “We are just simple people. My husband has been an ambulance worker for 45 years, saving lives.”
It’s mostly older people left on this street. Many sons and daughters have long since left, unable to convince their parents to join them.
“We don’t have gas, we don’t have power, we don’t have water. But we only want the shooting to stop.”
Back in the forest, waiting for Russia’s troops, Maxym says he thinks often of his pregnant wife, back in their home city of Kharkiv, and their unborn son.
“We will kick them out of here, and he will know it: that we didn’t just stand here doing nothing. It’s our land, and they have no right to come here.”
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DETROIT (AP) — U.S. new vehicle sales tumbled more than 21% in the second quarter compared with a year ago as the global semiconductor shortage continued to cause production problems for the industry.
Yet demand still outstripped supply from April through June, even with $5 per gallon gasoline, high inflation and rising interest rates. The low supply has raised prices to record levels, knocking many consumers out of the new-vehicle market.
Edmunds.com said that automakers sold 3.49 million vehicles during the quarter, nearly 933,000 fewer than the same period last year.
J.D. Power estimates that the average sales price of a new vehicle for the first six months of the year hit nearly $45,000, a record that is 17.5% higher than a year ago. Edmunds.com reported that 12.7% of consumers who financed a new vehicle in June had monthly payments of $1,000 or more.
At General Motors, which reported a 15% sales drop, shortages of chips and other parts forced the company to build 95,000 vehicles without one part or another. The incomplete vehicles are expected to be finished and sold by the end of the year.
Jack Hollis, head of Toyota sales in North America, said the chip shortage didn’t improve as much as the company expected in the first half of the year, and he doesn’t see it getting much better until next summer.
“Every microchip producer is producing at maximum speed because they have maximum demand,” Hollis said. “There is no catching up going on. It’s actually falling behind.”
Toyota sales were down 19% for the first half of the year and they fell 18% in June. That allowed GM to pass the Japanese company and retake the crown as the top-selling automaker in the U.S., a title GM lost last year.
Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, posted a 16% sales decline. Honda’s second-quarter sales fell by more than half, with the company blaming “severe” supply chain issues. Nissan sales dropped nearly 39% for the quarter, and Hyundai posted a 23% sales dip.
Most automakers were reporting sales figures on Friday, but Tesla is likely to do so this weekend and Ford won’t report until Tuesday.
Edmunds predicted that nearly 3.5 million new vehicles were sold last quarter in the U.S., 20.8% fewer than the same period a year ago. Edmunds expects inventory shortages to continue for the foreseeable future, frustrating auto buyers.
“The majority of consumers who are purchasing vehicles in these conditions are either in a financial position where money is less of a consideration or are doing so out of absolute necessity,” said Edmunds analyst Jessica Caldwell.
Toyota’s Hollis said that demand remains exceptionally strong, especially for more efficient gas-electric hybrid vehicles, and the company’s electric vehicle, the BZ4x. Hybrids and plug-ins accounted for about 27% of Toyota’s sales in June, following a rising trend, he said.
But supply problems are limiting inventory and sales, Hollis said. The company started June with 9,000 vehicles on dealer lots and ended the month with about 8,500, he said. Vehicles are being sold within 36 hours of arriving at dealers.
Hyundai announced that it would stop selling its Accent and Veloster small cars in the U.S., furthering the trend of automakers cutting car models as SUVs have become America’s favorite body style.
Randy Parker, head of sales for Hyundai Motor America, said he expects the chip shortage to gradually get better this year, predicting a 30% production increase over last year.
The company’s main electric vehicle, the Ioniq 5, is selling strong, with nearly 7,500 delivered in the second quarter, Parker said.
But smaller, fuel-efficient gasoline vehicles don’t appear to be faring as well. Hyundai’s Elantra compact car saw a 44% sales drop during the quarter, but is sales were halted for a time due to a safety recall issue.
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Machine Gun Kelly embraces superstardom (sort of) at Summerfest, but Avril Lavigne nearly steals the show
Machine Gun Kelly still thinks of himself as an underdog.
But at this year's Summerfest, America's largest music festival, he's the Big Dog.
Shortly into his hour-and-45-minute set at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater Friday night, Kelly informed the packed house that this show was Summerfest's top-seller this year, with about 18,000 in attendance.
That's a stratospheric leap from just nine months ago, when Kelly played the 3,500-person-capacity Eagles Ballroom at the Rave. (However, that was an instant sellout, and was one of the smallest venues on his fall tour.)
But it's not surprising. Kelly's popularity continues to skyrocket thanks to this spring's "Mainstream Sellout," his second album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and his second album since transitioning from a rapper to a punk rocker.
Now firmly in the big leagues, Kelly went all out with the stage spectacle at Summerfest Friday.
RELATED:Here's the Summerfest 2022 lineup by date, time and stage for the Milwaukee music festival
He dangled from the rope of a pink helicopter over the stage for set opener "Born With Horns," the chopper firing rockets during "WWIII" and "WW4" later in the night at clusters of TVs that depicted animated spiders with logos from Fox News, CNN, Facebook, Twitter and other media and social media companies.
The five-piece band backing him was ferocious — especially Kelly's two guitarists, who wilded out with solos for "Maybe," all the more impressive considering they were standing on a slanted stage.
There was plenty of pyro, of course, crisscrossing along the back of the stage, and during the set's climactic "My Ex's Best Friend," confetti shaped like red tomatoes rained down over the lower bowl.
And while the highly produced show had no room for the kind of death-defying surprises like his balcony stroll at the Eagles Ballroom last fall, Kelly still found ways to inject Friday's set with spontaneity.
During "Drug Dealer," Kelly raced down into an aisle by Section 102 to briefly jump around with fans, giving a little girl on her father's shoulders a hug on the way back up to the stage.
Halsey, headlining Summerfest's amphitheater Saturday, didn't show up for their collaboration “Forget Me Too” Friday. Nor did Kelly's partner, actress Megan Fox, appear on stage — although he said she was there Friday, and he serenaded an offstage Fox for show closer "Twin Flame."
But opener Iann Dior showed up for their collaboration "Fake Love Don't Last," with Dior exhibiting the ultimate trust fall dropping back first into the pit to crowd surf.
And Kelly's other opener, Avril Lavigne, joined his set, too, the pair teaming up for their recent collaboration "Bois Lie."
The show was such a success — Kelly, too, demonstrated his flow hasn't lost its snap, during "Floor 13" and "El Diablo" — that it's puzzling why even during this concert he still puts himself down.
Kelly's gotten plenty of backlash for going rock, prompting cries of inauthenticity. A trailer for a new Hulu documentary, "Machine Gun Kelly's Life in Pink," which aired in the amphitheater before the show, proclaimed him "This Generation's Most Polarizing Rock Star."
And Kelly has fully embraced that narrative — perhaps out of insecurity, or maybe to amplify buzz — to the point that his show Friday featured a 30-foot-tall creature with a screen for a head. It doubled as a metaphor for the internet, yelling insults at Kelly throughout the show, calling him a poseur, questioning his ability to play guitar (he did Friday, although he wasn't flashy), and so on.
But the running gimmick Friday was largely a sour distraction, almost robbing Kelly of the ability to defy the doubters on his own terms.
The show flowed much better after the internet demon was "slayed," like during "Lonely," which even amplified by a flashy band on a flashy stage remains a touching, vulnerable tribute to Kelly's late father.
At the end of the show, Kelly said he would make it back to Milwaukee next year. He said the same thing at the Rave's Eagles Ballroom in October, and sure enough it happened, so we'll take him at his word.
But hopefully next time, he can leave the chip on his shoulder at home.
RELATED:28 must-see acts at Summerfest 2022 in Milwaukee, from Lil Wayne to Zach Bryan to Halsey
Avril Lavigne
Machine Gun Kelly’s “authenticity” will continue to be up for debate, but there’s no denying the pop-punk bona fides of opener Avril Lavigne.
With a packed amphitheater and stage tricks like exploding streamers and black and orange balloons bouncing over the crowd, Friday’s performance felt like a triumphant headlining set smashed into a too-brief-but-explosive 40-minutes.
Snarky new pop-punk anthems “Bite Me” and “Love It When You Hate Me” fit perfectly alongside singalong staples “Complicated” and “I’m With You” (both songs 20 years old this year).
Lavigne’s pining voice and attitude haven’t aged in the slightest — her personal and stage aesthetic included orange tips in her hair, and a shimmering mic stand covered in spikes — and the five-piece band matched their leader’s intensity. During “Sk8er Boi,” one of her guitarists was playing so hard his strap snapped, sending his guitar soaring across the stage, where it shattered against the floor.
Iann Dior
Iann Dior did something brazen during his 25-minute opening set: He skipped “Mood,” his Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper with 24KGoldn and by far his biggest hit.
But it was the right call. The poppy “Mood” didn't fit with the intense punk vibe the rapper-rocker was going for — backed by an aggressive guitarist and drummer — for setlist standouts “Sick and Tired” and “Gone Girl.”
It all boiled over when Dior came out into the pit for “Live Fast Die Numb,” and, evidently, Dior couldn’t get enough of the crowd. In between Lavigne and Kelly’s sets, he strolled through the amphitheater aisles and posed for dozens of selfies.
Machine Gun Kelly's setlist
1. "Born With Horns"
2. "God Save Me"
3. "Maybe"
4. "Mainstream Sellout"
5. "Drunk Face"
6. "Drug Dealer"
7. "Ay!"
8. "Fake Love Don't Last" (with Iann Dior)
9. "Why Are You Here"/"Jawbreaker"/"Sid & Nancy"
10. "More Than Life"
11. "Die in California"
12. "Floor 13"
13. "Papercuts"
14. "Title Track"
15. "Bloody Valentine"
16. "Roll the Windows Up"
17. "El Diablo"
18. "WWIII"
19. "WW4"
20. "Emo Girl"
21. "Bois Lie" (with Avril Lavigne)
22. "Lonely"
23. "I Think I'm Okay"
24. "Forget Me Too"
25. "Make Up Sex"
26. "My Ex's Best Friend"
27. "Twin Flame"
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Heavy rain has fallen in parts of central into eastern Kansas this morning. Radar estimated rainfall totals have ranged between 3 and 5 inches in areas like Ellsworth, McPherson and Saline counties.
For that reason we have Areal Flood Warnings in place for Ellsworth and Saline counties through the morning. Avoid low lying areas as well as creeks, streams and rivers.
Those in the eastern portion of the KSN viewing area, like Lyon, Morris, Chase, Greenwood and Geary counties will deal with the rain longer than the rest of us. Those counties can expect rain through mid to late morning, but out west we begin to dry out.
By the afternoon, the lingering boundary in place will help spark a few more thunderstorms across southern Kansas. The coverage will be limited, but a cell or two could be on the stronger side.
The SPC has a marginal risk for south central into southeastern Kansas. There is also a slim area in northwest Kansas as well. This is just a small risk for a cell or two to pose a hail and gusty wind threat.
Highs will be warm but not overly hot today. Most of the state will range from the mid 80s to mid 90s. This is not far from average for this time of year. Wichita’s average high for today is 91 degrees.
Sunday our temperature trend continues to warm. We have a slim chance for a popcorn shower or storm. A few more storms are possible later in the day out west.
We look really hot across the state on Monday for the Fourth of July holiday. Make sure you take the proper heat precautions as we will likely touch the 100 degree mark for parts of early to mid week.
KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Meteorologist Warren Sears:
Wichita:
Today: Partly cloudy. 40% chance of a shower or storm. Hi: 91 Wind: SE 8-18
Tonight: Partly cloudy. 30% chance of a shower or storm. Lo: 73 Wind: S/SE 8-18
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, breezy. 10% chance of a shower or storm. Hi: 93 Wind: S 10-20
Tomorrow Night: Mostly clear, breezy. Lo: 75 Wind: S 10-20
Wichita Weekly:
Mon: Hi: 97 Lo: 77 Partly cloudy, breezy.
Tue: Hi: 99 Lo: 76 Partly cloudy, breezy.
Wed: Hi: 100 Lo: 76 Partly cloudy, breezy. 10% chance of a shower or storm.
Thu: Hi: 99 Lo: 74 Partly cloudy. 10% chance of a shower or storm.
Fri: Hi: 97 Lo: 75 Partly cloudy. 10% chance of a shower or storm.
Sat: Hi: 95 Lo: 74 Partly cloudy.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Zach LaVine is staying with the Chicago Bulls.
The two-time All-Star and Olympic gold medalist said Friday he has agreed to a new deal with the Bulls. LaVine will be signing a five-year max contract worth about $215 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the terms who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the pact cannot be signed until next week by league rule.
And with that, another top free agent came off the market — settling the biggest roster issue hanging over the Bulls this summer.
The Athletic first reported the agreement between the Bulls and LaVine.
Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas had been consistent in saying the team hoped to re-sign LaVine rather than lose him as an unrestricted free agent. He wanted to keep intact a core that helped Chicago reach the playoffs for the first time in five years.
LaVine, meanwhile, had said he planned to explore the market as an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career after five years in Chicago. If he looked around, he didn’t look for very long — LaVine announced his decision about 18 hours after the league’s free-agent negotiation window for this season started.
There are many benefits to LaVine staying, including the obvious financial edge. Chicago had the ability to give LaVine $56 million more than any other team could offer him this summer.
LaVine averaged 24.4 points this past season in the final season of a four-year, $78 million deal. The high-flying guard made the playoffs for the first time in his eighth year as a pro, with the Bulls losing in the first round to Milwaukee in five games.
But it was a year of clear progress for Chicago, which won 46 games with LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic leading the way. The Bulls enjoyed their best record in seven years and now have clear momentum heading into this coming season.
The past season wasn’t exactly easy for LaVine. He dealt with a thumb injury early in Chicago’s season, then was in and out of the lineup the final few months because of a left knee injury. The knee needed treatment often, and eventually required arthroscopic surgery in May.
All that seemed forgotten Friday. LaVine’s wife posted a photo of him on Instagram shortly after the deal was struck — the $215 million man enjoying a celebratory cigar.
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed.
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Amazon is barring off-duty warehouse workers from the company’s facilities, a move organizers say can hamper union drives.
Under the policy shared with workers on Amazon’s internal app, employees are barred from accessing buildings or other working areas on their scheduled days off, and before or after their shifts.
An Amazon spokesperson said the policy does not prohibit off-duty employees from engaging their co-workers in “non-working areas” outside the company’s buildings.
“There’s nothing more important than the safety of our employees and the physical security of our buildings,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said. “This policy regarding building access applies to building interiors and working areas. It does not limit employee access to non-working areas outside of our facilities.”
The notice of the new policy, dated Thursday, says the off-duty rule “will not be enforced discriminatorily” against employees seeking to unionize. But organizers say the policy itself will hinder their efforts to garner support from co-workers during campaigns.
“On our days off, we come to work and we engage our co-workers in the break rooms,” said Rev. Ryan Brown, an Amazon warehouse worker in Garner, North Carolina, who’s aiming to organize his workplace following the labor win on Staten Island, New York, where workers at an Amazon warehouse voted in April to unionize.
“This was a direct response to that, to try to stop organizing by any means necessary,” Brown said.
Seattle-based Amazon had previously barred employee access to non-working areas beyond 15 minutes before or after their shifts. The company rescinded that policy in December, when it entered a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow workers to organize more freely. Amazon also agreed to give workers a heads up in the event it chose to “reinstate a lawful rule regarding off-duty employee access” to its facilities. A spokesperson with the NLRB declined to comment on the company’s new policy.
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SimiTree's QAPI Program Awarded "CHAP VERIFIED" Seal
Community Health Accreditation Partner Awards SimiTree's QAPI Program Its "CHAP-Certified" Status
HAMDEN, Conn., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SimiTree, an outsourced services, coding, professional services and talent management resource for post-acute and behavioral health organizations, has been awarded the prestigious "CHAP Verified" status by Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) for its Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program.
"A review of various SimiTree QAPI processes and documents confirmed a robust QAPI program for home health and hospice agencies," said Teresa Harbour, SVP Accreditation at CHAP. "Their tools were very comprehensive and easy to use."
SimiTree's QAPI Program achieved CHAP Verified status through a thorough product survey to verify that SimiTree's QAPI program allows organizations to meet the intent of CHAP's applicable standards, said Harbour.
"Through SimiTree's QAPI program, we show home health and hospice agencies to drive patient engagement and satisfaction, improve clinical expertise, raise total performance scores under VBP, address agency vulnerabilities, and more," said J'non Griffin, SimiTree Principal and Senior Vice President, Coding and OASIS. "We're honored to receive this recognition for our QAPI team's expertise, who are knowledgable in developing and tracking data-based performance improvement projects and support."
About SimiTreeSimiTree, an outsourced services, coding, professional services and talent management resource serving the home health, hospice, applied behavioral analysis, palliative care, and other post-acute organizations, was created by the merger of Simione Healthcare Consultants and BlackTree Healthcare Consulting in May 2021. SimiTree further expanded its behavioral health footprint in 2022 with a strategic alignment with INFINITY, a SimiTree company.
In addition to clinical, financial, and operational consulting, SimiTree offers a robust suite of outsourced services, including billing, coding, OASIS, Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) and Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI), and revenue cycle management; executive placement, interim management, retention consulting and other talent solutions; mergers and acquisitions support; compliance assessments and risk mitigation plans; sales and growth training; and benchmarking and data analytics. For more information, visit www.SimiTreeHC.com.
About Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP)CHAP is an independent, nonprofit organization accrediting providers of home and community-based care. Founded in 1965, CHAP was first to recognize the need for and value of home and community-based care standards and accreditation. As a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)–approved accrediting organization, CHAP surveys organizations providing home health, hospice, and home medical equipment services to establish if Medicare Conditions of Participation and DMEPOS Quality Standard are met and recommend certification to CMS. CHAP's purpose is to partner with organizations nationwide to advance quality in the delivery of care and services in the home and community.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers approved a sweeping overhaul Friday of the state’s handgun licensing rules, seeking to preserve some limits on firearms after the Supreme Court ruled that most people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection.
The measure, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul after passing both chambers by wide margins, is almost sure to draw more legal challenges from gun rights advocates who say the state is still putting too many restrictions on who can get guns and where they can carry them.
Hochul, a Democrat, called the Democrat-controlled Legislature back to Albany to work on the law after last week’s high-court ruling overturning the state’s longstanding licensing restrictions.
Backers said the law, which takes effect Sept. 1, strikes the right balance between complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling and keeping weapons out of the hands of people likely to use them recklessly or with criminal intent.
But some Republican lawmakers, opposed to tighter restrictions, argued the law violated the constitutional right to bear arms. They predicted it too would end up being overturned.
Among other things, the state’s new rules will require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials could verify their “character and conduct.”
Applicants will have to show they have “the essential character, temperament and judgment necessary to be entrusted with a weapon and to use it only in a manner that does not endanger oneself and others.”
As part of that assessment, applicants have to turn over a list of social media accounts they’ve maintained in the past three years.
“Sometimes, they’re telegraphing their intent to cause harm to others,” Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said at a news conference.
Gun rights advocates and Republican leaders were incensed, saying the legislation not only violated the Second Amendment, but also privacy and free speech rights.
“New Yorkers’ constitutional freedoms were just trampled on,” state Republican Chair Nick Langworthy said.
The bill approved by lawmakers doesn’t specify whether applicants will be required to provide licensing officers with access to private social media accounts not visible to the general public.
People applying for a license to carry a handgun will also have to provide four character references, take 16 hours of firearms safety training plus two hours of practice at a range, undergo periodic background checks and turn over contact information for their spouse, domestic partner or any other adults living in their household.
Hochul’s chief lawyer, Elizabeth Fine, insisted the state was setting out “a very clear set of eligibility criteria” and noted that the legislation includes an appeals process.
The measure signed into law Friday also fixes a recently passed law that barred sales of some types of bullet-resistant vests to the general public. The previous law inadvertently left out many types of body armor, including the type worn by a gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket.
The Supreme Court’s ruling last week struck down a 109-year-old state law that required people to demonstrate an unusual threat to their safety to qualify for a license to carry a handgun outside their homes. That restriction generally limited the licenses to people who had worked in law enforcement or had another special need that went beyond routine public safety concerns.
Under the new system, the state won’t authorize permits for people with criminal convictions within the past five years for driving while intoxicated, menacing or third-degree assault.
People also won’t be allowed to carry firearms at a long list of “sensitive places,” including New York City’s tourist-packed Times Square.
That list also includes schools, universities, government buildings, places where people have gathered for public protests, health care facilities, places of worship, libraries, public playgrounds and parks, day care centers, summer camps, addiction and mental health centers, shelters, public transit, bars, theaters, stadiums, museums, polling places and casinos.
New York will also bar people from bringing guns into any business or workplace unless the owners put up signs saying guns are welcome. People who bring guns into places without such signs could be prosecuted on felony charges.
That’s a reverse approach from many other states where businesses that want to keep guns out are usually required to post signs indicating weapons aren’t allowed.
Gun advocates said the law infringes on rights upheld by the Supreme Court.
“Now we’re going to let the pizzeria owner decide whether or not I can express my constitutional right,” said Sen. Andrew Lanza, a Staten Island Republican. “This is a disgrace. See you in the courts.”
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Irish tourist, 20, fights for life in hospital after plunging three storeys from hotel balcony in Majorca 'after being chased'
- An Irish tourist is in hospital after plunging three floors from a Majorcan hotel
- The 20-year-old Irishman was in serious' condition with head injuries
- Local media said he told emergency responders he fell while being chased.
An Irish tourist is in hospital after falling three floors from a four-star hotel in the Majorcan party resort of Santa Ponsa.
The 20-year-old Irishman was in serious' condition with head injuries following his fall from the third floor of the four-star TRH Jardin del Mar Beach Hotel.
Emergency services took the man to Son Espases Hospital in the island capital after the alarm was raised just after 4.30 Saturday morning when responders found him at the back of the hotel in a gap between the hotel building and a small wall.
Local media said he told emergency responders he fell while being chased.
A 20-year-old Irish tourist is in hospital after plunging three floors from a Majorcan hotel
He was in serious' condition with head injuries following his fall from the third floor of the hotel
Responders found the injured tourist in a gap between the hotel building and a small wall
'We are investigating an incident in which a 20-year-old tourist plunged from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Santa Ponsa', said a spokesperson for The Civil Guard, who is investigating the incident.
'He has been taken to Son Espases Hospital in Palma.'
Emergency responders stabilised him at the scene for around 25 minutes before taking him to hospital in an ambulance, with his worried friends reportedly following close behind in a taxi.
On May 3, a 50-year-old Irish tourist was rushed to hospital after falling from a second-floor apartment in Santa Ponsa, a popular resort with Irish holidaymakers which is around a 15-minute drive from Magaluf.
Only nine days later, a 34-year-old British tourist plunged to his death from the seventh-floor of his hotel in the holiday resort.
Witnesses filmed him pacing up and down a narrow ledge on the outside of his balcony at the four-star Melia South Beach Hotel before he fell.
Police said he had been drinking before the 8.30am plunge.
Later the same day, former Dutch footballer Mourad Lambrabatte died after hurling himself off a cliff in a tombstoning stunt in front of his partner and two children.
The four-star TRH Jardin del Mar Beach Hotel, located in the party resort of Majorca, is shown
The resort is popular with Irish holidaymakers and is around a 15-minute drive from Magaluf
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AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Supreme Court blocked a lower court order late Friday night that said clinics could continue performing abortions, just days after some doctors had resumed seeing patients after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
It was not immediately clear whether Texas clinics that had resumed seeing patients this week would halt services again. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.
SEE ALSO: 2 abortion clinics continue to operate in Houston after TX AG files emergency motion
The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again - all in the span of a week - illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place across the country since Roe was overturned.
An order by a Houston judge earlier this week had reassured some clinics they could temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy. That was quickly followed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking the state's highest court, which is stocked with nine Republican justices, to temporarily put the order on hold.
SEE ALSO: Abortions before 6 weeks allowed to resume in Texas after court order
"These laws are confusing, unnecessary, and cruel," said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, after the order was issued Friday night.
Clinics in Texas had stopped performing abortions in the state of nearly 30 million people after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion. Texas had technically left an abortion ban on the books for the past 50 years while Roe was in place.
SEE ALSO: 'If I just give you this money, can you give me this pill?': Women's Clinic closed for abortions
A copy of Friday's order was provided by attorneys for Texas clinics. It could not immediately be found on the court's website.
Abortion providers and patients across the country have been struggling to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access.
In Florida, a law banning abortions after 15 weeks went into effect Friday, the day after a judge called it a violation of the state constitution and said he would sign an order temporarily blocking the law next week. The ban could have broader implications in the South, where Florida has wider access to the procedure than its neighbors.
Abortion rights have been lost and regained in the span of a few days in Kentucky. A so-called trigger law imposing a near-total ban on the procedure took effect last Friday, but a judge blocked the law Thursday, meaning the state's only two abortion providers can resume seeing patients - for now.
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings able to upend access at a moment's notice and an influx of new patients from out of state overwhelming providers.
Even when women travel outside states with abortion bans in place, they may have fewer options to end their pregnancies as the prospect of prosecution follows them.
Planned Parenthood of Montana this week stopped providing medication abortions to patients who live in states with bans "to minimize potential risk for providers, health center staff, and patients in the face of a rapidly changing landscape."
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers the procedure in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, is telling its patients that they must take both pills in the regimen in a state that allows abortions.
The use of abortion pills has been the most common method to end a pregnancy since 2000, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone - the main drug used in medication abortions. Taken with misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb, it constitutes the abortion pill.
"There's a lot of confusion and concern that the providers may be at risk, and they are trying to limit their liability so they can provide care to people who need it," said Dr. Daniel Grossman, who directs the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Bisek, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said that in an "unknown and murky" legal environment, they decided to tell patients they must be in a state where it is legal to complete the medication abortion -- which requires taking two drugs 24 to 48 hours apart. She said most patients from states with bans are expected to opt for surgical abortions.
Access to the pills has become a key battle in abortion rights, with the Biden administration preparing to argue states can't ban a medication that has received FDA approval.
SEE ALSO: Biden says he supports changing Senate filibuster rules to codify nationwide abortion protections
Kim Floren, who operates an abortion fund in South Dakota called Justice Empowerment Network, said the development would further limit women's choices.
"The purpose of these laws anyways is to scare people," Floren said of states' bans on abortions and telemedicine consultations for medication abortions. "The logistics to actually enforcing these is a nightmare, but they rely on the fact that people are going to be scared."
A South Dakota law took effect Friday that threatens a felony punishment for anyone who prescribes medication for an abortion without a license from the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
In Alabama, Attorney General Steve Marshall's office said it is reviewing whether people or groups could face prosecution for helping women fund and travel to out-of-state abortion appointments.
Yellowhammer Fund, an Alabama-based group that helps low-income women cover abortion and travel costs, said it is pausing operation for two weeks because of the lack of clarity under state law.
"This is a temporary pause, and we're going to figure out how we can legally get you money and resources and what that looks like," said Kelsea McLain, Yellowhammer's health care access director.
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said staff members at its clinics have seen women driving from as far as Texas without stopping - or making an appointment. Women who are past 15 weeks were being asked to leave their information and promised a call back if a judge signs the order temporarily blocking the restriction, she said.
Still, there is concern that the order may be only temporary and the law may again go into effect later, creating additional confusion.
"It's terrible for patients," she said. "We are really nervous about what is going to happen."
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Izaguirre reported from Tallahassee, Florida, and Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. AP writers Dylan Lovan contributed from Louisville, Kentucky; Adriana Gomez Licon from Miami; and Kim Chandler from Montgomery, Alabama.
Texas Supreme Court blocks order that resumed abortions
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In just two short week, the six conservative members of the Supreme Court have dramatically reshaped American jurisprudence. Also, the Jan. 6 committee's next steps.
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Possible Turkish naval escorts for grain ships coming from Ukraine and going around the world could be under discussion when Russia's foreign minister visits Turkey.
Sweden and Finland officially applied to join NATO, but Turkey's president may oppose their acceptance into the military alliance. There is an international push to resolve Turkey's objections. | https://www.wunc.org/2022-07-02/climate-change-is-threatening-thousands-of-years-of-winemaking-in-turkey | 2022-07-02T14:09:17Z | https://www.wunc.org/2022-07-02/climate-change-is-threatening-thousands-of-years-of-winemaking-in-turkey | true |
Airlines worked Saturday to deliver luggage to passengers around the world after a technical breakdown left at least 1,500 bags stuck at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, the latest of several tangles hitting travelers this summer.
The airport’s baggage sorting system had a technical malfunction Friday that caused 15 flights to depart without luggage, leaving about 1,500 bags on the ground, according to the airport operating company. The airport handled about 1,300 flights overall Friday, the operator said.
Union activists said many more passengers flew without their bags, apparently because of knock-on effects from the original breakdown.
It came as airport workers are on strike at French airports to demand more hiring and more pay to keep up with high global inflation. Because of the strike, aviation authorities canceled 17% of flights out of the Paris airports Friday morning, and another 14% were canceled Saturday.
Passengers on canceled flights were alerted days ahead of their flights. The scene at Charles de Gaulle on Saturday was busy but typical for the first weekend in July, when France's summer travel season kicks off.
Unions plan to continue striking Sunday but no flights have been canceled so far. They have threatened to renew the strike next weekend if negotiations with company management don't succeed in finding a compromise.
Until now, French airports had been largely spared the chaos seen recently at airports in London, Amsterdam and some other European and U.S. cities. Airlines and airports that slashed jobs during the depths of the COVID-19 crisis are struggling to keep up with soaring demand as travel resurges after two years of virus restrictions.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Some boat lovers may limit their time out on the water this weekend because of what can feel like a small fortune. Others said this isn't the weekend for them to worry about it.
Friday is Guy Patterson's day to get out on his boat and chill.
"I love being on the water," he said. "It's peaceful, it's like relaxing, and your cares go away."
Yet, it's getting more and more expensive for him. Just to put his boat in the water this Fourth of July weekend is going to cost him.
"So, for a good weekend on the water, boating, expenses, food, drinks, everything, and maintenance, you're looking at probably $400-$500 minimum," he said.
As for John Komaroni, he said ditto to Patterson's love for boating.
"It's just beautiful out there, you kidding?" he said. "The water is clear and you get away from everything. It's a whole different world."
The only way he differs from Patterson is in the cost.
"It's a boat. It's part of it," Komaroni said. "Gas isn't too bad considering it's just a couple of bucks more. Totally doesn't affect my boating."
Patterson said even though it's costing more, he expects people to be out this weekend.
"There will be people out there," he said. "Maybe not as many, but it's still going to be crowded."
Patterson said he'll stay on land Saturday, but come Sunday and Monday, it's all about the boat. | https://www.wptv.com/sports/recreation-sports/boating/boaters-paying-price-to-enjoy-water | 2022-07-02T14:13:27Z | https://www.wptv.com/sports/recreation-sports/boating/boaters-paying-price-to-enjoy-water | false |
KTU publishes results
APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) has published the results of the MBA fourth trimester supplementary (full-time and part-time) and fifth trimester (full time) examinations. The deadline for applying for copies of the answer scripts is July 8. The results of third semester MTech regular exams conducted by the Palakkad cluster also have been published. The deadline for applying for copies of answer scripts is July 5. The detailed results are available on www.ktu.edu.in.
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Dear Abby: Young mother careening through stressful life
Dear Abby,
My stepdaughter, "Crystal," has a toxic relationship with her mother. Both have battled alcoholism. The mother did some extreme damage that has ended the possibility of Crystal regaining custody of her 6-year-old son. My husband and I hired a lawyer to help her fight for her rights, and we have brought her to our home twice. The last time was right out of the hospital after she nearly killed herself with alcohol poisoning.
Fast-forward: Crystal is trying to mend her relationship with her mother, and now we have become second fiddle. What used to be a daily phone conversation happens now only when I call. When we try to visit them, they make excuses, and they have visited us only twice in the last six months. Her latest plan is to stay overnight with us and spend the following day with her mom.
We are swallowing our pride so we can see our 6-month-old granddaughter, but our feelings are so hurt. Please help me take the high road. Do we talk to her or just feel crushed?
— Wounded in Michigan
Your troubled stepdaughter is trying to mend fences with her mother. Try not to take personally that she has tunnel vision right now. I do not think you should address this with her at this time. Let more time elapse, and if her distancing continues, talk to her about it then.
Dear Abby,
My husband and I live in southern Florida. My problem is our children, grandchildren and their spouses. When they come to visit, they only eat certain foods and need "healthy this" and "healthy that." I feel like we're being used as a hotel and restaurant. I want to see them, but it is becoming exhausting. What should I do?
— Rolling Back the Welcome Mat
Roll back that welcome mat. Talk to your children, grandchildren and their spouses. They may not realize the extent to which they have been imposing on you. Tell them that if they have special dietary requirements, they should buy their own foods, and you will make room in the refrigerator to accommodate them. If their presence in your home is becoming too taxing, provide a list of affordable hotels or rentals in the area they might consider.
Dear Abby,
I am a 91-year-old, 4-foot-8 woman who still drives and goes alone to shop and conduct business. My problem is I am frequently approached by strangers who want to "help" me. This frightens me because I cannot defend myself. While someone holding a door open for me is appreciated, I have no way to identify a purse snatcher who may intend to knock me down. How can I communicate that I'm capable of caring for myself without offending the person?
— Great-Grandmother in the Midwest
You are not the only senior who has expressed these feelings. Look the person in the eye and say firmly, "I know you mean well and thank you, but NO THANK YOU. I prefer to do this myself."
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 2, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Nacogdoches County in eastern Texas...
Northwestern Shelby County in eastern Texas...
Northeastern Cherokee County in northeastern Texas...
Panola County in northeastern Texas...
Southern Rusk County in northeastern Texas...
* Until 1245 PM CDT.
* At 850 AM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between
2 and 5 inches of rain have fallen this morning across Southern
Rusk, Northwest Nacogdoches, and Central Panola Counties.
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches with isolated higher
amounts are possible in the warned area through 1245 PM. Flash
flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Carthage, Tenaha, Timpson, Garrison, Pinehill, Minden, Trawick,
Sacul, New Salem, Douglass, Ponta, Deberry, New Summerfield,
Cushing, Mount Enterprise, Reklaw, Gary City, Dotson, Lawsonville
and Fairplay.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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BERLIN (AP) — Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency for energy called on residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter, when use increases.
Federal Network Agency President Klaus Mueller urged house and apartment owners to have their gas boilers and radiators checked and adjusted to maximize their efficiency.
“Maintenance can reduce gas consumption by 10% to 15% ,” he told Funke Mediengruppe, a German newspaper and magazine publisher.
Mueller said residents and property owners need to use the 12 weeks before cold weather sets in to get ready. He said families should start talking now about “whether every room needs to be set at its usual temperature in the winter — or whether some rooms can be a little colder.”
The appeal came after Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia earlier this month, as European Union countries scramble to refill storage facilities with the fuel used to generate electricity, power industry and heat homes in the winter.
Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom blamed a technical problem for the reduction in natural gas flowing through Nord Stream 1, a pipeline which runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.
The company said equipment getting refurbished in Canada was stuck there because of Western sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
German leaders have rejected that explanation and called the reductions a political move in reaction to the European Union’s sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also Germany’s economy and climate minister and responsible for energy, has warned a “blockade” of the pipeline is possible starting July 11, when regular maintenance work is due to start. In previous summers, the work has entailed shutting Nord Stream 1 for about 10 days, he said.
The question is whether the upcoming regular maintenance of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline will turn into “a longer-lasting political maintenance,” the energy regulator’s Mueller said.
If the gas flow from Russia is “to be lowered for a longer period of time, we will have to talk more seriously about savings,” he said.
According to Mueller, in the event of a gas supply stoppage, private households would be specially protected, as would hospitals or nursing homes.
“I can promise that we will do everything we can to avoid private households being without gas,” he said, adding: “We learned from the coronavirus crisis that we shouldn’t make promises if we’re not entirely sure we can keep them.”
He said his agency “does not see a scenario in which there is no more gas coming to Germany at all.”
Also on Saturday, German chemical and consumer goods company Henkel said it was considering encouraging its employees to work from home in the winter as a response to a possible supply shortage.
“We could then greatly reduce the temperature in the offices, while our employees could heat their homes to the normal extent,” Henkel CEO Carsten Knobel told daily newspaper Rheinische Post.
Hamburg’s state government’s senator for the environment also expressed concern and said he couldn’t rule out that the northern German city would need to limit hot water for private households in the event of a gas shortage.
“In an acute gas shortage emergency, hot water could only be made available at certain times of the day,” Jens Kerstan told weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
Earlier this month, economy minister Habeck activated the second phase of Germany’s three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies, warning that Europe’s biggest economy faced a “crisis” and storage targets for the winter were at risk.
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JACKSON, MI – Coffee creates community, and Britt Autumn wanted to bring a space like that to the Grass Lake community.
Roaming Goat has been open for almost six years now. The name came from Autumn’s background and her love for goats and traveling, she said.
You’ll find a small, but mighty menu at the Roaming Goat, including a range of pastry items, bagels, salads and other rotating items. However, the breakfast burrito is the biggest hit, Autumn said.
“It feel like you know you’re in a good coffee shop when they have a staple breakfast burrito,” she said.
Naturally, coffee is the biggest seller at the Roaming Goat. They can make any espresso-based drink, hot or iced, as well as lattes, cappuccinos, a flat white and many more, Autumn said.
The Roaming Goat adds its own flavors into simple syrups in house, and then names them all after iconic women, Autumn said. This, she said, includes the most popular, a brown-sugar latte named for Rosie the Riveter, the icon who represents women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II.
“It’s the first of its kind, the first drink we offered and first simple syrup we made,” Autumn said. “We thought Rosie the Riveter was perfect for that. She was the first iconic woman in American history that you see and know.”
The Roaming Goat also has a hazelnut latte named after Clara Estby, an American suffragist known for her walk across the U.S. in 1896.
The café also has a honey cinnamon latte named after Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, conservationist and author from the 1900′s, as well as a matcha latte dedicated to Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist in the late 1800s who won a Nobel Prize.
Besides the drinks and food, people also wander to the Roaming Goat for its chill environment, Autumn said. They also sell a lot of local vendor merchandise and art inside the café, she said.
“So you can come in while you’re sipping on your coffee and pick up something for you mom for Mother’s Day, or your dad for Father’s Day,” Autumn said.
The Roaming Goat, 115 South Lake St., is open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
More information can be found on Roaming Goat’s website and Facebook page.
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Battered Wallabies end England curse with thrilling 30-28 win
Rob Valetini of Australia avoids a tackle by Tom Curry of England
A battered and bruised Australia ended an eight-match losing streak against England with a rousing 30-28 victory in the first Test in Perth on Saturday.
The shorthanded Wallabies lost fly-half Quade Cooper to injury before kickoff and played the second half with 14 players, but scored three late tries to draw first blood in the three-match series in front of a rowdy 47,668 crowd at the Optus Stadium.
It was Australia's first victory over England since the 2015 World Cup, but the result appeared unlikely after a tumultuous start.
The Wallabies were dealt a major blow minutes before kick-off when Cooper was ruled out after injuring his left calf during the warm-up.
They also lost full back Tom Banks and tighthead prop Allan Alaalatoa to injuries within a brutal opening 25 minutes and were reduced to 14 players soon after.
Lock Darcy Swain received a red card in the 34th minute for headbutting Jonny Hill, who got 10 minutes in the sin-bin for his part in the fracas.
But the ravaged hosts were able to scramble to a 6-6 deadlock at half-time before consecutive tries to Jordan Petaia and Folau Fainga'a stunned England, who were unable to make their numerical advantage pay.
"We had to dig deep, had to go to the well there a bit today, come up with a lot of solutions," Australia captain Michael Hooper said.
"Really proud of the guys and the effort they put in."
It was the fourth defeat in a row for England, increasing the pressure on coach Eddie Jones with just over a year until the 2023 World Cup in France.
Former Australia coach Jones had been unbeaten against his old side after taking charge of England after the 2015 World Cup, including a 3-0 series whitewash six years ago.
- 'Tough loss' -
"It's a pretty tough loss that, but fair play to Australia," England captain Courtney Lawes said.
"They came with a good strategy and they executed better on the day."
Australia will try to wrap up the new Ella-Mobbs Cup in Brisbane next Saturday, with the third Test in Sydney a week later.
Darcy Swain of Australia receives a red card during the rugby Test against England at the Optus Stadium in Perth
England took advantage of a rattled Australia early through the boot of Owen Farrell, who was overlooked for the captaincy on his return from injury.
The visitors looked set for the first try of the match when Tom Curry broke through the defence and floated a pass wide to Joe Marchant, who was spectacularly denied by a crunching tackle from Marika Koroibete.
Australia's injury woes deepened when Banks suffered a suspected broken arm after landing awkwardly before Alaalatoa hobbled off dazed after a hit to the head.
The Wallabies hit the front for the first time after the break when Noah Lolesio converted a penalty.
But their lead was short-lived after loosehead prop Ellis Genge burrowed over in the right corner for the first try of the match.
Just when the Wallabies appeared to be wilting, they found inspiration with right wing Petaia finishing off an attritional passage of phases in the 64th minute.
Their momentum continued when Fainga'a and Pete Samu crossed to extend the lead to 30-14 before England scored consolation tries through debutant Henry Arundell and Jack van Poortlviet either side of the siren. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10975863/Battered-Wallabies-end-England-curse-thrilling-30-28-win.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-02T14:25:56Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10975863/Battered-Wallabies-end-England-curse-thrilling-30-28-win.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Among the thousands of publicly traded companies in the U.S., only four stocks have a market capitalization of $1 trillion or more: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon. This year's market crash also means some stocks that joined the elite club last year, like Meta Platforms and Tesla, aren't there anymore.
The stock market sell-off also means stocks could find it harder to make the $1 trillion cut, but that doesn't mean they won't. Companies that are already growing fast enough and are equipped to exploit growth opportunities could hit $1 trillion in a few years. Here are three such high-growth stocks that could hit the milestone in just 10 years from now, or maybe even sooner.
Ready for the next leg of growth
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) isn't really a high-growth stock, but the company's plans could spur its growth and send its shares catapulting. The next 10 years are crucial as the company transforms itself, and if it can execute, J&J's current market cap of around $467 billion could slowly but steadily rise close to $1 trillion.
The thing is, J&J is in the process of spinning off its consumer health business into a separate publicly traded entity within the next 18 to 24 months. By doing so, the company wants to drop off a cyclical business and emerge as a healthcare pure-play with a focus on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Pharmaceuticals alone brought in 55% of sales for J&J in 2021, and medical devices contributed 29% to its top line.
These two were also the largest contributors to J&J's earnings before tax (EBT) last year -- pharmaceuticals generated EBT margin of 34.9%, while medical devices reported EBT margin of 16.2% in 2021. Comparatively, consumer health's EBT margin came in at only 8.8%.
It's clear that the spin-off will allow J&J to focus on and invest in high sales-and-margin businesses, which should help drive its income and cash flows at a faster pace than now. That aside, J&J is also expected to boost shareholder returns in the form of larger dividends and share repurchases as its cash flows grow. Combined, both factors should reflect in J&J's stock price and push its market cap higher. Since J&J is also a Dividend King with 60 years of consecutive dividend increases, it's a rare stock that should mix dividend and growth to hit $1 trillion in market cap.
Just 5 years to $1 trillion?
Warren Buffett is known for his stock-picking prowess, and people who have invested in shares of his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B), have done so hoping to make money as the several companies that Berkshire owns grow. There's another embedded growth opportunity in Berkshire: Its stock portfolio.
Berkshire owns stakes in more than 50 publicly traded companies, including high-growth companies like Apple, Snowflake, and BYD, to name a few. In fact, it's a hugely diversified portfolio, so there are almost always some pockets of strengths. For instance, while growth stocks have tanked this year, Berkshire's stock portfolio is riding the boom in energy stocks like Chevron and Occidental Petroleum.
So although Berkshire's key businesses, including insurance, utilities, and railroad, must perform well for the company's market cap to rise, a rise in the value of its stock portfolio can also hugely help drive Berkshire's value higher. That, I believe, could make it easier for this company to reach $1 trillion in market cap. The most important point is that it could reach there in as few as five years.
Here's the thing. Between 1965 and 2021, Berkshire stock generated a compound annual return of 20%. The S&P 500 grew at 10.5% during the period. Even if Berkshire grows at the market's pace henceforth, which is almost half the company's own pace of growth over a period of more than 50 years, it'll take just a little over five years for the stock to surpass $1 trillion from its current market cap of around $600 billion. Berkshire has the leadership, portfolio, and cash to make it there.
The stock with indisputable growth catalysts
Visa (NYSE: V) currently commands a market cap of around $417 billion. That's a more than four-fold growth in just one decade, so it's not unreasonable to expect the stock to just more than double in another 10 years. Visa is the leader in the global payments processing industry and is growing its revenue, margins, and cash flows rapidly.
While the COVID-19 pandemic proved to be a huge tailwind for e-commerce and digital transactions, restricted cross-border travel was a significant headwind for Visa. Yet, Visa's payments volume increased 16%, revenue grew 10%, and net income rose 13% in its financial year ended Sept. 30, 2021. Visa also increased its dividend by 17% in the year.
Visa's growth continues into 2022, with its revenue and net income rising by almost 24% each in the six months through March 31.
In the longer term, two factors will hold the key to Visa's growth: The global shift toward digital payments, and innovation. While the first is self-explanatory, Visa is doing a lot of things to diversify revenues. To name a few, it is expanding its merchant base including small businesses, getting Visa credentials into as many wallets as it can, launching products and services for business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and government-to-consumer transactions, and investing in value-added services like cybersecurity, data solutions, and analytics for clients and partners.
The global digital payments market is projected to grow by double-digit compound annual growth rates through 2030. That should lay the foundation for Visa's growth, and its stock price.
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(NEXSTAR) – A new territory of the Burger Kingdom was recently unearthed at a mall in Delaware.
Delaware resident Jonathan Pruitt first shared a photo of the discovery — a seemingly intact albeit hidden-from-view Burger King restaurant, sealed off from the rest of Wilmington’s Concord Mall — on Facebook in April.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Pruitt’s picture of the so-called “vintage” Burger King has since been widely shared across Twitter and Reddit by folks hungry for a bite of nostalgia.
“It’s unbelievable how a random photo I posted 2 months ago on a local Facebook page goes viral all over the internet,” Pruitt remarked on his Facebook page.
Pruitt, an HVAC technician, explained to Nexstar that he was actually working in the mall the day he took the photo.
“I was walking through the mall, the door was opened,” Pruitt said of the unmarked entrance to the former restaurant. “The owners told me about it, but they would never let anybody in there.”
The restaurant, which is hidden behind a wall at the Concord Mall, had actually been operational until 2009, the mall’s general manager tells Nexstar. But the dining room’s aesthetic gives ‘80s and ‘90s vibes, with its parquet flooring, angular wall adornments and pastel-topped tables and chairs.
Even a representative for Burger King called it “gloriously retro.”
“Though we aren’t able to confirm details regarding this location, we have verified that the gloriously retro design and décor lines up closely with Burger King restaurants operating in the 1980s and 1990s and this is in fact a former Burger King restaurant,” a representative for the chain wrote in a statement shared with Nexstar.
Tom Dahlke, the current general manager of the Concord Mall, told Nexstar that his company was aware of the space prior to purchasing the mall in 2020. But it’s been sealed off — somewhat — for over a decade.
“We have a wall built up, as most common malls do, and there’s a door to it and everything else. It’s not like it’s buried,” Dahlke said.
The space, however, is clearly off-limits to mall guests. Video shared by the local government shows the outer wall currently displays a promotional mural for the mall. Beside it is an unmarked door.
“We’re hoping to lease it,” Dahlke told Nexstar.
In the meantime, social-media users are having a whopper of a time sharing their thoughts on the discovery. One even claims she used to work in the mall in 2019, at which time the Burger King was used as a storage space for other, functioning businesses.
“This place is f—ing terrifying,” the Twitter user, who goes by @loserskwaddd, remarked in a 2019 video she recorded while inside the space.
Pruitt, however, told Nexstar he thought the space was pretty “cool,” but admitted he didn’t step any further into the dining area.
“I was actually worried [the mall owners] wouldn’t like it, you know?” he said.
After the picture went viral, Pruitt got a phone call from the general manager, who “couldn’t thank me enough” for posting the image.
“Obviously, the reaction to all of this going viral is a great opportunity for Concord Mall to get recognition,” general manager Dahlke told Nexstar. | https://www.wane.com/dont-miss/see-it-vintage-burger-king-restaurant-found-behind-wall-at-delaware-mall/ | 2022-07-02T14:29:27Z | https://www.wane.com/dont-miss/see-it-vintage-burger-king-restaurant-found-behind-wall-at-delaware-mall/ | false |
A recently rediscovered video shows Joe Biden as a 2020 presidential candidate inexplicably declaring, “I don’t count drunk driving as a felony,” to the astonishment of his stunned interviewers.
To put his statement in context, Biden’s baffling declaration of the insignificance of DUI for illegal immigrants came during a VICE news town hall on minority issues. He was asked about his stance on illegal immigration and deportation of immigrants who have been convicted or charged with felony law-breaking while in the United States. The Democratic candidate promised listeners that if he was elected to the White House in 2020, he would waste no time issuing an executive order (EO) that would prohibit U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) agents from deporting any illegal immigrant who had not committed a felony. In essence, Biden said he would decide the seriousness of a crime, not law enforcement.
Sadly, and true to his word, on January 20, 2020, newly-elected President Joe Biden signed numerous EOs reversing four years of his predecessor Donald Trump’s EOs curbing illegal immigration and requiring ICE not to enforce our country’s existing immigration laws. One early Biden EO in particular not only reversed the Trump-era gains of E.O. 13768 but further loosened American immigration policies by allowing the ICE Director to determine who must leave the country. This loosening took immigration enforcement from having the goal under Trump of “enhancing public safety” by protecting American citizens to one of protecting illegal immigrants from “financial hardship and risk [of] falling into poverty” and “the trauma of separation.”
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While context is always essential in any video clip, Biden’s statement is shocking, especially in light of problems with the law members of his own family have had, such as the 2019 DUI arrest and conviction of Biden’s thirty-three-year-old niece, Caroline, and the drug possession arrest of Biden’s son, Hunter. According to The New York Post, the Biden Family has quite the rap sheet — and don’t forget, these are just the crimes they’ve been caught and arrested for so far:
THE BIDEN BUSTS
The rap sheets — and favorable court outcomes — of four Joe Biden relativesAshley Biden
Daughter, 39
Charge: Pot possession in New Orleans in 1999. No conviction recorded.
Charge: Attempting to obstruct a police officer in Chicago in 2002. Dropped.Frank Biden
Brother, 66
Charge: DUI in Florida in 2003. Six months probation.
Charge: Petty theft in Florida in 2003. Dropped.
Charge: Driving with suspended license in Florida in 2004. Three months in rehab.Caroline Biden
Niece, 33
Charge: Resisting arrest, obstruction of government administration, harassment in NYC, 2013. Case dismissed.
Charge: Grand and petty larceny in NYC in 2017. Two years probation; restitution of $110,000 in stolen credit card charges.
Charge: DUI, driving without a [license] in Pennsylvania in 2019. Case pending.Hunter Biden
Son, 50
Charge: Drug possession in New Jersey in 1988. Pretrial intervention program, records expunged.
Biden’s DUI comment is even more incredible, coming on the heels of the recent DUI arrest of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul. And even though Paul Pelosi is not a member of the Biden family, with a powerful friend like Biden (who doesn’t believe a DUI is any big deal), will Pelosi’s husband really face any substantial consequences for his reckless behavior? We don’t recommend holding your breath, dear readers.
And let’s not forget, Joe Biden is the very same man who for years falsely and repeatedly claimed the horrific car accident that took the life of his first wife and his baby daughter was caused by a drunk driver. It absolutely was not.
Despite what Biden said, most Americans — especially those who have lost a loved one to an illegal immigrant drunk driver — say driving drunk absolutely should be a felony and we shouldn’t allow illegal immigrant drunk drivers into our country. But obviously, Biden and his fellow leftists care more about protecting criminal illegal immigrants who drink and get behind the wheel than they do about protecting innocent law-abiding American citizens like you and me. Remember, dear readers, November is coming. | https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gwendolynsims/2022/07/02/biden-i-dont-count-drunk-driving-as-a-felony-for-illegal-immigrants-n1609840 | 2022-07-02T14:40:32Z | https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gwendolynsims/2022/07/02/biden-i-dont-count-drunk-driving-as-a-felony-for-illegal-immigrants-n1609840 | true |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The first of the more than 200 firefighters from six European countries that will help their Greek colleagues in fighting wildfires have arrived in Athens.
The 28 Romanian firefighters were welcomed Saturday by Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Christos Stylianides and the leadership of Greece’s Fire Service.
“Romania is happy to join the pre-positioning program with a specialized firefighting force,” Romanian team leader Col. Alexandru-Adrian Csilik said. “We have a previous experience here in Greece.”
The Romanians, along with other countries, including Russia and Turkey, helped Greece fight widespread wildfires in August 2021, which broke across the country and devastated the northern part of Evia, Greece’s second-largest island, as well as the southern Peloponnese peninsula.
This year, the EU has set up a “pre-positioning pilot project” designed to lead to a permanent Europe-wide cooperation program.
“We are scaling up preparedness to #forestfire season in Europe. As of today, +200 (firefighters) from around Europe will be strategically positioned in Greece to quickly join national forces before (fires) could get out of control,” Janez Lenarcic, Stylianides’ successor as European commissioner for crisis management, tweeted Friday.
The Romanian firefighters, who brought five fire engines along, will operate in the Attica region, which includes the capital Athens, until July 31.
Those who arrived Friday will be relieved by an equal number of Romanian firefighters on July 15. Their place will be taken in August by a 25-strong French contingent.
A team of 16 Bulgarian firefighters, with four fire engines, also arrived Friday in the city of Larissa, in central Greece, and was welcomed by local authorities and Fire Service officers. The Bulgarians will stay in the area throughout July.
On July 15, 16 German firefighters will start operating in the Peloponnese; they will be replaced in early August by 14 Norwegian and 24 Finnish firefighters, who will be relieved once, in mid-August, by an equal number of their compatriots.
Wildfires are frequent in Greece, helped by the hot and dry weather and frequent high winds. Climate change also means that wildfire seasons are also getting longer.
Greek authorities say higher fuel costs have added to challenges facing the fire service, which relies heavily on water-dropping planes to battle blazes in the mountainous country.
Greece will begin using fire retardant chemicals in water drops this year and will also use starting fires tactically to fight larger blazes.
Four of the six leaders of the foreign contingents watched a live firefighting exercise west of Athens on Thursday. The leaders of the German and Norwegian teams watched the exercise online.
A study by an international consortium of research institutions shows that the expanded wildfire seasons and intensity of the fires will also negatively impact efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions because of dwindling forests, which are normally effective carbon absorbers. The study even suggests that the intensity of wildfires could progressively exceed current firefighting capabilities.
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Lefteris Pitarakis contributed to this report. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/greece-gets-european-assistance-in-fighting-wildfires/ | 2022-07-02T14:41:32Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/greece-gets-european-assistance-in-fighting-wildfires/ | false |
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What would it mean to end loneliness? Can you imagine a world in which everyone felt connected to their neighbors, to their families and to the people in their communities? It’s difficult to picture that kind of society for ourselves.
Especially in the last generation or so, as many Americans no longer live where they grew up and life in general has become more divisive, for many, seeing a friend or family member is a rare occurrence. And then the pandemic gave rise to new kinds of fears and suspicions of others. We’ve begun to take it for granted that division, strife, and a certain kind of loneliness are unsolvable problems.
But I don’t believe that’s true because I witness solutions to these problems every day.
Most people assume that Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona is dedicated mainly to providing meals to people who otherwise would go hungry. While that’s correct, as the CEO of Mobile Meals, I can tell you that we’re actually doing something that’s much more difficult to talk about and that ripples out into our whole community: we’re trying to help solve the problem of loneliness.
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The people we serve tend to be isolated by their health, their poverty, transportation issues, and many other challenges that arise out of a more basic problem: lack of community, loss of family, loneliness. Every day, our volunteers take meals to people who are homebound, but what they’re really delivering is the warmth and understanding of human connection, of building relationships one day at a time—not just for the people who receive meals, but also for themselves.
Do you feel lonely right now? Have you ever felt lonely?
According to the CDC, loneliness is a health risk: it increases the tendencies to smoke, drink too much alcohol, and become physically inactive among young and old alike, and socially isolated people over 50 have a 50% greater risk of dementia, 29% greater risk of heart disease, and 32% greater risk of stroke. Mother Teresa said that loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the most terrible poverty.
Psychologists have begun calling loneliness the new pandemic, but you can help us do something incredibly practical to end that feeling of isolation, for others as well as yourself. Come join us at Mobile Meals. Take a meal to someone who will not only eat that day because of you but who will also feel less lonely, more connected, and more human because of you. And you’ll feel that way, too, because of them.
The less we’re lonely, the healthier we’ll be, and those divisions that we read about every day will become less divisive. I see it every single day.
If you’re interested in volunteering, please call 622-1600 or go to our website mobilemealssoaz.org.
Robert Jensen is CEO of Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-ending-loneliness-one-day-at-a-time/article_9b5ebb66-f62c-11ec-850a-3737f6174a7a.html | 2022-07-02T14:46:09Z | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-ending-loneliness-one-day-at-a-time/article_9b5ebb66-f62c-11ec-850a-3737f6174a7a.html | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 2, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
809 AM CDT Sat Jul 2 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of northeast Texas, including the following
counties, Cherokee, Nacogdoches and Rusk.
* WHEN...Until 1115 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 807 AM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause
urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 3 inches of
rain have fallen so far this morning.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding. Should this heavy rainfall persist, a Flash Flood
Warning may be needed.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
New Salem, Sacul, Minden, Ponta, New Summerfield, Cushing,
Mount Enterprise, Reklaw, Glenfawn, Laneville and Brachfield.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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BEIJING, July 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Thursday visited the Xiqu Center in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, a venue for the art of Chinese traditional theater.
She watched rehearsals of Cantonese opera performances and a Hong Kong orchestra at the opera house and spoke highly of the performances, calling the show a display of the charm of Chinese culture.
During her visit, Peng also talked with young volunteers who were making traditional paper artworks. She encouraged Hong Kong's younger generation to have an in-depth understanding of fine traditional Chinese culture and inherit and promote the culture.
Peng together with Xi left Hong Kong Friday after a two-day trip there for a meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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This week's show was recorded at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, with host Peter Sagal, official judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest Darryl "Cornbread" McCray and panelists Alonzo Bodden, Faith Salie and Josh Gondelman. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
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Darryl "Cornbread" McCray is the widely considered the father of modern graffiti, having started tagging pretty much everywhere in Philly starting in the 1960s. He may know everything about tagging, but what does he know about the game of tag?
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Paying Royalties, Room With A View, and Questionable Ethics
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NPR's Melissa Block speaks to musician Regina Spektor, who's known for her lyricism, about her first album in six years, "Home, Before And After."
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NPR's Melissa Block speaks to musician Regina Spektor, who's known for her lyricism, about her first album in six years, "Home, Before And After."
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alexander Volkanovski has already beaten Max Holloway twice in UFC featherweight title fights, and that still wasn’t enough to settle this rivalry.
That’s a measure of the excitement generated by the first two bouts between these two electrifying strikers. It’s also an illustration of the sport-wide respect for Volkanovski, the Australian with a 21-fight winning streak, and for Holloway, Hawaii’s former 145-pound champ.
Along with being brilliant fighters, they’re two well-liked guys in a sport with some unsavory characters.
Volkanovski and Holloway will go again at UFC 276 at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday night, each hoping to complete this trilogy with a statement victory.
“It’s a legacy fight,” Holloway said. “We’re on the higher end of the pound-for-pound ranks, and these fights don’t happen very often. People are calling us the main event of this card, and that’s saying a lot about how good this fight is.”
The mixed martial arts promotion’s biggest event of the summer is headlined by Israel Adesanya’s fifth middleweight title defense against Jared Cannonier. The UFC’s typically stacked Fourth of July weekend card also features Brazilian kickboxing star Alex Pereira against middleweight contender Sean Strickland, along with the returns of Robbie Lawler, Suga Sean O’Malley, Jim Miller and Uriah Hall.
But the most compelling matchup is Volkanovski (24-1) against Holloway (23-6), who held the featherweight belt from 2016 until Volkanovski took it from him in December 2019 with a relentless tactical performance. Holloway lost to Volkanovski for the second time in July 2020 in Abu Dhabi in a razor-thin decision.
Not many rivalries stretch to three fights when the first two bouts weren’t split, but this is no ordinary rivalry. Volkanovski has defended the belt twice since that second bout with Holloway, while Holloway outpointed Calvin Kattar and Yair Rodríguez in a pair of thrillers to stay in prime position to reclaim his belt.
“It’s the biggest fight I could do right now,” Volkanovski said. “Everyone wants to see it, and that’s it. I give him credit. He was stubborn. He goes, ‘Ain’t no one taking that No. 1 contender spot from me.’ He stood there and took out all the guys and didn’t let them have a shot at me, and now he gets the shot. Good on him. That’s exactly what I would do in the same situation.”
While Holloway and Volkanovski trade verbal jabs like any top contenders, there’s a clear respect between the two best featherweights in UFC history not named Jose Aldo. Holloway has been gracious about his second loss while making sure nobody thinks he agreed with the decision in which he out-landed the champion in each of the first three rounds and then fought a tenacious fifth.
“If you watch from the first to the second fight, I’m two different fighters, and this is going to be different fighters again,” Holloway said. “I got to spend 50 minutes with this guy, 10 rounds with this guy. This one, he’ll be blessed if we go above three (rounds).”
Holloway’s formidable chin kept him upright against Volkanovski’s power, but Holloway absorbed a daunting amount of cumulative damage during 25 fights over his first decade in the UFC. Volkanovski believes he can punctuate this rivalry by becoming the first opponent to register a knockdown of Holloway.
“If I could take that chin and put him out, that’s really sending a statement, because no one has done that,” Volkanovski said. “He takes damage. It can’t hold up forever, but let’s see if it holds up in this fight, because I’m going to land some big shots. Let’s see if that legendary chin holds up.”
Volkanovski and Adesanya are teammates at City Kickboxing in Auckland, New Zealand, where Adesanya (22-1) grew from a kickboxing star into an MMA champion.
He’s a big favorite to beat Cannonier (15-5), who has earned his first UFC title shot at 38 years old. Cannonier is on an impressive run of five victories and one narrow defeat to ex-champ Robert Whittaker over the past four years.
Adesanya has been talking up Cannonier as a future opponent for years, but he still expects to extend his title reign in the main event at UFC 276.
“His fighting spirit and his essence, I recognize that, because I’m an empath myself,” Adesanya said. “I can kind of feel the energy from a great man and a great fighter. I like to take care of these guys, and I saw that in him early on. I tried to boost him up early on. He fell short once, and then came back and proved his worth as the next contender.”
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The jurors chosen this past week to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will visit a bloodstained crime scene, view graphic photos and videos and listen to intense emotional testimony — an experience that they will have to manage entirely on their own.
Throughout what is expected to be a monthslong penalty trial, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer will order jurors not to talk to anyone about what they have seen, heard or thought. Not their spouse. Not their best friend. Not their clergy or therapist. Not even each other until deliberations begin. The order is not unusual; it is issued at all trials to ensure jurors’ opinions aren’t influenced by outsiders.
Once the trial ends, the 12 jurors and 10 alternates can unload to others — but they won’t receive any assistance from the judicial system. As is the case in most of the United States, neither Florida nor Broward County courts provide juries with post-trial counseling.
The only state to do so is Massachusetts, which has only offered the service since December. Since 2005, federal courts have offered assistance after about 20 trials annually, usually those involving the death penalty, child pornography and child abuse cases, said federal court system spokesman Charles Hall.
“Judges and jurors alike appreciate” the program, Hall said, “viewing it as an acknowledgment of the extraordinary stresses that jury service in certain types of trials can entail.”
“That said, the program is not well-used,” Hall added.
The Cruz jurors will tour the now-abandoned three-story building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz, 23, fatally shot 14 students and three staff members and wounded 17. Its bullet-pocked halls remain unchanged since shortly after the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre, with Valentine’s Day gifts still strewn about.
They will view graphic security video of terrified teens and teachers being shot point-blank or running for their lives, examine autopsy and crime scene photos and hear heartrending testimony from wounded survivors and family members of the murder victims. When it is over, the jurors will grapple with the weighty decision of whether a young adult — even someone responsible for one of the worst slaughters in the nation’s history — should live or die.
“It’s going to be horrible,” Cruz’s lead attorney, Melisa McNeill, recently warned one potential juror in court.
Jim Wolfcale was foreman of the Virginia jury that convicted Lee Boyd Malvo for his role in one of the multiple deaths that resulted in 2002 from a series of sniper shootings in Washington, D.C.
Wolfcale said he sometimes found it difficult not to talk to other jurors, particularly after Malvo appeared “disrespectful or arrogant” during testimony.
“I would be like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,' so it would be hard not to talk about. I would wonder, 'Am I thinking right? Are the other guys and girls on the jury thinking what I am thinking?'" said Wolfcale, a minister. But outside court, his wife and friends never asked about the case, knowing he couldn't talk. “My friends would just say, ‘We’re praying for you.'”
Malvo, in his teens like Cruz, admitted in court to killing 17 people. Unlike Cruz, he committed the slayings over nine months in multiple states.
Cruz pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder, but is challenging his death penalty trial. For him to receive a death sentence, all jurors must agree. Otherwise, the former Stoneman Douglas student will receive life without parole.
For all or most of Cruz’s jurors, this will undoubtedly be their first exposure to graphic gun violence and they will be dealing with the deadliest mass shooting that has ever gone to trial in the U.S. Nine other people in the U.S. who fatally shot at least 17 people died during or immediately after their attacks. The suspect in the 2019 massacre of 23 at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart is awaiting trial.
Wolfcale said that during the Malvo trial, other jurors sometimes broke down in the jury room after seeing graphic evidence or hearing emotional testimony. They would hug, and divert themselves by talking about the upcoming Christmas holidays. Malvo ultimately received a life sentence instead of the death penalty because the jury was split, partly because of the defendant’s young age.
Wolfcale — who voted to execute Malvo — said he didn't feel stress until late on the trial's final day. Then, he said, “It hit me” — and stayed with him for months.
“Even today, 20 years later, when your adrenaline is high, you can recall a lot, but that first six months it was on my mind constantly,” he said.
Responding to a survey conducted by the Center for Jury Studies, 70% of questioned jurors said they experienced stress during routine trials, according to center director Paula Hannaford-Agor. She said 10% reported severe stress, though that usually abated quickly.
In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high-profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. They displayed post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms similar to those exhibited by some police officers, firefighters and emergency room doctors, she said. The difference is that the first-responders can talk to colleagues, friends and counselors in real time, while the stress is building.
"Jurors, of course, are told they are not allowed to talk about any of it” until the trial is over, Hannaford-Agor said.
Studies also show many jurors who imposed a death sentence question themselves long after the trial.
“None of those said this was something that had completely derailed their lives, but ... years later they were still thinking about it and wondering if they made the right decision, and remember how difficult that decision was,” Hannaford-Agor said.
On their own, jurors 65 and older can get mental health services through Medicare. Younger jurors may have coverage through jobs or private insurance, but that sometimes requires co-pays and deductibles running into thousands of dollars. That could deter many.
In addition to the cost factor, courts don't offer programs because judges and other officials have experience processing graphic evidence and can talk to others during the trial, Hannaford-Agor said. They might not fully appreciate jurors' stress levels.
Judges "aren't feeling it quite as intensely,” she said. ___
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How the idea of privacy has changed in the US
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2003: The Government Paperwork Elimination Act takes full effect
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2017: A data breach at Equifax puts 145M individuals’ personal data at risk
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2018: Cambridge Analytica harvests data from 87M Facebook profiles to aid the Trump campaign
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2022: Roe v. Wade is overturned, calling into question some constitutional justifications for the right to privacy
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Carlsbad prepares for more retailers and restaurants with new shopping center
Nearly 40 acres of vacant land south of Carlsbad could be bustling one day with a combined 20 retail shops and restaurants, said Carlsbad Department of Development’s Marketing Director Jeff Campbell.
Campbell called the proposed shopping center Project Whale.
The shopping center will be located along National Parks Highway near the intersection with Chapman Road.
Campbell said the Carlsbad Department of Development (CDOD) noticed the community’s population density shifted south along National Parks Highway during the past five years.
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“There’s been at least two apartment complexes that have opened. There’s been several housing developments right off of National Parks Highway and further south between National Parks Highway and Old Cavern Highway. There’s been a lot of infill with housing developments there,” Campbell said.
Carlsbad’s population density, a measurement of population in a unit area, was 1,0008 people per square mile, according to data from the World Population Review. the population grew in Carlsbad from 26,138 people in 2010 to 32,238 in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Census.
Pegasus Group from Albuquerque are the land developers of the project which saw two national retailers commit to leases, said Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway.
He said Massachusetts-based Marshalls Department and Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby would open new locations at the center.
Hobby Lobby’s impending location in Carlsbad would be the third in southeast New Mexico, according to the company's website. The store has one location in Roswell and one in Hobbs.
More:Eddy County's unemployment rate lower than State of New Mexico and neighboring counties
Marshalls has locations in Albuquerque and Las Cruces, according to the company’s website.
Campbell said the new stores could prevent “retail leakage” - money that leaves Carlsbad when people shop in larger communities.
“That hurts us on the bottom line in terms of gross receipts taxes (GRTs) that we cannot recoup because it’s going into other markets,” he said.
“When we see it, we see a lot of needs that are here we view those as opportunities to try and go fill in a consumer base,” Campbell said.
He said CDOD worked for nearly 10 years to bring established national retailers to the community.
“It just turns out that different circumstances didn’t allow them to be here in the past whether it was population or their own expansion plans. It looks like some of the stars are aligning better for us. The Pegasus Group is the backbone of this,” Campbell said.
More:Oil and gas touted by southeast New Mexico leaders, economists warn of volatility
Janway said Pegasus assisted the City of Carlsbad in past retail recruiting efforts including Ross Dress for Less at 811 West Pierce.
“It’s going to help us keep gross receipts dollars here in town and finally give people what they’ve been asking for in terms of restaurant and retail needs,” Campbell said.
Efforts to bring national retailers and restaurants involves commitments from all parties in Carlsbad and Eddy County, said Campbell.
“The Mayor, the City Councilor’s everybody is always looking for things to come to Carlsbad. They’ve been behind a lot of the projects from the get-go,” he said.
Campbell credited the City of Carlsbad Planning, Engineering and Regulation Department for fostering business, retail, industrial and housing growth in the City.
He said construction on the shopping center could last two years and no firm date was set for groundbreaking and building.
“This is a monumental development for Carlsbad and further proof that our city is continuing to grow,” said Janway.
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Councillor denied bail for trying to slap minister
Hoima Grade One Magistrate Esther Asiimwe has denied a councillor who attempted to beat State Minister for Works and Transport Fred Byamukama, bail. Nestori Tumwesige, the Kyangwali Sub-County District Councilor to Kikuube was in court to answer counts of inciting violence and threatening violence. Instead, he was remanded to Kiryatete Government Prison in Hoima City for two weeks by the Hoima Grade One Magistrate Esther Asiimwe. The prosecution alleges that the councillor allegedly attacked the minister to sensitize the masses about the Parish Development Model last month. | https://www.ntv.co.ug/ug/news/councillor-denied-bail-for-trying-to-slap-minister-3866890 | 2022-07-02T15:34:17Z | https://www.ntv.co.ug/ug/news/councillor-denied-bail-for-trying-to-slap-minister-3866890 | false |
High-performing Staub products that belong in your kitchen
French brand Staub is one of the most respected names in cast-iron cookware, but its offerings aren’t only limited to coveted Dutch ovens. Staub also makes grill pans, skillets, ceramic bakeware and more. All boast durable materials, distinctive colors and unparalleled performance. These Staub finds from Sur la Table can help transform your cooking whether you’re baking a weeknight casserole or preparing a holiday feast.
Staub product features
Staub products, especially the enameled cast-iron pieces, promise slow yet even cooking. This is due to their sturdy materials and durable enamel coatings. The Dutch ovens offer excellent braising thanks to features such as small spikes inside the lid that capture flavor-packed condensation and return it to your dish.
Staub’s cast-iron Dutch ovens have dark interiors for better browning, while its ceramic bakeware features a more traditional light-colored porcelain finish. Products feature tightfitting lids to ensure you won’t lose moisture during cooking.
Staub accessories
Besides Dutch ovens and skillets, Staub offers accessories to help with meal prep and decoration. For example, they sell custom-sized wooden trivets to serve your Staub cocotte without damaging your kitchen table. Handy kitchen accessories such as cast-iron lid stands, ceramic utensil crocks and prep bowls are both practical and eye-catching.
You can also order different knobs to customize your Staub Dutch oven. You can exchange your standard knob for brushed nickel or upscale brass. Alternatively, you can choose from a menagerie of charming animal knobs.
Where are Staub products made?
Staub’s cast-iron products are made in France, each piece from a unique sand mold that’s used only once. They are then hand-finished with several coats of enamel. Staub cast iron has been made in France since the 1970s and undergoes 100 inspection points to adhere to the company’s high-quality standards.
Staub stoneware, such as the company’s baking dishes and ceramic bowls, is made in China. All Staub products offer a limited lifetime warranty.
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This traditional cooking vessel is upgraded for the modern kitchen. It’s oven-safe to 500 degrees and can be used on induction cooktops. Use it to make soups, stews, braises and more. The size produces enough food for up to four people. The matte-enamel finish comes in seven colors.
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Great for deep-frying, braising large cuts of meat or simmering soups, this Dutch oven has tall sides to prevent boil-overs. Its more compact footprint also helps it fit better on crowded ranges. It comes in seven color choices.
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Named after the classic French dish, this oval-shaped Dutch oven exudes French farmhouse charm. It comes in 10 colors and has a unique, rooster-shaped lid knob that’s oven-safe to 500 degrees. It’s roomy enough for whole chicken and other large cuts of meat.
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If you’re cooking for four people or more, this roomy Dutch oven is a great choice. Its size and dimensions make it versatile enough to handle large pasta dishes, roast chicken and hearty stews. It comes in five colors.
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Staub Heritage 3.5-Quart All-Day Pan with Domed Glass Lid
This versatile pan may be the only one you ever need. Crafted from enameled cast iron, this 12-inch pan can braise, saute, bake, stir-fry, make paella and more. It features two short handles rather than one long handle for a better grip. Plus, its domed glass lid makes it a great kitchen-to-table serving piece.
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Staub Traditional 11-Inch Skillet
If you’re wary of classic cast-iron skillets, consider this enameled version, which can be used on all cooktops and is oven-safe to 500 degrees. It features pour spouts for mess-free draining and a shorter helper handle. Its tall sides are straight like a saute pan, so it’s capable of frying with minimal spattering.
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Staub Rectangular Bakers, Set of Three
For an oven-to-table feast, these rectangular ceramic baking dishes look as eye-catching as the food they produce. Slide them into the oven or just use them to serve a salad or dinner rolls.
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Staub Ceramic Three-piece Stoneware Set
If you can’t decide which size of bakeware you need, get all three! The set includes a 9-inch pie pan, a 13-inch-by-9-inch rectangular baking dish, and a 2.4-quart oval baker. This allows you to produce pies, gratins, casseroles and more in beautifully coordinating dishes. Plus, they’re microwave-safe. The glass porcelain finish comes in two colors.
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins have hired Jim Montgomery as their new coach, giving the hockey lifer another chance at an NHL head-coaching job less than three years since he lost his first one.
Recently extended general manager Don Sweeney announced the hire Friday, filling one of the league’s final high-profile coaching vacancies hours after the San Jose Sharks created another by firing their staff. Montgomery replaces Bruce Cassidy, who was fired after the team’s loss in the first round of the playoffs.
“Jim has a winning history, and throughout the interview process he conveyed his ability to connect with all types of players while also demanding that his teams play with structure,” Sweeney said in a statement. “We are excited for Jim to begin to make his imprint on our team.”
Montgomery, 53, spent the past two seasons as an assistant with the St. Louis Blues. He was fired from his first NHL head job by the Dallas Stars in December 2019 with the team citing unprofessional conduct.
In early 2020, Montgomery called that decision “appropriate” and a “wake-up call” while announcing he was going to a rehab facility for alcohol abuse.
When he was hired by the Blues, Montgomery said: “Sometimes it takes an unbearable consequence in your life to happen to have an unbelievable breakthrough, and that’s the way I look at it. I’m just very thankful for what happened because now I’m a much better person every day and obviously a better husband, father and son.”
Montgomery, who played parts of six NHL seasons, coached in the minors and college and won two United States Hockey League titles. He spent five years at the University of Denver before advancing to the NHL as one of the hottest up-and-coming coaches in the game.
The Stars reached the playoffs in 2019 under Montgomery, who was fired 32 games into the next season for what general manager Jim Nill said was behavior inconsistent with “core values and beliefs of the Dallas Stars and the National Hockey League.”
In his new job, Montgomery faces the challenge of an aging roster that will be without top left winger Brad Marchand and No. 1 defenseman Charlie McAvoy for at least the start of the season. Captain Patrice Bergeron is mulling a return to Boston on what could be a one-year deal.
Craig Berube, who coached against the Bruins in the 2019 final when the Blues won the Stanley Cup, said Montgomery “‘was a great member of our staff and I appreciate his time and efforts with our players. This is well-deserved, and I wish him well with the Bruins.”
St. Louis hired one-time Edmonton Oilers coach Craig MacTavish to replace Montgomery on Berube’s staff.
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Chicago Cubs closer David Robertson knows what awaits the next four weeks.
Robertson, in his 14th big-league season, has been on the move ahead of the trade deadline once before and has seen plenty of teammates come and go during this month throughout the years. With the Aug. 2 trade deadline a month away, the Cubs will again be sellers. Robertson, who does not have trade protections in his contract, is expected to be on the move.
“That’s the way it goes,” Robertson told the Tribune this week. “You never know how many people you’re going to run through in a season. The trade stuff is above my pay grade. It’s uncontrollable for me. So, I don’t know. I haven’t heard anything yet.”
Robertson likely won’t be the only Cub jettisoned by Aug. 2. The clubhouse will look different four weeks from now, a familiar position after one-third of the 2021 opening day roster was dealt before last year’s trade deadline.
Trade talks will heat up in the coming weeks. With that in mind, here’s a look at which Cubs would be on the move:
C Willson Contreras
If the Cubs follow their trade deadline playbook from last year, this is Contreras’ final month with the organization. It would be an unfortunate ending to a Cubs career that began in 2009 when Contreras signed as a teenager out of Venezuela. But barring a last-minute contract extension, it’s difficult envisioning a scenario in which the Cubs keep the catcher, who becomes a free agent after the season.
Contreras is positioned to cash in in free agency as he produces the best offensive season of his career and could make his third All-Star Game start. For a money-making franchise like the Cubs, who have the long-term flexibility to sign him to a big contract, this will be another painful trade for fans to endure.
RHP David Robertson
Robertson figures to be one of the most experienced and valuable closers on the market. The Cubs would be wise to try to move him as soon as possible. The 37-year-old right-hander has proven he is healthy in his first full season back after undergoing Tommy John surgery in August 2019. In the process, Robertson has returned to form as one of the best late-inning relievers in the majors.
He should be a hot commodity for reliever-desperate teams. In addition to striking out hitters — 39 in 30 innings entering Saturday — Robertson has suppressed hits and home runs, allowing only 14 hits and three home runs. Aside from Contreras, he could net the Cubs their best return.
Veteran relievers
The Cubs had a clear strategy in spring to sign veteran relievers to one-year deals and hope a couple would pan out — and give them trade assets if the season didn’t pan out. While there have been misses (Daniel Norris and Jesse Chavez), the Cubs have two other veteran arms likely on the move with Robertson at the deadline.
Right-handers Chris Martin and Mychal Givens fit the mix for what playoff contenders are looking for. Givens’ name had been a topic of trade rumors for years in Baltimore, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him on the move in the next month. While the number of base runners he allows can be problemattic, Givens’ setup experience is attractive.
Martin forces batters to hit their way on base, limiting free passes to just four in 24⅓ innings entering Saturday. He has pitched well lately, throwing up zero earned runs in his last seven outings with no walks and five strikeouts. Martin also knows what it takes to win a title after being part of the Atlanta Braves’ World Series winning bullpen last year.
Injured starting pitchers
Left-handers Drew Smyly and Wade Miley, like their veteran bullpen counterparts, seemed fated to be on the move at the deadline. However, injuries have put a wrinkle in that plan. Miley (left shoulder strain) might not have enough time to get healthy and pitch in a big-league game before the deadline. He played light catch this week but there remains no timetable for his return.
Smyly, though, is trending in the right direction. He threw a bullpen Friday and a rehab assignment could be coming soon, putting Smyly in play to return around the All-Star break. That timing would allow him to make a few starts before the trade deadline. Smyly had looked good before suffering a right oblique strain in late May, owning a 3.80 ERA in nine starts this year.
Wild cards
Sometimes surprising trades get pulled off when deadline deals are involved. And with the Cubs clearly rebuilding with no definitive, public timeline for when the front office expects a playoff contending team on the field, nothing should be ruled out.
That includes outfielder Ian Happ and right-hander Kyle Hendricks. Happ is producing the most consistent season of his career and is set to reach free agency after next season. Perhaps the front office considers him a piece to build around and looks to extend him in the offseason. But if the Cubs do not envision him being part of the organization beyond 2023, Happ’s trade value might not be any higher than it is now with an acquiring team getting that extra year of team control.
The Cubs need more good, All-Star caliber players, not less, if they’re turning things around sooner than later. They should want to retain Happ if they believe what he’s showing is the real deal.
Hendricks has meant a lot to the organization, and trading him before his contract extension ends after next season (he also has a 2024 club option) would be a significant move. That’s less about how he’s pitching (4.76 ERA in 15 starts) and more about his stature within the team.
If any move were to truly sever the Cubs’ past and future, it would be trading Hendricks. This feels like a sell low situation, though, given his inconsistencies the last two seasons. However, president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer made clear at last year’s trade deadline that he took the emotional aspect out of trade considerations. So, if teams inquire about Hendricks, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the Cubs at least listen.
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GST on all retail items will lead to increase in the prices of essential food products: Chamber
Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the GST Council at its 47th meeting had approved the levy of GST on all retail items, including packaged foods and labelled food products. This would lead to increase in the prices of essential food products.
Tamil Nadu Chamber President N. Jegatheesan said that the public were already affected by the increase in the prices of petrol and diesel. The prices of the essential food products like rice, dal, wheat, flour varieties, jaggery, curd, paneer, honey and bread would also get increased.
The chamber condemned the GST hike on grinders and motor pumps. Grinders are widely used by the public and are mostly manufactured by small and medium enterprises. The increase in the GST from 5 % to 18 % would weaken the sector and affect MSME units.
The GST on motor pumps widely used in agriculture was increased from 12 % to 18 %. Also on items like LED bulbs, knife, pen, ink, blade, etc., GST was increased from 12 % to 18 %, the GST on maps, world maps, wall maps, world pellets, used by school and college students has increased from 5 % to 12 %. With the tax hike, the prices of all goods would increase further and greatly affect the public, he said.
It is very painful that the GST tax has been increased on essential food items used by the common man on a daily basis. The chamber urged Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan to take up the issue in the GST council meeting to be held in Madurai. The chamber also urged the State government not to accept the GST hike on the essential food products as it would affect the public.
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Officers from the IDF took part in the large-scale US-led African Lion in Morroco for the first time ever, alongside several African nations.
The drill, which lasted throughout June, included 7,500 personnel from ten nations, among them Brazil, France and Britain. Observers from NATO were also present, and for the first time, officials from Israel, Ghana and Senegal.
The military maneuvers took place in the Moroccan cities of Agadir, Kenitra, Tan Tan, Taroudant and Mahbes. US Africa Command said that some maneuvers also took place in Tunisia, Senegal and Ghana.
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“This effort involves strengthening our shared defense capabilities to counter transnational threats and violent extremist organizations, which is in the common good of the US and African partner nations,” the statement added.
Israel-Morocco relationship
Israel and Morocco have had close economic, diplomatic and military ties for years and signed a normalization agreement as part of the Abraham Accords.
In November the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding that sets a solid security cooperation framework that formalizes defense relations between the two countries. The MoU allows for increased cooperation in the fields of intelligence, industrial collaboration, military training and more.
In March senior IDF military officers took part in the Israeli military’s first official visit to Morocco, meeting with senior officers of the North African kingdom and agreeing to military cooperation between the two countries.
The visit was held in Rabat between the Head of the IDF’s Strategy and Third-Circle Division Maj.-Gen. Tal Kalman, the Head of the IDF’s Foreign Relations Division Brig.-Gen. Efi Dafrin and the Head of the Operations Division in the Intelligence Division Brig.-Gen. G.
They met with the Chief of the Moroccan military Lt.-Gen. Belkhir el-Farouk and senior Moroccan military officers including the heads of the country’s intelligence and operations directorates in Rabat.
During the visit, the IDF officers discussed the possibility of cooperative efforts with their Moroccan counterparts, including potential collaboration in intelligence and operational training and multinational exercises.
Last year a Royal Moroccan Airforce C-130 landed at the Hatzor airbase in southern Israel, marking the first time that an airforce platform belonging to the north African country landed in the Jewish State.
The plane flew to Israel ahead of an international drill set to take part in the south of the country with the United States this week.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
4-0-6, FIREBALL:
(four, zero, six; FIREBALL: zero)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
4-0-6, FIREBALL:
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Bodies of 2 of 3 missing kids found in Minnesota lake
Published: Jul. 2, 2022 at 10:47 AM CDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — The bodies of two young children have been recovered from a Minnesota lake, and searchers are still looking for a third they fear may have been intentionally drowned.
Meanwhile, the father of the children died at a different location hours earlier, and their mother is missing. Names have not been released.
The chain of events began Friday morning when the father was found dead at a mobile home park in the town of Maplewood, near Minneapolis.
Police determined that the woman had left with the children, and a search began.
The woman’s car was found near Vadnais Lake around 4 p.m. Friday. Authorities believe all three children were under the age of 5.
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Stuart Broad over costs a Test record 35 runs as India take charge at Edgbaston
Stuart Broad delivered the most expensive over in Test history as stand-in India captain Jasprit Bumrah starred with bat and ball at Edgbaston.
Broad had just celebrated becoming the sixth bowler ever to take 550 wickets in the format when his fortunes faded dramatically, clubbed for a record 35 as he went into meltdown against the tailender.
Bumrah’s efforts helped the tourists to 416 all out before he got back to his day job, taking each of the wickets as England crumbled to 60 for three between rain breaks.
Broad’s six legal deliveries were pummelled for 23, including four fours and a six, with the 36-year-old seamer also serving up a wide that raced away for four and a no-ball that Bumrah top-edged for another six.
Things could have been even worse had another high full-toss been called, but umpire Aleem Dar spared Broad the additional pain. The previous record of 28 had been achieved on three occasions, with Broad’s team-mates James Anderson and Joe Root bowling two of the overs in the question.
Broad did not get a chance to make amends with the ball, catching last man Mohammed Siraj off Anderson’s next over to end the India innings.
The tourists had resumed on 338 for seven, piling on 78 runs in just 11.5 overs as England made a mess of their bowling plans in the morning session.
Ben Stokes set the tone with a ragged first spell, with Ravindra Jadeja happily taking on the short ball served up by the captain and Matthew Potts as he converted his overnight 83 into a third Test century.
Potts could have had him on 92 but a thick edge off the shoulder of the bat sailed between the dives of Zak Crawley and Root in the slips. The next ball was planted through the covers to give Jadeja a hard-earned hundred, having played second fiddle to Rishabh Pant on day one.
Broad had got England going when Mohammed Shami upper-cut him straight to the waiting Jack Leach, celebrating a landmark achievement that was about to be overshadowed.
Anderson returned with the new ball, taking out Jadeja’s middle stump as he swung and missed on 104, and wrapped up figures of five for 60 immediately after Broad’s nadir when Siraj holed out.
Just three overs of the reply were possible before the weather turned, but Bumrah snuck the last ball before the break between Alex Lees’ bat and pad to underline India’s strong position.
Play resumed at 1.15pm and it took Bumrah just five minutes to double his haul, with out-of-form opener Crawley falling in familiar, frustrating fashion. He had just nine to his name when he indulged his weakness for a drive, nicking through to Shubman Gill to record his 23rd single-figure score in 45 Test innings.
Once again rain prevented Bumrah and Shami building some momentum but the delays allowed them to stay fresh and their third mini-session in the afternoon saw Ollie Pope add to the list of top-order failures.
Like Crawley, Pope likes to feel bat on ball at the start of his innings but when he pushed at a delivery a foot outside off stump and squirted a catch to third slip it was a costly error of judgement.
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Vegan Florida mother convicted of starving toddler to death with strict raw fruits, vegetables diet
LEE COUNTY, Fla. - A vegan mother is facing life in prison for murdering her 18-month-old child who starved to death on a strict raw fruit and vegetable diet.
A Florida jury convicted Sheila O’Leary, 39, on Wednesday of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect in the death of her son, Ezra.
Ezra weighed 17 pounds – seven pounds below average – when he died in his sleep in 2019.
Following Ezra’s death, Sheila and her husband, Ryan, told authorities that the family followed a strict vegan diet limited to "only raw fruits and vegetables" and "breast milk," according to News Press.
At the time of Ezra’s death, their three other children – all under the age of 11 – were suffering from malnutrition and dehydration.
O’Leary told detectives that her son did not eat for a week and that he was "having trouble sleeping the night prior to his death."
During the Lee County trial on Wednesday, prosecutor Francine Donnorummo, special victims unit chief at the state attorney's office, used O’Leary’s Google searches at the time Ezra’s health declined as evidence against her.
Donnorummo emphasized Ezra’s condition was chronic as O’Leary failed to provide her child with food and health care, according to News Press.
"This was a thought-out, planned course of action," Donnorummo said. "Ignorance is not a defense in this case."
Defense attorney Lee Hollander then addressed the jury, showing photos of Sheila and Ezra.
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"Does that look like a mom who wants to kill her kid?" Hollander asked. "Just because it happened doesn’t mean she committed a crime."
In closing arguments, co-prosecutor Sara Miller, an assistant state attorney, addressed jurors and indicated the crime was not that Ezra died in his sleep, but that O’Leary refused to get her child medical help.
"She chose to disregard Ezra's suffering," Miller said.
Sheila O'Leary faces sentencing later this month.
Ryan O’Leary, 33, was indicted on the same charges and is expected to stand trial later this year.
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SILVERSTONE, England (AP) — Carlos Sainz was fastest in the rain in Saturday qualifying for the British Grand Prix to earn his first career pole position in his 150th start. He edged reigning Formula One champion Max Verstappen, who was booed by some in the crowd at the end of the session.
“Maybe some of them don’t like me, but that’s fine," Verstappen said. "I don’t care.”
Sainz set the fastest time late in the third qualifying session to edge Verstappen by just .072 seconds. It was the seventh pole in 10 races for Ferrari this season, though Sainz teammate Charles Leclerc had earned the first six poles prior to Sainz's surprise run.
“First pole position, it's always special, and especially to do it in Silverstone in the wet,” Sainz said. “Kept it cool through the session and toward the end I decided to push.”
Sainz narrowly missed out on what would have been his first career win at the last race in Canada, when he finished just behind Verstappen.
Leclerc will start third, ahead of Sergio Pérez in the second Red Bull.
Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton qualified fifth for his home race as Mercedes seemed to have made progress with its problems of bouncing at high speed. His teammate George Russell was eighth.
As Verstappen spoke trackside following qualifying the boos were audible for the Dutchman. Verstappen and Hamilton collided in last year's race, with Verstappen hitting the wall while Hamilton overcame a penalty to win.
The incident further heightened their often-bitter rivalry in a title race ultimately won by Verstappen, and turned some British fans against Verstappen. He was taken to a hospital for observation following the crash and complained that Hamilton showed poor sportsmanship by celebrating the victory as Verstappen was being medically evaluated.
The build-up to this year’s race has been dominated by former champion Nelson Piquet’s use of a racial slur and homophobic language to describe Hamilton in an interview which was filmed last year after the crash at Silverstone. The interview did not receive wide attention until this week, ahead of the return to the track.
Hamilton and other drivers condemned Piquet. Verstappen, who is dating Piquet’s daughter, Kelly, said Piquet had used “very offensive” language but added that the Brazilian was also “a really nice and relaxed guy” who was not a racist.
Leclerc said he felt his Ferrari was “competitive” but a mistake prevented him for challenging for pole position.
“I knew it was the lap where I had to put everything together and I didn’t as a driver, so I didn’t deserve to be on pole,” he said.
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Some of the more than 100 marchers in Sacramento said overturning Roe v. Wade took the country back in time decades, and they want abortion up for a national vote.
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CPI(M) colluding with BJP, says Rahul
‘That is why Central agencies are not questioning Pinarayi Vijayan’
Endorsing the repeated allegation of Congress leaders in the State, Rahul Gandhi, MP, on Saturday accused the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] of colluding with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Speaking at a public meeting at Wandoor in Malappuram district, Mr. Gandhi argued that the BJP government at the Centre, which had the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and other Central agencies under its control, was not questioning Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
“This is because there is an understanding between the BJP and the CPI(M). The BJP is happy with the CPI(M). It does not like the Congress and the United Democratic Front (UDF),“ he said.
He said that he had been wondering why the ED did not question Mr. Vijayan even for a day? “It is quite clear that anybody who oppose the BJP have to face the ED,“ Mr. Gandhi said and added that he wore the ED interrogation like a medal.
Mr. Gandhi alleged that anybody who stood against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP were attacked in the media as well as by the ED, CBI and the police.
“The BJP thinks that by interrogating me for five days, asking me the same question for 55-60 hours, I will be worried. There cannot be a bigger joke than this. I was wondering why they interrogated me for just five days? Why not 10 days? I thought may be I am not opposing them strongly enough. We are not scared of these people.“ he said, alleging that the BJP was not only attacking the social fabric, but also destroying the economic foundation of the country.
Mr. Gandhi asked Mr. Vijayan to stop confusing people of the State over the buffer zone issue against the backdrop of the Supreme Court order. “I have already written to the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister on the issue. Our stand is very clear. It does not matter if the CPI(M) breaks my office and distract the people from the issue. We will fight tooth and nail against evicting the people from inhabited areas,“ he said.
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JAMMU, July 2: The Congress’ youth wing staged a protest here on Saturday demanding the rollback of the Agnipath scheme for short-term recruitment of soldiers.
The protest in the Purani Mandi area was led by Jammu and Kashmir Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib.
Carrying placards, the protesters raised slogans against the BJP government and demanded immediate rollback of the scheme.
”Congress stands with the youth of the country who feel cheated with the launch of the Agnipath scheme. We will continue our peaceful protest against the scheme,” former minister Yogesh Sawhney who took part in the protest said.
Chib said the scheme was not only against the interests of the youth but also a threat to national security. Under the Agnipath scheme, youths between the ages of 17-and-a-half and 21 years would be inducted in the armed forces for a four-year-tenure, while 25 per cent of them will be subsequently inducted for regular service.
The government had on June 16 increased the upper age limit for recruitment under the scheme to 23 years from 21 for the year 2022, and subsequently announced a slew of placatory steps such as a preference for Agniveers in central paramilitary forces and defence public sector undertakings upon their retirement. (Agencies) | https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/congress-youth-wing-stages-protest-against-agnipath-scheme-in-jammu/ | 2022-07-02T16:19:44Z | https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/congress-youth-wing-stages-protest-against-agnipath-scheme-in-jammu/ | true |
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University is set to place a steel safety barrier along a half-mile stretch of the Red Cedar River after the drowning death of visiting 18-year-old student last fall.
The university installed temporary fencing along a portion of the river where it runs through the East Lansing campus after the body of Grand Valley State University student Brendan Santo was found in the river in January, nearly three months after he was last seen while visiting campus, the Lansing State Journal reported.
Family and friends of Santo, who was from the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, started a petition calling for barriers, lighting and warning signs. The section where the new barrier is being built has steep banks down to the river.
Michigan State spokesman Dan Olsen said work on the permanent fencing is expected to begin Tuesday and be finished by the end of August. The fencing will be about 4 feet high and run 2,300 feet, with an estimated cost of nearly $650,000.
“The installation of the new fencing delivers on the commitment we made earlier this year to improve the safety around parts of the river,” Olsen said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Michigan-State-building-safety-barrier-after-17281141.php | 2022-07-02T16:26:22Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Michigan-State-building-safety-barrier-after-17281141.php | false |
Sainz takes 1st pole, Verstappen booed at British GP
SILVERSTONE, England (AP) — Carlos Sainz was fastest in the rain to take his first career pole position in his 150th start ahead of the British Grand Prix. Sainz set the fastest time of 1 minute 40.983 seconds late in the third qualifying session to edge past Max Verstappen by just .072 seconds. It’s the seventh pole in 10 races for Ferrari this season. All of the others were for Sainz’s teammate Charles Leclerc. He starts third in Sunday’s race. Verstappen was booed by the Silverstone crowd following qualifying. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/02/sainz-qualifies-on-pole-for-british-grand-prix/ | 2022-07-02T16:40:46Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/02/sainz-qualifies-on-pole-for-british-grand-prix/ | false |
SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — Californians do a lot of things differently from other Americans, so why not sobriety?
The concept of “California sober” — or “Cali sober” if you want to make that a thing — takes a swing at that idea. Its adherents generally abstain from alcohol and “hard” drugs but still smoke cannabis. Some proponents, like the author of a 2019 Vice article that’s often cited as popularizing the term online, also take certain psychedelics.
Proponents say that by choosing some drugs over others, they’ve been able to relax and expand their mind without suffering the pitfalls of addiction and other problems associated with substance abuse.
Popstar Demi Lovato was perhaps the most high-profile advocate — they even wrote a song about it — but later said that “sober sober” was the only lifestyle that worked for their long-term recovery.
So in weed-friendly California, is this kind of selective sobriety a path forward for folks who want to change some, but not all, of their habits?
Dr. Brian Couey, the director of outpatient services at the Betty Ford Center, discussed the concept with Nexstar’s KSWB in a phone interview this week. Couey emphasized multiple times that every individual, their relationship with drugs and their recovery process is unique. His advice is also more targeted toward people who struggle with substance abuse than occasional recreational users.
In 15 years of work in the fields of mental health and addiction treatment, the clinical psychologist has seen many people try half-measures at sobriety only to find entirely swearing off drugs was the best path forward for their health.
“For people who truly have addiction, complete abstinence tends to work the best,” Couey said. “‘California sober’ or using in moderation may not produce the results that a person is looking for.”
Couey said different drugs and other compulsive behaviors play on the same parts of our brains, and we often rely on them for the same reasons, like dealing with stress or numbing ourselves to sadness and anxiety.
“Addiction does not have as much to do with which substances people use as it does with the person’s biology, their psychology and genetics,” he said. “It’s more about how a person’s brain reacts to chemicals … than it is about a specific chemical that they ingest.”
In short: “Addiction is really about people, it’s not about any particular drug.”
Research shows that “non-chemical,” or behavioral, addictions (think gambling, food, pornography or video games) involve the same brain structures as those that play into drug use, Couey said. While each person is different, those that struggle with one addiction are statistically more likely to struggle with another.
You’re also not entirely allowing your brain to heal if you continue to use one drug while abstaining from another that you’re trying to quit, Couey said.
“If you have actual addiction — a substance-use disorder — and you continue to alter your brain chemistry through chemical misuse, the addictive neural pathways in your brain are not going to be allowed to heal and recover,” he said. “If you continuously raise your dopamine levels artificially through chemical misuse, whatever the chemical is, you’re likely to fall into problematic behaviors.”
Again: It’s about more than the drug itself.
“Addiction is also about habits and rituals that reinforce behavior. When much of your life is about drinking or using to feel normal, whatever substance you’re using, you may struggle to facilitate the growth and recovery that comes with adaptively coping with things using your own internal abilities.”
A final consideration from Couey: The marijuana you buy at legal dispensaries today and the ways you get high from it have changed from 30 years ago, but our attitudes about how “serious” of a drug it can be have not.
Couey said the average THC content found in available cannabis products has significantly increased, especially with vapes and “dabbing” rigs for wax and other hash oil concentrates. That can increase its potential for misuse and for some of the psychological issues associated with substance abuse, including anxiety and depression.
“There’s no hard-and-fast rule,” Couey said, again emphasizing that each case he encounters is different.
But generally, the psychologist has a litany of suggestions for those looking to address their addiction to alcohol or another drug — and they don’t revolve around replacing it with cannabis.
“Decades of research support evidence-based practices, FDA-approved medications, feedback-informed treatment, 12-step programs, cognitive therapy,” he said, ticking down the list.
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Looking at Tyrone Ferrens and his blended family today, you'd be forgiven for thinking their path to success was easy.
Despite the ravages of the pandemic, Ferrens – a stock market-savvy man with a habit of casually dropping high-level economics talk in everyday conversations – says he and his wife's household income has doubled since the start of COVID-19.
The house the family shares in Aberdeen, Md. – a six bedroom, five bathroom suburban structure with a pool and two ponds in the backyard – is a testament to years of hard work by Ferrens and his wife, Michelle.
"We watched our house get built from the ground up, and it was just like our baby," Ferrens said, proudly displaying the backyard.
There, Ferrens and his wife live with two of the couple's adult children – biologically Michelle's, but equally loved by the pair – Ferrens' mother, a grandson and a brood of family pets.
"We're like the real-life Brady Bunch," Ferrens jokes, introducing the couple's "only biological child" – an equally tiny and territorial white pup named Ashe.
Until the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Michelle had been retired from her work as a respiratory therapist.
"This being a respiratory disease she was receiving phone calls 'we'll pay you,' doubling her offers or tripling her pay to travel," Ferrens said. "And we came up with a plan that while she was doing that and I was doing the things that I was doing, that we could afford to build this home, our forever home."
Ferrens works as an electrician with the sports equipment company Under Armour.
While Michelle was on the road as a traveling healthcare professional, he would often work in excess of 115 hours a pay period to keep at bay the loneliness of missing his partner.
The turn to honest work was a sharp departure for Ferrens, who spent 16 years of his adulthood addicted to crack cocaine and heroin. As many often do, Ferrens also turned to selling drugs during that time.
"I'm originally from New York. I grew up in the inner-city, came from Brooklyn," he said. "I came down here basically out of necessity. I had been trying to get away from both the police and people."
Ferrens described the "people" as possible "co-defendants" in charges he had been facing.
Downward spiral
When Michelle and Tyrone first met, barely out of their teens on a flight to California, both were on bright paths.
Tyrone was heading to training for his career as a Navy electrician, and Michelle, then an aspiring rapper, would go on to join the RIAA-certified gold girl-group JJ Fad.
But Tyrone Ferrens found his time in the Navy disappointing. He says he was training to become part of the elite Navy SEALS, but says he was faced with overt racism by his fellow recruits.
Ferrens intentionally failed a drug test to get discharged, he said, sending his life into a downward spiral.
He returned to New York and lost touch with Michelle. He married, and divorced, his first wife, and started using and selling drugs.
"I had been living in such a hopeless existence for so long," Ferrens said.
After his last stint of incarceration – a six-month bid for felony assault in 2007 – Ferrens resolved to turn his life around.
"I was determined, because I had sons, that I didn't want to continue in that line. I wanted to change my life."
He joined a Jumpstart program for former offenders and improved on his skills as an electrician.
"I eventually finished four years of apprenticeship school. I became a licensed electrician," he said.
"I've never had any more police contact. I have 15 years clean and sober, and I just ended up at Under Armour."
From there, he reconnected with Michelle – then mostly finished with the high-flying tour life and herself a mother to four children.
The two settled down in Maryland with their eyes on building their dream house to enjoy their retirement years.
But over the past two years as the pandemic raged, two of the couple's adult children found their financial lives in peril and moved into their parents' home.
The older of the two children, a daughter, Regina, took over the basement, accompanied by her four dogs – two huskies and two chihuahuas.
"It was going to be my man cave," Ferrens said of the basement, but "kids need a place to stay means kids need to come home. That's far more important than a man cave."
Both children, inspired by their father's success, are now following Ferrens' career path and are training to become licensed electricians.
"I would just see him at work, and I would just be amazed by like the amount of things he would talk about or the amount of things we would see," Ferrens' son Andre Lee said admiringly of his father.
"I never had that growing up," he said. "Although he is my stepfather, he is my real father at the end of the day, because of what he's done for me in my life. It's because of him that I can call myself a man and be proud of it."
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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Following the capture in Costa Rica of Kaitlin Armstrong — the Texas woman accused of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson — one former FBI agent is predicting more charges to follow.
“If she was aided and abetted in regards to her travel and avoidance of being brought to justice, certainly anyone can be charged if they help another flee,” retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer told NewsNation’s Keleigh Beeson on Friday’s edition of “NewsNation Prime.”
“So whoever helped get her that passport is going to be on the hook for some charges,” Coffindaffer added.
Authorities said Armstrong sold her vehicle just three days after the alleged crime and boarded a flight from Austin to Houston shortly after being questioned by authorities.
Investigators then discovered that Armstrong was using a fraudulent passport when she boarded a United Airlines flight from Newark International Airport and arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, on May 18 — a feat, Coffindaffer said, that’s very difficult to do alone.
“Certainly she had help. The average American can’t just walk out and get a valid passport without help,” the former federal agent said. “Whoever she went to is going to have to be held responsible for their role in aiding and abetting her disappearance to Costa Rica.”
Coffindaffer also theorized that Armstrong may have chosen to hide in Costa Rica — a country with a U.S. extradition treaty — simply because it was cost efficient, convenient, and perhaps allowed her to find work as a yoga instructor at one of its resorts.
Armstrong, who reportedly had a bandage on her face and bruising under her eyes when she was apprehended, claimed the injury was caused by a surfing accident. But Coffindaffer said she thinks it’s “very possible” the bruising was caused by a plastic surgery procedure to further obscure her identity.
Armstrong’s actions — making travel plans, obtaining fake documentation, etc. — likely took “a couple of weeks, minimally, to plan,” Coffindaffer added.
Armstrong was captured at a Costa Rica hostel Wednesday, more than six weeks after the murder of Moriah Wilson on May 11. Wilson, a pro cyclist, was shot and killed at a home in east Austin. Wilson is originally from Vermont.
An anonymous tipster later told police that Armstrong believed her boyfriend was romantically involved with Wilson, leading her to become “furious,” “shaking with anger” and wanting to “kill” Wilson.
Both Wilson’s family and Armstrong’s boyfriend, however, have since denied reports that the two were romantically involved at the time of Wilson’s death. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/ex-fbi-agent-on-armstrong-anyone-who-helped-is-on-the-hook/ | 2022-07-02T16:52:01Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/ex-fbi-agent-on-armstrong-anyone-who-helped-is-on-the-hook/ | false |
A frustrated resident decided to take drastic action after another driver kept stealing her parking space - only to realise later that she was being scammed. Shirley Lieu, who lives in Australia, was left fuming after one of her neighbours keep taking up her rented parking spot, due to its location near the entrance of the building.
In a now viral TikTok video, she explained that she had even attached a sign onto the railing in front of the space telling people not to park there, but with no success. Eventually she decided to go one step further and blocked the car into the spot using her own vehicle to get revenge on the parking space thief, the Mirror reports.
However, the situation took an unexpected turn when she received a text from the car's owner. Posting to her account @shirl3ylieu, she said she initially couldn't believe "the audacity" of driver when they asked why she had trapped their vehicle in the space.
In a screenshot of the conversation, she can be seen telling them that she didn't know why they'd parked in her spot, but she was at work and wouldn't be able to move her car until later. But in a massive plot twist, the other driver then claimed they were the owner of the spot - and she wasn't renting it from them.
Shirley explained that a man named Ahn Lee had been renting her out the space. The other driver then replied: "He owe me rent and he ran away."
So it seems the young woman was being scammed out of money for the space that was never Ahn's to rent out in the first place. Shirley added in the comments: "He scammed my bond money for the car spot".
More than three million people have since watched Shirley's video, with over 201,000 liking it and thousands commenting to share their thoughts.
One person replied: "I didn't see that plot twist coming."
Another said: "Oh no!". A third wrote: "Hahaha. So you're in the wrong?!"
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Amazon employees are calling on the company to get more involved in protecting abortion access, including by ending political donations to groups that oppose abortion, organizing its own protests against the Supreme Court’s ruling and helping all employees pay for travel in order to get safe abortion care.
Nearly 2,000 employees have signed an open letter to Amazon leadership, calling on the company to “use Amazon’s voice to publicly and unequivocally denounce” the high court’s decision. On Friday, some workers called out sick in protest, hoping to pressure the company.
Amazon, like many of the nation’s largest employers, has said it will cover travel expenses for medical procedures, including abortion care, that aren’t available in an employee’s home state.
But in the week since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing constitutional protections for abortion access that had been in place for nearly half a century, some workers and activists point out that those funds won’t extend to every Amazon worker.
It’s “common-sense policy” for companies to ensure workers won’t have a “huge disruption in their life” following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, said Liza Fuentes, a senior research scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that promotes sexual and reproductive rights.
“That’s a huge benefit for those workers,” she said. “However, what we know is that many people who may need abortion care don’t work for those companies.”
In Washington, many of the state’s largest employers — Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Alaska, T-Mobile, Zillow, Redfin, Starbucks and others — committed to covering travel costs for employees who live in places where abortion services aren’t available. Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, said Friday it is weighing potential actions and figuring out the best path forward, according to Bloomberg. Starbucks said it could not “make promises of guarantees about any benefits” for workers at unionized stores.
Amazon announced in May it would offer up to $4,000 for travel if care is not available virtually or within 100 miles of an employee’s home. The Supreme Court’s ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in nearly half the states. For a company like Amazon, which has corporate offices and warehouses across the country, the funds are meant to help workers who may need to travel to access care.
Amazon’s policy, which is retroactive to Jan. 1, is available for employees and their dependents covered by two company-offered health plans. The funds are available to both corporate and warehouse workers, but not independent contractors.
Workers are asking the company to “broaden the scope” of the benefit to encompass all Amazon employees, including contractors. Amazon has a network of delivery service partners, who help drop off packages to customers’ doorsteps and operate as independent contractors, as well as Flex drivers — gig workers who use their own vehicle to make deliveries for the company.
Amazon is not the only company that is facing pressure to expand its benefits. The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents some workers at Google’s parent company Alphabet, said this week Google is offering support for corporate employees but not “the 100,000+ contractors who are the backbone of Google’s trillion-dollar empire.” “Workers need true support, not performative headlines and fine legal print telling them why they aren’t eligible for benefits,” the California Labor Federation, a network of labor unions, tweeted this week.
Google did not respond to requests for comment. Amazon declined to answer questions on the specifics of its policy, including who would have access to the benefit and whether warehouse associates would be given paid time off to travel for medical procedures.
In the open letter, employees also asked Amazon to expand access to services that would “safeguard and empower abortion seekers,” including abortion pills and abortion-related care. The workers also pushed back on Amazon’s political donations, calling on it to audit all political donations and cease any contributions to committees that oppose abortion.
A shareholder proposal asking for a report on Amazon’s lobbying activities and expenditures did not pass the company’s annual meeting in May. The company spent $18.7 million on federal lobbying in 2020 and was the largest corporate spender for the first half of 2021, according to the proposal.
Amazon’s board of directors recommended shareholders vote against the proposal, saying Amazon has processes in place to provide oversight of its public policy activities. “While we may not agree with every position of every organization that we support, we believe that our support will help advance those policy objectives that are aligned with our interests,” the board of directors wrote.
The proposal narrowly failed with 47% of shareholders voting in support.
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In the open letter this week, employees also called on Amazon to donate to organizations that are working to expand abortion access, expand remote work and options for employees to relocate from states with new abortion restrictions, and cease expansion plans in states that are threatening to ban abortion.
The workers are also asking Amazon to remove any product offerings that could encourage hate speech or violence toward abortion seekers.
The call to action comes at the same time corporate employees are ramping up efforts to pressure Amazon to stop selling books that activists say are transphobic, including titles like “Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult” and “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.”
A worker-led group, called No Hate At Amazon, organized a “die-in” in June, where employees disrupted a company-sponsored Pride event to call for the removal of the books. Wrapped in pink, blue and white flags, a group of people lay down on the ground in front of a stage where representatives from Glamazon, an Amazon affinity group for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, were delivering speeches under a Pride flag.
This week, in an internal messaging board, an employee again asked Amazon to review “Irreversible Damage” for removal and to look into why the book was approved in the first place. Like it has said in the past, Amazon responded that the book does not violate its guidelines.
On Friday, workers fighting to remove the books and for reproductive rights put up out-of-office messages and sent emails to team members explaining why they took the day off.
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The Skyfari Sky Ride at Southwick’s Zoo in Mendon will be closed up to a week after visitors were stuck on the ride for more than an hour Friday afternoon.
“Guests at Southwick’s Zoo yesterday were inconvenienced when it was necessary to close the Skyfari Sky Ride. Everyone on the ride was removed safely and no injuries were incurred,” said Betsey Brewer, Southwick’s Zoo Vice President. “There was a small oil leak, and to err on the side of caution, we chose to close the ride for the safety of all.”
The Skyfari will be closed for five to seven days for repairs and inspection, according to Brewer. Guests can still visit the park, which remains open according to the Southwick’s Zoo website.
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The Mendon Fire Department was called to the scene after a 911 call Friday afternoon reported “a ride being broken down and people strapped in the chair cars,” said Mendon Fire Chief William T. Kessler said in a news conference late Friday afternoon.
Brewer said the team at Southwick’s Zoo is grateful to its employees and the Mendon Fire Department for responding to the situation.
No further information, including on the cause of the malfunction, was made immediately available.
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DETROIT (AP) — Vinnie Pasquantino took a most unusual path to the plate on his first big league home run — a furious sprint, a desperate slide and even a tag.
Pasquantino and Hunter Dozier hit back-to-back homers, leading Brad Keller and the Kansas City Royals over the Detroit Tigers 3-1 on Friday night.
Playing his third game in majors, Pasquantino was 0 for 6 overall when he hit Michael Pineda’s first pitch of the fourth inning to deep right. The ball hit the top of the fence, bounced off a railing and back onto the field.
Thinking the ball was in play, Pasquantino tried to get a double out of it, but Javy Baez took Willi Castro’s throw and tagged the rookie as he slid into the bag. The Tigers shortstop then told Pasquantino to get up and enjoy the last half of his home-run trot.
“I got tagged out at second base by Javy Baez” on home run No. 1, Pasquantino said. “How cool is that?”
“I’m glad that all got captured on video, because I’m going to be showing that to my grandkids someday,” he said.
Thanks to Baez, Pasquantino got the ball from his first homer, but he was also hoping to get another memento from the occasion.
“I sent Javy a jersey and I hope he’ll sign it for me,” he said. “I never really pictured my first major league hit, but there’s no way it could be any better than what happened.”
Keller (3-9) allowed five hits and two walks in six-plus scoreless innings. He’s won two of his last three starts.
“When he’s on, he can really move the ball around,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “We really couldn’t get the ball off the ground against him for the first five innings, and then we couldn’t get a big hit later on.”
Keller exited after hitting rookie Spencer Torkelson in the helmet with an 88 mph changeup in the seventh. Torkelson stayed on his feet and walked off the field under his own power.
“I really hate that my outing ended like that,” Keller said. “You never want to see someone get hit in the head, but I sent a (clubhouse attendant) over to their clubhouse and they said he’s fine.”
Torkelson passed concussion tests and could be available off the bench on Saturday.
“It was scary, but he’s going to be fine,” Hinch said. “We just weren’t going to take any chances after he got hit in the head.”
The Tigers scored in the ninth on Eric Haase’s sacrifice fly. Royals closer Scott Barlow walked Riley Greene, bringing the winning run to the plate, but he retired Willi Castro on the next pitch for his 11th save.
Pineda (1-3) threw 65 pitches in his return from the injured list, giving up three runs and seven hits in five innings. He struck out three without a walk.
“He did a good job — they just ambushed him in the fourth inning,” Hinch said. “He didn’t get a rehab start, so he was never going past the fifth.”
The Royals took a 1-0 lead in the third when Whit Merrifield doubled, stole third without a throw against the shift and scored on Andrew Benintendi’s single.
After Pasquantino homered, Dozier sent a 2-0 pitch into the Kansas City bullpen. It was the second time this season the Royals have hit back-to-back homers.
The Tigers put their first two runners on in the sixth, but Keller retired Javier Baez, Miguel Cabrera and Harold Castro to escape the inning.
“I put myself in a tough spot there, especially having to facing Baez, Miggy and Castro,” Keller said. “Striking out Miggy on a 3-2 slider was a huge moment, because he’s still such a great hitter.”
Detroit did the same thing in the seventh. After Robbie Grossman walked, Keller hit Torkelson in the helmet. Taylor Clarke replaced Keller and retired the next three hitters to keep Detroit scoreless.
“The whole game can change right there if we can get a hit in one of those two innings,” Hinch said.
ROSTER MOVES
Royals: Kansas City recalled RHP Wyatt Mills from Triple-A Omaha and designated RHP Matt Peacock for assignment. In addition, the Royals claimed RHP Ryan Weiss off waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Tigers: Detroit activated Pineda from the injured list. He had been sidelined since May 15 with a fractured middle finger on his right hand. RHP Alex Faedo was optioned to Triple-A. Faedo will be back soon — he will start in Monday’s doubleheader against the Cleveland Guardians as Detroit’s 27th player.
NO NEWS ON RODRIGUEZ
Hinch said before the game he has no new information on LHP Eduardo Rodriguez, who has been on the restricted list since leaving the team on June 13. Rodriguez is in Florida dealing with family issues.
“There’s been no movement whatsoever and no communication,” Hinch said. “It’s been pretty quiet and we’ve respected his privacy.”
UP NEXT
The teams play the second game of their weekend series on Saturday afternoon, with Detroit’s Beau Brieske (1-6, 4.55) facing Brady Singer (3-3, 4.50).
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Wimbledon: British hopes Liam Broady and Katie Boulter fail to make second week of tournament
British hopes are still alive in the prestigious tournament, with Heather Watson and Cameron Norrie both through to the quarter-finals.
Saturday 2 July 2022 16:23, UK
British hope Liam Broady has crashed out of Wimbledon hours after Katie Boulter also lost her third round tie.
Broady was beaten in straight sets by Alex de Minaur as the Australian claimed a 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 win on court one.
Earlier, France's Harmony Tan outclassed Katie Boulter, winning 6-1 6-1 in just 51 minutes.
The disappointment for British tennis came a day after Heather Watson and Cameron Norrie both reached the quarter-final of a Grand Slam for the first time.
Broady's best-ever run at Wimbledon ended in a straight sets defeat following a classy display by de Minaur.
For the Briton, who is expected to drop in the rankings due to the lack of points on offer at the All England Club, he will now aim to build on this for the hard-court season.
Read more: British number one Cameron Norrie reaches last 16 of Wimbledon for first time
Despite strong support from the home crowd on court two, Boulter failed to put up any resistance against Tan's variety and superb court coverage, and the world number 118 did not help her cause by committing 21 unforced errors.
After breaking Boulter's serve twice, Tan hit three aces in her fourth service game to take the opening set in just 27 minutes.
The 115th-ranked Frenchwoman - who knocked out seven-times Wimbledon champion Serena Williams in the opening round - secured three breaks in the second set in a swift and dominant performance.
The results come after hopes that Emma Raducanu could replicate her US Open magic in SW19 were dashed on Wednesday when the 19-year-old lost to France's Caroline Garcia.
The same day former champion Andy Murray lost in four sets to big-serving American John Isner.
In the next round, Norrie will face American Tommy Paul, while Watson will play 97th-ranked Jule Niemeier from Germany after defeating Slovenia's Kaja Juvan. | https://news.sky.com/story/wimbledon-british-hopes-liam-broady-and-katie-boulter-fail-to-make-second-week-of-tournament-12644436 | 2022-07-02T17:06:50Z | https://news.sky.com/story/wimbledon-british-hopes-liam-broady-and-katie-boulter-fail-to-make-second-week-of-tournament-12644436 | true |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, a Democratic candidate for governor, has tested positive for COVID-19.
Franchot tweeted that he tested positive Friday night and was experiencing “very mild” symptoms.
“I will be quarantining, and continuing to campaign from home until I am able to safely return to the trail,” tweeted Franchot, who said he was vaccinated and boosted.
Franchot is among the nine Democrats competing for the party's nomination for governor after a 10th candidate suspended his bid last month.
Four Republicans are vying for the GOP nomination. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is term-limited.
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
1126 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
...SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO RE-DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING...
Scattered thunderstorms are expected to re-develop between 2 to 4
PM across northwestern Massachusetts, then move southeastward
through Connecticut, Rhode Island and eastern and southeastern
Massachusetts late this afternoon into early tonight.
Thunderstorms are expected to weaken and shift offshore by 10 PM.
Some thunderstorms may become strong to severe, producing strong
winds capable of localized damage, small hailstones, and frequent
cloud to ground lightning strikes. Torrential rainfall can also be
expected, which could produce localized instances of flooding,
especially in urbanized and in poor drainage areas.
If you have plans outdoors this afternoon, keep an eye to the sky
for rapidly changing weather conditions. If threatening weather
approaches, seek appropriate shelter in a sturdy building and away
from windows. Make sure that you have multiple ways to receive
later statements and possible warnings.
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But airlines have struggled to keep up with the surging demand amid staffing shortages and an assortment of other issues that have resulted in recurring waves of exasperating flight delays and cancellations that have been transforming some vacations into nightmarish ordeals.
Many airlines, including Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, have responded to the challenge by curtailing their summer schedules in an effort to reduce the inconveniences — and backlash — caused by flight delays and cancellations They are using larger planes on average to carry more passengers while they scramble to hire and train more pilots.
The headaches continued Friday, although they weren't as bad as they have been at other times in recent months. There were more than 6,800 flight delays and another 587 flight cancellations affecting U.S. airports Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware. More than 2,200 delays and more than 540 flight cancellations had been recorded as of late Saturday morning.
Besides the flight delays and cancellations, travelers also have had to pay higher prices for tickets driven up by soaring fuel costs and other inflationary factors, as well as navigate around the health risks posed by continuing COVID-19 infections.
Travelers are also jamming up the highways, even with the national average price for gasoline hovering around $5 per gallon — and above $6 per gallon in California and all its popular tourist attractions. AAA predicts that nearly 48 million people will travel at least 50 miles or more from home over the weekend, slightly fewer than in 2019.
Passengers pass a security line Thursday, June 30, 2022, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, Pa. The airport saw an influx of travelers departing Pittsburgh before the Fourth of July holiday weekend. (Morgan Timms/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Passengers pass a security line Thursday, June 30, 2022, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, Pa. The airport saw an influx of travelers departing Pittsburgh before the Fourth of July holiday weekend. (Morgan Timms/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Passengers make their way through a security line Thursday, June 30, 2022, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, Pa. The airport saw an influx of travelers departing Pittsburgh before the Fourth of July holiday weekend. (Morgan Timms/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Passengers make their way through a security line Thursday, June 30, 2022, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, Pa. The airport saw an influx of travelers departing Pittsburgh before the Fourth of July holiday weekend. (Morgan Timms/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Marc Guarino reorganizes his bags to get both under 50 pounds before flying to Sacramento at the Chattanooga Airport on Friday, July 1, 2022, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Matt Hamilton/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)
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Marc Guarino reorganizes his bags to get both under 50 pounds before flying to Sacramento at the Chattanooga Airport on Friday, July 1, 2022, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Matt Hamilton/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)
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A traveler uses a tablet to choose seats on a plane at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A traveler uses a tablet to choose seats on a plane at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A traveler waits to board a flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A traveler waits to board a flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A police officer looks at a phone while directing traffic at Terminal D of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A police officer looks at a phone while directing traffic at Terminal D of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Travelers, left, run to their gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Travelers, left, run to their gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Houston. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Campground spaces are full at Emma Wood State Park in Ventura County, Calif., on Friday, July 1, 2022. (Dean Musgrove/The Orange County Register via AP)
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Campground spaces are full at Emma Wood State Park in Ventura County, Calif., on Friday, July 1, 2022. (Dean Musgrove/The Orange County Register via AP)
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Airline passengers wait and retrieve their luggage at Chicago's Midway International Airport on the first day of the Fourth of July holiday weekend Friday, July 1, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Airline passengers wait and retrieve their luggage at Chicago's Midway International Airport on the first day of the Fourth of July holiday weekend Friday, July 1, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Airline passengers arrive at Chicago's Midway International Airport on the first day of the July 4th holiday weekend Friday, July 1, 2022, in Chicago. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Airline passengers arrive at Chicago's Midway International Airport on the first day of the July 4th holiday weekend Friday, July 1, 2022, in Chicago. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Travelers wait in line to check it at the Love Field airport in Dallas, Friday, July 1, 2022. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Travelers wait in line to check it at the Love Field airport in Dallas, Friday, July 1, 2022. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Travelers wait for rides outside the Love Field terminal in Dallas, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Travelers wait for rides outside the Love Field terminal in Dallas, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Travelers check in at the Frontier Airlines counter at Miami International Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Miami. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic.. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Travelers check in at the Frontier Airlines counter at Miami International Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Miami. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic.. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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A traveler looks at the flight board at Miami International Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Miami. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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A traveler looks at the flight board at Miami International Airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Miami. The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Gas prices are displayed at a gas station Friday, July 1, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
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Gas prices are displayed at a gas station Friday, July 1, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
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Bodies of 2 of 3 missing kids found in Minnesota lake
Published: Jul. 2, 2022 at 11:47 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — The bodies of two young children have been recovered from a Minnesota lake, and searchers are still looking for a third they fear may have been intentionally drowned.
Meanwhile, the father of the children died at a different location hours earlier, and their mother is missing. Names have not been released.
The chain of events began Friday morning when the father was found dead at a mobile home park in the town of Maplewood, near Minneapolis.
Police determined that the woman had left with the children, and a search began.
The woman’s car was found near Vadnais Lake around 4 p.m. Friday. Authorities believe all three children were under the age of 5.
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CLEVELAND (WJW) – The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is prompting a major increase in requests for vasectomies.
“My instant reaction, the first thing I did was to start looking up where to get a vasectomy,” said Brandon Hire, a father of two from Ohio.
Minutes after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Hire called a doctor.
“It is not an option for my family to get pregnant with another baby. We already have twins that are adults,” said Hire.
Not only is Hire a caretaker to his daughters with disabilities, but his wife suffers from chronic pain.
“The danger, if she does get pregnant and is forced to carry a baby to term, the medication she is on could cause damage to the baby. But stopping the medications would make her life unlivable,” said Hire.
Hire is not alone. Urologists with the Cleveland Clinic said they have seen a significant increase in requests for vasectomies in response to the Supreme Court’s decision.
How significant? Usually, the clinic gets three to four scheduling requests per day. Since Friday, the clinic said they have had about 90 total — a major jump.
“I’m not surprised. That’s why I didn’t delay. My first consultation is in two weeks. This is going fast for me. This is something I am not delaying,” said Hire.
The Supreme Court’s decision leaves it up to each individual state. In Ohio, abortion is illegal once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
A urologist in Memphis, Tennessee, told Nexstar’s WREG that his office has also experienced an influx of calls from young men inquiring about vasectomies.
“This is a safe long-term way of avoiding an oops,” Dr. Joseph Pazona said. “I think it’s wonderful that men are starting to take more personal responsibility when it comes to family planning.”
Dr. Pazona performs 50 to 60 vasectomies a month in Middle Tennessee. He’s prepared to double the number of vasectomies he performs due to the ban.
“I was visiting with a patient who had made the decision that he did not want to have any children, and he brought that up as one of the factors bringing him in,” Dr. Pazona said. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/vasectomy-requests-spike-after-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade/ | 2022-07-02T17:18:50Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/vasectomy-requests-spike-after-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade/ | false |
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (WFLA) – Splash Mountain will have a new name — and a completely new look — at Disney Parks in 2024.
On Friday, the Disney Parks Blog revealed new details of the “reimagined” ride, which will be themed after Disney’s animated film “The Princess and the Frog.” The revamped attraction, scheduled to open at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland in late 2024, will be known as Tiana’s Bayou Adventure.
The announcement was made at Essence Fest in New Orleans on Friday, though Disney had initially announced intentions to re-theme the ride after 2009’s “The Princess and the Frog” back in June 2020.
The decision came following an outcry on social media to change the ride, which originally contained elements from Disney’s controversial 1946 film “Song of the South.” The movie, which had been heavily criticized for its depiction of Black people, came into the spotlight once again amid civil unrest in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
“The retheming of Splash Mountain is of particular importance today,” a representative for Disney Parks wrote in a blog post in June 2020. “The new concept is inclusive — one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year.”
As revealed in Friday’s blog post, the new ride will take visitors on a trip with Tiana and other “Princess and the Frog” characters as they navigate the bayou toward a Mardi Gras celebration.
Riders will also be treated to new music inspired by the film.
According to the blog, Disney Imagineers traveled to Louisiana multiple times in order to bring more authenticity to the ride.
“Walt Disney Imagineers have been frequent travelers to Louisiana while conducting extensive research to ensure Tiana’s Bayou Adventure preserves the heart and soul of the city that inspired Princess Tiana’s story,” the blog post said. “From exploring the French Market and the bayou, to consulting with academics, chefs, musicians and cultural institutions, Imagineers have received inspiration from all over the region and learned from local experts along the way.”
Disneyland’s Splash Mountain opened at Disneyland in 1989, and at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in 1992. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/disney-is-giving-splash-mountain-a-new-name-in-2024/ | 2022-07-02T17:18:56Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/disney-is-giving-splash-mountain-a-new-name-in-2024/ | false |
'Trying to keep up with this little one': David Beckham shares adorable clip of daughter Harper, 10, skillfully zooming around on rollerblades
David Beckham took to Instagram on Saturday to share an adorable video of his daughter Harper Seven at a roller-skating rink.
The footballer, 47, filmed the 10-year-old racing ahead of him on rollerblades, expertly navigating the brightly-lit rink.
He turned the camera around to show his proud smile as he skated behind his speedy daughter.
Look at her go! David Beckham took to Instagram on Saturday to share an adorable video of his daughter Harper Seven at a roller-skating rink
Skilled: Sharing the moment with his 74.4 million followers, David captioned the clip: 'Trying to keep up with this little one @victoriabeckham #HarperSeven'
Sharing the moment with his 74.4 million followers, David captioned the clip: 'Trying to keep up with this little one @victoriabeckham #HarperSeven'.
It comes after Victoria Beckham shared her own sweet videos of Harper, playing with makeup last month.
The model, 48, filmed her 10-year-old applying some lip gloss from her mother's brand in the mirror.
Victoria began the video by saying: 'Harper, what are you doing.'
Proud dad: The footballer, 47, filmed the 10-year-old racing ahead of him on rollerblades, expertly navigating the brightly-lit rink
Playing dress-up: It comes after Victoria Beckham took to Instagram to share adorable clips of Harper playing with make-up last month
Her youngest child replied: 'I'm putting your make-up on.'
The former Spice Girl then asked her daughter what product she was using, to which Harper responded: 'It's called Posh Gloss...'
Victoria asked Harper for a demonstration, and the daughter then applied the lip gloss, posing for a smile at the end.
Like mother, like daughter: The model, 48, filmed her 10-year-old applying some lip-gloss from her mother's brand in the mirror
'Is that your favourite colour?', the singer asked, to which Harper hummed in agreement.
The star captioned the Story: 'She learnt from the best! (And even wears the same shade as mummy!)'
In another shot she wrote: 'Someone is playing with mummy's make up,' with a crying laughter emoji.
'She learnt from the best!': Sharing the moment with her 30.1 million followers, Victoria began the video by saying: 'Harper, what are you doing?'
Family fun: Victoria asked Harper for a demonstration, and the daughter then applied the lip-gloss, posing for a smile at the end
While the whole family enjoyed their day together on Father's Day when Victoria couldn't resist making a saucy jibe while gifting her dad Tony a leaf blower.
The fashion designer filmed the electronics engineer unwrapping the power tool through layers of dazzling silver paper, while wearing blue striped pyjamas.
However, she left her mum Jackie a little red faced with a spicy innuendo, writing in her caption, 'Even my mum can have a blow!'
When Tony had realised what his doting daughter had bought him, he gushed: 'Oh thank you ever so much. Wow. Goodness me. Oh wow! Oh my goodness. Power tool.
'Even my mum can have a blow!' Victoria made a saucy jibe at her mother Jackie while gifting her dad Tony a leaf blower on Father's Day, in an Instagram video
'Oh fantastic. My leaf blower, it’s a miniature one which is fantastic. It’s got a spare battery, and oh, it’s going to be great. Even Jackie will be able to use this one.'
An amused Victoria chucked from behind the camera: 'Hours of fun in the garden with his miniature leaf blower... and you’ve got a card.'
'Very… mum is happy. You can blow the leaves Jack.'
Family: Tagging her sister, she wrote: 'Such a special weekend. Family time really is everything,' alongside a photo of (L-R) Jackie, herself, Tony and Louise
Impressed: The fashion designer filmed the electronics engineer unwrapping the power tool through layers of dazzling silver paper, while wearing blue striped pyjamas
Posh had also given the businessman a greeting card with a photo of their pair on its front, which he was very impressed with.
She continued to fill her Story with snaps of Tony clinking champagne flutes with her, as well as at a suit fitting with her husband David and his dad, also called David.
He appeared to be in high spirits while donning matching blue #1 DAD badges with the footballer in another shot.
Cute: Posh had also given the businessman a card with a photo of their pair on its front, which he was very impressed with
Suave: He looked dapper at a suit fitting with her husband David and his dad, also called David
Happy: He appeared to be in high spirits while donning matching blue #1 DAD badges with David
The former Spice Girl used the social media platform to laud David, 47, too sharing several snaps of him alongside their four children.
Having married in 1999, they share Brooklyn, 23, Romeo, 19, Cruz, 17 and Harper, 10.
Letting the images do the talking, Victoria kept her accompanying message short and sweet, penning: 'Happy Father’s Day to the best, most loving Daddy in the world!! We all love you so much @davidbeckham, you are our everything'.
Victoria also took to her Instagram Stories, to share an adorable video of David nuzzling Harper's pet rabbit Coco, and writing: 'The best daddy to the whole family, even Coco!'
Alongside a string of shots of her and Tony indulging in a few beverages, she wrote: 'Happy Father’s Day to my favourite drinking partner! We all love you so much'.
Doting dad: She continued to fill her Story with snaps of Tony clinking champagne flutes with her | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10976143/David-Beckham-shares-adorable-clip-daughter-Harper-10-skillfully-zooming-rollerblades.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-02T17:18:58Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10976143/David-Beckham-shares-adorable-clip-daughter-Harper-10-skillfully-zooming-rollerblades.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Conference realignment in college sports has been going on since 1984, when the Supreme Court invalidated the NCAA’s national television contract for football.
The conference juggling has gone through ebbs and flows through the years since, from small schools bumping up to bigger leagues to power programs switching to other major conferences.
The latest move, Southern California and UCLA bolting the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, could be part of a tectonic shift. Not just because of the marquee schools involved, but because it happened at a time when the NCAA is looking to take a more decentralized approach to governing college athletics, handing more power to schools and conferences.
“You might think this is more seismic because it’s involving wealthier schools — and arguably it is — but also it’s seismic because of the underpinnings of the system, the foundations of the system, are being challenged at a time when the financial structure is exploding,” Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist said Friday. “It may have larger ramifications, but it is a process that’s been ongoing.”
The decisions by USC and UCLA to join the Big Ten in 2024 come roughly a year after Texas and Oklahoma announced they were leaving the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference.
While surprising, even to Pac-12 officials, the announcement Thursday gives the Los Angeles schools stability and exposure in a shifting collegiate sports landscape.
“It’s huge for our student athletes, just from a national exposure perspective,” UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond said. “They’re going compete at the highest level in a major elite conference in different time zones. UCLA is always national, but now we have the ability for student athletes to showcase their talent across the country. That’s exciting.”
For all the other benefits, the bottom line to the defections is the bottom line.
The SEC has become a college football behemoth that distributed $54.6 million to each of its member schools in the 2021 fiscal year. The Big Ten has tried to keep up and had a per-school distribution of $46.1 million last year.
The Pac-12 had the lowest distribution number among Power Five schools, paying its member institutions $19.8 million in 2021.
At the core, it’s all about the TV.
The SEC has a $3 billion deal with ESPN that’s set to kick in in 2024 and the Big Ten is currently negotiating a massive media rights deal. The Pac-12 has floundered when it comes to TV as the conference’s network has struggled to gain footing while many of its games are played late at night.
With costs to run college athletic programs have climbed in recent years, exacerbated by the pandemic, moving to an even bigger conference provides more financial stability. For the Big Ten, adding UCLA and USC gives the conference a foothold in the nation’s second-largest media market.
“Money talks,” said Tom McMillen, President and CEO of Lead1, which represents Football Bowl Subdivision athletic directors and programs. “I was on the board of regents when Maryland jumped in to the Big Ten and there were all kinds of arguments about it was academics and it was this and that, but ultimately it came down to money. I think that’s the same case here.”
The defections will create two mega conferences that will hold the majority of power and money, leaving the rest of leagues scrambling to keep up.
The tiering could stratify even more if the SEC and the Big Ten continue to expand, which could be the next step.
The future power structure could consist of two, maybe three mega conferences of up to 20 schools at the top, with the Power Five joining the Group of Five conferences in the tier below but still above the Football Championship Subdivision.
More schools in the Pac-12 and Big 12, along with the ACC, could look to bolt for more stability.
Conferences losing members likely will face two options: combining with another league to form a mega conference of their own or expand on the current membership. The Pac-12 it plans to take the expansion route, issuing a statement on Friday that said it is exploring all expansion options.
“You have exploding costs on one end and your revenue sources are being decimated, which is a tremendous pressure,” Zimbalist said. “On the other hand, what do you do? Well, something pretty radical I think is going to have to happen.”
Uncertainty is the only thing that’s certain at this point.
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AP Sports Writer Joe Reedy in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s social media company and some of its employees received subpoenas from both a federal grand jury and securities regulators, according to a public disclosure Friday, possibly delaying or even killing a deal promising a cash infusion needed to take on Twitter.
Trump Media & Technology Group received subpoenas from a grand jury in New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a securities document filed by Digital World Acquisition Corp. on Friday. Digital World has plans to buy Trump Media, releasing $1.3 billion for its fledging business, but the deal is unlikely to be done during two legal probes.
Trump, who is Trump Media’s chairman, was not among the employees who received subpoenas, according to a Trump Media statement.
On Monday, Digital World announced it had received subpoenas from the same grand jury convened by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office. Digital World has been under investigation by the SEC for possible violations for months, a development that has weighed on the stock.
Digital World stock closed Friday at $5.78, down 25% in a week. It had been at over $100 last year after the company announced it had a deal to buy the former president’s social media firm.
The SEC has been looking into whether Digital World broke rules by having substantial talks about buying Trump’s company starting early last year before Digital World sold stock to the public for the first time in September. Just weeks later it announced it would be buying Trump’s company.
Digital World is one of a once-popular group of “blank-check” companies that go public as empty corporate entities with no operations, only offering investors the promise they will buy a business in the future. As such, they are allowed to sell stock to the public quickly without the usual regulatory disclosures and delays, but only if they haven’t already lined up possible acquisition targets.
Trump’s social media offering, called Truth Social, launched in February. It said it is fighting Big Tech limits on speech. Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube last year after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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TikTok is working on a deal with the Biden administration that would "fully safeguard" the app in the U.S. and quell fears about the Chinese government's accessing Americans' data, according to a letter TikTok sent to nine Republican senators that was released on Friday.
Shou Zi Chew, TikTok's chief executive, wrote that the company is nearing a final agreement with the U.S. government to ensure its data-sharing practices do not raise national security concerns.
As part of that arrangement, TikTok says all U.S. user traffic is now being routed to servers controlled by California-based Oracle, rather than TikTok's own infrastructure. Soon, he said, TikTok hopes to delete all U.S. data from the company's servers and rely completely on Oracle's storage "with access limited only to authorized personnel, pursuant to protocols being developed with the U.S. Government," Chew wrote.
Employees of Beijing-based ByteDance, which owns TikTok, can access data on the app, Chew wrote to the senators. The company has acknowledged before that some employees can gain access to U.S. user data, but the letter added new detail.
For instance, the data foreign employees can view is a "narrow set of non-sensitive TikTok user data," including public videos and comments left on videos, Chew wrote. He said none of that data is shared with Chinese government officials and ByteDance employees can only see Americans' TikTok data after an approval process overseen by the U.S.-based security team.
This system is in place to prevent possible requests from Chinese authorities. TikTok has long said Beijing has never sought Americans' information through TikTok, but the possibility has placed the hugely popular video app in the crosshairs of Washington lawmakers.
Republican senators, including Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, raised new alarms about TikTok following a recent BuzzFeed report detailing the kind of access China-based employees have to Americans' data.
And Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr recently urged Google and Apple to remove TikTok from its app stores for posing a serious national security threat. Carr worries the Chinese Community Party could get its hands on Americans' sensitive personal information.
"In fact, they came out and said that, well, of course, some of the data is accessed there. But it's only on an as-needed basis. And the definition of 'as needed' when it comes to entities beholden to the CCP is very, very different than, I think, what you or I would conceive of in terms of 'as needed,'" Carr said in an interview on Thursday with NPR's Morning Edition.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., a group led by the Treasury Department and including top officials such as those from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, continues to work with TikTok on safeguards that satisfy U.S. authorities.
TikTok, which has more than 1 billion active users around the globe, is the first global social media hit to come out of China. Despite being its largest market, it has had a bumpy ride in the U.S.
The Trump administration launched an all-out war on TikTok, attempting to have the app shut down in the U.S. unless it fully spun off from ByteDance. His administration announced an ownership deal with Oracle and Walmart that would have moved TikTok's headquarters to the U.S., but the deal was ultimately scuttled.
While the Biden White House has not followed its predecessor's scorched-earth approach, the administration has continued national security negotiations with the company to make sure the data of Americans is safe.
Some of the Republicans to whom TikTok addressed the letter were unsatisfied with its contents. Blackburn is calling on TikTok leaders to return to Washington for public testimony before Congress.
"TikTok's response confirms that our fears regarding CCP influence within the company are well-founded," Blackburn said in a statement. "They should have come clean from the start but instead tried to shroud their work in secrecy. Americans need to know that if they are on TikTok, Communist China has their information."
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An 8-year-old boy attending a block party in San Bernardino, Calif., died last July after being struck in the upper body by an illegal, mortar-style firework.
In Georgia, a 23-year-old man was killed when a firework he was holding over his head shot backward and hit him in the torso, causing massive trauma.
At least nine people died and an estimated 11,500 people were injured in fireworks-related accidents last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The number of injuries has risen 25% since 2006, and federal regulators are warning people ahead of July Fourth to be careful handling any recreational pyrotechnics.
"It's imperative that consumers know the risks involved in using fireworks, so injuries and tragedies can be prevented," commission Chair Alex Hoehn-Saric said in a statement. "The safest way to enjoy fireworks is to watch the professional displays."
Emergency department-treated fireworks injuries surged to 15,600 in 2020, but regulators suggested that could be due to the fact that some public fireworks displays were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Studying a one-month period last year that included the Fourth of July, the CPSC found that men were more likely to be injured than women, people ages 20-24 had the highest rate of injuries and victims most commonly injured their hands and fingers.
Fireworks safety tips to consider
Here are a few tips from the commission and the National Safety Council on the safe use of fireworks:
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
2-2-2-6
(two, two, two, six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
2-2-2-6
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Fourth of July holiday weekend is jamming U.S. airports with their biggest crowds since the pandemic began in 2020.
About 2.49 million passengers went through security checkpoints at U.S. airports Friday, surpassing the previous pandemic-era record of 2.46 million reached earlier in the week, according to figures released Saturday by the Transportation Security Administration.
The escalating numbers show leisure travelers aren’t being deterred from flying by rising fares, the ongoing spread of COVID-19 or worries about recurring flight delays and cancellations.
Friday’s passenger volume marked a 13% increase from July 1 last year, which fell on the Thursday before Fourth of July. This year’s number of passengers going through U.S. airports also eclipsed the 2.35 million screened at security checkpoints on the Friday before the Fourth of July in 2019, but that was nearly a week ahead of Independence Day.
In a more telling sign of how close U.S. air travel is reverting to pre-pandemic conditions, an average of 2.33 million passengers have passed through security checkpoints at domestic airports during the seven days ending July 1. That was close to the seven-day average of roughly 2.38 million passengers during the same 2019 period, according to the TSA.
But airlines have struggled to keep up with the surging demand amid staffing shortages and an assortment of other issues that have resulted in recurring waves of exasperating flight delays and cancellations that have been transforming some vacations into nightmarish ordeals.
Many airlines, including Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, have responded to the challenge by curtailing their summer schedules in an effort to reduce the inconveniences — and backlash — caused by flight delays and cancellations They are using larger planes on average to carry more passengers while they scramble to hire and train more pilots.
The headaches continued Friday, although they weren’t as bad as they have been at other times in recent months. There were more than 6,800 flight delays and another 587 flight cancellations affecting U.S. airports Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware. More than 2,200 delays and more than 540 flight cancellations had been recorded as of late Saturday morning.
Besides the flight delays and cancellations, travelers also have had to pay higher prices for tickets driven up by soaring fuel costs and other inflationary factors, as well as navigate around the health risks posed by continuing COVID-19 infections.
The travel bug is also congesting highways, even with the national average price for gasoline hovering around $5 per gallon — and above $6 per gallon in California and all its popular tourist attractions. AAA predicts that nearly 48 million people will travel at least 50 miles or more from home over the weekend, slightly fewer than in 2019. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/holiday-getaway-pushes-us-airport-traffic-to-pandemic-high/ | 2022-07-02T17:44:23Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/holiday-getaway-pushes-us-airport-traffic-to-pandemic-high/ | false |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
1219 PM CDT Sat Jul 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Pecos County
through 100 PM CDT...
At 1219 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 19
miles south of Fort Stockton, moving west at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Sierra Madera.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3080 10287 3056 10281 3057 10316 3088 10310
TIME...MOT...LOC 1719Z 100DEG 9KT 3062 10295
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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‘The heat was so intense’: Mother, daughter survive house fire together
HERNDON, Va. (WJLA) - A Virginia mother and daughter are grateful to be alive. They survived a house fire that could have claimed their lives.
Betty Werner and her daughter, Theresa Werner, said an electric blanket was the cause of last month’s fire.
“I woke up and I was real hot,” Betty Werner said.
Betty Werner’s electric blanket was ablaze.
“There were flames, but they were very small,” Theresa Werner said.
She tried to stamp out the fire with some clothing. When that didn’t work, Theresa Werner tossed a bowl of water on the blanket, which erupted in steam and flames, leaving her with second-degree burns on her face and hands.
“The hands have hurt the most,” Theresa Werner said. “The heat was so intense.”
The fire spread and damaged the family home and repairs are needed, but the mother-daughter tandem said they are glad to be alive.
“You just have to remind yourself that we walked out,” Theresa Werner said.
Betty Werner said she is thankful her daughter was there with her the night of the fire.
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Binge drinking is worse for your health than a daily drink, study finds
(CNN) - How often do you enjoy an alcoholic drink? If you classify yourself as a moderate drinker, there’s a better than 50-50 chance you’ll engage in binge drinking.
A new study found moderate drinkers, defined as having a drink a day over a week, account for more than 70% of binge drinking cases, where people drink a week’s worth of alcohol in one sitting.
The American Journal of Preventive Medicine study’s co-author says a focus on average consumption by itself hides underlying drinking patterns.
More than 1,200 drinkers aged 30 and older were studied from 2004 to 2005 and 2015 to 2016, with moderate and heavy drinkers separated.
Over the time frame, researchers found moderate drinkers made up nearly 80% of those with alcohol problems.
Those in the group binge drinking had five times better chance of developing alcohol-related health issues.
The takeaway: Problems are tied to how much a person drinks rather than how often.
Researchers say public health efforts need to focus on moderate drinkers.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
1222 PM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Broome,
east central Tioga and north central Susquehanna Counties through 100
PM EDT...
At 1221 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Union Center, or near Endicott, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Binghamton, Vestal, Johnson City, Endicott, Kirkwood, Conklin, Maine,
Port Dickinson, Greater Binghamton Airport and Tioga Terrace.
This includes the following highway exits...
New York Interstate 81 between 1 and 6.
Interstate 86/Route 17 between 67 North and 75.
Interstate 88 between 1 and 4.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 4211 7622 4224 7608 4217 7563 4191 7588
TIME...MOT...LOC 1621Z 289DEG 24KT 4216 7609
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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‘The heat was so intense’: Mother, daughter survive house fire together
HERNDON, Va. (WJLA) - A Virginia mother and daughter are grateful to be alive. They survived a house fire that could have claimed their lives.
Betty Werner and her daughter, Theresa Werner, said an electric blanket was the cause of last month’s fire.
“I woke up and I was real hot,” Betty Werner said.
Betty Werner’s electric blanket was ablaze.
“There were flames, but they were very small,” Theresa Werner said.
She tried to stamp out the fire with some clothing. When that didn’t work, Theresa Werner tossed a bowl of water on the blanket, which erupted in steam and flames, leaving her with second-degree burns on her face and hands.
“The hands have hurt the most,” Theresa Werner said. “The heat was so intense.”
The fire spread and damaged the family home and repairs are needed, but the mother-daughter tandem said they are glad to be alive.
“You just have to remind yourself that we walked out,” Theresa Werner said.
Betty Werner said she is thankful her daughter was there with her the night of the fire.
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla's sales from April through June fell to their lowest quarterly level since last fall as supply chain issues and pandemic restrictions in China hobbled production of its electric vehicles.
The company on Saturday disclosed it sold more than 254,000 cars and SUVs from April through June, an 18% drop from the first three months of this year and also well below the pace in last year's final quarter.
The last time Tesla sold fewer vehicles globally was in the third quarter of 2021 when it delivered 241,000.
On Friday, the rest of the industry reported a 21% drop in sales during the second quarter as the average price for vehicles skyrocketed to a record of $45,844 amid soaring inflation, according to J.D. Power.
Tesla's sales drop may be a harbinger of weaker second-quarter earnings for the Austin, Texas, company, which is the world's top-seller of battery-powered vehicles and has posted net profits for nearly three years. Tesla plans to release its full results for the April-June period on July 20.
Like many other stocks, Tesla shares have been hard hit this year. But the 35% decline in Tesla's stock price hasn't been entirely tied to the company's see-sawing fortunes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk also has made a $44 billion bid for Twitter, which he placed on hold after complaining that it has too many spam bot users who aren’t humans. Much of the erosion in Tesla's value has occurred since Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder and then launched a takeover bid that has raised concerns he has too much on his already crowded plate
Musk has used his own Twitter account, which now has more than 100 million followers, to discuss the pandemic restrictions that forced the Shanghai factory to temporarily close during the quarter. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives estimates that more than 40% of Tesla's sales come from China, and that the Shanghai factory produced about 70,000 fewer vehicles due to the shutdowns.
But Tesla signaled things are getting better Saturday, saying it produced more vehicles during June than in any other month in its history. The company didn't disclose the number of vehicles manufactured during June.
As of early Saturday afternoon, Musk hadn't tweeted about Tesla's second-quarter sales. But he created a bit of a stir late Friday with ending an uncharacteristically long nine-day silence on Twitter. His Friday tweets included one with him and four his children meeting with Pope Francis.
Tesla's latest delivery numbers came out a week after the release of an interview with Musk in which he described new factories in Austin and Berlin as “money furnaces” that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they can produce.
In a May 30 interview with a Tesla owners' club that was just released last week, Musk said that getting the Berlin and Austin plants functional “are overwhelmingly our concerns. Everything else is a very small thing,” Musk said, but added that “it’s all gonna get fixed real fast.”
Musk also has discussed making salaried workers return to offices and a possible 10% cut in Tesla's work force due to a possible recession.
Supply chain breakdowns since the onset of COVID-19 two years ago have been especially debilitating for automakers, who get parts from all corners of the globe. A lack of computer chips needed to run cars’ computers compounded automakers’ problems and sent prices for used and new cars skyrocketing.
As the pandemic erupted in the U.S. in 2020, automakers had to shut factories for eight weeks to help stop the virus from spreading. Some parts companies canceled orders for semiconductors. At the same time, demand for laptops, tablets and gaming consoles skyrocketed as people stuck at home upgraded their devices.
By the time auto production resumed, chip makers had shifted production to consumer goods, creating a shortage of weather-resistant automotive-grade chips. Although Tesla has fared better than other automakers, the industry still can't get enough chips.
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Which Levi’s 501 shorts are best?
Levi Strauss and Company is synonymous with high-quality denim, and their 501 silhouette is the brand’s most iconic style. But when it’s too hot for jeans, Levi’s 501 shorts are a classic. Made in a variety of cuts and washes, they’re a favorite of young celebrity influencers such as Hailey Bieber and Kylie Jenner.
If you’re looking for a pair of Levi’s 501 shorts with a universally flattering fit, the Levi’s Premium 501 Original Shorts are a top choice. They boast the perfect figure-hugging high-rise waist, a just-long-enough inseam and a versatile wash.
What to know before you buy Levi’s 501 shorts
The Levi Strauss and Company brand
Levi Strauss founded a wholesale dry foods business named Levi Strauss and Company in 1853. About two decades later, he partnered with a local tailor, Jacob Davis, who approached him with his uniquely durable pants design. The iconic American brand was born after the men obtained a patent on May 20, 1873, for what would eventually be called jeans.
Their denim was originally marketed to working-class men who needed rugged pants that could withstand the daily grind of the mining, farming and ranching industries. It wasn’t until the 1920s, when Hollywood Westerns got ahold of them, that Levi’s jeans became a household name.
Styles of Levi’s 501 shorts
The original Levi’s 501 jeans haven’t changed much since their inception. The fit boasts a straight leg, high waist and a button fly. Soft and comfortable, the 501 shorts look and feel as though you turned your old Levi’s jeans into a pair of cutoffs yourself. They’re made of thick cotton or a cotton-elastane blend for added stretch.
When it comes to options, women have more of a variety to choose from than men do.
Inseam: Most 501 shorts for women feature an inseam of just 2.5 inches, while the longer mid-thigh shorts feature an inseam of 6 inches. Plus-size options offer a 4-inch inseam.
Rise: The rise differs somewhat depending on the style you choose. For instance, the rise of the 501 Original Shorts is 11.125 inches, while the rise of the 501 Original Mid-Thigh Shorts is 10.5 inches. For plus sizes, the rise is 12.87 inches on the 501 Original High-Rise Shorts or 13.375 inches on the regular 501 Shorts.
Distressed: Depending on how worn you want your shorts to look, some 501 shorts come gently ripped, while others feature holes in them.
Men are only offered 501 shorts that sit at the waist, hit above the knee (with inseams of either 7 or 9 inches) and are either neatly hemmed or slightly frayed at the bottom.
Customization
If you want to add your own personal touches to your shorts, the Levi’s website has an option that lets you customize your look. You can choose from different washes as well as add an overdye, such as black, green or lavender. You can also pick a pattern, like leopard, bandana or tie-dye. If you prefer the distressed look, the options include “worn,” “damaged” and “destructed.”
What to look for in quality Levi’s 501 shorts
Washes and colors
While you might not want your favorite pair of denim shorts in every color, Levi’s offers their 501 shorts in more than a dozen different washes. In addition to classic blues, you can also find them in black, white and gray as well as brighter options, like yellow, lilac and pink.
Sustainability
When you buy eco-friendly clothes, it incentivizes companies to make more environmentally friendly upgrades to their factories and sourced materials. Levi’s factories have committed to using renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They also use their own Water<Less techniques, which take less water to create the same worn-in looks. If you love vintage, their Levi’s Authorized Vintage line of 501 shorts features reclaimed pieces that are one of a kind.
How much you can expect to spend on Levi’s 501 shorts
You can find Levi’s original 501 jean shorts for around $40-$70, Levi’s premium 501 shorts for $60-$80 and Levi’s authorized vintage 501 shorts for $128 or more.
Levi’s 501 shorts FAQ
How should you wash your Levi’s 501 shorts?
A. Levi’s recommends that you wash your shorts every 10 wears. When you do wash them, turn them inside out so that you can preserve their finish.
How can you ensure your shorts fit perfectly?
A. Find the size that fits the largest part of your body and ask a tailor to alter the other areas. For example, if your shorts fit your hips, but the waist is too large, a tailor can take the waistband in so they fit like a glove.
What are the best Levi’s 501 shorts to buy?
Top Levi’s 501 shorts
Levi’s Women’s Premium 501 Original Shorts
What you need to know: It has a universally flattering fit that shows off your curves in all the right places.
What you’ll love: It sports a high 10.5-inch rise that accentuates your waist. It also has a 2.5-inch inseam and boasts a chewed hem that creates a flattering flare. These were made using Levi’s eco-friendly Water<Less technique.
What you should consider: The 2.5-inch inseam might be a little short for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Levi’s 501 shorts for the money
What you need to know: These sustainably made shorts boast standard and plus sizes.
What you’ll love: These cotton shorts are fitted through the hip and thigh with a 10.75-inch front rise and a 15.25-inch back rise for added coverage. They feature a 3-inch inseam unrolled and a 2.5-inch inseam when rolled.
What you should consider: Try sizing up if you are between sizes because these shorts do not have any elastane for stretch.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Kohl’s
Worth checking out
Levi’s Women’s Premium 501 Mid-Thigh Short
What you need to know: If you want the iconic denim cutoffs with a little more length, these can be your next favorite shorts.
What you’ll love: These shorts boast a 6-inch inseam, which you can roll up for a custom fit. Their high-rise waist helps you show off your curves, and they come in sizes 23-34.
What you should consider: Some might find the five-button fly to be a bit of a challenge.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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Texas Supreme Court blocks order that resumed abortions
The Texas Supreme Court blocked a lower court order late Friday night that said clinics could continue performing abortions, just days after some doctors had resumed seeing patients after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
It was not immediately clear whether Texas clinics that had resumed seeing patients this week would halt services again. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.
The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again — all in the span of a week — illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place across the country since Roe was overturned.
An order by a Houston judge earlier this week had reassured some clinics they could temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy. That was quickly followed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking the state’s highest court, which is stocked with nine Republican justices, to temporarily put the order on hold.
“These laws are confusing, unnecessary, and cruel,” said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, after the order was issued Friday night.
Clinics in Texas had stopped performing abortions in the state of nearly 30 million people after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion. Texas had technically left an abortion ban on the books for the past 50 years while Roe was in place.
A copy of Friday’s order was provided by attorneys for Texas clinics. It could not immediately be found on the court’s website.
Abortion providers and patients across the country have been struggling to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access.
In Florida, a law banning abortions after 15 weeks went into effect Friday, the day after a judge called it a violation of the state constitution and said he would sign an order temporarily blocking the law next week. The ban could have broader implications in the South, where Florida has wider access to the procedure than its neighbors.
Abortion rights have been lost and regained in the span of a few days in Kentucky. A so-called trigger law imposing a near-total ban on the procedure took effect last Friday, but a judge blocked the law Thursday, meaning the state’s only two abortion providers can resume seeing patients — for now.
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings able to upend access at a moment’s notice and an influx of new patients from out of state overwhelming providers.
Even when women travel outside states with abortion bans in place, they may have fewer options to end their pregnancies as the prospect of prosecution follows them.
Planned Parenthood of Montana this week stopped providing medication abortions to patients who live in states with bans “to minimize potential risk for providers, health center staff, and patients in the face of a rapidly changing landscape.”
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers the procedure in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, is telling its patients that they must take both pills in the regimen in a state that allows abortions.
The use of abortion pills has been the most common method to end a pregnancy since 2000, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone — the main drug used in medication abortions. Taken with misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb, it constitutes the abortion pill.
“There’s a lot of confusion and concern that the providers may be at risk, and they are trying to limit their liability so they can provide care to people who need it,” said Dr. Daniel Grossman, who directs the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Bisek, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said that in an “unknown and murky” legal environment, they decided to tell patients they must be in a state where it is legal to complete the medication abortion — which requires taking two drugs 24 to 48 hours apart. She said most patients from states with bans are expected to opt for surgical abortions.
Access to the pills has become a key battle in abortion rights, with the Biden administration preparing to argue states can’t ban a medication that has received FDA approval.
Kim Floren, who operates an abortion fund in South Dakota called Justice Empowerment Network, said the development would further limit women’s choices.
“The purpose of these laws anyways is to scare people,” Floren said of states’ bans on abortions and telemedicine consultations for medication abortions. “The logistics to actually enforcing these is a nightmare, but they rely on the fact that people are going to be scared.”
A South Dakota law took effect Friday that threatens a felony punishment for anyone who prescribes medication for an abortion without a license from the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
In Alabama, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said it is reviewing whether people or groups could face prosecution for helping women fund and travel to out-of-state abortion appointments.
Yellowhammer Fund, an Alabama-based group that helps low-income women cover abortion and travel costs, said it is pausing operation for two weeks because of the lack of clarity under state law.
“This is a temporary pause, and we’re going to figure out how we can legally get you money and resources and what that looks like,” said Kelsea McLain, Yellowhammer’s health care access director.
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said staff members at its clinics have seen women driving from as far as Texas without stopping or making an appointment. Women who are past 15 weeks are being asked to leave their information and promised a call back when a judge signs the order temporarily blocking the restriction, she said.
Still, there is concern that the order may be only temporary and the law may again go into effect later, creating additional confusion.
“It’s terrible for patients,” she said. “We are really nervous about what is going to happen.” | https://whyy.org/articles/texas-supreme-court-blocks-order-that-resumed-abortions/ | 2022-07-02T18:10:55Z | https://whyy.org/articles/texas-supreme-court-blocks-order-that-resumed-abortions/ | true |
Binge drinking is worse for your health than a daily drink, study finds
(CNN) - How often do you enjoy an alcoholic drink? If you classify yourself as a moderate drinker, there’s a better than 50-50 chance you’ll engage in binge drinking.
A new study found moderate drinkers, defined as having a drink a day over a week, account for more than 70% of binge drinking cases, where people drink a week’s worth of alcohol in one sitting.
The American Journal of Preventive Medicine study’s co-author says a focus on average consumption by itself hides underlying drinking patterns.
More than 1,200 drinkers aged 30 and older were studied from 2004 to 2005 and 2015 to 2016, with moderate and heavy drinkers separated.
Over the time frame, researchers found moderate drinkers made up nearly 80% of those with alcohol problems.
Those in the group binge drinking had five times better chance of developing alcohol-related health issues.
The takeaway: Problems are tied to how much a person drinks rather than how often.
Researchers say public health efforts need to focus on moderate drinkers.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/02/binge-drinking-is-worse-your-health-than-daily-drink-study-finds/ | 2022-07-02T18:14:20Z | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/02/binge-drinking-is-worse-your-health-than-daily-drink-study-finds/ | true |
Newcastle's Covid vaccine allocation 'not enough'
- Published
Newcastle's Covid vaccine allocation is not enough to protect people against the virus, a health boss has warned.
Cases have risen by half a million in a week in the UK and outbreaks have been reported in the city's care homes.
The city council's interim director of public health, Lorna Smith, said "limited" vaccine availability was "quite challenging".
The council was working with the NHS to make sure vaccines were "reaching those most at risk still", she said.
Just under 3% of people in the city are thought to have Covid, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
'Couple of hundred'
The city's vaccination rates have lagged behind neighbouring areas and the national average throughout the pandemic.
Just under 54% of those eligible have had a booster dose compared with 68.6% across England.
For first and second doses the rate is 75% and 70%, well below the national average of 93.2% and 87.2%.
Ms Smith told Newcastle City Council's health scrutiny committee the number of vaccines was not enough to substantially increase these numbers.
"It is really difficult if we are only getting a couple of hundred or not very many each week," she said.
"We do anticipate there will be more supply coming with the autumn campaign but currently supply is quite challenging in terms of how we allocate it and where to make sure it is all used."
The rate of infections per 100,000 people across the North East, as of 26 June, was:
- Northumberland - 253.54
- Gateshead - 244.12
- North Tyneside - 231.72
- County Durham - 224.14
- Sunderland - 208.03
- Newcastle - 199.53
- South Tyneside - 173.36
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VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — The bodies of two young children have been recovered from a Minnesota lake, and searchers are still looking for a third they fear may have been intentionally drowned.
Meanwhile, the father of the children died at a different location hours earlier, and their mother is missing. Names have not been released.
The chain of events began Friday morning when the father was found dead at a mobile home park in the town of Maplewood, near Minneapolis. Police determined that the woman had left with the children, and a search began.
Maplewood Police Lt. Joe Steiner said the woman’s car was found near Vadnais Lake around 4 p.m. Friday. The shoes of the children were found on the shore.
A search of the lake found one child’s body Friday evening. A second body was found overnight. Searchers from several organizations were busy Saturday looking for the third, as well as the mother.
Authorities believe all three children were under the age of 5.
“There’s nothing more tragic than the loss of young children,” Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said at a news conference on Friday. He called the deaths a “likely triple homicide.” | https://wgntv.com/news/bodies-of-2-of-3-missing-kids-found-in-minnesota-lake/ | 2022-07-02T18:24:42Z | https://wgntv.com/news/bodies-of-2-of-3-missing-kids-found-in-minnesota-lake/ | true |
Texas Supreme Court blocks order that said clinics could continue abortions
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it's landmark 1973 ruling that confirmed a constitutional right to abortion.
It was not immediately clear whether the clinics in Texas that resumed performing abortions just days ago would halt services again following the ruling late Friday night. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.
The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again — all in the span of a week — illustrates the confusion and scrambling that has taken place across the country since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
An order by a Houston judge on Tuesday had reassured some clinics they could temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton quickly asked the state’s highest court, which is stocked with nine Republican justices, to temporarily put that order on hold.
"These laws are confusing, unnecessary, and cruel," said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, after the order was issued Friday night.
A police officer secures the gate at the State Capitol as abortion rights demonstrators march nearby in Austin, Texas, June 25, 2022. (Photo by Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images)
Clinics in Texas — a state of nearly 30 million people — stopped performing abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade. Texas had left an abortion ban on the books for the past 50 years while Roe was in place.
Attorneys for Texas clinics provided a copy of Friday's order, which was not immediately available on the court’s website.
Abortion providers and patients across the country have been struggling to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access.
In Florida, a law banning abortions after 15 weeks went into effect Friday, the day after a judge called it a violation of the state constitution and said he would sign an order temporarily blocking the law next week. The ban could have broader implications in the South, where Florida has wider access to the procedure than its neighbors.
Abortion rights have been lost and regained in the span of a few days in Kentucky. A so-called trigger law imposing a near-total ban on the procedure took effect last Friday, but a judge blocked the law Thursday, meaning the state’s only two abortion providers can resume seeing patients — for now.
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings upending access at a moment's notice and an influx of new patients from out of state overwhelming providers.
Even when women travel outside states with abortion bans in place, they may have fewer options to end their pregnancies as the prospect of prosecution follows them.
Planned Parenthood of Montana this week stopped providing medication abortions to patients who live in states with bans "to minimize potential risk for providers, health center staff, and patients in the face of a rapidly changing landscape."
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers the procedure in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, is telling its patients that they must take both pills in the regimen in a state that allows abortions.
The use of abortion pills has been the most common method to end a pregnancy since 2000, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone, the main drug used in medication abortions. Taken with misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb, it constitutes the abortion pill.
"There’s a lot of confusion and concern that the providers may be at risk, and they are trying to limit their liability so they can provide care to people who need it," said Dr. Daniel Grossman, who directs the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Bisek, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said that in an "unknown and murky" legal environment, they decided to tell patients they must be in a state where it is legal to complete the medication abortion -- which requires taking two drugs 24 to 48 hours apart. She said most patients from states with bans are expected to opt for surgical abortions.
Access to the pills has become a key battle in abortion rights, with the Biden administration preparing to argue states can’t ban a medication that has received FDA approval.
Kim Floren, who operates an abortion fund in South Dakota called Justice Empowerment Network, said the development would further limit women's choices.
"The purpose of these laws anyways is to scare people," Floren said of states’ bans on abortions and telemedicine consultations for medication abortions. "The logistics to actually enforcing these is a nightmare, but they rely on the fact that people are going to be scared."
A South Dakota law took effect Friday that threatens a felony punishment for anyone who prescribes medication for an abortion without a license from the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
In Alabama, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said it is reviewing whether people or groups could face prosecution for helping women fund and travel to out-of-state abortion appointments.
Yellowhammer Fund, an Alabama-based group that helps low-income women cover abortion and travel costs, said it is pausing operation for two weeks because of the lack of clarity under state law.
"This is a temporary pause, and we’re going to figure out how we can legally get you money and resources and what that looks like," said Kelsea McLain, Yellowhammer’s health care access director.
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said staff members at its clinics have seen women driving from as far as Texas without stopping — or making an appointment. Women who are past 15 weeks were being asked to leave their information and promised a call back if a judge signs the order temporarily blocking the restriction, she said.
Still, there is concern that the order may be only temporary and the law may again go into effect later, creating additional confusion.
"It’s terrible for patients," she said. "We are really nervous about what is going to happen."
___
Izaguirre reported from Tallahassee, Florida, and Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. AP writers Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Kentucky; Adriana Gomez Licon in Miami; and Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama, contributed to this report. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-supreme-court-blocks-order-resuming-abortions | 2022-07-02T18:25:39Z | https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-supreme-court-blocks-order-resuming-abortions | false |
What are the best fruit slicers and vegetable choppers for easy summer salad prep?
In the summer months, it’s great to take advantage of the gorgeous weather by spending as much time outdoors before cool temperatures arrive. But, if you feel like everyday tasks such as cooking, cleaning and working leave you little time to enjoy your day, you’re not alone.
Luckily, a few convenient gadgets can help you spend less time in the kitchen and more time outside. So, whether you’re cooking for one or prepping for a dinner party, here are the best fruit slicers and vegetable choppers to make summer salad prep easy.
How to pick the right fruit slicers and vegetable choppers
Type
The two main types of food choppers are manual and electric.
- Manual: Most fruit slicers and vegetable choppers are operated manually. While they require extra force to push or pull, they’re generally less expensive and straightforward to use. Manual slicers and choppers also give you more control over the size and shape of the pieces.
- Electric: Electric fruit and vegetable tools are the best for cutting down on time. Also, if you cannot provide enough elbow grease to use manual gadgets, electric tools are an excellent option. As a downside, they’re generally more expensive and take up more counter or storage space.
Ease of use
The goal of using kitchen tools is to make your life easier by saving time or effort. However, some fruit and vegetable slicers don’t save you time and may not be worth using if you can do the job faster by hand. It’s also smart to pay attention to the cleaning instructions. For example, if you get a spiral slicer with many components, check if they’re dishwasher safe or need to be cleaned by hand.
Safety
Whether cutting with a knife or using a fruit slicer, safety is the first priority. Many tools save time and do the task more safely than a knife. For instance, most mandoline slicers come with gloves, a food holder or a safety guard to keep your fingers away from the blade.
Best fruit slicers and vegetable choppers
Under $20
Chef’n Original Strawberry Huller
One of the most quintessential fruits you’ll want to add to your summer salad is strawberries. This tool saves time on de-stemming with a simple push of a button and a tiny twist. It keeps fingers safe, reduces waste and is versatile enough to use on other produce, such as small peppers.
Sold by Amazon
OXO Good Grips 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer
Preparing avocado for your salad is often difficult and dangerous. However, this tool splits the avocado, removes the pit, slices and removes seven perfectly cut pieces. With a non-slip grip and dull plastic edges, it’s much safer than using a knife.
Sold by Amazon
From grapes to cherry tomatoes to olives, this compact cutter is an ideal tool to save you time in the kitchen. It quarters your produce into bite-sized pieces, perfect for your summer salad. As a bonus, it comes with a snap-on cover for safety and on-the-go use and comes apart to clean in the dishwasher.
Sold by Amazon
KitchenAid Classic Fruit Slicer
Whether you’re adding apples, pears or other hard produce to your salad, this tool makes the job effortless by coring and slicing in a single motion. While the stainless steel blades are durable and strong enough to chop cleanly through, the ergonomic handles are comfortable and add stability when slicing.
Sold by Amazon
Under $30
Spring Chef Premium Swivel Vegetable Peeler
With most fruits and vegetables requiring peeling, this tool may be one of your most-used kitchen gadgets during the summer. The stainless steel blades are designed to stay extra sharp and swivel for effortless peeling. It’s also dishwasher safe and features a soft-grip handle for comfort.
Sold by Amazon
This unique chopper utilizes a pull cord to operate the blades. While it takes a little strength, this gadget is quiet and ideal for taking on camping trips. It also features a speed control switch for several types of produce and only has a few pieces to clean.
Sold by Amazon
Trudeau Toss and Chop Salad Tongs
It’s never been easier to chop lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and other produce than with this convenient gadget. These chopping tongs have soft-grip handles and eliminate the need for a cutting board.
Sold by Amazon
SameTech Stainless Steel Pineapple Tool
One of the trickiest fruits to enjoy is pineapple due to its prickly exterior, tough core and unique shape. With this tool, you can quickly and effortlessly peel, core and slice an entire pineapple, choosing from rings or bite-sized pieces. Plus, it’s dishwasher safe for convenient clean-up.
Sold by Amazon
Hamilton Beach Electric Vegetable Chopper
This electric chopper is ideal for those who need an option requiring little to no elbow grease. It’s easy to assemble and is capable of dicing, mincing and pureeing. Since you press to activate the blades and lift to stop, it’s also safe to use.
Sold by Amazon
OXO Good Grips Salad Chopper With Bowl
Look no further than this salad chopper if you want to finely chop all your items together. Cutting everything in the same bowl minimizes dirty dishes and saves time. The chopper has a non-slip grip handle, and the blades are designed to keep contact with the bowl’s curves.
Sold by Amazon
Under $50
If you had to pick just one tool to save you time prepping summer salads, consider this versatile mandoline and chopper. It has four blades to dice small or large pieces, spiralize or ribbon vegetables. Plus, it all collects in the convenient 1.2L tray, eliminating the need for cutting boards and knives entirely.
Sold by Amazon
Dash Safe Slice Mandoline Slicer
With this one tool, you can create 30 unique cuts from one to eight mm thickness, including matchstick, julienne and slicing. It’s also one of the safest tools since it’s designed to prevent your hands from going near the blades. As a bonus, it folds down compactly to take up little space on your counter or in storage.
Sold by Amazon
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Premier High opening second tuition-free school in Lubbock: Here's how to enroll
Premier High School will add a second location in Lubbock, and is expected to open in the fall, according to a news release. Here's what you should know, including location and how to enroll.
The new school will be at 5302 Avenue Q, and is a tuition-free, mastery-based public charter high school. It, like the first location, aims to "help more students get back on track, earn a diploma and receive the professional training they need after graduation," according to the release.
"Demand for our program is at an all-time high,” said Natasha Newman, campus director. "Just like our first campus, our new location will give more students a better opportunity to graduate with a diploma and achieve their goals."
Premier has flexible schedules to help students "earn their diplomas and prepare for a meaningful career, military service, or continuing education," according to the release.
Potential students can apply at https://premierhighschools.com/lubbock-briercroft/ or call 806-323-4896 for more information.
Alana Edgin is a journalist covering Business News in Lubbock and the surrounding area. Send her a news tip at aedgin@lubbockonline.com. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/business/2022/07/02/premier-high-school-expands-second-lubbock-location/7767575001/ | 2022-07-02T18:30:47Z | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/business/2022/07/02/premier-high-school-expands-second-lubbock-location/7767575001/ | true |
The 12 jurors chosen this past week to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.
The jurors and their alternates will tour the bloodstained building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz murdered 17 in 2018. They will see graphic security videos of teens being shot point-blank. They will hear tearful testimony from survivors and parents. And they will be told not to talk about any of it with anyone. If jurors need help, they are on their own.
Florida and most states do not provide post-trial mental health counseling. | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/parkland-jurors-must-manage-trial-stress-on-their-own | 2022-07-02T18:33:59Z | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/parkland-jurors-must-manage-trial-stress-on-their-own | false |
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Hammond's Festival of the Lakes will feature a Polka Party, Mayor’s Gold Cup Roadie Run 5K along Wolf Lake and Rod, Custom & Bike Show.
Walkers and runners of all ages and abilities can compete in the Kathleen Pucalik Memorial 5K Roadie Run before the Festival of the Lakes, which features a carnival, food vendors, a fireworks show and free concerts from performers like Counting Crows and Rick Ross.
It will start and end at Wolf Lake Pavilion on July 9. The race kicks off at 8 a.m., with registration starting at 6:30 a.m. A free children's race starts at 8:15.
Runners will compete for the top two male and female spots in a number of age categories.
The Polka Party will take place from 2-6 p.m. July 18 at the Hammond Marina at 701 Casino Center Drive.
The E-Z Tones will perform traditional Polish music.
"The E-Z Tones, a six-member group, have been playing polka and old-time music for over 45 years," Hammond said in a press release. "The band was formed in 1975 in Michigan City and has performed for numerous festivals, weddings, and dances in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York."
The band has undergone some lineup shuffles and racked up quite a bit of experience over the years.
"Though there have been some changes over the years, the current group includes three original members, the Sienkowski brothers. Eddie, Dan, and Tom Sienkowski are all from Indiana," Hammond said in a press release. "They are joined by cousin Wayne Sienkowski, Fred Edelmaier, and Al Jelinek from the Chicago area. Almost all of us have been fortunate enough to be a part of 'The Ampol Aires' polka band for quite a few years. Together The E-Z Tones have over 250 years of experience playing the music they love."
There also will be dancing and Polish food from Cavalier Inn available for purchase.
People are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets.
For more information, visit festivalofthelakes.com or call 219.853.6378 for more information.
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"It is another tale in a long string of betrayals by the company, which now has permanently closed nearly two thirds of the assets it acquired from National Steel along with other acquisitions."
Parents and guardians of Indiana children with disabilities can take advantage of a new state program giving them total control over their child's education funding.
"After the children were dressed, (the father) approached Jerry (Palmer) and told him, 'if I find out there was any foul play, I'll (expletive) kill you," according to a newly-filed charging document.
Instead of piling returned merchandise onto a growing inventory heap, stores are considering just handing customers their money back and letting them keep the stuff they don't want.
During the encounter, the officer "was forced to discharge his weapon, striking the male," said Lt. Dawn Westerfield, Gary Police public information officer.
A Hammond Walmart associate Erika Ramirez got a big surprise when she was recently promoted on stage at the Walmart Shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas.
This sign welcomes visitors to Wolf Lake in Hammond. | https://www.nwitimes.com/festival-of-the-lakes-to-feature-roadie-run-5k-polka-party-and-car-show/article_657268f0-ab59-5ec5-bf4a-b7ccdc939d83.html | 2022-07-02T18:35:35Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/festival-of-the-lakes-to-feature-roadie-run-5k-polka-party-and-car-show/article_657268f0-ab59-5ec5-bf4a-b7ccdc939d83.html | false |
Jamie Carragher brands Gary Neville a clown for thinking Cristiano Ronaldo rejected Man City for Man United as pundits get involved in Twitter spat over forward's shock request to leave Manchester United
- Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher have clashed online over Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer request
- Ronaldo has asked to leave Manchester United if they receive a suitable offer
- Carragher called Neville a 'clown' for his position over Ronaldo's bombshell
Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher have engaged in a public spat over Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer request at Manchester United, with both pundits trading insults in their disagreement.
Ronaldo's bombshell request to leave Old Trafford should a suitable offer for him be submitted sent shockwaves across the football landscape on Saturday.
The Portuguese superstar's decision is said to be driven by his desire to play in the Champions League for the remainder of his career, according to The Times.
Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville feuded online over Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer request
Ronaldo has made a bombshell request to leave Manchester United if a good offer is received
Ronaldo was United's most successful performer in an otherwise risible season for the Red Devils, scoring 18 league goals while the team slumped to sixth position.
Ex-Liverpool defender Carragher began the taunting by tweeting that Ronaldo's announcement vindicated his assessment of the Portuguese superstar's return to Manchester.
'Ronaldo did exactly what I thought he would do, score goals but make the team worse. The transfer request also kills the idea he turned down Man City because of his love for Man United,' wrote Carragher, signing off with a crying-laughing emoji.
Ronaldo was linked to Manchester City before re-joining United at the end of last summer
It didn't take long for Neville to respond to his longtime Sky Sports co-pundit and call out his analysis.
'I get it , you’re full of yourselves but he can turn down City for United because he likes them more and still want to leave this summer. He left before but still loved the club,' Neville wrote.
The former Manchester United player couldn't help signing off with a barb, writing 'Enjoy Saturday night and your short period of success,' most likely in reference to Liverpool's recent trophy-winning era.
Carragher replied by calling Neville a 'clown' in emoji form and berating Neville for celebrating Ronaldo's return last season.
'City didn’t want him you (clown face emoji) and you’re the same fella who kept saying it was like Elvis had arrived in Manchester! Elvis has left the building,' followed by yet more crying-laughing faces.
In a wry nod to Carragher's Elvis Presley reference, Neville signed off by asking for 'a little less conversation' from his counterpart, effectively telling the former Liverpool man to stop talking by using the title of a famous Elvis song.
The Portugal international believes he still has 'three or four years' left at the highest level
Ronaldo has never played in the Europa League, which United qualified for after finishing sixth in the Premier League.
The Portugal international believes he still has 'three or four years' left at the highest level of the game, The Times reported.
Should Ronaldo end up at another Premier League club - and Chelsea have been heavily linked with a move for him - no doubt there will be plenty more bickering between Neville and Carragher to come. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10976299/Gary-Neville-Jamie-Carragher-trade-insults-spat-Cristiano-Ronaldos-bombshell-request.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-02T18:41:17Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10976299/Gary-Neville-Jamie-Carragher-trade-insults-spat-Cristiano-Ronaldos-bombshell-request.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Mohammed Zubair | The man who chased facts
The Alt News journalist was arrested over a tweet of an image from an old film
“They cannot file a complaint against me for writing a story because we have facts with us in our stories,” Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of fact-check website Alt News, said in an interview in October 2021. “They cannot attack us on the story that we’ve written, so they are looking to attack me for any other unrelated tweet.” A Twitter sensation with over half-a-million followers, Mr. Zubair was both loved and loathed on the social networks. While many applaud the efforts by Alt News, the website he co-founded with Pratik Sinha, to debunk disinformation and misinformation campaigns, his critics, mainly those in the right-wing online ecosystem, have repeatedly targeted him.
On June 27, the 39-year-old journalist was arrested by the Delhi Police, based on a complaint from an anonymous Twitter handle that alleged that Mr. Zubair hurt religious sentiments over a tweet he sent out four years ago and that he should be prosecuted for the same. The tweet was of an image from a 40-year-old film. The FIR lodged by the Delhi Police, which works under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), initially invoked Sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 295-A (malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings) of the Indian Penal Code. Subsequently, on July 2, additional charges, including criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence, along with Section 35 of the FCRA, or the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, were applied.
Rise to prominence
A computer engineer-turned-journalist, Mr. Zubair, who had earlier worked with Nokia, joined hands with Mr. Sinha, also a former software engineer, to launch Alt News in 2017.
Within no time, the website rose to prominence for its diligent work, at a time when fake news was being spread on digital platforms like wildfire. They have compiled a list of more than 40 fake news sources on various social media platforms, and repeatedly called out disinformation campaigns and fake reports. Recently, Mr. Sinha and Mr. Zubair were named by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo in its yearly shortlist for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is not the first time Mr. Zubair is facing legal cases. In 2020, two FIRs were lodged against him — one in New Delhi and the other in Chhattisgarh — under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act for alleged “online harassment and torture” of a minor girl.
In June 2022, before his arrest by the Delhi Police, he was named in an FIR lodged in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by calling Hindu religious figures Mahant Bajrang Muni, Yati Narsinghanand and Swami Anand Swarup “hatemongers” on Twitter after their inflammatory speeches, openly calling for violence against Muslims.
Angry with his work, right-wing elements have often called him an “Islamist” and a “jihadist”, while demanding legal action against him and Alt News. His arrest came after he highlighted the controversial comments made by Nupur Sharma, now suspended from the BJP, that caused international embarrassment to the government.
After the Nupur Sharma controversy, Mr. Zubair had told media that the threats against him and his family had increased and this time the threats looked “serious and real”. Hashtags such as #ArrestZubair” started trending on Twitter. A day after his arrest, Mr. Zubair gave a statement, saying he was being targeted for his “name and his profession”. His lawyer Vrinda Grover, while arguing for his bail, submitted that “many had tweeted the same; the only difference between those handles and mine is my faith, my name and my profession”.
The arrest has triggered sharp responses from both within and outside the country. Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, said, while responding to Mr. Zubair’s arrest, “it is very important that people be allowed to express themselves freely, journalists be allowed to express themselves freely and without the threat of any harassment.”
Mr. Zubair is still in jail. But Mr. Sinha says the arrest would not have any impact on the journalism Alt News does. “We at @AltNews will continue to fight misinformation, disinformation and hate speech, and keep holding people and organisations accountable, and nothing can stop that,” he tweeted on June 28.
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KALAMAZOO, MI— Shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, July 1, firefighters with the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to a home on the 1400 block of James St. near Stockbridge Ave.
First reported by WWMT-TV 3, the department shared a post on social media that said when responding crews first arrived, they could see smoke and flames coming from the upper levels of the house.
Fire officials said the fire was under control after approximately 15 minutes.
Traffic in the area was diverted as late as 11:30 p.m. while crews worked to knock out the fire and continued their investigation.
No one was reported injured in the incident in part due to the home being condemned and vacant, but the issue is still under investigation by Fire Marshal Scott Brooks office as suspicious because the home had no working utilities.
Anyone with more information can contact the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety at 269-337-8120.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced on Friday that it will provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s heavy reliance on long-range strikes in the war.
Russia in recent days has launched dozens of missiles across Ukraine and pinned down Ukrainian forces with continuous fire for sometimes hours at a time. Ukraine’s leaders have publicly called on Western allies to quickly send more ammunition and advanced systems that will help them narrow the gap in equipment and manpower.
All told, the U.S. has committed more than $8.8 billion in weapons and military training to Ukraine, whose leaders have sought more help from Western allies to repel larger and heavily equipped Russian forces. About $7 billion of that aid has been announced since Russia’s February invasion.
“We are going to support Ukraine as long as it takes,” President Joe Biden said this week at a press conference during the NATO summit in Madrid. He argued that Russia had already suffered a blow to its international standing and major damage to its economy from Western sanctions imposed over the invasion.
The U.S. is giving Ukrainians “the capacity” so that “they can continue to resist the Russian aggression,” Biden said. “And so I don’t know how it’s going to end, but it will not end with a Russian defeat of Ukraine in Ukraine.”
Much of the aid formally announced Friday will take weeks or months to reach Ukraine.
As part of the new package, the U.S. will purchase two systems known as NASAMS, a Norwegian-developed anti-aircraft system that is used to protect the airspace around the White House and Capitol in Washington. A senior defense official told reporters the NASAMS are intended to help Ukraine transition away from using Soviet-era air defense systems that besides being well known to the Russians have to be repaired with spare parts that are hard to procure. The official briefed reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss military assessments.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude.
“I am especially grateful today to the United States and to Biden personally for the package of support for Ukraine announced today, which includes very powerful NASAMS — an anti-aircraft missile system that will significantly strengthen our air defense. We have worked hard for these supplies,” Zelenskyy said late Friday in his nightly video address.
The Pentagon will also provide the Ukrainians with up to 150,000 rounds of 155-millimeter artillery ammunition. Given the high usage of artillery on both sides, it’s unclear how long those new rounds would last. The official declined to say how many estimated rounds Ukraine and Russia are firing daily.
And the Pentagon will also buy four counter-artillery radars for Ukraine. Those new purchases, funded by the Pentagon’s Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, require weeks at a minimum for defense companies to build. Ukrainians are also being trained to use the newly provided systems.
The Pentagon will also provide additional ammunition for medium-range rocket systems it provided Ukraine in June, known as the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS. The ammunition will come from the Defense Department’s own inventory under what’s known as drawdown authority and will be made available to Ukraine more quickly.
This is the 14th package of military weapons and equipment transferred to Ukraine from Defense Department stocks since August 2021.
The war has evolved into a grinding stalemate in which both sides are heavily reliant on artillery, according to Western officials and analysts. While Russia has not achieved its initial goals of toppling Ukraine’s government, it is believed to be making slow progress in consolidating control over the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-announces-820m-in-ukraine-aid-including-missile-systems/ | 2022-07-02T18:56:00Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-announces-820m-in-ukraine-aid-including-missile-systems/ | true |
Woman found dead with gunshot wound inside residence, Peoria police say
PEORIA – A woman has been arrested in connection with the early Saturday morning death of another woman.
Kaitlyn Taylor, 24, was questioned and then arrested on the single count of first-degree murder in connection with the death, according to Semone Roth of the Peoria Police Department.
She was taken to the Peoria County Jail where she could appear before a judge within 48 hours to have her bond set.
At about 4:19 a.m., officers were called to the 300 block of South Sterling Avenue by a woman who was asking for help. When they arrived, they found the victim with a gunshot wound inside of a residence.
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It wasn't immediately clear the relationship between Taylor and the victim. Roth declined to release further information. Information regarding the victim, as well as the manner and cause of death, will be released by the Peoria County coroner.
The fatal shooting is the city's 11th homicide of the year and the second this week.
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Tesla sees quarterly sales drop amid supply chain and pandemic problems
Tesla’s sales from April to June fell to their lowest quarterly level since last autumn as supply chain issues and pandemic restrictions in China hobbled production of its electric vehicles.
The company on Saturday disclosed it sold more than 254,000 cars and SUVs from April until June – an 18% drop from the first three months of this year and well below the pace in last year’s final quarter.
The last time Tesla sold fewer vehicles globally was in the third quarter of 2021 when it delivered 241,000.
On Friday, the rest of the industry reported a 21% drop in sales during the second quarter as the average price for vehicles rocketed to a record of 45,844 US dollars (£37,872) amid soaring inflation, according to JD Power.
Tesla’s sales drop may be a harbinger of weaker second-quarter earnings for the Texas company, which is the world’s top seller of battery-powered vehicles and has posted net profits for nearly three years.
Tesla plans to release its full results for the April-June period on July 20.
Like many other stocks, Tesla shares have been hard hit this year.
But the 35% decline in Tesla’s stock price has not been entirely tied to the company’s see-sawing fortunes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also made a 44 billion dollar (£36.4 billion) bid for Twitter, which he placed on hold after complaining it has too many spam bot users who are not humans.
Much of the erosion in Tesla’s value has occurred since Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder and then launched a takeover bid that has raised concerns he has too much on his already crowded plate.
Musk has used his own Twitter account, which now has more than 100 million followers, to discuss the pandemic restrictions that forced the Shanghai factory to temporarily close during the quarter.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives estimates that more than 40% of Tesla’s sales come from China, and that the Shanghai factory produced about 70,000 fewer vehicles due to the shutdowns.
But on Saturday, Tesla signalled things are getting better, saying it produced more vehicles in June than in any other month in its history.
The company did not disclose the number of vehicles made during June.
As of early Saturday afternoon, Musk had not tweeted about Tesla’s second-quarter sales.
But he created a bit of a stir late on Friday when ending an uncharacteristically long nine-day silence on Twitter.
His Friday tweets included one with him and four his children meeting Pope Francis.
Tesla’s latest delivery numbers came out a week after the release of an interview with Musk in which he described new factories in Austin and Berlin as “money furnaces” that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they can produce.
In a May 30 interview with a Tesla owners’ club that was just released last week, Musk said that getting the Berlin and Austin plants functional “are overwhelmingly our concerns. Everything else is a very small thing”, adding that “it’s all gonna get fixed real fast”.
Musk has also discussed making salaried workers return to offices and a possible 10% cut in Tesla’s work force due to a possible recession.
Supply chain breakdowns since the onset of Covid-19 two years ago have been especially debilitating for car makers, who get parts from all corners of the globe.
A lack of computer chips needed to run cars’ computers compounded manufacturers’ problems and sent prices for used and new cars skyrocketing.
As the pandemic erupted in the US in 2020, car makers had to shut factories for eight weeks to help stop the virus from spreading.
Some parts companies cancelled orders for semiconductors.
At the same time, demand for laptops, tablets and gaming consoles rocketed as people stuck at home upgraded their devices.
By the time car production resumed, chip makers had shifted production to consumer goods, creating a shortage of weather-resistant automotive-grade chips.
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NYCFC aim to snap winless skid, host Atlanta United
Falling behind by three goals was disappointing for New York City Football Club, and so was letting the extra two points slip away after squandering the lead.
While NYCFC were pleased at pulling off a huge rally, they hope to avoid a similar situation again on Sunday when they host the Atlanta United at Yankee Stadium.
NYCFC (8-4-4, 28 points) enter this weekend one point out of first place in the Eastern Conference behind Montreal, the New York Red Bulls and Philadelphia Union. The defending champions were able to snatch a point out of Wednesday's visit to FC Cincinnati following a wild 4-4 draw.
NYCFC are winless in a season-high three straight games (0-1-2) after going 7-0-1 in their previous eight contests. After allowing the tiebreaking goal in the waning moments last Sunday in Philadelphia, NYCFC trailed 3-0 before Talles Magno scored a goal, Heber tallied twice and Gabriel Pereira converted to claim a lead at Cincinnati.
"To a man today I thought the resilience, the spirit and the heart was a real New York team," NYCFC interim coach Nick Cushing said. "I'm really proud of that."
NYCFC nearly earned the three points while playing without Valentin Castellanos (illness), Santiago Rodriguez (yellow card accumulation), Anton Tinnerholm (personal), Thiago Martins (ankle) and Keaton Parks (blood clot in leg). It also lost Maxime Chanot to a left leg injury.
While Martins and Parks are expected to miss Sunday's game, Chanot and Castellanos are questionable.
Atlanta (5-7-4, 19 points) is trying to climb into playoff position but has not helped itself by going 0-5-1 over its past six road matches. The United saw their winless skid continue with a 2-1 loss to the New York Red Bulls on Thursday when they collapsed in the final minutes of the second half.
Josef Martinez scored in the 75th minute but Atlanta conceded the tying goal on a penalty kick eight minutes later. The United allowed the tiebreaking goal after a turnover in the 89th minute.
"It was just two individual mistakes at the end that cost us," Atlanta coach Gonzalo Pineda said. "This is very tough, to be honest."
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Guest Chef: Wardandi Bibbulmun woman Dale Tilbrook shares her kangaroo meatballs recipe
Ingredients
⅓ cup breadcrumbs
½ cup milk
1 medium onion finely chopped
250g pork or beef mince 10 per cent fat
1kg kangaroo mince
2 eggs
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 tsp salt
½ tsp native pepper leaf or 6 crushed pepper berries
2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
1 tsp (or more to taste) mixed Australian native dried herbs** or 2 tsp mixed Australian fresh herbs
2 tbsp olive or grapeseed oil (reserved for cooking)
Method
Step 1 Soak breadcrumbs in milk for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, saute onions until translucent, then set aside to cool.
Step 2 In a food processor, pulse the pork or beef mince a few times, then add kangaroo mince and pulse a further two times.
Step 3 Remove from food processor and place in a bowl, adding other ingredients, including soaked breadcrumbs and sauteed onions, mixing until thoroughly combined.
Step 4 Refrigerate the mixture for at least one hour to allow the flavours to develop and blend. Refrigerating will also ensure meatballs keep their shape when cooked.
Step 5 Form the mixture into golf ball-sized balls. Meatballs can be cooked in a frypan or the oven — if using the oven, heat to 220C, arrange on a lined baking tray and spray with cooking spray to ensure they brown. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, or until browned and cooked through. If using a frypan, fry in batches over medium heat in olive or grapeseed oil, let them cook thoroughly on one side before turning. Once turned, cook until browned all over and cooked through.
Step 6 Serve hot or cold with a bush tomato sauce, sauteed onions, cherry tomatoes and fresh damper.
** For mixed Australian herbs, combine 2 or 3 of the following: native thyme, native basil, sea parsley, lemon myrtle, anise myrtle or ground bush tomato. If you don’t have access to these, simply use an Italian herb mix.
SERVES 8
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NEW YORK (AP) — A 3-year-old boy has died after falling from a 29th floor balcony of a New York City apartment building on Saturday morning, police said.
Officers found the injured toddler lying on a 3rd floor scaffolding after receiving a 911 call at 11:09 a.m. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“We believe the child exited through a window, but exactly how that occurred is under investigation at the time,” a police spokesperson told The Associated Press. The apartment is located in the Taino Towers residential complex in Harlem.
New York City law requires owners of buildings with three or more apartments to install window guards if a child age 10 years or younger lives there or if a tenant or occupant requests them. It's unclear whether window guards were installed in this particular apartment.
The spokesperson said the child's death is under “active investigation” and police are speaking with two individuals who were inside the apartment when the boy fell.
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